For the Palestinians’ sake, it’s time to kill off Arafat
Yasser Arafat was poisoned in 2004 with polonium 210, a dangerous radioactive substance, a Swiss laboratory concluded and Al Jazeera reported this week. Arafat’s widow Suha, literally went through his clothes and underwear to find loose change to prove her husband was poisoned. Now she has called on the Palestinian Authority to exhume her husband’s […]
Day Three: At the ATT, the International League of Supervillains Speaks
After the Palestinian fireworks of the first two days, the third day of the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty conference started slowly, with a series of national statements. None was without interest. What comes through loud and clear is that what the African nations, in particular, want is a treaty that will give them lots of […]
Signers of Declaration of Independence Paid the Price of Freedom With Personal and Financial Sacrifice
(CNSNews.com) – Two-hundred-and-thirty-six years after members of the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, Americans will celebrate the nation’s birth on July 4 with barbecues and fireworks. But the document that declared independence for the 13 American colonies from the tyranny of England’s King George III, signed by 56 men, was considered an […]
Anti-Semitism on the Rise in France: Israeli Rabbi Attacked on Paris Subway
Rabbi Asher Idan, the director of the Jerusalem-based Kol HaNa’ar, was attacked and robbed on Tuesday while traveling on the subway in Paris. The incident occurred as Rabbi Idan, who is currently in France engaged in Jewish activities, made his way, along with a student, on the subway to give lessons to local Jewish youth. […]
UN Fixation On Israel Gives Assad Free Pass
UN Fixation On Israel Gives Assad Free Pass July 3, 2012 17:35 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. UN talks on the international weapons trade have stalled over Palestinian participation; AFP reports that diplomats are using the […]
Celebrating Self-Government
Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate with fireworks and barbeques and John Philip Sousa. Then we return to our regularly scheduled lives. But this Independence Day is different. Last week, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, an unprecedented expansion of government’s power into one-sixth of the economy and a tremendous loss to individual liberty. Now more […]
Pakistan Apology Deal Incidental to the Real Problem of Pakistan’s Support for Terrorists
As Washington closed down for Independence Day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly apologized to Pakistan for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers inadvertently killed by a NATO military strike along the Afghan border last November. In return, Pakistan will re-open Afghan supply routes it shut down in retaliation. The seven-month closure of the routes […]
Mahatma Gandhi and the Jews
by Ranbir In his book God is not Great, the late Christopher Hitchens takes issue with the prevailing view that India’s independence was the result of the efforts of Mahatma Gandhi’s use of non-violent civil disobedience. Anyone claiming to be Gandhian or setting their ethical compass by Gandhi often exudes a self-righteous arrogance and […]
A Billion Here, a Billion There: The State Department’s Wacky Budget Process
Even by U.S. government standards (not a high one these days), the State Department’s budget process is a mess. In almost every budget cycle, billions and billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars get allocated to the State Department in the last minute without proper congressional debate or substantive hearings. As a consequence, opaqueness and bureaucratic confusion […]
Congress Doesn’t Get Homeland Security
Last week, Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (D–NY), Edward Markey (D–MA), and Bennie Thompson (D–MS) publicly chastised the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a New York Times op-ed, claiming that DHS has done little to counter the terrorist threat to maritime cargo security in recent years. While this couldn’t be much further from the truth, through […]
Obama Turns His Back on Israel and Supports Hate Session at the U.N.
By Anne Bayefsky Today, at the United Nations, the Obama administration is turning its back on Israel. For the very first time, the U.N. Security Council has invited the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to “brief” the Council specifically on the subject of Israel and the commissioner’s list of trumped-up sins. Though the U.S. […]
