Time to Tell the Truth about Radical Islamic Terror
Euphemisms will not win the war.
June 12, 2017
How America Should Respond to the Feud between Qatar and Its Neighbors
Double-dealing and dynastic rivalries.
On June 5, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt severed relations with Qatar over its support for Islamist groups (including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood more generally), its pro-Iranian stance, and the positions endorsed by its state-controlled news network Al-Jazeera. The Gulf states have had tense relations with Doha since Hamad al-Thani—who ruled Qatar until 2013, when he abdicated power in favor of his son—became the country’s emir in 1995. Lee Smith comments on America’s proper role in the spat:
June 12, 2017
How America Should Respond to the Feud between Qatar and Its Neighbors
Double-dealing and dynastic rivalries.
Austrian Literature’s Very Jewish Golden Age
Ironists of a vanished empire.
Losing the Six-Day War Spurred an Era of Debate and Self-Reflection among Arab Intellectuals—as Well as the Islamism that Swallowed Them Up
The revolution that wasn’t.
The Vanishing Non-Observant Orthodox Jew
A contradiction in terms?