FLUENCY IN ARABIC, AQUISITION & DISSEMINATION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION REGARDING ARABS, & THE EFFECTIVENESS U.S. FOREIGN POLICY INTENDED TO IMPACT ON THE BEHAVIOR OF ARAB SOCIETIES:  IS A COMMAND OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE ESSENTIAL TO RESEARCH & WRITING ABOUT ARABS & MAKING FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THEM? NO! WHILE IT HELPS TO KNOW THE LANGUAGE, IT DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, RELIGIOUS DOGMATISM, FADDISM, PEDANTRY, OR MISINFORMATION. FLUENCY IN ARABIC GUARANTEES NEITHER QUALITY SCHOLARSHIP NOR POLICY INSIGHTS. KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE DOES NOT TRUMP OTHER QUALIFICATIONS.

ANTI-ZIONISM & ANTI-SEMITISM AMONG ARABS:  CAN AN ARAB BE PRO-ISRAEL? THE ANSWER GIVEN BY LEFT-LEANING ACADEMICS -- HOW THE ANTI-ZIONIST & ANTI-SEMITIC BIAS OF U.S. & U.K. ACADEMIA HAS INFECTED MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, ISRAEL STUDIES, JEWISH STUDIES, & HOLOCAUST STUDIES -- THE BASTIONS OF INDEPENDENT & OBJECTIVE SCOLARSHIP RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING

WHY THE ARAB UPHEAVALS OF 2011 HAVE INSPIRED WILDLY INCONSISTENT WESTERN RESPONSES:  THE DIFFICULTY OF THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN POWERS DEVISING A CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY TOWARD THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST, A REGION WHERE POPULATIONS ARE PREDOMINANTLY HOSTILE TO THE WEST -- HOW ARAB DEMOCRACY TRANSLATES INTO ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIMES IN ARAB STATES -- ARAB DEMOCRACY AS A THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION, AS WELL AS THE WEST'S SECURITY -- MIDDLE EAST POLICY GUIDELINES FOR WESTERN STATES

LIBYA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, & OBAMA MYOPIA:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S CLUELESS & OVER-CONFIDENT STATEMENTS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION -- OBAMA'S PHONY CLAIMS OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY SUCCESSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- HIS FAILURE TO GUARD HIS TONGUE & EXERCISE CAUTION -- WHAT WILL PROBABLY GO WRONG IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHY OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL SOON RUE THE PRESIDENT'S RASH BOASTS -- POLITICAL PROBLEMS AHEAD FOR OBAMA & THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS -- THE POLITICAL LEFT & THE ELECTORAL DISASTER IT IS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE IN THE 2012 FEDERAL ELECTIONS & IN SUBSEQUENT U.S. ELECTIONS

TYRANNY OF THE ISLAMIC MAJORITY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:  MUSLIM PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIAN MINORITIES RESIDING IN THE ISLAMIC STATES OF NORTH AFRICA, CENTRAL & SOUTH ASIA, & NEAR EAST ASIA -- A SERIES OF ARTICLES DOCUMENTING THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS UNDER ISLAM -- THE RATIONALE FOR SUCH A STUDY

WITH MUAMAR QADDAFI VOWING A WIN OR MARTYRDOM & BASHAR ASSAD BEING URGED BY THE WEST TO STEP DOWN, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE ARAB SPRING THIS SUMMER? HAS IT BEEN A SUMMER OF PROGRESS TOWARD FREEDOM & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST, OR IS IT A MEDIA DELUSION? WHERE STANDS THE ARAB SPRING AS WE PREPARE TO MARK THE TENTH ANNIVERSITY OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.?

THE REVOLUTIONS SWEEPING ACROSS THE ARAB WORLD:  WILL THESE REVOLUTIONS PROVE TO BE THE LONG AWAITED "THIRD WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION," OR WILL THEY MERELY SUBSTITUTE ISLAMIST TOTALITARIANISM FOR THE EXISTING SECULAR, AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES?  VARYING PERCEPTIONS IN IRAN OF THE "WINDS OF CHANGE" IN ARAB STATES -- VIEW OF THE ISLAMIST REGIME IN TEHRAN:  "PEOPLE POWER" GOOD IN STATES ALLIED WITH THE U.S.A., BUT NOT IN COUNTRIES ALLIED WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN -- VIEW OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL OPPOSITION:  MORAL SUPPORT FOR ALL PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENTS -- THE REGIME'S DETERMINATION TO SUPPRESS INTERNAL POLITICAL DISSENT, TO PURSUE ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS, & TO SHAPE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS ACCORDING TO ITS WORLDVIEW -- POSSIBILITY THAT INCREASED REPRESSION WILL RESULT IN THE SURFACING OF MORE RADICAL & REVOLUTIONARY OPPOSITION MOVEMENTS INSIDE IRAN

PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD & INTERNATIONAL LAW:  "SOVEREIGNTY" & "SOVEREIGN STATE" AS DEFINED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW -- THE 1933 MONTEVIDEO CONVENTION & THE PREVAILING LEGAL STANDARD -- THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS THAT AN ENTITY MUST MEET IN ORDER TO FUNCTION AS A SOVEREIGN STATE -- THE "PALESTINIAN" ENTITY THAT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL HAVE IN MIND, IF IT VOTES FOR COLLECTIVE RECOGNITION OF THIS ENTITY AS THE SOVEREIGN "STATE OF PALESTINE" -- DOES THIS "PALESTINIAN" ENTITY MEET THE LEGAL CRITERIA OF SOVEREIGN STATEHOOD?  THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES OF A UN ATTEMPT TO ADOPT SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT:  CIVIL & INTERNATIONAL WARS

A NEW & DANGEROUS STAGE IN THE CENTURY-LONG FEUD BETWEEN JEWS & ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  WILL PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS DELIVER ON HIS THREAT TO UNILATERALLY DECLARE AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE & SEEK RECOGNITION OF IT THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS?  WILL THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FALL FOR THIS PALESTINIAN PLOY, REWARDING DECADES OF ARAB DUPLICITY, INTRANSIGENCE & VIOLENCE, & BETRAYING THE UN'S OWN LONGSTANDING FORMULA OF "LAND FOR PEACE" AS THE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT?

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO MUSLIM ARABS HAVE TO KILL BEFORE WE GET AROUND TO FIGURING OUT THAT ISLAM IS A MURDEROUS CULT, THE MEMBERS OF WHICH HAVE BEEN KILLING EACH OTHER SINCE THE SUNNI-SHIITE SCHISM SHORTLY AFTER THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD, AS WELL AS SLAUGHTERING CONQUERED NON-MUSLIMS WHO WOULD NOT CONVERT TO ISLAM OR PAY EXTORTION TO ISLAMIC REGIMES?  THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST AS THE MOST REPRESSIVE & TYRANNICAL REGION IN THE WORLD -- THE MIDDLE EAST AS THE MOST VIOLENT & WAR-LIKE REGION -- HEZBOLLAH & ITS THREAT TO ISRAEL & THE WEST

AN ISLAMIST LEADER PUTTING INTO PRACTICE ISLAM'S NOTORIOUS DOCTRINES OF DECEPTION: ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH DOCTRINES THAT PERMIT MUSLIMS TO DECEIVE IN ORDER TO EMPOWER ISLAM -- TELLING LIES & ENGAGING IN OTHER KINDS OF DECEPTIVE BEHAVIOR FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING ISLAM -- PRECISELY WHAT ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS & THEIR LEADERS ARE ALL ABOUT -- IF TOP ISLAMIST LEADERS HAVE NO PROBLEM LYING ABOUT FRIVOLOUS THINGS TO FELLOW MUSLIMS, WHILE SWEARING TO GOD, HOW TRUSTWORTHY ARE ANY OF THEIR WORDS & PROMISES TO WESTERN & ISRAELI LEADERS, THAT IS, THE HATED INFIDELS?

TRIPOLI:  IS THE NORTHERN LEBANESE CITY A BASE FOR ISLAMISTS?  DOES THE CITY POSE A DIRECT THREAT TO SYRIAN SECURITY?  TRIPOLI'S HOPELESSLY FRAGMENTED & PRIMARILY NON-COMBATIVE SALAFI MOVEMENT -- THE CITY'S PROLONGED POLITICAL MARGINALIZATION & ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION -- TRIPOLI'S TRANSITION FROM TOLERATION OF RELIGIOUS & CULTURAL DIVERSITY TO ISLAMISM, JIHADISM, & MARIONITE MILITARIZATION -- THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR & ITS AFTERMATH -- SUBSEQUENT CONFLICT -- THE CURRENT POLITICAL & ECONOMIC CONDITION OF TRIPOLI -- WHAT IS REQUIRED TO DECONSTRUCT THE PHENOMENON OF TRIPOLI'S ISLAMIC RADICALISM?

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ARABS & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  THE SPECTACULAR INEPTITUDE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IN DEALING WITH THE ISLAMIC THREAT TO THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT BETWEEN PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PERCEPTIONS & THE REALITY OF CURRENT & PAST EVENTS OCCURRING IN &/OR ASSOCIATED WITH ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE HISTORY OF ISLAM AS A HISTORY OF MILITARY AGGRESSION, CONQUEST, TYRANNY, & BRUTALITY -- ISLAM AS A SAVAGE POLITICAL RELIGION BENT ON GLOBAL DOMINATION -- OBAMA CLUELESS, AS REGARDS THE TRUE NATURE & DANGEROUS AGENDA OF ISLAMISM & THE WORLD-WIDE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT

HOW YEMEN THREATENS THE OUTSIDE WORLD:  YEMEN AS AN EXPORTER OF VIOLENCE & TERRORISM -- AN UNPRECEDENTED EMPTYING OUT OF YEMEN, WITH MILLIONS OF UNSKILLED & UNINVITED REFUGEES, FIRST IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THEN IN THE WEST, DEMANDING ECONOMIC ASYLUM -- AN INCREASINGLY CATACLYSMIC WATER SHORTFALL -- SCARCE FOOD RESOURCES, WITH THE NUMBER OF YEMENIS WHO FACE CHRONIC HUNGER GROWING RAPIDLY -- THE PROSPECT OF ECONOMIC IMPLOSION LOOMING LARGER BY THE DAY -- YEMEN AS A POOR COUNTRY WITH ONE OF THE HIGHEST BIRTH RATES IN THE WORLD, EXAZERBATING THE RESOURCE PROBLEM -- TOO MANY FACTIONS COMPETING FOR POLITICAL POWER IN YEMEN -- THE GROWING POWER OF YEMENI ISLAMISTS -- CAN THE OUTSIDE WORLD PREVENT CATASTROPHE IN YEMEN?

