by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com April 6, 2010 As U.S.-Israel tensions climb to unfamiliar heights, they recall a prior round of tensions nearly thirty years ago, when Menachem Begin and Ronald Reagan were in charge. In contrast to Binyamin Netanyahu’s repeated apologies, Begin adopted a quite different approach. The sequence of events started with a statement […]
by David J. Rusin • Apr 6, 2010 at 8:04 am Tariq Ramadan, Europe’s slickest Islamist, is set to appear in the United States for the first time since the Obama administration lifted a six-year-old entrance ban — imposed not to muzzle speech, as is often claimed, but because of donations he had sent to […]
Iran continues to defy international law and advance its nuclear weapons program. A newly released CIA report revealed that Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons, The Washington Times reported Tuesday. “Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision is made to do so,” […]
by David J. Rusin • Mar 28, 2010 at 12:54 pm Islamists do not wish to debate their opponents; they wish to silence them. This means demonstrating the high costs, whether legal or physical, of speaking out. Recent news items show how the fear of violence can drive capitulation — and, therefore, how violent Islamism […]
by Stephen Schwartz American Thinker March 29, 2010 A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools — which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum — on U.S. soil. The inspirer of this conspiratorial effort is Fethullah Gülen, who directs a major Islamist movement in […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online March 30, 2010 Iraq’s recently-concluded, inconclusive elections will be followed in August by the pullout of American troops, making this a good time to ask what American taxpayers have achieved with the US$45 billion spent on reconstructing Iraq since 2003 and what steps to take next. U.S. Embassy Baghdad […]
by Daniel Pipes March 27, 2006 updated Mar 28, 2010 It’s hardly news that Republicans view Israel more favorably than do Democrats – I wrote about this pattern in 2000 in “The Friendly Republicans” and have even speculated (in “Arabs and Jews Sorting Themselves Out Politically in the United States?“) that Jews will eventually settle […]
by Daniel Pipes March 16, 2010 updated Mar 22, 2010 According to a flattering profile about her, Linda Sarsour of Brooklyn has “got her hands in everything” as director of the Arab American Association of New York, the Coordinator of Community Initiatives for the YWCA Brooklyn, a member of the Coalition for Muslim School Holidays, […]
by Daniel Pipes March 22, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online On learning that Barack Obama invited Binyamin Netanyahu to visit him on March 23, presumably to discuss such momentous topics as the timing of announcements of housing units in Jerusalem and urging him to make nice to the PLO’s Mahmoud Abbas, I can’t help […]
The U.S. and Israeli teams issued a three-sentence statement describing little more than a “good atmosphere” hours after President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met privately for 90 minutes. “U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met privately for approximately 1.5 hours,” said the statement released by Israel about 2 a.m. Eastern […]
