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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Israel is America's shield

By KEN BLACKWELL and BOB MORRISON, TOWNHALL— We are used to hearing that America defends Israel. President Obama assures Israel that he has their back. That may be convincing talk in the `hood,’ but it rings hollow from this invertebrate administration to talk about anyone’s back. Actually, we may have all that backward. It may…

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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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Five reasons Jews shouldn't vote for Obama

By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— In six weeks, Americans will be going to the polls in what could prove to be one of the most fateful elections in decades. Mired in a weak economic recovery with mounting debt, the challenges America faces at home are no less pressing than those abroad, where instability in the Middle…

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Syria test fires chemical missile system

By SAMARA GREENBERG, JEWISH POLICY CENTER— According to a report in the German weekly Der Spiegel, the Syrian army in August is believed to have test fired missile systems using empty shells devised for delivering chemical agents. The tests, according to witnesses, took place near Syria’s largest chemical weapons facility, the Safira research center, where…

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Does AP stand for 'Associated Propaganda'?

By SHOSHANA BRYEN, AMERICAN THINKER— Associated Press told the story this way: “PARIS — A small package bomb exploded inside a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb Wednesday, wounding at least one person…The reason for the attack was unclear, but it rattled nerves amid global tensions surrounding a U.S.-produced film insulting to Islam. The…

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The abandonment

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, WASHINGTON POST— There are two positions one can take regarding the Iranian nuclear program: (a) it doesn’t matter, we can deter them, or (b) it does matter, we must stop them. In my view, the first position – that we can contain Iran as we did the Soviet Union – is totally…

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