Viscount Samuel, Meet Secretary Hagel
Emerging from intense controversy, the British politician Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) was appointed the first High Commissioner of Palestine, where he served 1920-25. A Jew and an influential Zionist, Samuel bent over backwards not to favor the Yishuv, to the point that he forwarded the interests of the Palestinians most hostile to the Jewish presence. Most […]
Judge Who Mirandized Boston Bomber Has Muslim Ties
By Daniel Greenfield Once Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his rights on Monday, he immediately stopped talking, according to four officials of both political parties who were briefed on the interrogation but insisted on anonymity because the briefing was private. After roughly 16 hours of questioning, investigators were surprised when a magistrate judge and a representative […]
Senate passes bill to ease FAA furloughs
WASHINGTON (AP) — With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers. A House vote on the measure was expected as early as Friday, with lawmakers eager to embark on a weeklong vacation. Under the legislation, which the Senate passed […]
Clinton’s Signature Proves She Lied to Congress about Benghazi
In her testimony on Capitol Hill back in January, almost four full months after the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya (because that’s how speedy our government is), then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the State Department never received any requests for increased security to the embassy that was to be attacked. “They didn’t come […]
North Caucasus: Islamist Threat Comes from a History of Violence
The Boston Marathon bombers have brought greater attention to Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, their ancestral home. As painful their heinous acts are, however, the bombers’ actions are just a footnote to the history of insurgency and connections to global Islamist networks in the North Caucasus. The North Caucasus has a long history of violence and […]
Does the Government Want to Ban Cars?
By Jake Lambert The Left has been nonstop in its call to disarm America. This is absolutely the wrong call. We all know that guns carry with them a huge responsibility and can be dangerous in the wrong hands. There is something else that carries with it great responsibility and can be dangerous in the […]
Media Overplays Airport Security Issue
April 25, 2013 12:26 by Simon Plosker Just this week, en route to Israel through a British airport, I observed a young family being held up at security. Despite the fact that he had a newborn infant strapped to his chest in a baby carrier and was accompanying his wife and young daughter, the young […]
Defense: Mismatch Between Strategy and Ability
picturescolourlibrary/Pictures Colour Library/Newscom In a recent article in National Review, Heritage distinguished fellow and former Senator Jim Talent (R–MO) explains that the U.S. military is facing a troubling future. Talent describes how “every category of primary risk to American security is growing.” China is displaying increasing boldness in defense of its disputed territorial claims in […]
NY Judge Rules: Jordanian Bank Can Face Trial Over Terrorism
Arab Bank, Jordan’s largest lender, has lost a bid to avoid a U.S. trial in a lawsuit brought by terrorism victims who accuse it of supporting attacks in Israel, Bloomberg reports. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon rejected the bank’s request to throw out the case, sending it toward trial. The victims claim in […]
Bolton: Israel’s Situation With Iran ‘Very Perilous’
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said that the situation with Iran “is very perilous” because the regime “is close to achieving its twenty year long objective of getting nuclear weapons.” “I don’t think the economic sanctions have slowed the program down at all […]
UAV from Lebanon Shot Down over Israel
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) penetrated Israeli air space from Lebanon Thursday, and was shot down. At around 2:00 p.m. Israel time (11:00 GMT), IAF aircraft belonging to the aerial defense array identified an aircraft making its way from Lebanon into Israeli airspace. Fighter jets and combat helicopters were scrambled. The UAV was still over […]
