Stupid Terrorists by Daniel Pipes, 10/4/2005 One would think Mahmoud Maawad would lay low and stay out of trouble. But no, he defiantly did just the opposite. He used a...
Syria after Lebanon: Hooked on Lebanon by Gary C. Gambill, 10/3/2005 Although Syrian troops have withdrawn from Lebanon, their departure is little more than a symbolic acknowledgment of Lebanese...
The Future of Iraq: Democracy, Civil War, or Chaos? by Michael Rubin, 10/1/2005 Pessimism regarding the future of Iraq is unwarranted. Iraq faces many challenges, but success is still within reach. After...
Anti-Israeli, Useful Idiot Gets Eloquent Comeupance by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/30/2005 Of course the kid did not travel to Syria, Iran, North Korea, China (PRC), etc., etc., to see the realities of true abuses...
Tamil Tigers banned from EU, courted in Canada by CCD, 9/29/2005 Paul Martin has attended LTTE fundraising events, lending credibility to those responsible for suffering in Sri Lanka...
Got Moxie? Tony Blair Does by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/28/2005 If the UK population was anti-war, would Blair have been reelected? The Labour Party now holds 356 seats in parliament...
Enforce Islamic Law in Canada? by Daniel Pipes, 9/27/2005 In October 2003, an organization called the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice proposed the creation of Muslim Arbitration...
Blame Israel: What you sow, so shall you reap by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/27/2005 When the truck explodes, killing 15 children, women, and men, what does Hamas do? Does it take responsibility for its macabre...
Hamas Gets a Case of Diarrhea by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/26/2005 This is Hamas having a bad case of fear-inspired dysentery. The terrorist group is petrified of Israeli military might...
EU Caves to Iranian Nuke Threats by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/23/2005 With a president like Mahmood Ahmadinejad, could there be any doubt as to whether Iran has nuclear weapons ambitions?...
Giving the Devil His Due: Jihad Zakat by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/23/2005 In 1991, UC Santa Barbara anthropology professor Donald Brown published his Human Universals, which proved to be a sound...
Gore Vidal: Lunacy Can Wither Him by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/21/2005 Oh, yes, the Guardian calls Vidal an aristocrat in the same article that describes his radicalism. Is Vidal redistributing...
Musharraf: Historic Speech by Daniel Pipes, 9/20/2005 Musharraf reaching out to Jews is part of a much broader project of developing what he calls Enlightened Moderation...
Iran Threatens With Nukes by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/20/2005 It is surprising that the EU has joined the US in calling for referral to the Security Council. Europe had been pursuing a...
Canada must stop funding Palestinian terrorism by CCD, 9/19/2005 On September 15, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced from New York that Canada will give another $24.5 million to the...
Tyco Crooks Sentenced by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/19/2005 But remember, Bush is not doing anything about corporate crime… except cleaning up the crimes committed under Clinton...
Hear But Not Understand, Look But Never See by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/16/2005 Four years ago, the words Islam and jihad made a spectacular entrance into the American lexicon of public...
Thousands protest Ahmadinejad presence at UN by SMCCDI, 9/16/2005 Thousands of Iranians and Iranian-Americans gathered, yesterday, in order to protest against the Islamic republic regime...
Japan: Victory for Koizumi and the World Economy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/15/2005 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a landslide election victory earlier this week. His win is certainly a mandate...
Lost in Translation by MEQ, 9/14/2005 We also found that system limitations contributed to the FBI backlog of unreviewed material. The FBI digital collection...
Christianity Dying in Its Birthplace by Daniel Pipes, 9/13/2005 What some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West Bank, on the night of September 3-4....
Chaos in Gaza, Abbas Echoes Hitler by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/13/2005 Mahmoud Abbas fanned the flames of anti-Jewish sentiments. Abbas today echoed Hitler: Today Germany, Tomorrow the World...
Remembering 9/11: Islamists are Our Enemy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/11/2005 The obsessive hatred of Bush is a pathological avoidance mechanism. Since the opposition to the war is terrified of terrorism...
What If the United States Had Not Invaded Iraq by Daniel Pipes, 9/11/2005 Unpopularity and acrimony are a price worth paying so that the Iraqi government no longer endangers Iraqis or the rest of the...
Dissident Watch: Ayman Nour by Suzanne Gershowitz, 9/10/2005 The Egyptian government moved to shut down its own fledgling opposition, arresting 40-year-old Ayman Nour...
Why We Cannot Change Islam by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/9/2005 Reform-minded Muslims desperately need our support and brotherhood, and in this day and age when freedom and rights are...
The Great Oil Shortage? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/9/2005 But running around screaming, pointing fingers, and distorting the facts is just throwing gasoline on the fire, if you will...
Powell Regrets UN Iraq Presentation by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/9/2005 George Tenet did not sit there for five days with me misleading me. He believed what he was giving to me was accurate...
Another Arafat Bites the Dust by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/7/2005 Some Palestinians had violently protested this blatant nepotism. Well, today, someone succeeded in killing Moussa...
Ode to Gilligan by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/6/2005 A guy who has been accused of causing Hurricane Katrina (because he voted for and still supports Bush) likes left-wing PBS?...
L.A.: Thwarted Terror Spree by Daniel Pipes, 9/6/2005 The Jewish High Holidays this year fall in early October, when a massacre was planned against two Los Angeles synagogues...
Sunni Boy Brings Hope to Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/5/2005 In another ray of hope from Iraq, a Sunni boy, Othman Abdul Hafez, sacrificed his own life while saving Shiite pilgrims...
Islam: The Tiny Minority by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/4/2005 The true minority in Islam are those who categorically reject intolerance and jihad. Case in point: the Ahmadiyya Muslim...
Why Corporations Fund Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 9/2/2005 How does the Council on American-Islamic Relations (and others in the Islamist victimization industry) fare so well when it...
Good News on Pakistani/Israeli Relations… Sort of… by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/1/2005 In a surprise move, Pakistan and Israel have announced that their foreign ministers met today in Istanbul. Pakistani...
The Council on Foreign Relations Does the Middle East by Mandel/Romirowsky, 9/1/2005 But when it comes to the Middle East, the council has increasingly eschewed research and debate and instead picked a line to...
Gaza: How it All Got Started... by Asaf Romirowsky, 8/31/2005 However, the bigger question is how does disengagement from Gaza affect the US-Israeli alliance? The Jewish settlements in...
REAL Pressure on the Palestinian Authority by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/31/2005 A federal court in the US has frozen all the assets held by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the country. The ruling...
Islamists, Get Out by Daniel Pipes, 8/30/2005 Westerners are speaking out about the problem of radical Islam with new clarity and boldness. The most profound development...
Scales Might Be Tipping by Donnel Jones, 8/30/2005 Just a blog entry for a very important development...
A Corrective to the Pipes Worldview by Daniel Pipes, 8/29/2005 The introduction is largely about me: This book is intended to be a corrective to the Pipes worldview. Oh? I offer...
The Arafat Model by Michael Rubin, 8/29/2005 While Clinton fêted the Palestinian leader at the White House, cajoled him with aid, and turned a blind eye toward his...
Today Beersheba, Tomorrow Mayberry by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/28/2005 Watch out, Opie, Sheriff Andy just might not be able to protect you from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Why, you may ask...
Complimentary Terror State by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/26/2005 So, once again, an immigrant Arab/Muslim people, in a nonexistent state, with an invented refugee status (complete with their...
Revisiting the Armenian Genocide by Guenter Lewy, 8/25/2005 For genocide scholars, the claims of the Armenians have become incontrovertible historical fact. But many historians...
Mr. Livingstone, I Presume by Donnel Jones, 8/24/2005 Britain gets serious about deporting hate-mongering Muslim clerics...
Gender apartheid policy strengthens in Iran by SMCCDI, 8/23/2005 The Islamic republic regime is to apply more discriminatory measures against Iranian women in days ahead. Based on...
Bush Flinched at Fallujah by Donnel Jones, 8/23/2005 Bush has an uphill battle if we are to get the war against Islamism back on track...
How Terrorism Obstructs Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 8/23/2005 Do terrorist atrocities in the West help radical Islam achieve its goal of gaining power? No, they are counterproductive...
Concession Blues by Donnel Jones, 8/22/2005 Was the withdrawal from Gaza a critical mistake, good faith effort, or realpolitik?...
The Ability to Face Danger & Angry War Moms by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/19/2005 The special military intelligence unit code named Able Danger is big news lately, and rightly so. It is a tragic, textbook...
The End of Treason by Daniel Pipes, 8/18/2005 News reports from Britain indicate that three Islamist leaders in that country could face treason charges. The first two of...
How Chechnya Became a Breeding Ground for Terror by Lorenzo Vidino, 8/18/2005 On September 1, 2004, a group of Chechen terrorists took hostage and two days later murdered at least 335 schoolchildren and...
Waiting for Another Hiroshima by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/18/2005 Those with relativistic morals will lead us to see the use of nuclear weapons again – this time to end the evil of Islamism...
[The Gaza Withdrawal:] A Democracy Killing Itself by Daniel Pipes, 8/16/2005 To Palestinian rejectionists, an Israeli retreat under fire sends an unambiguous signal: Terrorism works. Just as the Israeli...
Europe: Problem with Ariel Sharon by Suzanne Gershowitz, 8/15/2005 This antagonism has many causes—anti-Americanism, media antipathy toward the Jewish state, a perception that Israel is an...
Islamosupremacy: Past Is Its Present by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/13/2005 Invigorated by their triumph over the Quraysh, the Muslims went on to besiege the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe, who were rumored...
Brazilians Got What They Deserved? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/12/2005 Brazilians enthusiastically elected Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2002, in the hopes he would clean up endemic corruption...
Choose Your Heritage: The 5 Nations or Islamism by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/11/2005 The 5 Nations (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca) ended centuries of warfare by creating a democratic...
Less Is More in Iraq by Michael Rubin, 8/10/2005 While Washington sees the constitutional milestone as an opportunity to withdraw some forces, policymakers should not limit...
Gimme Shelter from the Hypocrite Rolling Stones by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/10/2005 The Stones are not redistributing their wealth. They routinely rip fans off for $300 just for the privilege of hearing their...
Leaving Gaza: Is the Withdrawal good for Israel? by Meyrav Wurmser, 8/9/2005 Instead of waving the Israeli flag on Independence Day in May 2005, Israelis against the withdrawal waved orange flags...
Today Gaza, Tomorrow Jerusalem by Daniel Pipes, 8/9/2005 The retreat will inspire not comity but a new rejectionist exhilaration, a greater frenzy of anti-Zionist anger, and a surge...
Belafonte Racial Slurs Continue by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/9/2005 Harry Belafonte continues to spew racist madness – against his own people and now, Jews. On Saturday, according to Cybercast...
Washington and Cairo - Near the Breaking Point? by Samuel J. Spector, 8/8/2005 As U.S. foreign policy has grown more reliant on Jordan, the new Iraqi government, and the Persian Gulf emirates, the Egypt-...
The Price of Compromise by Michael Rubin, 8/8/2005 The insurgency has gained momentum as a result of failed U.S. policy and well-meaning but wrong-headed assumptions....
The Difference by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/6/2005 Terrorism is not in the character of the Jewish state. The democratic tenets of justice, righteousness, and the rule of law,...
Italy Takes Out the Trash by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/4/2005 Italy is clamping down on terrorism. Besides toughening its anti-terror laws, the country has started expelling Islamists...
Fried in Turkey: Is democracy on the outs? by Michael Rubin, 8/2/2005 While many AKP members are Islamist, most Turks are not. As in any country, citizens of Turkey range from secular to trad-...
Television in Time of War by Daniel Pipes, 8/2/2005 Appearing with Islamist motormouths and leftist attack-dogs is unpleasant. It often means refuting ad hominem calumnies and...
Symposium: The Showdown [with Iran] by Jamie Glazov, 8/1/2005 The rise to power of Islamic hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran has spelled precarious danger for the West. An Islamic...
