by Daniel Pipes November 3, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That’s because news reports blare out what’s not of interest: trivial statistics (171,000 jobs added in October; jobless rate up 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent), biographical […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times September 10-14, 2012 Barack Obama has come out swinging against his Republican rival, sponsoring television advertisements that ask, “What is Mitt Romney hiding?” The allusion is to such relatively minor matters as Romney’s prior tax returns, the date he stopped working for Bain Capital, and the non-public records from […]
by Daniel Pipes November 4, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Note the title is not “Why I am voting for Mitt Romney.” That’s because the two major American parties, Democratic and Republican, represent contrasting outlooks and you vote for the one or other of them, not for a personality. The presidential candidate […]
by Daniel Pipes July 18, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Of Israel’s neighbors, Lebanon always stood out by virtue of its weak central government, but for the first twenty years, 1948-68, this did not present difficulties to Israel; only when the Palestinian created a state-within-a-state there did its anarchy became a major […]
by Daniel Pipes July 29, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Mitt Romney, the all-but-official Republican presidential candidate, delivered a stem-winder of a speech to the Jerusalem Foundation today, packing emotional support with frank policy statements. The contrast with Obama could hardly be more dramatic. Indeed, one could go through the speech and […]
by Daniel Pipes October 14, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Shimon Shiffer reports in Yedioth Ahronoth that in secret talks in 2010 via U.S. government mediator Frederic C. Hof, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed in principle to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights to the June 4, 1967, lines in […]
by Daniel Pipes October 12, 2012 Cross-posted from History News Network Three reactions to the Joe Biden-Paul Ryan debate last night: Middle East dominance: The foreign policy aspects of the debate focused almost exclusively on Libya, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. Binyamin Netanyahu’s name was invoked eight times, far more often than any other […]
by Daniel Pipes The Boston Herald September 13, 2012 BH title: “Weak resolve enables jihadists” Attacks on Tuesday against American missions in Cairo and Benghazi fit into a familiar pattern of Islamist intimidation and Western appeasement that goes back to the Salman Rushdie affair in 1989. The Obama administration’s supine response to the murder of […]
by Daniel Pipes September 13, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The editors asked several analysts: “What does the deadly violence against U.S. officials in Libya and Egypt say about the Arab Spring? Is Mitt Romney ready to lead in this international atmosphere? Is our current president?” For replies by Shoshana Bryen, Douglas […]
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 […]