WHAT THE LEAKED PALESTINE PAPERS REVEAL ABOUT ARAB & PALESTINIAN ASPIRATIONS FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE -- THE ANALYSIS EFRAIM KARSH:  THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP & THE NEIGHBORING ARAB STATES HAVE NEVER BEEN GENUINELY INTERESTED IN CREATING AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE.

THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO AMERICA & THE WEST:  THE SEVERE SHORTAGE OF REALISTIC THINKING & ANALYSIS ON THE PART OF LEFT-OF-THE-CENTER WESTERNERS -- LIBERAL LEFTIST BLINDSPOTS, AS REGARDS ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONS & THEIR CONSEQUENCES -- WHAT HAS EMBOLDENED & ENERGIZED ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA & GIVEN RISE TO THE ISLAMIST GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- DISSOLUTION OF THE FORMER CULTURAL, MORAL, & SPIRITUAL STRENGTH OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WEST -- THE CRUMBLING & IMPLOSION OF WESTERN CULTURE, FOLLOWING ITS ADOPTION OF THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF MARX & THE EMPTY PROMISES OF SOCIALISM & LEFTWING STATISM -- WESTERN CULTURE CHARACTERIZED BY MORAL CONFUSION & STEEPED IN SELF-DESTRUCTIVE THINKING PROLIFERATED BY POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFTISTS IN THE SCHOOLS, MEDIA, & POP CULTURE -- WESTERN CULTURE SO SECULARIZED & DEVOID OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT THE WEST CANNOT SEE CLEAR TO MAKE A PHILOSOPHICAL STAND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENT OF ISLAM ON ANY GROUNDS WHATSOEVER

GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES:  CAN A SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY BE MADE TO WORK SUCCESSFULLY IN A MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRY? POSSIBLE, BUT HIGHLY IMPROBABLE -- TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC POLITICAL CULTURE, AS WELL AS ISLAMIST RADICAL IDEOLOGY, NOT CONDUCIVE TO OR SUPPORTIVE OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY APPLYING MODERN CIVIL LAW, MULTIPLE, VIABLE & COMPETITIVE POLITICAL PARTIES, MAJORITY RULE COUPLED WITH PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS, EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, MOVEMENT & ASSEMBLY, & EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS

EGYPT'S MOMENT OF CRISIS & THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES:  THE UPRISING IN EGYPT & THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION OF 1979 -- THE IRANIAN ISLAMISTS & THEIR ASPIRATION FOR DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE MIDDLE EAST & THE REGIONAL COLD WAR -- THE IRANIAN-LED RESISTANCE BLOC VERSUS THE SAUDI-LED STATUS QUO BLOCK -- THE MILITARY FORCES VERSUS THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- THE OLD GUARD IN TUNISIA & WHAT IS LIKELY TO BE THE OUTCOME OF THE TURMOIL IN EGYPT -- U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE SITUATION & ROLE OF ISRAEL IN THE REGIONAL CONFLICT

THE CONTEXT OF THE TURMOIL IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  THE CULTURE & HISTORY, PAST & RECENT, OF THE COUNTRIES & PEOPLES COMPRISING THE MIDDLE EAST -- GEOPOLITICAL RELEVANCE OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO AMERICAN & WESTERN INTERESTS -- LOCATION, PEOPLES, & NATURAL RESOURCES -- WESTERN IMPERIALISM -- THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- WORLD WARS I & II -- THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- ARAB NATIONALISM & PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM -- ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES & DICTATORSHIPS -- RISE OF THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- JIHADIST ORGANIZATIONS -- RISE OF AN ISLAMIST IRAN SEEKING TO BECOME A NUCLEAR POWER -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF MODERN EGYPT

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT, THE ISLAMISTS, & AMERICAN INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCE FOR THE U.S.A., IF THE UPRISING IN EGYPT IS TAKEN OVER BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & OTHER ISLAMIST GROUPS?  THE GREATEST GEOPOLITICAL CONCERN AT THIS POINT:  THE FATE OF THE SUEZ CANAL -- THE LARGE VOLUME OF CRUDE OIL THAT TRANSITS THE CANAL, COUPLED WITH AMERICA'S HEAVY DEPENDENCE ON MIDDLE EAST OIL -- THE ULTIMATE PROBLEM:  A U.S. PRESIDENT WHO IS INTELLECTUALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHILOSOPHICALLY, & IN ALL OTHER WAYS, NOT UP TO THE TASK OF DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST OR ANYWHERE ELSE

THE OVERTHROW OF ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI & THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN TUNISIA: CONVERGENCE OF NEW FORCES IN TUNISIA, CREATING AN INFITADA & QUICKLY OUSTING AN ENTRENCHED DICTATOR -- THE ISLAMIST IMPLICATIONS OF THIS UPHEAVAL -- DOES INTERIM TUNISIAN PRESIDENT FOUAD MEBAZZA, AGE 77, HAVE THE SAVVY OR POLITICAL CREDIBILITY TO MAINTAIN POWER? WILL THE MILITARY KEEP THE OLD GUARD IN POWER? DO MODERATE FORCES HAVE THE COHESION & VISION TO DEFLECT AN ISLAMIST SURGE? HOW WOULD AN ISLAMIST TAKEOVER IN TUNISIA IMPACT ON EUROPE & THE ISLAMIC WORLD? WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE EMERGENCE OF AN ISLAMIST TUNISIA?

LEBANON & THE POWER STRUGGLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  LEBANON'S STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY -- SYRIAN INTERVENTION INTO LEBANESE POLITICS -- SYRIA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM & RETURN TO LEBANON -- THE IMPACT ON LEBANON OF THE ASCENDANCY OF IRAN & ITS ARAB PROXIES -- LEBANON'S CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION, DOMESTICALLY & INTERNATIONALLY -- THE ROLE OF SAUDI ARABIA IN UNDERMINING THE STRUGGLE FOR LEBANESE SOVEREIGNTY & RETURNING LEBANON TO THE ERA OF SYRIAN DOMINATION

UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- IS AMERICA'S BOND WITH ISRAEL ABSOLUTE, UNSHAKEABLE, & ROCK SOLID?   U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S REPEATED AFFIRMATIONS, AS REGARDS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION -- ISRAELI PUBLIC OPINION ON THE SUBJECT -- THE OPINION OF PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS -- RICH OPPORTUNITIES PERCEIVED BY ABBAS & THE PALESTINIAN STRATEGY BASED ON THOSE PERCEPTIONS -- JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN EAST JERUSALEM & THE ISSUE OF LEGITIMACY -- THE CURRENT POSITION OF ABBAS ON BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT & THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- OBAMA, THE U.S. CONGRESS, & UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS

IMPLICATIONS OF THE WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EAST, & THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE REGION:  EXPOSURE OF AN "ARAB COLD WAR" PARADIGM CRUCIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE MIDDLE EAST -- CONCERNS OF U.S. ALLIES OVER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM PROOF OF A MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- WHAT THE WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS INDICATE, AS REGARDS U.S. FOREIGN POLICYMAKERS' PERCEPTION & UNDERSTANDING OF TURKEY

MEDIA DISTORTION ABOUT ISRAEL:  THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MISLEADS, EVEN AS IT INFORMS ON THE SUBJECT OF ISRAEL. *** THE ARAB WORLD & INNOVATION IN TERRORISM:  THE AREA WHERE ARABS SEEM MOST ADEPT AT INNOVATION IS TERRORISM. AIRPLANE HIJACKINGS, SUICIDE BOMBINGS, & MEGA-TERRORISM ARE AMONG THEIR CLAIMS TO ORIGINALITY.

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- INACTION OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IN THE FACE OF THE PALESTINIAN LEADERS' REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT -- PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS BLOCKING THE SOLE PATH TOWARD A SOLUTION OF THE ISSUE REGARDING ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH HOMES IN JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS OUTSIDE THE PRE-1967 LINE IN EAST JERUSALEM -- PALESTINIAN ABANDONMENT OF THE OSLO PEACE PROCESS -- REVERSION TO THE PRE-OSLO STRATEGY OF THE PALESTINIANS REJECTING CONTACT WITH ISRAEL & DEMANDING, INSTEAD, THAT THE GREAT POWERS IMPOSE ARAB TERMS ON THE JEWISH STATE -- ABBAS SETTING PRECONDITIONS FOR RESUMPTION OF ISRAELI-PALESTIAN NEGOTIATIONS -- RETICENCE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO CONFRONT PALESTINIAN INTRANSIGENCE, REFLECTING SYMPATHY FOR THE ARABS & HOSTILITY TOWARD THE ISRAELIS

THE DEBATE OVER SOCIAL CHANGE, POLITICAL REFORM, & MODERNIZATION IN SAUDI ARABIA:  CAUTIOUS STEPS TAKEN BY THE SAUDI KINGDOM TO JOIN THE MODERN WORLD -- EFFORTS TO REFORM CHILDREN'S EDUCATION & THE SELECTION OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- THE BATTLE AMONG ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS LEADERS BETWEEN REFORMERS & HARDLINERS -- THE DEBATE OVER GENDER SEGREGATION -- THE ANALYSIS OF DR. ROEL MEIJER

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE "HOUSE OF ISLAM":  THE RESOUNDING FAILURE OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S POLICIES TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OBAMA'S MISREADING OF THE HISTORY & WORLDVIEW OF ISLAM -- THE FAILURE OF OBAMA'S PANDERING TO ISLAMIC PREJUDICES (INCLUDING HIS GREATLY HYPED "OUTREACH" PLAN) TO GAIN FOR HIM & HIS PRESIDENCY THE QUIESCENCE, LET ALONE THE RESPECT & ADMIRATION, OF ARAB & MUSLIM SOCIETIES -- OBAMA'S ILL-CONCEIVED POLICIES OF "ENGAGEMENT" WITH IRAN & TURKEY & THE ABJECT FAILURE OF THOSE POLICIES -- THE PRESIDENT'S FLAWED POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- HIS APPROACH TO U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN & IRAQ -- THE NEED FOR OBAMA TO RECOGNIZE THE MANICHEAN & IRRECONCILABLE NATURE OF THE CHALLENGE POSED BY OUR ISLAMIC ADVERSARIES -- THE NEED TO REPLACE APPEASEMENT WITH CONTAINMENT & COUNTERATTACK

