Israel Paying the Price for the West’s Self-Hatred by Peter Martino

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3468/israel-west-self-hatred The moral question – “Who began the war and who denies its adversary’s right to exist?” – is never asked. The media simply do not tell the truth. Last Thursday evening, some 1,500 demonstrators convened in front of the Italian Parliament in Rome, waving Israeli and Italian flags. The demonstration “For the Truth, for […]

Saudi ‘Propaganda Center’ Opens in Vienna by Soeren Kern

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3469/saudi-center-vienna The most important goal of dialogue is “to introduce Islam” and “to correct the erroneous slanders raised against Islam.” — Saudi Press Agency Saudi Arabia has officially opened the doors of a controversial new “interreligious and intercultural dialogue center” in the Austrian capital, Vienna. The King Abdullah International Center for Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Dialogue […]

DAVID GOLDMAN: Post-US World Born in Phnom Penh

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NK27Dj02.html It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half […]

Republican Retreat at Fiscal Cliff By Wes Pruden

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/newsletter?utm_source=P&P%20Auto%201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5308 Politics is not a game that comes naturally to Republicans. Little boys in Republican families usually want a briefcase, not a baseball glove, a football or a boxing glove for their sixth birthday. Ronald Reagan, the modern Republican icon, was a Democrat first, after all. The giants of Congress when Congress was respected – […]

Why Is the NY Times Islamist Terrorism’s Apologist? by Phyllis Chesler

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1103/ny-times-terrorism-apologist Mainly, I lead a quiet, writer’s life. I read, I write, I listen to music, I gaze out my window. Sometimes, I visit a museum or see a movie. I read two or three books and several manuscripts every week and about one hundred articles and many hundreds of emails every day. I read […]

‘Pharaoh’ Morsi By Cal Thomas

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com The diplomatic hosannas for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi following his brokering of the recent ceasefire between Hamas and Israel were still being heard even as the former head of the Muslim Brotherhood started behaving like a pharaoh. Morsi “temporarily” seized new powers that, among other things, forbid judicial review of his policies. What ought […]

FRANK GAFFNEY: OBAMA RISKS STANDING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney112712.php3 | During the so-called “Arab Spring,” the Obama administration insisted that the United States risked being on the “wrong side of history” if it remained aligned with secular despots like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. Recent events have made it clear there is a wrong side for freedom in the Middle East and, thanks to Team […]

YOEL MELTZER: ROCKET ATTACKS AND LONG TERM GOALS

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=293540 If Israel is seriously committed to its own long-term survival as a sovereign nation in this part of the world, it must try a different approach. With the decision makers in Jerusalem agreeing to a cease-fire just one week after finally giving the green light for a military response to the unbearable daily rocket […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: EGYPT ERUPTS AS MORSI SEIZES POWERS

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/egypt-erupts-as-morsi-seizes-powers/ Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi can at least get a prize for brazenness. Just last Wednesday he was being praised by the Obama administration for his “practical” role in working out a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. “This was somebody focused on solving problems,” a “senior administration official” admiringly told the New York Times. The […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: HOW THE WORLD SAVED HAMAS 20 YEARS AGO

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/how-the-world-saved-hamas-20-years-ago/print/ The conclusion of Israel’s campaign against Hamas, complete with an enforced ceasefire and a victory for the Islamic terrorist group, should come as no surprise at all. Long before the blockade of Gaza, the terrorist group’s greatest weapon was the sympathy of the world. Twenty years ago, on December 1992, Israeli forces responded to […]