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by Barry RubinThere is a strong case that can be made for doing nothing about the Syrian civil war, but a stronger case can be made for doing something relatively low-cost and ineffective, indeed, precisely what the Syrian opposition is requesting. Forget about major military intervention, which would be dangerous, costly, and above the level of available resources. I’m also not enthusiastic

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by Sawsan Abu-HusainHat Tip to imra for this postCairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-Informed Arab sources have revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the friends of Syria conference, scheduled for the 24th of February, aims to secure international support for the Arab initiative after the UN Security Council failed to pass a resolution because of the Russian and Chinese veto. The sources said that the

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by Leo RennertAs Iran and the West ratcheted up tensions in recent weeks over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, mainstream media reports continued to cling to an even-handed parallelism when it comes each side's credibility. The context for rising tensions usually has it that the West believes Tehran is on a course to develop nuclear weapons, while the Iranians insist that their nuclear program

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by Shiraz Maher"We are not to blame for 'provoking' the Islamists; they need no such provocation." These have not been good times for free speech in the UK. Islamist students and cowardly student bodies – which, ironically, would identify themselves as liberal and progressive – have clamped down on the right of secular and atheist societies to voice their opposition to Islam (as they do to

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by Gerald M. SteinbergThe history of reporting by UN frameworks on human rights in Israel has been characterized by biased mandates, false and unverifiable allegations, double standards and hypocrisy. Part 1: Overview and Background: 1) By any objective standard, Israeli democracy is as robust and pluralistic as any in the world. There are no restrictions on any form of protest or advocacy,

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by Eric Dondero[FrontPage Editor's note: This article is reprinted with permission from libertarianrepublican.net. Eric Allen Bell has asked us to emphasize that he is a libertarian with liberal social values and not a "traditional" liberal. He is pro-life and anti-big government. He has told his story in his Frontpage article, which went viral around the world, The High Price of Telling the

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by Bruce ThorntonRemember last year’s giddy bipartisan enthusiasm over the “Arab Spring”? President Obama claimed that Egyptians merely wanted “a government that is fair and just and responsive,” Senator John McCain asserted that Libyans were aiming for “lasting peace, dignity, and justice,” while Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in Foreign Affairs that the Arab Spring was a struggle for “

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by Raymond IbrahimIs the problem Islam or Islamism? Muslims or Islamists? These and related questions regularly foster debate (see the exchange between Robert Spencer and Andrew McCarthy for a recent example). The greatest obstacle on the road to consensus is what such words imply; namely, that Islamism and Islamists are "bad," and Islam and Muslims are good (or simply neutral). Some

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by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima GreeneA crowd of would-be revolutionaries gathered last month at Revolution Books in Berkeley to hear Stephen Zunes—chair of the program in Middle Eastern studies and professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco—speak on a panel with the improbable title, "U.S.-Israeli Assault on Iran Escalates: The Danger of War Grows." The

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by Mordechai KedarSyria comprises 14 administrative districts that reflect the demographic distribution of the population.The source of the map is: http://www.kurdistanabinxete.com/Besha_Erebi_Erd_Netewe.htm1. The 'Alawites in the West: in the districts of Latakiya and Tartus - the Mountains of Ansariyya, the mountains where the Alawites have inhabited for the past thousand years.2. The Kurds in

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by Jonathan S. TobinI have not been the biggest fan of Ethan Bronner of the New York Times. The reportage by Bronner, who spent the last four years as the Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, was a mixed bag. Though he was clearly a talented reporter who often did some good work highlighting the realities of the Palestinian war on Israel, he was also prone–as virtually every other

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by Taylor DinermanThe US has the nerve to have missile defenses that actually defend it? Get this: The General commanding Russia Strategic Rocket Forces, Lieutenant General Sergei Karakayev, said in December that the new Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) are needed -- because the existing ones are vulnerable to US missile defenses. This is apparently the result of all that

