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Mark Steyn: Pirate problem joins North Korean missile, Iranian nukes as ‘distractions’ for Obama.
The Reuters headline put it this way: “Pirates Pose Annoying Distraction For Obama.” So many distractions, aren’t there? Only a week ago, the North Korean missile test was an “annoying distraction” from Barack Obama’s call for a world without nuclear weapons and his pledge that America would lead the way in disarming. And only a [...]
Continue reading...Charles Murray: The Europe Syndrome and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
Published Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 6:03 pm
America’s elites must once again fall in love with what makes the United States different. The advent of the Obama administration brings this question before the nation: Do we want the United States to be like Europe? President Obama and his leading intellectual heroes are the American equivalent of Europe’s social democrats. There’s nothing sinister [...]
Continue reading...Tawfik Hamid: Islam Should Prove It’s a Religion of Peace
Published Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 10:53 am
The film “Fitna” by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders has created an uproar around the world because it links violence committed by Islamists to Islam. Many commentators and politicians — including the British government, which denied him entry to the country last month — reflexively accused Mr. Wilders of inciting hatred. The question, however, is [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith.
Published Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Though it is written tongue-in-cheek in the language of human rights and of opposition to discrimination, the nonbinding U.N. Resolution 62/154, on “Combating defamation of religions,” actually seeks to extend protection not to humans but to opinions and to ideas, granting only the latter immunity from being “offended.” The preamble is jam-packed with hypocrisies that [...]
Continue reading...Andrew C. McCarthy: Obama’s Third Way: Release the Terrorists
Published Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Let’s imagine we’ve captured a highly trained terrorist al-Qaeda was attempting to embed in the United States, à la Mohamed Atta and company, to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities. For eight years, our national-security debate in the United States has been divided into two camps on these cases. In the first are those [...]
Continue reading...Anti-Semitism alive and well in western Europe
Published Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 2:58 pm
A recent survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League found that anti-Semitic attitudes in seven European countries have worsened due to the global financial crisis and Israel’s military actions against the Palestinians. Some 31 percent of adults polled blame Jews in the financial industry for the economic meltdown, while 58 percent of respondents admitted that their [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Outreach, Yes. Apology, No.: We’ve Never Been Islam’s Enemy
Published Friday, January 30, 2009 at 11:20 am
The WaPo’s Charles Krauthammer comments on President Obama’s appearance on al-Arabiya TV: Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying “to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest [...]
Continue reading...Dore Gold Discusses the Fighting in Gaza
Published Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 5:38 pm
JCPA Study: International Law and the Fighting in Gaza
Published Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 5:26 pm
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has published a timely study by Justus Reid Weiner (international human rights lawyer) and Avi Bell (Director of the Global Law Forum at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) on International Law and the Fighting in Gaza (PDF format): In every flare-up of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the air is [...]
Continue reading...Michael J. Totten: Gaza and the Law of Armed Conflict
Published Monday, January 5, 2009 at 10:20 pm
While much of the world engages in hand-wringing, placard-waving, teeth-gnashing, and rocket-launching over Israel’s “disproportionate” response to Hamas attacks from Gaza, it’s worth looking at what the doctrines of “proportionality” actually say. Making the rounds is a two-year old quote from Lionel Beehner’s paper for the Council on Foreign Relations in which he summarizes the [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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