GLORIA Articles And Blog Items

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  Afghanistan

  • Barry Rubin, "The Problem Isn't McChrystal's Bite But That McChrystal (On Administration, not Afghanistan) is Right", June 24, 2010
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  Azerbaijan

  • Barry Rubin, "Azerbaijan's Moderate Dream", July 1, 2009
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  Egypt

  • Barry Rubin, "Faked Photograph Shows How the Middle East Hasn't Changed Much", July 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt Versus Gaza", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Motivates Israeli Policy and Actions", June 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Exclusive Scoop: A Shocking Example: How NY Times Coverage Buries Middle East Reality; Find the Four Gigantic Errors", March 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Muslim Brotherhood's New Leader Shows There's No Hope of Moderation", January 20, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Saudis Seek Illusory "Third Way" in Regional Diplomacy", January 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Suicidal Rules of Arab Political Debate: How Relatively Moderate Regimes are Robbed of Self-Defense", January 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Arabic-Speaking World in 2010", December 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt's Moments of Decision?", November 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt: Where Bookburners Are Heroes and Democracy Advocates Are Villains", September 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt Warns: U.S. Policy Won't Work", September 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Mubarak's and Arab States' Peace Plan: Israel Gives Everything, Arab States Think About It", August 17, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Common Hatred", August 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egyptian Succession: The Crisis Waiting to Happen", July 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Ultimate Anecdote Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict", July 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Whose Ox Is Gored: The West, the Middle East, and Some Very Inconvenient Truth", June 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamists of the World Unite; You Have Nothing to Lose Except Any Pretext of Being Moderate", April 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt: Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea", April 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Last Mile on the Nile", October 5, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Mubarak Gets Away With It", May 30, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Grading Mubarak", January 3, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "200 Years of Failure", September 27, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Mr. Mubarak Goes to the Polls", August 23, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Change in Egypt?", May 10, 2005
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  Europe

  • Barry Rubin, "Czech List: Sometimes Even A Conference Can Teach Vivid Political Realities", August 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Analyzing British Jews' Views: The Opposite of What's Suggested", August 2, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "EU and Teheran: A Collision in Slow Motion", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "CIA Chief Says Al-Qaida is Weaker. True. But So Is U.S., While Revolutionary Islamist Groups Are Stronger!", July 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Bit More on the Gaza Strip Diplomacy", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: White House Undercuts Congress's Sanctions on Iran and Builds Loopholes to Avoid Confronting Violators?", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Israel Revises Gaza Policy; World Gets What it Wants: Terrorist, Genocidal, Antisemitic, Revolutionary Islamist Statelet on the Mediterranean", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Will the Western Strategy Toward Gaza Produce? A "Normal" Revolutionary, Terrorist, Genocidal Regime There", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Some Semi-Sanity from Europe: EU Foreign Ministers Make Partial Sense on Gaza, Iran", June 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Anticlimax: Sanctions on Iran, (Slightly) Increased at Last", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "New Article Available On Line: Central Europe, Jews, and Israel", June 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: The UN's Choice to Head Investigation of Gaza Flotilla: Not Goldstone But a Set-Up Nonetheless", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Clash of Perceptions: A Picture is Worth 10,000 Academic Theories", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Sympathy for the Devil and the Gaza Sea Confrontation: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?", June 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary", May 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Government Knows that Iran Helps al-Qaida But Does Nothing About It ", May 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Embraces Russia As "Helpful"; Moscow Stabs U.S. in Back", May 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Cheers for Congress, One for France, and Two and a Half Boos for Obama Policy", April 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Has President Obama Been Weak and Lost Credibility Over Iran: Answering a Reader's Question", April 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Legacy of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh", March 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It's Necessary and Desirable to Assassinate Terrorists", March 5, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Long-Term Fallout with UK from Dubai Hit Unlikely", February 19, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Virtual Diplomacy, Real Damage", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Europe Sells Out to Syria and Gets Slapped: A Middle East Case Study in Begging to Give Something for Nothing", October 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Plan to Beat Sanctions", October 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Barack Obama, Iran, and the "Or Else" Factor", September 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Increasingly Obvious Failure of Obama's Middle East Policy", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Advice for the Advisors: A Roman General Chides Would-Be Pundits (Very Applicable to Contemporary Middle East and Other Issues)", September 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "UK-Libya Relations: Release Terrorist, Make Oil Deal, Train...Terrorists?", September 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S Government Jumps Voluntarily into Iran's Trap, Pulls in Europeans, Too", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How the West's Enemies Are Saving It", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Dialogue of the Deaf: Obama Sanctions' on Iran Fall Flat on their Face", September 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Not to Moderate Radicals: The UK, Libya, Prisoner Releases, and Oil Deals", September 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Tough love for Israel? Imposed Solution? The Ignorant Arrogance of the Advice-Givers", September 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Crisis in Israel-Europe Relations?", September 7, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "A New, Old and Ugly Spirit ", September 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Blood for Oil: Yes, Britain Did Release a Mass-Murdering Terrorist in Exchange for an Oil Deal", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Britain, France, Want to Reward Syria for Intransigence. So What Fool Would be Moderate Under Such Conditions?", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Idea That Hizballah Has a "Political Wing" Which Isn't Terrorist and Can Be Engaged Is Absurd ", July 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "E.U Policy on the Peace Program: Where is the Adult Supervision?", July 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A British Officer Explains What Counterterrorist Warfare is Like and How Israel Does the Best it Can to Fight in a Humanitarian Way", July 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "UK and Hamas: Political Wing? It's the Bloody Beak!", April 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Britain Gets Tougher on Radical Islamism", March 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Who Do They Like, Who Do They Hate?", September 19, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel and Europe, A Pretty Good Relationship", May 5, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Strange bedfellows", November 4, 2005
  • Jonathan Spyer, "A Scourge in 'Londonistan'", July 15, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Taking Stock in Stockholm", June 14, 2004
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  Georgia

  • Barry Rubin, "Georgia on My Mind", August 11, 2008
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  Gulf

  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel Shouldn't Attack Iranian Nuclear Installations--Unless It Has to Do So", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Actually in the U.S. Sanctions on Iran Proposal? Strengths and Weaknesses", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East in May 2010: An Assessment", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary", May 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Government Knows that Iran Helps al-Qaida But Does Nothing About It ", May 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Embraces Russia As "Helpful"; Moscow Stabs U.S. in Back", May 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It's Necessary and Desirable to Assassinate Terrorists", March 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Milk Cows: A Cute Way to Analyze Gulf States' Strategies", March 15, 2009
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  Iran

  • Barry Rubin, "The Week Lebanon Became Part of the Anti-Western Axis and West Governments Didn't Notice", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel About to Attack Iran? No. Iran About to Get Nuclear Weapons? Also No.", August 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "EU and Teheran: A Collision in Slow Motion", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel Shouldn't Attack Iranian Nuclear Installations--Unless It Has to Do So", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Really Happened on the Mavi Marmara and Some Revealing Events in the Middle East Today", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Containing Iran Requires Getting Smart, Tough, and Serious", July 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: White House Undercuts Congress's Sanctions on Iran and Builds Loopholes to Avoid Confronting Violators?", June 20, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Who Killed Khaled Sultan al-Abed?", June 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Anticlimax: Sanctions on Iran, (Slightly) Increased at Last", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Motivates Israeli Policy and Actions", June 8, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Behind the Axis: The North Korean Connection", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton (Unintentionally) Explains to Us How Obama Administration Ideology in the West Makes the World Worse", May 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Actually in the U.S. Sanctions on Iran Proposal? Strengths and Weaknesses", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East in May 2010: An Assessment", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary", May 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Government Knows that Iran Helps al-Qaida But Does Nothing About It ", May 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Embraces Russia As "Helpful"; Moscow Stabs U.S. in Back", May 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Unveils His Grand Strategy: A Nuclear Defensive Umbrella for Aggression", May 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Yawn! Iran may be able to build a missile capable of striking the US by 2015", April 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Photos That Express Obama Middle East Policy? Well, Yes and No", April 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Cheers for Congress, One for France, and Two and a Half Boos for Obama Policy", April 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Has President Obama Been Weak and Lost Credibility Over Iran: Answering a Reader's Question", April 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Listen to the Two Best Arab Journalists Warning What A Nuclear-Armed Iran Means ", April 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration and Sanctions on Iran: The Farce Deepens", April 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Ignores Iran's Help to al-Qaida in Its Passion over Jerusalem Apartments", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The EU's Think Tank: Engage Hamas and Islamist Movements; Iranian Nuclear Weapons Not a Threat", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?", March 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Can Turkey's Government Be a U.S. Ally if it's an Ally of Iran?", March 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Pardon Me, Obama Administration, But Isn't Your Policy on Fire?", March 8, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "What Does Assad Want?", March 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Zbigniew Brzezinski on Iran: Still Clueless After All These Years", March 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Real Arab Stuff: Hussain Abdul Hussain Explains It All to You", March 1, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Northern Tinder Box", February 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Watch the Themes, Not the Headlines", February 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It Comes to Analyzing the Middle East, We Live in an Age of Idiocy", February 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Saudis to Obama Administration: We're Scared of Iran and You're Going Too Slow", February 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Military Looks at the Middle East: Bows to the White House but Knows Its Mission Too", February 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "That "Cost-Benefit" Thing: How U.S. Intelligence Assessments Misunderstand Iran and Lots More in the Middle East", February 8, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Iranian Quickstep: 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back", February 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Point of No Return: Clearly the Obama Administration Won't Ever Do Anything Serious Against Iran's Nuclear Program", January 24, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Did the Long Arm of Iran Reach the Dead Sea Highway?", January 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Resistance Strategy: The Middle East's Response to Calls for Peace and Moderation", January 19, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Saudis Seek Illusory "Third Way" in Regional Diplomacy", January 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer", January 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't Western Policymakers Believe There are Actual Revolutionaries in the World?", January 13, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Iran Hasn't Won the Cold War Yet", January 7, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Muslim World: Iran --The End Is Not Nigh", January 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's 2010 Policy and Iran: Misconceptions Guarantee Failure", December 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Arabic-Speaking World in 2010", December 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement", December 25, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Suddenly, the Arab World Wakes Up to Yemen's Rebellion", December 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Big Developments: Hillary Announces Start of Sanctions Push, Arab Poll Says Iran is Bigger Threat than Israel", December 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Clinton Speaks About Iran: Shows How Slowly U.S. Policy is Changing Gears from Engagement to Sanctions", December 14, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hezbollah's Delusions", December 9, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: A Bus Blows up in Damascus - Exploding Tire or Terror Strike?", December 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran and Hizballah Get Hillarycare: Two Mistakes That America's Enemies Notice and Act On", November 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Won't the Arabs Protect Themselves from Iran by Actively Battling Against Tehran Having Nuclear Weapons?", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "When it Comes to Iran, President Obama Won't Hear "No" for an Answer", November 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran and Syria Are Up; Egypt and Saudi Arabia Are Down. And this is Israel's Fault?", November 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration on Anniversary of Embassy and Hostage Seizure in Iran: We're trying to be Friends!", November 5, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer , "Terrorism: Iran Reaps the Whirlwind", October 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Negotiations: Ploy of the Week or Deal of the Century?", October 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Plan to Beat Sanctions", October 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Engaging Iran: You're Doing a Great Job...At Losing the Battle", October 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Regime's Charm Plus Western Credulity Equals "Diplomatic Success" in Geneva", October 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Doesn't Understand: The Alternative to Victory is Defeat", September 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Barack Obama, Iran, and the "Or Else" Factor", September 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Expresses His Basic Concept of International Affairs: Pollyanna, Yes; Machiavelli, No", September 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Avoiding the Unthinkable: Missile Defense is Israel's "Secret" Weapon Against Iran's Nuclear Weapons", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Iran Negotiations: Once you start you must be nice to them, right?", September 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S Government Jumps Voluntarily into Iran's Trap, Pulls in Europeans, Too", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "An Introductory Guide To A Very Big Mistake: Analyzing the U.S. Decision to Negotiate with Iran's Regime", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran Outmaneuvers U.S. Government: Obama Scores Three "Own Goals"", September 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Los Angeles Times Talks About Iran and Shows Why the West is so Weak and in Apparent Decline", September 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Dialogue of the Deaf: Obama Sanctions' on Iran Fall Flat on their Face", September 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran Sanctions' Summit Meeting Not Going Well, Will This Be Another Obama Administration Failure?", September 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Movement, Iran, Hizballah, and Arms Smuggling", August 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Here's Your Story: No Engagement Game Because Iran Burned Down", August 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Regime Chooses A Terrorist Who Has killed Americans as Defense Minister; Still Want to Engage Them, President Obama?", August 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Revolution Enters Its Stalinist Era", August 25, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Why the Iranian Alliance Will Fail", August 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon's Reversal of Fortune", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Too Busy to Deal with U.S. Efforts on Nuclear Issue?", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Recognizes Ahmadinejad as President", August 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Withdraws Ahmadinejad's Elected and Legitimate Statement", August 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Futile: Iran's Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons or U.S. Policy to Stop It?", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran: Extremist, Terrorist, Repressive Dictator? Ok. Doesn't Hate all Israelis? Fire him!", July 23, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Talk Softly, and Carry a Large Carrot", July 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Understanding What Governments Say: Two Case Studies, Israel and Peace; America and a Nuclear Iran", July 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Brief Guide to the Differences Between Palestinian Authority, Syrian, and Iranian Strategies Toward the West", July 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Media Coverage? Israeli Policy? You Be the Judge", July 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hey, President Obama, Could Support for More Sanctions on Iran be Higher than it Is Right Now?", July 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Iranian Tragedy and its Threat to Everyone in the Middle East", July 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama to Ahmadinejad: Maybe Think About Not Killing Your Own People...And Have a Nice Day!", July 1, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Iranian Lobbying Failed", July 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama and Iran: Beat Demonstrators, Build Bombs, But We're Eager to Negotiate with You", June 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Analytical Insanity: How Not to Respond to Iran's Turmoil", June 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration on Iran: They're Ready to Come Out with their Hand's Up", June 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Road to Hell, Good Intentions, and Iran", June 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Here's What Obama Could/Should Say", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Big Freeze Leaves Israelis Cold", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Crisis and All Quiet on the Western Front", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Only Article on the Iranian Crisis You Need to Read", June 20, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Iran: The Internal Balance of Power", June 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Will Iran's Crisis and Massive Popular Opposition to the Regime Change Anything?", June 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Forty-Eight Hours of Reality Overthrows Obama Middle East Policy", June 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran: Yes, Stealing an Election and Imposing Ahmadinejad Is Rather Significant", June 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why the Obama Administration Won't Denounce the Ahmadinejad Administration", June 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Accidently Abrogates America's Right to Oppose Iran's Nuclear Weapons", June 10, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Iran-Syria Alliance in Harmony", May 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Unbearable Lightness of Wishful Thinking", April 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What Will Happen If Iran's Regime Gets Nuclear Weapons? ", April 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad's Wager, The World's Peril", April 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Not to Engage with Iran", April 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "President Ahmadinejad Explains It All to You", April 14, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Arab Summit, Iranian Agenda ", April 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Speech: Sounds Clever in Washington but Craven in Tehran", March 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Churchill on How to Deal with Iran and Syria", March 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What If Iran Gets a Working Nuclear Weapon? How Middle East Crisis Would Hit U.S.", March 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What Went Wrong... with American Policy", October 9, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Nuclear Arms are Dangerous for Everyone's Health", September 2, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "How Israel Will Attack Iran's Nuclear Installation", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "You Can't Bear NPR", July 25, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Collision Course", July 15, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "An Alternative to War or Surrender With Iran", July 15, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East's Nuclear Dark Age", November 11, 2007
  • Jonathan Spyer, "An Increasing Possibility", November 9, 2007
  • Barry Rubin, "Understanding Ahmadinejad ", September 28, 2007
  • Barry Rubin, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Political Correctness", July 28, 2007
  • Barry Rubin, "Osama bin Ahmadinejad", November 1, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "More of the Same?", June 21, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Monty Python in Iran", May 3, 2005
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  Iraq

