EDITORIAL, Investor’s Business Daily — Leadership: In recent weeks, one of humanity’s ugliest scourges has seen an unwelcome resurgence. We’re talking of course about anti-Semitism. We’re happy to see that at least one world leader recognizes it. Amid an outbreak of sometimes borderline and sometimes outright anti-Semitism among Hollywood stars and politicians, we’re starting to…
CAROLINE GLICK, JPost — Global jihadists have predicted correctly that Western liberals will not learn the lessons of history. Instead of acknowledging their previous mistakes, they will again whitewash and embrace those whose goal is nothing short of destroying civilization
BY LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST— Nation of Islam leader says his comments on Jews are meant “to pull the cover off Satan” and “Zionists dominate the US government and banks.”Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said on Tuesday that Jews and Zionists are “trying to push the US into war” and that “Zionists dominate the US…
BY DANIEL AYALON, FOREIGN POLICY— The recent unrest in parts of the Arab world has not only exposed the appalling lack of development in these countries, but also a number of fundamental deficiencies in the international system. The United Nations, which began its life with a plurality of democratic nations, now allows for an automatic…
BY HERB KEINON, JPOST The current instability in the region, coupled with the continued refusal of the Palestinians to negotiate, will likely lead to an Israeli initiative to move the diplomatic process forward, senior government officials said Tuesday. The officials said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was contemplating a phased approach “that will lead us…
BY NICOLE BRACKMAN AND ASAF ROMIROWSKY, PAJAMAS MEDIA Recent turmoil in the Middle East has focused the world’s attention on the disintegration of several of that region’s worst autocratic dictatorships. “Popular uprising,” “liberalism,” and “democracy” sound like movements the U.S. and the West should support; however, when coming out of the Arab world — with…
BY THE MEIR AMIT INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORM– 1. Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi is a central figure affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. He was expelled from Egypt and found refuge in Qatar, operating from there throughout the Muslim world. 2. Many consider him the supreme religious and ideological authority for the Muslim Brotherhood, although he…
BY DAN MURPHY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR— Muammar Qaddafi is ringed by financial sanctions. The United States and European powers say they are mulling further steps, including extending a no-fly zone over the country to protect the uprising against his rule. The country is split, with large swathes of territory out of his hands and opposition…
BY DANIEL PIPES— First, these rebellions fit into the context of a regional chessboard, what I call the Middle East cold war. On one side stands the “resistance” bloc led by Iran and including Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Qatar; it seeks to shake up the existing order with a new one, more piously Islamic…
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