November 26, 2013 15:56 by Alex Margolin Despite admissions from editors that the paper was wrong to illustrate a story about the murder of an IDF soldier with a photo of the murder’s mother, and countless complaints from readers that the admissions do not go far enough, New York Times is digging its heels in […]
(CNSNews.com) – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a series of Twitter messages extolling women, but U.N. rights experts paint a bleak picture of Iran’s treatment of women, especially those in prison. Several other Islamic countries also have a poor record when it […]
The leader of Syria’s most powerful Kurdish faction has warned of a possible future war against “Arab settlers” in Kurdish areas of the country, only weeks after his party declared the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish region. Salih Muslim, who heads the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its powerful militia, the Committees for the Protection of the […]
Embassy Bomber ID’ed as Palestinian November 21, 2013 16:12 by Pesach Benson One of the suicide bombers from this week’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut is Palestinian, according to the Daily Star. Michael Totten and NOW Lebanon look at Hezbollah’s fears of more suicide attacks. And the Times of London piles on with a new irony you gotta […]
The Obama administration feared an Israeli airstrike on Iran more than it feared Iran building a nuclear weapon, and that’s why it pushed for a deal to reduce sanctions against Iran, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton writes in The Weekly Standard. “Buying time for its own sake makes sense in some negotiating contexts, but the […]
Geneva, 24 November 2013 Joint Plan of Action Preamble The goal for these negotiations is to reach a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek or develop any nuclear weapons. This comprehensive solution would build on these initial […]
by Daniel Pipes November 23, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner “For the first time in nearly a decade we have halted parts of Iran’s nuclear program” announced a jubilant Barack Obama after the news of the just-signed Geneva six-month interim agreement with Iran. But the American goal for the accord was that […]
A number of news outlets have reported that Angola has “banned” Islam and started to dismantle mosques in a bold effort to stem the spread of Muslim extremism and violence in the country. Surrounded by countries under the bloody siege of Islamic jihad, this is not surprising . Angola is taking steps at self-preservation on […]
The deal that the Obama Administration struck at the Geneva talks yesterday amounts to a flawed agreement that risks reducing sanctions pressure on Iran over next six months in return for easily reversible Iranian pledges, some of which Iran has given before but subsequently reneged on. The deal requires Iran to curb some, but not […]
November 20, 2013 10:57 by Simon Plosker The New York Times has responded to our criticism of the paper’s appalling choice of photo accompanying its story on the murder of an Israeli soldier. Your emails to NY Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan certainly caught her attention. In her column she writes: Hundreds of readers wrote […]
