"There he goes again," became the political catchphrase that entered the American political lexicon when it was used by then Gov. Ronald Reagan in his 1980 presidential debate in Cleveland with President Jimmy Carter. To Carter's repeated charges that he would cut Medicare, Reagan quipped, "There he goes again." |
"I do favor a policy that isolates Syria. Syria has been a conduit for money and weapons to Hezbollah." -Rob Andrews, New Jersey Congressman |
Once again, a center-left government of Israel has seized on a fantasy it views as a panacea for the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace process. |
"What is happening to the Copts in Egypt is an example of the kind of intellectual terrorism that radical Islam imposes on anyone who dares to criticize their agenda of having Islam dominate the world," Dawoud said. There have been hundreds of attacks on the Coptic community since Hosni Mubarak took power following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. |
The title of the book deals with a most dramatic and little known event that occurred on May 26, 1967 when a couple of secret Mig-25 Soviet jet-fighters, designated in the West as Foxbats, flew over Israel's Dimona nuclear facility.
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The inconsistency in the administration's policy toward the terror sponsoring states of Iran and Syria raises the question: Which is the real George W. Bush? Is it the Bush committed to democracy in the Middle East and combating Islamist terrorism, or is George W. morphing into his father? |
The ostensible reason for this year's G-8 summit, which opened Wednesday in Heiligendamm, Germany, and chaired by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was global warming. One can bet, however, that the Middle East and related issues will demand attention. |
The bombs exploding in our airbase in the early morning hours of June 5, 1967 were a fearful indicator that war had broken out. We were confident that we had done all we could in the sleepless weeks, and hoped for the best. |
The Syrian opposition consists of three types: the first is the classical opposition represented by Muslim Brotherhood. It is Islamist in nature and Arab in orientation. The second group is a Baath Party derivative, and it is represented by people who spent their careers serving the Assad regime, and now found themselves out of favor. One such figure is former Vice President Khaddam. The Kurdish opposition groups and their allies have become a formidable opposition, and they represent the third type. |
Injecting dry humor, he said, "I know there are some who are probably wondering what a nice independent Democrat from Connecticut is doing at a Republican event like this? Well, a funny thing happened on the way to re-election last year ... And as Rabbi Hillel said, the rest is commentary." |
Professor Lewis, who was recently awarded the Ataturk Peace Award from the Turkish government, began his presentation by illustrating the similarities and differences between Europe and Islam. Islam and Christianity share a prominent feature - triumphalism. |
The Iranians, Palestinians, Hezbollah and virtually all the Arab states have never had a better friend in the Palais delâ Elysees than the outgoing President Chirac. His pandering to Arab dictators and the Palestinian cause knew no equal. Chirac followed in the footsteps of his Gaullist predecessors all the way back to Charles De Gaulle, by strengthening France's alignment with Arab dictators such as Yaser Arafat and Saddam Hussein, as a counterweight to the U.S. influence in the Middle East. |
Radu called Kosovo "the black hole of criminality in the Balkans" and charged that the U.S. is "supporting Kosovo's independence without having the courage to call it by name." Moreover, he said that the U.S. policy is based on "ethnic majority preference," a criteria the U.S. does not apply to Iraqi Kurdistan. |
CAIR routinely tries to intimidate the likes of Whitehead in the hope of stifling any criticisms and/or allegations made against it. Whitehead, not easily intimidated, responded by filing over 300 separate interrogatories, requests of documents and requests for admission.
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Fired-up optics: Does Murray consider sending U.S. soldiers to die for Arab oil to be in America's national interest? America must stand for higher values than oil and business interests. Spreading democracy, respect for the rule-of-law, human rights and religious tolerance in the Middle East is an American national interest, and it is Israel's as well. No blurring of interests here. |
Some in the European Union may have forgotten the Marshall plan and how America saved the continent from economic ruin and political takeover by the Soviet Union. The actions of France and Germany in recent years, clearly anti-American (on Iraq), are a good indication. |
Anyone expecting Matthew Levitt, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs and author of HAMAS: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, to provide a hopeful note on this terrorist organization now leading the Palestinian government, was bound to be disappointed.