  • Barry Rubin, "Faked Photograph Shows How the Middle East Hasn't Changed Much", July 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Nations Must Know When to Cringe and Crawl--But for the West It's Becoming Routine", March 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis", March 16, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Will Obama Have an Iraq Crisis?", March 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Real Arab Stuff: Hussain Abdul Hussain Explains It All to You", March 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Arabic-Speaking World in 2010", December 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement", December 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Where does Terrorism Come from in Iraq: Hundreds Killed but There's No Mystery", October 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria's Policy and Europe's Pay-Offs Disprove A Cliche: Crime DOES Pay", September 9, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: For Assad, Conflict is a Raison D'etre", September 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Neutrality on Iraq-Syria: Obama Administration Betrays Ally and Doesn't Even Defend Its Own Soldiers", September 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's "Certain Defeat"? The No-Violence Administration Fights the Afghan War", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Secret: Syria Daily Sponsors and Aids Terrorists Murdering Iraqi Civilians and Americans: Doesn't This Require Action?", August 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why the Silence on Islamist--and Sometimes Muslim-Majority Regimes--Persecution of Christians?", July 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Diplomatic Deportment Lessons from Saddam Hussein", July 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Baker's Stale Ideas", December 12, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Opting out of Arabism in Iraq", August 30, 2005
  • Reuven Paz, "Al-Qa'ida in Iraq: Between Ideology and Strategy", August 24, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Iraq: Facing Today's Realities", September 21, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "The Real Problem in Iraq: The Primacy of Domestic Politics", May 12, 2004
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  Israel

  • Barry Rubin, "Barack Hearts Bibi", September 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Terror Attack Near Hebron: Not an Incident But a Revelation About What's Happening", September 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Wonderful Graphic Example of Ridiculous Media Bias", August 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Looking Ahead at U.S.-Israel and "Peace Process" Issues", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel About to Attack Iran? No. Iran About to Get Nuclear Weapons? Also No.", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The False Issue of "Race" in the Arab-Israeli Conflict", August 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Peace Process Story So Far: Israel's Cooperation with the US", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Passionate, Heated Debates Over The "Peace Process" Have Nothing To Do With Reality", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Today's Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel", August 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Albert the Alligator and the British Ambassador", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " How Not to Conduct Diplomacy: A Case Study: UK PM in Turkey ", July 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Faked Photograph Shows How the Middle East Hasn't Changed Much", July 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Briefing in a Minute: The Middle East Right Now", July 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Using My Testimony, Court Fines North Korea $378 Million", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bad News: "Peace Process," UK, Hamas, Turkey; Good News: Boycotts Fail; U.S. Public Opinion; True News: Dead Turkish Flotilla Attackers Sought Martyrdom", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East 101: Understanding Regional Political Logic", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Hizballah Prepares for War Based on Using Civilians as Shields", July 22, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Losing the Scent in South Lebanon", July 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Again Predicts Direct Israel-Palestinian Talks, Is He Wrong Again?", July 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " Debating Obama Policy Doesn't Require Screaming But Logic and Honest Discussion ", July 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel Shouldn't Attack Iranian Nuclear Installations--Unless It Has to Do So", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Really Happened on the Mavi Marmara and Some Revealing Events in the Middle East Today", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What's In a Name: Obama Can't Figure Out (Or Pretends He Can't) Why He Worries Israelis", July 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Yes, Still Another False-Moderation-of-Palestinian-Leadership Hoax", July 10, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Forgotten Minority", July 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Netanyahu: No Love Fest But As Good As It's Gonna Get", July 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Policy and Debate on the Middle East: Whatever Happened to Adult Supervision?", July 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Announcement on Gaza Shows the Missing Element: Strategic Rationality", June 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Who in Turkey Knows the Value of the Now-Dead Alliance with Israel? The Foreign and Defense Ministries", June 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Bit More on the Gaza Strip Diplomacy", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "I'm Looking and I Don't See Any Palestinian State-Building Going On", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: White House Undercuts Congress's Sanctions on Iran and Builds Loopholes to Avoid Confronting Violators?", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Israel Revises Gaza Policy; World Gets What it Wants: Terrorist, Genocidal, Antisemitic, Revolutionary Islamist Statelet on the Mediterranean", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Will the Western Strategy Toward Gaza Produce? A "Normal" Revolutionary, Terrorist, Genocidal Regime There", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Some Semi-Sanity from Europe: EU Foreign Ministers Make Partial Sense on Gaza, Iran", June 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Makes Obama Tock in the Middle East", June 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Israel Proposes Framework for Investigation of Flotilla Incident", June 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Who Killed Khaled Sultan al-Abed?", June 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Big Lie About the Israel "Delegitimization" Threat", June 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Letter to Turkish Friends [In Turkish and English]", June 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "New York Times Needs My Help to Find Flotilla Planners' Terrorist Ties: OK! Here's A Start for Their Research", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News on Flotilla Investigation; Bad News on Iran Sanctions?", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Misunderstood Statement of Mahmoud Abbas", June 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Abbas: And Shows He Understands Neither Hamas Nor Israel, Neither the Middle East Nor Islamism", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Anticlimax: Sanctions on Iran, (Slightly) Increased at Last", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Major New Development in Flotilla Story? Evidence Emerges of Government-Flotilla Link; Brave Turkish Nationalists Try to Calm Things Down", June 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Motivates Israeli Policy and Actions", June 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "New Article Available On Line: Central Europe, Jews, and Israel", June 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: The UN's Choice to Head Investigation of Gaza Flotilla: Not Goldstone But a Set-Up Nonetheless", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Clash of Perceptions: A Picture is Worth 10,000 Academic Theories", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime Changes Sides, West Averts Eyes", June 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamist Extremists Hit Israeli Soldiers with Iron Bars, West Surrenders?", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Gaza Flotilla's Leader Explains: It was a Jihadist Attack not a "Humanitarian Operation"", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Sympathy for the Devil and the Gaza Sea Confrontation: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?", June 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When Bibi Meets Barack: What Will Happen in Their Upcoming Meeting", May 29, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Behind the Axis: The North Korean Connection", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton (Unintentionally) Explains to Us How Obama Administration Ideology in the West Makes the World Worse", May 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Actually in the U.S. Sanctions on Iran Proposal? Strengths and Weaknesses", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East in May 2010: An Assessment", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary", May 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Government Knows that Iran Helps al-Qaida But Does Nothing About It ", May 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Embraces Russia As "Helpful"; Moscow Stabs U.S. in Back", May 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Unveils His Grand Strategy: A Nuclear Defensive Umbrella for Aggression", May 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Continues to Supply Israel with Advanced Weapons", May 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "General Jones Tells a Joke", April 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S.-Israel Crisis May Be Over and We Can "Celebrate" the Achievement of Nothing? ", April 27, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The West Should Use Resolution 1701 to Roll Back Hizbullah's Effective Take-over of the Lebanese Government", April 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Sends Long-Range Missiles to Hizballah But, Says State Department, Only "in part." So No Worries!", April 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Photos That Express Obama Middle East Policy? Well, Yes and No", April 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "NY Times Defends Obama, Not U.S. Interests; Blames Israel, Not White House or Palestinians for All Problems", March 31, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Has the Obama Administration, Against U.S. Interests, Declared Diplomatic War on Israel?", March 29, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Re-Packaging Illusion", March 28, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Legacy of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh", March 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Hillary Clinton's AIPAC Speech: Find the Glaring Contradiction", March 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Trial Balloon? Washington Post Columnist Calls for Imposed Settlement on Israel", March 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis", March 16, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Bad is the Quality of Media Coverage? A Small Example", March 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Quick They Forget: A Short History of U.S. Policy and Israeli Construction in East Jerusalem", March 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Announcing Construction of East Jerusalem Apartments: Stupid, Yes; Proof of Disinterest in Peace, No", March 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It's Necessary and Desirable to Assassinate Terrorists", March 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Americans Love Israel Even More Than You Think", March 3, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Long-Term Fallout with UK from Dubai Hit Unlikely", February 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Isn't There Peace? One Reason: Few People Know How Much is Being Offered", February 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Defining "Victory" and "Peace": How the U.S. and Israel Reject General Sherman's Solution and Get Blamed Anyway", February 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Prime Minister to Israeli Audience: You Make Concessions, We Don't", February 4, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Lebanon: Conflict Widens to Syria", January 31, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The "Why Can't Everyone Just Be Friends" Narrative of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Evenhandedness Gone Mad", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Casualties and Solutions in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, 2009", January 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Authority Sets its New Strategy: Tempts Obama Administration with Instant Peace if it Pressures Israel", December 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Israel, Good Prospects in 2010 ", December 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "On Israel's Construction Freeze: U.S. Fails to Deliver: Instead of Praising, Europe Demands More", December 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hillary's Bombshell: Obama Administration Subtly Launches Dramatic Policy Change on Peace Process", November 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What's It Really About and Why Does it Continue?", November 25, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Virtual Diplomacy, Real Damage", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Important Step? Hamas Declares New Ceasefire; Launching Bid for Massive Aid for Gaza Strip", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel: We believe in Life; You Benefit", November 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran and Syria Are Up; Egypt and Saudi Arabia Are Down. And this is Israel's Fault?", November 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "And Now the Truth Becomes Clear: Hillary Clinton Announces that the Palestinians are the Obstacles to Peace", November 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Is the Turkish-Israeli Alliance Over? Yes It Is", November 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "TV Movie Jihad: Turkish Government Tries to Foment Islamist Hatred of Israel and Jews", October 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration and Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Grinding to a Total and Humiliating Halt", October 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama and Israel: Time for a Reassessment", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Regarding That "Boy in Gaza": Obama Overlooks Genocidal Regime and Real Barriers to Peace", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Avoiding the Unthinkable: Missile Defense is Israel's "Secret" Weapon Against Iran's Nuclear Weapons", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Increasingly Obvious Failure of Obama's Middle East Policy", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A New Arab Strategy: Israel Gives Up Everything, and Then Maybe Gets Something in Exchange", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Reuters Rewrites an Israeli Intelligence Analysis to Ignore its Conclusions and Use it Against Israel", September 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt Warns: U.S. Policy Won't Work", September 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Tough love for Israel? Imposed Solution? The Ignorant Arrogance of the Advice-Givers", September 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Crisis in Israel-Europe Relations?", September 7, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "A New, Old and Ugly Spirit ", September 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Limits of Polite Discourse: Exposing People to Evil Ideas or Exposing Evil Ideas as...Evil?", September 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel: A Country Where The Army Commander and An Arab (Terrorist Agent) Work Out at the Same Gym", September 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Return of Antisemitism and the False Inevitability of Middle East Moderation", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration's Arab-Israeli Policy Adjustment: Out of the Frying Pan Into the...Saucepan", August 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Prime Minister: We'll Build State Institutions in Two Years. What Have You Been Doing for the last 15?", August 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Is Israel Demonized while Real Rights' Violators and War Criminals Are Sanitized, Even Lionized?", August 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State is a Prime Requirement for Israel-Palestinian Peace", August 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Succeeds...In Alienating Both Sides", August 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Short Guide to Israel-Palestinian Negotiating Positions", August 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas Transforms Gaza Into Totaliltarian Islamists State", August 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Made-Up Quotation Shows The Craziness in Slandering Israel and Misunderstanding How Politics and Warfare Works", August 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Israel Relations: Two Positive Signs", August 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why A Hizballah Attack on Israel is Unlikely", August 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Common Hatred", August 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Arab States 'Just Say No' to Normalization", August 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Would Dumping Israel Help U.S. Relations with the Arab/Muslim Middle East? The Surprising Answer is: No", August 8, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Hizbullah Turns up the Temperature in the North", July 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration, Meet Middle East Reality; Middle East Reality, Meet Obama Administration", July 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Case for Anti-Freeze: Regarding Israeli Construction on Settlements", July 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah's Big Meeting: No Recognition of Israel; No End to Armed Struggle and New Leaders, Too?", July 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Understanding What Governments Say: Two Case Studies, Israel and Peace; America and a Nuclear Iran", July 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Israel Relations, The Rather Limited Limits of Confrontation", July 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel's Peace Plan Marks a New Era in the Country's History and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", July 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Ultimate Anecdote Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict", July 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Murder, He Said: Palestinian Politics Fragments Further", July 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "E.U Policy on the Peace Program: Where is the Adult Supervision?", July 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Media Coverage? Israeli Policy? You Be the Judge", July 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A British Officer Explains What Counterterrorist Warfare is Like and How Israel Does the Best it Can to Fight in a Humanitarian Way", July 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel's Left Doesn't Support Obama or a Settlement Construction Freeze", July 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel Offers a Peace Plan that Can Work", July 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Response: A Narrative He Dares Not Speak", June 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "And in Case the Obama Administration Hasn't Alienated Israel Enough", June 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Politics: The Ideal, The Real, and The Imaginary", June 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Bias Beyond Belief: The AP Can't Even Report Netanyahu's Speech Fairly", June 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Takes Reality a Bit Into Account", June 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Prime Minister Netanyahu's Speech", June 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Stopping Settlement Construction Won't Help Construct a Diplomatic Settlement", May 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Peace on the Borderline", May 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Can Israel Depend on Those Who Have Proven Undependable", May 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Netanyahu's Peace Plan", May 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Is There Hope that the Obama Administration Might Change?", May 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A New Government ", April 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Two-Thirds of Released Hamas Prisoners Return to Terrorism", March 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lieberman as Foreign Minister: Anatomy of a Ploy ", March 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration and the Middle East: So Far, Not So Bad", March 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "On the Ground in Gaza", January 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Journalist Guys", December 6, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Who Do They Like, Who Do They Hate?", September 19, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "An Apartment Is Not a Homeland", September 3, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Prophets and Losses", August 3, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "How Israel Will Attack Iran's Nuclear Installation", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "And Now for Something Completely Different", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon's Government Declares War on Israel", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "You Can't Bear NPR", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Let's Talk About The Nazis", March 14, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Sharon and Israeli Politics", January 6, 2006
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The biggest shoes to fill", January 6, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel's political earthquake", November 22, 2005
  • Jonathan Spyer, "A Disengagement of Disenchantment", January 7, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel-Turkey Relations: Present and Future", July 6, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Taking Stock in Stockholm", June 14, 2004
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Why Israel Needs a Fence", February 24, 2004
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  Israel-Palestinian Issues