Economy: Bush Proves Democratic Naysayers Wrong by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/1/2005 The U.S. created 2.2 million jobs in 2004. This year, approximately 1 million new jobs have been added to the workforce. And...
Deconstructing a Fatwa, Part I by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/31/2005 With great media fanfare, a group of Islamic damage control experts placated what can sometimes be a worried American public...
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia: On Whose Side? by Daniel Pipes, 7/29/2005 Islamists have insulted me many times on television but never before has an anchor stood up on my behalf and prevented a...
CAIR Founded by Islamic Terrorists? by D. Pipes/S. Chadha, 7/28/2005 The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Inc., filed a defamation lawsuit against Andrew Whitehead, of Anti-CAIR (or ACAIR)...
Snooze Button by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/26/2005 The mujahideen were unfazed by the disingenuous pronouncements of silver-tongued sheikhs and imams here in the dar al-Harb...
What Do the Terrorists Want? by Daniel Pipes, 7/26/2005 But the reasons for the violence go unexplained. Analysts, including myself, are left speculating about motives. These can...
Amnesty Condemns Iraqi Terrorists – With Footnotes by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/25/2005 Amnesty has grudgingly deemed to notice the slaughter of civilians by terrorist filth in Iraq, but two years too late...
British Opinion Surveys from an Islamist Hell by Daniel Pipes, 7/25/2005 The survey found that 1 percent of them, or about 16,000 individuals, declare themselves willing, possibly even eager...
Rashid Khalidi: Plagiarism and Poor Scholarship by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/22/2005 I had an email exchange with a colleague who found what she believed to be evidence of plagiarism by Rashid Khalidi...
Charles The Hammer by Donnel Jones, 7/21/2005 Charles Krauthammer has just declared exactly what the Bush Doctrine is supposed to achieve. Only now, with some history...
Beam Him Up, Lord by Donnel Jones, 7/20/2005 James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original series of Star Trek, died at the age of 85. What I found much more...
Some Perspective on Iraqi Civilian Deaths by Donnel Jones, 7/20/2005 25,000 Iraqi civilians dead does not mean America killed them. Unfortunately, the media, right and left, assumes as much....
Support Up for Israel, Down for Bin Laden by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/19/2005 A set of recently released opinions polls shows a possible seismic shift in world opinion vis-à-vis Israel and al-Qaeda...
An Islamist Apology by Daniel Pipes, 7/19/2005 A leading Islamist organization has retracted its slurs against me and issued a public apology. This offers a small but...
He Was Such a Nice Holy Warrior by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/18/2005 Their families and friends could not see it coming. They were so loving, they had so much to live for. They were so normal....
Weak Brits, Tough French by Daniel Pipes, 7/12/2005 France is the most stalwart nation in the West, even more so than America, while Britain is the most hapless...
God: License for Degeneracy by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/12/2005 According to the shariah, any Muslim who conspires or works with the enemies of Islam has committed irtitad (apostasy) and...
The Next London Bombing by Daniel Pipes, 7/11/2005 In general, the authors of Young Muslims and Extremism are too politically worried to understand the phenomenon they are...
Message In the Bombs by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/10/2005 We will additionally hear from Islamic apologists and multicultists about how we need to distinguish the terrorists from the...
Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience by Salim Mansur, 7/8/2005 The reform of Muslims, as was that of Christians, is neither an event nor an instant in time but a process deeply frustrating...
Ultimate Test of British Resolve by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/7/2005 Will the savage attack by al-Qaeda on the London subway cause Brits to strengthen or weaken their will in fighting terror?...
Palestinians Who Cling to Israel by Daniel Pipes, 7/6/2005 Why would Palestinians engaged in destroying the state of Israel feel punished by losing the right to live in Israel? One...
The 8 Ball Behind Live 8 by Donnel Jones, 7/6/2005 Rock music is about rebellion and if Africa is being overlooked by the post-industrial world then that should be set straight...
Let Them Burn the Flag by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/30/2005 When Islamosupremacists or their vacuous leftist cheerleaders burn our flag, sure, I get angry. It mostly just makes me sad...
Is Allah God? by Daniel Pipes, 6/28/2005 Asked if Muslims worship the same Almighty as Jews and Christians, President Bush replied some months ago...
Bashar al-Assad: His Lebanon Gamble by William Harris, 6/27/2005 International pressure for Syrian withdrawal resulted from a cascading series of Syrian miscalculations. Syrian president...
You Are Free Now by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/24/2005 What happened on 9/11 is the inevitable result of a backward, violent, and supremacist politicoreligious culture...
BBC on Iranian Elections: I Want to Believe by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/24/2005 Two distinctly different future visions of what? Dictatorship or dictatorship? The only choice is the Guardian Council or...
Radical Islam as Its Own Antidote by Daniel Pipes, 6/23/2005 But Gerecht has lately become the most prominent voice of the responsible right to advocate welcoming radical Islam coming...
A Democratic Hamas? by Asaf Romirowsky, 6/22/2005 Is this distinction enough to convince us that Hamas only makes wine and honey and provides social welfare? And does the...
A Madrassah in Bridgeview, Illinois by Daniel Pipes, 6/21/2005 Unfortunately, Michaels proved clueless about the real nature of the Universal School. She portrays it as a moderate instit-...
Clashes rock several areas of Iranian capital by SMCCDI, 6/17/2005 Violent clashes rocked, yesterday evening, several areas of the Iranian Capital as demonstrators were attacked by Islamic...
Saudis Import Slaves to America by Daniel Pipes, 6/16/2005 The two Saudis face charges of forced labor, aggravated sexual abuse, document servitude, and harboring an alien. If found...
How the Lebanese Won Their Freedom Back by Walid Phares, 6/13/2005 Prior to 9/11, the Wahhabi/Islamist/Arabist lobbies led by the Saudis in Washington were able to vouch for Syrian hegemony in...
Jihad On Main Street, U.S.A. by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/10/2005 There is no room in Islamic ideology for the plurality and tolerance of classical American liberalism (not the new kind,...
Is Lebanon Hopelessly Divided? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/8/2005 In many of the anti-Syrian demonstrations held in Beirut, Christians and Muslims stood shoulder-to-shoulder. Maybe the...
Dissident Watch: Aktham Naisse by Suzanne Gershowitz, 6/7/2005 In 1989, Aktham Naisse, a 38-year-old Syrian human rights activist, founded the Committee for the Defense of Democratic...
Is Turkey Going Islamist? by Daniel Pipes, 6/7/2005 Is Turkey going Islamist? Is it on the road to implementing Islamic law, known as the Sharia? I replied in the affirmative...
Islamists are intrinsically anti-democratic by Michael Rubin, 6/6/2005 Bush can claim success: 2005 is the year of the election. Iraqis defied predictions to cast their ballots. Palestinians also...
What Cost Piece? by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/3/2005 Peace means more than donning your worn Che Guevara t-shirt to go join the angry rabble disrupting traffic in a chaotic...
Jihad through History by Daniel Pipes, 6/1/2005 Throughout history and at present, Mr. Cook definitively establishes, the term Jihad primarily means warfare with spiritual...
We Cannot Thank You Enough by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/31/2005 My father was a Marine, and it was such an important and dear thing to him. All his life, the fact that he had served in the...
On Handling the Koran by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/30/2005 There is no mention of a requirement that writers assume that Islam was inspired by the divine. The AP and Chicago stylebooks...
Déjà Vu: Iranian Democracy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/26/2005 As long as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Council of Guardians have veto power over the presidency and...
Assessing English Translations of the Quran by Khaleel Mohammed, 5/25/2005 No serious researcher denies that Muhammad came to a milieu that was highly influenced by Judeo-Christian ideas. Indeed, the...
A Conspiracy Theory Spreads Polio by Daniel Pipes, 5/24/2005 A conspiracy theory took hold of the Muslim population in northern Nigeria. That conspiracy theory has single-handedly...
Racism Honored in Baldwin Park, CA by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/23/2005 Anti-European-American, racist comments have been enshrined in a monument erected with taxpayer money in Baldwin Park, CA...
Particularism Before Universalism by Ted Belman, 5/23/2005 The Jewish Right chooses a Jewish Israel even if it offends the western notion of democracy. On the other hand the Jewish...
Amazon.com: Koran Desecration Problem by Daniel Pipes, 5/20/2005 Is it pure coincidence that this Koran episode is so perfectly timed to follow the Newsweek and Guantánamo controversy?...
The Real Tiny Minority In Islam by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/20/2005 Muslims have long evaded defining exactly what terrorism is, or have denied that holy war against the kuffar is terrorism....
CAIR: Hate Crimes Nonsense by D. Pipes/S. Chadha, 5/18/2005 But CAIR is part of the Wahhabi Lobby, so (unlike the mainstream media reporters) we thought it a good idea to take a closer...
Business as Usual in the Palestinian Authority by Daniel Pipes, 5/17/2005 Those of us who saw the problem as larger than Arafat – as resulting, rather, from the deep radicalization of the Palestinian...
The Jewish Canary by Asaf Romirowsky, 5/15/2005 But unlike the United States, the legitimacy of the Jewish State is still questioned on a daily basis. September 11th has...
It Pays to be Jewish by Ted Belman, 5/14/2005 Israel has moved away from the primacy of Jewish law to embrace the law as it exists in the western democracies...
Perpetual Jahiliyyah by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/14/2005 There is no lack of ingenuity, intelligence, and acumen among Arab/Muslim peoples (Islam is essentially an Arab religion,...
Much Ado About Nothing (RE: Islamist Insecurity) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/13/2005 The crazies are willing to riot and die because someone flushed a book down the toilet? If these people were confident...
Let Iraq handle Sunnis by Michael Rubin, 5/13/2005 Ethnicity and sectarianism are factors in Iraq, but eight decades of common experience has also shaped a distinct Iraqi...
This Saturday--March Against Terror by freemuslims.org, 5/12/2005 The war on terror is an ideological battle and no one is better suited to fight this battle than moderate Muslims. Will you...
Might the Saudis Blow Up Their Oil Infrastructure? by Daniel Pipes, 5/12/2005 The Saudi government may have rigged its oil and gas infrastructure with a self-destruct system that would keep it out of...
Speech by Homa Ehsan in Washington D.C. [Iran] by FREE IRAN Project, 5/11/2005 The great grandchildren of Cyrus the great whose voice from the dawn of knowledge and wisdom has echoed in the passage of...
Pro-Israel Palestinians by Daniel Pipes, 5/10/2005 Palestinian Arabs sometimes let down their guard and acknowledge how they prefer Israel to the Palestinian Authority. Here...
Beheading in the Name of Islam by Timothy Furnish, 5/9/2005 Images of masked terrorists standing behind Western hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia have become all too common on Arabic...
Putin Delusional About Eastern Europe by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/8/2005 Bush brought the suffering of these three Eastern European nations under Soviet/Russian domination to the attention of the...
Why we are Marching Against Terror by freemuslims.org, 5/7/2005 The bad news is that, of the leading Muslim organizations, four have refused to participate or endorse the rally. The absence...
Soothing rhetoric - scary reality by Michael Rubin, 5/7/2005 Many remain curiously blind to terrorist groups claiming a new commitment to the political process. On April 13, 2005, for...
Iran: top judge attacks police OR more reform BS? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/5/2005 Is this good news? Or is this the mullacracy performing public relations, hoping to sway the ever-gullible legions of the...
Lessons from the Counter-terrorism War by Boaz Ganor, 5/4/2005 Liberal democratic states confront threats from international terrorism that are unlike anything seen previously. The threat...
Retreat from Gaza by Daniel Mandel, 5/3/2005 Ariel Sharon has astonished friend and foe alike, embracing the very idea he opposed in the elections that confirmed him in...
Hamas vs. America by Daniel Pipes, 5/3/2005 Before this whitewashing of Hamas proceeds, it bears noting that the organization has not just murdered over 400 Israelis...