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by Michael CurtisCenturies of persecution before Israeli "occupation." In the voluminous commentaries on the Middle East today very little attention has been given to the sad fate of Christians in the Arab and Muslim countries. Even less attention has been paid to the contrast between the treatment of Christians in Israel and their treatment in Arab countries. In Israel Christians have

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by Matthew M. Hausman Secular Jewish leaders have been wringing their hands lately over the perceived threat to democracy from public expressions of Christianity, even as they turn a blind eye to the very real dangers posed by militant Islam and advancing Sharia. The sight of a football player on bent knee after scoring a touchdown causes great consternation among those who claim that

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by David HaivriNearly 20 years after the Peace Process between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs was initiated at the Madrid Conference, we have seen years of stalemate. Even with all the billions of dollars being spent by the international community and all of the pressure being exerted on Israel to establish a Palestinian state in areas captured by Israel from Egypt and Jordan in 1967,

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by Patrick GoodenoughA top Muslim Brotherhood official has warned that any cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt could affect Cairo’s peace treaty with Israel – the latest sign that Egypt’s emerging political forces intend to call Washington’s bluff over the diplomatic dispute triggered by a crackdown on non-governmental organizations. Egyptian judges have referred 16 Americans and 27 others linked to

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by Can KasapogluBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 163, February 8, 2012IntroductionThe recently vetoed draft resolution of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) obligated the Syrian Army to return to their barracks, allow peaceful demonstrations, and swiftly hold democratic elections. The rejected offer also recognized the “sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of Syria,” and

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by David Meir-LeviAs the present writer disclosed in an earlier article, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta revealed a strange duplicity during a CBS News interview on January 29th. When asked about the situation with Iran, Secretary Panetta responded with a surprising number of “ifs,” as though to give the impression that there may in fact be some doubt about the threat from Iran, that Iran

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by Michael RubinDuring the Nixon administration, Secretary of State Kissinger sought to tighten the rotation of American diplomats to just a couple of years in any particular country, and to ensure they were posted at the State Department regularly. He believed the loss of in-depth knowledge when a diplomat left a long-term posting was more than offset by the fact that so many diplomats

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by Moshe Sharon[Editor’s Note: Moshe Sharon is an Arabic studies researcher. He is a professor of the Oriental studies department of the Jewish University in Jerusalem.]- When I asked my student, Armi Abu, who is in our chair, and by the way, a nephew of Arafat: “What kind of peace do you want?”, he promptly answered: “What kind of peace do you mean? What we mean is a temporary cease-fire”. This

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by Alan M. DershowitzIf Iran is indeed behind the spate of recent bombings and foiled attacks that have targeted Israeli and Jewish civilian institutions in India, Georgia, Azerbajan and Thailand—as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has alleged—then it has become crystal clear that Iran is at war with Israel, Zionism and Jewish communities throughout the world. The Rajah news website, which

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by Eric Allen Bell [Editor's note: The article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was recently banned from blogging at the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He has told his story in his Frontpage article, which went viral around the world, The High

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by Daniel Greenfield William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet concludes with the words, “For never was a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Fortunately for him, Shakespeare had never paid a visit to Pakistan where all love stories end in woe and young lovers tend to die not in overwrought murder-suicide pacts, but in Karo-Kari honor killings by their own families. The

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by Soeren Kern"We have been too busy with the identity of those who arrived and not enough with the identity of the country that accepted them." - Nicolas Sarkozy With just ten weeks to go until the first round of presidential elections in France, Islam and the question of Muslim immigration has become a central issue in the campaign. France, home to between five and six million Muslims, has

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by Mudar ZahranAre the media actually interested in helping the Palestinians, or really just in bashing Israel? The media's overkill fixation on bashing Israel hurts not only Jews and any chances for peace, but also Palestinians. Helen Thomas, dubbed "the First Lady of the Press", was a renowned veteran reporter, "a trusted source" on White House politics, and for decades, considered a

