Tag Archives: Jordan

Nuclear Dreams: Iran Now Controls Four Arab Capitals, Plus Washington, D.C.

Posted on February 7, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG by Lee Smith February 5, 2015 What the burning of a Jordanian pilot reveals about Obama’s flawed Middle East game…The point of burning alive Jordanian pilot First Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh was to outrage onlookers, including his family—but especially … Continue reading →

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The Peters Principle on the Middle East Conflict

Posted on January 10, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

Joan Peters Caro, author of From Time Immemorial, died earlier this week AMERICAN THINKER by Michael Curtis January 9, 2015 …..The main theses of [Joan] Peters’s book need to be reiterated as a healthy corrective to the fallacious Palestinian Narrative … Continue reading →

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The giant stone circles in the Middle East no one can explain

Posted on November 3, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST by Terrence McCoy November 3, 2014 In the 1920s, a mustachioed British commander named Lionel Rees set out across the deserts of what would become Jordan. Snapping some of the earliest archaeological aerial photographs, he observed numerous immense, … Continue reading →

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Israel to supply up to $15bn of natural gas to Jordan

Posted on September 3, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

FINANCIAL TIMES by John Reed September 3, 2014 Israel is to supply up to $15bn of natural gas from its Leviathan field over 15 years to Jordan, easing an energy crunch in the kingdom and marking the biggest such bilateral … Continue reading →

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The New Middle East War

Posted on July 7, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

MOSAIC by Michael Doran July 2, 2014 A single conflict now stretches from Baghdad to Beirut. How many sides are there—and whose side is the U.S. on? The new war is, in brief, a struggle over the regional order. In the … Continue reading →

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Truck by truck, Israel builds trade gateway to Arab world

Posted on July 6, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS by Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen July 1, 2014 The hydraulic ramp of a Turkish freighter taps down on the eastern Mediterranean port of Haifa and, under a full moon, 37 trucks roll off onto an otherwise empty pier. … Continue reading →

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Next Goal for ISIS : Jordan. And Then?

Posted on June 29, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS by Dr. Mordechai Kedar June 26, 2014 Israel is going to face a tough choice if and when ISIS tries to take over Jordan. And the countdown has begun…A clear and razor-sharp choice will then  face Israel … Continue reading →

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Could Jordan Fall?

Posted on June 16, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY by Michael Rubin June 16, 2014 I spoke about the situation in Iraq Saturday morning on C-Span’s Washington Journal. Many callers expressed skepticism at any American involvement in Iraq, arguing simply that no American interests are at stake. I respectfully … Continue reading →

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ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, ‘Slaughter’ King Abdullah

Posted on June 12, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE INSTITUTE by Khaled Abu Toameh June 12, 2014 Islamist terrorists in Iraq and Syria have begun creeping toward neighboring countries, sources close to the Islamic fundamentalists revealed this week. The terrorists, who belong to The Islamic State of Iraq … Continue reading →

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