by David J. Rusin FrontPage Magazine July 31, 2012 Illustrating that the jihadist enterprise transcends all borders, American Islamist groups typically preoccupied with remaking the U.S. have been leaving their fingerprints on the campaign to exchange secular authoritarianism for religious authoritarianism in the Middle East. As these organizations labor stateside to nudge the governing class […]
As the world begins to lend international support to a French-led military intervention against Islamic terrorists in Mali, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday brought the issue home, comparing the situation in northern Africa to Israel’s fight against terrorism in Gaza. “France’s foreign minister said this month that his country was fighting to […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. Mali is France’s Gaza, argues Ron Agam: France is now going to war in Mali because it says “we cannot have a terrorist state at the door of Europe,” but when Israel launches a defensive operation to protect its citizens from missile attacks from terrorists in Gaza, all the French newspapers […]
Some children ventured out across the snow-covered regions of Israel Thursday to build snowmen and igloos while other took a more shocking and sinister interpretation on the idea of a snow sculpture. A picture has been circulating online Thursday, featuring a snow missile, built near the al-Aqsa mosque, with M75 written across. The “M75” missile […]
January 6, 2013 14:47 by Simon Plosker The Washington Post has published a story examining the trauma suffered by Gazan children as a result of conflict. The scene is set with a vivid and emotive opening: Fatima still dreams about Ahmed. Sometimes they’re playing with toys as they used to do. But in other dreams, […]
Hezbollah and Muslim missionaries are making in-roads in Mexico. They’ve teamed up with the drug cartels and arms traffickers based in Chiapas, becoming very real threat to US security. YNet writes: These cartel contacts smuggle illegal immigrants – including individuals affiliated with Iran, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups – into Mexico, placing them […]
December 24, 2012 12:02 by Yarden Frankl Does the Los Angeles Times’s reporting reflect an anti-Israel bias? A number of HonestReporting subscribers asked for our opinion. So we reviewed the Times’s coverage, and while most of the articles we looked at in our survey did not show the kind of factual inaccuracies that we would highlight in […]
Palestinian militants in Gaza violated the laws of war by firing rockets into Israel during last month’s conflict, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. The New York-based watchdog also said Palestinian civilians were repeatedly put in harm’s way when Hamas fired rockets from densely populated areas. The eight-day conflict followed an escalation in cross-boundary violence. At least 170 […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal have agreed to launch a 3rd intifada against Israel. This one’s going to be “popular.” Khaled Abu Toameh explains: Abbas and Mashaal are aware, the sources noted, that the Palestinians are now not ready for another military confrontation with Israel — neither in the West Bank […]
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 […]
