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Andrew C. McCarthy: Obama’s Third Way: Release the Terrorists
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...Judea Pearl: When will our luminaries stop making excuses for terror?
Published Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 7:04 pm
But the clearest endorsement of terror as a legitimate instrument of political bargaining came from former President Jimmy Carter. In his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Mr. Carter appeals to the sponsors of suicide bombing. “It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end [...]
Continue reading...Denis MaCeoin: Marching for Hamas
Published Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Like all bullies, Hamas likes to make boastful threats. Its 1988 Covenant is replete with them. It threatens to destroy the State of Israel by violence and violence alone. It says it will never accept the work of conferences or peacemakers, and only jihad will solve its problems. Meanwhile, the Palestinians see their lives drained [...]
Continue reading...Jack Engelhard: Spare the Pieties on Gaza
Published Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:17 am
Israel is a Jewish State. Is that your problem? Frankly, given a choice, I prefer the skinheads and other brutes who express their anti-Semitism openly. In such places, we know the enemy. But please spare me the pieties and the righteous indignation of those “good people” protesting throughout Europe against Israel ’s defensive operation in [...]
Continue reading...J.G. Thayer: Declaring Victory in the Jaws of Defeat
Published Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Arab nations have a habit of denying obvious military losses. Saddam Hussein declared victory in the aftermath of the Gulf War. He had been thoroughly defeated, his forces crushed and driven out of Kuwait, and he was forced to accept severe restrictions, sanctions, and conditions in exchange for being left in power — but he [...]
Continue reading...Efraim Karsh: What’s Behind Western Condemnation of Israel’s War Against Hamas?
Published Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 9:21 pm
With a unanimity that has become all too familiar, politicians, the media, NGOs, and church leaders across the globe took their cue to denounce Israel’s legitimate act of self-defense against one of the world’s most extreme terror organizations. This chorus of disapproval is in stark contrast to the utter indifference to far bloodier conflicts that [...]
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...Orson Scott Card: What Obama Should Have Said
Published Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:35 am
It would have been so simple for Obama to handle this like a statesman instead of a whiner. President Bush went to Israel to affirm America’s ironclad support of Israel’s survival as a nation. While there are Americans who don’t agree with it, this has been the policy of the United States from the foundation [...]
Continue reading...Amir Taheri: Domestic Terror in Iran
Published Monday, August 6, 2007 at 8:11 am
It is early dawn as seven young men are led to the gallows amid shouts of “Allah Akbar” (Allah is the greatest) from a crowd of bearded men as a handful of women, all in hijab, ululate to a high pitch. A few minutes later, the seven are hanged as a mullah shouts: “Alhamd li-Allah” [...]
Continue reading...The Age: At least 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release
Published Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 12:33 pm
They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defence Department spokesman told The Age yesterday. Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan. “We [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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