The Silver Lining of Obama’s Weak America
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times November 12, 2013 N.B.: Washington Times title: “A silver lining to ‘leading from behind’” That the socialist French government of François Hollande just blocked a bad deal with Tehran, emerging as the hero of the Geneva negotiations, is on one level a huge surprise. But it also follows logically […]
Pollard’s Continued Incarceration: A Message to American Jews
The Jewish magazine Tablet on Thursday sharply criticized the ongoing US refusal to free Jonathan Pollard, now in his 29th year behind American bars for passing secret documents to Israel. The article argues that Pollard’s incarceration reveals anti-Semitism in the American government. It is noted that Pollard’s crime carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, and that […]
Taiwan Translates First Report on Auschwitz into Chinese
Taiwan will release a Chinese edition of the first known Holocaust report on Auschwitz-Birkenau written by a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated the Nazi death camp, a Polish institute said Monday. According to AFP, the Chinese translation of the report will be available from Taiwanese publisher Acropolis starting Wednesday, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) said on its website. In 1940, Polish […]
Demonizing Irish Times Columnist Crosses the Line
January 16, 2014 17:15 by Simon Plosker Out of countless numbers of articles on Ariel Sharon’s legacy, the Irish Times has produced a stand-out piece of hatred. That it comes from the poisonous pen of Eamonn McCann is not a surprise. McCann has already distinguished himself with his particularly vicious writing on Israel, two articles […]
Member of Israeli Knesset in ‘Miraculous’ Escape from Rock Terror
Member of Knesset Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home) had a narrow escape this week when terrorists threw a large concrete block at his car. The attackers struck late on Sunday night, as Kalfa was making his way from Jerusalem to the pre-military academy in Yatir, in the Hevron region. The attack took place near El Aroub […]
British Terror Suspects To Walk Free
A terror suspected, thought to have been planning attacks in London, will have restrictions on his movement lifted by the end of January, according to court papers released Tuesday. The man, a British-Nigerian, is one of six suspects given wider freedom of movement, in a move that the opposition Labor party is challenging, reports AFP. […]
Islamic Waqf Revises History: ‘Temple Mount, Kotel are Muslim’
The Islamic Waqf, which supervises the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, has issued a pamphlet that makes new claims regarding the Mount – arguing, among other things, that King Solomon was a Muslim and that there is no Jewish connection to either the Temple Mount or the Western Wall (Kotel). Rabbi Chaim Richman of the […]
Part-Time Target Employees Can’t Keep Their Health Care Plans
Another group of Americans is discovering that President Obama’s promise that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” simply wasn’t true. Target announced yesterday that it would no longer offer health insurance for the company’s part-time employees starting April 1. “The launch of Health Insurance Marketplaces provides new options for health […]
Muslim Couple Taught to Hate Israel: ‘Reality is Different’…
Wounded Syrian woman: “We hesitated coming to Israel, because we were taught to hate it. We were taught this is a brutal enemy state, but we learned that reality is different. People here have a conscience. Our enemy is in Syria, not in Israel.” Israel Defense Forces troops brought a wounded Syrian couple to Poriah […]
China Exports Pollution to U.S., Study Finds
BEIJING — Filthy emissions from China’s export industries are carried across the Pacific Ocean and contribute to air pollution in the Western United States, according to a paper published Monday by a prominent American science journal. The research is the first to quantify how air pollution in the United States is affected by China’s production […]
Dep. Defense Min. Hints at Israeli Strike on Iran
The Deputy Defense Minister, MK Danny Danon (Likud-Beytenu), has penned an article in the US-based Politico website that appears to be a warning about an Israeli intention to strike Iran’s nuclear weapon facilities. The relatively short, 400-word article, refers to two previous cases in which Israel struck Islamic nuclear sites without US approval. In 1981, […]