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by Rick MoranThe hits just keep on coming. Today's installment of the Daily Caller series "Inside Media Matte[r]s" details a memo sent by MMFA major contributor Karl Frisch to David Brock and other senior staff at the organization that called for, among other things, investigations into the private lives of Fox News personalities and contributors: "Simply put," Frisch wrote, "the

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by Farid GhadryFrom all indications, it appears that the Arab League has backed off on its original plan to halt violence in Syria by merging the opposition into a newly minted half-Ba’athist (With Assad still in power), half-everything-else new government. The AL has exhausted all venues, attempts, and hopes at this shortsighted vision.Personally, I am against the Arab League interference

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by Palestinian Media Watch[SZ: Imagine what might happen in the U.S. if a congressman spoke publicly from within an enemy's domain, praising those who have carried out suicide attacks in New York, Los Angeles or Chicago. Imagine a senator expressing gratification for the murderous acts of 9/11 and admiration for those who executed them. Then think of the public uproar and immediate legal steps

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by Michael Widlanski CNN has reportedly fired most of the Jews in its Jerusalem bureau, cutting half the bureau but leaving Arab workers and reviving charges of CNN's pro-Arab slant. CNN denies the charges, claiming a budgetary downsizing, but two producers in the CNN Jerusalem office confirmed that four of the eight-person bureau, all Jews, were told they were

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by Rick MoranLooks like Tucker Carlson at the Daily Caller has hit paydirt again. The DC has exposed several juicy stories, including the email group of liberals, JournoList and the night on the town spent by RNC staffers at a bawdy house. Now, an expose of the Soros-funded Media Matters for America. Through interviews with former staffers and a wealth of documentation, the DC has revealed

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by Irfan Al-AlawiUniversity Islamic Societies Sow Terrorist Propaganda: "I started to get really into it [Al-Awlaki lectures]….everybody listens to him and likes him." A newly-released study from the British organization Student Rights exposes a problem of which the moderate British Muslim community has been aware for years: the advance of radical ideology among young Muslims, through

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by Ali AlyamiPLEASE HELP? Updates on Hamza Kashgari's case and what you can do. Forwarded email: "We have news from Hamza's lawyer that the Malaysian government is hesitant to deport Hamza because of the international pressure. Earlier today, his lawyer has informed us that he is being prepared for extradition to Saudi and a plane is ready and waiting for him. Please help us secure his

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by Khaled Abu ToamehIn the end he will have to fire himself. Facing growing criticism over lack of reforms and transparency, Jordan's King Abdullah has announced an unprecedented crackdown on corruption, sending a number of his former top government officials to prison. But the clampdown has only increased the appetite of the Jordanians, who continue to press for harsher measures against

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by Mark Tapson The dismissed court case involving a Jewish student attacked by a Muslim student last year at the University of California at Berkeley is still alive. Jessica Felber, 21, was injured by Husam Zakharia, leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), during a rally while holding a sign that said, “Israel Wants Peace.” Zakharia rammed her from behind with a shopping

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by Nonie DarwishThe Arab Spring brought Egyptians new freedoms: kidnapping and robbing American tourists, the arrest of 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, senseless killings, endless riots and chaos, burning of churches and the killing and kidnapping of Christians. Arrests of Westerners and accusing some of espionage and stirring up the riots and attacking and accusing Christians of

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by David J. RusinResistance to a new bill aimed at limiting foreign law in Pennsylvania courts serves as a case study of how Islamists and their allies operate: peddling falsehoods about Shari'a, painting Muslims as victims, and denying that anyone seeks to institutionalize aspects of Islamic law — even as they vigorously promote that very agenda. With similar legislation being debated

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by IPT NewsRecently disclosed emails demonstrate that one of the few public figures to stand by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad during his brutal repression of anti-government protesters relied on Assad's help for his signature project. George Galloway, the founder of the British-based organization Viva Palestina (VP), sought Assad's help in August 2010 for VP's most recent convoy to the Gaza

