No surprises in poll commissioned by group funded by The New Israel Fund, The...
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64900
Damascus with Assad, none of this is particularly relevant to the here and
now - and probably the next decades for that matter.
So why commission a poll that is so profoundly irrelevant?
Here's a clue:
For an...
September 17, 2014: Surreal
Much of what goes on in the world these days has a surreal quality. But here’s a case that is sort of emblematic of a host of situations:
“Syrian rebels linked to Al-Qaeda have seized...
The Gaza Water Crisis
http://jcpa.org/article/gaza-water-crisis/
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in general failed to manage Gaza’s civil affairs. Even prior to the July 2014 Operation Protective Edge, an alarming collapse of Gaza’s physical infrastructures was evident: electricity, sewage, and...
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...