What binds Ankara and Jerusalem by Cagaptay/Romirowsky, 5/2/2005 At first glance, Turkey and Israel could not be more different. Israel is small, predominantly Jewish and post-industrial...
Enlightened & Useless by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/2/2005 As the colossal pile of debris which was once World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 was still smoking in Manhattan, the anti-war...
Post-Zionism and the Sephardi Question by Meyrav Wurmser, 4/28/2005 A growing group of Jewish Israeli professors is challenging the legitimacy of Israel from within. Many are Mizrahim...
The U.N. at 60 - What a disappointment! by Daniel Mandel, 4/27/2005 The General Assembly is not a democratic body. The Security Council is beholden to the veto power of five very different...
American Border Secrets by Daniel Pipes, 4/27/2005 What steps should Western border agencies take to defend their homelands from harm by Islamists?...
Restless in Gaza by Asaf Romirowsky, 4/26/2005 We are entering the 100-day period before the disengagement from Gaza begins. The odds are we will see pictures similar to...
50 GROUPS ENDORSE MARCH AGAINST TERROR-UPDATE by freemuslims.org, 4/26/2005 Christians and Jews must join their fellow Muslims at the rally. The terrorists and extremists justify their evil by falsely...
You Can Thank Us Later by Patrick D. OBrien, 4/25/2005 Western civilization, as embodied in liberal democracy, has accomplished the near-impossible feat of successfully providing...
Washington Finally Gets It on Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 4/25/2005 Does the Bush administration really believe, as its leadership has kept repeating since right after 9/11, that Islam is a...
Sharing Jokes with Hamas by Daniel Pipes, 4/20/2005 They followed her, shot her dead as she sat in her car, dragged her corpse out and mutilated it savagely with clubs and iron...
New Aesma Daeva by Patrick D. OBrien, 4/20/2005 For some time now, the free world has passively watched on as a ferocious and dark force has been gathering in old Persia...
ADL on the New Papa (Pope Benedict XVI) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/19/2005 The ADL addressed revelations that Benedict was a member of the Hitler Youth strongly. Here is the ADL...
More public executions scheduled in Iran by SMCCDI, 4/15/2005 A father and his son are scheduled to be executed in the rebellious city of Esfahan. These two executions are scheduled for...
Iranian nuclear ambitions & U.S. options by Michael Eisenstadt, 4/12/2005 How long it will take Iran to become a nuclear power will depend on the route it takes in its development program. There are...
Conservative Professors, an Endangered Species by Daniel Pipes, 4/12/2005 The Columbia administration preferred to deal with bad classroom habits rather than on the deeper question of faculty bias...
Disengagement: A Tale of Two Israels? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/11/2005 Just looking at opinion polls of Israelis, one can see that there is momentum for the disengagement plan. The Tel Aviv Univ-...
Violent clashes rock western Iran cities by SMCCDI, 4/7/2005 Violent clashes rocked, yesterday, several western Iranian cities, such as, Mahabad, Baneh, Saghez, Marivan, Sanandaj and...
Dissident Watch: Ahmad Batebi by Suzanne Gershowitz, 4/6/2005 On July 7, 1999, the Iranian government banned the popular reformist daily Salam. The next evening, students at Tehran U...
The Folly of Ariel Sharon by Daniel Pipes, 4/6/2005 With the passage last week of a budget bill in Israel, the government of Ariel Sharon appears to be ready to remove more than...
Eurabia - The Future for Europe? by Bat Ye-or, 4/5/2005 Europe is undergoing two profound changes. The first is the weakening of Christianity. The second is demographic decline...
The California Suicide Bomber by Daniel Pipes, 4/5/2005 al-Banna, who carried off the worst atrocity in Iraq since the collapse of the Saddam regime, once lived in California...
Whose Democracy? by Patrick D. OBrien, 4/2/2005 Whenever democracy comes to town it usually means trouble. Self-serving, rapacious men who have made a living holding down...
Energy First: China and the Middle East by Jin Liangxiang, 4/2/2005 The recent growth in Chinese oil imports from Saudi Arabia has less to do with politics than with technicalities. Saudi oil...
Providing Arms: China and the Middle East by Dan Blumenthal, 4/1/2005 Chinese policy in the Middle East has grown more active over the past decade. With its overriding goal of securing oil and...
A Prof [Hamid Dabashi] Tangles the Truth by Daniel Pipes, 4/1/2005 Those of us who watch Middle East studies at Columbia University differ as to which professor is the most egregious...
Allah Will Not Change the Condition of a People by Salim Mansur, 3/30/2005 In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, historian Bernard Lewis crystallized the key question about Muslims by...
March Against Terror and for Freedom and Democracy by freemuslims.org, 3/29/2005 Join us in sending a message to the extremists and supporters of terrorism that we reject them and that we will do all we can...
What Are Islamic Schools Teaching? by Daniel Pipes, 3/29/2005 A recent study found a parallel problem of venomous anti-Jewish and anti-Christian materials in U.S. mosques...
Regime leadership gathers on soccer riots [Iran] by SMCCDI, 3/28/2005 Generals Tala-i and Ghalibaf were the subject of sharp criticism for not having been able to control the situation at Azadi...
Israel: Zero-Sum Game by Patrick D. OBrien, 3/27/2005 These arrogant and hateful people who revel in violence are to be accorded diplomatic cache and respect by Israel because the...
The Wrong Side of History in Lebanon by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/26/2005 They are clever enough to remember what Gandhi achieved in India, what Martin Luther King, Jr. achieved in the U.S., and what...
Chad and Israel to Establish Relations by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/25/2005 Saying that Chad is a Muslim country is stretching the truth. The population is 50% Muslim, 25% Christian, and 25% indigenous...
Can Hezbollah and Hamas Be Democratic? by Daniel Pipes, 3/22/2005 If Al-Qaeda renounced terrorism, would the U.S. government welcome its running candidates in American elections?...
Putin: His Pro-Israel Policy by Mark N. Katz, 3/20/2005 Mostly unnoticed by foreign policy pundits and Middle East watchers, Russian policy to Israel has undergone a steady shift...
A Milestone for American Islam? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/19/2005 Was the service held in a mosque? No, local mosques refused to allow a woman to lead prayers. It was held in an Anglican...
Bernie Ebbers: Kingpin of White-Collar Crime by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/18/2005 One of the reasons it has taken awhile for justice to catch up with these crooks is the slick and complicated nature of the...
Which Privileges for Islam? by Daniel Pipes, 3/15/2005 Muslims are making new and assertive demands, and in some cases challenging the very premises of European and North American...
How to Beat the Global Islamist Insurgency by Dale C. Eikmeier, 3/14/2005 Academics can obfuscate arguments and hide behind a facade of political correctness, but military and strategic planners have...
Clashes and Protest in Oshnovieh and in Tehran by SMCCDI, 3/10/2005 Violent clashes rocked, today, the City of Oshnovieh, Iran as brutal militiamen attacked the youth who were showing joy due...
Fascists Rally in Beirut and Damascus by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/9/2005 Hundreds of thousands of pro-Syrian demonstrators (Hezbollah terrorists) assembled in Beirut yesterday. Today, tens of...
Neo-Conservative Caution by Daniel Pipes, 3/8/2005 Having been trained in Middle Eastern history makes me perhaps more aware of what can go wrong...
The Muslim Brotherhood Conquers Europe by Lorenzo Vidino, 3/7/2005 Their mosques preach hate and warn worshippers about the evils of Western society. They continue to raise money for Hamas...
2,000 Iraqis Say No to Terrorism! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/6/2005 Shiites, Kurds, Turkoman and even Sunnis will decide to put an end to terrorism sooner rather than later. They will do it...
BBC: Lebanon finds unity by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/4/2005 It is wonderful to see Muslim, Christian, and Druze Arabs peacefully protesting together against the Syrian occupation...
Tablighi Jamaat: Stealthy Legions of Jihad by Alex Alexiev, 3/3/2005 Despite its size, worldwide presence, and tremendous importance, Tablighi Jamaat remains largely unknown outside the Muslim...
Making a Silk Purse out of a Sow Ear by Ted Belman, 3/2/2005 Nowhere did Res. 242 require that a Palestinian state be created or, if created, that it be viable or contiguous...
Syria to Pull Out of Lebanon? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/2/2005 We may be witnessing the birth of the second Arab/Muslim/Christian democracy in the Middle East in as many months...
Anti-Semitism Revisited by Asaf Romirowsky, 3/1/2005 The cycles of hatred towards Jews through Muslim and Christian writings still repeat many old anti-Semitic canards, but...
Howard Dean Gets Away With Racism by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/28/2005 It seems that Dean believes that Black people are only worthy of cleaning toilets in hotels in which whites stay...
Syria Has Really Bad Diarrhea by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/28/2005 The Lebanese people must be commended for their heroic and peaceful push for democracy, self-determination, security...
SAY WHAT? Re: Bush Middle East Policy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/26/2005 Please do not tell me this had nothing to do with the Middle East Initiative. If you do, you are living in Neverland...
Do You Love Your Freedom? by Patrick D. OBrien, 2/25/2005 So many of our brothers and sisters all over the world—people of every color, creed, and ethnicity—live and die under the...
This is Palestinian Peace? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/25/2005 Four Israeli kids were killed and 30 wounded today by a Palestinian homicide bomber. Their crime? They were waiting in line...
Iraqi Politics Heat Up by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/24/2005 In the final analysis, Iraqi democracy might just lead to Sharia. For those of us who supported the liberation, watching...
Good News from Palestine OR… Fooled Again? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/23/2005 Could the Arafat era really be coming to an end? Or are we being fooled by… SATAN again? The BBC today reported...
Bigoted Prof Churchill Does It Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/23/2005 According to his insane logic, a janitor who cleans toilets at a brokerage firm is contributing to mass misery and death...
Lebanon Liberation Approaches by Daniel Pipes, 2/22/2005 The fate of Syria was in good measure determined on January 21, 1994. That is when, driving at a too-high speed to the...
Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey by Michael Rubin, 2/21/2005 More troubling yet is the pattern of tying Turkish policy to an influx green money from wealthy Islamist businessmen...
God Save the Shiites by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/19/2005 Hey, everyone! Muslims (Sunni/Wahabi) are killing Muslims (Shiite). Places of worship are being blown to bits...
Murder of Hariri Backfiring on Syria by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/18/2005 The repercussions from the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri continue to gain momentum. Hariri and 14...
Syrian Reform: What Lies Beneath by Farid N. Ghadry, 2/17/2005 But rather than reintegrate Syria into the international community, Assad has reinforced the Syrian role as a pariah...
Two Rogue States and One Dead Prime Minister by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/16/2005 It was a busy day in Beirut, Damascus, and Tehran today. Some Lebanese buried a former prime minister in Beirut....
Anti-Semitism Evolves by Daniel Pipes, 2/15/2005 Israel faces the most extreme danger, surrounded as it is by enemies who in the past generation have dehumanized Jews in ways...
Internment: A Tool in the War on Terror? by Michelle Malkin, 2/15/2005 We are at war with stateless enemies abroad and Islamist infiltrators at home who will not stop plotting to kill us unless we...
Dissident Watch: Fathi El-Jahmi by MEQ, 2/14/2005 Libya may have abandoned its nuclear weapons program, but has Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi changed? A number of...
Pipes criticises Middle East leaders by Lateline Interview, 2/13/2005 Mahmoud Abbas sees that tactically at this time, violence is counterproductive. They have made mistakes before. The whole...
Will Washington Support Democracy in Iran? by Michael Rubin, 2/12/2005 After a first term marked by schizophrenic Iran policy initiatives, the Bush White House will soon develop a coordinated...
Abbas Not Serious About Stopping Terror by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/10/2005 What were the 3,000 Palestinian police doing today when Hamas was attacking Israeli civilians from northern Gaza?...
Denying Terrorism by Daniel Pipes, 2/8/2005 Anyone following the investigation into the mid-January slaughter of the Armanious family knows who the presumptive suspects...
