The Syria Cease-Fire Poses a Threat to Israel
Can Russia be trusted to restrain Iran?
July 18, 2017
How the Modernization of the Middle East Went Terribly Wrong
Unmoored from tradition, while embracing the worst of the West.
Reminiscing about life as a journalist in Tehran in the 1970s, Amir Taheri recalls the advice of the numerous foreign intellectuals who visited the once-cosmopolitan city, which could be summed in one word: “modernize!” The Middle East has by no means failed to modernize; however, Taheri argues, it has done so in all the wrong ways:
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How the Modernization of the Middle East Went Terribly Wrong
Unmoored from tradition, while embracing the worst of the West.
Why Palestinians Oppose Metal Detectors on the Temple Mount
The B.S. detectors.
The Future of Jewish Education in the Age of Relativism
Revisiting Eliezer Berkovits’s classic essay.
Are There “Democratic” and “Republican” Books of the Bible?
About Marco Rubio’s Twitter Bible-lessons.