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Egypt’s Electoral Fraud

by Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat on January 26, 2012 · 0 comments

When Egypt’s Lower House convened on Jan. 23, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent. This astounding figure, however, reflects less the country’s public opinion than it does a ploy by the ruling military leadership to…

Securing Israel’s Zionist Future

by Daniel Pipes on January 19, 2012 · 1 comment

Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo…

Out of Africa: A New Ally to the West

by Daniel Pipes on January 6, 2012 · 0 comments

It’s not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem, capital of the most besieged country in the world, but Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, accompanied by his foreign and defense…

Muslim Self-Hate Rears Its Head in Egypt

by Daniel Pipes on December 29, 2011 · 3 comments

Founded in 1798 by the scientists accompanying Napoleon on his invasion of Egypt and author of the monumental 20-volume Description de l’Égypte (1809-28), L’Institut d’ Égypte was burned down on Dec. 17 by crowds rampaging in the vicinity of the…

Turkey and Israel: The End of the Affair

by Daniel Pipes December 28, 2011

Military relations have been at the core of the Ankara-Jerusalem entente. These took off in February 1996 when the two sides signed a military training agreement that had Israeli air force jets flying over Anatolia, making the Turks the first…

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Tehran Holds Obama Re-Election Wild Card

by Daniel Pipes December 26, 2011

The formal end of the U.S. war in Iraq on Dec. 15 enhanced neighboring Iran as a major, unpredictable factor in the U.S. presidential election of 2012.
First a look back: Iran’s mullahs already has had one opportunity to affect…

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The Slap Heard Around the World

by Daniel Pipes December 20, 2011

A year ago, Officer Fadiya Hamdi slapped fruit vendor Mohammed Bouazizi across the face in the small Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, setting off upheavals that caused three seeming Arab dictators-for-life to lose power: Ben Ali of Tunisia resigned on…

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Newt Gingrich and the “Invented” Palestinian People

by Daniel Pipes December 13, 2011

The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and current Republican presidential candidate said recently that “there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. We have invented the Palestinian people, who are in…

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Egypt’s Sham Election

by Daniel Pipes December 9, 2011

According to Egypt’s elections committee, the Muslim Brotherhood won 37 percent of the vote of the first round of voting in Egypt; and the Salafis, who promote a yet more extreme Islamist program, won 24 percent, giving them together a…

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When a President Hates His Country

by Daniel Pipes November 29, 2011

Barack Obama suffeers from an inherent policy contradiction, especially in foreign affairs.
On the one hand, as a Leftist he despises the United States and sees it as a force for ill in the world. On the other, as president,…

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