http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/19/west-bank-anachronism-palestinian-statehood A West Bank anachronismThe PLO goal of statehood has lost its glitter as a new national mood transforms the Palestinian struggle AHMED SAMI KHALIDIThe writer is a senior associate member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a former Palestinian negotiator. This shift is premised on forging a new common identity and common national goal […]
The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’ by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.meforum.org/2878/iraq-christians-persecution Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.” Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant. While last October’s Baghdad church attack which killed some […]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-04-19-al-qaeda-magazines.htm Al-Qaeda using magazines to spread message By Mona Alami, Special for USA TODAY The cover of Al-Shamikha magazine promotes such stories as an “Interview with a Jihadi Wife” and “Facing Destruction: Steps to Alleviate your Pain and Ways to Reach a Cleaner and Better Path.” BEIRUT — Leafing through Inspire magazine, one finds glossy, […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-758101,00.html A Former Judge Takes on Erdogan’s Heavy Hand By Daniel Steinvorth “But in light of an impending “dictatorship of the Erdogan clique,” says Tarhan, she wants to campaign for a different and more modern Turkey. “In this country, religious leaders are now declaring women who have been raped to be partially culpable, because they […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/ It would be an act of mercy for the planet, were Jimmy Carter to hang up his carry-on bag and devote the rest of his days to annotating his post-presidential grocery lists, or maybe sign up for Dancing With the Stars — anything where he might at least do no more harm. Instead, in […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/cair%e2%80%99s-strong-arm-tactics-in-the-cradle-of-liberty/ CAIR’s Strong-Arm Tactics in the Cradle of Liberty HILLEL ZAREMBA The latest victim of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is a Philadelphia-based libertarian writer who fears for his life. Aaron Proctor, a Philadelphia-based libertarian writer, can count himself the latest victim of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR [1]), an organization that ironically claims […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265167 At this point, there’s at least one thing you can’t blame Donald Trump for: being Donald Trump. Like the scorpion in Aesop’s fables that must sting the frog because that’s simply what scorpions do, the world-renowned, self-promoting billionaire clown must tout himself with passion and narcissistic self-regard. It was only a matter of time, […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265023 Rubio’s Foreign Policy A tea-party candidate tackles global issues. Sen. Marco Rubio sailed into office on the tea-party wave, wagging his finger at the Obama administration’s fiscal mischief. But in the Senate, foreign policy has become his passion. Rubio, in an interview with National Review Online, says that the late senator Jesse Helms, the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/20/efraim-karsh-set-to-take-over-for-daniel-pipes/ Efraim Karsh Set to Take Over for Daniel Pipes Posted By Seth Mandel PIPES HAS BEEN UP FRONT AND CENTER IN DENOUNCING THE TWO STATE SOLUTION AND STANDING UP FOR ISRAEL….WELCOME EFRAIM KARSH AND GRATITUDE TO DANIEL PIPES…..RSK After 17 years of leading the Mideast-focused think tank he founded, Daniel Pipes will be stepping […]
Fogel Family Killers Caught Posted By P. David Hornik http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/20/fogel-family-killers-caught/print/ Last March 12, Israelis learned that, the night before, terrorists had broken into a home in the West Bank community of Itamar and murdered five members of the Fogel family—the parents, 11- and 4-year-old boys, and a 3-month-old girl. Sunday, the eve of Passover, brought […]
