A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Middle East
A nation must think before it acts.
Middle East
US-Morocco alliance is as strong as the values on which it stands
In a world of ongoing genocide, mass summary executions and unspeakable torture, the accusations against the kingdom of Morocco in a U.S. State Department human rights report last week were not earth-shattering. They include charges of arbitrary arrest and...
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How the State Department’s Human Rights Report Treats Friends — and Adversaries
What should be made of the flare-up between Morocco and Washington over the State Department’s latest human rights report? It devotes more pages to Moroccan violations than Iranian ones, and Morocco gets a third more pages than Cuba does. Moreover, the document generally...
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The Obama Administration Snubs Another Arab Ally
The remarkable video below shows a group of Moroccan Jews from Israel singing and dancing in front of police checkpoints at the King Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, upon their arrival from Jerusalem. They had come to make a...
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NY Psychoanalyst: “Partial Secrets” on the 9/11 Attacks Stoke Americans’ Fears About Terrorism
Psychoanalyst Ira Moses is Director of Training at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry in New York City.What is the impact of the classification of the “28 pages” concerning the 9-11 attacks on Americans’ perceptions of their government?...
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US Intelligence Analyst: Obama Administration Denied Central Command Team Access to Bin Laden Documents
Michael Pregent is a former analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency who focused on Iran in the course of his service. Currently an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute focused on Middle Eastern affairs, he is also a visiting...
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Former US Defense Intelligence Agency Executive: There’s a Push to Drive a Wedge Between the US and Saudi
Derek Harvey is a former US Army Colonel and Senior Intelligence Executive for the Defense Intelligence Agency. As a US Army Colonel, he served with General David Petraeus in the Middle East. He has more than 20 years of...
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Decorated US Counter-terrorism Expert: Declassify the “28 Pages” to Heal Saudi-American Relations
Edward A. Turzanski is a Life Member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), having served with the U.S. Intelligence Community in postings throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe during the Reagan Administration. He was...
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The Presidential Candidates on Democracy Promotion in the Middle East
The past two presidents have been deeply engaged in promoting democracy in the Middle East. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Middle East emerged as a key region of strategic interest for the United States,...
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Passover, Chocolate Bars, and Women in Israeli Politics
Just days before Israelis headed to the polls in March of 2015, the ultra-Orthodox Yachad party held an event for women in the ultra-Orthodox community to garner their support. Not only did the Yachad party have no women on...
Read more »Morocco Can Fix America’s Arabian Gulf Problem
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama met with the heads of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh under strained circumstances. Concerns are widespread about the historic security alliance between the United States on the one hand and, on the...
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