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Asymmetric aggression by Gaza
The plot goes like this: Hamas fires rockets into Israel while the world looks away. Israel seeks a peaceful end to the shelling, which ultimately occurs and the world applauds Hamas for its new-found restraint. The detonation of hundreds of rockets and mortar shells can’t be heard outside of Israel
A Song to the Taliban
With apologies to Virgil, from whom I borrowed the first line, below is my special “Song to the Taliban”: I sing of arms and the Taliban, who first from the heights of the Hindukush came to the den of the Monster of Mingora. Righteous beyond measure, these mighty seed of Mohammed honed their cunning plan… Read More
Free Speech at Risk in US
Perhaps all the violence is the result of careful plotting by those who would use Islam as a political tool. If so, then Muslims are being duped by their brothers and sisters. Political correctness damaging our First Amendment
Khamenei to the West: prove your innocence
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei again confirms the clever Kafkaesque quality of the current Iranian leadership. Reminiscent of “Alice in Wonderland”
Reflections on America’s Freedoms
With the recent violence engulfing Americans and American property in the Middle East, we see once more the yawning chasm between many practitioners of the Islamic faith and the non-Muslim world. The flash point in the case of the deadly attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi is said to be a video produced in… Read More
Tick tock, tick tock
Perhaps the clock clicks more slowly for the US Joint Chiefs because America, deemed by Iran as the Great Satan, has not (yet) been threatened by annihilation, nor US Joint Chiefs are checking their watches
US Joint Chiefs says don’t count on America
Nature abhors a vacuum. Iran sees one in the dithering of the UN and western powers and seeks to fill it with its own version of hegemony. If the objective is the avoidance of war, Iran should send flowers to General Dempsey
Israel protests South Africa’s call for labeling
The territory would not be occupied if a state of peace existed between Israel and its neighbors. Unfortunately, most do not recognize Israel’s right to exist, which, reasonably, is a sine qua non as far as Israel is concerned. South Africa has better things to do
Critics of Israel forget history
UN Resolution 181 anticipated a separate Arab Palestinian state, but the idea was made moot when the armies of five Arab nations invaded partitioned Palestine as the Security Council dithered. Dow Marmur offers insight