  • Barry Rubin, "Terror Attack Near Hebron: Not an Incident But a Revelation About What's Happening", September 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Competing World Views Tear a "Peace Process" to Pieces", August 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Direct Talk About Direct (Israel-Palestinian) Talks", August 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Looking Ahead at U.S.-Israel and "Peace Process" Issues", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Again Predicts Direct Israel-Palestinian Talks, Is He Wrong Again?", July 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Netanyahu: No Love Fest But As Good As It's Gonna Get", July 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Will the Western Strategy Toward Gaza Produce? A "Normal" Revolutionary, Terrorist, Genocidal Regime There", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Some Semi-Sanity from Europe: EU Foreign Ministers Make Partial Sense on Gaza, Iran", June 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News on Flotilla Investigation; Bad News on Iran Sanctions?", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Misunderstood Statement of Mahmoud Abbas", June 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Abbas: And Shows He Understands Neither Hamas Nor Israel, Neither the Middle East Nor Islamism", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When Bibi Meets Barack: What Will Happen in Their Upcoming Meeting", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Do the New Israel-Palestinian Indirect Talks Mean?", May 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton Explains How Middle East Utopia is Just Around the Corner, Just Tell Israel and Palestinians How to Make Peace", April 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Cheers for Congress, One for France, and Two and a Half Boos for Obama Policy", April 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Shocking Secret in Plain Sight: U.S. Policy Sabotages U.S. Policy", April 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Leaders Do It Again! Throw Away Opportunity Obama is Giving Them and Poke Him in the Eye", April 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Does the Palestinian Authority Celebrate Those Who Turned Christianity's Holiest Shrine into a Military Bunker?", April 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Idea of the Obama Administration Supporting an "Imposed Solution" on the Israel-Palestinian Issue Takes a Big Step Forward", April 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "President Obama Follows Up on His Middle East Victory, A Satire", April 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "NY Times Defends Obama, Not U.S. Interests; Blames Israel, Not White House or Palestinians for All Problems", March 31, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Has the Obama Administration, Against U.S. Interests, Declared Diplomatic War on Israel?", March 29, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Re-Packaging Illusion", March 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Ignores Iran's Help to al-Qaida in Its Passion over Jerusalem Apartments", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Hillary Clinton's AIPAC Speech: Find the Glaring Contradiction", March 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Trial Balloon? Washington Post Columnist Calls for Imposed Settlement on Israel", March 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why What General Patraeus Said Is Wrong About the Middle East (Or Is It Just Being Misinterpreted?)", March 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis", March 16, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Authority Walks Out of Talks with a Big Smile on Its Face", March 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Quick They Forget: A Short History of U.S. Policy and Israeli Construction in East Jerusalem", March 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Announcing Construction of East Jerusalem Apartments: Stupid, Yes; Proof of Disinterest in Peace, No", March 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Going Backward? Understanding and Attempts to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", March 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It Comes to Analyzing the Middle East, We Live in an Age of Idiocy", February 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Isn't There Peace? One Reason: Few People Know How Much is Being Offered", February 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Prime Minister to Israeli Audience: You Make Concessions, We Don't", February 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration Learns the Basic Lesson on the Israel-Palestinian Issue", January 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The "Why Can't Everyone Just Be Friends" Narrative of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Evenhandedness Gone Mad", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Casualties and Solutions in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, 2009", January 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Authority Sets its New Strategy: Tempts Obama Administration with Instant Peace if it Pressures Israel", December 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Israel, Good Prospects in 2010 ", December 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement", December 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Seventy Years Ago, Palestinian Arabs Threw Away Chance to Prevent Israel's Creation; Following the Same Policies Today", December 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't H. Clinton Bring Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Look at What B. Clinton Offered which the Palestinians Rejected", December 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinians Tell the World their Strategy: Why Make Peace with Israel When We Can Get Everything from You Instead", December 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why All the Excuses for Palestinian Intransigence Don't Make Sense ", December 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "On Israel's Construction Freeze: U.S. Fails to Deliver: Instead of Praising, Europe Demands More", December 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hillary's Bombshell: Obama Administration Subtly Launches Dramatic Policy Change on Peace Process", November 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East: Can You Handle the Truth?", November 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Big Freeze: U.S. Policy on Peace Process comes to Dead Halt and Likely to Remain that Way", October 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Regarding That "Boy in Gaza": Obama Overlooks Genocidal Regime and Real Barriers to Peace", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration's Arab-Israeli Policy Adjustment: Out of the Frying Pan Into the...Saucepan", August 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Let's Pretend We're Making Arab-Israeli, Israel-Palestinian Peace", August 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Prime Minister: We'll Build State Institutions in Two Years. What Have You Been Doing for the last 15?", August 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State is a Prime Requirement for Israel-Palestinian Peace", August 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Succeeds...In Alienating Both Sides", August 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Short Guide to Israel-Palestinian Negotiating Positions", August 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah Election: The Myths Unravel. Most moderate Fatah guy says election fraud is an Israeli conspiracy!", August 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Made-Up Quotation Shows The Craziness in Slandering Israel and Misunderstanding How Politics and Warfare Works", August 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Truth, Logic, Rationality and The Israel-Palestinian Conflict: ", August 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "New U.S. Plan: Israel Would Offer to Freeze Construction if the Arabs Take Steps Also", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Love Letters in the Sand; Big Strategy: Ask Arab Leaders to Make Peace with Israel", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Case for Anti-Freeze: Regarding Israeli Construction on Settlements", July 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah's Big Meeting: No Recognition of Israel; No End to Armed Struggle and New Leaders, Too?", July 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas Sends "Gift" to Wedding of Palestinian Authority Official's Nephew: Fifty Injured in Explosion", July 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Ultimate Anecdote Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict", July 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Murder, He Said: Palestinian Politics Fragments Further", July 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel Offers a Peace Plan that Can Work", July 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Response: A Narrative He Dares Not Speak", June 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Prime Minister Netanyahu's Speech", June 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel and America: Neither Surrender nor Confrontation", June 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Failed Plans to Wipe Israel Off the Map that Keep the Conflict Going", June 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Unsettling About Obama's Policy Toward Settlements", June 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Abbas Seizes Opportunity to Throw Away Opportunity", June 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Stopping Settlement Construction Won't Help Construct a Diplomatic Settlement", May 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "If U.S. Government Ignores Palestinian Incitement to Violence, There's No Hope for Peace ", May 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Netanyahu's the Man ", May 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Peace Process Industry's Going to Get You--And Your Little Country, Too!", May 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Murders Israeli; Media Murders Israel's Reputation", April 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Boy Murdered; Peace Process Killed", April 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "On the Ground in Gaza", January 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas's Strategy: The Rockets or the Media", December 29, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Time Is on My Side", September 28, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Self-radicalization", July 30, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Attacks and Western Comprehension", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Exposing Hamas", February 28, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas is in for the Long Run", February 21, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas's Fatah problem", February 7, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "The Myth of a Moderate Hamas", January 31, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "What the nationalists sowed, the Islamists reaped", January 31, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Is the world moving toward Israel's side?", January 17, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Nowhere, Fast", December 27, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "A Tale of Two Elections", December 20, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Propaganda and Caution", November 8, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas's Hangover", August 16, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Cease-fire? What cease-fire?", July 19, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Delay and Deception", June 7, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas Victorious", May 17, 2005
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Missed Opportunities", May 7, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Election Nightmare", April 26, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "A Weakening Leader", April 12, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Blueprint for a Regime", December 14, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Examining the Evidence", December 7, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Following the Leader", November 30, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "What Abu Mazin Thinks", November 23, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Two, Three, Many Arafats", November 17, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "The Woman Behind the Chairman", November 9, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "How Arafat Changed Global Politics", November 8, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel's Policy towards Peace: Getting the Facts Straight", October 19, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "A Giant Palestinian Step Backward", October 12, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "The World's Changing View of Arafat", August 2, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Divided They Fall", July 25, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Assessing an Israeli Withdrawal from the Gaza Strip", May 18, 2004
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Missed Opportunities", May 7, 2004
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Israel's Demographic Timebomb", January 14, 2004
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  Jordan

  • Barry Rubin, "Answering Readers' Questions and Updates: Fatah and Turkey", February 1, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Did the Long Arm of Iran Reach the Dead Sea Highway?", January 21, 2010
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  Lebanon

  • Barry Rubin, "The Week Lebanon Became Part of the Anti-Western Axis and West Governments Didn't Notice", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Today's Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel", August 4, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Illusion and Reality Clash in Lebanon", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Marches Into Lebanon; Saudis Surrender to Inevitable, State Department Proclaims Victory", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Hizballah Prepares for War Based on Using Civilians as Shields", July 22, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Losing the Scent in South Lebanon", July 20, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Forgotten Minority", July 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East in May 2010: An Assessment", May 25, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The West Should Use Resolution 1701 to Roll Back Hizbullah's Effective Take-over of the Lebanese Government", April 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Sends Long-Range Missiles to Hizballah But, Says State Department, Only "in part." So No Worries!", April 19, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Weatherman and the Wind", April 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Just Say "No": I Get Personally Invited to Help the Obama Administration Engage--and Thus Strengthen--Terrorists", April 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The UN Gives an Award Named After a Murdered Man to One of His Murderer's Best Friends", March 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?", March 21, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Lebanon: Conflict Widens to Syria", January 31, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Resistance Strategy: The Middle East's Response to Calls for Peace and Moderation", January 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't Western Policymakers Believe There are Actual Revolutionaries in the World?", January 13, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Domino Effect", December 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanese Hizballah to be on UN Security Council", December 9, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hezbollah's Delusions", December 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Are Syria, Hizballah, and Iran Threatening to Assassinate Americans Starting with the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon?", November 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "White House on Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing--Can't Remember Who Murdered 241 Americans", October 23, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Unfinished War", October 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon: A Sinking Ship that the Obama Administration Doesn't Notice", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon's Reversal of Fortune", August 6, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Hizbullah Turns up the Temperature in the North", July 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Yakan Dies, Nasrallah Lies, Perhaps Lebanon Cries", July 20, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Shi'ite Missiles, Zionist Cows and the Lebanese Army", July 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israeli Policy Toward Lebanon and Syria, A Primer", July 19, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Three Years Later, the Core Issues Remain Unresolved", July 9, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Lebanon Election Results Offer Some Relief, but No Major Changes", June 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News from Lebanon but Crisis Looms", June 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hizballah Taking Over Lebanon? Don't Worry! Be Happy!", June 4, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Smoke, Mirrors and Fire in Lebanon", June 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Here Comes Joe, There Goes Lebanon", May 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Conflict Continues Not Due to Victimized Outrage but to Its Usefulness as Weapon", May 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Who's the Threat to Democracy in Lebanon? ", April 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon's Government Declares War on Israel", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "The Other Lebanese Prisoners", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Aoun and Jumblatt", July 12, 2005
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  Media Coverage of the Middle East

