Middle East

WILL TUNISIA BE THE FIRST DOMINO?

JANUARY 26, 2011 In Egypt, too, protestors are laying waste to the mistaken notion that Arabs and Muslims are politically passive. By ANWAR IBRAHIM Tunisians earlier this month forced their president out of office, marking the first popular revolution in an Arab country in modern history. The swiftness with which it came about should send

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LEBANON VOTE ELEVATES HEZBOLLAH

JANUARY 26, 2011 Lebanon Vote Elevates Hezbollah Election of Premier Sets Pro-Iran Party As the Country’s Pre-eminent Power By FARNAZ FASSIHI BEIRUT—Lebanon’s parliament appointed billionaire businessman Najib Mikati as prime minister, choosing the candidate backed by Hezbollah and confirming the movement as the country’s most powerful military and political force. The vote spurred occasionally violent

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RIOTERS JOLT EGYPTIAN REGIME

JANUARY 26, 2011 By MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—Tens of thousands of protesters clashed with police in cities across Egypt on Tuesday to demand the ouster of the president, as shock waves from Tunisia’s successful revolt against its leader two weeks ago continued to rumble through the Middle East. WSJ’s Matt Bradley reports from Cairo on the

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BOOK REVIEW – THE NEXT DECADE

THE NEXT DECADE    by George Friedman Published:   January 2011 Synopsis The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required

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2,000 YR OLD ANCIENT SEWER DISCOVERED IN JERUSALEM

TheIsraelProject.org New Section of Ancient Sewer Discovered in Jerusalem Archaeological and Historical Evidence of Jews in Jerusalem Links City of David to Western Wall Plaza No Digging Conducted under Muslim Holy Sites Discovery Brings Us Closer to Ancient Jerusalem – Archaeologist Jerusalem, Jan 25 – Israeli archaeologists have discovered a new section of an 2,000-year-old

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REAGAN’S CLARITY, 30 YEARS LATER

JANUARY 20, 2011 When the former B-movie actor took the oath of office on January 20, 1981, he encountered a barrage of intellectual snobbery from Europe. By DAVID DAVIS Today marks the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. One wonders how the man who, by sheer force of belief, ended the

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U.S., ISRAEL LINKED TO ANTI-NUKE STUXNET WORM

NEWS  &  OBSERVER,     Raleigh Jan 16, 2011 The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. Over the past two years, according to experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally

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A WORLD IN CRISIS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing

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CLINTON RIPS ARABS ON LACK OF REFORM

MIDDLE EAST NEWS JANUARY 14, 2011 By JAY SOLOMON DOHA, Qatar—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, adopting a tone reminiscent of the Bush administration, blasted Arab governments for stalled political change, warning that extremists were exploiting a lack of democracy to promote radical agendas across the Middle East. Mrs. Clinton, addressing a conference on democracy as she

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