THE ROLE OF MARTYRDOM IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC WARFARE:  MARTYRDOM'S CENTRAL POSITION IN VIOLENT CAMPAIGNS CONDUCTED BY ISLAMIC GROUPS -- THE SUICIDE BOMBER AS THE IDEAL OF ISLAMIC MARTYRDOM -- HOW THE CONCEPT OF ISLAMIC MARTYRDOM HAS UNDERGONE A TRANSFORMATION THAT BLENDS & SYNTHESIZES NOTIONS THAT WERE ONCE LIMITED TO ONE OR THE OTHER OF THE TWO MAIN MUSLIM SECTS, SUNNI & SHI'I

U.S. SECURITY INTERESTS & THE CONFLICT IN YEMEN:  THE SITUATION IN YEMEN FAR MORE WORRISOME & URGENT TO THE U.S.A. THAN THE UPCOMING ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE TALKS -- AN ALTERATION OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD YEMEN NEEDED -- IRANIAN INFLUENCE & THE THREAT OF AL-QA'IDA IN YEMEN -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE YEMENI SITUATION

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & THE FATE OF THE NEGROPONTE DOCTRINE:  U.S. POLICY TOWARD UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS CONDEMNING ISRAEL FOR MILITARY ACTION TAKEN IN ITS OWN DEFENSE AGAINST ARMED TERRORIST GROUPS ATTACKING ISRAELIS -- UNDER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, DOES THE U.S.A. REMAIN COMMITTED TO THE NEGROPONTE PRINCIPLE OF NONSUPPORT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL THAT IGNORE THE EXPLICIT THREAT TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE POSED BY HAMAS & OTHER SUCH TERRORIST GROUPS? WILL OBAMA VETO ANY ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTION WHICH DOES NOT CONTAIN AN EXPLICIT CONDEMNATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTS OF TERRORISM & CALL FOR DISMANTLING THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTING TERROR OPERATIONS?

ARAB STATES & THE ABDULLAH PLAN:  THE ABDULLAH PLAN AS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT & EXPLICIT COLLECTIVE ARAB DECLARATION IN FAVOR OF A PEACEFUL, MUTUALLY AGREED-ON RESOLUTION OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT EVER MADE -- MODIFICATION OF THE COLLECTIVE ARAB POSITION IN THE DIRECTION OF A MORE EXPLICIT RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL -- A MOVE TOWARD ARAB ACCEPTANCE OF THE REALITY OF A JEWISH STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- EVENTS & FORCES THAT HAVE MITIGATED THE VALUE & IMPORTANCE OF THE ARAB STATES' PEACE INITIATIVE -- THE ABDULLAH PLAN AS A GENUINE REFERENCE POINT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REGARDING ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE-MAKING -- THE PLAN AS A MARKER DETERMINING THE SHAKY PARAMETERS OF ACCEPTABLE, COLLECTIVE ARAB ACTION ON A FINAL & PERMANENT ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE SETTLEMENT

WHAT BODES FOR IRAQ'S FUTURE, IN TERMS OF ITS RELATIONS TO THE OTHER STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  THE MIDDLE EASTERN COLD WAR -- THE CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL DIVISION IN THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN THE "REVOLUTIONARY BLOC" & THE "STATUS-QUO BLOC" -- SAUDI ARABIA & IRAN JOSTLING FOR INFLUENCE IN IRAQ -- THE POSSIBILITY OF IRAQ SOON EMERGING AS A THEATER OF PROXY WARFARE BETWEEN SAUDI ARABIA & IRAN

ARAB COMPASSION FOR THE PALESTINIANS?  HOW GREAT?  TAKING A CAREFUL LOOK AT REALITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  ARAB STATES, ARAB POLITICS, & THE LONG HISTORY ARAB ABUSE OF BOTH THE "PALESTINE QUESTION" & THE PALESTINIANS THEMSELVES -- ARAB RULERS, CONFLICTING IMPERIALIST AMBITIONS, & THE NATIONAL RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS -- THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CAUSE MANIPULATED BY ARAB LEADERS TO THEIR OWN ENDS -- PAN-ARABISM & ITS VIEW OF PALESTINE & THE PALESTINIANS -- ANTI-ZIONISM AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ACHIEVING THE SELF-INTERESTED AIMS OF ARAB STATES -- A PARADOX:   HOW THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS SAVED THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT FROM COMPLETE OBLIVION

IS RESOLUTION OF THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT A PREREQUISITE TO PEACE & STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  HOW GREAT AN INTEREST DO ARABS & ARAB STATES HAVE IN THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI PEACE TALKS?   WHAT ARAB POLICIES SINCE THE MID-1930S SUGGEST -- ARAB STATES & THE DEGREE OF THEIR CONCERN FOR THE WELL-BEING OF PALESTINIANS -- ARAB REGIMES & THEIR INTEREST IN FIGHTING FOR PALESTINIAN NATIONAL RIGHTS -- THE HISTORY OF ARAB LEADERS MANIPULATING THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE FOR THEIR OWN ENDS, WHILE IGNORING THE FATE OF THE PALESTINIANS -- IN WHAT DOES THE ONLY HOPE OF PEACE BETWEEN ARABS & ISRAELIS LIE?  WHAT THE PALESTINIANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND -- WHAT THEY MUST DO?

A QUESTION PROMPTED BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S RAGE OVER WHAT IT CALLS ISRAEL'S "OPEN-AIR JAIL" IN GAZA:  IS ISRAEL IN GAZA REALLY WORSE THAN TURKEY IN CYPRUS?  COMPARISON & CONTRAST TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH -- INSTEAD OF MEDDLING IN GAZA, SHOULD NOT TURKISH LEADERS END TURKEY'S ILLEGAL, DISRUPTIVE, DECADES-LONG MILITARY OCCUPATION OF NORTHERN CYPRUS?

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  ITS ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, & CURRENT STATUS -- THE VERY DIM PROSPECTS FOR RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT, EXCEPT BY APPLICATION OF OVERWHELMING FORCE & VIOLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT OF A TOTAL MILITARY VICTORY BY ONE SIDE OVER THE OTHER -- FAILURE TO ADOPT & IMPLEMENT THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM, DUE TO VIOLENT OPPOSITION ON THE PART OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS & THEIR SUPPORTERS THROUGHOUT THE ARAB WORLD -- PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISM -- THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS' LEADERSHIP -- DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ANNIHILATION OF THE ISRAELI POPULATION

THE PATTERN OF PALESTINIAN DUPLICITY & DOUBLE-SPEAK UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF YASIR ARAFAT:  DID ARAFAT'S SUCCESSOR, MAHMOUD ABBAS, BREAK FROM THIS PATTERN, OR DID HE CONTINUE IT?  WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE INDICATE?  WHEN WILL WE IN THE WEST STOP DELUDING OURSELVES THAT MAHMOUD ABBAS & THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SEEK ANYTHING LESS THAN THE TOTAL ELIMINATION OF THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL?  WHAT DISASTER MUST OCCUR BEFORE WE OPEN OUR EYES TO REALITY?

THE NEW ARAB LIBERALS:  THE ORIGINS, NATURE, & FUTURE OF THE MOVEMENT -- THE ISSUE OF CULTURAL CHANGE & LIBERAL POLITICAL REFORM IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST -- HOW ARAB POLITICS & POLITICAL CULTURE PRESENT OBSTACLES TO THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD -- ISLAMISM & PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM AS OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM, STABLE REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACIES, SECULAR STATES, OPEN SOCIETIES, & LEGAL GUARANTEES OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES TO INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS -- WHY CHANGE IN THE COMPOSITION OF ARAB POLITICAL ELITES IS ESSENTIAL -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & PROGRESS TOWARD DEMOCRATIZATION

THE MOST URGENT TOPIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST THESE DAYS:  WHETHER OR NOT IRAN'S NUCLEAR BUILDUP WILL BE STOPPED -- THE ISSUE:  WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT, (1) PREVENTING IRAN FROM DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, EVEN IF IT MEANS TAKING MILITARY ACTION, OR (2) AVOIDING A MILITARY CONFLICT, EVEN IF THE IRANIANS MAY DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

HUMAN RIGHTS & THE STATUS OF MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN:  WESTERN PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES AS APOLOGISTS FOR THE SUBORDINATE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE BACKWARD, BARBARIC, PATRIARCAL, MISOGYNISTIC, & THEOCRATIC SOCIETIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- REFUSAL TO SEE ARAB WOMEN AS THE VICTIMS OF PATRIARCHY, CULTURE, POLITICS, & RELIGION --FAILURE TO COMPREHEND THAT THERE ARE MORAL PRINCIPLES WHICH DEFINE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOMS

THE WRITINGS OF T. E. LAWRENCE ON WESTERN MILITARY STRATEGY IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST & THE RELEVANCE OF THESE WRITINGS TO THE CURRENT U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ:  THE INFLUENCE THAT LAWRENCE'S WRITINGS HAVE HAD ON THE REFORMS ADOPTED & IMPLEMENTED SINCE GENERAL DAVID HOWELL PETRAEUS WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF U.S. & ALLIED MILITARY FORCES IN IRAQ -- HOW THE STRATEGIC THINKING OF A FAMOUS & LONG-DEAD WORLD WAR I BRITISH ARMY LIEUTENANT COLONEL IS INFLNCING THE CONTEMPORARY MILITARY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS THE ISLAMIC FORCES OF THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA:  THE JEWS' HISTORICAL CLAIM TO A HOMELAND IN WESTERN ASIA -- THE HISTORY OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL SINCE ITS RE-ESTABLISHMENT AS A JEWISH STATE IN 1948 -- HOW ISRAELI POLITICS HAS WEAKENED ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY -- UNITED NATIONS EFFORTS TO DESTROY ISRAEL -- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACTIONS UNDERMINING THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHAT ISRAEL MUST DO IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AS A FREE & INDEPENDENT NATION-STATE

