The privatization of Haifa Port: India 1 China 0
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Saudi Arabia and Turkey mend fences
by Neville Teller The feud is over. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are on speaking terms again. As of June 22, 2022 the long battle between them to achieve political dominance…
A double-edged sword: Mr. Biden’s pilgrimage to Jeddah
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Double standards haunt US and Europe in dealings with Turkey and the Middle East
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Putin, Erdogan and the expansion of NATO
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, no less than fourteen of its one-time satellite states in eastern Europe have joined NATO. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has…
Biden goes to Riyadh: Realism may not need to trump principle
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Munich Olympics give way to Soccer v. Jihad
In many ways, the Black September attack on the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 discloses little about the evolution of the targeting of sporting events by political and religious…
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne’s The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam (Simon and Schuster 2022) is as much a history of US, British, and French attitudes towards Islam and Muslims…
Normalization splits the Arab world
On March 28, 2022, the town of Sde Boker in Israel’s Negev region hosted an historic event – a meeting of the top diplomats of four Arab nations with those…
Qatar World Cup offers lessons for human rights struggles
It’s a good time, almost 12 years after the world soccer body, FIFA, awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup hosting rights and five months before the tournament, to evaluate the…