Daniel Pipes

The author is president of the Middle East Forum.

 THEN-FOREIGN MINISTER Shimon Peres and then-PA head Yasser Arafat clasp hands at a Euro-Mediterranean meeting, in Majorca, Spain, in 2001. Peres envisioned a Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli economic arrangement, the writer notes.

Israel must give up managing the conflict and choose winning it - opinion

 PROTESTS IN support of Palestinians in Gaza near Israel’s embassy in Amman, Jordan, earlier this week. Rejectionism’s persistence convinces some of its truth, explains the writer, adding that ‘White-hot fury and willingness to suffer imply a morally justified cause.’

The uniqueness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

Members of Hamas ride on a truck as they display a rocket during an anti-Israel rally in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 28, 2021

Israel or Hamas: Who won?


What does 'victory' really mean to the Israel Defense Forces - Opinion

Momentum rightly aims to win on the battlefield, not coerce the enemy to give its long-term goals; that is the province of politicians.

IDF SOLDIERS from the 669 Unit during a training exercise last year.

Is the Israel Victory Project still needed?

The role of Israel Victory offers the only path to end Palestinian rejectionism.

EFRAT. IS it time to annex this Gush Etzion community?

Israeli Arabs say no to Palestine

"If the prospect of a border move becomes real, Israeli Arabs can and will exercise their right as citizens of Israel to remove themselves from the Triangle"

THE ARAB-ISRAELI city of Umm al-Fahm in the foreground and Wadi Ara in the background.

Will Arab anti-Zionism revive?

The old wall of Arab anti-Zionism has fractured, but lingering hostility against Israel could explode anew.

Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1941

The Middle East in flux: Eight trends

Anarchy replaces tyranny: of course, some tyrannies remain, notably in Turkey and Iran.

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan kisses the forehead of Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia May 30, 2019

Israelis find the security establishment ‘too timid’

So pervasive was the spirit of accommodation, even defeatism, that as late as 2007 the prime minister of Israel could declare that “peace is achieved through concessions. We all know that.”

IDF soldiers patrol in the West Bank

Making sense of Palestinian logic

Therefore, the Palestinians play a game of chicken, disturbing the quiet in return for an Israeli payoff.

ron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel Ashkelon

The Middle East Forum at 25: Failure and success

I pessimistically expect the Middle East in 25 years to remain a great source of problems, but optimistically foresee the Forum ever-more effectively promoting American interests.

 Former Israeli president Shimon Peres (R) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea May 22, 2015

German and Austrian media on the attack

Thus did Austrian and German media seek to imply a Canadian organization learning about immigration and Islamization problems in four countries were like neo-Nazis clandestinely paying homage to Adolf Hitler.

PROTESTERS HOLD signs reading ‘Don’t let Nazis govern’ during a demonstration against the far-right Freedom Party in Vienna

Hungary: Not 'submitting to Islam'

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is welcomed to Jerusalem by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 19