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Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a think tank that specializes in the Middle East. She is the author of Saudi Arabia and the Global Terrorist Network (2011).

The failure of the Palestinians to accept any number of offers made to them by their Israeli interlocutors is not because the offers haven’t been generous enough. It is based on an emotion—raw Jew-hatred in the form of classic anti-Semitism.
The lesson: If we do not engage ourselves in smaller wars, America might well find itself dragged into a much larger war.
With the passage of the Taylor Force Act, which aims to deduct payments to Palestinian prisoners and “martyrs,” fissures are finally emerging in the terror organization’s iron wall of deception.
Syria today is one mass killing field atop another, and the air over it is being used by superpowers and those that aspire to be superpowers to play out their hegemonic dreams.
Given the deeply entrenched institutional biases of the United Nations against Israel, we can expect that UNRWA will soon find other donors. But that doesn’t mean that the United States, which had by far been the largest donor nation, has to continuously foot the bill.
Kenneth L. Marcus, who has been nominated to serve as assistant secretary of education for civil rights within the Department of Education, has been the victim of an ugly smear campaign.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the White House on May 3, 2017. Credit: White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
Trump delivers a sorely needed dose of reality therapy
The controversial "Arab World Studies Notebook" that is used by Middle Eastern Studies programs. Credit: Amazon.
Who is finding their way into American students’ minds?
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (right) shakes hands with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri before their bilateral meeting in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 2017. Credit: U.S. State Department.
Three-dimensional chess, Middle East style