by Daniel Pipes July 20, 2011 updated Aug 6, 2011 This weblog entry is dedicated to the oil rich who find creative new ways to burn through excess funds, listed in reverse chronological order. Spell your name out on sand in kilometer-high letters: A member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, […]
By Aaron Klein It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election. While noting he is disappointed with “some aspects” of the Obama administration’s domestic and foreign policy, Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, threw his support […]
Researchers at the Center for Near East Policy Research have produced a new documentary film entitled Palestinian Refugee Policy: From Despair to Hope. The film shows just how deeply Hamas has penetrated UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), the UN agency specializing in providing aid to PA Arabs. The film does this by using […]
The following correction has been published in The Independent relating to an article by Robert Fisk on the Arab Spring: In his Friday essay on 15 April 2011 (“The Arab Awakening – a long time coming”) Robert Fisk quoted from an order said to have been issued by the Saudi Minister of the Interior, HRH […]
JERUSALEM, Israel — A new poll among Palestinians indicates there’s overwhelming support for the charter of the terrorist group Hamas — a dangerous element if the Palestinians gain statehood in September. The Israel Project found that 80 percent Palestinians support Hamas. The desire to annihilate the Jewish people is one of the main goals of […]
(NY Daily)In the wake of the mass murder of 77 people in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik, there is a new chorus of voices eager to create a simple equation between “Christianist,” anti-Muslim violence and the Islamist terrorism that targets America, its allies and, indeed, Muslims around the world, including most spectacularly on 9/11. But […]
Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin responds to a report that Vice President Joe Biden said Republicans were “terrorists” during a closed-door meeting with Congressional Democrats about the debt compromise. Palin says “enough is enough” and she’s “not going to sit here and take it anymore” when it comes to the left accusing the Tea Party of […]
While some western European countries do not understand why Israel has failed to make peace with the Palestinian Authority, those living in the Balkans “get it,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said last week, speaking at the beginning of a visit to Romania and Bulgaria. “They have lived under tyranny, so they are more skeptical, they […]
NATAL: Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War recently presented the findings of new research it conducted regarding the situation in Sderot today, following ten years of continued rocket fire and the 2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The research was conducted by Mark Gelkopf, the head of research in NATAL and Associate […]
by Daniel Pipes August 3, 2011 The Palestinian Authority’s push to declare a Palestinian state is hardly a new idea. By my count, this is the fourth iteration. I described the first instance as follows: on October 1, 1948, Amin al-Husayni, the mufti of Jerusalem, stood before the Palestine National Council in Gaza and declared […]
