Middle East Forum

Golda Meir went to Amman in disguise in May 1948. King Hussein warned Israel of war in 1973. Sadat's envoy met Dayan in Rabat in 1977. Middle East Insider 068 from @greggroman on eighty years of quiet channels that kept the region from worse.

Israel has struck its enemies in seven arenas. It has not yet won in their minds. Meir Ben-Shabbat's new MEF paper on how the war ends, and what @JNS_org, @ArutzSheva_En and @worldisraelnews are saying about it.

Two carrier groups in the Arabian Sea, a third on the way, U.S. families ordered out of Saudi Arabia, and Tehran's answer: not a single gram of enriched uranium leaves Iran. In Middle East Insider 067, @greggroman: the regime is digging in.

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Rep. Mary Miller joins Rep. Chip Roy's call for an HHS investigation of @CAIRNational and other grantees. The House letter rests on MEF's Hidden Handouts report by @benjibaird, which traced $79 million in HHS funds to 14 Islamist groups. x.com/RepMaryMiller/…

Salah Al-Sawy, secretary-general of @AMJAonline and head of a Houston Islamic center, calls jihad "the peak of Islam" in Arabic fatwas, brands Jews in Israel "usurpers" and affirms stoning for adultery. @dextervanzile reads the rulings for @FWIslamism.

Federal records list the Islamic Center of Detroit for about $45 million since 2017, $31 million of it in one school lunch subaward. In Middle East Insider 066, @greggroman: the Forum will now examine every federal grant to groups with a history of extremism.

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@ArutzSheva_En Read Meir Ben-Shabbat's full paper, Shattering the Palestinians' Hope of Defeating Israel: meforum.org/mef-reports/sh…

In @ArutzSheva_En, Jerry McGlothlin reviews Meir Ben-Shabbat's MEF policy paper on ending the war: "The paper's real value is that it defines victory." He calls its case against Palestinian elections now the strongest section. israelnationalnews.com/news/434940

Germany's far-left @dieLinke topped Berlin's state election with 25.7%. Its victory party drew clan boss Issa Remmo and a representative of a group Berlin's intelligence office calls a Hamas-PFLP platform. Collin McMahon for @FWIslamism.

Michigan's Democratic Senate primary was decided by 13,792 votes after a summer of politicking by at least seven mosques. @emahyar on why the IRS, which almost never revokes tax status, appears to give Islamist groups a pass.

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@greggroman @TIME Read Gregg Roman's dated forecasts on renewed U.S. and Israeli strikes in MEF Insider: mefinsider.meforum.org/p/special-edit…

MEF Exec Dir @greggroman cited by @TIME on reported U.S.-Israeli plans to strike Iran after the midterms. On Israel's election: a strike "ordered in the last weeks of a deadlocked campaign would be judged in Israel as politics as well as strategy." time.com/article/2026/1…

MEF Chief Strategist @jimhansondc on Piers Morgan Uncensored with @piersmorgan: "Iran is no longer the hegemon with their axis of resistance and all of their proxies pushing things their direction. All of their proxies are more or less destroyed."

ציר גרעיני ישראלי־טייוואני: ההיגיון האסטרטגי מדינות קטנות הניצבות מול איומים קיומיים על ביטחונן אינן יכולות להרשות לעצמן להפקיד את ההרתעה שלהן בידי אחרים Jose Lev Alvarez

الحرب تنتهي بهزيمة الفلسطينيين أي تسوية تقوم على ما هو أقل من قبول فلسطيني حقيقي بدوام إسرائيل لن تصمد. Meir Ben-Shabbat