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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Bambi Meets Godzilla In The Middle East

By WALTER RUSSEL MEAD, THE AMERICAN INTEREST — President Obama has had a rude awakening in the Middle East. The region he thought existed was an illusion built on American progressive assumptions about the way the world works. In the dream Middle East, democracy at least of a sort was just around the corner. Moderate…

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Releasing Terrorists Will Not Bring Peace but Will Ignite an Inferno of Terrorism

By EARL COX, JPOST – If history is correct; if the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu put forth in his writings are valid; if Mahmood Abbas’s background and actions portray his intentions; then releasing Palestinian murderers from Israeli prison will put Israel and the world in more danger, not less.  Why?  Released vengeful terrorists tend…

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Obama is a prisoner of his own agenda

By VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ7— If the American President was not a prisoner to his own pro-Muslim Brotherhood agenda, the U.S. Administration would now be applauding the Egyptian military’s crackdown on the anti-Western, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel Muslim Brotherhood thugs who have instigated horrific violence in Cairo and throughout much of the country. Indeed, his own agenda…

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A report from Egyptian Christians

By SARA BALLENGER, CAPITAL HILL PRAYER PARTNERS— 1. UNDERSTANDING THE SITUATION IN EGYPT: SAT-7 Brings Firsthand Clarity In the wake of a bloody government crackdown on Egyptian protestors that left hundreds dead and thousands injured, SAT-7 Christian satellite television broadcasts from Egypt are bringing a firsthand view of the unethical practices of the Morsi presidency…

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The left and the Jews

By VLADIMIR TISMANEANU, FRONTPAGEMAG— Almost sixty-one years ago, in November 1952, in Prague, the former secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, a diehard, fanatic Stalinist, Rudolf Slansky, and 13 other prominent communists, mostly Jewish, were sentenced to death for alleged treason and Zionist conspiracy.  At the same time, Stalin’s terminal paranoia led to the…

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Palestinian lecturer denies Temple ever existed

During the negotiations at Camp David in 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat famously denied that a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem ever existed, much to President Bill Clinton’s amazement. Temple Denial has since metastasized in Palestinian popular belief. Under Arafat’s leadership, Palestinian historians were forbidden to refer to a historical Jewish Temple. Such historical reconstruction is…

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Video: A prophecy concerning Egypt

Think on This: “In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. Yahweh Almighty will bless…

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Netanyahu encourages Israeli Arab Christians to join IDF

By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has officially put his weight behind growing efforts to encourage young Israeli Arab Christians to join the Israeli army and fully integrate with Israeli society. The government has tried to initiate such programs in the past, only to create rifts in the Christian community and more…

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Iran’s next nuke-talk ploy

By AMIR TAHERI, NEW YORK POST— Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has declared the lifting of sanctions on the country as his top priority — even as he also insists that he won’t budge an inch from the Islamic Republic’s positions on key issues, including the controversial nuclear program “We call on everyone to approach…

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When synagogues burned in the Land of Israel

By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This week marks the eighth anniversary on the Hebrew calendar of one of the darkest chapters in Israel’s recent past. It was on the 8th of Elul, 5765, (September 12, 2005), that Israel stood by and watched as Palestinian mobs ransacked synagogues abandoned by the Jewish state after the withdrawal from…

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