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by Frank Gaffney, Jr.Over the weekend, a drama with potentially horrific consequences for freedom-loving Americans played out half-a-world away.A Saudi newspaper columnist named Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia, reportedly on the basis of an alert by the International Criminal Police Organization, better known as Interpol. Reuters quotes a Malaysian police spokesman as saying that, “

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by Jonathan S. Tobin A story in today’s International Herald Tribune (read here on the New York Times website) provides an interesting insight into exactly what happens when a secular state is taken over by Islamists. The piece concerned the Hagia Sophia of Iznik, an ancient church that brought 40,000 tourists to the town south of Istanbul much to the delight of the locals. Iznik was once

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by Jonathan S. Tobin Just when some veteran Middle East peace processors and critics of Israel were making some progress trying to persuade the world Hamas was changing its stripes, the terrorist organization torpedoed talk about its new moderation with a gesture of friendship with Iran. Ismail Haniya, the prime minister of Hamas’s Gaza terror state, arrived in Tehran on Friday for a visit

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by Rick Moran Meeting in Cairo, the Arab League is discussing the next steps they can take to try and halt the bloodshed in Syria. Stymied by China and Russia's veto of their plan at the UN, the League is looking into several alternatives, including setting up a "Friends of Syria" working group of all interested parties, including western countries, as well as the

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by Jerold S. AuerbachEver since Moses received the Ten Commandments, the history of the Jewish people has been interwoven with law. An additional 613 commandments in the Torah were explicated in the Talmud, collected in the 16th-century Code of Jewish Law (Shulchan Aruch) and interpreted and enforced over the centuries by rabbinical courts. Since 1948 the State of Israel has had its own

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by Raymond Ibrahim This article was first published by the Stonegate Institute. The beginning of the New Year saw only an increase in the oppression of Christians under Islam, from Nigeria, where an all-out jihad has been declared in an effort to eradicate the Muslim north of all Christians, to Europe, where Muslim converts to Christianity are still hounded and attacked as apostates.

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by Jacob Laksin The Obama administration’s position on Syria is clear. Administration officials have said that Bashar Assad’s days are numbered and affirmed that the goal is a “democratic transition” that would see Assad deposed from power. President Obama has added moral urgency to the situation, condemning Assad’s brutal 11-month crackdown on dissent and vowing that “cruelty must be

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by Naftali Bennett Naftali Bennett, former chief of staff to Benjamin Netanyahu, offers some straight talk to Americans on the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons. Well worth 5 minutes of your time. Hat tip: Bob WeirNaftali BennettSource: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/02/

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by Amir RapaportHat Tip to imra for this postAll the anonymous statements coming from Israeli and US “senior officials” regarding the question of whether or not Israel will attack Iran (against the US’s advice) should be treated with a measure of suspicion.It is likely that there is a significant amount of psychological warfare involved in these reports. The goal is clear enough: to increase

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by Farid GhadryThe UN image on the world stage as the organization of choice to resolve global conflicts has taken a considerable beating of late over the tragedy of Syria. Its dominance, in proportion to its failures and successes, is finally catching-up with its conceptual ideology against realistic results.Countries waging wars are judged by a quantifiable number of body counts their wars

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by elderofzionYNet Hebrew notes that Facebook and other social media is awash with copies of this image, often with a caption claiming that this is an IDF soldier stepping on a Palestinian Arab girl: YNet traced it back to a Twitter image from June, but that one was captioned as if it happened in Syria.There are thousands of copies throughout the Internet.Israeli site Tazpit noted it in June,

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by Caroline Glick On Monday afternoon, the Palestinians destroyed officially whatever was left of the concept of a peace process with Israel.When PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas signed a deal with Hamas terror-master Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar, the notion that there is a significant