Democracy Versus Tyranny by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/8/2005 Israelis, outnumbered and surrounded as were the ancient Greeks in 480 B.C., have something meaningful to fight for...
The Roadmap is Part of the Big Picture by Ted Belman, 2/7/2005 Democrats demand an exit strategy and argue that any time the US invades a country it should have an exit strategy...
Professor Compared Terrorists to Founding Fathers by Daniel Pipes, 2/6/2005 Alam is a combination of a Marxist and a radical Muslim, someone who sees the Western colonial enterprise as the source of...
Israel is Being Raped by Ted Belman, 2/4/2005 Today, Israel is being told you can have your peace agreement with the Arab world or you can have your land grab but you...
A Fresh Start by Michael Rubin, 2/4/2005 After careful negotiation, more than 200 mostly Shia candidates joined together in the Iraqi National Alliance (al-Ittilaf al...
U of Colorado Prof Calls 9/11 Victims Nazis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/3/2005 Were the 500 foreign nationals from 91 countries who were incinerated on 9/11/01 little Eichmanns? How about the Dominican...
Incoherent Sunni Hypocrisy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/2/2005 Which comes first: the cart or the horse? Iraqi Sunnis cannot seem to decide. Sunni political and/or religious groups urged...
Iraq has voted by Michael Rubin, 2/1/2005 Such questions misunderstand both Iraq and the elections. Yesterday marked a historic transformation in Iraqi society...
Saudi Venom in U.S. Mosques by Daniel Pipes, 2/1/2005 Those of us following the development of Islam in America have for years worried about the unhealthy influence of Saudi money...
Catering to the Sunnis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/31/2005 If the Oklahoma City bombers refused to participate in a U.S. election, would the final results be considered illegitimate?...
Bush: Iraqi election a resounding success by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/30/2005 Some Iraqis danced in the street after casting their votes. Many stood in long queues waiting to vote. All who voted...
A Reply to Lawrence Auster by Daniel Pipes, 1/28/2005 To which I reply that Islam can be whatever Muslims wish to make of it. I commend to him the study of Muslim history...
Serb War Criminal Surrenders by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/28/2005 Vladimir Lazarevic, a Serbian general who led his troops in the commission of war crimes against Kosovar civilians in 1999...
The Churchill Doctrine by Daniel Mandel, 1/27/2005 In the case of militant Islam, it was another long awakening: from the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Teheran in 1979 to the...
Democracy on the Wing by Michael Rubin, 1/26/2005 Most Iraqis are news junkies, rapidly channel-surfing to catch the latest headlines. As I watched television with a Kurdish...
The Future of Judaism by Daniel Pipes, 1/25/2005 It is conceivable that the Orthodox will again constitute the great majority of Jews. Were that to happen, the...
Iraq Arrests Homicide Bomber Mastermind by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/24/2005 The Iraqi interim government announced it has captured Sami Mohammad Said al-Jaf, charged with masterminding at least 32...
Ending Violence in Iraq Through Elections by Kamal Nawash, 1/24/2005 It is absolutely imperative that the new Iraqi government be representative of all its citizens. In past articles the Free...
Missing the Target on Nonproliferation? by Jerry Sorkin, 1/23/2005 In September 2002, President George W. Bush unveiled a new national security strategy that underscored the dangers posed by...
Requiem for a Decent Chinese Communist by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/22/2005 Not all tigers are incapable of changing their stripes. During his tenure in the communist party, Zhao took steps that truly...
Yesterday was a Good Day for Democracy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/21/2005 These words were spoken by none other than John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961. Is it somehow different when a...
BBC: Rice failed to reach out by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/19/2005 Come on. Only two senators voted against the Rice confirmation, John Kerry and Barbara Boxer. I suppose Kerry has got...
Oh, NOW the Vatican is Upset by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/18/2005 After feeling sorry for the evil dictator Saddam, and opposing the liberation of Iraqis, the Vatican has finally used the...
Sullivan Reminds Us of the Dangers of Torture by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/14/2005 It is a slippery slope. Make an exception for torture because we are in a war on terror, then what is the next exception made...
Russian KGB Loses Again (Abkhazia) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/13/2005 Voters in Abkhazia, the Black Sea region of northwestern Georgia, elected opposition candidate Sergei Bagapsh as their new...
Prince Harry, The Nazi by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/13/2005 Harry deemed it appropriate to regale his arm with the notorious SS armband featuring none other than the swastika...
Democratic Gas Price Conspiracy Theory Shot to Hell by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/12/2005 Woodward charged that President Bush and the Saudis had a secret deal to keep oil prices low in the run-up to the election...
Which Way Will Abbas Go? by Daniel Pipes, 1/11/2005 By insisting on a right of return, Mr. Abbas signals that he, like Yasser Arafat and most Palestinians, intends to undo the...
Al-Kut, Iraq: After-Battle Report by MEQ, 1/10/2005 The unclassified report, written by a coalition security contractor, highlights dysfunction between regional coalition office...
Palestinians: A Fractious Family by Asaf Romirowsky, 1/9/2005 The animosity between Gazans and West-Bankers has drastically increased since the death of Yasser Arafat...
Listen to the Iraqis by Michael Rubin, 1/8/2005 Half past ten in the morning on Monday, January 3, an Iraqi National Guard unit, escorted by a dozen uniformed U.S. military,...
Hanson Eviscerates Gulf State Tsunami Donations by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/8/2005 The supposedly devout Muslims who rule the Arabian Gulf nations are in fact the top wrung in the Islamic caste system...
Shiites, Sunnis, Democracy, and Hypocrisy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/7/2005 A top Iraqi Shiite leader today insisted that Sunnis will be included in a national unity government...
Hollywood Discovers Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 1/6/2005 The war on terror has not been the subject of a single American feature film nor, so far as I know, is there one in the works...
Yanukovych is Finished by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/6/2005 But his behavior has oligarch – dictator, if you will – written all over it. If he was a true patriot, he would let Ukrainian...
Palestinian Word Games by Daniel Pipes, 1/4/2005 Excuse me, but prime minister, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, means the head of the executive branch of...
Sudan: Peace in Our Time? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/3/2005 Sudan has dragged its feet ad nauseum, balking at mainly U.S. demands to stop its campaign of ethnic cleansing. Is this...
WSJ: Romance With Terrorists Ended by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/3/2005 The Wall Street Journal eruditely opines as to why 2004 was the year when the romance with terrorists ended...
Feliz Año Nuevo, Mi Colombia Querida by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/1/2005 Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) murdered 17 peasants, including 6 women and 4 children, who...
Another Moderate Muslim Group by Daniel Pipes, 12/29/2004 Unfortunately, in its initial form, the AMGPP does not at all appear to be moderate. Rather, it resembles the Progressive...
Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters by Daniel Pipes, 12/28/2004 For years, it has been my position that the threat of radical Islam implies an imperative to focus security measures on...
Yanukovych: The Drunk, Evil Dead by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/28/2004 One would think that after three rounds of elections in two months, and a substantial loss by 7.7% or 2 million votes,...
Yushchenko Leading in Ukraine by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/26/2004 Exit polls show opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko leading the establishment (oligarchy) nominee Prime Minister Viktor...
Arafat: Funding the Terror by Matthew Rees, 12/23/2004 The Arafat legacy is a history of symbolism characterized by constant undermining and undercutting the very people whom he...
Salem Chalabi: Judging Saddam by Michael Rubin, 12/22/2004 On May 8, 2004, the Iraqi Governing Council named Salem Chalabi as head of the Iraq Special Tribunal, which is to try former...
Palestinians Do Not Deserve Additional Aid by Daniel Pipes, 12/21/2004 Yasser Arafat died last month. This month, his death is prompting plans for a foreign aid bounty of $500 million to $1...
Slaughter in Mosul by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/21/2004 The Shiites are the majority. The Sunnis will lose in any elections, not just because they are the minority, but because...
Multicultural Censorship in Birmingham, England by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/20/2004 The Birmingham, England Repertory Theatre has cancelled the play Behzti after violent protests by members of the...
Ceausescu Turns in Grave; [Ras]Putin Loses Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/17/2004 Despite the fact that most ex-Soviet satellite countries have gravitated towards the West and away from Mother Russia, Putin...
Remembering Hume Horan (1934-2004) by MEQ, 12/15/2004 Many U.S. diplomats say they speak Arabic, but Horan was fluent. He won Iraqi hearts and minds as he switched from any...
Exploiting the Koran to Terrorize by Daniel Pipes, 12/14/2004 Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when an American district court found three Muslim organizations and one...
Tapping the Hornet Nest by Michael Rubin, 12/13/2004 With Iran on the verge of developing both nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile capability, Washington policymakers...
Abbas Apologizes for Being Ethnically Cleansed by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/12/2004 Kuwait got invaded, and the people they gave refuge to, the Palestinians, supported the invasion. Kuwait then ethnically...
Back in the USSR... by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/11/2004 Doctors in Vienna today said tests performed on Ukrainian opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko show he was poisoned...
Bush is doing it by Ted Belman, 12/11/2004 Clinton accomplished nothing. He made things worse with N. Korea and he lobbed a few missiles at Bin Laden. Bush, on the...
Where Goes the U.S.-Turkish Relationship? by Soner Cagaptay, 12/8/2004 Throughout the 1990s, Turkish foreign policy analysts had an easy job. After all, Turkish foreign policy was predictable...
Rummy Gets an Earful from Troops by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/8/2004 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had to listen to some criticism today from U.S. troops, according to the BBC and...
My Day in Court by Daniel Pipes, 12/7/2004 Threats of legal action on Middle Eastern and Islamic issues are about as common as corrupt practices at the United Nations...
The Sharon Altalena by Asaf Romirowsky, 12/7/2004 The young Jewish state had barely been born yet was already on the brink of collapse on June 22, 1948, when the arms ship...
[Ras]Putin Not Getting His Way… Yet by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/6/2004 Things in the Ukraine are not shaping up the way Russian President Vladimir Putin would like them to be. [Ras]Putin wanted...
Saudi Terrorists Kill Only Saudis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/6/2004 Once again, the Jihadis have accomplished nothing but the slaughter of their own people. How many 100s or 1000s...
Iran: Real Referendum vs. Pseudo-Referendum by Free Iran, 12/4/2004 Several individuals and groups have begun pushing a SHAM REFERENDUM sponsored by the Islamic Republic...
Startling New Details Uncovered on Arafat Death by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/2/2004 Despite their infamy, little information has been publicly available regarding Doug and Dinsdale Piranha -- known commonly...
Barghouti the Spoiler by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/1/2004 Terrorist Marwan Barghouti was today registered to run for Palestinian Authority (PA) president in the January elections...
Columbia University: The Hysterical Professor by Daniel Pipes, 12/1/2004 Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University, felt...
U.S. Needs To Learn Patience [in Iraq] by Daniel Pipes, 11/30/2004 The first priority, before elections, is for Allawi to end the Sunni insurrection in Iraq and control the whole country...
Anniversary of the UN vote on Resolution 181 by IsraPundit, 11/29/2004 Today is the anniversary of the UN vote on resolution 181, which approved the partition of the western part Palestine into...
Ukrainians Handling the Crisis Well by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/29/2004 Despite the mass demonstrations, the talk of civil war, and threats of secession, Ukrainians are handling their election...
Understanding Muqtada al-Sadr by Nimrod Raphaeli, 11/29/2004 Muqtada al-Sadr, a young cleric from a prominent family, almost immediately launched a fierce campaign of resistance, first...
Nepotism at the UN? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/27/2004 Now we find that the son of the UN Secretary General was involved, and the UN has been covering up details of his involvement...
Israelis are Nazis by George Miller, 11/26/2004 The Palestinian was playing the violin to prove he was who he said he was. He was trying to get through a checkpoint, not to...
The Fallujah Mosque of Peace by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/25/2004 U.S. and Iraqi forces patrolling Fallujah have discovered a weapons cache large enough to supply a nationwide insurgency....
