Syrian chemicals and American credibility

By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— After nearly two-and-a-half years of dithering, President Barack Obama finally seems poised to take action against the thuggish regime of Bashar Assad. When the Syrian military attacked rebel-held suburbs of Damascus last week with chemical weapons, killing hundreds of innocent people in what US Secretary of State John Kerry labeled a…

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The US State Department’s Islamist Plan

By DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR,  MAKOR RISHON — What do the following things have in common: the Muslim Brotherhood’s demonstration in Rabi’a al-Adawiya Square in Cairo, Hamas’ deep misgivings in Gaza, the declaration by the leaders of the Islamic Movement in Jordan, and the demonstration held by the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel?…

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The UN, the Tanach and the G-d of Israel

By TUVIA BRODIE, ARUTZ 7— UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon has just admitted that the United Nations discriminates against Israel. He admits that the world headquarters of fairness and justice hypocritically treats one of its own Members with prejudice. The UN didn’t start out to be hateful. It began with the desire to create “respect for…

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The Triumph of Illusion in the Middle East

By SHOSHANA BRYEN, AMERICAN THINKER— The Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964. Like most revolutionary movements, it wrote a Charter to define its aims and fundamental policies, including: Article 17: The partitioning of Palestine, which took place in 1947, and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and void, regardless of the loss…

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Where Muslims Can Speak Freely in the Middle East

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— Arab journalists and columnists in Israel have been expressing their views about the Egyptian crisis without fear, while their colleagues in Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are afraid to speak their mind. Israel, for example, is one of the few countries in the Middle East where Muslims are permitted…

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