This is the interview on Al Jazeera on February 21, 2006 which made Dr. Wafa Sultan famous. The interview was recorded and translated by Memri and broadcast recently on “God’s Learning Channel”, the Christian Television station based in Midland, Texas.
In this interview she said that Islam created the “clash of cultures” from its beginnings, by [...]

This is a fascinating account of something probably most of us don’t remember very clearly. If you are middle aged now, you were a child or a teenager in 1970, and you probably remember there were many hijackings in those days, and maybe something about Palestinians and Jordan and fighting in the Mideast, but chances [...]

During the summer OPEC conference, it was decided to cut production in order to raise oil prices. While reportedly the Saudi princes disagreed at that point, probably because it would cause untimely frictions with their western friends and perhaps some minor problems in their economy, Saudi Arabia soon fell in with the plan. Consequently, in [...]

From Danielpipes.org: 10-8-07
The Arab-Israeli conflict is often said, not just by extremists, to be the world’s most dangerous conflict – and, accordingly, Israel is judged the world’s most belligerent country.
For example, British prime minister Tony Blair told the U.S. Congress in July 2003 that “Terrorism will not be defeated without peace in the Middle East [...]

The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
As published by the London Review of Books on March 23, 2006
For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to [...]