Middle East Pundit

Both Ayatollah Khatami of Iran and now Hamas’ Ismail Haniyah have said the U.S.’s financial crisis is divine punishment from Allah.
My question to both of them naturally is this - then what does Iran’s and the Palestinian’s economic crisis stem from? Why is the former punishment from Allah and the latter not? […]

Palestinians use Israel’s independence as an opportunity to denounce Israel and the media complies in this false narrative making Israel out to be the bourgeois perpetrator of evil with the Palestinians as helpless victims who had everything taken from them.
The Palestinians have designated this day as “al nakba,” aka, the disaster, which they refer to […]

Everyone’s witnessed the spectacle that goes by the name Jimmy Carter these past few weeks. Perhaps in an attempt to redeem his very public and very disastrous track record in the Middle East during his brief tenure in office, Carter has decided to meet with Hamas and Syria, much to the protest of the […]

The BBC has reported two members of Hamas’ military wing were killed at one of their training facilities in the Gaza Strip, and, true to script, Hamas has blamed Israel for their deaths.
Knowing Hamas, they probably died while trying to put together suicide bombs or some other form of explosive device when they met their […]

Most fair minded inviduals recognize the Palestinian “Right of Return” is an illusion, political posturing, in desperate need of context and completely unrealistic.
Of course, these are not my words alone, but I do agree with them.
Saudi columnist Yousef Nasser Al-Sweidan says the “Right of Return” is a “utopian ideal and a recipe for disaster” and […]