by Daniel Pipes National Review Online February 7, 2012 Remember the name Kastelorizo; you heard it here first. It is the far-flung, easternmost island of Greece, 80 miles from Rhodes, 170 miles west of Cyprus, but just 1 mile off the coast of Turkey. Kastelorizo is tiny, comprising just 5 square miles, plus some yet […]
North America is on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets including those in the USA. The head of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, told an audience at a closed forum in Tel Aviv recently that Iran is trying to […]
The dispute between the European Union and Hungary escalated temporarily when the European commission said it planned to bring suit against Hungary. The Commission generally sues member states on economic issues, such as a government restraining competition or subsidizing national champions. The Hungarian issue involves laws that go to the heart of governing party Fidesz’ political program. One […]
Billionaire financier George Soros thinks that, if Mitt Romney wins the presidency, there will be “little difference” between him and Barack Obama in the White House. Soros offered the reassuring news to liberals across Europe during an interview this week in Davos, Switzerland. As policymakers from Hong Kong to Canada pressed Greece and its creditors […]
Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday that Iran is already a nuclear state and that Americans have not realized that. “The United States says it will not allow Iran to be nuclear, but it is so blind that it hasn’t noticed that Iran has already become a nuclear state,” Khatami was […]
Iran continues to claim it is reaping the rewards of European sanctions even amid a deep currency crisis that rocks Tehran. In fact, the oil ministry in Tehran claims the embargo would leave Iran unscathed while inflicting “heavy economic loss” on the “people of Europe, who have been affected by crisis”. The result would be […]
Germanic immigrants drove the government of the Late Western Roman Empire into penury and extinction. Is it possible Mexican, Muslim and other immigrants from the third world likely to send the governments of USA and Europe to a similar fate? Is the United States of America and Europe the only western nations facing such a […]
Iranian Ambassador to South Korea Ahmad Masoumifar on Wednesday said there is a high demand for Iran’s crude oil supplies and Tehran has no problem maintaining exports. Masoumifar also shrugged off Iran’s shrinking pools of customers, saying “we (Iran) are producing about 80 million barrels [of oil] and there is demand for about 90 million.” […]
Dutch Christian daily Trouw’s vicious article about prenatal care in Israel entitled: “The chosen people have to be perfect”, provoked a furious response from HonestReporting readers. According to Yochanan Visser, the author of our guest post: Thanks to HonestReporting, Trouw received e-mails from places far beyond the borders of Holland. This was the first time in the […]
To assume that Iran will not close the Strait of Hormuz is to assume that primitive religious fanatics will perform cost-benefit analyses the way they are done at Wharton. They won’t, especially if the oil that is their life’s blood is threatened. If Iran does close the strait, we will fight an air and naval […]
