Democrats Fib Again about Israel

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online September 11, 2012 Last week saw a dispute over Jerusalem at the Democratic National Convention that, in the context of similar incidents, provides an important insight into the party’s covert distancing of itself from Israel. The story broke on Sept. 4, when the Washington Free Beacon reported that “Jerusalem […]

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Obama’s New Egypt: American Embassy Burned to the Ground, American Killed

Events unfolding today much like they did in Iran at the American Embassy in Tehran, it was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days in 1979. It was one major reason Carter was not reelected as well as a huge international embarrassment for then President Carter. […]

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Arabs Attack on Israeli Village

Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs have been assaulting a Jewish village in the Binyamin region since Saturday afternoon, Tatzpit reports. Residents of the Jewish village of Esh Kodesh reported that the assault began when three men from the community were walking in one of the town’s vineyards on Saturday afternoon, during the Jewish Sabbath. The […]

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Iran Releases Christian Pastor Charged with Leaving Islam

An Iranian pastor sentenced to death for his Christian beliefs was released from custody during a Saturday court proceeding, according to an international religious freedom organization. Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports that a court acquitted Yousef Nadarkhani of the Church of Iran of apostasy charges: According to reliable sources, during court proceedings that took place today, Pastor Nadarkhani […]

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Turkish Teacher Imprisoned for Likening Erdogan to Hitler

A Turkish school teacher was sentenced to one year in prison for likening Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Adolf Hitler, Anatolia news agency reported. The court found Oktay Zaif, who allegedly showed footage of speeches by Hitler and Erdogan during class, guilty of “politically aiming to distance military students from Prime Minister Erdogan and […]

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A demonstrator holds a sign outside the Democratic National Convention

Democrats Eliminate ‘G-d’ from Platform

The Democrats’ election platform, which in 2008 spoke of people’s “G-d given potential,” has erased any mention of Him in the new platform document under the section “Moving American Forward.” Arutz Sheva previously reported that the 2012 platform also has dropped the item of Jerusalem from the platform, but if Jews felt slighted, they now […]

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