Meyrav Wurmser is a Middle East policy analyst and scholar who co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). She contributed articles to The Weekly Standard covering Middle Eastern politics, democracy promotion, and post-invasion Iraq. She has also been affiliated with the Hudson Institute and has written extensively on Arab political reform and Israeli affairs.
As violence persists in Lebanon and escalates to civil war in Gaza, it would be foolish to minimize the turmoil as merely more of the same. The events in Lebanon and Gaza, though separated by a few hundred miles, are closely related. They were ignited from the same source--Syria, and by extension…
The Case for Democracy
IRAQ'S RECONSTRUCTION poses challenges to American policymakers not seen since World War II. Hardest of all is the reshaping of Iraq's political culture--that is, replacing the Baath party cult of enslavement and hate with liberal-democratic ideas. Iraqis have been fed Baathist ideology for 34…
SHORTLY AFTER KOSOVO leapt into the headlines worldwide and war crimes became the international subject of the hour, the Palestine Liberation Organization, ever quick to exploit political trends, set about likening Israel to Serbia. Spokesmen for the Palestinian cause demanded that the…