These are my articles that I consider most important to which I refer to the most. They are separated into op-eds and longer analyses. To jump to the long articles, click here.
Short
"Both Sides of Their Mouths." Jerusalem Post, August 4, 1993.
"Just Kidding: Syria's Peace Bluff." New Republic, January 8 & 15, 1996.
"Nothing succeeds like failure." Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2001.
"What is Jihad?" New York Post, December 31, 2002.
"[Finding Moderate Muslims:] Do you believe in modernity?" Jerusalem Post, November 26, 2003.
"Muslim Europe." New York Sun, May 11, 2004.
"Female Desire and Islamic Trauma." New York Sun, May 25, 2004.
"[The Issue of Compulsion in Religion:] Islam is What Its Followers Make of It." New York Sun, September 28, 2004.
"The Future of Judaism." New York Sun, January 25, 2005.
"A Neo-Conservative's Caution." New York Sun, March 8, 2005.
"Is Allah God?" New York Sun, June 28, 2005.
"Democrats, Republicans, and Israel." New York Sun, May 23, 2006.
"How the West Could Lose," New York Sun, December 26, 2006.
"Countries Threatened with Extinction." New York Sun, August 7, 2007.
"May an American Comment on Israel?" Jerusalem Post. July 28, 2008.
"Westerners Welcome Harems," Jerusalem Post, November 26, 2008.
"Palestinians Who Helped Create Israel," Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2009.
"Arabs, Israelis, and Underdogs," FrontPageMagazine.com, April 1, 2009.
"Does Turkey Still Belong in NATO?" Philadelphia Bulletin, April 6, 2009.
"Islamism 2.0," Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2009.
"In Europe, Remorse Has Turned to Masochism," National Review Online, April 27, 2010.
"Not Stealing Palestine but Purchasing Israel," National Review Online, June 21, 2011.
"Arabist Snobs," National Review Online, November 22, 2011.
"Kastelorizo - Mediterranean Flashpoint?" National Review Online, February 7, 2012.
"Uncovering Early Islam," National Review Online, May 16, 2012.
"Smart University Giving," Philanthropy Daily, February 12, 2013.
"Happy Israel," The Washington Times, June 5, 2013.
"Islamism's Likely Doom," The Washington Times, July 22, 2013.
"Let Refugees Remain in Their Own Culture Zones," The Washington Times, September 24, 2013.
"Muslim Russia?" The Washington Times, October 21, 2013.
"The Sick Middle East," The Washington Times, January 24, 2014.
"Islam's Inadvertent Patterns," The Washington Times, March 10, 2014.
"Islamism with a Human Face?" The Washington Times, May 20, 2014.
 The Kurdish flag. |
"Hello, Kurdistan," The Washington Times, September 10, 2014.
"Think Tanks for Sale or Rent," National Review Online, September 15, 2014.
"Is CAIR a Terror Group?" National Review Online, November 28, 2014.
"Why Politicians Pretend Islam Has No Role in ISIS," The Washington Times, March 9, 2015.
"Islam Bulldozes the Past." The Washington Times, March 20, 2015.
"I Give Up: There Is No Terrorism, There Are No Terrorists," National Review Online, Jun 2, 2015.
"The Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe," The Washington Times, December 29, 2015.
"End U.S. Aid to Israel," Israel Hayom, July 26, 2016.
"America's Know-Nothing Diplomacy," The Washington Times, November 9, 2016.
"The Erdoğan Enigma," The Australian, April 22, 2017.
"End the False Israeli-Palestinian Parity," Israel Hayom, July 5, 2017.
"Iran vs. Turkey, the MidEast's Perpetual Rivalry," Washington Times, August 23, 2017.
"Beauty and Nausea in Venice," American Thinker, December 28, 2017.
"The Rise of Western Civilizationism," The Australian, April 14, 2018.
"'He Has Lived': Richard Pipes, 1923-2018," The Australian, June 2, 2018."
"Conservatism's Hidden History," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 31, 2018.
"In Defense of Europe's 'Far-Right' Parties," The Washington Times, November 2, 2018.
"Tectonic Shifts in Attitudes toward Israel," The Washington Times, December 27, 2018.
"Europe's Jews vs. Israel," Israel Hayom, January 27, 2019.
Long
"The Media and the Middle East." Commentary, June 1984.
 A bus to Bethlehem. |
"The Scourge of Suicide Terrorism." National Interest, Summer 1986. Explains the advantages of this form of warfare.
"Two Bus Lines to Bethlehem." National Interest, Winter 1986/7.
"Radical Politics and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party." International Journal of Middle East Studies, August 1988.
"The Alawi Capture of Power in Syria." Middle Eastern Studies, 1989.
"Terrorism: The Syrian Connection." National Interest, Spring 1989.
"[Left vs. Right:] Same Difference." National Review, November 7, 1994.
 Ludwig van Beethoven |
"You Need Beethoven to Modernize." Middle East Quarterly, September 1998.
"Asad's Art of the Double Game." Modern Syria: From Ottoman Rule to Pivotal Role in the Middle East, 1999
"American Muslims vs. American Jews." Commentary, May 1999.
"How Elijah Muhammad Won." Commentary, June 2000.
"Military Slaves: A Uniquely Muslim Phenomenon." The Arming of Slaves from the Ancient World to the American Civil War, November 16-18, 2000.
"The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem." Middle East Quarterly, September 2001.
"The Danger Within: Militant Islam in America [and Its Dreams of Domination]." Commentary, November 2001.
"The United States Government: Patron of Islam?" Middle East Quarterly, January 2002.
"Jihad and the Professors." Commentary, November 2002.
"Europe's Stark Options." National Interest, March-April 2007.
"Two Decades of the Rushdie Rules." Commentary, October 2010.
"Obama's Muslim Childhood," The Washington Times, September 10-14, 2012.
"A Palestinian in Texas," The American Spectator, November 2012.
"Can Islam Be Reformed? History and human nature say yes," Commentary, July/August 2013.
"The Way to Peace: Israeli Victory, Palestinian Defeat," Commentary, January 2017.
"Smoking Out Islamists via Extreme Vetting," Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2017.
"Why Israelis Shy from Victory," Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2018.