  • Barry Rubin, "A Wonderful Graphic Example of Ridiculous Media Bias", August 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The NY Times Tries and Fails to Explain The Israel-Palestinian "Peace Process"", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion", August 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Problem Isn't McChrystal's Bite But That McChrystal (On Administration, not Afghanistan) is Right", June 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "New York Times Needs My Help to Find Flotilla Planners' Terrorist Ties: OK! Here's A Start for Their Research", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamist Extremists Hit Israeli Soldiers with Iron Bars, West Surrenders?", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Gaza Flotilla's Leader Explains: It was a Jihadist Attack not a "Humanitarian Operation"", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Sympathy for the Devil and the Gaza Sea Confrontation: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?", June 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "General Jones Tells a Joke", April 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Only Thing More Horrible Than the Middle East Are the Books Written About the Middle East", April 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "NY Times Defends Obama, Not U.S. Interests; Blames Israel, Not White House or Palestinians for All Problems", March 31, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Ignores Iran's Help to al-Qaida in Its Passion over Jerusalem Apartments", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Trial Balloon? Washington Post Columnist Calls for Imposed Settlement on Israel", March 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Exclusive Scoop: A Shocking Example: How NY Times Coverage Buries Middle East Reality; Find the Four Gigantic Errors", March 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Bad is the Quality of Media Coverage? A Small Example", March 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It's Necessary and Desirable to Assassinate Terrorists", March 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It Comes to Analyzing the Middle East, We Live in an Age of Idiocy", February 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Prime Minister to Israeli Audience: You Make Concessions, We Don't", February 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Suckered by Hamas and Hizballah: How the Media Interprets Radical Documents as Proof of Moderation", February 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The "Why Can't Everyone Just Be Friends" Narrative of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Evenhandedness Gone Mad", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Suicidal Rules of Arab Political Debate: How Relatively Moderate Regimes are Robbed of Self-Defense", January 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Reality Raises It's Head and the Media Wakes Up About the Obama Administration's Middle East Failure", November 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "White House on Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing--Can't Remember Who Murdered 241 Americans", October 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Freed Reporter Smashes U.S. Policy Myths About Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taliban", October 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Negotiations: Ploy of the Week or Deal of the Century?", October 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Force Your Friends to Give In, Pay Off Your Enemies: Two Newsweek Articles and the Obama Administration's Foreign Policy Philosophy", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Los Angeles Times Talks About Iran and Shows Why the West is so Weak and in Apparent Decline", September 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Reuters Rewrites an Israeli Intelligence Analysis to Ignore its Conclusions and Use it Against Israel", September 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Here's Your Story: No Engagement Game Because Iran Burned Down", August 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Stop the Presses: Blood Libel Goes Mainstream: Swedish Newspaper Proves Antisemitism Is Anti-Zionism Is Now Acceptable", August 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "AP's Coverage of the Fatah Congress: A Case Study in Media Bias and Misinformation", August 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Politics and The Peace Process: The Looming Gigantic Danger", August 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "NY Times: Fatah Good, Pay No Attention to Critics; Op-Ed: How to Solve a Problem, No More Israel, No More Arab-Israeli Conflict", August 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah Congress Fails Miserably and Shows Extremism; Much Media Reports It As Outstanding Success Which Proves Moderation", August 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Politics: It's Not The Economy, Stupid (At Least Not First and Foremost)", August 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "When Journalists Say There Is No Such Thing As Truth Then the World Is in Big Trouble", July 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Media Coverage? Israeli Policy? You Be the Judge", July 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Authority Bites Obama's Hand", June 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Despite Manufactured Expectations Israeli and U.S. Governments Still Getting Along Well", May 25, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Obama: An Innocent Abroad", May 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel Seeks Justice; AP Makes Propaganda", May 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Haters versus the Happy", May 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Memorial Day for Peace and Without Rancor", May 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Pirates Attack; BBC Leaves out the Facts", April 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Reporting That Shames the Profession of Journalism", April 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Defending the Problem: The NY Times Gets Turkey Wrong", April 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Times on Obama Nuclear Strategy: We Don't Know What He's Doing But it Must be Good", April 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Who Needs Egypt-Israel Peace?", April 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Associated Press Spreads Poison", April 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "War Crimes Lies--Nothing to Them", April 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "It's Worse Than a Crime, It's Blundering Analysis", March 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "New York Times Grapples with Crisis of Isolation", March 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Yes, Thank You, Washington Post! Let's Please Pay Attention to Reality", March 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Top 10 Middle East Killer Cartoon Characters List", March 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Modest Proposal: Where Are Our "Top Officials"?", March 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem, Why About You Do They Lie?", December 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Philadelphia Inquirer", December 6, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "AP Blames Israel For Making Palestinians Want to Destroy It", September 26, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "In Desperate Search for Fair Reporting", September 15, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Bring out the Babies and Blind People", August 7, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Radical Islam - with sovereignty", January 27, 2006
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Feeding the Crocodiles", March 12, 2005
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  Middle East Politics

  • Barry Rubin, " Which Side Are You On?: The "Moderate Muslim" Litmus Tests", August 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why All Middle Eastern Politics Can't Be Reduced Merely to the Arab-Israeli Conflict", August 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Policy and Debate on the Middle East: Whatever Happened to Adult Supervision?", July 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Makes Obama Tock in the Middle East", June 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "New York Times Needs My Help to Find Flotilla Planners' Terrorist Ties: OK! Here's A Start for Their Research", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News on Flotilla Investigation; Bad News on Iran Sanctions?", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Major New Development in Flotilla Story? Evidence Emerges of Government-Flotilla Link; Brave Turkish Nationalists Try to Calm Things Down", June 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: The UN's Choice to Head Investigation of Gaza Flotilla: Not Goldstone But a Set-Up Nonetheless", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When Bibi Meets Barack: What Will Happen in Their Upcoming Meeting", May 29, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Behind the Axis: The North Korean Connection", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Actually in the U.S. Sanctions on Iran Proposal? Strengths and Weaknesses", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East in May 2010: An Assessment", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Unveils His Grand Strategy: A Nuclear Defensive Umbrella for Aggression", May 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Is the U.S. Diplomatic and Intelligence Community Being Brainwashed in Dealing with Islamism?", May 5, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "A Tale of Two Palestinian Authorities", April 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Only Thing More Horrible Than the Middle East Are the Books Written About the Middle East", April 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Yawn! Iran may be able to build a missile capable of striking the US by 2015", April 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Photos That Express Obama Middle East Policy? Well, Yes and No", April 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Cheers for Congress, One for France, and Two and a Half Boos for Obama Policy", April 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Listen to the Two Best Arab Journalists Warning What A Nuclear-Armed Iran Means ", April 11, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Lebanon: Conflict Widens to Syria", January 31, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Muslim Brotherhood Cleric versus Palestinian "President": A Case Study of Islamism versus Nationalism", January 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Resistance Strategy: The Middle East's Response to Calls for Peace and Moderation", January 19, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Saudis Seek Illusory "Third Way" in Regional Diplomacy", January 17, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Iran Hasn't Won the Cold War Yet", January 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Seventy Years Ago, Palestinian Arabs Threw Away Chance to Prevent Israel's Creation; Following the Same Policies Today", December 23, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Suddenly, the Arab World Wakes Up to Yemen's Rebellion", December 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Arab Writer Finds Obama Scary for the Moderates, Reassuring for the Radicals", December 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "On Israel's Construction Freeze: U.S. Fails to Deliver: Instead of Praising, Europe Demands More", December 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "In the Middle East: Slanders Outrun Apologies Every Time", October 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Human Rights (sic) Watch: The Big and Little Hands Always Point Against Israel", July 16, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Lebanon Election Results Offer Some Relief, but No Major Changes", June 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News from Lebanon but Crisis Looms", June 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama! Learn from Berdimuhamedow", June 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Conflict Continues Not Due to Victimized Outrage but to Its Usefulness as Weapon", May 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "My Discontented Pro-Terrorist Palestinian Intellectual Friend", May 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "It's Still a Fantasy If You Put Your Hands over Your Ears", May 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "June Is the Cruelest Month ", May 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Realism Must Be Realistic: Why So Many People Who Should Know Better Don't Understand Middle East Politics", May 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria's Unhappy with Obama, Thank Goodness", May 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Allied with al-Qaida Against the United States? Might that be a Problem?", May 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Tragedy Is Not a Crime: Afghanistan and Gaza ", May 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "We Fooled You, We Intend to Destroy You. So Now What Will You Give Us?", May 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Dissolving in the Two-State Solution", April 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Talks About His Middle East Policy ", April 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Won't the West Support Relatively Moderate Muslims and Arabs", April 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama: I Know Better Than Israelis and Palestinians", March 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Blood Libel: From Vodka to Mass Media", March 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Cartoon: The Problem Is Stupidity, Not Hatred", March 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The GLORIA Center Is Pleased to Announce the Appointment of Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum", March 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Wrong with the Contemporary Debate on Middle East Issues", March 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Hard Is It to Dialogue with Iran's Islamist regime?", March 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: Good Idea, Wrong Place and Time", March 15, 2009
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  North Africa

  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration Finds Another Dictatorship to Appease; Makes Friends with Sudan", September 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "UK-Libya Relations: Release Terrorist, Make Oil Deal, Train...Terrorists?", September 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Not to Moderate Radicals: The UK, Libya, Prisoner Releases, and Oil Deals", September 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Blood for Oil: Yes, Britain Did Release a Mass-Murdering Terrorist in Exchange for an Oil Deal", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Miasma: Denying, Ignoring, or Explaining Away What We See Every Day", August 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Planet Middle East", April 14, 2009
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  Palestinians

  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Authority Incitement to Kill Israelis and Destroy Israel: A Powerful Subverter of Chances for Peace", August 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Wonderful Graphic Example of Ridiculous Media Bias", August 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Looking Ahead at U.S.-Israel and "Peace Process" Issues", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The False Issue of "Race" in the Arab-Israeli Conflict", August 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Peace Process Story So Far: Israel's Cooperation with the US", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Passionate, Heated Debates Over The "Peace Process" Have Nothing To Do With Reality", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Albert the Alligator and the British Ambassador", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " How Not to Conduct Diplomacy: A Case Study: UK PM in Turkey ", July 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Terrorist Whose Daughter Was Cured ", July 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Briefing in a Minute: The Middle East Right Now", July 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Using My Testimony, Court Fines North Korea $378 Million", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bad News: "Peace Process," UK, Hamas, Turkey; Good News: Boycotts Fail; U.S. Public Opinion; True News: Dead Turkish Flotilla Attackers Sought Martyrdom", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Again Predicts Direct Israel-Palestinian Talks, Is He Wrong Again?", July 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt Versus Gaza", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Yes, Still Another False-Moderation-of-Palestinian-Leadership Hoax", July 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Netanyahu: No Love Fest But As Good As It's Gonna Get", July 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Announcement on Gaza Shows the Missing Element: Strategic Rationality", June 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Bit More on the Gaza Strip Diplomacy", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "I'm Looking and I Don't See Any Palestinian State-Building Going On", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Israel Revises Gaza Policy; World Gets What it Wants: Terrorist, Genocidal, Antisemitic, Revolutionary Islamist Statelet on the Mediterranean", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Will the Western Strategy Toward Gaza Produce? A "Normal" Revolutionary, Terrorist, Genocidal Regime There", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Some Semi-Sanity from Europe: EU Foreign Ministers Make Partial Sense on Gaza, Iran", June 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News on Flotilla Investigation; Bad News on Iran Sanctions?", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Misunderstood Statement of Mahmoud Abbas", June 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Abbas: And Shows He Understands Neither Hamas Nor Israel, Neither the Middle East Nor Islamism", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Motivates Israeli Policy and Actions", June 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime Changes Sides, West Averts Eyes", June 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamist Extremists Hit Israeli Soldiers with Iron Bars, West Surrenders?", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Gaza Flotilla's Leader Explains: It was a Jihadist Attack not a "Humanitarian Operation"", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Sympathy for the Devil and the Gaza Sea Confrontation: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?", June 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton (Unintentionally) Explains to Us How Obama Administration Ideology in the West Makes the World Worse", May 28, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "A Tale of Two Palestinian Authorities", April 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Shocking Secret in Plain Sight: U.S. Policy Sabotages U.S. Policy", April 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Ignores Iran's Help to al-Qaida in Its Passion over Jerusalem Apartments", March 25, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hamas Fans Flames of Islamic Anger Following "Day of Rage"", March 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Watch the Themes, Not the Headlines", February 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Isn't There Peace? One Reason: Few People Know How Much is Being Offered", February 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Prime Minister to Israeli Audience: You Make Concessions, We Don't", February 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Suckered by Hamas and Hizballah: How the Media Interprets Radical Documents as Proof of Moderation", February 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Answering Readers' Questions and Updates: Fatah and Turkey", February 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Muslim Brotherhood Cleric versus Palestinian "President": A Case Study of Islamism versus Nationalism", January 21, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Saudis Seek Illusory "Third Way" in Regional Diplomacy", January 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer", January 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The "Why Can't Everyone Just Be Friends" Narrative of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Evenhandedness Gone Mad", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Suicidal Rules of Arab Political Debate: How Relatively Moderate Regimes are Robbed of Self-Defense", January 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Casualties and Solutions in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, 2009", January 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement", December 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Seventy Years Ago, Palestinian Arabs Threw Away Chance to Prevent Israel's Creation; Following the Same Policies Today", December 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "On Israel's Construction Freeze: U.S. Fails to Deliver: Instead of Praising, Europe Demands More", December 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What's It Really About and Why Does it Continue?", November 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Great "Abbas is Quitting" Farce; Media Deletes Palestinian Intransigence", November 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "And Now the Truth Becomes Clear: Hillary Clinton Announces that the Palestinians are the Obstacles to Peace", November 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Analysis: New Fundamentalist Movements on the Rise in Gaza", October 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How the Palestinian Authority is Killing Even the Charade of a Peace Process", October 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinians Choose the Illusion of Victory", October 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration and Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Grinding to a Total and Humiliating Halt", October 1, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Growing Islamization in Gaza", September 29, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Terrorism: Hizballah's Brand is Tarnished", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Meet the Palestinians' Next Leader, Muhammad (Abu al-Mahir) Ghaneim: The Man Who Will Make Comprehensive Peace Impossible", September 16, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hamas Seeks New Doctrine after Gaza War Failures", September 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Prime Minister: We'll Build State Institutions in Two Years. What Have You Been Doing for the last 15?", August 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State is a Prime Requirement for Israel-Palestinian Peace", August 20, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Al-Qaida-Style Islamism Comes to Gaza", August 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas Transforms Gaza Into Totaliltarian Islamists State", August 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Politics: One Plus One Plus One Moderate Equals: Zero Moderation", August 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Yasir Arafat: Martyr to His Own Political Methodology", August 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "AP's Coverage of the Fatah Congress: A Case Study in Media Bias and Misinformation", August 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Politics and The Peace Process: The Looming Gigantic Danger", August 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "NY Times: Fatah Good, Pay No Attention to Critics; Op-Ed: How to Solve a Problem, No More Israel, No More Arab-Israeli Conflict", August 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah Congress Election Results: Quite Different From What You Will be Told", August 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah Congress Fails Miserably and Shows Extremism; Much Media Reports It As Outstanding Success Which Proves Moderation", August 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah Congress: Peace As a Very Low Priority", August 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas and the House of (No) Commons(ense)", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah's Big Meeting: No Recognition of Israel; No End to Armed Struggle and New Leaders, Too?", July 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas Sends "Gift" to Wedding of Palestinian Authority Official's Nephew: Fifty Injured in Explosion", July 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Brief Guide to the Differences Between Palestinian Authority, Syrian, and Iranian Strategies Toward the West", July 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Murder, He Said: Palestinian Politics Fragments Further", July 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "E.U Policy on the Peace Program: Where is the Adult Supervision?", July 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why the Silence on Islamist--and Sometimes Muslim-Majority Regimes--Persecution of Christians?", July 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Media Coverage? Israeli Policy? You Be the Judge", July 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel Offers a Peace Plan that Can Work", July 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Response: A Narrative He Dares Not Speak", June 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Leaders Prefer Advocating--Even When They're Not Practicing--Terrorist Violence", June 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Politics: The Ideal, The Real, and The Imaginary", June 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Isn't the Palestinian Authority Moderate? Why Don't Arab Leaders Obey the New York Times? ", May 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamic Cleric to Pope: Let's Unite and Kill the Jews Together!", May 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Barred from Jenin: For Anti-Hate Speech", April 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Moderates Want Peace-With Hamas, Not Israel", March 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Two-Thirds of Released Hamas Prisoners Return to Terrorism", March 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Georgia on My Mind", August 11, 2008
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  Qatar

  • Barry Rubin, "Boring Press Conference? No, Gold Mine for Understanding U.S. Middle East Policy", January 7, 2010
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  Radical Movements

