By Brett Stephens, Wall Street Journal— People are dead in Paris because Europe decided to make a fetish of its tolerance for intolerance. We live in the age of the sanctified tantrum—the political and religious furies we dare not name or shame, much less confront. Students bully college administrators with contrived political demands. The administrators…
By Caroline Glick, Jpost— As the cleaning crews were mopping up the dried blood from the stage and the seats of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, a depressing act appeared on stage in distant Iowa. Saturday night the three contenders for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination took to the stage in Iowa for a…
By: Giulio Meotti, Israel National News— In front of the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not only stare for forty seconds into the eyes of the world’s representatives, charging them with having kept silent in the face of Iran’s promise to destroy Israel. Netanyahu also pulled out a book in Farsi.…
By: Ron Jager— Indifference cannot under any circumstances be seen as acceptable behavior of political leaders. Even great leaders can fall prey to the seductive effect of indifference and perceive the physical existence and suffering of their own countrymen in acceptable terms. Not since the days of the second “intifada”, when all of Israel become…
By: Prof. Paul Eidelberg— Introduction In The Dream Palace of the Arabs, the renowned Lebanese-born scholar, Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University, portrays the thoughts of the most prominent of literati of the Arab-Islamic world who sorrowfully behold the “death of Arab civilization.” He himself writes that “Arab society had run through most of its myths,…
By: Giulio Meotti, Israel National News— The State of Israel and its citizens are fighting for their own right to life everywhere, in Jerusalem as in Judea and Samaria. Muslim terrorists are slaying Jews in their own cars, streets and houses. But the “free world” pays no attention to Jewish blood spilled with impunity. Another…
By: Ruthie Blum, Israel Hayom— As his five-day visit to the United States comes to an end, Pope Francis continues to receive the undivided attention of audiences as major in number as in stature. It is not clear whether the head of the Holy See is worried about the danger of succumbing to the sin of…
By: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Most people are aware of the Christian and Jewish concepts of messiah, but very few outside of Islam know of their concept of messiah and how it irreconcilably pits them against the Judeo-Christian world. Today, the Islamic concept of the messiah is being expressed in current political events,…
By JNS.org— Sunni Muslim Iraqi politician Mithal Al-Alusi, who leads the Ummah Party, told the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Rai that Iraq should make peace with Israel. He also called Iran “insane” and said the Muslim world has created the Islamic State terror group by fostering a “mentality of vengeance and nullification of the other.” “Yes.…
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post– Islamic militants claiming to be representatives of terror group ISIS in Jerusalem have threatened to “cleanse” Israel of all Christians and “non-believers” unless they leave the country. The extremists are accusing Christians of encouraging Muslims to abandon their religion. “Those who work with the Zionists also encourage Muslims to leave…