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November 28, 2024
Western Europe’s Muslim ProblemRadical Muslim gangs who harbor hatred for Western culture and believe that Islam is the answer for all bear a visceral and violent antisemitic hatred for Israel and Jews. The pogrom perpetrated by Arab and Turkish Muslims earlier this mon...
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November 17, 2024
What the 2024 election results portend for IsraelDonald J. Trump’s decisive electoral victory in the November 5, 2024 election has, in all probability, ended the Obama era. For all intents and purposes, Obama served three terms as president. A Harris victory on November ...
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October 12, 2024
American Weakness Invites AggressionIn November 1979, Iranian “students,” inspired or directed by Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran. A weak Jimmy Carter administration emboldened the attack, which resulted in 52 American diplom...
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September 22, 2024
A Bit of Israel NostalgiaIt is customary to romanticize one’s youth, nostalgia being a common reflection on a life lived. In a related look back, the following focuses on a special era — that of 1960s Israel. I will not recount the wars, since the e...
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September 17, 2024
Israel must free itself from dependency on WashingtonThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been in an intense state of alert in recent weeks. Israel is anticipating a retaliatory attack from the Islamic Republic of Iran or from its proxy, Lebanese Hezb’allah, allegedly in response to la...
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September 10, 2024
Democrats depart from the bipartisan Israel consensusThe State of Israel enjoyed bipartisan consensus for decades. The Democrat party, under Presidents Johnson, Clinton, and Biden (until recently), along with U.S. Democrat senators, was among the staunchest supporters of Israel during the 19...
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August 30, 2024
It’s about religion!Recently, I had the privilege of hearing the “Son of Hamas,” Mosab Hassan Yousef, address our community. What stood out was his passionate and, at times, frustrated tone when addressing the conflict between Islam and the West a...
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August 8, 2024
A friendship between Israel and Saudi Arabia?The timing of the Hamas October 7, 2023 attack on Israel was meant to disrupt the negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia being mediated by Washington. Iran, fearing the success of a powerful pro-American, pro-Western defensive allian...
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July 27, 2024
The ‘Two-State Solution’ Is No SolutionThe Knesset (Israeli Parliament) voted last week on a bill that opposes the establishment of a Palestinian State. The bill explained that the creation of a Palestinian State now, or in the foreseeable future, poses an “existential da...
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July 23, 2024
Unity for America, unity for IsraelEmpires and superpowers have risen and fallen throughout history, and one of the causes of their failure is the loss of what gave rise to their power and prestige: faith in their ideals. In an ideal society, homogeneity of beliefs and cult...
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July 3, 2024
How it all went down in Israel on October 7It was still dark outside in the Gaza Strip in the early morning of October 7, 2023, when the Hamas terror group’s messengers were knocking on doors to wake up and alert the battalion commanders responsible for around 100 fighters under their c...
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June 11, 2024
Compromise is not in the Palestinian vocabularyAs a former radio talk show host on WMCA–New York, I had the opportunity to discuss the Middle East with numerous public figures and, in particular, with members of the U.S. Congress. The issue most germane to our discussions was Isr...
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May 22, 2024
Qatar: A threat to the WestThe Emirate of Qatar is a rather small country of 4,471 square miles and a small population — less than three million people — and only a third of whom are Qatari citizens. Yet despite its rather modest dimensions, Qatar yields...
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May 14, 2024
The world loves dead Jews but hates living onesYom HaShoah, or Holocaust Memorial Day, was solemnly memorialized at Yad Vashem last Sunday, a particularly sad day in light of the October 7, 2023 massacres, which marked the largest toll of Jewish-Israelis murdered in a single day since the Holocau...
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May 12, 2024
American appeasement engenders Islamist aggressionIn November 1979, the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai terrorists, referred to as “students,” stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. They subsequently held 52 U.S. diplomats as hostages for 444 days. The ...
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May 1, 2024
Campus antisemitism: Follow the moneyVirtually all Ivy League universities in the USA have Arab-funded academic chairs, many of them directed and taught by radical Arab Muslims whose methodology is to indoctrinate rather than teach American students. Countries like Qatar, a chief fun...
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April 25, 2024
Israel must prepare for an era of warsThe Jewish state’s disastrous failures of October 7, 2023 must compel Israeli decision-makers to reevaluate their country’s strategic conceptions. The complacent attitude that both the Israeli government and the top military ec...
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March 20, 2024
What the war in Gaza reveals about modern Jew-hatredAlbert Einstein once noted, “The reason we Jews survive is that the cowards leave us.” One can, however, find plenty of cowards among Jews themselves. One such coward, imbued with self-hatred, is the writer and director of t...
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January 31, 2024
Palestinians are obfuscating historyWe are currently witnessing a depraved reality. Israelis are traumatized following the massacre by Hamas — and rather than offering empathy and compassion for Israel, much of the world has turned against the country. In fa...
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January 21, 2024
Iran targets the Kurds...and the USThe Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in what appeared to be retaliation against last month’s alleged Israeli strike in Damascus that killed Sader Seyed Razi Mousavi, a top adviser to the IRGC in Syria, targeted the Kurdish Regional Go...
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December 26, 2023
How to get Hamas to release the hostagesYahya Sinwar, the Hamas chief terrorist in Gaza, has no incentive to make a deal for the release of the estimated 129 Israeli hostages. Thanks to the Biden administration, he believes he has the upper hand in his war with Israel. ...
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December 22, 2023
The two-state fantasyThe Biden administration is currently pushing the idea of the Two-State Solution between Israel and the Palestinians, specifically between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (P.A.), led by the 87-year-old Mahmoud Abbas. In an ideal world...
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May 30, 2015
Mahmoud Abbas and the 'Angel of Peace'The Daily Mail reported on Sunday, May 17, 2015 that "Pope Francis described Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as an 'angel of peace' before he canonized two 19th century nuns in hopes of encouraging Christians across the Middle East who ...
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April 15, 2015
The Hypocrisy of Penn DivestmentThe University of Pennsylvania has a new divestment movement called Penn Divest from Displacement. It is a newly contrived “action” group uniting the same fellow travellers, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Penn Arab Stu...
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April 4, 2015
Obama Realigns American Foreign PolicyForeign policy pundits are not quite sure about the Obama administration’s Middle East strategy. It appears that the administration is either playing a balance-of-power game in the Middle East, or realigning its foreign policy in the region. ...
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September 24, 2014
Iran is America's Most Dangerous FoeAs the Obama administration goes about forging a coalition of nations willing to combat the brutality and barbarism of the Islamic State (previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-ISIS, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-ISIL)...
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February 28, 2008
The United Methodist Church and IsraelThe Jewish State of Israel may not be perfect, it is however a flowering garden of civility, democracy and human rights in a desert filled with Arab-Muslim oppressive dictatorships, who deny their people basic human and religious rights and fundament...
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February 15, 2008
A Conversation with Dr. Tawfik HamidDr. Tawfik Hamid, 47, was born in Egypt into a secular Muslim family. As a student at Cairo University medical school in the late 1970's, Hamid joined the Jihadist-Muslim group-Jamaat Islamiyah. He was deeply influenced by an older fellow...