by Khaled Abu Toameh, STONEGATE INSTITUTE To avoid Palestinians erupting against both Fatah and Hamas, the two parties are working to direct the heat toward Israel. Hamas and Fatah have lately ratcheted up their rhetoric against Israel in a clear bid to distract attention from their failure to end their power struggle. By backing a “popular resistance” against Israel, Hamas and Fatah are hoping to distract attention from their failure to end their dispute and form a unity government. This is why over the past few weeks leaders and officials representing Hamas and Fatah have been talking about a third intifada that is about to erupt in the West Bank and Gaza Strip against Israel. Both Hamas and Fatah have been urging Palestinians to step up “popular resistance” against Israel. The two parties are telling... Will Saudi Arabia Support an Israeli Attack on Iran In June? Forbes One of the great cliches of war-craft is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. This expression comes to mind in considering the plausibility of a claim made in my recent conversation with a weapons dealer. He thinks that this June, Israel will use Saudi Arabia as its base for an attack on Iran’s suspected nuclear site. This weapons dealer has been traveling to Tel Aviv and Jeddah to meet with military leaders who are loading up on his specific weapon category in anticipation of a war with Iran. According to my source — who is planning another trip to both countries soon to sell more weapons – the military leaders are looking to launch the attack in June. Why would Saudi Arabia support Israel instead of attacking it? The answer there is that Saudi Arabia is dominated by Sunnis; whereas Iran’s leaders are Shi’ite. My source believes that Saudi Arabia’s rage against the Shi’ites exceeds its... The reaction to an accidental Koran-burning was inexcusable. An anti-U.S. protest in Mehterlam, Afghanistan, February 23, 2012 The New York Times reports that President Obama has sent a formal letter of apology to Afghanistan’s ingrate president, Hamid Karzai, for the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. The only upside of the apology is that it appears (based on the Times account) to be couched as coming personally from our blindly Islamophilic president — “I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. . . . I extend to you and the Afghani people my sincere apologies.” It is not couched as an apology from the American people, whose frame of mind will be outrage, not contrition, as the facts become more widely known. As Syrian towns are pummeled by their own government forces, Canadian “activists” will once again gather in Toronto to condemn Israel for the crime of existing. In Syria, the Assad regime continues to rain artillery on rebel positions in the city of Homs, killing journalists and innocent civilians alike. Iran’s mullahs are set to execute a Canadian citizen for the crime of operating a web site they don’t like. The new Libyan regime is torturing Gaddafi loyalists. And Egypt’s rulers are prosecuting NGO leaders on trumped-up charges. And so next week, Canadian left-wing activists will congregate in Toronto to express their hatred of … you guessed it: Israel. Inbari ads considerably to our knowledge about the SNC including who’s for it and who’s against it. Unfortunately he does not add a paragraph on one alternative, namely, the SDC which I wrote about in Why is Obame in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood. TED BELMAN Jerry Gordon, my colleague at the New English Review and former Israpundit blogger posted my article on the NER with this introduction: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF ALL. YET IT IS ALSO THE HARDEST TO ACHIEVE. tHE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS FINDING COMMON GROUND ON WHETHER WE WILL HAVE A ZIONISTIC CONSTITUTION OR A UNIVERSALIST CONSTITUTION. AS FOR THE STRUCTURE, WE CAN DO NO BETTER THAT FOLLOWING THE MODEL OF THE US CONSTITUTION JUST AS IT TOOK ITS INSPIRATION FROM THE TORAH. TED BELMAN In Israel, there is no sufficient separation of powers. Around a third of the Knesset Members serve as ministers or deputy ministers and are thus forbidden to introduce... Biggest anti-Israel conference evah An International Conference on Jerusalem” is being held 26-27 February in Doha, Qatar. The conference was scheduled by the Arab League during its meeting in Sirte, Libya in 2010. Its purpose is to combat the “Judaization of Jerusalem.” In the words of the Global Muslim Brotherhood Report, which tracks Muslim Brotherhood activities, this month’s conference “represents an unprecedented coalition arrayed against Israel.” This isn’t hyperbole. The conference is unusually well advertised in English, being referred to in the media regularly as a “conference on Jerusalem,” rather than sparsely as a “conference on al-Quds,” the Arabic (and larger Islamic) term for Jerusalem. Yousef al-Qaradawi, “spiritual leader” of the Muslim Brotherhood, has held a number of conferences on Jerusalem in the last decade, hosting them around the Arab world and flying largely under the radar in terms of his media... To draw Iran into nuclear talks, Obama avoids ousting Assad DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 26, 2012, Tags: Different policies, same goals.
Hamas and Fatah Want a New Intifada
The two rival Palestinian parties are hoping that Palestinians would turn their anger and frustration toward Israel and not toward either of them.Saudi Arabia partnering with Israel re Iran
Islam Uber Alles
Why Apologize to Afghanistan?
By Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO
The facts are that the Korans were seized at a jail because jihadists imprisoned there were using them not for prayer but to communicate incendiary messages. The soldiers dispatched to burn refuse from the...The return of the Israel Apartheid Week cult
The events of March 5-9 will take place as part of the 8th annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), and will feature presentations such as “Cutting the Ties to Israeli Apartheid: Cultural and Academic Boycott,” and “Rhymes Of Resistance And The Sounds Of Existence — with...Syria: The search for alternatives to Assad
Ted Belman, a colleague at the blog Israpundit, has an important article up at the American Thinker, Why is Obama in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood? It is an indictment of the Obama Administration’s seemingly deliberate policy to further the cause and agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood. The answer to Belman’s rhetorical question was perhaps best articulated in a comment during our NER interview of last March with Ken Timmerman, author, columnist and Republican Candidate now heavily engaged in a primary fight in the Maryland 8th CD, “Obama Likes Radical Islamic...
Preventing the political system’s stagnation, collapse
Israel’s electoral and governmental system is failing and moving us toward political paralysis. The writing has been on the wall for some time, and soon it may be too late to make the necessary change. During the early years of our state, the system was deemed convenient due to the special circumstances Israel faced, but for too many years now, the system has become less than useful and effective.International Conference on Jerusalem
J.E. DYER, HOT AIRObama, the engager-in-chief
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal did not hide his anger before marching out of the Friends of Syria conference attended by 70 nations in Tunis Friday, Feb. 24 after they fell in behind US plans for avoiding direct action against Syria’s Bashar Assad. Filmed sitting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Saudi minister told a reporter that arming the Free Syrian Army was an “excellent idea” because they needed to defend themselves. Clinton remained frostily aloof on this obvious bone of contention.
As one of the world’s richest oil and financial powers, Saudi Arabia could buy and sell Iran several times over, and after seeing the ayatollahs get away with insulting America time and time again, the Saudi foreign minister did not pull his punches when he faced his US colleague. He was frank about Riyadh...More Recent Articles
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