Holland has thrown cold water on the Palestinian Authority’s revived plan to seek statehood through the United Nations. “It will not be supported by the Netherlands,” Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal, told reporters at a press conference after a meeting between him, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Abbas, while ostensibly seeking […]
Every single rapist in Norway in 2010 was Muslim. A fluke? The report was cited by an official Norwegian television station, which interviewed a victim who said that her rapist explained to her that his religion permits him to rape her. According to the police report there was a total of 186 of known rape […]
It has been said that statesmanship consists of choosing the lesser evil. The European Union believes that another bailout of Greece is the lesser evil compared to debt restructuring, giving creditors only part of their money back or giving it back in full later than was originally contracted. The economic wise men of Europe have chosen to […]
The Jerusalem Post By David Harris June 21, 2011 We’re on the verge of another “flotilla” to Gaza. Estimates of the number of ships and participants vary from day to day, tending downward, but the erstwhile organizers insist that the maritime operation will take place. Their spokesmen have been hyperactive in drawing attention to the […]
by Daniel Pipes June 17, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online By committing forces in Libya on behalf of the rebels based in Cyrenaica without quite knowing who they are, what they believe in, or what kind of government they would institute on achieving power, the NATO allies did something unprecedented in March 2011. This […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said benefits and privileges enjoyed by terrorists in Israeli prisons would be revoked following Hamas’ refusal Thursday to allow the International Red Cross to visit kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. “I have decided to change Israel’s policy toward terrorists siting in Israeli jails,” Netanyahu said at the closing event of the […]
The Palestinian Authority has presented the Quartet of peacekeeping nations (the United States, Russia, United Nations and European Union) with four pre-condition for resuming talks with Israel. Palestine Liberation Organization chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told Saudi newspaper Al-Watan in an interview Friday the list of demands included the following: 1. A complete halt to all […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online June 21, 2011 Zionists stole Palestinian land: that’s the mantra both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas teach their children and propagate in their media. This claim has vast importance, as Palestinian Media Watch explains: “Presenting the creation of the [Israeli] state as an act of theft and its continued […]
After three years, British citizen Andrew Symeou has been found not guilty by a Greek jury of fatally attacking another British vacationer on the island of Zante. However, this is no ordinary judicial outcome, for Andrew Symeou has endured injustices far beyond being falsely accused of murder. Two years ago, Symeou was taken from his […]
A cynic may be excused for saying that there was vintage Chicago in Barack Obama’s recently concluded trip to Europe. It started with the Irish and finished with the Poles and, at the Warsaw ghetto Memorial, the president even met with some Polish Jews to assure them that he would be there for Israel. The […]