Spreading Islam in American Public Schools by Daniel Pipes, 11/24/2004 Not only do Islamists want to censure the handling of Islamic topics at U.S. universities, but they also wish to do the same...
Russia Still Has [Pipsqueak] Ambitions by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/24/2004 Now Mother Russia has its eyes on the Ukraine. A pro-Russian prime minister has just claimed election victory, but opposition...
Identifying Moderate Muslims by Daniel Pipes, 11/23/2004 There is good news to report: The idea that militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution is finding...
News Flash: Iraq is OK by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/22/2004 There have been several recent developments out of Iraq that should give some comfort to those who believe that Arabs and...
Iran Beating the Nuclear Buzzer by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/20/2004 The U.S. should be working closely with and supporting Iranian expatriates. It should also be engaging in covert operations...
The Respectable Tyrant by Asaf Romirowsky, 11/19/2004 Arafat was strongly influenced by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Islamic mufti of Jerusalem who was tightly aligned with Hitler...
Bush and Rice Listen to Sharansky by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/18/2004 The President and Secretary of State will be listening to new and previously ignored voices – uncompromising voices of...
Ending American Dependence on Middle East Oil by Gal Luft, 11/17/2004 The U.S. must promote scientific and technological advancement by tapping into homegrown fuel sources that can be used for...
Is the Israeli Security Barrier Unique? by Ben Thein, 11/16/2004 In August 2004, the EU put out tenders for companies to construct a European separation fence to prevent migration into the...
Colin Powell Resigns as Secretary of State by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/15/2004 I never thought his heart was really in the job. He always seemed reticent and uncomfortable...
Dissecting Uri Avnery by Ted Belman, 11/14/2004 For those of us who have followed the career of Uri Avnery, we know him as an extreme leftist, a turncoat if you will...
Holland: Portent of Things to Come? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/13/2004 If the Netherlands is such a modern, liberal democracy, then why are its politicians being silenced by assassination?...
Eulogizing Arafat by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/12/2004 The blogsphere has empowered individuals by allowing them to easily find alternative news and commentary. Perhaps most...
Does Human Rights Law Apply to Terrorists? by Ted Lapkin, 11/11/2004 From Manhattan to Mindanao, Islamist zealots draw no distinction between combatants and non-combatants. Jihadists target...
Arafat And His Dream Are Dead: Israel Lives! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/11/2004 For the last hundred years, Palestinians have lived in a toilet of poverty, corruption, and terrorism. Where are the schools...
The Arafat Bedroom Farce by Daniel Pipes, 11/10/2004 The mise-en-scène is as preposterous as what came before, only much funnier. First, there is the wife, Suha, a Greek Orthodox...
Bosnian Serb Leaders Finally Apologize for Srebrenica by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/10/2004 Bosnian Serb leaders have finally apologized for the massacre of 7,000 – 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica...
Arafat: His Last Threat to Israel? by Daniel Pipes, 11/9/2004 The doldrums will cease because the Bush administration views Mr. Arafat as the main impediment to achieving its vision...
Bush and (the Big) Business (Agenda?) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/8/2004 CNN.com has an interesting read on what the Bush election victory means for big business. You decide...
Middle East Quarterly: Book Reviews by MEQ, 11/8/2004 Great book reviews on terrorism, funding of terror, the Shah, employment creation, social protection, etc, in the Middle East...
Is It Different When France Does It? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/6/2004 9 French troops and a U.S. citizen were killed when Ivory Coast fighter planes bombed a rebel position in the north of that...
Giving Terror a Boost by Daniel Mandel, 11/5/2004 Do the media give aid and comfort to terrorists by giving their violence maximum exposure and impact at times while...
Job Growth Explodes: What Was Kerry Saying? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/5/2004 The Department of Labor reported this morning that 337,000 new jobs were created in the U.S. in October...
Draining the Financial Swamps of Terror by Douglas Farah, 11/4/2004 At a time when state control is diminishing or nonexistent across growing swaths of the world, non-state armed groups pose...
A Tale of Two Disasters: When Will They Learn? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/4/2004 Yasser Arafat is dying or maybe even dead already. The Democrats lost -- lost big -- in the presidential and congressional...
Kerry to Concede Election by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/3/2004 Drudge and FOX are reporting that Senator John Kerry will officially concede the presidential election today at 1 PM...
Has America Learned from 9/11? by Daniel Pipes, 11/2/2004 Is President Bush correct in his positive view or Senator Kerry in his negative one?...
Going Third World, à la Française by Elie Kedourie, 11/3/2004 The religion of misfortune found a much devoted votary in Louis Massignon, the influential scholar of Islam who occupied an...
Latest Polls Show Bush Leading by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/1/2004 A summary of the latest national polls shows President Bush leading John Kerry...
France is Concerned About Arafat by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/31/2004 Again, France has proven itself to be (literally) way out in left field on Arafat, just like it has with the subject of the...
The Kerry al-Qaqaa Ca-ca by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/28/2004 While the Kerry campaign has already released a television ad, they simultaneously have backed off from the same charges...
Arafat: His Swiss Bank Account by Issam Abu Issa, 10/28/2004 Another cancer permeates the Arafat administration; its name is corruption. From firsthand experience, I understand just...
What Will Disengagement Accomplish? by Ted Belman, 10/27/2004 Assuming Sharon is able to transfer the last Israeli from Gaza, what will be the situation the morning after?...
Try, Try, Try Again: Bush Peace Plans by Daniel Mandel, 10/26/2004 Still, U.S. policy has evolved in important ways. The Bush vision, the roadmap, the U.S. support for a Palestinian state,...
Kerry Lies Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/26/2004 U.S. forces did largely rely on Afghan forces, but there is no definitive proof that the al Qaeda leader was really there...
9/10 vs. 9/12 on 11/2 by Daniel Pipes, 10/26/2004 The basic difference between Kerry and President Bush is one of character, with the challenger repeatedly changing his mind...
In the Mideast, Bush dared to be different by Daniel Pipes, 10/25/2004 It has not been fully appreciated that, when it comes to the Middle East, Bush has systematically responded to the...
Awe and Loathing by Daniel Mandel, 10/23/2004 Why is America disliked so intensely and widely, with special emphasis in the Middle East? Here is one explanation...
A Frenchman Weaseling on Oil-for-Food by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/22/2004 Frédéric Desagneaux, consul general of France for San Francisco, is not happy with the light being shown on his country...
The Islamist Challenge to American Security by Frank J. Gaffney, 10/19/2004 The threat of terror is the most direct challenge to the stability of America as a functioning country. The term used by...
Coddling a Terrorist Costs Votes by Daniel Pipes, 10/19/2004 It is clear, however, that politicians who coddle terrorists have adopted a losing electoral strategy...
The [Election] Fear Factor by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/18/2004 The Left masks its fear by believing that terrorism is a nuisance to our lifestyle. How do we convince them otherwise?...
Nation and Assassination in the Middle East by Martin Kramer, 10/18/2004 Assassination in modern times may be divided roughly into three sequential stages, in which the rationales shift dramatically...
Sudan Death Toll Rises by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/15/2004 The Janjaweed Arab militia, backed by the Sudanese government, has been responsible for most of the Darfur horrors...
Kerry Lies About Job Loss/Gain by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/15/2004 Actually, President Bush could make an even bigger claim. According to the establishment (or payroll) survey...
Quote of the Day (RE: Afghan Elections) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/13/2004 Afghans are acting as they now are, an electorate who will not put up with political nonsense....
Allawi Warns On Fallujah, But Does He Mean It? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/13/2004 On the other hand, U.S. and Iraqi forces did clean up Samarra. Maybe Allawi has gotten tougher since Najaf and Samarra...
Hating American Success by Daniel Pipes, 10/12/2004 Tens of millions of immigrants have voted with their feet to slough off prior allegiances and join the boisterous experiment...
Palestinian Civil War? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/12/2004 The assassination attempt today was certainly carried out by other Palestinians, like members of Hamas, or even...
The Arab Mind Revisited by Norvell B. De Atkine, 10/11/2004 Ultimately, the Arabs, who are an immensely determined and adaptable people, will produce leadership capable of freeing them...
Quick to Criticize Afghan Election by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/11/2004 More than 10.5 million men and women registered to vote, and turnout was described as massive by international...
First Najaf, Then Sadr City? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/9/2004 Are they going soft or are they simply giving peace a chance? So far, so good for Najaf. We will have to wait...
Assad Will Change His Spots Just Like Arafat by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/8/2004 Maybe. Or this could be a Clintonesque mistake like the Oslo Accords, where terror-master Yasser Arafat was legitimized as a...
Iraq Survey Group Report: More Than Meets the Eye by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/8/2004 The report found that oil-for-food kept Saddam in power and that he had no intention of giving up his quest for WMDs...
Iranian Students Killed by ActivistChat.com, 10/6/2004 The Iranian regime continues to arrest and kill student leaders in a last ditch effort to quell the impending revolution...
Iran: The Invisible Revolution by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/5/2004 You probably would not know that Iran is considered to be the most active state sponsor of terrorism...
What Kind of Airport Profiling? by Daniel Pipes, 10/5/2004 The Bush administration has recognized that terrorists, more than the tools of their trade, must be watched and stopped...
Washington Post Has No Iraq Answers by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/30/2004 Scapegoat the Israeli-Palestinian conflict again. Why not? Everyone else does....
Intense Fighting Throughout Iran by ActivistChat.com, 9/29/2004 Reports emerging of country-wide fighting, quickly escalating into what could potentially become a freedom revolution...
Islam is What Its Followers Make of It by Daniel Pipes, 9/28/2004 First, it shows that Islam - like all religions - is whatever believers make of it. The choices for Muslims...
Beyond the Pale by Ted Belman, 9/27/2004 The world has decided that the territories are beyond the pale for the Jews. In a crash course on Jewish literacy, dealing...
Freedom of Speech - in Any Language by Jonathan Eric Lewis, 9/27/2004 But if Washington is to be successful in fostering democratic change in the Middle East, it must put linguistic freedom...
Syria Plays to the UN Choir over Lebanon by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/23/2004 Members of the General Assembly and Security Council will pat each other on the back and say, See, we ARE effective...
The Islamic States of America? by Daniel Pipes, 9/23/2004 That enemy goal is to apply the Islamic law globally. In U.S. terms, it intends to replace the Constitution with the Koran...
Time Pooh-poohs Six Flags Muslim Only Day by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/22/2004 How did they plan to enforce Muslim-only entrance to Six Flags? By the way people dressed? By their skin color?...
To Profile or Not to Profile? by Daniel Pipes, 9/21/2004 Should law enforcement profile Muslims? Amnesty International USA answers emphatically no. It asserts in a report issued last...
Bush Stands Firm Behind Israel at UN by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/21/2004 President Bush today stood firm behind Israel and called the Palestinian Authority what it is, a band of terrorists...
Kerry Misleads on Medicare by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/20/2004 Kerry skipped the prescription vote while he did vote to support the increase in Medicare premiums that he now criticizes...
CBS Eats Crow on Bush War Memos by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/20/2004 CBS has publicly acknowledged that it doubts the validity of the documents it quoted claiming to question President Bush...
Chechen Murderer Basayev Claims Credit for Beslan by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/17/2004 It has been known for some time that Basayev has ties to al-Qaeda. His statement today now confirms what Russian...
[Whites] Muslims Only by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/16/2004 How long and hard did many Americans fight to put an end to Jim Crow (segregation)? African Americans were prevented...
freemuslims.org Speaks Out by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/14/2004 What struck me most about the FMCAT website was their headline story, We are so Sorry for 9-11...
Lebanese Government to Resign? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/13/2004 Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, has implied that his government may soon resign, reports the BBC...
Iraq Electoral System: A Misguided Strategy by Michael Rubin, 9/13/2004 The electoral system chosen for Iraq could dampen the prospects for a representative and democratic vote...
Remembering 9/11: Islamists are Our Enemy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/11/2004 Today is the third anniversary of the vicious attacks wrought against the United States on September 11, 2001 by Islamists...
