Top Obama aide invites head of terrorist-linked org to join administration task force

A top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at last weekend's 46thIslamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic...

Hamas Expands Military Academy

Hamas has expanded operations of its military academy as part of an effort to produce a trained cadre of officers. The Abdullah Azzam Academy, located in the central Gaza Strip, has received additional funding and recruits in...

WHERE ARE THE VOICES OF CONSCIENCE FOR IRAN?

Where is everyone? Where did all the people who demonstrated against Israel’s brutality in Operation Cast Lead, in the Second Lebanon War, in Operation Defensive Shield, or even in The Hague, when we were...

SHIP OF FOOLS: WHY THE SITUATION IN IRAN HAS CHANGED IRREVOCABLY

There is something hypnotic about the 15th century painting by Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools. The painting being very small, I used to use a magnifying glass to identify all of the secrets packed...

The Middle Eastern Cold War

There are many cracks in the Arab Street.

A cold war is "the key to understanding the Middle East in the 21st century." So argue Yigal Carmon and three of his colleagues at the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) in a recent study, "An Escalating Regional Cold War."They have identified a major confrontation that the media has somehow missed - and which is the more important for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's just having been re-designated as president of Iran.

Islamic Terrorists Forming Cells In America:Hezbollah Expected To Be A Major Threat By 2014

Hezbollah could be one of the first security challenges faced by the new Obama administration. An official government report concludes the Iranian-backed Islamic terror group has been forming sleeper cells throughout the United States...

Analysis: The IDF War in Gaza

"It Smells" Still last night I had a bit of a "wait and see" attitude: We're still in Gaza, if Hamas hits us we may start again. Who knows. Well, now we know. Hamas has just...

The IDF Situation in Gaza

Our current ground operation, stage two, is just about complete. Yet we're not pulling out and we're not bringing in all of the reserve units to move into stage three. Some reservists have been...

Secrecy Surrounds Senator Specter’s Visit to Damascus

The interview that follows was conducted with Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA.) when he visited Israel, en route to Damascus. Despite Senator Specter's willingness to engage in an open and frank discussion before his visit to...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: January 8, 2009 "Diplomatic Confusion" Major Ro'i Rozner, of the Kfir Brigade, has been killed by mortar fire in a fierce battle in the region of the former Jewish community of Neztarim. We salute him. ~~~~~~~~~~ It...