Islam vs. History

by Daniel Pipes July 2, 2012 updated Jan 11, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner The Islamist destruction underway in Timbuktu (including the tomb of Sidi Mahmoudou, d. 955, and the doors of the Sidi Yahya Mosque, ca. 1400) raises a question: What is it about Islam that so often turns its adherents […]

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Lessening UNRWA’s Damage

by Steven J. Rosen and Daniel Pipes The Jerusalem Post July 10, 2012 Critics of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the organization tasked with oversight of Palestine refugees, have tended to focus on its sins. Its camps are havens for terrorists. Its bureaucracy is bloated and its payroll includes radicals. Its schools […]

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Netanyahu: Israel Demands Safety, Recognition

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Tuesday evening at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Netanyahu noted Israel’s concerns about Iran, and revealed the two demands that his government will not concede on in talks with the Palestinian Authority. He began by warning that Iran is nearly at the threshold of nuclear weapons production. “The […]

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Obama’s Foreign Policy to Nowhere

Pete Souza/The White House/Polaris Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the British Defense Staff, made some ripples across the pond with his judgment on the U.S. president’s foreign policy. “Obama has no sense of what he wants to do in the world,” Strachan said. Coming from a world-class military historian, it was […]

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