Turkey is More Oppressive than the USSR

by Daniel Pipes Feb 22, 2017 Cross-posted from National Review Online I participated yesterday in a conference about the eastern Mediterranean at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) just outside Tel Aviv; and because Tel Aviv is the diplomatic center of Israel, its events attract a good number of diplomats. Yesterday was no exception, […]

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Time to Boycott Nordstrom: Dropped Ivanka after Travel Pause

Nordstrom Issued a Memo About Trump’s Immigration Pause Right Before it Dropped Ivanka It was reported last week that Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump’s product line from its stores, allegedly due to the brand’s poor performance. Interestingly, it’s now been revealed that the department store issued a memo regarding Donald Trump’s Muslim refugee ban immediately before removing Ivanka’s products […]

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Those claiming the Muslim Brotherhood is popular and nonviolent are wrong on both counts.

Not Blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood Carries Risk

by Cynthia Farahat  •  Feb 3, 2017 Cross-posted from Cynthiafarahat.com Nearly every Sunni Islamist terror group in history was established fully or in part by Muslim Brotherhood members. In a January 26 Wall Street Journal article titled “Blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood Carries Risk,” Yaroslav Trofimov writes that the Trump administration’s proposed designation of the Brotherhood as […]

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White House: Israeli Settlements Not an Impediment to Peace

The White House released a statement on settlement construction: essentially supporting building within existing settlements while gently criticizing the construction of new settlements, or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders, saying that such construction “may not be helpful.” (Despite construction within settlements and “natural growth” of existing settlements, Israel has not actually built […]

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Citing Muslim Bans on Israelis, Geert Wilders Calls Trump Critics ‘Hypocrites’

Geert Wilders has repeatedly said he argues for “Judeo-Christian values,” which he said are threatened by Islam in the Netherlands and elsewhere. JTA – The Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders called critics of President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees “hypocrites” for failing to protest against predominantly Muslim countries that ban Israeli passport holders. Wilders, whose rightist […]

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Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem now!

Why? It has been argued, apparently by Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, that such a move would inflame the Arab world, especially the Palestinian Arabs, and expose Americans to attack, while causing disorders for these regimes. It is even said that Israel’s subterranean contacts and quiet cooperation with certain Arab states, united by fear of a […]

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