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Anyone expecting Matthew Levitt, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs and author of HAMAS: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, to provide a hopeful note on this terrorist organization now leading the Palestinian government, was bound to be disappointed.
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A burning bed of roses: "We filmed in the Lublin area of Poland, and we chose a real former SS headquarters in Lublin as the site. There is a rose garden there where children would be separated by force from their parents and gassed immediately."
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Raised by New-Age hippie parents in a non-practicing Jewish family, Gartenstein-Ross grew up with an unusual religious upbringing. Artwork within his home depicted scenes from Jesus' life, while a small white statute of Buddha stood guard in the backyard. |
As foreign minister, Fischer's first trip abroad was to Israel. Fischer is certain that Israel will not be alone in its opposition to Iran.
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The only duplicity and hypocrisy, however, is in the character of Kerry. To speak ill of America overseas is bad enough, but to twist the facts in order to blacken the Bush administration's eyes is treacherous. First, the U.S. has done more to combat AIDS in Africa than any other nation and, the Bush administration in particular has allocated $4 billion to fight AIDS in Africa - far more than the Clinton administration ever did.
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Previous U.S. administrations felt comfortable and, in fact, preferred to deal with "our friendly dictators," the likes of which included Egyptian dictators Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak, or Saudi Kings Feisal, Fahd or Abdullah. Jimmy Carter, who speaks a good human-rights story, legitimized and coddled the most oppressive regimes in the world. George W. on the other hand wants to bring genuine change, albeit with individual characters that are a reflection of their troubled societies rather than agents of change.
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He promised the Bush administration that Israel would refrain from official talks with the Syrians as long as they're tied to Iran and Hezbollah. Such talks are also too early and too risky for Olmert at this point. But, like the Oslo Accords that began as unofficial contacts by "academicians," it might set the stage for an eventual official government endorsement. The agreement would resolve four critical elements in the relationship: borders, normalization, security and water.
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"The NGOs (Nongovernmental Organizations) in and of themselves" says Steinberg, "do not hold a great deal of power," but their reports are picked up by the media and then used to bash Israel. Professor Gerald Steinberg of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel cited Human Rights Watch's role in the 2001 U.N. Conference on Racism and other forms of discrimination in Durban, where NGOs turned out to display the worst anti-Semitism since the Nuremberg anti-Semitic rallies in Nazi Germany." |
"Why is Lebanon important? Lebanon is a model for the Arab world. (Lebanon) is a battleground between the civilized world and Iran and Syria."
Adib Farha, Senior Policy Advisor--Lebanese Information Center |
In various international forums, and especially at the U.N., Egypt, more than Iran or Syria is the lead attacker of Israel. Egypt's educational programming is replete with anti-Semitism, which is being reinforced by television productions that screen variations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a Tsarist forgery more than 100 years old. School children in Egypt are taught that the Jews are the source of all the evil in the world. |
A row is developing between the Polish and German governments over compensation claims made by German expellees from East European territories after WWII. The Prussian Trust filed a lawsuit last week in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, representing claims for compensation for the German expellees. |
Virulent anti-Semitism pervades much of the Muslim world today and, especially in the Arab Middle East, it is expressed straightforwardly in the programs produced by the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas and Hezbollah. Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria all have whom have broadcasted TV productions based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and, the canard of Jews killing Christian or Muslim children to use their blood for Passover Matzot. |
He charged that Ahmadinejad seeks to fulfill Khumeini's dream of exporting the "We have to believe what Iran is saying," Landau said. The Shiites, he stated, are only 1/6 of the Islamic world, yet Shiite Iran seeks to dominate it. "Iran" Landau added, "is instigating the Shiite crescent in Iraq, Lebanon, and southward to the Gulf." Israel he claimed is only the "first stop" in Iran's path of destruction. |
Neither Baker nor Hamilton is known as a friend of the Jewish State, and there are speculations that the two are ready to pay for Iranian and Syrian "goodwill" with Israeli currency. Tony Blair, the British prime minister, stated last week that "a major part of the answer to Iraq lies outside the country." He specifically referred to a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This assertion by Blair is likely to reinforce the ISG sentiments. |
| | | | | | | Melanie Phillips speaks about her book, Londonistan, on Nov. 15 at the Pepper Hamilton LLP offices in Center City as a part of the Robert Guzzardi Lecture Series at the Middle East Forum. Photo by Jared Gruenwald/The Evening Bulletin. | |
British journalist Melanie Phillips suggested that the current climate threatens to "undermine the alliance with America and imperil the defense of the free world." She quoted Nathan Sharansky's remarks about her book: "Londonistan is a last minute warning for Britain and for much of the free world."