THE OLD QUANDARY THAT ISRAEL'S WAR AGAINST HAMAS BRINGS UP:  WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS?  WHAT DOES NOT & CANNOT WORK -- THE ONLY PRACTICAL APPROACH:  EGYPTIAN RULE IN THE GAZA STRIP & JORDANIAN CONTROL OF THE WEST BANK

SYRIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & U.S. FOREIGN FOLICY:  OBAMA PLANNING DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA, HOPING TO WEAKEN SYRIA'S CONNECTION TO HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH & UNDERMINE THE SYRIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP -- ARAB HISTORY & POLITICAL CULTURE AS THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH PURSUIT OF OBAMA'S POLICY AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY ALL THREE RIVALS FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE ARAB WORLD, SYRIA, IRAQ & EGYPT, WILL NEVER COEXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY AS PARTNERS

INADEQUACY & IMBALANCE IN COVERAGE OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: ACADEMIC & JOURNALISTIC BIAS & NEGLECT -- LACK OF ATTENTION TO THE INTERNAL STRIFE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN FACTIONS & TO THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- U.S. MAINSTREAM MEDIA OVERREPORTING OF THE VIOLENCE BETWEEN PALESTINIANS & ISRAELIS & PROVIDING LITTLE OR NO COVERAGE OF THE EARLY STAGES OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN FATAH & HAMAS -- CONCEPTUAL MISTAKES & THE COST FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY OF INATTENTION TO THE FATAH-HAMAS FITNA

ACHIEVING MODERNITY & MODERATION IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:  THE TUNISIAN MODEL FOR AN ISLAMIC REFORMATION -- TUNISIA'S DEVELOPMENT IN RECENT YEARS OF AN ENVIRONMENT OF CO-EXISTENCE AMONG JEWS, CHRISTIANS & MUSLIMS, AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH MODERNITY SERVES AS A COMMON DENOMINATOR & RELIGION DOES NOT GET IN THE WAY OF ONE'S DAY-TO-DAY LIFE -- TUNISIA'S POLITICAL STABILITY, WESTERN-ARAB SYNTHESIS, & ECONOMIC VISION:  A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FOR OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN STATES

EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE BALANCE & OBJECTIVITY IN THE EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD:   SEEKING LESS POLITICIZATION, GREATER DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVE, MORE ATTENTION TO THE THREAT OF MILITANT ISLAM, & AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE POST-COLONIALIST & ANTI-WESTERN BIASES CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP & SOCALLED "SCHOLARSHIP" LONG DOMINANT IN THE FIELD OF MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES -- THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA:  FORMED TO PROVIDE A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION THAT WOULD BE MORE INDEPENDENT & REFLECT THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY MORE THAN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES & SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

THE TRUE MEANING OF THE OF THE ARABIC WORD "HUDNA" & ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  THE NEED FOR WESTERNERS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD'S NUANCE & HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- ISLAMIC MILITARY HISTORY AS PRECEDENT FOR THE ISLAMISTS' USE OF THE CEASE-FIRE, OR TRUCE, AS A MILITARY TACTIC IN THEIR GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST -- THE HUDNA AS A TACTICAL CEASE-FIRE PERMITTING THE AGGRESSOR FORCES TO RETREAT & THEN REGROUP, REARM, & REBUILD THEIR MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN THEY CALL OFF THE CEASE-FIRE & ATTACK THE TERRITORY THEY PREVIOUSLY LEFT BEHIND -- THE ARABS' USE OF THE HUDNA IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  DE-EMPHASIZING PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & ONCE AGAIN EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN REGIONAL STABILITY AS A U.S. FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY -- FACING THE DOWNSIDE OF A STRATEGY BASED ON THE IDEA THAT DICTATORS BRING STABILITY TO A REGION -- INSTABILITY AS A LOOMING THREAT IN FOUR WESTERN-ALLIED DICTATORSHIPS THAT MANY AT HIGH LEVELS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PERCEIVE AS BULWARKS OF STABILITY:  EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, TUNISIA, & OMAN

THE EFFORTS OF ABDUL RAHMAN AL-LAHIM TO REFORM SAUDI LAW & THE SAUDI JUDICIAL SYSTEM:  HIS BATTLE WITH THE ISLAMIST FORCES THAT CONTROL SAUDI ARABIA'S JUDICIARY -- THE LONG ROAD TO A CONSTITUTIONAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN SAUDI ARABIA -- LAHIM'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE AS A SAUDI LAWYER

RELIGION, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS -- ISLAM, AUTHORITARIANISM, & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  CAN ISLAM BE REFORMED IN SUCH MANNER AS TO BE MADE COMPATIBLE WITH CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY?  ISLAM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO EVOLVE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC DIRECTION, BUT MIDDLE EASTERN TRIBALISM & THE EXISTENCE OF A COMPELLING & POWERFUL ISLAMIST MOVEMENT OBSTRUCT MODERNIZATION & THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, CITIZENSHIP, CIVIL LIBERTIES, SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION, EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS, GENDER EQUALITY, & THE OTHER PREQUISITES OF A GENUINELY CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC STATE

U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, & INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS:  COUNTERING ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA IN THE ARAB MEDIA -- AL-HURRA (THE FREE ONE):  A U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDED ARABIC LANGUAGE SATELLITE TELEVISION NETWORK WHOSE MISSION BY LAW IS TO PROVIDE ACCURATE & OBJECTIVE NEWS & INFORMATION TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ACCURATELY REPORTING U.S. POLICY & POLICY DEBATES, BUT NOT ADVOCATING POLICY -- PROVIDING CONTEXT & ANALYSIS SO THAT MIDDLE EASTERN VIEWERS CAN MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS

THE CONFLICT IN LEBANON:  IRAN, SYRIA, & HEZBOLLAH VERSUS THE WEST -- LEBANON AS A KEY BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN THE WEST AS A WHOLE & THE FORCES THAT SEEK TO DRAG THE MIDDLE EAST DOWN INTO FANATICISM, TYRANNY, & BARBARISM -- LEBANON AS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE ANTI-WESTERN STRATEGY OF IRAN & ITS ALLIES, SYRIA & HEZBOLLAH -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF IRANIAN POLITICS THAT IS BEING PLAYED OUT IN LEBANON & GAZA -- IRAN'S PLAN TO CO-OPT ARAB NATIONALISM, HAVE AN ACTIVE WAR WITH ISRAEL, BE VICTORIOUS IN THAT WAR, & SEIZE LEADERSHIP OF THE MUSLIM WORLD FROM THE SUNNIS & ARABS

THE STATE OF ISRAEL & PALESTINIAN ARAB HISTORIOGRAPHY:  PALESTINIAN PERCEPTION OF THE JEWISH STATE AS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL -- PALESTINIAN PERCEPTIONS, THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE PALESTINIANS, INSTEAD OF SEARCHING FOR PATHS TO PEACE, ARE SEARCHING FOR MEANS TO WAGE WAR AGAINST & DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL

ARABS & WESTERNERS:  THE VAST CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARABS & WESTERNERS -- ARAB CULTURE:  THE ENDEMIC HATRED OF JEWS THAT REFLECTS THE MUSLIM ARAB MINDSET -- THE FAILURE OF ARABS TO EXIST PEACEFULLY WITH ONE ANOTHER, DUE TO THEOLOGICAL SCHISMS -- THE ARABS' FAMILY & TRIBAL MENTALITY -- THE ANTI-WESTERN ATTITUDES OF ARABS THAT LITERALLY DATE BACK TO THE CRUSADES -- ISLAM AS AN AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM, EXISTING TO ASSERT ABSOLUTE & TYRANNICAL CONTROL OVER TERRITORY & PEOPLES --THE CONFLUENCE OF OIL & RELIGION, MAKING THE ISLAMIC WORLD A TREACHEROUS PLACE, BUT ONE WHERE THE WEST HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO INTERVENE & EVEN IMPOSE ITS WILL BY FORCE OF ARMS

THE FAULTY ANALYSIS OF POLITICALLY-BIASED AMERICAN PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  ANTI-ISRAELI PROFESSORS' OCCUPATION WITH LAMBASTING ISRAEL'S DEFENSE POLICIES & THEIR CONSEQUENT FAILURE TO IDENTIFY AN APPROACHING INTERNECINE PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- HOW THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS MISINFORM & MISLEAD FOREIGN POLICY DECISION-MAKERS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

ISLAM, ISLAMIC STATES, ISLAMISM, & THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE:   ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE IN THE CONTEXT OF STRATEGIES WEAK STATES & TERRORIST GROUPS ADOPT TO CONFRONT STRONGER MILITARY POWERS -- THE ISLAMIST WAY OF WAR & THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS -- RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, SUICIDAL IDEOLOGY, & MORAL INSPIRATION FOR THE STRATEGY OF TERRORISM -- PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION & THE CALL TO JIHAD -- EXPLOITATION OF WESTERN MORAL CODES TO CREATE A TACTICAL ADVANTAGE FOR THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- HOW TO BALANCE WESTERN MILITARY NEEDS, INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, & THE REALITY OF FACING AN ENEMY WHOSE TACTICS ARE NOT RESTRAINED BY ACCEPTED CONVENTIONS -- THE ABSOLUTE NEED FOR THE WEST TO WIN THE IDEOLOGICAL WAR AS WELL AS THE MILITARY ONE

BURGEONING OIL PRICES, PERSIAN GULF STATES, & SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS:  HOW PERSIAN GULF STATES ARE USING THEIR HUGE OIL PROFITS & SURPLUS FOREIGN EXHANGE TO PURCHASE ASSETS IN THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES -- THE NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF ARAB STATES ACQUIRING IMPORTANT POSITIONS IN INDUSTRIAL & OTHER BUSINESS CORPORATIONS IN THE WEST -- A POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM BY WESTERN STATES -- INTRODUCTION OF A STRICT POLICY OF REVIEWING LARGE AQUISITIONS BY SWFS, A POLICY DESIGNED TO MAKE IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, OR EVEN ILLEGAL, FOR SWFS TO ACQUIRE ASSETS IN STRATEGIC SECTORS OF WESTERN ECONOMIES, FOR EXAMPLE, INFRASTRUCTURE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA, & ENERGY

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN "PEACE PROCESS"?  FAILURE OF GAZA & THE WEST BANK TO DEVELOP INTO A VIABLE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL & ECONOMIC ENTITY -- THE ROLE OF YASSER ARAFAT IN CREATING THE CURRENT MESS IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY -- THE ROLE OF MAHMOUD ABBAS -- THE ROLE OF HAMAS -- VICTIMHOOD & THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE A TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & SOCIETY:  COMPREHENDING THE TRIBAL FOUNDATION OF ARAB & IRANIAN CULTURE -- THE ANCIENT TRIBAL NOTION OF KINSHIP SUPERCEDING THE INFLUENCE OF ELECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICERS -- TRIBAL GROUP LOYALTY AS CRITICAL TO THE CULTURE -- NO LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP EXISTING ABOVE THE HIERARCHY OF TRIBAL LEADERS -- UNWILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT STATE RULERS -- NEAR IMPOSSIBILITY OF HAVING A CONSTITUTION OR A REGIME OF LAW & ORDER, GENERATING A SOCIETY WHERE ALL GROUPS ARE ON AN EQUAL BASIS

U.S. & WESTERN POLICY TOWARD GAZA, EGYPT, & ISRAEL:  TRANSFERRING GAZA TO EGYPTIAN JURISDICTION & RESPONSIBILITY -- HOW CAN IT BE DONE?

