Has the real Mansour Abbas stepped forward?
Only Palestinians and Westerners haven’t been disillusioned.
A lesson from southeast Asia.
The recent coup didn’t kill democracy—just acknowledged its death.
The long march through progressive institutions.
A rejection of theocratic totalitarianism?
And the Chinese connection.
So long as Qatari support for radical Islam continues, the underlying problem remains unsolved.
Religious conservatism isn’t a national-security issue, but Hamas and Hizballah are.
The powers at the center of the Muslim world are refusing to tolerate radical Islamism, and a spirit of repair and renewal is at hand. Will it catch on?
A beheading puts matters in stark relief.
The anti-Israel cause is losing its power over the Arab world.
Arabs are finally concluding that they need to move past the toxic legacies of Arab nationalism and Islamism—which means moving past the mythology of Palestine too.
Stifling criticism in the name of tolerance.