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THE Western confrontation with fundamentalist Islam has in some ways come to resemble the great ideological battle of the twentieth century, that between Marxism--Leninism and liberal democracy. Not only do [...]

Muslimphobia is growing in the West, fueled more by an influx of brown-skinned taxidrivers and factory workers than by Saddam Hussein. How frightened should we be? RICHARD CONDON, author of [...]

Can Israel and her neighbors get off the treadmill of attack and counterattack? A leading Israeli, experienced in both war and diplomacy, argues that the end of the cold war [...]

With trumpets and drum rolls, the White House has released a new policy paper on methods to prevent terrorism, a study said to have been two years in the making. [...]

Palestine Betrayed, by Efraim Karsh (Yale, 336 pp., $32.50) Nakba, the Arabic word for 'catastrophe,' has entered the English language in reference to the Arab-Israeli conflict. As defined by the [...]

Don't look for the bizarre impact of Iran and Iraq on American policy to lessen in days to come. FOR 12 YEARS, two distant, medium-sized, and hitherto not very important [...]

'Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist,' said socialist Hugo Chavez during a visit to Tehran last November, celebrating his alliance with Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Che Guevara's [...]

'Make no mistake: The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts.' So spoke President Bush in his address to the nation soon after the [...]

Mohamad Youssef Hammoud, an 18-year-old Shiite Muslim from Lebanon, arrived at New York's Kennedy Airport on June 6, 1992. He had come, accompanied by two close male relatives, from Caracas, [...]

AN odd controversy briefly dominated the sports pages in March 1996. A player in the National Basketball Association, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, refused to follow the league's rule requiring that players stand [...]

THERE is a whole genre of books on the Middle East written by journalists and full of unsubstantiated claims about military activities, intelligence work, and terrorism-subjects where confidentiality looms large. [...]

The article discusses the reemergence of the divisions of the Cold War due to the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism in 1994. It contends that what prompted the U.S. to formulate a policy toward Islamic fundamentalism despite the nature of Islam as faith is because of its fundamentalism which makes it a form of political ideology. It discusses the responsibility of Western nations for preventing the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. It criticizes the tendency to blame the U.S. for the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

The article discusses concerns that provisions of a policy paper signed by U.S. President Barack Obama which details methods to prevent terrorism raises. The author argues that the paper mishandles three important problems, the threat of the ideological movement Islamism, ways to identify terrorists, and responses to potential threats. According to the article it is necessary to remove Leftists and multiculturalists from the government in order to create an effective counterterrorism policy.

This article focuses on the role of Islamism in politics. The article explains the connection between Islamists with Marxists and the radical left wing. The author believes that the alliance between theses political entities threatens the Western world. Topics include Islamic and Marxist political philosophies.

The article examines the beliefs and opinions of Muslim converts in the U.S. Some Muslim converts in the U.S. hate their own country. One example of this is the adoption of an intensely anti-U.S.. attitude by boxer Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay, after his conversion to a form of Islam and his refusal to serve in the U.S. military. African Americans are likely to convert to Islam than white people. The attitude of a convert toward the U.S. is influenced by the form of Islam he adopts. Famous Muslim converts who have a positive view of the country include basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and boxer Mike Tyson.

Focuses on the Arab-Israeli relations. General Tamir's combining of faulty history with erroneous assumptions about Arab willingness to make peace; Five principles for a peace settlement that defy logic or common sense; Political weakness of Israel's Labor Party.

This article offers observations on the importance of defining the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States as acts of war, not as crimes. U.S. President George W. Bush vowed to hunt down and punish those responsible for the terrorist attacks, in his address to the nation soon after the catastrophic events of September 11. It implies that the U.S. government view the plane crashes as criminal deeds rather than what they truly are, the acts of war. They are part of a campaign of terrorism that began in a sustained way with the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut in 1983. Occurring with almost predictable regularity, assaults on Americans have included explosions on airliners, at commercial buildings, and at a variety of U.S. governmental installations.

Several letters to the editor in response to the articles in previous issues including "The Wasteland," by Neal B. Freeman in the October 7, 1991 issue, "The Marble Man," by Doug Bandow in the October 21, 1991 issue and full-page advertisement saluting the 1991 winners of the annual achievement awards in the September 23, 1991 issue are presented.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics from previous issues. Reader response to Keith Mano's May 14 column on legalizing marijuana; Criticism of Patricia Durbin Hotz's Biblical approach to animal rights; Mention of Spencer Warren's review of John Keegan's "The Second World War" and discussion of a parallel between World War II and the U.S. Civil War in regard to Soviet and Confederate losses to desertion; An author's reply to an Aram Bakshian Jr. review of his book "The Rushdie Affair"; The editor's note that the publisher of "The Rushdie Affair" is Birch Lane Press.