Libya’s seat at the United Nations is currently vacant. Weeks ago, Muammar Qadhafi fired his U.N. ambassador Mohammed Shalgham after the ambassador denounced the Libyan strongman as a tyrant. In his stead, Qadhafi named another veteran and loyal diplomat, Ali Treki. The U.S. has apparently denied Treki a visa to enter the U.S. Qadhafi’s dear […]
You would think liberals in Congress have nothing better to do with their time. Amid a war in Libya, an effort to aid earthquake and tsunami-stricken Japan, a continuing war in Afghanistan, rising gas prices and endless unemployment, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate are refusing to accept a modest […]
by Daniel Pipes Fox News March 29, 2011 After decades of stasis, the Middle East is in uproar. With too much going on to focus on a single place, here’s a review of developments in four key countries. Libya: With most Americans not quite realizing it, their government haphazardly went to war on Mar. 19 […]
LA Times: Defense Against Baby Killers is “Tit-For-Tat” Many of you were outraged at a recent LA Times editorial which which contended that the brutal murder of the Fogel family was part of an ongoing “cycle of violence” and that the act of settlement building was the “provocation that led to them [the murders] in […]
The Castro regime in Cuba currently has three key objectives: The first is to manage its present economic crisis. The second is to protect the stability and longevity of the revolution’s senior leadership as it succumbs to the infirmities of age, cumulated policy failures, corruption, and growing dissent. Finally, the regime aims to insulate the […]
Last night, nine days after U.S. military operations against Muammar Qadhafi began, President Barack Obama took to the stage at the National Defense University to finally explain his rationale for intervention in Libya’s civil war. He described the brutality of the Qadhafi regime, the United States’ interests in the conflict, the limited nature of U.S. […]
Graphic depictions of the most egregious forms of human rights abuses against women in Iran took center stage at a special seminar in New York City on March 3rd. Sponsored by Iran180, which spotlights the litany of human rights abuses that take place on a daily basis in Iran, the seminar was entitled, “Securing Gender Equality: Iran and the […]
Veteran investigative reporter Hagai Huberman reported on the real story of Itamar’s security fence in Be’sheva, Arutz Sheva’s popular weekly Hebrew newspaper. INN translated the report. So what really happened to the warning system in Itamar, the one that was put in place after the terrible terror attacks during the height of the Oslo War […]
A prominent Egyptian told Defense Minister Ehud Barak that voters will favor candidates hostile to the US and Israel. The peace treaty is to remain – “for the time being,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. The unnamed Egyptian told the Defense Minister, “’We’re going to have a really open election….Civic parties […]
A convoy numbering dozens of cars headed out on Thursday from Itamar, through the site of Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem, and all the way to Be’er Sheva which has been hit by rockets fired by terrorists from Gaza. The convoy’s message was loud and clear: “We are all one people and terror affects us […]