  • Barry Rubin, "Passionate, Heated Debates Over The "Peace Process" Have Nothing To Do With Reality", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Today's Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel", August 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Terrorist Whose Daughter Was Cured ", July 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Using My Testimony, Court Fines North Korea $378 Million", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Hizballah Prepares for War Based on Using Civilians as Shields", July 22, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Losing the Scent in South Lebanon", July 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Kings, Emirs, and Shaykhs: The Survival of Traditional Regimes in the Persian Gulf", July 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "West Says: We've Helped Poor Gazans! Hamas Says: You've Given Us Gaza, Now on to More Wars, Seizing the West Bank, and Wiping Out Israel", July 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "CIA Chief Says Al-Qaida is Weaker. True. But So Is U.S., While Revolutionary Islamist Groups Are Stronger!", July 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Terrorist's World View Signals What Our World View Should Be", June 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Bit More on the Gaza Strip Diplomacy", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Israel Revises Gaza Policy; World Gets What it Wants: Terrorist, Genocidal, Antisemitic, Revolutionary Islamist Statelet on the Mediterranean", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Will the Western Strategy Toward Gaza Produce? A "Normal" Revolutionary, Terrorist, Genocidal Regime There", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime's Domestic Headaches Leads to Demagogic Desperation", June 16, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Who Killed Khaled Sultan al-Abed?", June 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Letter to Turkish Friends [In Turkish and English]", June 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "New York Times Needs My Help to Find Flotilla Planners' Terrorist Ties: OK! Here's A Start for Their Research", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime Changes Sides, West Averts Eyes", June 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Sympathy for the Devil and the Gaza Sea Confrontation: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?", June 1, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Behind the Axis: The North Korean Connection", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton (Unintentionally) Explains to Us How Obama Administration Ideology in the West Makes the World Worse", May 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Government Knows that Iran Helps al-Qaida But Does Nothing About It ", May 15, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "A Tale of Two Palestinian Authorities", April 24, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The West Should Use Resolution 1701 to Roll Back Hizbullah's Effective Take-over of the Lebanese Government", April 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Sends Long-Range Missiles to Hizballah But, Says State Department, Only "in part." So No Worries!", April 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Shocking Secret in Plain Sight: U.S. Policy Sabotages U.S. Policy", April 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Engages Syria; Syria Escalates Weapons Supply to Hizballah", April 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Listen to the Two Best Arab Journalists Warning What A Nuclear-Armed Iran Means ", April 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Just Say "No": I Get Personally Invited to Help the Obama Administration Engage--and Thus Strengthen--Terrorists", April 2, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Re-Packaging Illusion", March 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Ignores Iran's Help to al-Qaida in Its Passion over Jerusalem Apartments", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The EU's Think Tank: Engage Hamas and Islamist Movements; Iranian Nuclear Weapons Not a Threat", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "CAIR Attacks Book Series on Islam; Unable to Find Anything "Wrong" It Fabricates Complaints", March 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?", March 21, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hamas Fans Flames of Islamic Anger Following "Day of Rage"", March 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Nations Must Know When to Cringe and Crawl--But for the West It's Becoming Routine", March 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why What General Patraeus Said Is Wrong About the Middle East (Or Is It Just Being Misinterpreted?)", March 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis", March 16, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "What Does Assad Want?", March 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It's Necessary and Desirable to Assassinate Terrorists", March 5, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Northern Tinder Box", February 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Watch the Themes, Not the Headlines", February 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It Comes to Analyzing the Middle East, We Live in an Age of Idiocy", February 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Naive Westerners Constantly Exaggerate Middle Eastern Moderation", February 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Does the Obama Administration Define U.S. Interests as Protecting Its Allies?", February 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Defining "Victory" and "Peace": How the U.S. and Israel Reject General Sherman's Solution and Get Blamed Anyway", February 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Suckered by Hamas and Hizballah: How the Media Interprets Radical Documents as Proof of Moderation", February 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Islam and Islamism: Are Extremists Hijackers, "Proper Muslims," or Contenders in a Civil War?", January 26, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Did the Long Arm of Iran Reach the Dead Sea Highway?", January 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Muslim Brotherhood Cleric versus Palestinian "President": A Case Study of Islamism versus Nationalism", January 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Muslim Brotherhood's New Leader Shows There's No Hope of Moderation", January 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Resistance Strategy: The Middle East's Response to Calls for Peace and Moderation", January 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Brilliant Defender or Light-Weight? Some Problems in the Thinking of Michael Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center", January 18, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Saudis Seek Illusory "Third Way" in Regional Diplomacy", January 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer", January 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't Western Policymakers Believe There are Actual Revolutionaries in the World?", January 13, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Arab World: Battleground Yemen", January 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "It's Not al-Qaida the Obama Administration Doesn't Understand, It's Everything Else", January 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, ""Outsmarting" the Terrorists by Being Incredibly Stupid?", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Suicidal Rules of Arab Political Debate: How Relatively Moderate Regimes are Robbed of Self-Defense", January 6, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Muslim World: Iran --The End Is Not Nigh", January 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "There Are Lots of Lessons from the Detriot Flight Terrorist Attack: Why is No One in Government Paying Attention?", December 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Arabic-Speaking World in 2010", December 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Israel, Good Prospects in 2010 ", December 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran and Hizballah Get Hillarycare: Two Mistakes That America's Enemies Notice and Act On", November 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's General Says: Syria Allied with Al-Qaida, Attacking U.S.; White House Says: Is that a Problem?", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Important Step? Hamas Declares New Ceasefire; Launching Bid for Massive Aid for Gaza Strip", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "An Article that gives an Amazing Insight into Radical Islamism, its Western Coddlers and its Cures", November 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Fort Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All to You", November 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Analysis: New Fundamentalist Movements on the Rise in Gaza", October 29, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer , "Terrorism: Iran Reaps the Whirlwind", October 22, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Unfinished War", October 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The West's Choice of Strategy: Defending Itself From Terror Attacks or Combatting A Radical Strategic Threat?", October 2, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Growing Islamization in Gaza", September 29, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Terrorism: Hizballah's Brand is Tarnished", September 24, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hamas Seeks New Doctrine after Gaza War Failures", September 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Not to Moderate Radicals: The UK, Libya, Prisoner Releases, and Oil Deals", September 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How to Tell Who's Lying and Who's Telling the Truth in the Middle East", September 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Take the One-Minute Test Proving Syria Is an Ally of al-Qaida & See How This Fact is Kept Hidden", August 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Movement, Iran, Hizballah, and Arms Smuggling", August 31, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Al-Qaida-Style Islamism Comes to Gaza", August 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why A Hizballah Attack on Israel is Unlikely", August 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Says: Hooray for Jihad! (Proper Jihad, of course)", August 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon's Reversal of Fortune", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas and the House of (No) Commons(ense)", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran: Extremist, Terrorist, Repressive Dictator? Ok. Doesn't Hate all Israelis? Fire him!", July 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Yakan Dies, Nasrallah Lies, Perhaps Lebanon Cries", July 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Idea That Hizballah Has a "Political Wing" Which Isn't Terrorist and Can Be Engaged Is Absurd ", July 19, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Shi'ite Missiles, Zionist Cows and the Lebanese Army", July 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Leaders Prefer Advocating--Even When They're Not Practicing--Terrorist Violence", June 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Crisis and All Quiet on the Western Front", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Politics: The Ideal, The Real, and The Imaginary", June 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hizballah Taking Over Lebanon? Don't Worry! Be Happy!", June 4, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Smoke, Mirrors and Fire in Lebanon", June 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas Says 'Kill Next Week'; Media Perceives Moderation", May 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Our Terrorism Book Wins Recognition", April 23, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Hamas Lobby", April 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "UK and Hamas: Political Wing? It's the Bloody Beak!", April 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamists of the World Unite; You Have Nothing to Lose Except Any Pretext of Being Moderate", April 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Planet Middle East", April 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "UK-Hizballah: Dar al-Harb Isn't Arabic For House of Lords*", April 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "New York Times Cartoon Becomes... Hizballah Propaganda", April 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Britain Gets Tougher on Radical Islamism", March 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Dialing Hizballah (satire)", March 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Two-Thirds of Released Hamas Prisoners Return to Terrorism", March 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's March Toward Islamism: Another Big Step ", March 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Modest Proposal: Where Are Our "Top Officials"?", March 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Prophets and Losses", August 3, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon's Government Declares War on Israel", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "The Other Lebanese Prisoners", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Terrorists for occupation", 2005
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  Regional

  • Barry Rubin, "Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion", August 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The False Issue of "Race" in the Arab-Israeli Conflict", August 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Peace Process Story So Far: Israel's Cooperation with the US", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Passionate, Heated Debates Over The "Peace Process" Have Nothing To Do With Reality", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Today's Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel", August 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Analyzing British Jews' Views: The Opposite of What's Suggested", August 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel Shouldn't Attack Iranian Nuclear Installations--Unless It Has to Do So", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Interview with Zeyno Baran on Moderate Muslims", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Really Happened on the Mavi Marmara and Some Revealing Events in the Middle East Today", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt Versus Gaza", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What's In a Name: Obama Can't Figure Out (Or Pretends He Can't) Why He Worries Israelis", July 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Yes, Still Another False-Moderation-of-Palestinian-Leadership Hoax", July 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Kings, Emirs, and Shaykhs: The Survival of Traditional Regimes in the Persian Gulf", July 9, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Forgotten Minority", July 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Policy and Debate on the Middle East: Whatever Happened to Adult Supervision?", July 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "CIA Chief Says Al-Qaida is Weaker. True. But So Is U.S., While Revolutionary Islamist Groups Are Stronger!", July 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Terrorist's World View Signals What Our World View Should Be", June 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Problem Isn't McChrystal's Bite But That McChrystal (On Administration, not Afghanistan) is Right", June 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Who in Turkey Knows the Value of the Now-Dead Alliance with Israel? The Foreign and Defense Ministries", June 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Some Semi-Sanity from Europe: EU Foreign Ministers Make Partial Sense on Gaza, Iran", June 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Makes Obama Tock in the Middle East", June 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Foreign Policy is so "Great" That He's Better Than Bush?", June 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Israel Proposes Framework for Investigation of Flotilla Incident", June 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Who Killed Khaled Sultan al-Abed?", June 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Letter to Turkish Friends [In Turkish and English]", June 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Unveils His Grand Strategy: A Nuclear Defensive Umbrella for Aggression", May 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Photos That Express Obama Middle East Policy? Well, Yes and No", April 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement", December 25, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Domino Effect", December 24, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Suddenly, the Arab World Wakes Up to Yemen's Rebellion", December 20, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hezbollah's Delusions", December 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Won't the Arabs Protect Themselves from Iran by Actively Battling Against Tehran Having Nuclear Weapons?", November 22, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Virtual Diplomacy, Real Damage", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration on Anniversary of Embassy and Hostage Seizure in Iran: We're trying to be Friends!", November 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "And Now the Truth Becomes Clear: Hillary Clinton Announces that the Palestinians are the Obstacles to Peace", November 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Negotiations: Ploy of the Week or Deal of the Century?", October 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinians Choose the Illusion of Victory", October 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Regime's Charm Plus Western Credulity Equals "Diplomatic Success" in Geneva", October 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The West's Choice of Strategy: Defending Itself From Terror Attacks or Combatting A Radical Strategic Threat?", October 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Doesn't Understand: The Alternative to Victory is Defeat", September 29, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Growing Islamization in Gaza", September 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Gaza report is a disaster for human rights and peace ", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Advice for the Advisors: A Roman General Chides Would-Be Pundits (Very Applicable to Contemporary Middle East and Other Issues)", September 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A New Arab Strategy: Israel Gives Up Everything, and Then Maybe Gets Something in Exchange", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Dialogue of the Deaf: Obama Sanctions' on Iran Fall Flat on their Face", September 8, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: For Assad, Conflict is a Raison D'etre", September 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Take the One-Minute Test Proving Syria Is an Ally of al-Qaida & See How This Fact is Kept Hidden", August 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Key Saudi Prince Injured in Terror Attack: Shaking Up the Kingdom", August 28, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Al-Qaida-Style Islamism Comes to Gaza", August 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Pakistan Still Hates America and What That Teaches Us", August 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Made-Up Quotation Shows The Craziness in Slandering Israel and Misunderstanding How Politics and Warfare Works", August 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Withdraws Ahmadinejad's Elected and Legitimate Statement", August 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Saudis Make Fun of Obama Middle East Policy; Administration, Media, Pretend Not to Notice", August 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Love Letters in the Sand; Big Strategy: Ask Arab Leaders to Make Peace with Israel", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas and the House of (No) Commons(ense)", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Yakan Dies, Nasrallah Lies, Perhaps Lebanon Cries", July 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Idea That Hizballah Has a "Political Wing" Which Isn't Terrorist and Can Be Engaged Is Absurd ", July 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Azerbaijan's Moderate Dream", July 1, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Iranian Lobbying Failed", July 1, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Syria's Goose Lays a Golden Egg", June 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Here's What Obama Could/Should Say", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Big Freeze Leaves Israelis Cold", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Crisis and All Quiet on the Western Front", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Politics: The Ideal, The Real, and The Imaginary", June 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Forty-Eight Hours of Reality Overthrows Obama Middle East Policy", June 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Prime Minister Netanyahu's Speech", June 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Whose Ox Is Gored: The West, the Middle East, and Some Very Inconvenient Truth", June 14, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Lebanon Election Results Offer Some Relief, but No Major Changes", June 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News from Lebanon but Crisis Looms", June 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama! Learn from Berdimuhamedow", June 3, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Smoke, Mirrors and Fire in Lebanon", June 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "My Discontented Pro-Terrorist Palestinian Intellectual Friend", May 21, 2009
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  Regional Security

  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Using My Testimony, Court Fines North Korea $378 Million", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East 101: Understanding Regional Political Logic", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " Debating Obama Policy Doesn't Require Screaming But Logic and Honest Discussion ", July 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel Shouldn't Attack Iranian Nuclear Installations--Unless It Has to Do So", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Bit More on the Gaza Strip Diplomacy", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "I'm Looking and I Don't See Any Palestinian State-Building Going On", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: White House Undercuts Congress's Sanctions on Iran and Builds Loopholes to Avoid Confronting Violators?", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Israel Revises Gaza Policy; World Gets What it Wants: Terrorist, Genocidal, Antisemitic, Revolutionary Islamist Statelet on the Mediterranean", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime's Domestic Headaches Leads to Demagogic Desperation", June 16, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Foreign Policy is so "Great" That He's Better Than Bush?", June 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Letter to Turkish Friends [In Turkish and English]", June 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer", January 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Iran Hasn't Won the Cold War Yet", January 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Expresses His Basic Concept of International Affairs: Pollyanna, Yes; Machiavelli, No", September 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Avoiding the Unthinkable: Missile Defense is Israel's "Secret" Weapon Against Iran's Nuclear Weapons", September 22, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Why the Iranian Alliance Will Fail", August 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Too Busy to Deal with U.S. Efforts on Nuclear Issue?", August 6, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Hizbullah Turns up the Temperature in the North", July 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Futile: Iran's Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons or U.S. Policy to Stop It?", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama and Iran: Beat Demonstrators, Build Bombs, But We're Eager to Negotiate with You", June 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Peace on the Borderline", May 31, 2009
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  Russia/USSR

