Is it just me, or does anyone else think last week’s drama surrounding Vice President Joe Biden’s supposed “embarrassment” and Hillary Clinton’s rage over an Israeli decision to build 1600 apartments in East Jerusalem seems manufactured?
I have struggled mightily and sincerely to keep an open mind, and my respect for the Presidency–as well as my …
Last Thursday The Lawfare Project, a non-profit founded by attorney Brooke Goldstein (pictured above) to confront “lawfare” – which Goldstein defined in her opening remarks as “the use of the law as a weapon of war” — held a conference at the New York County Law Building in …
Today it was reported that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) acknowledges “the existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.” Although that’s hardly plain English, a close examination of the statement suggests that the IAEA is saying that, …
Last week at UC Irvine, a large group of extremist students repeatedly shouted down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. You can watch a video of this debacle here.
When appeals to the values of liberal education, free speech, and even threats of expulsion failed to quiet the disruption, Ambassador Oren appealed …
From The Jerusalem Post
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Iraqi parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi is warning that Iran is much closer to attaining nuclear capability than most sources, including the International Atomic Energy Agency and the US State Department, believe. In fact, he predicts the Iranians could have a nuclear capability - and …
During the Bush years, some thought the main obstacle to successfully negotiating with Iran was President Bush. In fact, Bush was condemned by some for his unwillingness to engage Iranian leaders.
Fastforward a year. President Obama has extended to Ahmadinejad one olive branch after another and been rebuffed. Wednesday night in an interview with the United …
In this week’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Amir Taheri reports that Iran’s pro-democracy movement is “deepening and growing.”
On Monday, thousands of Iranian students risked their lives and safety to protest the rule of the mullahs in Iran. Some protestors allegedly burned photographs of Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a taboo-shattering move …
Just read this sage and sobering passage from “The Gathering Storm,” Winston Churchill’s account of World War II:
“Those who are prone by character or temperament to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure problems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from a foreign Power, have not always been right. On …
It is painful, either way, to consider what may occur in coming days regarding IDF Sgt. Gilad Shalit, the soldier who was kidnapped some years ago by Hamas. Apparently negotiations are underway for his release.
Of course, all Israel-supporters, and those who value human life, are praying for this young man’s safe return home.
Historically, Israeli/Palestinian …
Iraqi Liberal Warns of a Fixed Election
From The New York Post
by HEATHER ROBINSON
In a phone interview from Baghdad yester day, an Iraqi member of parliament said he believes he and other liberals are being shortchanged votes by an Iraqi Electoral Commission that has been corrupted by Iran.
“The citizens of Iraq …