HIGH TIME FOR A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE WEST'S POLICY TOWARD GAZA:  THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES TO DECLARE THE EXPERIMENT IN GAZAN SELF-RULE A FAILURE, WITHDRAW SUPPORT FOR ANY POLITICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP & THE PALESTINIAN ARAB WEST BANK, & CONTRIVE THE RETURN OF GAZA TO EGYPT, PRESSURING THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO ANNEX, TIGHTLY CONTROL, & TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GAZA

WHY IS THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST SO AT ODDS WITH MODERN LIFE, LAGGARD IN EVERYTHING FROM LITERACY TO STANDARD OF LIVING, FROM MILITARY PROWESS TO POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT?  CULTURE & CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- TRIBAL AUTONOMY & TYRANNICAL CENTRALISM AS THE TWO PATTERNS OF RULE THAT HISTORICALLY HAVE DOMINATED THE MIDDLE EAST -- BALANCED OPPOSITION AS THE BASIS OF TRIBAL SELF-RULE -- RELYING ON EXTENDED FAMILIES & AGNATES FOR PROTECTION -- THE NEGATIVE & POSITIVE EFFECTS OF AFFILIATION SOLIDARITY -- HOW THE DUAL PATTERN OF TRIBAL SELF-RULE & TYRANNICAL CENTRALISM CONTINUES TO DEFINE LIFE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- INDIVIDUALISM AS THE CURE FOR THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION'S AFFLICTION

THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  ENSURING ISRAEL'S SURVIVAL AS A JEWISH SOCIETY & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC NATION-STATE IN A HOSTILE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT -- THE U.S.A. ASSISTING ISRAEL IN ITS MAINTENANCE OF QUALITATIVE MILITARY SUPERIORITY OVER ANY POSSIBLE COALITION OF ARAB & OTHER ISLAMIC STATES IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN & PERSIAN GULF REGION -- THE IRANIAN THREAT, THE EMERGING NEW STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE NEED FOR A CLEARER DEFINITION OF "QUALITATIVE MILITARY EDGE" & MUTUAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S. & ISRAELI GOVERNMENTS REGARDING HOW ISRAEL'S QUANTITATIVE MILITARY EDGE CAN & SHOULD BE MAINTAINED

PALESTINIANS VERSUS THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY:  THE NUMEROUS PALESTINIAN ARABS CURRENTLY LIVING INSIDE THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL WHO PREFER ISRAELI GOVERNANCE TO POLITICAL CONTROL & DOMINATION BY THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- PALESTINIANS WHO WANT TO KEEP OR GAIN ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP & WOULD RESIST ANY ATTEMPT TO TRANFER JURISDICTION OVER THEM FROM THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO THE CORRUPT, VIOLENT, AND UNSTABLE REGIME OF MAHMOUD ABBAS, AL-FATAH, & HAMAS -- THE ADVANTAGES & BENEFITS OF ISRAELI GOVERNANCE PERCEIVED BY MANY PALESTINIANS:  THE RULE OF LAW, EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE OF LAW & ORDER, FAIR & REASONABLE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE UNDER LAW, OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN PEACE & RAISE ONE'S CHILDREN UNDER ORDERLY CONDITIONS, GOOD SCHOOLS, & HEALTH INSURANCE

THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE EFFECTS & CONSEQUENCES OF WESTERN FINANCIAL AID TO THE PALESTINIANS -- CORRUPTION & DISTORTION OF THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY -- RUINING THE ECONOMY BY SMOTHERING IT UNDER WELL-INTENTIONED BUT MISGUIDED DONATIONS -- HOW A FAILED PALESTINIAN ECONOMY WILL ULTIMATELY AFFECT PALESTINIAN TERRORISM & DETERMINATION TO DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- EXPLAINING PALESTINIAN EXTREMISM & VIOLENCE: THE HARDSHIP MODEL VERSUS THE EXHILARATION MODEL

SYRIA, THE U.S.A., & THE MIDDLE EAST:  BASHAR AL-ASSAD, THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME, & SYRIA'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS -- THE MESSAGE THAT AL-ASSAD IS SENDING TO U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & HIS ADMINISTRATION:  SYRIA IS NOT PREPARED TO ENTER INTO AN AXIS WITH THE U.S.A. & THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT INSIST THAT SYRIA DO SO. IN EXCHANGE FOR FRIENDLY DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYRIA & THE U.S.A., THE LATTER MUST ABANDON IRAQ, LEAVE LEBANON OPEN TO SYRIAN DOMINATION, & AGREE TO THE RETURN OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS TO SYRIA. IN SHORT, THE U.S.A. MUST CAPITULATE TO SYRIAN DEMANDS & LEAVE ISRAEL & THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST AT THE MERCY OF TYRANNICAL REGIMES & ISLAMIST TERRORISTS

TURKEY, KURDISH TERRORISTS, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS, & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE & ITS ILL-ADVISED DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TOWARD THE PKK, A STRATEGY THAT WILL LIKELY BACKFIRE ON TURKEY & COULD SERVE TO UNDERMINE WHAT IS LEFT OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM -- THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT'S COUNSELING TURKEY TO OFFER POLITICAL CONCESSIONS TO THE IRAQI KURDS AND THE PKK, RATHER THAN THE DEPARTMENT'S ADHERING TO A NO-TOLERANCE POLICY TOWARD TERRORISM -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT TO RECOGNIZE THAT CONCESSIONS FUEL TERROR, THAT ONLY COERSION & FORCE WORK IN DEALING WITH TERRORISTS & TERROR ENABLERS, & THAT TURKEY, LIKE ANY OTHER COUNTRY, HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS CITIZENS FROM TERRORISM

DANIEL LEVY'S DISTORTED CAUSE-&-EFFECT ANALYSIS OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: LEVY'S TWISTED ACCOUNTS OF THE FIRST & SECOND INTIFADAS -- LEVY'S MOTIVE:  HIS VERSION OF THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE THAT PALESTINIAN TERRORISM HAS ALWAYS ARISEN IN RESPONSE TO ISRAELI PROVOCATIONS & THAT ISRAEL HAS NEVER BEEN GENUINELY INTERESTED IN PEACE WITH ITS MIDDLE EASTERN NEIGHBORS

THE TRIBAL & CULTURAL ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST: HOW SEVENTH-CENTURY ARAB TRIBAL CULTURE HAS INFLUENCED ISLAM & ITS ADHERENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS NON-MUSLIMS -- FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ARABS' NEARLY ABSOLUTE REJECTION OF ISRAEL -- THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF HONOR & BALANCED OPPOSITION -- THE PROPENSITY OF ARAB STATES & IRAN TO DICTATORSHIP -- RULERS, PEASANTS, & NOMADS

MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY & POLITICS:  AN EPISODE IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE PALESTINIAN TERRORIST SKYJACKINGS & HOSTAGE TAKING OF SEPTEMBER, 1970, & THE RESULTING DIPLOMATIC CRISIS & JORDANIAN MILITARY ACTION -- HOW ISRAEL BECAME A PRIME BENEFICIARY OF THE WHOLE EPISODE

HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  INVOLVEMENT OF THE LATE U.S.S.R. IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT DURING THE COLD WAR ERA -- SOVIET EXPLOITATION OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT TO ADVANTAGE IN THE GLOBAL WAR WAGED BY THE SOVIET UNION & ITS ALLIES AGAINST THE NON-COMMUNIST WORLD -- RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS

THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SYRIA & HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH'S TRANSITION FROM THE ROLE OF SUBSERVIENT JUNIOR PARTNER IN ITS AXIS WITH SYRIA TO THE ROLE OF DOMINANT PARTNER -- THE CONSEQUENT WEAKENING OF SYRIA'S ROLE IN LEBANON -- HEZBOLLAH'S ABANDONMENT OF COOPERATION WITH THE EXISTING LEBANESE GOVERNMENT, STAKING OUT A MORE MAXIMALIST POSITION TO DOMINATE LEBANON & TRANSFORM ITS POLITICAL CHARACTER INTO AN IRANIAN-STYLE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST STATE -- THE STRENGTHENING ROLE OF IRAN IN LEBANON, WHERE IRANIAN AGENTS, IN LEAGUE WITH HEZBOLLAH, HAVE CONSOLIDATED A STATE WITHIN A STATE -- THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC'S ADOPTION OF SYRIA'S FORMER DOMINANT ROLE IN LEBANON

THE UNITED NATIONS, THE PALESTINIAN AGENDA, & ISLAMIC TERRORISM:  THE UN AS A PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR DELITIMIZATION OF ISRAEL & FOR PROMOTION & PERPETUATION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- UNRWA AS AN APPARATUS THROUGH WHICH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST HELP FUND THE ACTIVITIES OF THEIR ENEMIES IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR

THE FORMER SOVIET UNION & THE OUTBREAK OF THE SIX-DAY WAR OF 1967:  THE ROLE OF THE U.S.S.R. IN EXACERBATING THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE SIX-DAY WAR AS A FOOTNOTE IN THE HISTORY OF SOVIET DECEPTION, TRICKERY, CONNIVANCE, & TREACHERY DURING THE COLD WAR

