Sharm al-Shaykh Summit Statement: from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia: Implement the “Right of...

Sharm el Sheikh, May 11 (MENA) - President Hosni Mubarak, Syrian President Bashar el-Assad and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Ben Abdel Aziz underlined the necessity of implementing resolutions of the UN Security Council and...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: December 13, 2007 "When Does It Get Better?" "The resignation of Sderot's mayor constitutes a great victory for the Palestinian resistance. This is a political victory, a victory for morale, it adds to the humiliation...

Commentary: Expectations of War and Terror

Yesterday a report from a high ranking officer in the Southern Command was made public: Palestinians released in prisoner exchanges, he said, "always return to terrorism." Always. That's pretty clear, and pretty direct as...

Confronting the Islamic threat to the West

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5046/confronting_the_islamic_threat_to_the_west Good Western boys, turned Islamic fighters A greater effort must be made to control the threat of Islamic terrorism. Indifference to the threat, let alone acquiescence, is not an option for Western survival. An official...

A Tribute to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, whose memory is being observed today in Washington,...

On September 14, 2011, a memorial service was held for Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Pope's ambassador to the United States and formerly the Papal Nuncio in Jerusalem. He died very recently. I knew this man....

An Ugly Distortion of Justice

It is 1985. You are a young American Jew of the post-Holocaust generation, employed in the US Naval Intelligence. Your loyalty to your country of birth has never been in question. But you are...

Painful Anatomical Symptoms

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/38124/38124 For those Yiddishly challenged this translates as a pain in the posterior. No doubt the diplomatic fraternity will be frantically trying to play this latest revelation down and bury it under the proverbial carpet...

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,...

Why Israel Is More Secure in 2014 than in 2013

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/why-israel-is-more-secure-in-2014-than.html Articles in the Israeli media based on analysis of security in 2014 present a surprisingly optimistic assessment, though not from a U.S. perspective and still with some warnings. Most of the work is by Ron...

Iran Oil Fair Makes Mockery of Sanctions

http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/Iran-Sanctions-OilFair/2011/04/16/id/393098 Hundreds of foreign oil companies are taking part in a major industry exhibition that opened in Tehran on Saturday, making a mockery of U.S. and European Union efforts to impose sanctions on Iran’s oil...