Sharansky observed moreover that "In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil."
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Although common Palestinians might privately yearn for prosperity and peace, the activists believe that everything must be subsumed to the armed struggle. Such buzz-words as democracy, women's rights, rule of law and economic prosperity have no meaning in the Palestinian strategy, albeit, employed on occasion to appease Western opinion. For this reason, U.S. and Israeli efforts to appeal to the Palestinians on common-sense pocket-book interests carry little resonance.
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Mexico's problems stem from rigid class and race divisions and the huge gap in the distribution of wealth. It becomes apparent when one compares the incomes of the predominately White-European and mestizo northern industrialized states with the largely Amerindian poor and rural southeastern states of Mexico.
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"The religious divide was also a class divide" he asserted. Iraq is now the first Arab state ruled by Shiites thanks to the U.S. liberating them from Saddam.
There are growing anxieties in the Sunni-Arab world about Iran becoming a regional nuclear power. Nasr cited the unusual criticism leveled against Hezbollah by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan for provoking the recent war with Israel in Lebanon. |
Cynically speaking, it appears as if the involvement of Jews in the conflict with the Palestinian Arabs, pervasive anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere, and the influence of oil rich Arab states on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs has elevated the Palestinian cause above that of the Kurds, and the Tibetans (who continue to be occupied and oppressed by China).
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Americans, much like Israelis it appears, are impatient. They want things done here and now. It is a reflection of one's cultural view of the world.
Westerners believe in progress at all cost: technological, social, economic, etc. Other cultures stress patience. To their credit, Arab Middle Easterners, practice patience and believe in dignity above progress. |
It is not everyday that an institution such as the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) invites a Jewish convert to Islam to address a predominantly-Jewish audience on The Media and Religion in the Arab-Islamic World.
Abdallah Schleifer spoke at the Union League in Philadelphia on Sept. 26 as part of the John Templeton Lecture Series on Religion and World Affairs. FPRI president Dr. Harvey Sicherman introduced him. |
Abbas knows that, when he says "yes" to negotiation and recognition of Israel, money for the Palestinians will pour in from everywhere, including the U.S., and pressure on Israel to divest from territories in the West Bank will mount. At the same time, he is winking to his Arab audience, saying words in Arabic that he would never say in English, such as "The armed struggle will continue." Abu Mazen's Fatah terrorists are as intent on killing Jewish-Israelis as Hamas' terrorists are. And neither group has reconciled itself to the idea of a sovereign Jewish State.
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The Prophet Isaiah's advice should guide both the U.S. and Israeli governments. Unfortunately, both governments are wedded to the illusion of peace. Egypt has received $62.5 billion from the U.S. in addition to $7 billion in debt forgiveness in 1991, delivered by the administration of George H. Bush as a "reward" for Egypt's "participation" in the Gulf War. What does Egypt do for the U.S. in return for this massive American taxpayer outlay? Practically nothing.
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The religious establishment in Egypt has been vocal in its support for nuclear weapons, especially if the infidel has them. Al-Azhar Islamic University in Cairo issued a fatwa by its Religious Ruling Committee stating, "Developing nuclear weapons was a religious obligation." Sheikh Abu-Al Hassan, in an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai Al-Aam (December 27, 2002) said, "If a weapon appears in the hands of one of the nations of the world, whether it was a friendly nation or a hostile nation, the Muslims must obtain this weapon, or a more powerful weapon, and the clerics are in consensus about this."
