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BREAKING NEWS: Five Hezbollah Members To Be Indicted In Hariri Assassination Five high ranking Hezbollah officials are expected to be indicted in the next few days by the United Nations special tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri, London-based Asharq Alawsat reported on Monday. Once the indictments are released, the identities […]
BREAKING NEWS: Hamas Rejects German Mediator’s Offer on Shalit JERUSALEM—Hamas [has] rejected an offer to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit made by [a] German mediator, a deal which the Israeli government had accepted. Hamas political bureau deputy chief Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzouk called the offer “unjust” and said the German […]
HISTORY WILL NOT BE DECEIVED Max Boot Contentions, June 22, 2011 “L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace!” To Napoleon and other great generals the willingness to be bold and audacious was the key to victory. Barack Obama is no Napoleon. He seems to believe that timidity is the key to success—that flip-flopping and […]
THE FUTURE STILL BELONGS TO AMERICA Walter Russell MeadWall Street Journal, July 2, 2011 It is, the pundits keep telling us, a time of American decline, of a post-American world. The 21st century will belong to someone else. Crippled by debt at home, hammered by the aftermath of a financial crisis, bloodied […]
Mahmoud Abbas' Speech at the UN
FOUR LEBANESE INDICTED IN PREMIER’S KILLING Farnaz Fassihi Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2011 The United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon [has] issued indictments and arrest warrants for four Lebanese nationals affiliated with Hezbollah for involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The indictments, handed to Lebanon’s […]
JEWISH DEMS LOSING FAITH IN OBAMA Ben Smith Politico, June 29, 2011 David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama’s standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples—all Obama voters in 2008—nearly turned into a screaming match. Ainsman, a […]
REMEMBERING THE ‘ALTALENA’ Jerold S. Auerbach Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2011 Israel is confronting increasingly virulent worldwide challenges to its legitimacy. An expanding chorus of politicians, journalists and academics relentlessly denounces the Jewish state as a racist, apartheid abomination. The resemblance between their shrill diatribes and the rhetoric of anti-Semitism […]
From shadowy terrorist cells to lone wolves on the prowl, counterterrorist expert Fred Burton has seen them all. In this wide-ranging , exclusive interview, Burton separates fact from fantasy and shares his astute knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of America's approach to fighting terror. To read more, click here
UN RULES THAT ISRAELI BLOCKADE IS LEGAL IN BLOW TO FAILING FLOTILLA More bad news for the dwindling number of flotilla activists hanging around the ports of Greece. The now completed UN Inquiry on last year’s Gaza flotilla incident aboard the Mavi Marmara found that Israel’s blockade of Hamas-ruled […]
LEARNING LEBANON II’S LESSONS Liat Collins Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2011 Time flies not only when you’re having fun. Proof: On July 12, it will be five years since the Second Lebanon War broke out, and the intervening years seem to have gone quickly. Perhaps it was because they were […]
GILAD SHALIT RELEASED IN PRISONER SWAP Joshua Mitnick Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2011 Israel and Hamas carried out an unprecedented prisoner swap on Tuesday, freeing Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit after five years in captivity in return for some 477 Palestinian prisoners that were released to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and to Egypt.… […]
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