Protests Against al-Sadr in Najaf Today by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/10/2004 Around 1,000 people held a demonstration today in Najaf, Iraq against the Islamist terrorist leader Muqtada al-Sadr...
News Highlights for Sept. 9 by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/9/2004 Pakistan Kills 50 Terrorists; Jobless Claims Drop; Australian Embassy Bombed; Kerry Shills for Iran...
Liberty Century and the Missing Element by Dariush Shirazi, 9/9/2004 If America wants to win the War on Terror then we must work towards the removal of the Islamic regime in Iran...
NGOs Make War on Israel by Gerald M. Steinberg, 9/9/2004 But over the last decade, NGOs have expanded their agendas dramatically, going far beyond campaigning against the violation...
Sudanese Terror Continues Despite UN Deadline by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/8/2004 The U.S. is pushing for sanctions to be levied against Sudan, but other UN Security Council members are ringing their hands...
They Are Terrorists - Not Activists by Daniel Pipes, 9/7/2004 The press, however, generally shies away from the word terrorist, preferring euphemisms. Take the assault that led to the...
Yellowcake Plot Thickens by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/6/2004 Italy is now blaming France for trying to make the allies look ridiculous in order to undermine their case for war...
Lebanon Loses Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/5/2004 During this period of prosperity built mainly by Maronite Christians, Beirut was fondly known as the Paris of the Middle East...
Job Growth Jumps; Bush Economic Plan Sound by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/3/2004 The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 5.4% and our economy created 144,000 new jobs in August...
Iraq Lobby Wants Ties With Israel by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/3/2004 A powerful lobby is developing in Baghdad to promote the idea of diplomatic relations with Israel...
Kerry, Kerry, Quite Contrary by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/2/2004 Kerry then went from fighting the North Vietnamese to shilling for them in Congress. In 1971, he told Congress that American...
Tariq Ramadan, hate crimes, Al-Aqsa, Neve Shalom by Daniel Pipes, 9/1/2004 Ramadan uses the opportunity to float his usual excuses for the pattern of extremism that follows him like a cloud...
Where is Muqtada Now? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/1/2004 Will al-Sadr and his thugs be held accountable for the violent crimes they committed in Najaf? During their reign of terror...
Why Did American Airlines 587 Crash? by Daniel Pipes, 8/30/2004 Coming just two months after 9/11, this disaster raised a specter of renewed terrorism attacks, yet investigators quickly...
Why Revoke U.S. Visa of Tariq Ramadan? by Daniel Pipes, 8/27/2004 Intelligence agencies suspect that Mr. Ramadan coordinated a meeting for Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy head of Al-Qaeda...
Rethinking The Alliance by Dariush Shirazi, 8/27/2004 Opponents of President Bush use such claims in order to discredit the legitimacy of this noble endeavor for freedom...
Riots in Iranian Persian Gulf Port City by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/26/2004 Iran Focus reports that anti-government riots hit the Iranian Persian Gulf port city of Ganaveh yesterday...
More Questions About Kerry Vietnam Service by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/26/2004 Kerry claims that medal was received because of enemy fire, but his own personal diary contradicts that assertion...
Islamophobic Prejudice and CAIR by Daniel Pipes, 8/25/2004 This tale points once again to the unreliability and poor judgment of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...
Durable Goods Up 1.7% by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/25/2004 The Commerce Department reported this morning that orders for durable goods in the U.S. rose 1.7% in July...
Christians Disappearing From Iraq by Daniel Pipes, 8/24/2004 Pascale Icho Warda estimates that 40,000 Christians left Iraq in the two weeks following the Aug. 1 bombings...
Bob Dole Slams Kerry by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/23/2004 I respect his record. But three Purple Hearts and he never bled, that I know of. I mean, they are all superficial wounds...
Girl, 16, hanged in public in Iran by Khorshid, 8/23/2004 A 16 year old Iranian girl was executed for engaging in acts incompatible with chastity...
Losing the Shia by Michael Rubin, 8/21/2004 Sadr was not initially popular among Iraqi Shia. Many Iraqis consider him responsible for the April 10, 2003 murder of Shia...
Flying in the Face of Facts by Ted Belman, 8/20/2004 Israel should abandon the Roadmap, destroy the remnants of Oslo, and embrace the Jordanian solution...
Trouble for Chinese Communists by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/19/2004 Today, six women held a protest on an apartment building rooftop in Beijing. They waved a banner reading,...
Tunnel-Vision in Gaza by Doron Almog, 8/18/2004 Smuggling and infiltration have the potential to endanger the Israeli-Egyptian peace accord and threaten the stability of the...
Naming the Enemy by Daniel Pipes, 8/17/2004 Last month, Bush for the first time used the phrase Islamic militants, perhaps his most explicit reference until now...
Bring the Troops Home by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/17/2004 President Bush yesterday announced plans to redeploy or bring home about 70,000 U.S. troops now stationed...
The Next Assault on American Sovereignty by Daniel Pipes, 8/16/2004 Should the United States be sovereign or should it bow before the United Nations and other international institutions?...
Invested in Terrorism by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/16/2004 The leading public pension funds are heavily invested in some 400 publicly traded companies that do business with terrorist...
Al-Jazeera in Al-Canada? by D. Pipes/C. West, 8/15/2004 This unlikely success in Canada for an Islamist, antisemitic, pro-terrorist channel was achieved by winning a special...
Iraq: The Glass is Half Full by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/13/2004 Their infrastructure is on the mend and, most importantly, Iraqis are fighting to bring stability to their own country...
Shifting Sides? The problems of neo-Ottomanism by Michael Rubin, 8/12/2004 The ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi [AKP] has sought to reorient Turkish policy away from the United States, toward both...
Sudan Continues Atrocities Against Black Africans by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/11/2004 Despite a July 30 UN resolution calling on the Sudan to reign in Arab militias, fresh revelations of atrocities have emerged...
The Saudi Covert P.R. Campaign by Daniel Pipes, 8/10/2004 A range of public figures opine in America about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia while quietly taking Saudi funds...
Arab League Supports Sudan Genocide by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/9/2004 An emergency session of the Arab League has rejected a July 30 UN resolution calling on the Sudan to reign in Arab militias...
Strange Twists in Syrian-Israeli Diplomacy by Daniel Pipes, 8/7/2004 One of the most secretive and unusual rounds of Arab-Israeli diplomacy took place in the summer of 1998, when three private...
The PKK Factor by Michael Rubin, 8/6/2004 Many Iraqi Kurds are not so lucky. The PKK has denuded villages in the mountains of the triangle border where Iran, Iraq...
What Happened to Job Growth? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/6/2004 Another consideration is the fact that more people are self-employed, and the Labor Department has not really adjusted...
Two Mosque Officials Arrested in Albany by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/5/2004 Two officials of an Albany, N.Y. mosque were arrested today on charges of trying to buy a shoulder-fired missile...
Coalition: No Deal With Hostage-Takers by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/5/2004 All 32 countries in the Iraq Coalition have agreed not to negotiate with hostage-taking terrorists...
Anti-Israel Academia by Asaf Romirowsky, 8/4/2004 Jewish students face a daunting challenge on campus defending the right of Israel to exist as a democratic and Jewish...
A Slick Islamist Heads to Jail by Daniel Pipes, 8/3/2004 Abdurahman Alamoudi signed a plea agreement with the feds admitting his multiple crimes in return for a reduced sentence...
Manufacturing Booms, Other Numbers Mixed by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/3/2004 The American manufacturing sector is booming, and has shown growth in the last 14 months straight...
Arafat - His Grand Strategy by Efraim Karsh, 8/2/2004 For Arafat, the Oslo process has been a strategic means to the substitution of a Palestinian state for the state of Israel...
More Palestinian Unity? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/2/2004 Once again, Palestinians have executed one of their own. No trial. No justice. Just a shot to the head...
Growth Slows, But Still Strong by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/31/2004 U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annualized rate of 3.0 percent in April, May, and June of 2004...
Good News/Bad News From Iran by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/31/2004 Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi announced today that his Islamist thugs have resumed construction of centrifuges...
The Candidate With No Name by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/29/2004 They are galvanized mainly by visceral hatred -- a hatred which stands on shaky assumptions, like the lies that Michael Moore...
Sudanese Arabs Burn Black Africans Alive by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/28/2004 The Arab pro-Sudanese government militia Janjaweed has burned Black African civilians alive in Darfur...
After Arafat by Barry Rubin, 7/27/2004 The problem is not just that Arafat has not designated a successor. It is that he has blocked the development of anybody who...
The Triumph Of the 9/11 Commission by Daniel Pipes, 7/27/2004 An official body of the U.S. government has come out and said what needs to be said: that the enemy is Islamist terrorism...
U Penn Prof for Sharia by Daniel Pipes, 7/26/2004 Rather than cleanse and modernize the Sharia code, I appeal to Professor Robinson to reject the Maldive commission and take a...
Saddam Likes American Snacks! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/26/2004 Saddam likes muffins and cookies. It is so gratifying to know that Saddam is comfortable. He is such a brave man....
McKinney, CAIR & MPAC, and Madison, Wisc. by Daniel Pipes, 7/25/2004 While they agree on many issues – impeding counterterrorism efforts and forwarding an Islamist vision of America in...
The 9/11 Commission Report – Now What? by Daniel Pipes, 7/24/2004 I see the direction of the U.S. mood going back to that police approach rather than the war approach. There is a great deal...
BBC Changing Its Tune on Arafat? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/23/2004 It has also sown the seeds for a long-overdue civil war between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the...
George Soros Teaches the FBI Tolerance by Daniel Pipes, 7/22/2004 The guide grants Arab and Muslim concerns a higher priority than standard law enforcement practices...
PSM Targets Duke University by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/21/2004 The PSM has persuaded yet another university to host a symposium dedicated to rationalizing Palestinian terrorism...
Palestinian Descent into Chaos by Daniel Pipes, 7/20/2004 That chaos, growing since Yasir Arafat initiated the Oslo War in September 2000, has prompted the PA to declare a state of...
State (Dept.) of Confusion by Daniel Pipes, 7/19/2004 It is a highly politicized document, reflecting the Washington debate and diplomatic imperatives, but this year it has veered...
Dear Dr. Martin by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/19/2004 Are her wild accusations about America and Israel the official stance of UD? She accuses Israel of an intention to...
Academia Gone Awry by Michael Rubin, 7/18/2004 The Khalidi book rests on questionable sources, a tendency to favor polemic over fact and reflects little understanding of...
NAACP - Nonpartisan Branch of the Democratic Party by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/16/2004 NAACP Chairman Julian Bond claims his organization is nonpartisan while at the same time using vitriolic rhetoric to attack...
The Virus Must Be Stopped by Dariush Shirazi, 7/15/2004 A grand strategy is being devised and implemented in an effort to halt the progress of democratization and freedom...
CAIR Phony Petition by Daniel Pipes, 7/14/2004 The killing by an Islamist group in early May of Nick Berg, an American civilian working in Iraq, was so barbarous that it...
Yellowcake: Joe Wilson Skating on Thin Ice by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/14/2004 Official American, British, and French reports, as well as media reports, now seem to show that Wilson was the one lying....
Kerry, Edwards, Hollywood, and the Politics of Hate by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/13/2004 John Kerry and John Edwards both looked at the same intelligence presented to President Bush, and they voted for the Iraq war...
Implications of ICJ Advisory Opinion by Ted Belman, 7/12/2004 When contemplating the International Court of Justice ruling on the security fence, the first question the Israeli High Court...
Iranian Fashion Police Spring Into Action by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/12/2004 The women arrested were allegedly wearing clothes that violated Islamist dress code – e.g., women have to be covered...
Middle East Tidbits by Daniel Pipes, 7/11/2004 We all knew that Cynthia McKinney would be drawing on Arab and Muslim supporters in her bid to return to Congress, but a list...
An Anti-climax? by Khorshid, 7/10/2004 Except for some bloggers in Iran, few will admit to it but those feeling somewhat disappointed with the coming and passing of...
