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FROM the get-go, let’s be inordinately clear: on the domestic front, President Trump has done more to make America great again than any other POTUS – aside from Reagan, warts and all. ON the other hand, his foreign policy has been all over the place – a mishmash of counter-intuitive and so-called “strategic” decision-making. In particular, relative to the hotter than hot Middle East – a region which is always a hair-trigger away from the next mega explosion – he is way out of his depth. AS such, a backgrounder to the charges at hand require certain truths to be...

The Muslim Brotherhood President The State Department announced Wednesday that it was cutting hundreds of millions in military and other aid to Egypt, and make no mistake: this was not a government shutdown move. This was the President of the United States blackmailing a sovereign state to force it to restore the Muslim Brotherhood government he favors. With the Egyptian economy in crisis and Egypt strongly dependent on this aid, Obama has just effectively cast his vote for the Muslim Brotherhood's return to power and his vote outweighs that of millions of Egyptians. This comes as the Brotherhood is becoming...

What if Gaza were to conquer Egypt? The possibility is not as remote as it may seem just by glancing at the map. Egypt has more than 50 times the population of its former colony and 2,800 times the landmass. But Gaza is sovereign Hamas territory, Hamas is the Palestinian branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and Egypt -- not Israel -- is the country that has most to fear from a statelet that is at once the toehold, sanctuary and springboard of an Islamist revolution. No wonder liberal Egyptians are reacting with near-hysterical alarm to last Wednesday's demolition of the...

A Jerusalem source confirmed an exclusive report in Ha'aretz on Monday that Damascus has allowed some 150-200 Qaida operatives to settle in the Palestinian refugee camp Ein Hilwe near Sidon in Lebanon. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told the Associated Press that the information had come from Israeli and Western intelligence sources. According to the report, by Ha'aretz Defense Correspondent Ze'ev Schiff in Monday's print edition, the group, including senior commanders, arrived from Afghanistan through Damascus, Iran and directly to Lebanon. These Qaida operatives are responsible, among other things, for the latest outbreak of fighting inside the refugee...