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by Cinnamon StillwellSaudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal--million dollar benefactor of Middle East studies programs at Harvard University, Georgetown University, and beyond--spoke at Harvard this past Wednesday. The prince touts himself as a model of liberalism in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia--in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, he advocated for reform among Middle Eastern monarchies in

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by Rick MoranThe opposition has been saying that the recent spate of bombings in Damascus and Aleppo could be pinned on President Assad who they say was trying to discredit their movement to oust him. Instead, the US government says that, at least in a couple of cases, Assad is right; al-Qaeda is behind the terror attacks. McClatchy: The international terrorist network's presence in Syria

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by Daniel Pipes1. Dewy-eyed predictions of democracy within the year proved to be as silly as they appeared to be back then. Instead, a power-hungry military leadership shows it will do whatever necessary to remain in the saddle. 2. The real action has yet to come. The Syrian regime seems destined to fall and that could have destabilizing repercussions in the Middle East's most

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by David Meir-Levi In dealing with the threat of a nuclear Iran, Obama has not merely kicked the proverbial can down the proverbial road; he has actually aided and abetted Iran in its quest for military nuclear capabilities. Such a grim assessment of Obama’s Iran policy is unavoidable in light of his inaction against Iran for its capture of the RQ-170 stealth drone in December of last

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by Alan W. Dowd Not long ago, I used this space to ask if the Arab Spring was like 2009 (the failed Twitter Revolution in Iran), 1989 (the democratic revolutions in Eastern Europe) or 1979 (the Islamist revolution in Iran). Like others, I believed the end of Mubarak’s autocratic rule was something to celebrate, but I worried that what ultimately replaces Mubarak may not be worth

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by Bruce Bawer Recently the Partij voor Moslim Nederland (Party for Muslim Netherlands), which already enjoys a significant presence in various municipal governments in that country, announced that it intended to run candidates for the Dutch Parliament. An article in Forbes listed the party’s major principles, which included limits on “offensive” speech about religion; the

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by Anna Mahjar-BarducciEthiopia of great interest to Al-Qaeda, which sees it as the gateway to the whole African Continent. Al-Qaeda is expanding its presence in Africa. The Islamist terrorist group hopes to find in the African continent new safe havens from which to attack Western interests and build logistical bases. Al-Qaeda is already present in the North Africa and in Somalia. However,

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by Khaled Abu ToamehAbbas collecting autocratic titles, including those he denied to Arafat. At a time when Arab heads of state are facing popular uprisings demanding reforms and democracy, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has secured himself yet another job: Prime Minister. Earlier this week, Palestinians were surprised to hear that Abbas had reached a deal with Hamas to form a

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by Michael CurtisUnequal justice under unequal laws. On many occasions James Madison warned of the power of an "ecclesiastical establishment." Britain now is confronted by such a threat. The estimated Muslim population in Britain is now 2.9 million, nearly five percent of the total population, and an increase of about 75 percent in the last decade. In Britain, which has the third largest

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by Bruce ThorntonThere is no idea so hateful or useless that some university somewhere won’t hold a conference on it. The latest example of this unfortunate truism is the recently announced “Israel/Palestine and the One-State Conference” scheduled for early March at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nineteen speakers and ten panels will spend two days explaining why “’two-states for two peoples’

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by Rachel Hirshfeld Daniel PipesIsrael news photo: danielpipes.org Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, gave an interview with conservative political activist, Ezra Levant, as was reported by Israel Matzav, the popular blogspot for issues regarding Israel and the Middle East.Regarding the continually deteriorating situation in Syria, Daniel Pipes stated that it is only a

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by Rachel Hirshfeld Map of Strait of HormuzIsrael news photo: Wikimedia Commons / public domain Iranian Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff for Cultural Affairs and Defense Publicity Brigadier, Massoud Jazayeri, said that Israel and the United States are in “no position to launch a military strike against Iran” and that the decision to do so would have grave consequences.The Iranian

