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Harold Rhode

Harold Rhode

Harold Rhode served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982 to 2010. He studied at a university in Iran during the early and mid-stages of the Islamic Revolution. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute in New York, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. See his website at: harold-rhode.com.

Leaders of the Islamic Republic do not think or talk like Western nations; to believe that they do is a recipe for disasters, as history recounts.
From Iranian and Sunni Arab perspectives, the U.S. administration is doing everything it can to strengthen the Iranian regime at the expense of Israel, its Arab Sunni allies and finally, the Iranian people.
Sadly, we don’t understand how people in that part of the world think. And more importantly, we seem to not be interested in learning.
The idea that compassion is between man and man, not just God and man, barely exists.
All of the so-called wars since the early 20th century with regional Muslims are battles in Islam’s unending war against the Jews.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has every reason to welcome Sunni Arab immigrants.
In the Middle East, marriage is a way to strengthen alliances and bury the hatchet.
The Palestinian Authority leader’s antisemitism may be his attempt to prove his “loyalty” to the Palestinian cause.
Israel’s surrender to Hezbollah demands over the Karish gas field and failure to respond effectively to Palestinian terror are making Israel look like a “loser” to others in the Middle East.