  • Barry Rubin, "Anticlimax: Sanctions on Iran, (Slightly) Increased at Last", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary", May 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Embraces Russia As "Helpful"; Moscow Stabs U.S. in Back", May 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?", March 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How a Forgery--Not the Protocols--Shows Us Why So Many Still Don't Understand Antisemitism When They See (or Produce) It", February 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Explaining Russian and Chinese Policy: From Communists to Super-Capitalist Merchants", December 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Russia Makes a Mess", May 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Georgia on My Mind", August 11, 2008
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  Saudi Arabia

  • Jonathan Spyer, "Illusion and Reality Clash in Lebanon", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Marches Into Lebanon; Saudis Surrender to Inevitable, State Department Proclaims Victory", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Really Happened on the Mavi Marmara and Some Revealing Events in the Middle East Today", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "King Abdallah Compliments President Obama, Sort Of?", July 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Photos That Express Obama Middle East Policy? Well, Yes and No", April 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Saudi Foreign Minister Explains the New Middle East", March 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Saudis to Obama Administration: We're Scared of Iran and You're Going Too Slow", February 17, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Saudis Seek Illusory "Third Way" in Regional Diplomacy", January 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Arabic-Speaking World in 2010", December 28, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Suddenly, the Arab World Wakes Up to Yemen's Rebellion", December 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Saudi Regime is Flooded with Problems, Some of Which It Can't Buy Off", December 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A New Arab Strategy: Israel Gives Up Everything, and Then Maybe Gets Something in Exchange", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Key Saudi Prince Injured in Terror Attack: Shaking Up the Kingdom", August 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Stop the Presses: Blood Libel Goes Mainstream: Swedish Newspaper Proves Antisemitism Is Anti-Zionism Is Now Acceptable", August 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Saudis Make Fun of Obama Middle East Policy; Administration, Media, Pretend Not to Notice", August 1, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Talk Softly, and Carry a Large Carrot", July 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Human Rights (sic) Watch: The Big and Little Hands Always Point Against Israel", July 16, 2009
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  Syria

  • Barry Rubin, "The Week Lebanon Became Part of the Anti-Western Axis and West Governments Didn't Notice", August 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Illusion and Reality Clash in Lebanon", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Marches Into Lebanon; Saudis Surrender to Inevitable, State Department Proclaims Victory", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East Leader Who Should Be Ignored", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Hizballah Prepares for War Based on Using Civilians as Shields", July 22, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Forgotten Minority", July 9, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Who Killed Khaled Sultan al-Abed?", June 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Motivates Israeli Policy and Actions", June 8, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Behind the Axis: The North Korean Connection", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary", May 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Embraces Russia As "Helpful"; Moscow Stabs U.S. in Back", May 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The West Should Use Resolution 1701 to Roll Back Hizbullah's Effective Take-over of the Lebanese Government", April 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Sends Long-Range Missiles to Hizballah But, Says State Department, Only "in part." So No Worries!", April 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Cheers for Congress, One for France, and Two and a Half Boos for Obama Policy", April 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Engages Syria; Syria Escalates Weapons Supply to Hizballah", April 14, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Weatherman and the Wind", April 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "High-Ranking U.S. Official: Enemies? Islamists? Revolutionaries? We Don't See Anyone Like That!", April 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The UN Gives an Award Named After a Murdered Man to One of His Murderer's Best Friends", March 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?", March 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why What General Patraeus Said Is Wrong About the Middle East (Or Is It Just Being Misinterpreted?)", March 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis", March 16, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Pardon Me, Obama Administration, But Isn't Your Policy on Fire?", March 8, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "What Does Assad Want?", March 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Real Arab Stuff: Hussain Abdul Hussain Explains It All to You", March 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Government Rewards Syria; Syria's Client Threatens to Kill Americans", March 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: U.S. Names New Ambassador to Syria Just After Anniversary of Major Syrian Terrorist Operation", February 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "That "Cost-Benefit" Thing: How U.S. Intelligence Assessments Misunderstand Iran and Lots More in the Middle East", February 8, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Lebanon: Conflict Widens to Syria", January 31, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Resistance Strategy: The Middle East's Response to Calls for Peace and Moderation", January 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer", January 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't Western Policymakers Believe There are Actual Revolutionaries in the World?", January 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Arabic-Speaking World in 2010", December 28, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Domino Effect", December 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why is the West So Easily Fooled by Middle East Dictators? Case in Point: Syria's "Independent" Media is Owned by the Regime", December 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: A Bus Blows up in Damascus - Exploding Tire or Terror Strike?", December 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Won't the Arabs Protect Themselves from Iran by Actively Battling Against Tehran Having Nuclear Weapons?", November 22, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Virtual Diplomacy, Real Damage", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Important Step? Hamas Declares New Ceasefire; Launching Bid for Massive Aid for Gaza Strip", November 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran and Syria Are Up; Egypt and Saudi Arabia Are Down. And this is Israel's Fault?", November 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Syria Relations: Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad Complains that America isn't Giving Him Enough Concessions in Exchange for Nothing", November 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Are Syria, Hizballah, and Iran Threatening to Assassinate Americans Starting with the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon?", November 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Europe Sells Out to Syria and Gets Slapped: A Middle East Case Study in Begging to Give Something for Nothing", October 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "TV Movie Jihad: Turkish Government Tries to Foment Islamist Hatred of Israel and Jews", October 20, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Trip by Saudi Royal Unlikely to Herald Radical Change", October 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria's Policy and Europe's Pay-Offs Disprove A Cliche: Crime DOES Pay", September 9, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: For Assad, Conflict is a Raison D'etre", September 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Neutrality on Iraq-Syria: Obama Administration Betrays Ally and Doesn't Even Defend Its Own Soldiers", September 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Take the One-Minute Test Proving Syria Is an Ally of al-Qaida & See How This Fact is Kept Hidden", August 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Secret: Syria Daily Sponsors and Aids Terrorists Murdering Iraqi Civilians and Americans: Doesn't This Require Action?", August 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Britain, France, Want to Reward Syria for Intransigence. So What Fool Would be Moderate Under Such Conditions?", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon's Reversal of Fortune", August 6, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Talk Softly, and Carry a Large Carrot", July 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israeli Policy Toward Lebanon and Syria, A Primer", July 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Misunderstanding Syria: How the Media Leaves Out the Important Stuff", July 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Aspen's Suspension of Credibility: Fayyad and Syria's Regime Lie, Americans Applaud", July 7, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Syria's Goose Lays a Golden Egg", June 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Peace on the Borderline", May 31, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer , "Analysis: Damascus Gets What it Needs", May 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Iran-Syria Alliance in Harmony", May 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Puts on a Soap Opera", March 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Fools the West 1000 Times, Shame on the West!", March 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Prophets and Losses", August 3, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "We'll take the dowry - you keep the bride", July 31, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "The Other Lebanese Prisoners", July 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria isn't Serious; Lebanon is", May 27, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Making Mischief", April 30, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Syrian Games Without Frontiers", January 7, 2008
  • Cameron S. Brown, "Assad's Strategic Blunders: International Pressure on Syria Increases", November 4, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Unsanctioned", October 5, 2004
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  Turkey

  • Barry Rubin, "The Week Lebanon Became Part of the Anti-Western Axis and West Governments Didn't Notice", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " How Not to Conduct Diplomacy: A Case Study: UK PM in Turkey ", July 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bad News: "Peace Process," UK, Hamas, Turkey; Good News: Boycotts Fail; U.S. Public Opinion; True News: Dead Turkish Flotilla Attackers Sought Martyrdom", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Really Happened on the Mavi Marmara and Some Revealing Events in the Middle East Today", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Who in Turkey Knows the Value of the Now-Dead Alliance with Israel? The Foreign and Defense Ministries", June 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Telling Detail: The Turkish Leader's Personal Quarrel with Barack Obama", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Correction", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime's Domestic Headaches Leads to Demagogic Desperation", June 16, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Israel Proposes Framework for Investigation of Flotilla Incident", June 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Letter to Turkish Friends [In Turkish and English]", June 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "New York Times Needs My Help to Find Flotilla Planners' Terrorist Ties: OK! Here's A Start for Their Research", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News on Flotilla Investigation; Bad News on Iran Sanctions?", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Anticlimax: Sanctions on Iran, (Slightly) Increased at Last", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Major New Development in Flotilla Story? Evidence Emerges of Government-Flotilla Link; Brave Turkish Nationalists Try to Calm Things Down", June 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Motivates Israeli Policy and Actions", June 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: The UN's Choice to Head Investigation of Gaza Flotilla: Not Goldstone But a Set-Up Nonetheless", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Clash of Perceptions: A Picture is Worth 10,000 Academic Theories", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime Changes Sides, West Averts Eyes", June 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamist Extremists Hit Israeli Soldiers with Iron Bars, West Surrenders?", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Gaza Flotilla's Leader Explains: It was a Jihadist Attack not a "Humanitarian Operation"", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Sympathy for the Devil and the Gaza Sea Confrontation: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?", June 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The UN Gives an Award Named After a Murdered Man to One of His Murderer's Best Friends", March 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?", March 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Can Turkey's Government Be a U.S. Ally if it's an Ally of Iran?", March 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How to Make Defeatism Look Good: Let's Give Up and Cheer the Islamists", March 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Answering Readers' Questions and Updates: Fatah and Turkey", February 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "For Israel, Good Prospects in 2010 ", December 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "State Department uses Islamist Anti-American Propaganda to Criticize Turkish Army Kicking Out Islamists", November 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Is the Turkish-Israeli Alliance Over? Yes It Is", November 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's Islamist Regime: Who Will Stop the Reign?", October 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's Islamist Regime: Who Will Stop the Reign?", October 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A New Arab Strategy: Israel Gives Up Everything, and Then Maybe Gets Something in Exchange", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's New Foreign Minister and It's Foreign Policy Strategy", May 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's March Toward Islamism: Another Big Step ", March 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey And The Middle East: An Updated Assessment", January 20, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "The Enigma that is Erdogan", September 28, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "The Future of Turkey's Government", August 24, 2004
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  U.S. Policy on the Middle East

