http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/saudi-woman-in-hijab-robs-5-american-banks/print/ The great thing about Hijabs and Burkas and Niqabs and Abayas and Chadors and Jilbabs and the rest of the whole Dr. Seuss meets Islamic Misogyny forms of mobile purdah is that they double as disguises. Which is handy when you’re robbing banks. Ranya al-Huthaili, who was arrested earlier this month on charges of […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/steven-emerson-on-his-face-off-with-jihad-on-the-glazov-gang/
This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by Steven Emerson, the Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
He took us behind the scenes of his battle against our deadly enemy:
http://news.msn.com/world/uneasy-gulf-states-weigh-us-iran-overtures
Uneasy Gulf states weigh US-Iran overtures
The prospect of Iran and the U.S. becoming less than arch foes pushes American-allied Gulf states toward unfamiliar territory as their standing is undermined.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Lost in the blizzard of attention on Iran’s cautious openings to the U.S. was another bit of noteworthy outreach by President Hassan Rouhani: Sending greetings to Saudi Arabia’s king and appealing for more cooperation between the two regional rivals.
Rouhani’s message last week also carried a subtext for Saudi Arabia and the other Western-allied Persian Gulf states. As Iran’s diplomatic profile rises with attempts to recalibrate its dealings with Washington, the Gulf rulers will have to make adjustments, too.
That’s not such an easy thing for the monarchs and sheiks to swallow.
Leaders such as Saudi King Abdullah are accustomed to having Washington’s undivided focus and a prominent voice in shaping policies over Iran, which Gulf officials routinely denounce for allegedly trying to undermine their rule through suspected proxies and spies.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Into-the-fray-Like-a-man-in-a-bucket-cont-327203
Unless the Right can devise a methodology and mechanisms to determine the political agenda in Israel, it will continue to be determined by the Left – irrespective of electoral outcomes.
Israel has vacated the battlefield of ideas…Israel has made itself defenseless.
– Melanie Philips
The Left will be easy to defeat in the battle of ideas if we can make a level playing field.
– Jay Abouaf, in a Facebook talkback to my previous column
As readers will recall, I devoted my last two columns to a discussion of why much of right-wing philanthropy has been misdirected, in the sense that if it was intended to determine political realities, reflecting the predilections of the benefactors, it has been spectacularly ineffective.
For in the past two decades, the hard Left has managed to convert what was up until the early 1990s a completely marginalized – indeed, borderline treasonous – political doctrine into a respectable, arguably majority mainstream position.
Breathtaking metamorphosis
This is clearly a political metamorphosis of breathtaking proportions, made even more remarkable since it cannot be attributed to an electoral failure of allegedly right-wing parties, or to widespread and sustained public pressure.
Accordingly, right-wing Zionist philanthropists wishing to arrest and reverse its detrimental consequences must have a clear understanding of its origins and mechanisms of development if they are to have any chance of success.
In my previous columns, I described how political realities in Israel are determined: From their positions of unelected power and prestige, a numerically small group of left-leaning civil-society elites is able to control the political discourse in the country.
