Israel on high alert ahead of Yom Kippur

By YNET-— The special police alertness level which was put into effect ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday will continue during Yom Kippur and will only be terminated after the Simchat Torah holiday in 10 days time. Security forces will be standing by on Tuesday and Wednesday at cemeteries, synagogues and prayer sites and thousands…

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How — and why — Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu became equals

By CLIFFORD D. MAY, JWREVIEW— Iran or Israel: Which is more deserving of censure? On the one hand, as the French news agency Agence France-Presse reported last week, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling Israel “a cancerous tumor” that, he threatened, will “soon be excised.” He added: “The nations of the region will soon finish…

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Mocking Muhammad Is not hate speech

By DANIEL PIPES, FoxNews.com To stop Islamist violence over perceived insults to Muhammad, I argued in a FoxNews.com article on Friday, editors and producers daily should display cartoons of Muhammad “until the Islamists get used to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.” This appeal prompted a solemn reply from Sheila Musaji of…

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Iran: 'Strike a chance to wipe Israel off map'

By DUDI COHEN, YNET— “If the Zionists act against Iran it will be a historic opportunity for the Islamic Revolution to wipe them off the world’s geographic history,” Deputy Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Brig.-Gen. Hossein Salami declared Sunday. According to the Fars news agency, Salami stressed that Iran is “No longer concerned by the…

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Obama's dangerous consistency

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— On Tuesday, Egypt’s chief prosecutor issued arrest warrants against eight US citizens. Their purported crimes relate either to their reported involvement in the production of the Internet movie critical of Islam that has received so much attention over the past 10 days, or to other alleged anti-Islamic activities. One of the…

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