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by David Meir-Levi Itchy trigger fingers can cause wars. A pre-emptive conventional weapons bombing strike against Iran’s known nuclear facilities could do more harm than good….or at least so say some.[i] And indeed there is the real and frightening possibility that an Israeli or American attack might unite Iran’s disaffected anti-Mullah 30-somethings into a furious show of patriotism

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by Daniel Greenfield The classical definition of the Yiddish word Chutzpah is a man on trial for killing his parents who asks for leniency because he is an orphan. Next to that definition is a picture of Omar Barghouti, a Qatari-born Muslim who moved to Israel and enrolled in Tel Aviv University to obtain a Masters Degree in Philosophy while conducting an academic boycott campaign

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by Gavriel Queenann IDF officials say there have been at least five attempts to kidnap soldiers in Israel's north since the Gilad Shalit was released by Hamas on 18 October 2011. Israel's government released 1,027 terrorists in exchange for Shalit who was held in Hamas-run Gaza for over five years. The terrorists released were responsible for a collective 569 Israeli deaths. The deal resulted

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by Rick MoranIt's exactly what Russia and China hoped to avoid with their veto at the UN last weekend; the western powers flexing their military muscles again in the Middle East. At the moment, diplomacy appears to be the preferred course. But the Obama administration is apparently seriously looking over its options in the event that the military is employed in some capacity to stop the

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by Manda Zand Ervin Radical Islamists claiming to be moderates are energetically inverting for Americans who are the victims and who are the bullies. The film The Third Jihad has become another excuse for the mainstream media, especially the New York Times, to show yet again just what Cultural Imperialists they can be. Once more, these self-proclaimed moral authorities have taken it upon

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by Soeren KernQatar, the most fraudulent "moderate," is "sparing no effort" to spread Wahhabi Islam across "the whole world," discouraging integration, encouraging jihad. The Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar says it plans to invest €50 million ($65 million) in French suburbs that are home to hundreds of thousands of disgruntled Muslim immigrants. Qatar says its investment is intended to support

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by Mordechai KedarFor generations, countries in the Middle East have been in the "cross-hairs" of the Western countries: Europe, the United States and Canada. The colonialism of the previous centuries resulted in the conquest, control and exploitation of natural resources. During the twentieth century, colonialism underwent a change of character. It became characterized by political hegemony,

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by Ben Shapiro Let’s say you’re Israel. An enemy dedicated to your destruction is developing the means to wipe you off the face of the earth, with the covert and overt help of world powers like Russia and China. It’s only a matter of months before that enemy achieves its goals – and when it does you will not be able to stop the mushroom cloud rising over your cities. So you come up with a

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by Michelle MalkinThe White House didn’t blow a dog whistle for deep-pocketed liberal donors on Monday. No, the administration whipped out a supersized vuvuzela. Blaring message: Let loose the campaign finance-bundling hounds of super PAC war! President Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, who served as White House deputy chief of staff for operations before assuming 2012 re-election

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by Michael CurtisOne of the important early contributions of James Madison to American life was his impact on the framing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1776. One section stated that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience." Another declared that "any citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his

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by Gavriel Queenann Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's notion of security apparently includes using 123456 as a computer password.According to the site Mashable the Hacktivist group, Anonymous leaked Assad's password while in the process of raiding his bureau's emails and uploading them to the web."The string of consecutive numbers is the second-weakest password according to a 2011 study,"

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by Daniel PipesIf Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were the naïfs who foisted the United Nations on the world, George H. W. Bush was responsible for its revival as a political force. From about 1950 to 1990, the United Nations Security Council was essentially toothless, as the Soviet and U.S. governments disagreed on issue after issue. As a result, anyone wanting to get things done

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by Elad Benari Middle East expert Professor Moshe Sharon, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said on Tuesday that the reconciliation agreement that was signed between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction and the Hamas terror group unveiled Abbas’ true colors.Abbas and the head of Hamas' political

