Disinformation Given to Mainstream Media Normalizes News of the Supreme Leader’s Death and Could Suppress Protests When It Happens
It Would Shatter the Stigma the ICC Wishes to Attach to Netanyahu and Encourage Smaller Countries to Follow Suit
The Migration Research Institute in Budapest, Affiliated with the Renowned Matthias Corvinus College, Estimates 900 No-Go Zones Across Europe, a Stark Consequence of Open-Border Policies.
Getting the Right People Is About Finding the Right Balance of Experience, Instincts, and Temperament
Berlin-based Al-Mustafa Institute a Branch of School that Recruits for IRGC
Azerbaijan’s Dictator Embraces the Khojaly Myth to Justify His Family’s Rule, but the United States and Others Should Not
What Is Certain in This Era of Uncertainty Is That U.S.-Cyprus Ties Will Not Only Remain Strong but Will Also Strengthen
A Report from the Turkish Intelligence Agency MIT Reveals That the Agency Was Aware of the ISIS Surveillance Team and Their Activities Before the Attack in Istanbul in January 2024
The Official Kurdish Population of the Soviet Union in 1926 Was 69,000, Many of Them in Azerbaijan
Spotlight: Iran & Israel Trade Strikes
Iran’s October 1, 2024, missile and drone strike against Israel, joined by its proxies, did little beyond obligating Israel to expend missiles to take out incoming threats. Israel’s response, after three weeks of planning and multiple consultations with the United States and other allies, was more notable for what it avoided than for what it struck.
Israel skipped the most obvious—and most controversial—targets such as oil terminals and nuclear facilities. It did, however, do considerable damage to Iranian anti-aircraft defense capabilities, including its vaunted Russian S-300 systems. Israel’s measured response, therefore, both warned Iran against additional attacks and prepared the battlefield for follow-on strikes should (when) they become necessary.
Israel skipped the most obvious—and most controversial—targets such as oil terminals and nuclear facilities. It did, however, do considerable damage to Iranian anti-aircraft defense capabilities, including its vaunted Russian S-300 systems. Israel’s measured response, therefore, both warned Iran against additional attacks and prepared the battlefield for follow-on strikes should (when) they become necessary.
Iran’s decision to launch 181 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday night followed a similar pattern to the attacks of 14 April. Israeli and allied air defences appear to have performed extremely effectively. The damage to the military and civilian sites targeted is minor to non-existent. One Palestinian Arab man was killed in a village near Jericho, not from the Iranian missiles, it appears, but from interceptor debris.
The question now is what comes next. This time, the response is unlikely to be merely symbolic.
The question now is what comes next. This time, the response is unlikely to be merely symbolic.
Middle East Quarterly - Current Issue
Founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, MEQ is the Middle East Forum’s journal intended for both scholars and the educated public. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists write for and read the Quarterly, which is known for exclusive interviews, in-depth historical articles, and book reviews on subjects ranging from archaeology to politics and on countries from Morocco to Iran.
Fall 2024 Volume 31: Number 4
Fall 2024 Volume 31: Number 4
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PHILADELPHIA – August 20, 2024 – A member of Maryland’s “Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention” is out of a job. Ayman Nassar, the second Islamist commissioner to get tossed from the hate crimes board within three months, resigned on August 19 amid public outrage over his role in terror-linked organizations and his history of anti-American, antisemitic, and homophobic hate speech.
Nassar has accused Israel of harvesting the organs of living Palestinians and shared posts referring to Gaza as a “Holocaust.” He is chairman of the Aafia Foundation, a “terrorist support group” that seeks to free “Lady Al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui and other convicted terrorists from prison. -
PHILADELPHIA – July 31, 2024 – Hours after Israel assassinated two leading figures of designated terrorist organizations, Middle East Forum (MEF) experts took to major media outlets to explain what the killings mean for Israel and the region.
Israeli forces killed Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukur in Beirut on Tuesday, while Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh died Wednesday from an Israeli strike in Tehran. Both men caused the deaths of innocent civilians as well as Israeli and American soldiers.
Writing today for the Wall Street Journal, MEF president Daniel Pipes argued that since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, Israel has unfortunately followed “two opposite policies” simultaneously: “destroy the organization and make a deal with it.”
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Antisemitic Propaganda in the Arab World Continues to Brainwash Tens of Millions of Arabs Who Believe Whatever They Are Told About Jews -
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A Joint Podcast Series by the Middle East Forum and the American Jewish University on the Middle East’s Influence on Contemporary America
Middle East Forum Observer
Founded in 2024, it provides rapid analysis on leading Middle East developments, from Marrakech to Mashhad and the Bab el-Mandeb to the Black Sea.
Launched in 2006, Islamist Watch is a project of the Middle East Forum. We work to combat the ideas and institutions of lawful Islamism in the United States and throughout the West. Arguing that “radical Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution,” we seek to expose the Islamist organizations that currently dominate the debate, while identifying and promoting the work of moderate Muslims.
CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds.
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The Elimination of Hamas’s Most Dominant Figure Could Open a Small Window of Opportunity to Achieve Israel’s Elusive War Aims
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After Expelling Every Last Crusader from the Holy Land, Saladin’s ‘Retirement Dream’ Was to Invade and Wage Jihad on Christian Europe
Muslims in the US
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The Muslim Justice League Took a Page Out of the KKK’s Playbook and Deployed Masked Thugs to Harass a Reporter at Its Rally in Downtown Boston
