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Is World War II History Still Relevant?, by David Harris (AJC)

By   /  September 3, 2019  /  History, Holocaust  /  No Comments

Sept. 2, 2019 Rzeczpospolita As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, when German forces invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, is the history still relevant? Does it have contemporary meaning? Or is it destined to fade away, as the wartime generation of soldiers, eyewitnesses, and survivors reaches the […]

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To the EU: Iran’s Mullahs Will Never Be Your Friend by Majid Rafizadeh (Gatestone Inst.)

By   /  July 29, 2019  /  friends/enemies, International, Islamic fundamentalism, Mid. East news, Terrorism  /  No Comments

July 22, 2019 Despite these attacks, and attempted attacks, the EU, despite its ceaseless moral sanctimony, continues to soften its tone toward Iran, presumably out of a zeal for doing business even with a country designated the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The more the EU appeases the Iranian government, the more it empowers […]

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Honor Killings, Anti-Semitism, and Hatred of Homosexuals Form a Single Creed in the Arab World, by Ben Cohen (JNS via Mosaic)

By   /  July 3, 2019  /  anti-Semitism, double standards, friends/enemies, Human Rights, hypocricy, International, Lies & Deceptions, Mid. East news, stats  /  No Comments

July 3, 2019 Original title in JNS: Arab homophobia and Western indifference Gay men are driven underground in Muslim countries—Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia—where being outed means facing the ultimate sentence of death by stoning. A recent poll conducted by the BBC shows that most Arab populations evince a strikingly low tolerance for homosexuality; […]

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The US Sanctions on Mullahs are Working by Majid Rafizadeh (Gatestone Inst.)

By   /  April 28, 2019  /  International, Mid. East news  /  No Comments

Apr. 27, 2019 “The golden days are gone and will never return. Iran doesn’t have enough money to give us.” — A militant with an Iranian-backed militia in Syria, New York Times, March 26, 2019. Feeling the pressure of sanctions on Iran, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, has also called on his group’s fundraising arm “to […]

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German Government: Anti-Israel, Pro-Iran by Stefan Frank (Gatestone Inst.)

By   /  April 17, 2019  /  anti-Semitism, friends/enemies, hypocricy, International, Islamic fundamentalism, Israel, Mid. East news  /  No Comments

Apr. 17, 2019 Supporting one-sided resolutions against Israel is not Germany’s only unfriendly act against the Jewish state. Chancellor Angela Merkel has put pressure on other European Union states so that they do not transfer their embassies to Israel’s capital. Stopping the murder of Israelis is also not on the German government’s agenda. Last year […]

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Iran’s 40 Years of Darkness – Bret Stephens (NYT via Daily Alert)

By   /  February 15, 2019  /  International, Islamic fundamentalism, Mid. East news  /  No Comments

Feb. 15, 2019 Iran’s 40 Years of Darkness – Bret Stephens From its beginning 40 years ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran has enjoyed the generous benefit of the doubt from credulous observers in the West. History hasn’t been kind to their sympathy. As goodwill flowed toward Iran, malice flowed out. Tehran matches conciliation with contempt. […]

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THE RUSHDIE FATWA, THIRTY YEARS LATER, by Bruce Bawer (FPM)

By   /  February 14, 2019  /  dhimmitude, Human Rights, International, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Terrorism  /  No Comments

Feb. 14, 2019 Who among us would dare to predict what the world would look like thirty years from now? Thirty years ago today, the then ruler of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, sent a valentine to Salman Rushdie in the form of a fatwa. Rushdie, born in 1947 in Bombay (now Mumbai), had attended Cambridge, […]

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Europe’s New “Munich”: Iran by Giulio Meotti (Gatestone Inst.)

By   /  January 4, 2019  /  History, International, Terrorism  /  No Comments

Jan. 3, 2019 Iran’s terror campaign is not directed only at the West’s democratic ally in the Middle East, but also at Europe itself. “The Iranian regime spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to support terrorism”. — Nathan A. Sales, US State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, November 13, 2018. In 1938, the leaders […]

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The Lethal Error in Appeasing Iran – Melanie Phillips (JNS via Daily Alert)

By   /  December 7, 2018  /  friends/enemies, International, Islamic fundamentalism, Terrorism  /  No Comments

Dec. 7, 2018 The Lethal Error in Appeasing Iran – Melanie Phillips When the Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015, one of the many reasons offered for that agreement was that it would help the supposedly moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Addressing the annual Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran last weekend, Rouhani called Israel a […]

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MUST READ: COLUMN ONE: A GLIMPSE OF EUROPE’S TRUE FACE, by Caroline B. Gick (J. Post)

By   /  July 13, 2018  /  dhimmitude, friends/enemies, hypocricy, International, Islamic fundamentalism, Israel, Lies & Deceptions, Mid. East news, Terrorism  /  No Comments

July 12, 2018 The time has come for Israel to finally stop taking European rhetoric seriously. Click here for full article

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