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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Is Ben Gurion Airport on “occupied” land? That is what Deltas Airlines said – until legal activists gave Delta a lesson in geography – and law.A reader pointed out to Arutz Sheva that Delta Airlines’ frequent flyer program website on the Middle East includes, among others, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and Occupied

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by Michael RubinBret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal has a column today asking whether Israel can bomb Iran. He writes: Put simply, an Israeli strike on Iran would not just be a larger-scale reprise of the attacks that took out Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981 and Syria’s in 2007. On the contrary: If it goes well it would look somewhat like the Six-Day War of 1967, and if it goes poorly

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by Andrew E. Harrod and Adam TurnerAlthough more attention goes to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) prominent attempts to police speech in Western nations regarding Islam-related topics through the UN and the "Istanbul Process", Muslim and Islamist desires to restrict critical speech concerning Islam-related topics and promote a positive image of their religion have also played

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by Caroline GlickThe Obama administration is absolutely furious at Russia and China. The two UN Security Council permanent members' move on Saturday to veto a resolution on Syria utterly infuriated US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice. And they want us all to know just how piping mad they really are.Rice called the vetoes "unforgivable,"

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by IPT NewsThere are times when an unfortunate name can come back to haunt someone even when he or she had nothing to do with the original moniker. Think of Rick Perry's ranch, or a Florida mosque named for a terrorist icon. The Islamic Community of Tampa, also known as the al-Qassam mosque, hosts an ironic event Friday evening with the local Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

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by Yaakov Lappin By Thinkstock/Imagebank Israeli hackers took down a website run by Hamas on Tuesday, and warned that the web company which hosted the site will be their next target.The "IDF Team" hacker group took responsibility for the attack.The affected website, www.qasssam.ps, is run by Hamas's Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades

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by Khaled Abu ToamehFacebook has become a dangerous playground for Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. The US-backed Palestinian Authority security forces belonging to Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad have been monitoring the activities of Palestinians on Facebook to make sure that no one criticizes them. The Palestinian Authority wants Palestinians to write only

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by Ahmed El AswanyTranslated and Introduced by Raymond Ibrahim. The following op-ed, written by Ahmed El Aswany, appeared in the popular news website El Bashayer, December 22, 2011, following several lawsuits against Egypt's Christians, most notably billionaire Naguib Sawiris, for "defaming Islam." Hard-hitting and self-critical, it deals with an important question: Exactly who is it that

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by Bruce Bawer This is how it happens, folks. Little by little. Law by law. The proponents of sharia get themselves elected to positions of power – and then, before too long, they start trying to subject the rest of us to it, bit by bit: Hasan Küçük, Hague councilor for the Islam Democrats, says dogs should be banned as pets in the city, reports De Telegraaf. The Muslim party says that

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by Robert Spencer The Egyptian Government has released the names of nineteen American citizens that it intends to prosecute for their role in fomenting anti-government protests – a charge they deny. Protests from the American Government have so far been futile, met with sneers of contempt. The echoes are unmistakable. On November 4, 1979, Iranian thugs stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran

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by Gavriel Queenann Ali KhameiniIsrael news photo: Wikimedia Commons/sajed.ir Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday endorsed a new doctrine explaining why it would be 'legally and morally justified' to commit genocide and wipe Israel off the map.The article was written by Khameini's close adviser Alireza Forghani and endorsed by the Supreme Leader whose writings

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by Rachel Hirshfeld Often, what is reported in the media is just as significant as the way in which the information is relayed as well as what stories and details get omitted, determined to be ‘unfit to print.’ Politically savvy readers quickly learn that they must read between the lines, ascertain the nuisances of political headlines and deconstruct the language being used, in order to

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by Eric Allen Bell [Frontpage Editor's note: The article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was recently banned from blogging at the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” Frontpage invited him to tell his story, which he does below.] A strange thing