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In the Middle East, however, democracy had a paradoxical relationship: Terrorists who need media exposure and freedom of movement are able to obtain them in democracies but not in dictatorships. The weak democratic culture in Iraq lacks the coercive power of a dictator or the popular support of established institutions; hence Iraq is vulnerable to terrorism.
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Putting Iranian President Ahmadinejad on trial in The Hague (in absentia if necessary) for incitement to commit genocide would be a preventive measure that might deter murderous dictators and perhaps a catastrophic nuclear confrontation. |
Marc Howard, CBS-3 anchor, moderated the indoor program "Entebbe to Today: Terrorism in Transition" with Benjamin Netanyahu and R. James Woolsey, both stressing that Iran posed a serious threat to America and the free world.
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| | | | | | | Former Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial service held for his brother Jonathon ‘Yoni’ Netanyahu outside the National Museum of American Jewish History last Wednesday night. On July 4th 1976, Yoni was the only Israeli soldier to die in a raid he led at Entebbe Airport in Uganda that freed 103 Jewish hostages. Photo by Jared Gruenwald/ The Evening Bulletin. | |
Muslims," he asserted, "see the rise of the West as an accident of history"
Returning to Iran, Netanyahu maintained that Hitler launched a worldwide conflict and later tried to develop nuclear weapons. "Iran," he said, "is using the reverse. It is trying to acquire nuclear weapons and then launch a worldwide conflict." He concluded his presentation by stating, "Leaders must have vision, power, and political will... ."
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Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is about to welcome former Iranian President Muhammad Khatami. The current Iranian government led by its anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has sent Khatami on a "charm offensive" to neutralize America's resolve to seek sanctions against Iran. |
Adly Abadir, a Coptic-Christian refugee from Egypt, has sought to bring together all the minorities in the Middle East who have endured religious, racial and ethnic persecution at the hands of the Arab-Muslim majority. In an open letter published on his website he declared: "Middle East minorities are suffering from humiliation, subjugation, and persecution in their own lands thanks to their rulers who made themselves subservient to the whims of the Wahhabi king of Saudi Arabia."
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The Olmert government, like Sharon's before it, failed to address the needs of the expellees in spite of the promises made to them. Many families among the expellees have yet to receive compensation for their lost homes.
Beyond the personal damage the expulsion caused to individuals and families are the political effects of Israel's unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon in May 2000 and Gaza in August 2005. As a result of these withdrawals Israel finds itself today in an existential war against the Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza (former Jewish settlements in Gush Katif have turned into terrorist bases).
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Carter's actions as President of the U.S. helped bring down two vital American allies: the Shah of Iran and President Samosa of Nicaragua. The results were devastating for America and the free and democratic world - it ushered the age of Islamic terrorism.
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press July 30 suggested that the "Arab Street" is responsible for the reversals in the positions of moderate Arab leaders who, during the early stages of the war were critical of the Hezbollah. The dictatorial regimes throughout the Arab Middle East have uniformly used the "Street" as an instrument for showing the foreign press and American and European governments the visceral reaction of "their people" to Western policies or events.
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Last year, Gillerman added, the Lebanese government had another chance to deploy their troops in the South and declined to do it. Instead, Hezbollah, the Shiite terrorist party/organization, took over control of the South and amassed 15,000 rockets. Since May 2000, Hezbollah has kidnapped Israeli soldiers, fired toward Israel with the aim to kill and provoke an Israeli reaction.
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Pastor John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas, celebrated the creation of his new movement, Christians United For Israel, with a mega-bash that brought more than 3000 Christians (and some Jews) together from throughout the U.S.A. to Washington D.C. on July 18. The following day, they flooded the halls of Congress in support of Israel's actions in the current Middle East crisis.
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Shortly after the tragedy occurred, while still recuperating from her wounds and aware of her enormous loss, Pnina wrote a book she dedicated to her little daughter. She titled it, Songs to Gal. "Morning creeps slowly through the window and entered my room, it does not let me sleep. Mother strokes my hair lovingly whispering to me - Gali darling, morning has arrived..."
Pnina recited these words to her daughter and little Gal would repeat them. |
While there is little doubt that radical Islam is the most serious threat facing the U.S. today, it would be perilous for the U.S. government to ignore the emerging threat that China poses and, it would be a gross miscalculation to dismiss Russia's potential for creating havoc on the global scene.
