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Terrorism

Syria – A Minefield

February 28, 2012
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Senator Clinton’s vocal (though not military or financial) support as well as the White House’s ambivalent backing for the Free Syria Coalition, now after 7,000 deaths and a year of violent revolution, may come back to haunt us. 

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Victim?

November 27, 2011
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It is a case of confused identity; it too is really a case of essential honesty. Hamas in Gaza recently swapped one Israeli for 1000 plus convicted Hamas and PLO murderers and felons. Gilad Shalit, young Israeli border guard, naive and innocent, probably never killed a bird, a cat never mind taken a human life. [...]

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The Cat is finally out of the bag

June 27, 2011
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Last year it was Israel’s intransigence – building apartments in greater Jerusalem and in their settlements in the West Bank – that was to blame for the lack of Mid-East peace. This year, it is all about Israel’s refusal to accept “1967 borders,” originally an armistice line

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The Elephant in the Room

March 19, 2011
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Recall the seemingly absurd rationale (among others) given by president George W. Bush for invading Iraq: to bring freedom and democracy to the Arab Middle East. Satirists had a field day, while the bulk of the West’s intellectual and political classes mocked George junior with no respite.

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Obama’s White House – A Policy of Discrimination

February 3, 2011

Obama’s pledge, when running for president, was to focus on human rights not war, on democracy, not special interests. In Israel’s case, at the UN, he has come up sorely wanting.

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Who Needs to Talk for Hamas?

October 6, 2010

As talks between Israel and Fatah grind along, many commentators have asked: where is Hamas? Who is speaking for the duly elected leaders of a good portion of the factitious Palestinian Authority? The answer, of course, is that Hamas speaks very well for themselves. Just read the group’s charter: in Arabic for the Arabs, and [...]

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Media Blind Spot

September 17, 2010

General Petraeus recently voiced his concern that the plans of Pastor Terry Jones – the leader of a (very) small Florida church – to burn Qurans on the upcoming anniversary of the 9/11 attacks would endanger our troops. In response to Petraeus’ announcement, Afghan protestors chanted “death to America”.

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America – Amazing and Tolerant

July 3, 2010
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Over the past decade, untold numbers of Muslim innocents – both Shia and Sunni—have been slaughtered by their co-religionists. Moreover, a growing list of Christians, Jews and Americans have been murdered, blown up, and beheaded throughout the Muslim World and beyond, often for the mere presumption of their birth religion or place.

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Dangerous Stakes

June 5, 2010
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Changing tacks following Turkey’s thus-far unsuccessful bid for EU membership, it seems that Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan is bidding for the leadership of the Muslim World instead. He reportedly bank-rolled the terrorist-associated IHH in buying the lead ship for breaking Israel’s blockage of Gaza, and certainly facilitated the inclusion, without passports and security checks, of [...]

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Forgiveness is not justice

May 5, 2010
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A seemingly unbridgeable divide remains between American liberalism – borne of contemporary, “turn-the-other-cheek” Christianity – and archetypal reap-what-you-sow Judaism. It’s strange – for almost 2,000 years the Church persecuted Jews for being different. Yet we now hear calls from many (though, by no means, all) of our country’s Christian corners for understanding, love, kindness and [...]

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