Why Would Anyone Want to Blow Up Times Square?
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online May 5, 2010 When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, the triad of politicians, law enforcement, and media invariably presumes that the perpetrator suffers from some mental or emotional incapacity. (For a quick listing of examples, see my collection at “Sudden Jihad or ‘Inordinate Stress’ at Ft. Hood?“). […]
EMP could leave ‘9 out of 10 Americans dead’
Analyst: ‘That is exactly what Iranians are working toward’ There is renewed alarm about the possibility of an EMP attack – electromagnetic pulse – on the United States because of Iran’s work on a multi-stage Space Launch Vehicle, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. And experts forecast if such an attack were […]
Stocks slide as new doubts about Greek aid emerge
NEW YORK – Stocks plunged around the world Tuesday as fears spread that Europe’s attempt to contain Greece’s debt crisis would fail. The euro fell to its lowest point against the dollar in a year. The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 245 points, erasing its 143-point gain from Monday. The Dow and broader indexes […]
Muslim Man Arrested in Times Square Bombing Attempt
Faisal Shahzad , a Pakistan-born muslim and naturalized U.S. citizen from Long Hill Avenue in Shelton, Conn., is accused of driving the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder loaded with a propane-and-gasoline bomb into Times Square on Saturday, May 1. Shahzad was arrested at midnight Monday trying to flee the country on a Dubai-bound flight at JFK Airport, […]
Palestine Betrayed
by Efraim Karsh Yale, 336 pp., $32.50 Reviewed by Daniel Pipes National Review May 17, 2010 Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” has entered the English language in reference to the Arab–Israeli conflict. As defined by the anti-Israel website The Electronic Intifada, Nakba means “the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands [of] Palestinians from […]
Jeb Bush carries the Bush political torch
By: Jonathan Martin April 28, 2010 04:54 AM EDT Talk privately to just about any leading Republican about the 2012 presidential race, and you’ll often hear a sentence that starts with: “If his last name were …” They’re talking about the former two-term governor of one of America’s largest states who is a reformer, a […]
The Unique Assault on Israel
by Daniel Pipes April 29, 2010 updated May 2, 2010 No contemporary state faces such an array of threats as does Israel – indeed, probably no state in history ever has. Consider their range: Weapons of mass destruction: Iran, Syria Conventional military attack: Egypt Terrorism: Hizbullah, Fath, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Economic blockade and boycott: […]
Why Do Israelis Permit Hezbollah to Acquire Scuds?
by Daniel Pipes April 28, 2010 updated May 2, 2010 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said yesterday that Hezbollah now has “far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world”, an apparent reference to Israeli reports that Damascus had supplied it with the latest version of Scud missiles, capable of carrying a […]
The Palestinian Authority Celebrates Terrorists Who Killed Israelis
by Daniel Pipes May 3, 2010 While the U.S. government has a faith in Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that borders on the mystical, some of us see them merely as the “good terrorists” (good because willing to talk to Israel) as opposed to the “bad terrorists” of Hamas (bad because unwilling to talk). […]
Egypt, Iran Against Israel, US, at UN Nuke Conference
Iran and Egypt are lining up to fight the United States and its allies over Israel at the upcoming United Nations meeting on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested a visa to enter the U.S. to attend the meeting, which begins Monday in New York, but it is not yet clear […]
Israeli Diplomat Attacked in UK
Palestinian protesters tried to attack the deputy ambassador of Israel to Britain. Protesters lunged at Talya Lador-Fresher following her lecture Wednesday at the University of Manchester. The envoy, who was not hurt, told Britain’s Jewish Chronicle that she feared she would be physically assaulted by the protesters. Lador-Fresher was removed from the area by a […]
