Middle East Forum

The Ayatollah's assassination: Mossad's missed chance to stop Iran's Islamic revolution

INTEL AFFAIRS: The Mossad’s fateful refusal to eliminate Ayatollah Khomeini is a misjudgment with reprecrussions still felt today.

Here, Khomeini gives a speech as journalists surround him at Roissy Airport near Paris on January 31, 1979, before boarding an Air France ‘Jumbo Jet’ bound to Tehran.
 British-Iranian journalist and human rights activist, Vahid Beheshti sits outside Britain's Foreign Office in London, Britain April 10, 2023.

'We are ready': Iranian people send message of support to Israel

 Delegates pose for a family photo during an international conference on migration in Rome, Italy July 23, 2023.

Italy hosts major migration conference with Middle East states - analysis

 Representatives of the UAE, US, Israel, Bahrain Morocco and Egypt at the Steering Committee of the Negev Forum, June 27, 2022.

US, Israel and Arab nations to meet in UAE for three-day parley


Tel Aviv Mayor, Ron Huldai, reprimanded by Supreme Court

Justice Alex Stein wrote that Huldai "must refrain from exercising executive power in a manner that purports to dictate values and instill in citizens his personal ideology."

billboards before they were torn down

Giant chicken protests Hamas terror next to army HQ in Tel Aviv

The chicken appears in protest against recurring violence on the Gaza border, including rocket attacks and an infiltration attempt.

IVP protest chicken in front of the Kirya in Tel Aviv, Aug. 19, 2019

Daniel Pipes and the Israel Victory Project

The only way for the conflict to be resolved is for one side to give up.

Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum

The Middle East Forum at 25: Failure and success

I pessimistically expect the Middle East in 25 years to remain a great source of problems, but optimistically foresee the Forum ever-more effectively promoting American interests.

 Former Israeli president Shimon Peres (R) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea May 22, 2015

Qatar’s Doha Forum gives Iran a platform in post-ISIS Middle East

A variety of voices from the far-right to left met in Qatar, as the Middle East is increasingly divided.

US journalist Robin Wright (L) speaks while seated with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, during a session of the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital on December 15, 2018.

Victory begins at home

The Israel Victory Project’s new approach to the decades-old Israel Palestinian conflict has garnered support both in Israel and the US; on July 4, its ideas will be presented to the public.

CONGRESSMAN BILL JOHNSON, one of the co- chairs of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus,  signs the joint declaration with Knesset Israel Victory Caucus co-chairs MKs Oded Forer and Avraham Neguise, and Prof. Daniel Pipes (in the background), at a joint meeting of the CIVC and the KIVC in Congres

Victory begins at home

The Israel Victory Project’s new approach to the decades-old Israel Palestinian conflict has garnered support both in Israel and the US.

CONGRESSMAN BILL JOHNSON, one of the co- chairs of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus,  signs the joint declaration with Knesset Israel  Victory Caucus co-chairs MKs Oded Forer and  Avraham Neguise, and Prof. Daniel Pipes (in the  background), at a joint meeting of the CIVC and  the KIVC in Con

US think tank to launch 1 million NIS fund for Israeli victory

At a Middle East Forum event, experts explain that a new approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is needed.

A panel of experts speak at the Middle East Forum's event at the Begin Center, July 2017