Monthly Archives: September 2014
What Egypt’s President Sisi Really Thinks
http://www.danielpipes.org/14931/abdel-fattah-al-sisi
Former air marshal Husni Mubarak, now 86, had ruled Egypt for 30 years when his military colleagues forced him from office in 2011. Three years and many upheavals later, those same colleagues replaced his...
The nightmare of ‘Gaza Spring’
Here’s my takeaway from the latest Gaza war, linked to Arab Spring. It’s in The Times of Israel, along with an excerpt from my book:
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/no-gaza-spring/
Islamic Jihad Proudly Shows Off Tunnel Rebuilding Efforts
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/21581/islamic-jihad-proudly-tunnel-rebuilding/#qTCfWVyVJ1aQJRIR.99
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.” (Psalm 55:23)
The Gaza...
Qatar’s terror funding makes it more foe than friend to U.S., critics say
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/16/qatar-cozies-up-to-us-while-funding-terror-say-critics/
Qatar has simultaneously been championed as a Western ally in the fight against terror and criticized as the Middle East's chief enabler of radical jihad. It may have found a way to be both,...
Honoring Liberators and Mahalniks Before It Is Too Late
It is no secret that the eyewitnesses to the Nazi death camps, the Liberators from the U.S. and Allied Armies, are themselves quickly dying off. They did their duty, most having no clue that...
Immoral Equivalency
http://www.maraah-magazine.co.il
Judging the morality or immorality of war according to the number of people killed is not just another passing leftist cliché meant for public consumption, but has become the ultimate litmus test for determining...
An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
ALLAN I. MENDELSOHN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
August 18, 2014
The Honorable Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary General, United Nations
700 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York
Dear Mr. Secretary General:
As one who was a teen ager with nothing but the greatest of hopes...
The IS-Kurdish War
http://www.meforum.org/4796/iraq-isis-kurds-battle
"Eighty years ago, they joined three nations together and formed Iraq. This mistake must not be repeated … The solution is a breakup," says General Maghdid Haraki.
The Kurdish peshmerga officer is speaking from the...
Debunking UNRWA’s “Palestinian refugee” numbers
In a tour de force expose, SaveTheWest.com contributor Sam Solomon demolishes the myth upon which so much of the United Nations Relief Works Agency’s (UNRWA) “work” is premised: “to carry out direct relief and works...
Crying Need for UNRWA to Come Clean on Gaza
http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/crying-need-for-unrwa-to-come-clean-on-gaza/
What’s worse than a United Nations agency that provides massive welfare and support services to a Palestinian enclave run by terrorists?
Well, how about having that same agency run by a loquacious Swiss national who...