By VICTOR SHARPE— They are the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. They are indistinguishable from those Arabs who live in the surrounding artificial states such as Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or the other entities throughout the Middle East created by the colonial powers, France and Britain. Both powers were victorious after the Ottoman Turkish Empire…
By VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— “Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, is obsolete. “It has existed in the past, it is here in the present, and will, alas, be there in the future. “The all-powerful state is not a new world that…
By RON JAGER— “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked,” Secretary of State Dean Rusk famously said during the Cuban missile crisis. In global strategic diplomacy, rule number one has always been; don’t blink. In recent months President Obama has been doing a lot of blinking, forfeiting hard gained leverage…
By RON JAGER— The World Happiness Report, released recently, ranked Israel the 11th-happiest country in the world, ahead of the United States, and far ahead of its neighbors in the region, and was based on data collected from 156 countries between 2010 and 2012. The report ranked the happiness of the world’s nations based on…
By VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ 7— This is what a Christian Tea Party activist and American immigrant from India, Mario Goveia, wrote to me as the latest Palestinian crime against an Israeli civilian was perpetrated; this time by a Palestinian Arab sniper who shot a 9-year-old girl. He wrote: “It has bemused me for years that…
In loving memory of Martha Patricia Mercer Hutchens February 22, 1937 – March 31, 2014 Song written and composed by Andrew McKain
By RON JAGER— It was last week during Succoth, that we read and heard that timeless quote from Kohelet, “Nothing new under the sun.” A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a “violation of the physical integrity of children” was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a pan-European intergovernmental organization.…
By VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— With the de facto capitulation of President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry over Syria, and with Russian President Putin now very much in control and humiliating the United States in the pages of the New York Times, the towering peril to the world is now the re-invigorated Russian support…
By RON JAGER— Over the past week, much has been written about whether President Obama will give the green light and attack Syria for using chemical weapons of mass destruction against her own people. Much of the American public has been inundated with reports on the major networks, op-ed pieces in national and local newspapers…
By VICTOR SHARPE— If anything uttered by a United States senator should send shudders of despair through what is left of a sane and moral world, it is the moronic words spewed by the ubiquitous Senator John McCain in the last few days. When asked by a Fox News reporter if America should be giving…