Copyright 2013 Daniel Pipes Fri, 17 May 2013 22:15:08 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Daniel Pipes :: Writings http://www.danielpipes.org daniel.pipes@gmail.com (Daniel Pipes) webmaster@danielpipes.org en-us http://www.danielpipes.org/12847/islam-vs-islamism Mon, 13 May 2013 09:02:52 EST What motives lay behind last month's Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a VIA Rail Canada train? Leftists and establishmentarians variously offer imprecise and tired replies – such as "violent extremism" or anger at Western imperialism – http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/05/support-the-syrian-rebels Sat, 11 May 2013 23:54:39 EST A Washington Post article today, "Assad forces gaining ground in Syria" by Liz Sly, argues that recent events suggest that the Assad regime is not just surviving but has gone on the offensive. Drawing on local analysts, she finds that in the civil war, http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/04/lessons-from-the-fbi-most-wanted-terrorist-list Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:14:48 EST The Federal Bureau of Investigation's list of "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives dates back to 1950 but the list of "Most Wanted Terrorists" dates back to just after 9/11 and a sense that terrorism had become a strategic threat. Today, the list includes 31 http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/04/viscount-samuel-meet-secretary-hagel Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:26:00 EST Emerging from intense controversy, the British politician Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) was appointed the first High Commissioner of Palestine, where he served 1920-25. A Jew and an influential Zionist, Samuel bent over backwards not to favor the Yishuv, to http://www.danielpipes.org/12781/boston-terrorism Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:52:08 EST What will be the long-term impact of the Apr. 15-19 Boston Marathon attack and the ensuing action-movie-style chase, killing a total of four and wounding 265? Let's start with what its impact will not be. It will not bring American opinion together; if http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/04/boston-bombing-lesson-ban-niqabs-and-burqas Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:29:10 EST The Tsarnaev brothers pulled off their terrorist attack with great skill but made a fatal mistake in letting their faces and bodies be seen at a heavily photographed international sporting event. This meant that multiple images of them were available for http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/04/us-fears-syria-rebel-victory-for-now Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:51:01 EST The commentariat universally rejected my Apr. 11 column arguing that Western governments should "Support Assad" on the grounds that he is losing and we don't want the Islamist rebels to win in Syria but prefer a stalemate. An Arabic website in France http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/04/140000-canisters-of-us-teargas-to-egypt-morsi Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:51:23 EST The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard http://www.danielpipes.org/12724/support-assad Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:11:40 EST Analysts agree that "the erosion of the Syrian regime's capabilities is accelerating," that it step-by-step continues to retreat, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my policy recommendation http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/04/mainstream-jewish-institutions-celebrate-anti Mon, 8 Apr 2013 00:26:04 EST Major Jewish institutions show a marked propensity to promote and celebrate the enemies of Israel and even antisemites. Here are some examples, working backwards chronologically:Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University: Plans to give its International http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/03/on-second-thought-maybe-that-israeli-apology-to Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:25:49 EST I was appalled to learn a week ago that the Israeli prime minister had apologized to his Turkish counterpart for his government's actions during the Mavi Marmara incident, seeing this as feeding the Turkish government's inflated sense of grandeur and http://www.danielpipes.org/12666/obama-to-palestinians-accept-the-jewish-state Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:50:45 EST One key shift in U.S. policy was overlooked in the barrage of news about Barack Obama's eventful fifty-hour visit to Israel last week. That would be the demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, called by Hamas leader Salah Bardawil http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/03/an-israeli-apology-to-turkey Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:00:06 EST On Feb. 27, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a conference in Vienna, "Just like Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, Islamophobia must be regarded as a crime against humanity." His calling the Jewish nationalist movement that built the State of Israel a "crime http://www.danielpipes.org/12645/obama-israel-fixation Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:42:54 EST Why does Barack Obama focus so much on Israel and its struggle with the Arabs? It's not just that he's spending days in Israel this week, but his disproportionate four-year search to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. His first full day as president in http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/03/reflections-on-the-invasion-of-iraq Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:29:13 EST How does one understand the U.S.-led expeditionary force that attacked Iraq exactly a decade ago, on March 18, 2003? Saddam Hussein's regime was one of the most monstrous in human history, enslaving some 20 million people to his cruel and demanding will