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by Barry RubinThe Surprising View of the Man Who Coined That TermIt’s ironic how the West has adopted the narrative of the very people who caused so much disaster in the Middle East. There are two reasons: The ignorance of the Western “experts” and the domination of the radical interpretations that made the mess in the first place. Here’s an example. In a paper just published by

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by Barry Rubin Dear readers, I’d like to share with you a secret. Every day I read and hear things by people who claim to be experts on the Middle East. I have read them on the land; I have read them on the sea; I have read them in the air. And they will never surrender to reality. Here are the two main causes of error: –They think the Middle East is just like the West so they can extrapolate

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by Frank Gaffney, Jr.On February 5th, President Obama provided his own Super Sunday show. In some respects, it was almost as bizarre as Madonna's performance at half time.In particular, in his interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Mr. Obama responded oddly to concerns raised last week by leaders of the U.S. intelligence community. They testified on Capitol Hill that the Iranian mullahs appear

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by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi and Oskar SvadkovskyAmong the second wave of Arab Spring uprisings that followed Tunisia, Syria was the most spectacular "out of the blue" that suddenly arose in the face of the media and analytic community. Just days before Deraa exploded with protests last March, some analysts were still scrutinizing Syria's circumstances and declaring the country to be immune

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by Soeren KernA Muslim activist group with links to the Muslim Brotherhood has asked the British government to restrict the way the British media reports about Muslims and Islam. The effort to silence criticism of Islam comes amid an ongoing public inquiry into British press standards following a phone-hacking scandal involving the News of the World and other British newspapers. The Leveson

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by Ali AlyamiWhile President Obama and his European counterparts are going out of their way to apologize for defending their citizens' democratic way of life and to assure Muslims, especially the rich Gulf royals, that the West is not "at war with Islam" but rather with terrorists groups such as Al-Qaeda, a cadre of Saudi women is unabashedly challenging Saudi religious extremism and its

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by Daniel Greenfield Groundhog Day is the long eternal tragedy of Islam, which always sees its shadow and always ends up with six weeks, six months or six hundred years of more winter. That hopeful time when the bitter cold of winter begins its slow transition into the warmth and renewal of spring never comes for Islam. In a reversal of the cycle of season, the Arab Spring led to the

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by Joseph KleinNearly 6000 Syrians have died during the 10-month revolt against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including hundreds of children. In one of the worst single day outbursts of violence, which occurred on February 3rd, the death toll from shelling by Syrian security forces in the city of Homs alone exceeded 200. In the midst of the escalating violence, the United

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by Mark Tapson The title above may be a bit confusing, since the left and their media cohorts essentially treat every week as Israeli Demonization Week. So to be more precise: the official, organized, designated demonization of Israel known as Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is gearing up to launch later this month. IAW is an annual (2012 is the eighth) international series of events held in cities

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by Tariq AlhomayedHat Tip to IMRA for this articleThe above title is not my own wish, or expression, but rather this is something that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said himself during the recent “World Conference on Youth and Islamic Awakening” held in Tehran under the auspices of the Iranian government and attended by thousands of youth. This conference attempted to claim that the

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by Phyllis CheslerTo date, the New York Times has published at least ten articles (op-eds disguised as news, real op-eds, letters) about the film The Third Jihad, which first appeared in 2009. The NYT-dominated campaign led to coverage in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and other mainstream media venues. Ordinarily, this would be very good news for the filmmakers. More

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by Mark LangfanAfter Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, in America, there were Hitler enablers like the American hero Charles Lindbergh who publicly championed-- the Big Lie-- that England was a strategic liability to the US, was the cause of world war, and, that England needed to be dumped. Today, there is a new crop of neo-fascist enablers by the names of Walt and Mearsheimer. These

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by Mohammed I. Aslam The guerrilla movement's increasing missile capacity is raising the Israeli state's level of insecurity to dangerous new levels. The Hezb'allah movement in Lebanon has been stepping up the intensity of its preparations for war with Israel in recent months, clearly unfazed by the strength of military projection its Israeli enemy could unleash

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