  • Barry Rubin, "Barack Hearts Bibi", September 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Terror Attack Near Hebron: Not an Incident But a Revelation About What's Happening", September 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Competing World Views Tear a "Peace Process" to Pieces", August 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Direct Talk About Direct (Israel-Palestinian) Talks", August 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Looking Ahead at U.S.-Israel and "Peace Process" Issues", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion", August 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Peace Process Story So Far: Israel's Cooperation with the US", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Passionate, Heated Debates Over The "Peace Process" Have Nothing To Do With Reality", August 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Marches Into Lebanon; Saudis Surrender to Inevitable, State Department Proclaims Victory", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Briefing in a Minute: The Middle East Right Now", July 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Using My Testimony, Court Fines North Korea $378 Million", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bad News: "Peace Process," UK, Hamas, Turkey; Good News: Boycotts Fail; U.S. Public Opinion; True News: Dead Turkish Flotilla Attackers Sought Martyrdom", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Again Predicts Direct Israel-Palestinian Talks, Is He Wrong Again?", July 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " Debating Obama Policy Doesn't Require Screaming But Logic and Honest Discussion ", July 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel Shouldn't Attack Iranian Nuclear Installations--Unless It Has to Do So", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What's In a Name: Obama Can't Figure Out (Or Pretends He Can't) Why He Worries Israelis", July 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "West Says: We've Helped Poor Gazans! Hamas Says: You've Given Us Gaza, Now on to More Wars, Seizing the West Bank, and Wiping Out Israel", July 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Netanyahu: No Love Fest But As Good As It's Gonna Get", July 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Policy and Debate on the Middle East: Whatever Happened to Adult Supervision?", July 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "King Abdallah Compliments President Obama, Sort Of?", July 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "CIA Chief Says Al-Qaida is Weaker. True. But So Is U.S., While Revolutionary Islamist Groups Are Stronger!", July 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Announcement on Gaza Shows the Missing Element: Strategic Rationality", June 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Problem Isn't McChrystal's Bite But That McChrystal (On Administration, not Afghanistan) is Right", June 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "I'm Looking and I Don't See Any Palestinian State-Building Going On", June 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Scoop: White House Undercuts Congress's Sanctions on Iran and Builds Loopholes to Avoid Confronting Violators?", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Flash: Israel Revises Gaza Policy; World Gets What it Wants: Terrorist, Genocidal, Antisemitic, Revolutionary Islamist Statelet on the Mediterranean", June 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Telling Detail: The Turkish Leader's Personal Quarrel with Barack Obama", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Makes Obama Tock in the Middle East", June 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Foreign Policy is so "Great" That He's Better Than Bush?", June 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Good News on Flotilla Investigation; Bad News on Iran Sanctions?", June 12, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Meets Abbas: And Shows He Understands Neither Hamas Nor Israel, Neither the Middle East Nor Islamism", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Anticlimax: Sanctions on Iran, (Slightly) Increased at Last", June 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Motivates Israeli Policy and Actions", June 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Clash of Perceptions: A Picture is Worth 10,000 Academic Theories", June 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Islamist Extremists Hit Israeli Soldiers with Iron Bars, West Surrenders?", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Gaza Flotilla's Leader Explains: It was a Jihadist Attack not a "Humanitarian Operation"", June 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When Bibi Meets Barack: What Will Happen in Their Upcoming Meeting", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton (Unintentionally) Explains to Us How Obama Administration Ideology in the West Makes the World Worse", May 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East in May 2010: An Assessment", May 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary", May 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Government Knows that Iran Helps al-Qaida But Does Nothing About It ", May 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Embraces Russia As "Helpful"; Moscow Stabs U.S. in Back", May 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Unveils His Grand Strategy: A Nuclear Defensive Umbrella for Aggression", May 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Continues to Supply Israel with Advanced Weapons", May 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Is the U.S. Diplomatic and Intelligence Community Being Brainwashed in Dealing with Islamism?", May 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Do the New Israel-Palestinian Indirect Talks Mean?", May 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "General Jones Tells a Joke", April 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S.-Israel Crisis May Be Over and We Can "Celebrate" the Achievement of Nothing? ", April 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton Explains How Middle East Utopia is Just Around the Corner, Just Tell Israel and Palestinians How to Make Peace", April 23, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The West Should Use Resolution 1701 to Roll Back Hizbullah's Effective Take-over of the Lebanese Government", April 22, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Yawn! Iran may be able to build a missile capable of striking the US by 2015", April 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria Sends Long-Range Missiles to Hizballah But, Says State Department, Only "in part." So No Worries!", April 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Photos That Express Obama Middle East Policy? Well, Yes and No", April 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Cheers for Congress, One for France, and Two and a Half Boos for Obama Policy", April 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Shocking Secret in Plain Sight: U.S. Policy Sabotages U.S. Policy", April 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Engages Syria; Syria Escalates Weapons Supply to Hizballah", April 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Has President Obama Been Weak and Lost Credibility Over Iran: Answering a Reader's Question", April 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Leaders Do It Again! Throw Away Opportunity Obama is Giving Them and Poke Him in the Eye", April 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Does the Palestinian Authority Celebrate Those Who Turned Christianity's Holiest Shrine into a Military Bunker?", April 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Listen to the Two Best Arab Journalists Warning What A Nuclear-Armed Iran Means ", April 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Idea of the Obama Administration Supporting an "Imposed Solution" on the Israel-Palestinian Issue Takes a Big Step Forward", April 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration and Sanctions on Iran: The Farce Deepens", April 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "High-Ranking U.S. Official: Enemies? Islamists? Revolutionaries? We Don't See Anyone Like That!", April 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Just Say "No": I Get Personally Invited to Help the Obama Administration Engage--and Thus Strengthen--Terrorists", April 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "President Obama Follows Up on His Middle East Victory, A Satire", April 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Has the Obama Administration, Against U.S. Interests, Declared Diplomatic War on Israel?", March 29, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Re-Packaging Illusion", March 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "White House Ignores Iran's Help to al-Qaida in Its Passion over Jerusalem Apartments", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Hillary Clinton's AIPAC Speech: Find the Glaring Contradiction", March 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Trial Balloon? Washington Post Columnist Calls for Imposed Settlement on Israel", March 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?", March 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Nations Must Know When to Cringe and Crawl--But for the West It's Becoming Routine", March 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why What General Patraeus Said Is Wrong About the Middle East (Or Is It Just Being Misinterpreted?)", March 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Can Turkey's Government Be a U.S. Ally if it's an Ally of Iran?", March 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis", March 16, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Authority Walks Out of Talks with a Big Smile on Its Face", March 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Quick They Forget: A Short History of U.S. Policy and Israeli Construction in East Jerusalem", March 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Announcing Construction of East Jerusalem Apartments: Stupid, Yes; Proof of Disinterest in Peace, No", March 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Going Backward? Understanding and Attempts to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", March 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Pardon Me, Obama Administration, But Isn't Your Policy on Fire?", March 8, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "What Does Assad Want?", March 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Zbigniew Brzezinski on Iran: Still Clueless After All These Years", March 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Americans Love Israel Even More Than You Think", March 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Will Obama Have an Iraq Crisis?", March 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Real Arab Stuff: Hussain Abdul Hussain Explains It All to You", March 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Government Rewards Syria; Syria's Client Threatens to Kill Americans", March 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Watch the Themes, Not the Headlines", February 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It Comes to Analyzing the Middle East, We Live in an Age of Idiocy", February 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Naive Westerners Exaggerate Middle Eastern Moderation: Today's Example", February 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Saudis to Obama Administration: We're Scared of Iran and You're Going Too Slow", February 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: U.S. Names New Ambassador to Syria Just After Anniversary of Major Syrian Terrorist Operation", February 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The U.S. Military Looks at the Middle East: Bows to the White House but Knows Its Mission Too", February 15, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Does the Obama Administration Define U.S. Interests as Protecting Its Allies?", February 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Defining "Victory" and "Peace": How the U.S. and Israel Reject General Sherman's Solution and Get Blamed Anyway", February 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's State of the Union Message Tells Us Far More About the State of Obama", January 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration Learns the Basic Lesson on the Israel-Palestinian Issue", January 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Point of No Return: Clearly the Obama Administration Won't Ever Do Anything Serious Against Iran's Nuclear Program", January 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Decline of the Obama Administration: Massachusetts and the Middle East", January 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "It's Not al-Qaida the Obama Administration Doesn't Understand, It's Everything Else", January 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, ""Outsmarting" the Terrorists by Being Incredibly Stupid?", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Boring Press Conference? No, Gold Mine for Understanding U.S. Middle East Policy", January 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's 2010 Policy and Iran: Misconceptions Guarantee Failure", December 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "There Are Lots of Lessons from the Detriot Flight Terrorist Attack: Why is No One in Government Paying Attention?", December 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Authority Sets its New Strategy: Tempts Obama Administration with Instant Peace if it Pressures Israel", December 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Arabic-Speaking World in 2010", December 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Israel, Good Prospects in 2010 ", December 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement", December 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Afghanistan: The Obama Administration's Trust in Pakistan is Going to Get Americans Killed", December 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't H. Clinton Bring Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Look at What B. Clinton Offered which the Palestinians Rejected", December 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Big Developments: Hillary Announces Start of Sanctions Push, Arab Poll Says Iran is Bigger Threat than Israel", December 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Clinton Speaks About Iran: Shows How Slowly U.S. Policy is Changing Gears from Engagement to Sanctions", December 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Arab Writer Finds Obama Scary for the Moderates, Reassuring for the Radicals", December 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "On Israel's Construction Freeze: U.S. Fails to Deliver: Instead of Praising, Europe Demands More", December 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hillary's Bombshell: Obama Administration Subtly Launches Dramatic Policy Change on Peace Process", November 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "When it Comes to Iran, President Obama Won't Hear "No" for an Answer", November 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Frolicking in the Quicksand: How the Obama Administration Keeps Making Huge Mistakes in the Middle East", November 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "State Department uses Islamist Anti-American Propaganda to Criticize Turkish Army Kicking Out Islamists", November 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Syria Relations: Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad Complains that America isn't Giving Him Enough Concessions in Exchange for Nothing", November 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration on Anniversary of Embassy and Hostage Seizure in Iran: We're trying to be Friends!", November 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East: Can You Handle the Truth?", November 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "And Now the Truth Becomes Clear: Hillary Clinton Announces that the Palestinians are the Obstacles to Peace", November 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "America on the Children's Crusade: Think They're Attacking you Because They Really Want to Make a Deal?", October 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's Islamist Regime: Who Will Stop the Reign?", October 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's Islamist Regime: Who Will Stop the Reign?", October 25, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Negotiations: Ploy of the Week or Deal of the Century?", October 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Big Freeze: U.S. Policy on Peace Process comes to Dead Halt and Likely to Remain that Way", October 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How and Why Engagement with Sudan Shows Precisely What's Wrong with Obama Administration Foreign Policy", October 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Window of Opportunity is Now Closed and Locked Down: Passing Goldstone Resolution Marks End of Peace Process Era", October 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How the Palestinian Authority is Killing Even the Charade of a Peace Process", October 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Plan to Beat Sanctions", October 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Palestinians Choose the Illusion of Victory", October 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Dali Lama Dilemma: A Good Case Study of His Foreign Policy Errors", October 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Regime's Charm Plus Western Credulity Equals "Diplomatic Success" in Geneva", October 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The West's Choice of Strategy: Defending Itself From Terror Attacks or Combatting A Radical Strategic Threat?", October 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration Finds Another Dictatorship to Appease; Makes Friends with Sudan", September 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Doesn't Understand: The Alternative to Victory is Defeat", September 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Barack Obama, Iran, and the "Or Else" Factor", September 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama and Israel: Time for a Reassessment", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Regarding That "Boy in Gaza": Obama Overlooks Genocidal Regime and Real Barriers to Peace", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Expresses His Basic Concept of International Affairs: Pollyanna, Yes; Machiavelli, No", September 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Increasingly Obvious Failure of Obama's Middle East Policy", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Iran Negotiations: Once you start you must be nice to them, right?", September 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S Government Jumps Voluntarily into Iran's Trap, Pulls in Europeans, Too", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How the West's Enemies Are Saving It", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "An Introductory Guide To A Very Big Mistake: Analyzing the U.S. Decision to Negotiate with Iran's Regime", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran Outmaneuvers U.S. Government: Obama Scores Three "Own Goals"", September 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt Warns: U.S. Policy Won't Work", September 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Dialogue of the Deaf: Obama Sanctions' on Iran Fall Flat on their Face", September 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran Sanctions' Summit Meeting Not Going Well, Will This Be Another Obama Administration Failure?", September 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Neutrality on Iraq-Syria: Obama Administration Betrays Ally and Doesn't Even Defend Its Own Soldiers", September 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's "Certain Defeat"? The No-Violence Administration Fights the Afghan War", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Lebanon: A Sinking Ship that the Obama Administration Doesn't Notice", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration's Arab-Israeli Policy Adjustment: Out of the Frying Pan Into the...Saucepan", August 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Trouble with Washington: The Middle East Doesn't Exist Solely in Their Minds", August 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Report from Washington: U.S. Middle East's Policy's Next Step", August 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Succeeds...In Alienating Both Sides", August 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Failing Initiative in the Middle East: Lack of Change You Can Believe In", August 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Pakistan Still Hates America and What That Teaches Us", August 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Israel Relations: Two Positive Signs", August 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Arab States 'Just Say No' to Normalization", August 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Would Dumping Israel Help U.S. Relations with the Arab/Muslim Middle East? The Surprising Answer is: No", August 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Says: Hooray for Jihad! (Proper Jihad, of course)", August 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Too Busy to Deal with U.S. Efforts on Nuclear Issue?", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "New U.S. Plan: Israel Would Offer to Freeze Construction if the Arabs Take Steps Also", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Recognizes Ahmadinejad as President", August 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration Withdraws Ahmadinejad's Elected and Legitimate Statement", August 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Et tu, Kuwait? Hillary Clinton Takes Up Real Estate Law; And Obama Administration's Middle East Peace Campaign is Dead", August 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Sudanese Government Beats Up Women, Journalist Threatened with 40 Lashes for Wearing Trousers", August 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration, Meet Middle East Reality; Middle East Reality, Meet Obama Administration", July 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Love Letters in the Sand; Big Strategy: Ask Arab Leaders to Make Peace with Israel", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Futile: Iran's Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons or U.S. Policy to Stop It?", July 27, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S.-Israel Relations, The Rather Limited Limits of Confrontation", July 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A U.S. Middle East Policy Emerges: Great in Theory,Certain to Fail in Practice", July 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Good Intentions Sabotage Peace Process", July 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Equivalency: Obama administration on Israel, or Iran and Syria?", July 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Israel's Left Doesn't Support Obama or a Settlement Construction Freeze", July 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hey, President Obama, Could Support for More Sanctions on Iran be Higher than it Is Right Now?", July 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Iranian Tragedy and its Threat to Everyone in the Middle East", July 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East Is a Place Where Wishful Thinking Gets People Killed but Makes Careers for Politicians, Diplomats, Academics, and Journalists", July 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama to Ahmadinejad: Maybe Think About Not Killing Your Own People...And Have a Nice Day!", July 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama and Iran: Beat Demonstrators, Build Bombs, But We're Eager to Negotiate with You", June 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration's Analytical Insanity: How Not to Respond to Iran's Turmoil", June 29, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: Syria's Goose Lays a Golden Egg", June 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration on Iran: They're Ready to Come Out with their Hand's Up", June 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "And in Case the Obama Administration Hasn't Alienated Israel Enough", June 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Road to Hell, Good Intentions, and Iran", June 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Here's What Obama Could/Should Say", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Big Freeze Leaves Israelis Cold", June 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Politics: The Ideal, The Real, and The Imaginary", June 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Bias Beyond Belief: The AP Can't Even Report Netanyahu's Speech Fairly", June 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Takes Reality a Bit Into Account", June 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Forty-Eight Hours of Reality Overthrows Obama Middle East Policy", June 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "President Obama and the Middle East: Mr. Popularity or Mr. Sucker", June 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Whose Ox Is Gored: The West, the Middle East, and Some Very Inconvenient Truth", June 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why the Obama Administration Won't Denounce the Ahmadinejad Administration", June 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel and America: Neither Surrender nor Confrontation", June 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Accidently Abrogates America's Right to Oppose Iran's Nuclear Weapons", June 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "When Middle East Policy Doesn't Make Sense it Shows Those Who Make it Lack Sense", June 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Authority Bites Obama's Hand", June 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Speaking Flattery to Power", June 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Cairo Speech and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Good Intentions Plus Misunderstanding Equals Failure", June 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Leaders Show Every Day They Don't Understand the Middle East and That's Why Their Policies Fail", June 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What's Unsettling About Obama's Policy Toward Settlements", June 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Abbas Seizes Opportunity to Throw Away Opportunity", June 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Isn't the Palestinian Authority Moderate? Why Don't Arab Leaders Obey the New York Times? ", May 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Stopping Settlement Construction Won't Help Construct a Diplomatic Settlement", May 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "If U.S. Government Ignores Palestinian Incitement to Violence, There's No Hope for Peace ", May 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Can Israel Depend on Those Who Have Proven Undependable", May 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "When Dictators Strut and Roar, Democratic Leaders Better Not Cringe", May 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Netanyahu's Peace Plan", May 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hillary's "Reasonable Request": Abandon Islamism, Be Moderate, Make Peace", May 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Detailed Analysis of Obama-Netanyahu Meeting/Part 2: What Netanyahu Said", May 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Detailed Analysis of the Obama-Netanyahu Meeting/Part 1: Obama's Statement", May 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Is There Hope that the Obama Administration Might Change?", May 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Inside Obamas Brain on Middle East Policy", May 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Whose the Most Popular Statesman of All? Who Cares?", May 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Will Iran Get an American October Surprise?", May 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Don't Just Take My Word for It: Arab Moderates Warn About Mistaken Western Policies", May 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer , "Analysis: Damascus Gets What it Needs", May 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Kerry Tells Iran What It Must Do", May 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Mr. Netanyahu Goes to Washington", May 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Syria Policy: It's Not All Bad", May 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Please! Some Sanity in Evaluating U.S.-Israel Relations", May 5, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Afghanistan Shows Iran's Stake in Regional Insecurity", May 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "President Obama: You've Paid for the Report, Now Read It", May 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Unhappy Future in the Middle East", May 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, " Obama Administration Withdraws Proposed Concessions to Hamas", May 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Here Comes Hillary; There Goes Lebanon", April 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Confrontation Con-Game", April 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Foreign Policy: Bambi Versus the Sharks", April 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Mike Metrinko", April 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "President Barak Obama's Visit to Turkey", April 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Speech: Sounds Clever in Washington but Craven in Tehran", March 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkey's March Toward Islamism: Another Big Step ", March 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration and the Middle East: So Far, Not So Bad", March 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Not the Center of the World", December 16, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Dear President Obama", December 6, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "What Went Wrong... with American Policy", October 9, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Giving Until It Hurts", October 8, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Nuclear Arms are Dangerous for Everyone's Health", September 2, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Appeasement Redux", February 14, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "A Method to His Muddling", December 13, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism", June 14, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Outlook on the Middle East", November 9, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Counsel from a Terrorist", November 2, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Myths in the Making", October 26, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Standards of Success", September 14, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Policies and Strategies: Successes and Failures", September 6, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Anti-American Violence in the Middle East", September 1, 2004
  • Barry Rubin, "Hatreds and Hot Air", July 20, 2004
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  Understanding the Middle East

