The State Department has confirmed that Feisal Abdul Rauf – who wants to be the imam of a mosque at Ground Zero – is taking a State Department funded trip to the Middle East to foster “greater understanding” about Islam and Muslim communities in the United States. “He is a distinguished Muslim cleric,” said State […]

By Paul Cooper Is the LA Times not paying attention or lying? The Ground Zero mosque debate continues to be a battleground of worldviews. The Left has made it clear that the problem is not Islamists, but what they deem ‘Islamaphobia’. Somehow the dangers of fearing radical Islam and Sharia law is worse than the […]

By: Victor Sharpe Islam, which has been described as an ideology wrapped in a religion, will never allow its adherents to accept a non-Muslim state in land previously conquered in the name of Allah. Can it be any clearer that the Palestinian Authority, which represents the allegedly more moderate Fatah wing, does not want to […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner In an interview with Shalom Yerushalmi in the 6 August 2010 edition of the Friday Supplement of Maariv (“Remember Me”) in which Burg discusses his plans to form a new Israeli political party, Avrum Burg, who still enjoys a jeep with driver paid for by the Jewish Agency (whose primary goals include […]

Melani Phillips Those who persist in the delusion that the Middle East conflict is a fight over ‘Palestine’ between Israel and the ‘Palestinians’ should look at what happened last weekend, when terrorists fired Grad missiles from Egyptian territory not merely at Eilat, Israel’s tourist resort but also at Aqaba, Jordan’s tourist resort, where one Jordanian […]

By: Rabbi Steven Pruzansky Among the bitterest aspects of the ancient tragedies commemorated during our recent national period of mourning was the crushing disappointment felt by the Jewish people when we were betrayed by our erstwhile allies: “I called for my friends [those who had professed love for me] but they deceived me” (Eicha 1:19). […]

by Daniel Pipes April 13, 2005 http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/04/hamas-is-worse-than-israel-worse-than-sharon The speaker of those words is one Ziad Zaranda, the Gazan whose fiancée, Yusra Azzami, 20, was murdered because the couple were seen walking by the sea and Hamas operatives decided this act was so immoral, she deserved to die. The young couple’s tale is fraught with implications […]

by Efraim Karsh Jerusalem Post Shimon Peres, Israel’s 87-year-old president doesn’t usually arouse antagonism among Europeans. A tireless peace advocate for decades, and architect of the Oslo Process for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he has long presented Israel’s moderate face to the outside world. Yet last week he provoked anger among British […]

by Elad Benari (Israelnationalnews.com) Noam Nir, an Israeli businessman who lives and owns a property in Morocco, was shocked when he found out that the building he owns in the city of Mogador became the focus of an anti-Semitic demonstration. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Nir expressed a serious concern that such demonstrations, that were not […]

Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy. DANNY AYALON Israel’s deputy minister of foreign affairs A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and laid siege to by an army of tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers. Attacks initiated by Palestinian militants triggered an overwhelming response […]