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Comparing the photographs from Egypt in 2011 to those from the post-election demonstrations in Iran in 2009 - there are almost no women demo...

BY AMOS For me, the biggest story of the latest WikiLeaks release so far is the documentation of active Arab lobbying against Iran and rep...

The New York Times reported today that Sunnis in Iraq formerly allied with the U.S. appear to be (re)joining the Qaeda-led insurgency. The ...

Reading over Richard Allen's op-ed in the New York Times today, I asked myself whether the author isn't suffering from the same ment...

With all due respect, this is much scarier. The Iranian problem is nothing compared to the challenge that India and the West (indeed, truly...

The JTA is reporting that the charges against former American Israel Public Affairs ( AIPAC ) staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman have ...

Roger Cohen's op-ed on Iran in the New York Times today is an insult to journalism. He made himself the perfect tool of the Iranian gov...

The snippet of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released on December 3 was a blow to those supporting tighter sanctions against Ira...

Israel's Dana International (née Yaron Cohen) in her latest single, "Indian Movie" - a cultural artifact that deserves a sepa...

1. The clip of Ahmadinejad denying that there are homosexuals in Iran and the audience's reaction is still making me crack up every time...

It looks like Columbia University will indeed play host to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the occasion of his visit to the UN Gene...

It looks like Sarkozy and Kouchner have dramatically re-oriented French foreign policy on Iran. For the first time, the U.S. is getting rhet...

I am fairly confident that the recent incident on the Turkish-Syrian border, where Syria alleges it repulsed an Israeli fighter jet from its...

Antidote to the post that follows below: Shlomi Saranga and Moshik Afia, "Sweet Dream" (2002) I have not seen a great deal of disc...

Ahmadinejad releases Brits (Photo: Iranian TV screenshot ) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today announced that his country would rele...

Royal Marines practicing an amphibious assault (Photo: Royal Navy ) Until Revolutionary Guards abducted 15 British sailors and marines at gu...

The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (Source: frenchnavy.free.fr ) The US Navy flexed its muscles Tuesday in its strongest show of ...

Ahmadinejad Spins a Yarn I've long thought that many in the West underestimate or misunderstand altogether the role of Persian "se...

The homepage of Yad Vashem's Farsi site Yad Vashem recently launched a Farsi-language site with information about the Shoah. Since it ...

Scenes from Gaza The Israeli government has long maintained that Iran is directly involved in funding and training Hamas's military wing...