Daniel Pipes

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  Jul 16, 2015

  How Israel Might Destroy Iran's Nuclear Program

  The Vienna deal has been signed and likely will soon be ratified, which raises the question: Will any government intervene militarily to stop the nearly inevitable Iranian nuclear buildup?

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  Apr 8, 2015

  Decoding the Obama Doctrine of Warming Relations with Adversaries and Cooling Them with Friends

  But there also is a grand idea and it calls for explanation. As a man of the left, Obama sees the United States historically having exerted a malign influence on the outside world.

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  Mar 31, 2015

  Why Yemen Matters to the U.S. and the Middle East

  The Middle East witnessed something radically new two days ago, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia responded to a plea by Yemen's president and led a 10-country coalition to intervene in the air and on the ground in the country.

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  Mar 25, 2015

  Islam Bulldozes the Past

  The recent bulldozing by the Islamic State (ISIS) of the ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra, and Korsabad, three of the world's greatest archaeological and cultural sites is just this group's latest round of assaults across the large area under its control.

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  Mar 2, 2015

  Syria's Civil War Could Stabilize Its Region

  Population shifts resulting from Syria's four-year long civil war have profoundly changed Syria and its three Arabic-speaking neighbors: Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan.

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  Jan 20, 2015

  Is Sisi Islam's Long-Awaited Reformer?

  In a widely praised January 1 speech, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited Al-Azhar University to address the country's religious leadership, saying the time had come to reform Islam.

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  Jan 2, 2015

  How to Travel Like a CIA Spy

  I unreservedly condemn Edward Snowden's massive release of important U.S. government secrets. Once they're out, though, it makes no sense to ignore the information now available.

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  Dec 12, 2014

  Arab Prince Denounces Islamism

  In a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the crown prince of Bahrain, candidly analyzed the Islamist enemy and suggested important ways to fight it.

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  Dec 1, 2014

  Is CAIR a Terror Group?

  We who follow the Islamist movement fell off our collective chair on Nov. 15 when the news came that the United Arab Emirates' ministerial cabinet had listed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as one of 83 proscribed terrorist organizations, up there with the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS.

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  Nov 17, 2014

  A Quiet Clash at the Swedish Foreign Ministry

  I offer a summary and paraphrase of my discussion held with two senior members of the permanent bureaucracy in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a recent visit to Stockholm. Our affable but pointed discussion focused on the Middle East, on which we agreed on almost nothing; I might as well have been in Sudan or Syria's MFA.