Daily Archives: August 15, 2011
The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-split-in-revolutionary-islamist.html
A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War era: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shia camps.
Of...
Telling It Like It Wasn’t
http://www.thejewishweek.com/print/18829
In iconic New York Post page one photo, Isaac Bitton lies injured on Crown Heights street with his son cowering next to him.
Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991...
Did the White House ‘Cleanse’ References to Jerusalem, Israel From Its Web Site?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-the-white-house-
cleanse-references-to-jerusalem-israel-from-its-web-site/
On Tuesday, The Weekly Standard’s deputy online editor, Daniel Halper, made a noteworthy charge against the White House.
Following an article in which he discussed the ongoing debate over which country the U.S. believes Jerusalem...
Looking Back, From Addis Ababa To Crown Heights
http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt
/looking_back_addis_ababa_crown_heights
On Aug. 19, 1991, a car accident in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn launched a perfect storm of violence, transforming a longstanding resentment among some blacks of Jews in general and neighborhood chasidim...