Russian Peace Plan: The Fallout Begins

September 11, 2013 15:56 by Pesach Benson President Obama took his case for Syrian intervention to the public in a national address (video/transcript). See also the Wall St. Journal, which rounded up the highlights of the president’s six network interviews. Fallout from the Russian initiative: According to Israeli media reports, when Moscow told Bashar Assad […]

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Million Muslim March Draws a Couple Dozen

A rally, previously advertised as the “Million Muslim March” drew only a handful of protesters to the National Mall on the 12th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The rally, which was recently renamed The “Million American March Against Fear” was organized by the American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC) but was mostly attended by 9/11 […]

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How to Libel Israel: A Case Study

September 11, 2013 13:30 by Simon Plosker It’s easy to produce an anti-Israel libel that is subsequently debunked after the damage has been done. This was graphically demonstrated in the past few days. Anti-poverty organization Oxfam’s Campaigns and Policy Director Ben Phillips tweeted the following: There exists a symbiotic relationship between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the […]

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Assad Celebrates Birthday as Rebel Terrorists Rue ‘Dirty’ Chemical Deal

Bashar al Assad marked his 48th birthday Wednesday, gifted with the momentum gathering behind a Russian-brokered deal that could prevent a U.S.-led strike on his regime. Despite the fact that over 100,000 Syrians have been killed in the country’s civil war, with two million having fled and a further four million citizens displaced inside the country, […]

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Evidence that Morsi Actually Lost the Egyptian Presidency

by Daniel Pipes August 18, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Just days after his apparent victory, Cynthia Farahat and I expressed our skepticism about the validity of these election returns: SCAF exploits the Muslim Brotherhood and other proxies as its civilian fronts, a role they are happy to play, by permitting Islamists […]

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Increased Terror in Iraq: Sixteen Family Members Killed in Brutal Sectarian Attack

Sixteen people have been killed in an apparently sectarian attack on a Shia family south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Unknown terrorists blew up two adjacent houses belonging to brothers from a Shia family in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, after shooting dead sixteen members of the same family, according to eyewitnesses. Eight women […]

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