The Gatestone Institute

1. Hamas's Secret Weapon to Continue Ruling Gaza

   Is Hamas preparing to contest the Palestinian parliamentary election scheduled for late November? If so, the United States and its European allies need to make one thing clear immediately: Hamas must not be allowed to participate. After October 7, Hamas

2. The Dangerous Neo-Ottomans and the Great Bat Ye'or: A Conversation with Alexandre del Valle, Part II

   An empire always seeks to expand its influence. From this perspective, [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan sees the Muslim communities of Europe as a natural extension of Turkish power, not just the Muslims of Cyprus, Greece, the Balkans, Bulgaria,

3. The Dictatorship of Virtue

   Certain opinions are no longer treated as debatable; they are treated as evidence of bigotry or harm. Institutions that once managed disagreement now police belief, and dissent is answered not with argument but with consequences a person can feel: a lost

4. The Arab-Islamic Formula for 'Peace': Ignore Hamas, Blame Israel

   The foreign ministers of Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt accused Israel of "violating" international law and undermining efforts to implement the Board of Peace's recently published "Roadmap

5. Making Policy: Marxist Rainbows and Mob Shock Troops

   Ever since the time of Karl Marx, communists and their socialist brethren assumed that the envy of financial success would attract the proletariat to carry out a workers' revolution in the rich countries of the West. It turned out, however, that even the