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JNS: How Muslims understand recent comments by US officials

(September 5, 2021 / JNS) The Western concept of “negotiations” is alien to the Muslim world. Westerners talk, hint at things, exchange...

Jewish Journal: The US must bolster the Iranian people, not their brutal regime

The Iranian government is in a race against time. The riots in the streets of the Islamic Republic are spreading everywhere, most...

Jewish Policy Center: Interfaith Relations in the Quranic Tradition

To understand any potential agreement between Israel and its neighbors, or for that matter between Muslims and non-Muslims, it is...

Jewish Policy Center: (Audio) Turkey’s Erdogan Sees the Middle East through Ottoman Eyes

In photographs with leaders of other NATO countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks like his male peers, beardless and...

Jewish Policy Center: Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict: Another Blow to Iran?

Find the clash in Nagorno-Karabakh obscure and confusing? What are the larger regional implications? In the past, foreign conflicts have...

Jewish Policy Center: Is Central Asia Up for Grabs?

Are China, Russia, and Turkey locked in a battle for control over Central Asia, historic Turkestan? Are there prospects for one – or any...

JNS: How Muslims understand recent comments by US officials

(September 5, 2021 / JNS) The Western concept of “negotiations” is alien to the Muslim world. Westerners talk, hint at things, exchange...

Harold Rhode received a Ph.D. in Ottoman history from Columbia University and served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982-2010. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute in New York and Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.