  • Barry Rubin, " Which Side Are You On?: The "Moderate Muslim" Litmus Tests", August 27, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Is the Threat: Islam, Islamism, or Western Sins?", August 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why All Middle Eastern Politics Can't Be Reduced Merely to the Arab-Israeli Conflict", August 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The NY Times Tries and Fails to Explain The Israel-Palestinian "Peace Process"", August 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion", August 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Today's Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel", August 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Albert the Alligator and the British Ambassador", August 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Andrew Sullivan Attacks Me Without Bothering to Consider What I Wrote", July 30, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " How Not to Conduct Diplomacy: A Case Study: UK PM in Turkey ", July 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Faked Photograph Shows How the Middle East Hasn't Changed Much", July 26, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Terrorist Whose Daughter Was Cured ", July 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East Leader Who Should Be Ignored", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "News Flash: Using My Testimony, Court Fines North Korea $378 Million", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bad News: "Peace Process," UK, Hamas, Turkey; Good News: Boycotts Fail; U.S. Public Opinion; True News: Dead Turkish Flotilla Attackers Sought Martyrdom", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East 101: Understanding Regional Political Logic", July 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, " Debating Obama Policy Doesn't Require Screaming But Logic and Honest Discussion ", July 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Interview with Zeyno Baran on Moderate Muslims", July 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "West Says: We've Helped Poor Gazans! Hamas Says: You've Given Us Gaza, Now on to More Wars, Seizing the West Bank, and Wiping Out Israel", July 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "U.S. Policy and Debate on the Middle East: Whatever Happened to Adult Supervision?", July 3, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "King Abdallah Compliments President Obama, Sort Of?", July 2, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "A Telling Detail: The Turkish Leader's Personal Quarrel with Barack Obama", June 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Turkish Regime Changes Sides, West Averts Eyes", June 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Sympathy for the Devil and the Gaza Sea Confrontation: How Can Helping a Repressive Fascist, Genocide-Intending Hamas Regime be Noble?", June 1, 2010
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Behind the Axis: The North Korean Connection", May 29, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton (Unintentionally) Explains to Us How Obama Administration Ideology in the West Makes the World Worse", May 28, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Ahmadinejad Unveils His Grand Strategy: A Nuclear Defensive Umbrella for Aggression", May 11, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Is the U.S. Diplomatic and Intelligence Community Being Brainwashed in Dealing with Islamism?", May 5, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "What Do the New Israel-Palestinian Indirect Talks Mean?", May 4, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Bill Clinton Explains How Middle East Utopia is Just Around the Corner, Just Tell Israel and Palestinians How to Make Peace", April 23, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Only Thing More Horrible Than the Middle East Are the Books Written About the Middle East", April 21, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Photos That Express Obama Middle East Policy? Well, Yes and No", April 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Three Cheers for Congress, One for France, and Two and a Half Boos for Obama Policy", April 17, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East's Biggest Con-Game: Claiming Israel is the Cause of the Region's Problems", April 7, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The EU's Think Tank: Engage Hamas and Islamist Movements; Iranian Nuclear Weapons Not a Threat", March 25, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Going Backward? Understanding and Attempts to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", March 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Saudi Foreign Minister Explains the New Middle East", March 9, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Real Arab Stuff: Hussain Abdul Hussain Explains It All to You", March 1, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "When It Comes to Analyzing the Middle East, We Live in an Age of Idiocy", February 24, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How Naive Westerners Exaggerate Middle Eastern Moderation: Today's Example", February 20, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Naive Westerners Constantly Exaggerate Middle Eastern Moderation", February 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Isn't There Peace? One Reason: Few People Know How Much is Being Offered", February 18, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Defining "Victory" and "Peace": How the U.S. and Israel Reject General Sherman's Solution and Get Blamed Anyway", February 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "That "Cost-Benefit" Thing: How U.S. Intelligence Assessments Misunderstand Iran and Lots More in the Middle East", February 8, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Resistance Strategy: The Middle East's Response to Calls for Peace and Moderation", January 19, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer", January 14, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't Western Policymakers Believe There are Actual Revolutionaries in the World?", January 13, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The "Why Can't Everyone Just Be Friends" Narrative of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Evenhandedness Gone Mad", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, ""Outsmarting" the Terrorists by Being Incredibly Stupid?", January 10, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "The Suicidal Rules of Arab Political Debate: How Relatively Moderate Regimes are Robbed of Self-Defense", January 6, 2010
  • Barry Rubin, "How the Auschwitz Sign Claiming that "Work Makes Free" Embodies Current Western Thinking and Policy", December 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Afghanistan: The Obama Administration's Trust in Pakistan is Going to Get Americans Killed", December 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Can't H. Clinton Bring Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Look at What B. Clinton Offered which the Palestinians Rejected", December 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinians Tell the World their Strategy: Why Make Peace with Israel When We Can Get Everything from You Instead", December 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why All the Excuses for Palestinian Intransigence Don't Make Sense ", December 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why is the West So Easily Fooled by Middle East Dictators? Case in Point: Syria's "Independent" Media is Owned by the Regime", December 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Hezbollah's Delusions", December 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why the Terrorist Trial in New York Will Be a Disaster in the Middle East and for U.S. Interests", November 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel: We believe in Life; You Benefit", November 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Frolicking in the Quicksand: How the Obama Administration Keeps Making Huge Mistakes in the Middle East", November 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Barry Rubin on Middle East Politics at Yale", November 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama Administration on Anniversary of Embassy and Hostage Seizure in Iran: We're trying to be Friends!", November 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Joke that is Middle East Diplomacy: Egyptian Foreign Minister Wins a Great "Victory" by Totally Distorting Clinton's Statement", November 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "And Now the Truth Becomes Clear: Hillary Clinton Announces that the Palestinians are the Obstacles to Peace", November 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East: Listen to What They're Saying, in Their Own Language, not English", October 23, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Window of Opportunity is Now Closed and Locked Down: Passing Goldstone Resolution Marks End of Peace Process Era", October 16, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "The Unfinished War", October 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iran's Plan to Beat Sanctions", October 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East: Things Look Catastrophic but It Will Work Out, Why I'm Optimistic", October 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Iranian Regime's Charm Plus Western Credulity Equals "Diplomatic Success" in Geneva", October 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The West's Choice of Strategy: Defending Itself From Terror Attacks or Combatting A Radical Strategic Threat?", October 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Obama Administration Finds Another Dictatorship to Appease; Makes Friends with Sudan", September 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt: Where Bookburners Are Heroes and Democracy Advocates Are Villains", September 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Gaza report is a disaster for human rights and peace ", September 24, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Force Your Friends to Give In, Pay Off Your Enemies: Two Newsweek Articles and the Obama Administration's Foreign Policy Philosophy", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Increasingly Obvious Failure of Obama's Middle East Policy", September 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East's Disease Infects the West; The West Feeds the Middle East's Irrationalism", September 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Los Angeles Times Talks About Iran and Shows Why the West is so Weak and in Apparent Decline", September 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Syria's Policy and Europe's Pay-Offs Disprove A Cliche: Crime DOES Pay", September 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Reuters Rewrites an Israeli Intelligence Analysis to Ignore its Conclusions and Use it Against Israel", September 9, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Egypt Warns: U.S. Policy Won't Work", September 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How Not to Moderate Radicals: The UK, Libya, Prisoner Releases, and Oil Deals", September 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Tough love for Israel? Imposed Solution? The Ignorant Arrogance of the Advice-Givers", September 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Limits of Polite Discourse: Exposing People to Evil Ideas or Exposing Evil Ideas as...Evil?", September 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "How to Tell Who's Lying and Who's Telling the Truth in the Middle East", September 3, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Blood for Oil: Yes, Britain Did Release a Mass-Murdering Terrorist in Exchange for an Oil Deal", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "A Day in the Life of the Middle East", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Return of Antisemitism and the False Inevitability of Middle East Moderation", September 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Palestinian Movement, Iran, Hizballah, and Arms Smuggling", August 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Key Saudi Prince Injured in Terror Attack: Shaking Up the Kingdom", August 28, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "An Open Secret: Syria Daily Sponsors and Aids Terrorists Murdering Iraqi Civilians and Americans: Doesn't This Require Action?", August 26, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Mondo Bizarro: A Day in the Life of the World's Most Turbulent Region", August 21, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State is a Prime Requirement for Israel-Palestinian Peace", August 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Obama's Failing Initiative in the Middle East: Lack of Change You Can Believe In", August 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Hamas Transforms Gaza Into Totaliltarian Islamists State", August 18, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Mubarak's and Arab States' Peace Plan: Israel Gives Everything, Arab States Think About It", August 17, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Fatah Election: The Myths Unravel. Most moderate Fatah guy says election fraud is an Israeli conspiracy!", August 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "AP's Coverage of the Fatah Congress: A Case Study in Media Bias and Misinformation", August 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why A Hizballah Attack on Israel is Unlikely", August 13, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Analysis: The Common Hatred", August 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Middle East Cycles: Is the Current Age Permanent on is a New Phase in Sight?", August 12, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Truth, Logic, Rationality and The Israel-Palestinian Conflict: ", August 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Would Dumping Israel Help U.S. Relations with the Arab/Muslim Middle East? The Surprising Answer is: No", August 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Britain, France, Want to Reward Syria for Intransigence. So What Fool Would be Moderate Under Such Conditions?", August 6, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Et tu, Kuwait? Hillary Clinton Takes Up Real Estate Law; And Obama Administration's Middle East Peace Campaign is Dead", August 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Sudanese Government Beats Up Women, Journalist Threatened with 40 Lashes for Wearing Trousers", August 4, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Saudis Make Fun of Obama Middle East Policy; Administration, Media, Pretend Not to Notice", August 1, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Believe it or Not: Middle East Leaders Don't Think Like You; Policymakers Make Huge Mistakes", July 31, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Conversations with Readers: Middle East Dictators, Western Comprehension, and the Iraq War", July 30, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Understanding What Governments Say: Two Case Studies, Israel and Peace; America and a Nuclear Iran", July 22, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "2009: A Diplomatic Odyssey, On the Wine-Dark Sea of Middle East Politics", July 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Israel's Peace Plan Marks a New Era in the Country's History and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", July 20, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Human Rights (sic) Watch: The Big and Little Hands Always Point Against Israel", July 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Ultimate Anecdote Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict", July 16, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "When Journalists Say There Is No Such Thing As Truth Then the World Is in Big Trouble", July 14, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Why the Silence on Islamist--and Sometimes Muslim-Majority Regimes--Persecution of Christians?", July 13, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Misunderstanding Syria: How the Media Leaves Out the Important Stuff", July 10, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Equivalency: Obama administration on Israel, or Iran and Syria?", July 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Two Courageous Women at War with 'Honor-Killing' Murders", July 8, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Aspen's Suspension of Credibility: Fayyad and Syria's Regime Lie, Americans Applaud", July 7, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Middle East Is a Place Where Wishful Thinking Gets People Killed but Makes Careers for Politicians, Diplomats, Academics, and Journalists", July 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Diplomatic Deportment Lessons from Saddam Hussein", July 2, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Naivete Enthroned: A CNN Editor Discovers Islamism Is Impossible Because Islam Is Good", June 29, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Novelist, the Violent Censors, and the President", June 19, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Naivete Kills", April 14, 2009
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Arab Summit, Iranian Agenda ", April 5, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "Milk Cows: A Cute Way to Analyze Gulf States' Strategies", March 15, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "The Gaza War: A Small Part of the Nationalist-Islamist Conflict", January 11, 2009
  • Barry Rubin, "What They Say Isn't What You Hear", December 16, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Don't Flatter Your Enemies, Protect Your Friends", December 6, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Defending Yourself Against Terrorism: A Difficult Task", December 6, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "India's Options", December 6, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Method in Their Madness", September 15, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Fifty First Negotiations", August 7, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Column History", August 5, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Being a Terrorist Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry", July 22, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Trade or No Trade", July 9, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Prisoner Rehabilitated; Fifty Million Die", July 4, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Who Goes There? Friend or Foe?", July 2, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Don't be Fooled by Good Reviews", June 16, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "An Empty Package ", May 30, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Self-Made Nakba", May 19, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "What Happened to the Middle East's Jews", May 5, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "The Islamic Inquisition versus The "Conspiracy" of Moderation", April 29, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Lennonism Imagines The Middle East", April 14, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Why A Terrorist Strategy?", April 1, 2008
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Imagined Partners", March 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "If They Don't Fool You They Can't Defeat You", March 10, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Arab Ideological Doctrine Syndrome: A Crippling Plague", March 1, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Confessions At a Funeral", February 28, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Pressure Points", February 25, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "So Many Problems, So Few Solutions", February 17, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Pay Now, Nothing Later", February 10, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "Take Me To Your Leader", February 6, 2008
  • Barry Rubin, "The Three Main Middle East Events of 2006", December 26, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "The Duties of Thinking Classes", November 2, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Facts and arguments", March 14, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "Getting to Arab Democracy: Dealing with Communalism", January 1, 2006
  • Barry Rubin, "A new paradigm", November 15, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "Blinded by Ideology", September 13, 2005
  • Barry Rubin, "A Small outbreak of reason", September 6, 2005
  • Jonathan Spyer, "Re-engaging with reality", September 2, 2005
  • Barry Rubin,