The July 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), prompted many optimists to assume that Tehran would abandon its expansionist, Islamist drive and join the community of nations... 
Issued in the midst of a sustained attempt by the Palestinian Arabs to destroy it at birth, Israel's 1948 declaration of independence urged them "to participate in the upbuilding of the state on the basis of full and equal... 
Russian president Vladimir Putin's drive into Syria and the Middle East has been astonishingly successful, but do not expect him to build a Pax Sovietica. He intensely dislikes the Bolsheviks despite having been one himself. A... 
There is probably no more understated event in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict than the San Remo conference of April 1920. Convened for a mere week as part of the post-World War I peace conferences, which created a new... 
As talk of Israel "annexing" territory in the West Bank has temporarily died down, attention ought to shift to other lingering issues in the broader Arab-Israeli reconciliation process—most notably, the role Israel's 1.7 million... 
My Middle East Forum colleague Nave Dromi disagrees with the negative view I expressed of Israel's annexing some parts of the West Bank. My six-part argument, as spelled out here, boils down to dismissing annexation as... 
Daniel Pipes is a renowned academic with an outstanding reputation. He is identified with the conservative right in the United States and promotes these views as the founder and president of the Middle East Forum thank tank and... 
Since August 2019, as protests over Kashmir have intensified around the world, Stand With Kashmir (SWK) has become an essential voice of the anti-Indian movement in the U.S. But while this "grassroots group" is represented...
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