THE MASS IGNORANCE, BACKWARDNESS, CORRUPTION, & OPPRESSION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  ISLAM AS THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM & WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAM'S CONTINUING RESISTANCE TO & REJECTION OF ANYTHING THAT SMACKS OF MODERN CIVILIZED BEHAVIOR -- THE ONLY PEACE THAT ISLAM OFFERS THE WORLD:   COMPLETE SURRENDER & SUBORDINATION TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION, OR THE PEACE OF THE GRAVE -- THE POPULATION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST HELD IN THE GRIP OF A "RELIGION" SPREAD BY THE SWORD & MAINTAINED BY INSURING THAT ENLIGHTENMENT OF ANY KIND IS FEARED & DESTROYED -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA & THE WEST TO EFFECTIVELY COMBAT THE ISLAMIST TERRORISM THAT WOULD BRING TO US A DARK AGE RULED BY ISLAM

ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON, SYRIA, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE SECOND LEBANON WAR AS A FALTERING, INDECISIVE WAR RESULTING FROM ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC FOLLIES & OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCES -- THE ISRAELI POLITICAL & MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S LACK OF A CLEAR CONCEPT OF WHAT VICTORY OVER HEZBOLLAH ENTAILED -- HOW ISRAEL SQUANDERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE REGIONAL SCORES & MAINTAIN UNQUESTIONED ISRAELI DETERRENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRENGTHS & ADVANTAGES UPON WHICH ISRAEL CAN BUILD & PREPARE TO ATTAIN A CLEAR & DECISIVE VICTORY IN THE NEXT ROUND WITH HEZBOLLAH & THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME

THE CONDITION NECESSARY FOR PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN ARABS & ISRAELI JEWS:  THAT PALESTINIAN SOCIETY EXPERIENCE A BREAKTHROUGH IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT & VALUES, A BREAKTHROUGH ACCEPTING THE PERMANENT EXISTENCE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HONEST RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS ARE NORMAL & NATURAL, & ALLOWING FOR THE GROWTH OF AN ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS & POLITICALLY INFLUENTIAL PALESTINIAN MIDDLE CLASS

ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  ARE THE WESTERN CONCEPTS OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, & HUMAN RIGHTS COMPATIBLE WITH EITHER ISLAMIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OR A STRICT, LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS DOGMA?  CAN MUSLIM SOCIETIES DEVELOP & SUCCESSFULLY OPERATE STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES?  THE THEORY OF JOHN L. ESPOSITO -- EXPOUNDING & AMPLIFYING THE THEORY -- ISLAMIST REJECTION OF THE THEORY -- THE ESPOSITO THEORY VERSUS REALITY -- HOW THE THEORY & ITS APPLICATION ENDANGER AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & THE SURVIVAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

MODERN EGYPT:  ITS HISTORY, POLITICS, POLITICAL REGIME, PUBLIC POLICY, & POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, & ISLAMISM IN EGYPT -- RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE

SAUDI ARABIA:  ITS BIPOLAR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE CONTINUING DEPENDENCE OF WESTERN ECONOMIES ON IMPORTED OIL, OF WHICH SAUDI OIL FIELDS ARE AN IMPORTANT SOURCE -- THE REPULSION OF MANY WESTERN LEADERS & POLICYMAKERS TO SAUDI SUBSIDATION OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE ISLAMIST WAR TO CONQUER & DESTROY THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE WORLD'S FUTURE PEACE & SECURITY:  THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST CONQUER & ANNIHILATE THE EVIL & DEADLY FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- IF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DECIDES TO REDUCE LARGE PORTIONS OF BAGHDAD TO RUBBLE & OBLITERATE BIG CHUNKS OF IRAN, HISTORY WILL LIKELY SAY HE WAS RIGHT TO DO SO

THE MIDDLE EAST, HAMAS, TERRORISM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  HAMAS' OPERATION OF A TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP OVER THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- HAMAS' CONTINUING ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ENDORSEMENT OF MISSILE STRIKES ON ISRAELI CIVILIANS -- HOW THEIR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF HAMAS & OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS HAS REAPED HUGE DIVIDENDS FOR IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, & OTHER MUSLIM STATES OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- HOW WESTERN EQUIVOCATION, VACILLATION, & LACK OF RESOLVE CONTRIBUTE TO TERRORISM & DICTATORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S ABANDONMENT OF ITS PROMOTION OF THE RULE OF LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM, FREE & UNFETTERED ELECTIONS, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, & HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES

ARAB POLITICS, THE ARAB MENTALITY, & THE ARAB WORLD:  ARAB NATIONALISTS, THE ISLAMIST REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT, & THE PROBLEMS FACING THE ARAB WORLD -- HOW THE COMPETING IDEOLOGIES OF ARAB NATIONALISM & RADICAL ISLAMISM REINFORCE THE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM & WORLDVIEW THAT LOCKS THE ARAB WORLD INTO THE VERY PROBLEMS WHICH BOTH IDEOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS PURPORT TO REMEDY -- WHY THE ARABS WILL NEVER LEARN -- WHY THE ARABS ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT PAST MISTAKES & CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE MILITARY DEFEAT, WASTED RESOURCES, TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP, & SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS

ISLAMIC TERRORISM & ITS IMPACT ON UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  HOW SUICIDE BOMBING HAS FORCED THE U.S.A. TO REEVALUATE ITS STRATEGIC GOALS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRATEGIC REASON WHY THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION ALLIES ATTACKED & INVADED IRAQ -- THE NEED TO PROTECT THE WEST'S ACCESS TO MIDDLE EASTERN OIL RESERVES -- FINDING THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & ENGAGEMENT WITH THE FORCES COMPETING FOR HEGEMONY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST POLITICS, ARABS, & THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT CONTINUES, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO POSSIBILITY OF PEACE OBTAINED THROUGH NEGOTIATION & COMPROMISE, DESPITE THE FANTASIES OF JAMES EARL CARTER -- THE ARABS WILL PERSIST IN WAGING THEIR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, UNLESS & UNTIL THE ARABS ACHIEVE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL OR THE ARABS ARE SUBJECT TO A DECISIVE MILITARY DEFEAT RENDERING THEM, OVER THE LONGTERM, UNABLE TO CONTINUE RESISTING THE EXISTENCE & OPERATION OF THE JEWISH STATE -- ISRAEL'S CHOICE:  SUBMISSION TO AN ISLAMIC HOLOCAUST, ABANDONMENT OF ISRAEL & EMIGRATION, OR SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF A THOROUGHGOING WAR OF EXTINCTION AGAINST ISRAEL'S ENEMIES

PA HATE EDUCATION:  THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY & ITS POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION OF PALESTINIANS -- THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT THE PA SAYS IN ENGLISH TO THE WESTERN WORLD & WHAT IT SAYS IN ARABIC TO PALESTINIANS, ESPECIALLY TO PALESTINIAN YOUTH -- PREACHING PEACE IN ENGLISH & INCITING WAR IN ARABIC -- TEACHING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN TO HATE JEWS & WESTERNERS & TO GROW UP TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ISLAMIC TERROR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PA POLITICAL PROPAGANDA & INDOCTRINATION: ANTI-WESTERNISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, DENIAL OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST, ISLAMIC JIHAD, SUICIDE BOMBING, & MARTYRDOM

THE MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL REGIMES, & UNITED STATES AID TO MIDDLE EASTERN DISSIDENTS:   TO WHAT ENTENT & IN WHAT WAYS SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGE & SUPPORT POLITICAL DISSIDENTS & PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES GOVERNED BY OPPRESSIVE, TYRANNICAL REGIMES?   SHOULD PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW BE A FOREIGN POLICY GOAL OF THE U.S.A. IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS & DEFENSE OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE ARAB WORLD -- ARAB ATTITUDES & PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EASTERN POLICIES OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- U.S. & WESTERN PRESSURE FOR POLITICAL REFORN & DEMOCRATIZATION IN ARAB COUNTRIES -- FLAWED ANALYSES AMONG ARAB LEADERS, MIDDLE EASTERN CIVIL SOICIETY ADVOCATES, WESTERN LIBERAL LEFTISTS, & SOCALLED "REALISTS" IN THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT

ECONOMICS, GEOPOLITICS, & THE CONTINENT OF ASIA:  INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & COMMERCE AMONG STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE FAR EAST -- THE POLITICAL & ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF RECENT SAUDI ARABIAN OVERTURES TO CHINA & INDIA -- DO THE OVERTURES REFLECT A STRATEGIC SHIFT IN SAUDI FOREIGN POLICY?  HOW WILL CLOSER SAUDI TIES WITH CHINA & INDIA AFFECT UNITED STATES INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE FAR EAST?  GEOPOLITICAL IMPEDIMENTS THAT MAY LIMIT FUTURE EXPANSION OF SAUDI TIES WITH CHINA & INDIA

RELIGION & THE TERROR WAR:  ISLAM, ISLAMIC THEOLOGY, ISLAMISM, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- ISLAMIC THEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY & THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST THE U.S.A., THE WEST, ALL OTHER NON-MUSLIN SOCIETIES & CULTURES, & SECULAR POLITICAL REGIMES IN MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRIES -- RELIGIOUS JUSTIFICATION OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS & OTHER ACTS OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- VINDICATION OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS AS WELL AS AGAINST MILITARY PERSONNEL

WESTERN ATTITUDES TOWARD MUSLIMS & ARABS:  IN THE U.S.A., HOW MUCH DISCRIMINATION IS THERE AGAINST MUSLIMS & ARABS WHO MIGRATE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO AMERICA?  HOW WELL DO MUSLIM & ARAB IMMIGRANTS ASSIMILATE INTO AMERICAN SOCIETY?  WHAT ARE THE ATTITUDES OF NATIONAL POLICYMAKERS & FOREIGN POLICY ELITES IN THE U.S.A. & EUROPE, AS REGARDS THE ABILITY OF ISLAMIC MAJORITY COUNTRIES TO ESTABLISH & MAINTAIN STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- POLITICAL REGIMES WHICH ARE CHARACTIZED BY THE RULE OF LAW, PRESERVATION OF LIBERTY UNDER LAW, EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT, MAJORITY RULE WITH PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES, & PEACEFUL & LEGAL TRANSFER OF GOVERNING AURHORITY THROUGH DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?

ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE & ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY:  THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL & IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF WIDESPREAD & REGULAR DENIAL OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS & TRUE JUSTICE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD -- THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ISLAMIC TYRANNY & INJUSTICE FOR WESTERN COUNTRIES, THE UNITED NATIONS, & INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, THE FOURTH WORLD WAR, & THE ISLAMIST ENEMY:  WHERE DID AL-QA'IDA COME FROM?  THE INTELLECTUAL & IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE SAUDI DEBATE REGARDING THE "WESTERN CULTURAL ATTACK" ON ISLAM -- THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN & THE LEGACY OF THE ARMED JIHAD -- RADICALIZING THE ISLAMIC DEFENSE AGAINST THE "WESTERN CULTURAL ATTACK" -- OSAMA BIN LADEN & 'ABDALLAH 'AZZAM -- BIN LADEN'S SYNTHESIS OF IDEOLOGY & PRACTICE

AL-MANAR:  MEDIA ORGAN OF ISLAMISM & JIHADISM -- PROPAGANDA & INCITEMENT ARM OF HEZBOLLAH WAGING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST ISRAEL & SEEKING TO RALLY HEZBOLLAH'S ISLAMIST SUPPORTERS INSIDE LEBANON & THROUGHOUT THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OFFICIAL MOUTHPIECE OF AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL -- A LEGITIMATE TARGET OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES

THE LATEST ISRAELI "CEASE FIRE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT:  THE "CEASE FIRE" CONSIDERED IN THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF ISLAMIC HISTORY, THE MODERN RESURGENCE OF MILITANT ISLAM, & THE LONGTERM STRATEGY OF THE ISLAMISTS IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- WESTERN LEADERS' MISPERCEPTIONS & DELUSIONS THAT ARE VERY LIKELY TO CAUSE THE EVENTUAL DEFEAT & DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR THOSE NATIONS THAT COMPRISE WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  UNITE, CONFRONT, DEFEAT, & TOTALLY DESTROY THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM, OR FACE THE DECLINE, FALL, & EVENTUAL ERADICATION OF THE WEST & ITS CULTURE, INCLUDING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE & BASIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES & BELIEFS

LEBANON, ISRAEL, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORISM IN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST -- THE ROLE OF IRAN'S ISLAMIST REGIME IN THE GLOBAL CONFLICT -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES, THROUGH COVERT COUNTERTERRORIST POLITICAL ACTION AS WELL AS OVERT MILITARY ACTION, TO BRING ABOUT THE DEFEAT & TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THEIR DEADLY ENEMIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM & DEFEND ITSELD IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- HIGH TIME FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE THE BAN ON ASSASSINATING TERRORIST LEADERS, SPONSORS OF TERRORISM, & OTHER DEADLY ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION

THE KINGDOM OF JORDAN, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHAT ROLE DID JORDAN PLAY IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE PROCESS? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JORDANIAN PEACE INITIATIVE OF 1960?  AS REGARDS PALESTINIAN REFUGEES & THEIR "RIGHT OF RETURN" TO ISRAEL, HOW DID THE POLICY OF JORDAN DIFFER FROM THAT OF OTHER ARAB LEAGUE COUNTRIES?  WHY DID KING HUSSEIN'S PLAN FOR AN ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE FAIL?

ISRAEL, AZERBAIJAN, & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA:  THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL & AZERBAIJAN -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP & ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA -- HOW FAR ARE AZERBAIJANI ELITES WILLING TO PURSUE TIES WITH ISRAEL? WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF THE BAKU-JERUSALEM RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  ISLAMISM VERSUS WESTERN CULTURE -- THE WEST'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE PROGRESSIVE WEAKENING OF THE WEST'S WILL TO SURVIVE -- THE WESTERN TENDENCY TO RESORT TO APPEASEMENT OF A VERY DANGEROUS ENEMY & THEREBY UNDERMINE THE WEST'S DEFENSES AGAINST THAT ENEMY -- ANEMIC REMNANTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DAILY EXIBITING LESS & LESS OF A DETERMINATION TO STOP, OR EVEN SLOW DOWN, THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT SPREADING INSIDIOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PURSUIT OF THE GOALS OF WORLD DOMINATION & DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN CULTURE

ARABIC & ARABISM, EDUCATION & POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION:  ARABIC LANGUAGE TRAINING COMBINED WITH INDOCTRINATION IN THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM -- INDOCTRINATING ARABIC LANGUAGE STUDENTS IN THE U.S.A. WITH A TENDENTIOUS PAN-ARAB NATIONALIST READING OF MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY -- PUSHING THE IDEA THAT ARAB IDENTITY TRUMPS LOCAL IDENTITIES & THAT RESPECT FOR MINORITY ETHNIC & SECTARIAN COMMUNITIES BETRAYS ARABISM

THE NATIONAL DEBATE OVER WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE CONTINUING CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & WHEN TO DO IT:  WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT ISLAMIST TERRORISM & STATE SPONSORS OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM?  WHEN MUST IT BE DONE?  SHOULD DECISIVE & THOROUGHGOING MILITARY ACTION BE TAKEN TO DEFEAT & TOTALLY DESTROY THE ISLAMIST ENEMIES OF ISRAEL & THE WEST?  SHOULD SUCH MILITARY ACTION BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY, OR SHOULD ANOTHER ATTEMPT BE MADE TO APPEASE THE ISLAMISTS & THEREBY DELAY THE INEVITABLE?

THE BUSH DOCTRINE & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  SEEKING & SUPPORTING THE GROWTN OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING TYRANNY IN THE WORLD -- HOW HARD SHOULD THE U.S.A. PUSH CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST?  HOW MUCH EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE POPULAR VOTE & DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?  HOW SLOW OR FAST SHOULD BE THE TRANSFORMATION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY?  SHOULD THE U.S.A BE NEUTRAL IN MIDDLE EASTERN ELECTIONS?  HOW IMPORTANT IS POLITICAL STABILITY?  DO ELECTIONS MODERATE ISLAMISTS?  IS TURKEY A MODEL FOR DEMOCRATIZATION?  AS REGARDS ITS EFFORTS TO DEMOCRATIZE THE MIDDLE EAST, HOW SHOULD THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BE GRADED?

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & ISRAEL'S POLICY OF TARGETED KILLING OF TERRORISTS:   THE VICTORY OF HAMAS IN THE PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS & SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- VINDICATION & RENEWAL OF ISRAEL'S TARGETED ASSASSINATION POLICY -- HIZBOLLAH'S OPENING OF A SECOND FRONT IN THE TERROR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL -- WHY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD SUPPORT THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO ROOT OUT & DESTROY TERRORIST ELEMENTS WHEREVER THEY MAY BE FOUND

WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE LONG & TROUBLED HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & THE IDEA OF DISPATCHING AN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO THE REGION -- THE IMPORTANT LESSON THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL LEARNED, AS REGARDS TRUSTING INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS -- THE SAME LESSON THAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BY NOW -- THE FOLLY OF RELYING ON INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS TO END A WAR IN PROGRESS

IRAN, ARABS, & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WIDER MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT BETWEEN IRAN & THE ARABS -- CRACKS IN THE SOLIDARITY OF POLITICAL ISLAM -- SHIITES VERSUS SUNNIS -- IRAN'S IDEOLOGICAL COMMITMENT TO EXPORTING THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION & SPREADING IT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST -- ARAB LEADERS' PERCEPTION OF HEZBOLLAH AS AN ARM OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE WAGING A SECTARIAN WAR IN THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE EAST

THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN ENDURING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  IS THERE A ROLE FOR DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS?  TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF SUCH TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AS HEZBOLLAH & HAMAS & SEVERE PUNISHMENT OF THEIR STATE SPONSORS MUST PRECEDE DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO ARRANGE A MIDDLE EAST PEACE

STATECRAFT & THE USE OF DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE IN THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:  WHY EFFECTIVE FOREIGN POLICY REQUIRES THAT DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE WITH ADVERSARIES BE CARRIED ON WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AN OVERARCHING STRATEGY -- HOW POORLY TIMED NEGOTIATIONS & MISPLACED CONFIDENCE IN AN ADVERSARY'S SINCERITY CAN HAMPER, RATHER THAN HASTEN, SOLUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS -- THE NEED FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO COME TO GRIPS WITH REALITY IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

THE MIDDLE EAST & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES -- WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE ANNOUNCED U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY TO SEEK & SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS IN EVERY NATION & CULTURE, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING TYRANNY IN THE WORLD?

THE ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY:  ELIMINATE IDEOLOGUES, ISOLATE THEM, OR MARGINALIZE THEM TO THE POINT OF IMPOTENCE -- RAISE THE COST OF TERRORISM BEYOND THE ENDURANCE OF TERRORISTS -- EMPLOY FORCEFUL & DISRUPTIVE MEASURES AGAINST TERRORISTS, TERRORIST GROUPS, & STATES THAT SPONSOR & SUPPORT TERRORISM -- CREATE & MAINTAIN AN EXCEEDINGLY HOSTILE & DESTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR TERRORISM & ITS SUPPORTERS

A HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  THE COLD WAR & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ROLE OF THE KGB IN THE SOVIET UNION'S ENDEAVOR TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN & CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST & USE IT TO UNDERMINE & CONQUER THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HOW & WHY THE KGB'S EFFORTS ENDED LARGELY IN FAILURE -- IN WHAT WAY DID THE EFFORTS SUCCEED?

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  HOW & WHY THE AMERICAN & EUROPEAN APPROACHES TO MIDDLE EAST DEMOCRATIZATION DIFFER -- EVOLVING EUROPEAN UNION POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST --THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY -- THE POSSIBILITY OF CONVERGENCE OF EUROPEAN & AMERICAN POLICY

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS OPERATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE U.S. POLICY OF SUPPORTING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES, PURSUING A STRATEGY AIMED AT REPLACING OPPRESSIVE, AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIMES IN THOSE COUNTRIES WITH STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- CAN SUCH A POLICY & STRATEGY WORK?  CAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF GOVERNING POWER AMONG COMPETING POLITICAL ELITES, & EFFECTIVE GUARANTEE & PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BE BROUGHT TO THE MIDDLE EAST & MADE TO LAST?

