by Daniel Pipes National Review Online November 27, 2012 The Second Hamas-Israel War of Nov. 10-21 inspired a mighty debate over rights and wrongs, with each side appealing to the large undecided bloc (19 percent of Americans according to CNN/ORC, 38 percent according to Rasmussen). Is Israel a criminal state that has no right to […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times December 11, 2012 Washington Times title: “Islamists are worse than dictators” Who is worse, President Mohamed Morsi, the elected Islamist seeking to apply Islamic law in Egypt, or President Husni Mubarak, the former dictator ousted for trying to start a dynasty? More broadly will a liberal, democratic order more […]
The Muslim Brotherhood has replaced Hosni Mubarak, but an inside look at Egypt’s torture chambers reveal that they remain the same despite the Obama administration’s attempt to make Egypt safe for democracy. At least two things have not changed: Violence and protests. The Egyptian Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, with the help of a Brotherhood-owned television station, […]
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement is marching hand-in-hand with Hamas, which has offered the movement, founded by Yasser Arafat, “to put our hands together and carry the gun.” The rift between the two rival factions seemed irreparable in 2007, when Hamas ousted the Fatah leadership from Gaza in a bloody militia war of […]
Egypt’s ruling party is paying gangs of thugs to sexually assault women protesting in Cairo’s Tahrir Square against President Mohamed Morsi, activists said. They also said the Muslim Brotherhood is paying gangs to beat up men who are taking part in the latest round of protests, which followed a decree by President Morsi to give […]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is calling for a jihad (“holy war”) to liberate the Palestinian Authority areas. “Jihad is obligatory” for Muslims, top Islamic cleric Mohammed Badei said, adding that peace deals with Israel are a “game of grand deception”. Badei added that there have been enough negotiations and that the “enemy knows nothing but the language […]
Egypt’s president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments that placed him above judicial oversight and ordered the retrial of Hosni Mubarak for the killing of protesters in last year’s uprising. Mohammed Morsi also decreed immunity for the Islamist-dominated panel drafting a new constitution from any possible court decisions to dissolve it, a threat that had been […]
450 Mil for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, 45 Mil for the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and 300 Mil for Palestinian Terrorists. Those are Obama’s budget priorities. Obama is trying to “save” 10 billion dollars by firing 20,000 US Marines. Meanwhile he’s got almost half a billion for the Egyptian and Syrian Muslim Brotherhoods and another 300 […]
by Daniel Pipes November 15, 2012 updated Nov 16, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Two observations about the hostilities that began on Nov. 10: (1) The old Arab-Israeli wars were military clashes, the recent ones are political clashes. The wars of 1948-49, 1967, and 1973 were life-and-death struggles for the Jewish state. […]
The Israeli government has approved the call-up of 75,000 reservists to participate in the Gaza fighting, as infantry, armor and engineering units mass near Gaza awaiting the command to enter the Hamas-controlled terror state. No one outside the IDF’s leadership knows if the IDF intends to invade Gaza, when the IDF incursion will start, and […]
