Why the Palestinians Keep Killing

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN, Commentary Magazine— What if the supposed cause of terrorism against Israel were based on a lie? That’s the awful fact that was exposed yesterday by none other than Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10, Abbas admitted that in 2008 he flatly rejected an offer of statehood…

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Column One: Who is being delusional?

By Caroline Glick, JPOST— On Tuesday night, Channel 10 broadcast an interview with PLO chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas admitted publicly for the first time that he rejected the peace plan then prime minister Ehud Olmert offered him in 2008. Olmert’s plan called for Israel to withdraw from the entire…

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PICTURES FROM PARIS, AUTUMN 2015

By Inna Rogatchi (C) Photo-essay with highlights. On a night following the carnage in Paris on November 13th, 2015, I saw the Mayor of the city Anne Hidalgo on the French TV screen. She was interviewed in the early hours after the attacks. The Mayor looked pale and shocked. She could only mumble:” The toll…

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Jordan’s King Abdullah: We are facing a Third World War

By: Reuters, JPOST: The world is facing another global conflict and a fast response is needed to deal with the threat, Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Tuesday. “We are facing a Third World War against humanity and this is what brings us all altogether,” he told a news conference in Kosovo’s capital Pristina. “This is…

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The Islamist Tantrum

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…

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Kasich Proposes New Government Agency To Promote Judeo-Christian Values

By: Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News—   As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world. The new agency, which he hasn’t yet named, would promote a Jewish- and Christian-based belief system to four regions of…

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Radical Islam- The invisible enemy

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…

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Toronto Sun: Suing Facebook another step in fighting terrorism

By Don Peat— JERUSALEM – Facebook probably isn’t going to like Nitsana Darshan-Leitner anytime soon. The lawyer and director of Shurat HaDin — Israel Law Center has made headlines by taking terrorists to court along with any financial organizations that provide them assistance. But now the lawyer has the social network in her sights. Darshan-Leitner recently sued…

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Iran master negotiators practiced in the art of deception.

By Earl Cox, JPOST— On the day thousands of Iranians celebrated the 36th anniversary of the destruction of the US embassy by burning the American flag, chanting ‘Death to America’ and ‘Down with Israel,’ I decided to review the Iran deal as it’s been reported thus far. Most people around the world believe the Iranian…

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‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny Morris

By Gabriel Noah Brahm, Fathom Journal— In this in-depth interview, Israeli historian Benny Morris speaks with Professor Gabriel Noah Brahm about his work, his critics and his regrets. He also charges Western academics with dishonesty about the Middle East, gives his prognosis for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and outlines his view of Israel’s place in the…

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