ISLAMISM, JIHADISM, & THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM & THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA:  TO WHAT DEGREE HAVE SAUDI SOURCES PROVIDED FUNDING & SUPPORT FOR MILITANT ISLAM & THE TERROR WAR IT IS WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST? TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE SAUDI OFFICIALS REALLY COOPERATED WITH U.S. AGENCIES ENGAGED IN EFFORTS TO ASCERTAIN THE SOURCES OF FUNDING & SUPPORT OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM & THE JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION? THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2005, REPORT OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR & RELATIONS BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  INCREASED SCRUTINY OF U.S.-SAUDI TIES & SAUDI SUPPORT OF ISLAMISM -- ARE U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONS SOLID?  WHO CONTROLS SAUDI ARABIA?  SAUDI FOREIGN POLICY -- HOW HELPFUL IS SAUDI INFLUENCE TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN SAFEGUARDING & PROMOTING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS SYRIAN & IRANIAN INTERFERENCE IN LEBANON, THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, & THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR CHALLENGE?  HOW IMPORTANT IS PETROLEUM TO THE BILATERAL U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONSHIP?

ARAB CULTURE & MILITANT ISLAM: THE ARAB MUSLIM MENTALITY AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST AMERICA, WESTERN CIVILIZATION, & JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CULTURE -- WHAT OUR CENTRAL GOAL MUST BE IN FIGHTING THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM: OUR TOTAL VICTORY -- THE JIHADIST ENEMY'S TOTAL DEFEAT & ANNIHILATION -- COMPLETE ERADICATION OF THE CULTURE THAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR

POLITICS & POLITICAL CULTURE IN THE ARAB WORLD:  THE OBSTACLES THAT MUST BE CONFRONTED & OVERCOME BY REFORM-MINDED ARABS WHO ADVOVATE FOR THEIR COUNTRIES CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, & CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE & PROTECTION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON -- THE STRATEGIES THAT CONSTITUTIONALISTS & DEMOCRATIC REFORMERS IN THE ARAB WORLD HAVE HAD TO CRAFT IN ORDER TO NAVIGATE THE MINEFIELD OF ARAB POLITICAL OPINION & RHETORIC -- ARAB NATIONALISM & ISLAMISM AS OBSTACLES TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

POLITICAL CORRUPTION:  THE REAL THREAT TO POLITICAL REFORM & STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- POLITICAL CORRUPTION AS THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- CORRUPTION AS A WORSENING PROBLEM THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY:  MIDDLE EASTERN SOCIETIES, THEIR POLITICAL HISTORY, THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS, & THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.A. -- AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN SOUTHWEST & CENTRAL ASIA & IN NORTH AFRICA -- IRAQ, IRAN, KURDISTAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, & SOUTH YEMEN

THE RULE OF LAW & ACCOUNTABILITY OF GOVERNMENT OFFICEHOLDERS TO THE PEOPLE THEY GOVERN:  TWO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CONCEPTS THAT ARE SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE ARAB WORLD -- SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RULERS & RULED OCCURRING IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE PATH BEING PAVED FOR THE EVENTUAL ADVENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD

THE MIDDLE EAST & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ & PROSPECTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION -- ENHANCING DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  WHAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD & SHOULD NOT DO

FRANCE, ISLAM, & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY OF FRANCE UNDER THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF JACQUES CHIRAC -- A PATTERN OF EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN RULERS HOSTILE TO INTERNATIONAL NORMS OF BEHAVIOR & IN CONFLICT WITH WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- THE EVOLUTION OF CHIRAC'S PRO-ARAB, PRO-ISLAMIST POLICY & THE MOTIVATIONS DRIVING THAT POLICY -- WHAT WILL BE THE LEGACY OF THE CHIRAC DOCTRINE?

THE MIDDLE EAST & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE BUSH DOCTRINE -- DECLARATION THAT IT IS U.S. POLICY TO SEEK & SUPPORT CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS IN EVERY NATION & CULTURE, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING TYRANNY IN THE WORLD -- DEATH OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE THROUGH INEPTNESS & LACK OF WILL

THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS:  LACK OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, EMPIRICAL RIGOR, & TRUE SCHOLARSHIP IN THE COUNCIL'S EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES THE SITUATION CREATES FOR THE CONDUCT OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY -- AVOIDANCE OF RESEARCH & DEBATE, WISHFUL THINKING, ADHERENCE TO IDEOLOGY, DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA, & PURSUIT OF A POLITICAL AGENDA -- PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES & REPORTS THAT OPPOSE U.S. UNILATERALISM & MILITARY ACTION, CONDEMN THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS DEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM, EXONERATE THE PALESTINIAN ARAB LEADERSHIP OF THEIR SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM, SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT WITH & APPEASEMENT OF REJECTIONIST STATES & LEADERS, & DOWNPLAY THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAM

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY & RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:   CHANGING REALITIES & THE DECLINING STRATEGIC RELEVANCE OF EGYPT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS BEING AT THE ROOT OF THE GROWING TENSION BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- THE CRITICAL QUESTION:  HAVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO NATION-STATES GROWN TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT THEY OVERRULE THE POSSIBILITY OF A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL U.S.-EGYPTIAN BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP CONTINUING INTO THE FUTURE?

KING ADDULLAH II BIN AL HUSSEIN OF JORDAN DESCRIBES HIS CONCERNS ABOUT IRAQ & IRAN, EXPLAINS HIS STRATEGY TO COUNTER RADICAL ISLAM, & OUTLINES HIS HOPES FOR PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE ARABS

THE RENAISSANCE IN RELATIONS BETWEEN LIBYA & THE U.S.A.:  WHAT IMPACT IS THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP HAVING ON THE AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIME OF MU'AMMAR AL-QADHAFI?  IS THE CHANGE FURTHERING TRANSITION FROM TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP & REPRESSION TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM?  THE EVIDENCE INDICATES OTHERWISE

HUME ALEXANDER HORAN:  AMERICAN STATESMAN & SCHOLAR & PERHAPS THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED ARABIC LINGUIST TO SERVE IN THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN SERVICE -- MICHAEL RUBIN'S COMMENTARY & HORAN'S OBSERVATIONS, BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS A FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER & DIPOLOMAT IN THE ARAB WORLD

FREEDOM OF SPEECH:  FREEDOM TO SPEAK ONE'S MIND & FREEDOM TO SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE COMES MOST READILY TO ONE'S LIPS -- FREEDOM SORELY LACKING IN THE MIDDLE EAST

SYRIA, LEBANON, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME, ITS MILITARY OCCUPATION & SUBJUGATION OF LEBANON, & HOW THE SYRIAN REGIME HAS TURNED LEBANON INTO A MAJOR CENTER FOR TRAINING ISLAMIC TERRORISTS & FOR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF THE WAR WHICH THE ISLAMISTS & BAATHISTS ARE WAGING TO INSURE THAT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST REMAINS THE SAME SORRY PLACE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SINCE THE FIRST WORLD WAR & THE COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

SAUDI ARABIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  JUST HOW "FRIENDLY" ARE THE SAUDIS TO THE U.S.A. & THE WEST?

THE LIBYAN POLITICAL REGIME OF MUAMMAR QADDAFI -- STILL A TYRANNICAL & OPPRESSIVE DICTATORSHIP UNDER WHICH THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OR PROTECTION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS:  AMPLE REASON FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER ITS DETERMINATION TO EMBRACE QADDAFI AS AN AMERICAN ALLY IN THE ARAB WORLD

CRITICISM OF WESTERN POLITICS & POPULAR CULTURE EMPLOYED TO EXPLAIN THE PROBLEMS & SHORTCOMINGS OF ARABS, MUSLIMS, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- PROPAGANDA INTENDED TO CONCEAL THE DEFICIENCIES OF MIDDLE EASTERN ISLAMIC CULTURE, OR TO BLAME THEM ON AMERICA & THE WEST:  REINFORCING THE MASS DELLUSIONS & PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS THAT BLIND MIDDLE EASTERNERS TO THEIR FUNDAMENTAL CULTURAL INFERIORITY, ABYSMAL IGNORANCE, UTTER BACKWARDNESS, & VICIOUS BARBARISM

THE ELECTION HELD IN SPAIN ON SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004:  THE SPANISH VOTERS DECIDED TO PUT THE LEFTWING SOCIALISTS IN POWER & TO WITHDRAW FROM THE WAR TO DEFEND WESTERN CIVILIZATION AGAINST THE FORCES OF BARBARISM & ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- SEEKING TO AVOID FURTHER TERROR ATTACKS ON THE PART OF FANATICS DRIVEN BY MILITANT ISLAM & THE ARAB MINDSET

AL-MANAR -- A LEBANON-BASED & IRANIAN-SUPPORTED TELEVISION STATION CONTROLLED BY THE HIZBULLAH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION & FINE-TUNED TO PRESENT A MILITANTLY ISLAMIST WORLDVIEW & PROMOTE AN EXTREMELY VIOLENT & PROFOUNDLY ANTI-WESTERN POLITICAL AGENDA:  THE ORIGINS & DEVELOPMENT OF AL-MANAR, THE NATURE OF ITS MESSAGE, & WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO TO MITIGATE ITS EFFECTS

INJECTING BALANCE, REALISM, & TRUTH INTO THE STUDY, ANALYSIS, & DISCUSSION OF INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS & ISSUES GROWING OUT OF ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS -- DANIEL PIPE'S REVIEW OF THE ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, EFFORTS, & ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM

THE ARABS OF THE MIDDLE EAST:  THEIR IRRATIONAL, BONE-DEEP HATRED OF THE WEST & ITS JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION, THEIR BARBARIC TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST THE WEST & WESTERN INTERESTS, & THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF USING MILITARY POWER TO SUPPRESS THE ARABS' WORST INSTINCTS & THEREBY ENSURE GREATER SAFETY FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES

THE ARABS' BLEAK FUTURE -- THE DECADENCE & DECLINE OF THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST:  FOCUS ON THE COMPENSATIONS OF THE NEXT WORLD WILL DO NOTHING TO ALTER THE ARABS' PREDICAMENT IN THIS WORLD

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 278, November 17, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE DECLINE OF THE ARABS

By Asher Susser

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