Saddam the Novelist by Daniel Pipes, 7/9/2004 He lost touch with reality. He thought he was a god who could do anything, including writing novels....
CityFolk: Proof of American Evil by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/9/2004 The evidence so obviously contradicts the outrageous claims that America is an Apartheid state made up of morons....
Ken Lay of Enron Indicted and Arrested by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/8/2004 Funny. This quote can no longer be found on the Kerry website. First of all, most of these corporate crooks started...
How to Tame Tehran by Ilan Berman, 7/7/2004 Under the rubric of deterrent defense, Iran is exploiting U.S. preoccupation with Iraq to build capabilities that will...
The FBI Loses Its Way by Daniel Pipes, 7/6/2004 It is time to worry when the FBI consistently cannot figure out who is friend and who is foe in the war on terror...
No WMDs in Iraq? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/5/2004 The BBC reported that Polish troops recovered 17 warheads last month in southern Iraq which contained deadly cyclosarin...
Do Not Believe Khartoum for a Second by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/3/2004 This is the same Sudanese government who has backed the Arab thugs in their campaign of ethnic cleansing, razing entire...
Abdullah Akhbar? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/2/2004 King Abdullah today voiced reluctant support for sending Jordanian troops to help stabilize Iraq...
The Wayward Prime Ministers of Israel by Daniel Pipes, 7/1/2004 First, every elected prime minister has broken his word on how he would deal with the Arabs. Second, each one of them has...
Bush and the Economy: Opinion Poll Disconnect by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/30/2004 Why would Americans think that John Kerry would do anything but ruin the economy? Kerry: the King of All Waflers; the...
Same Qaddafi by Michael Rubin, 6/30/2004 Before we get too cozy with Libya, consider the human-rights reality there. On June 28, Assistant Secretary of State William...
Terror and Democracy in the Middle East by Michael Ledeen, 6/29/2004 The war on terror is far from a new phenomenon. In reality, this war has been an ongoing event for at least the past twenty-...
More Evidence of Iraq/al-Qaeda Ties by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/28/2004 New evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda has surfaced just as the 9-11 Commission concluded there was no...
Israel Takes Out The Trash by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/27/2004 Israeli Defense Forces killed 7 Palestinian terrorist leaders yesterday in the West Bank city of Nablus. The commander of...
Gaza Murderers Unhappy With Egypt Security Role by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/25/2004 But the other half of the story is their commitment to the annihilation of the state of Israel. In their statement...
The Wrong Elections For Iraq by Michael Rubin, 6/24/2004 But now technocratic decisions having to do with these elections are threatening to undercut the durability of any democracy...
Walking Back the Cat On Chalabi by Daniel Pipes, 6/22/2004 Ahmad Chalabi — the Iraqi politician whom I have known, worked with, supported, and admired since 1991 — has for the past...
Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America by Kenneth Timmerman, 6/21/2004 As fears of Jewish plots become increasingly accepted in Muslim societies, so too does the idea among Muslims that Jews do...
France in Bed with Iranian Mullahs by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/21/2004 It seems nothing will stand in the way of French profits -- not even the continued subjugation of the Iranian people by...
Saudis Blame Jews for Terror by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/19/2004 As usual, the House of Saud speaks with a forked tongue. Saudi officials, when speaking to western governments and...
UN Survey Reveals Mistrust, Lack of Ethics by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/18/2004 United Nations employees are afraid to become whistleblowers if they notice unethical behavior in their organization...
Middle East Studies on Trial by Daniel Pipes, 6/18/2004 Fawaz Damra, Palestinian-born leader of the largest mosque in Ohio, was convicted yesterday of lying about his connections...
Terrorist Desperation: Iraqi Army Recruits Murdered by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/17/2004 Today, a massive car bomb exploded outside an Iraqi army recruitment center in Baghdad, killing 35 innocents and wounding 138...
BBC Editorializes About Gaza Moat by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/17/2004 It is common knowledge that Palestinian terrorists have dug tunnels under the road to smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza...
Reagan Early Victory in the War on Terror by Daniel Pipes, 6/16/2004 The first American victory in the war on terror was won by Ronald Reagan, and it happened on Jan. 20, 1981, the first day of...
Iraq for the Iraqis: How and When by Patrick Clawson, 6/16/2004 But the mood in Iraq among responsible people is this: get it right, even if it takes longer...
Syria to Recognize Israel? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/15/2004 Is Syria on the verge of recognizing Israel? Do not get your hopes up, but the fact that Syria is even considering...
Case Closed Against Sharon by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/15/2004 Because of the lack of evidence, the attorney general has dropped alleged bribery charges against Prime Minister Sharon...
OIC Chief Slams Muslim Backwardness by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/14/2004 The Secretary General of the OIC has slammed the extensive backwardness of the Muslim world...
Serbia Makes Me Want To Vomit by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/13/2004 Looks like Serbia is on the verge of having the super-nationalistic Radical Party (SRS) running the country...
Serbs Fess Up To Srebrenica by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/12/2004 Bosnian Serb authorities have officially admitted to the horrific atrocities some of their brethren inflicted on Muslims in...
Kerry B.S.es About Outsourcing by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/11/2004 Only a small portion of jobs lost in the first quarter were due to outsourcing of work overseas...
Iraqis Step up to the Plate by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/10/2004 Iraqis are getting more and more involved in providing security for their liberated homeland...
Arabs Engineer Mass Starvation in Sudan by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/9/2004 Hundreds of Black African children have starved to death in Sudan as a result of attacks by Arab militias...
Mugabe Claims Zimbabwe As His Fiefdom by Donnel Jones, 6/9/2004 Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has claimed all the land in his nation now that he has destroyed its agricultural base....
Quotes From Islamist Murderers by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/7/2004 We entered the compound, checked the identities of the occupants, spotted a Swede, then Nimr cut his throat...
Reagan Will Outlive Our Enemies by Donnel Jones, 6/6/2004 Loss has a way of making you appreciate what you once did not. I suppose late is better than never....
Jobless Recovery? - 248,000 Jobs Created in May by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/4/2004 Almost one million new jobs have been created in just the last three months: 248,000 in May, 346,000 in April, 353,000 in...
France Goes Vichy On Its Jews by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/3/2004 The French government and most citizens have done little to stop this wave of anti-Semitism, most likely as a result of...
Soros, the Zoro of Zero by Donnel Jones, 6/3/2004 George Soros is at it again. He compares what America has done in Iraq to 9/11. Nice touch, George....
More Dirt on Chalabi by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/2/2004 The New York Times today disclosed more damning evidence of the Ahmad Chalabi connection to the Iranian terror-masters...
Andrew Sullivan on Iraq Media Coverage by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/1/2004 Thanks to Andrew Sullivan who gives us a reality check on negative media coverage of the Iraq war and reconstruction...
Remembering Why We Fight by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/31/2004 Today, we have good reason to fight one of the worst evils the world has ever known: Islamism. Though some would say our...
U.N. Seeks To Weaken The U.S. Role In Iraq by Donnel Jones, 5/31/2004 The U.N. does not have the interest of the Iraqi people at heart. Mission: to lessen American power worldwide....
Media War by Donnel Jones, 5/31/2004 Robert D. Kaplan gives long overdue advice on how to fight the media warring on the war....
Post-Mortem on the Death of a Plan by Ted Belman, 5/30/2004 The Sharon disengagement plan for removing troops and settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank is dead in the...
Kerry The Day by Donnel Jones, 5/29/2004 Kerry might get help from the Left by just shutting up. Will the anti-war crowd keep silent this critical election year?...
American Wallets Get Fatter by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/28/2004 The good economic news just keeps coming and coming...
Pew Study Finds Liberal Media by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/26/2004 A Pew Research Center study, released Sunday, found that the American media is decidedly liberal....
Bush Iraq Policy Sound by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/25/2004 What would you do to change Iraq policy? I am not being arrogant or confrontational. I am inviting dialog....
Last Synagogue in Tajikistan To Be Demolished by Donnel Jones, 5/25/2004 Tajikistan has an official line about Jews but is not coming out and saying it. Should we be surprised? No. Only sad....
More Arab/Muslim Terror Against Black Africans by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/24/2004 45 more Black Africans have been killed by Arab, pro-government militias in the western Sudanese province of Darfur. This is...
2,000 Protest Against al-Sadr by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/22/2004 2,000 Iraqis held a demonstration in the city of Karbala insisting that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr get out of town...
The Chalabi-Iran Connection by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/21/2004 The INC has failed to deliver on almost all counts. Where is the solid evidence on WMDs that the INC promised?...
You Go Cosby! by Donnel Jones, 5/21/2004 Bill Cosby lets his fellow blacks have it....
Still Hope for Public Schools? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/20/2004 How many of you have listened to the band Outkast?, was my second question. Everybody raised their hands. One kid exclaimed...
Bush Is Losing It by Donnel Jones, 5/20/2004 Bush is derailing fast. Faster than Iraq is going to hell. Or, can he get his sh*t back together? Stay tuned....
Rare Criticism of Arafat By Arab Leader by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/19/2004 King Abdullah of Jordan publicly questioned whether Yasser Arafat should continue to lead the Palestinian people....
Sonia Gandhi Shocks India by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/18/2004 Under the BJP, PM Vajpayee brought economic reforms and prosperity, started a peace process with Pakistan, and formed a...
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth by Donnel Jones, 5/18/2004 Great news from Cuba: Fidel Castro might live as long as Dan Rather, Barbra Streisand, Tim Robins, Michael Moore, and God!...
Arafat: Terrorize Your Enemy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/16/2004 Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat advised his people to terrorize your enemy. There he goes again...
Fisking the BBC on CAIR by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/14/2004 How could we not associate the execution of Berg with Islam? The murderers chanted Allah Akbar! (God is Great!) while...
Poor Baby Syria Hit With Sanctions by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/12/2004 President Bush today exercised provisions of the Syria Accountability Act by halting all American exports to that country...
Some Good News From Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/11/2004 Moderate Shiite Muslims held a demonstration against radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Sadr militiamen fired shots into the...
Bush Should Declare A New Roadmap by Ted Belman, 5/10/2004 Amending the Disengagement Plan is not the answer. Amending the Roadmap is....
Rummy Not For Sale by Donnel Jones, 5/10/2004 What lessons can we glean from the terrible news of Abu Gharib?...
Jobless Recovery? - 288,000 Jobs Created in April by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/7/2004 The Labor Department announced this morning that 288,000 new jobs were created in the U.S. in April. This makes for 8 months...
Enough Hypocrisy About Torture by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/6/2004 Enough is enough already. Members of Congress, the Department of Defense, and the White House are...
U.S. GDP Growth Strong by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/5/2004 I am just waiting to hear how Democrats will try to put a negative spin on all the good news....
This Time, Bush Should Listen to the Opposition by Donnel Jones, 5/5/2004 A Washington Post editorial gets it right about revisiting how detainees are being treated by the U.S. Will Bush listen?...
Moving Closer to Defeat by Donnel Jones, 5/4/2004 Things look really bad in Iraq. Maybe they appear to be, as Bush and the brass would have one believe. I doubt it....
Justice Disserved by Donnel Jones, 5/3/2004 The seven American soldiers guilty of abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners get only a slap on the hand....
Moderate Islam or Fata Morgana? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/30/2004 The question often rises, Are there moderate Muslims? I believe there are, but many are faced with intimidation by militant...
Moving the Goal Posts by Ted Belman, 4/29/2004 Is it too much to hope that a two state solution will ultimately be abandoned? I hope not....
Hong Kong Gets the PRC Shaft by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/28/2004 The commies trotted out the usual, lame excuse that a democratic referendum may stir social and economic instability...
Social Promotion = Bigotry by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/26/2004 O.K. Johnny, we know you are failing 3rd grade, but we are going to pass you anyway. Such is the message school...
