Russia’s Putin to Visit Israel Next Month Despite Prior Warning Against Attacking Iran
Following secret contacts between the Kremlin and the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, it was agreed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Israel next month, the Hebrew-language newspaper Yediot Acharonot reported on Friday. The trip will be one of Putin’s first official trips since his inauguration for a second term as President. According […]
Hizbullah’s Nasrallah Threatens: Fences Won’t Ensure Israel’s Existence
Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel on Friday, saying the Jewish State is hiding behind walls and fences and that these cannot ensure its future existence. Nasrallah made the comments during a video speech which was broadcast during a rally in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, marking 12 years since Israel withdrew its troops […]
Egypt Presidential Elections: Brotherhood Candidate and Former PM to Run-Off Round
Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi and former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, are the two candidates who will face off in a run-off round in Egypt’s presidential elections. According to a report by the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, Morsi has taken 24.9 percent of the votes, and Shafiq is a close second […]
Iran Hints It Could Stop Enrichment at 20%
Iran may agree to negotiate its ongoing enrichment of uranium to higher levels if the West recognizes it has the “right” to do so for peaceful purposes, its foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, according to a report by Iranian news agency IRNA. However, another news agency quotes the spokesman differently. “If Western countries (accept) […]
Ex Party Of French Government Faces Electoral Drubbing Without A Leader
As the French legislative elections in June approach, the picture looks very bad for the Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) party that was the party in power until recently. The new president, Francois Hollande, is currently basking in a 61% positive popularity rating. It is therefore difficult to see why the French voter will […]
Onslaught of 1700+ Hate Texts to a Jewish Student
A teenager in Albuquerque is accused of sending hundreds of anti-Semitic text messages to a fellow student, including “kill Jews, heil Hitler,” KRQE News reported. The victim’s mother said the verbal attacks have been going on for years, but last week the onslaught came to a head when her son’s phone was barraged with hateful text […]
Iran Balks at the Nuclear Talks
Iran once again has refuted optimistic predictions that meaningful progress would be made on the core issues at stake in the on-again, off-again nuclear negotiations. In two days of talks in Baghdad, Tehran rejected the Western proposal for resolving the nuclear impasse and agreed only to continue the talks in Moscow on June 18–19. After […]
Public Schools in NYC With ‘Mandatory’ Arabic Classes
New York Department of Education is permitting Nicky Kram,the Principal of Public Grade School PS368, to introduce MANDATORY Arabic language lessons, this is a fundamental abuse of tax payer dollars. Of course the program is “Mandatory”, beginning next semester, all 200 second-through fifth-graders at PS 368 in Hamilton Heights will be taught the language twice […]
Debunking Claims Against Missile Defense
The Fiscal Times recently published a hit piece attacking defense contractors who build ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems and the Members of Congress who support them. The three most egregious claims of the piece are as follows: 1. The system doesn’t work. 2. There is no threat. 3. Members of Congress who support these programs […]
Missile Defense: Problems with an Assurance to Russia
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Steven Pifer responded to Senator Jon Kyl’s (R–AZ) op-ed that argued that President Obama should refuse to provide written assurances to Russia that compromise America’s ability to defend itself. Pifer’s complaint with the Senate Republican Whip’s argument is that “an assurance could open a path to a cooperative NATO-Russia missile […]
MEADS Development Crucial to U.S. Defense
Former Representative Bob Barr’s (R–GA) criticism of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) anti-aircraft and missile program is understandable but misplaced. Representative Barr, quite reasonably, points to the Obama Administration’s plan to continue spending money on this cooperative program with Germany and Italy despite an announcement early last year that it is moving to […]
