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An Israeli Apology to Turkey

by Daniel Pipes March 22, 2013 updated Mar 27, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner On Feb. 27, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a conference in Vienna, “Just like Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, Islamophobia must be regarded as a crime against humanity.” His calling the Jewish nationalist movement that built the State of Israel […]

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Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq

by Daniel Pipes March 18, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner How does one understand the U.S.-led expeditionary force that attacked Iraq exactly a decade ago, on March 18, 2003? Saddam Hussein’s regime was one of the most monstrous in human history, enslaving some 20 million people to his cruel and demanding will […]

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Excluding Jews and Others from Juries

by Daniel Pipes March 11, 2013 updated Mar 12, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Comes the news that Frederick Cohn, the Jewish defense lawyer for Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, asked Brooklyn-based federal judge Eric Vitaliano to exclude Jews from the jury. Shehadeh is charged with three counts of making false statements in connection […]

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[Defending Lars Hedegaard:] “A Stew of Anti-Muslim Bile and Conspiracy-Laden Forecasts”

by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com March 6, 2013 At 11:20 a.m. on Feb. 5, Lars Hedegaard answered his door bell to an apparent mailman. Instead of receiving a package, however, the 70-year-old Danish historian and journalist found himself face to face with a would-be assassin about one third his age. The assailant shot him once, narrowly […]

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50 Years of Syrian Misery

by Daniel Pipes March 8, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The horrors of today’s Syria – repression, civil war, barbarity – resulted from many developments; one of the most important occurred 50 years ago today. That’s when the pedantically named “Military Committee of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba’th […]

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When AIPAC Went AWOL

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times March 4, 2013 Washington Times title: “Israel lobby tiptoes around Hagel nomination” Chuck Hagel’s notorious 2008 statement about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading institution of the pro-Israel lobby, claimed that “the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here [in Congress]. I’m a United […]

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Islamist Assassinations in the West

by Daniel Pipes Gatestone Institute February 25, 2013 Terrorism broadly takes two forms: against random individuals who happen to be at a market place or on a bus at the wrong time; or against specific individuals because of who they are. The latter in turn divides into two: against broad categories of people (the military, […]

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