Cartoon Wars
In Beirut, rioting Arabs torch the Danish Consulate. In Damascus, the Danish and Norwegian embassies are destroyed. In Gaza City, rioting Palestinians toss a bomb into the French Cultural Center and...
View ArticlePapal Nightmares
Amid the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI’s lecture on “Faith and Reason” delivered at the University of Regensburg in Germany, scant attention has been paid to the central theme of his...
View ArticleParadise Lost: The Decline and Fall of Arabia
Thomas Friedman once wrote, “Terrorism is not produced by the poverty of money. It’s produced by the poverty of dignity.” 1 If that is so, then the Arab world only has itself to blame. It is the West,...
View ArticleThe Coming of Eurabia
According to Moorish legend, Boabdil, the last Muslim (Moorish) king of what was left of Al Andalus (the great Moorish Empire in Spain), surrendered the keys to his city Granada on January 2, 1492, and...
View ArticleWarning Signs from Annapolis
Israel-Arab peace is not on anyone’s agenda. How’s this for an Israeli position at Annapolis: “Tell you what, if you recognize Israel as a sovereign state in the Middle East, prove you are dismantling...
View ArticleChanging the Rules of War
Despite thousands of missiles being fired at Israeli cities, towns and villages, the European Union recently condemned Israel’s “disproportionate use of force” and issued a communiqu? urging Israel to...
View ArticleWhy the Dutch are Wrong
A Dutch court is presently considering a petition by the Dutch Islamic Federation seeking a review of whether Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders’s new 15-minute video Fitna (strife) violates...
View ArticlePalestinian State Recognition – The Unfolding Disaster
The British House of Commons in session In a spectacular display of ignorance, immorality and malice in early October, Sweden’s new prime minister announced that his government plans to extend...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s siren call to Congress must be heeded
On March 3rd, despite conflicting opinions on the wisdom of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s addressing the U.S. Congress on Iran without specific U.S. presidential approval, Netanyahu is scheduled to...
View ArticleUNHRC Report ignores the implications of the Gaza War
The grossly misnamed United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with its majority of non-democratic member-countries has just released its so-called “fact-finding report” on the war last summer in...
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