Israelis Increasingly Resigned to Life without Peace By Juliane von Mittelstaedt http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,765960,00.html There was a time when Israel was anxious to strike a peace deal with the Palestinians. Now, however, the majority of the country’s population seems to have given up hope. While young Arabs are rebelling against autocratic regimes in the region, apathy is spreading in […]
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/02/hamas-and-fatah-different-tactics-same-jihad/ Hamas and Fatah: Different Tactics, Same Jihad By Robert Spencer George Wallace famously said long ago that there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the Republican and Democratic parties, and that is even more true of Fatah and Hamas. Now that Hamas and Fatah have signed a reconciliation agreement, the […]
Romney’s Second Primary Act Revisiting Mitt. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/268616 When Mitt Romney ran for the Republican nomination in 2008, many voters got their first look at the former governor through the eyes of radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt, an early supporter, who wrote a book entitled A Mormon in the White House? 10 Things Every American Should […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/06/01/breaking-somali-suicide-bomber-was-from-minneapolis/?singlepage=true BREAKING: Somali suicide bomber was from Minneapolis Abdirahman Warsame at Terror Free Somalia informed us late last night that messages appearing on known al-Shabaab websites indicate that a suicide bomber who carried out on attack on AMISOM forces in Mogadishu on Monday was a Somali-American from the Minneapolis area. A twenty-two minute audio was […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/a-eulogy-for-my-father-siamak-pourzand/ My father, Siamak Pourzand, committed suicide on Friday, April 29: he leaped from the 6th floor balcony of his modest and solitary apartment in Tehran as a final stand against an Iranian regime that did everything to break his spirit. No one in our family thinks of it as suicide so much as a […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/dr_krauthammer_and_gov_palin.html FUNNY BUT THE ONE THING I DO AGREE WITH DR. KRAUTHAMMER IS HIS STATEMENT THAT PALIN (UNLIKE MICHELLE BACHMANN) HAS NOT SCHOOLED HERSELF AT ALL ON HISTORY, CHINA, NORTH KOREA, AFRICA, RUSSIA…BUT IS LIMITED TO FOLKSY AND DECIDEDLY PATRIOTIC SOUNDBITES….HOWEVER IT IS DR. KRAUTHAMMER’S SUPPORT OF THE GAZA WITHDRAWAL, THE 2 STATE DISSOLUTION, AND […]
Bashing Israel on Campus, from California to New York By Stella Paul http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/06/bashing_israel_on_campus_from_california_to_new_york.html Pop the champagne! It’s party time at the City University of New York (CUNY) for Israel-loathing professors. For years, they’ve gazed enviously at California, where academic anti-Semites can demonize and harass Jewish students to their hearts’ content, all at taxpayers’ expense. But […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/06/primetime_propaganda.html It’s rare when you read a nonfiction book to be thrilled — truly thrilled — by it. Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda isn’t just thrilling, it’s deep, phenomenally insightful, and intelligent. Primetime Propaganda documents, in tremendous detail, how and why our culture is so screwed up, nihilistic, and alien to what most Americans want for […]
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2011/0527/1224297520508.html Israel is pioneering innovative water technologies that will make it possible for the country to survive and thrive without rainfall A WOODEN STAFF and a little help from God were all Moses needed to draw water from a rock, but as the executive of an Israeli water company pointed out, he didn’t share the […]
Translating Jihad The following is a translation from an excerpt of Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Fiqh al-Jihad, which was posted on IslamOnline.net. Here al-Qaradawi defends the position of those he terms ‘moderates’ from attacks by ‘extremists’ who argue that moderates don’t accept offensive jihad. Al-Qaradawi argues that to the contrary moderates do accept offensive jihad, including […]
