Cliff Smith: It is the ideology of those seeking entry into U.S. we should be worried about, not their passports.

With the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War this month, we offer a quick review of work on the subject produced over the years by the Middle East Forum's staff and fellows, and by contributors to its flagship journal, Middle East Quarterly (MEQ).

On May 23, 1967, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, which LBJ called "a single act of folly [that] was more responsible ... than any other" for the Six-Day War that followed 2 weeks later. 50 years later, the factual history has largely been re-written, explains Gabriel Glickman.

Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes reviews President Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia.

On May 23, 1967, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, which LBJ called "a single act of folly [that] was more responsible ... than any other" for the Six-Day War that followed 2 weeks later. 50 years later, the factual history has largely been re-written, explains Gabriel Glickman.

Jonathan Spyer reports from regime-held areas of Syria and finds little prospect of Syria's reunification in the foreseeable future.

Efraim Inbar: Israel just celebrated its sixty-ninth anniversary. Yet acceptance by all its neighbors has not been attained. Israel is still at war.

Phyllis Chesler on why we should be alarmed by the cases of two Michigan doctors on trial for performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on Muslim girls.

Sam Westrop on "Islamist low-tech terrorism."

Daniel Pipes: "It's time to see Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the dictatorial, Islamist, anti-Western egomaniac he is, and protect his neighbors and ourselves from the damage he is already causing and the greater problems to come."