by Mark Tooley, Frontpagemag.com The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) has yet really to condemn the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia 35 years ago. Or the Marxist orchestrated famine in Ethiopia that killed almost as many during the 1980s. It never directly condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein’s hundreds of thousands of…
by David Limbaugh, Townhall.com In reviewing the available facts about the Israeli storming of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla, two conclusions emerge: 1) The Israelis were justified in their actions, and 2) the Israelis will continue to be unjustly condemned by the world community. Consider: Israeli is surrounded by nations and entities either dedicated to its…
By Gal Luft, Foreign Policy Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been spending a lot of time with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lately, to the consternation of the former’s supporters at home and friends elsewhere in the West. Brazil, currently a member of the U.N. Security Council, has been unapologetic about its…
by Rachel Sylvetsky, Israel National News Daniel Lazar ben Tina Taabel Lea One of the soldiers badly injured on the flotilla boat is from Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion.. He had his ear cut off by a knife, it was just holding by a scrap of skin, was shot in the leg and has a…
by Charles Krauthammer The world is outraged at Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers. But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is…
By Caroline Glick The ferocity and speed of the current international assault on Israel has left the government in a daze. Statements from our leadership are marked by confusion. This reaction is understandable. Everywhere Israel turns it is met with hostility. Turkey — which just a decade ago was Israel’s most important regional ally —…
by Steven Emerson, New York Post The “Free Gaza” flotilla was far more than a collection of innocent “peace activists” try ing to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most passengers may have been nonviolent — but a significant minority were anything but. The passengers reportedly included 100-plus members of various Muslim Brotherhood chapters, at least…