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Last Sunday, at Kerem Shalom, an Israeli base within Israel on the Southern border with Gaza, the Palestinian terrorists were able to show that Israeli unilateral withdrawals do not work. The tunnel they dug underneath the former Israeli settlements proved that the Palestinians could reach beyond Gaza and into Israel. Hezbollah's success in kidnapping Israeli soldiers from the Northern Galilee served as model for the Palestinians. The Palestinians demonstrated that they too could do no less.
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The Jihadist Muslims have exploited the White, Western guilt. A society ridden with self-imposed guilt is incapable of defending itself against those who seek its destruction. A multi-cultural society, which no longer believes in itself, and finds nothing special in its own particularism will not fight for its survival. A culture that elevates tolerance over its own survival is suicidal. A culture that views dissent against itself as its greatest calling, has given its enemies the tools to undermine it. A society cannot recognize an enemy when it is always pointing to itself as the enemy. And, a nation whose leaders fail to identify by name its enemy-Radical Islam, is doomed to all of us. |
| | | | | | | U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, center, participated in a discussion Monday night at the Haverford School sponosored by the Middle East Forum. The discussion was moderated by Evening Bulletin columnist Daniel Pipes, right, and included Natan Sharansky,left, of the Likud party delegation to the new Israeli Parliament. Photo by Matthew Godfrey of The Evening Bulletin. | |
More than 400 people filled Centennial Hall at Haverford College to watch on stage two animated legislators with vastly diverse life experiences that found common ground on such critical issues as Religious Freedom and democracy. Nathan Sharansky, a prisoner of conscience in the former Soviet Union provided the essence of what fighting for religious freedom is all about. His was a personal experience of fighting a dictatorship as an individual discriminated because of his religion and persecuted for his courage to speak out. Santorum has built an unusual consistent record as a legislator, fighting against anti-Semitism and for religious freedom. |
Currently, Netanyahu is busy rebuilding his shattered party and hopes that within the next 18 months, the party will be able to bring down the current government and possibly set up a coalition government led by the Likud, with himself as Prime minister.
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There are approximately 250,000 non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union living in Israel. The majority being of mixed marriage, where one of the spouses is non-Jewish. In addition, there are thousands non-Jews who entered Israel for opportunistic reasons using falsified documents to prove a "Jewish" connection.
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Rev. Chilton, an ordained Episcopal priest, is the Rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Tarrytown, N.Y., and the Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College. He has taught in Europe at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield and Munster and in the U.S. at Yale University.
What were Dr. Chilton's thoughts on the recently held conference entitled, "The Church, Israel, and the Middle East: Why Divestment is an Obstacle to Peace?"
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The truth of the matter is that the Palestinians are more interested in destroying the Jewish State and killing its Jews than to have a functioning economy, economic progress, political and social justice, or harmony with their Jewish neighbors that benefits everyone particular themselves.
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he book, The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, is a seminal piece of work that vividly describes the devastating impact of a canard perpetrated on Jews. |
Ettinger rejects the demographic theory advocated by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his Kadima party, which now serves as the premise for his "Convergence Plan," which calls for the removal of nearly 100,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria, thus creating the contiguity for a future Palestinian State. |
"The Bridging Principles": Part One |
Europeans today are fond of equating Zionism - the Jewish national liberation movement, with colonialism. Europeans are attempting to expunge their crimes of culpability in the murder of European Jewry during WWII and nearly 300 years of their brutal colonialism, by pinning on the Jewish State - the collective entity of Jews, their hypocrisy and shame. |
| | | | | | | U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton spoke at the Park Hyatt Bellevue on Friday. The straight- forward Bolton articulated his opinions on the Iran nuclear threat and other issues to members and guests of the World Affairs Council. Photo by Matthew Godfrey of The Evening Bulletin. | |
He revealed that Iran is pursuing clandestine efforts to develop nuclear weapons and that the country is in the process of enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. Bolton said that Pakistani national A. Q. Khan, who sold nuclear secrets to Libya and North Korea, has worked with Iran as well. Khan, according to Bolton, "also helped Iran improve the accuracy of its delivery systems." Bolton added, "Iran is the world largest state sponsor of terrorism and as such is a very real threat. If it is true that Iran overcame its problems with enriching uranium, it is then only a matter of time before Iran will possess nuclear weapons."
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Working tirelessly with state governments throughout the U.S., Frank Gaffney, Jr. is a crusader in his fight to stop terror-sponsoring countries that kill Americans. His next stop: Philadelphia. |
| | | | | | | Gen. Anthony Zinni, left, signs a copy of his book, The Battle for Peace for Julie Curson Monday at the Gershman Y at Broad and Pine streets. Photo by Matthew Godfrey of The Evening Bulletin. | |
"I knew it would be a mess," he said. "We considered only the first level of action, we did not see the problems of occupation, or control of Iraq's borders." Still Gen. Zinni does not think Iraq is a "lost cause." Iran, Zinni said, is the real problem. We must be prepared, however, for the consequences that would flow from a military action.
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| | Photo Gallery | | | | | | Dr. Walid Phares gestures during a recent lecture. The Middle East commentator’s recent book Future Jihad attempts to explain the strategies of Jihadists. | |
Dr. Walid Phares is a Middle East commentator for MSNBC, NBC, Fox News, CBC, BBC, al-Jazeera, al-Hurra, and al-Arabiya. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, and professor of Middle East Studies at Florida Atlantic University. I have known Walid as a fighter for a free Lebanon. His new book, "Future Jihad" is on the top 12 best selling books on the Foreign Affairs magazine list.
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Using a radical Palestinian narrative, Joseph Massad, associate professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, employs clear historical revisionism. He excused the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 in which Jewish civilians were targeted, as well as British troops, as the "Arab's lack of legal appeal" conveniently ignoring the 1929 attack by an Arab-Muslim mob on the ancient Jewish community of Hebron, in which the entire Jewish community was destroyed.
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This writer interviewed Dr. Ali Hassan Alyami on a variety of issues pertaining to Saudi Arabia's past, its future and its relationship with the U.S., Israel and Iran, as well as its role in Iraq. |
| | | | | | | Ehud Olmert, left, kisses his wife Aliza as they celebrate after early exit polls in Israel’s general elections showed the victory of his centrist Kadima party in Newe llan, 15 km. west of Jerusalem, in this March 29 photo. To understand why a lifelong hawk like Ehud Olmert could come to embody the moderate center of Israeli politics, look no further than his family. There’s his wife, Aliza, a dove even before they married 35 years ago. And his son Shaul, who refused to serve the army’s rule over the Palestinians. And his daughter Dana, who is openly gay and even further left than others in the family.
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The Israeli media called Tuesday's elections results "the big explosion" (Mapatz in Hebrew). It relegated the leading Likud party from being the largest party (with 40 seats) in Israel's 120 members Knesset to the fifth with 11 seats. The first usage of the word actually began last November when Prime Minister Sharon split away from Likud to form his own Kadima party. He took with him 14 elected Likud Knesset members.
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Bar-Ner admits that there was a great deal of tension between Turkey and Israel at the height of the intifadah, especially when Israel eliminated the leader of Hamas Sheikh Yasin. |
While the world is shining the light on Iraq, developments in Syria have nary been examined. |
"People dismissed Hitler as a lunatic and we cannot afford to do the same with Iran's President Ahmadinejad." |
The Jericho operation carried out this week by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) boosted the standing of the Kadima party of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his successor Ehud Olmert. The Bush administration's silent endorsement of the operation indicated support for Kadima. Washington, it appears, wants Olmert to be Israel's next prime minister.
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President Bush is one of Sharansky's longstanding admirers. He has invited Sharansky to the White House and publicly praised Sharansky's book The Case For Democracy. Sharansky's courage in the face of Soviet repression earned him the admiration of the free world. |
President George W. Bush was repeatedly praised by scores of Kurdish and Arab Syrian opposition figures demanding democracy and freedom in Syria and an end to the oppression of the large Kurdish minority in Syria.
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