Kerry Hates America by Donnel Jones, 4/26/2004 John Kerry for President? Get real. This guy hates America, if ever so subtly with his French penchant for deconstruction....
Sudanese Arabs Massacre Black Africans... Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/24/2004 This is despite new revelations that pro-Sudanese government militias rounded up and massacred 136 Black African men last...
Durable Goods Orders Soar by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/23/2004 Orders for durable goods soared 3.4% in March. The number for February orders was revised upward to a rise of 3.8%...
Three Fallujahs by Donnel Jones, 4/22/2004 The Washington Post, the New York Times, and a military chaplain in Fallujah talk about Fallujah. You decide. . . ....
Heroic Terrorists Kill 20 Schoolchildren in Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/21/2004 The UN oil-for-food program for Iraq ended up being a swirl of bribes, kickbacks and illegal contracts that cost $10 billion...
Got Brain? by Donnel Jones, 4/20/2004 Brain studies have found the soul. No, really! Only, it is the dark soul of Republican brains. . . ....
Kerry Has Another Book by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/19/2004 The Washington Post, whom Woodward works for, has a deal with the publisher to print excerpts. No conflict of interest? Hmmm...
In Support Of Disengagement by Ted Belman, 4/18/2004 The withdrawal of settlements in Gaza is a good thing in and of itself. I do not care whether Hamas tries to make hay out of...
Hamas Terrorist Leader Rantissi Dead by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/17/2004 Israel today exercised its sovereign right as a democracy in performing preventative maintenance against terrorism...
Rantisi Is Dead! by Donnel Jones, 4/17/2004 A leading terrorist thug is dead....
Great Anti-Kerry Ad by Donnel Jones, 4/17/2004 Bush should hire Mr. Mike for his campaign....
Democracy for Iraq and Punches for Castro by Donnel Jones, 4/16/2004 Democracy, of a kind, is possible for Iraq. Democracy for Cuba, however, will also take some punches . . . ....
America Out Of Iraq: Pipes Dreaming? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/14/2004 I disagree with the Pipes thesis that democracy is impossible for Iraq. Muslim peoples can embrace democracy....
America Out Of Iraq: Pipe Dream? by Donnel Jones, 4/13/2004 Daniel Pipes has some disappointing news for the idealistic neo-cons like myself....
20/20 Hindsight Is Easy, But Not Worth A Dime by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/13/2004 The fact is, you and I and most Americans were complacent before 9/11 -- living with low unemployment and a booming stock...
We Could Still Lose This War by Donnel Jones, 4/9/2004 Iran is the vortex of disorder in the Middle East. Because of the Iranian mullahs we could lose the battle for Iraq....
The Ice Caps Are Melting by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/7/2004 The Larsen B ice shelf disintegrated and collapsed into the ocean. It covered an area of 3,250 square kilometers...
Dear Spain: Appeasement Will Not Work by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/5/2004 al-Qaeda is not satisfied with the Socialist Party promise to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq. The group released a...
Surprise: Anti-Semitism Increasing in Europe by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/3/2004 The study shows that anti-Semitic incidents were most prevalent in France, Germany, Belgium, Britain, and the Netherlands...
Jobless Recovery? - 308,000 Jobs Created in March by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/2/2004 The Labor Department reported that 308,000 U.S. jobs were created in March. This is just one more piece of evidence...
Ohioan Hung From Bridge by Donnel Jones, 4/2/2004 Jerry Zovko was a good example of what we are fighting for: the very best our civilization has to offer. Rest in peace, Jerry...
Savagery in Fallujah by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/31/2004 What kind of people would ambush a civilian SUV driving down the road, drag the charred bodies out of the burning wreckage...
Sports and Money by Donnel Jones, 3/31/2004 India and Pakistan may be growing closer together. We all hope so. But what is fueling this new found understanding?...
Condoleezza Rice: You Go Girl by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/30/2004 Condi is the closest Bush adviser. Not bad for a woman whom the idiotic racist Harry Belafonte called an Uncle Tom....
More Confusion by Donnel Jones, 3/30/2004 The Muslim world and the Vatican defeat a U.N. resolution recognizing the civil rights of homosexuals....
NATO Welcomes New Members! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/29/2004 Russia fearing threats to its security? The Russian Federation has a population of 146 million people, is the largest country...
Sudanese Arabs Massacre Black Africans by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/27/2004 Arab paramilitary groups, backed by the Sudanese government, have been carrying out horrific atrocities against Black African...
At Last! by Donnel Jones, 3/25/2004 The Bush Administration is taking the war on terrorism seriously. Proof? He is taking American troops out of Old Europe!...
Suicide Boy by Donnel Jones, 3/24/2004 A Palestinian boy is caught wearing explosives as he was ready to kill Israeli soliders....
Yassin Dead, Thousands More To Go by Donnel Jones, 3/23/2004 Sheik Yassin is dead. That means bad news for now in Iraq and the realization that success has its setbacks in war....
Lieberman and McCain Debunk Clarke Claims by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/22/2004 Who are you to believe, two good men or some disgruntled Clinton-era apparatchik? On Sunday, Lieberman said...
Hamas Leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Killed by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/21/2004 Yassin was to Israel as Osama Bin Laden is to the U.S. Hamas is possibly the most dangerous...
Happy Anniversary by Donnel Jones, 3/20/2004 The moment dreaded by the anti-war movement and celebrated by the pro-war: Saddam is gone. Long live demoracy in Iraq!...
Polish President Wobbles Back on Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/20/2004 On Friday, Kwasniewski contradicted himself, reaffirming his original commitment to keep 2,400 Polish troops in Iraq...
Arab World Outside Iraq Still BAU by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/18/2004 42% of Jordanian women are subject to physical abuse. More than 42% of them are subject to sexual and verbal abuse...
Poland Wobbling? by Donnel Jones, 3/18/2004 Poland may be next. President Aleksander Kwasniewski says withdrawal of Polish troops could be early next year....
Kerry Completely Wrong on Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/17/2004 49% of Iraqis believe the US-led invasion was justified. 70% claim life is good. 71% said they expect the situation in...
Kerry Plans to Stifle American Economic Engine by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/16/2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry plans to raise taxes on all Americans earning more than $200,000 per year...
Allies and Enemies by Donnel Jones, 3/16/2004 Fighting a war is hard enough. It is even harder when you are not sure who your allies are....
Spain: A Taste Of Things To Come? by Donnel Jones, 3/14/2004 The Socialists have won in Spain. Let me rephrase that: the Islamists have won in Spain for the first time since 1492....
Spain At Cross-Roads by Donnel Jones, 3/13/2004 Never doubt the power of appeasement. If anything, the Islamists have won a crucial battle by blowing up innocent Spaniards....
BBC: Europe rethinks war on terror by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/12/2004 As long as it was American and Israeli civilians being blown up, many Europeans were content placating and appeasing terror...
John Kerry: Hoof and Mouth Disease by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/11/2004 Crooked? Lying? He has no proof for what he says. Maybe Kerry should take a look in the mirror...
The U.S. Bullies Iran by Donnel Jones, 3/10/2004 Iran is being persecuted. Quick! Vote for Kerry!...
Weasels Prefer Kerry by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/9/2004 Senator John Kerry claims that foreign leaders want him to be the next U.S. president....
Iraqi Freedom by Donnel Jones, 3/8/2004 The most important news in the media is not John Kerry....
John Kerry: Which Contradiction Do You Believe? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/7/2004 Kerry has flip-flopped on all the major campaign issues important to voters: jobs, the war on terror, free trade, homeland...
Bush Blues by Donnel Jones, 3/5/2004 Victor Davis Hanson leads the charge that Bush is the only man for the war. How true. How confusing....
Shiite and Sunni Unite Against Terror in Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/4/2004 Well, it looks like terrorism is starting to backfire in Iraq. Shiite and Sunni Muslims are uniting in protest against those...
Kerry Fibs About Taking On Corporate America by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/3/2004 Big words from Kerry. The problem is: corporate culture has already changed extensively, especially since the burst of the...
Hope Amidst Horrific Killing by Donnel Jones, 3/2/2004 A very dark day in Iraq with over 140 innocents murdered by terrorists, but also a day of hope for the war against nihilism....
The Gay-Bashing Middle East -- Except Israel by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/1/2004 Show me an Arab/Muslim country that can claim to protect gays to the extent Israel does and I will show you the pot o gold...
Ho and Hum by Donnel Jones, 3/1/2004 Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma make an argument for how the West is complicit in Islamism and, well, just wanted you to know...
Gay Bashing Bush by Donnel Jones, 2/24/2004 We have all experienced personal betrayal. I have this past summer but, today, I experience political and spiritual betrayal....
The Cave of Socrates by Ted Belman, 2/24/2004 Israel today finds itself in such a cave. Its received beliefs include the inevitability of the two state solution, the need...
Nader Radar by Donnel Jones, 2/22/2004 On your mark, get set, GO! Ralph Nader has entered the race for President....
Hangover Holland by Donnel Jones, 2/19/2004 The Netherlands is taking drastic action to save itself from extinction as one of the most tolerant cultures in the West....
Sharia in Iraq? Hypocrisy at Home by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/18/2004 Paul Bremer today announced he will block attempts by Iraqi leaders to make sharia (Islamic law) the basis for an interim...
The Bible Says by Donnel Jones, 2/17/2004 The Bible in America is still in competition with science. Wonders have indeed ceased....
Iranian President Khatami Sells Out Completely by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/16/2004 Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has utterly and completely failed to be the reformer that so many had thought him to be....
Did Franken-Kerry Have An Illicit Affair? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/14/2004 Drudge claims it has found evidence that Kerry had an extra-marital affair with a young AP interin over the last two years...
2004: The Ghost of 1968 by Donnel Jones, 2/13/2004 1968 is the year that divided America and divides it still. I, for one, straddle this San Andreas political fault....
John Kerry: A Frankenstein Monster by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/13/2004 His hypocrisy over special interest money and his anti-Vietnam war record make him unfit to be an American president....
Double Standard? by Donnel Jones, 2/13/2004 James Taranto points out a double standard: Judge Moore defied the law and paid the price. Will gays in SF pay their price?...
The Noonan Challenge by Donnel Jones, 2/12/2004 How do I make one hand clap in my not voting for Bush but hoping he wins the election? My attempt at clarity....
Serbia Hiding Genocidal War Criminals by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/11/2004 The chief UN prosecutor said today that Serbia is providing safe haven to 15 war crimes suspects, including Radovan Karadzic....
Got Nukes? by Donnel Jones, 2/9/2004 Al Queda claims to have nukes. Even if not true, weapons of mass destruction continue to be the main concern of this war....
Arafat Faces More Internal Dissent by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/8/2004 Over 300 members of the Arafat-led, mainstream terrorist front, Fatah, have resigned. The BBC reported that...
What Now? by Donnel Jones, 2/7/2004 The war over gay marriage, pro and con, will best be fought among citizens and not by judges or a Constitutional amendment.....
On Bush and Gay Marriage by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/6/2004 Mr. President, did you miss the boat when IBM began offering benefits to same-sex couples? Yes, IBM; International Business...
Dilemma by Donnel Jones, 2/5/2004 Bill Frist gives the rallying cry to prevent gay marriage and, therefore, all civil protections of gay relationships....
The Security Fence - Part II by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/3/2004 National Geographic listed all the other places on Earth in which one group has attempted to wall off another...
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan And His Nuclear Harvest by Donnel Jones, 2/3/2004 The leading nuclear scientist in Pakistan has confessed to selling technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea....
A Short History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jerry Kotler, 2/2/2004 The establishment of the State of Israel was resented by many Arabs who lived in that land prior to May 15, 1948, because...
Super Hajj by Donnel Jones, 2/1/2004 American culture is a favorite target for the multi-culturalists. But what about the fanaticism of the Muslim world today?...
Cleanup of Afghan/Pakistan Border Region by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/31/2004 The U.S. military is planning a spring offensive against remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan...
From The General by Donnel Jones, 1/30/2004 General Abizaid speaks out about the war on terrorism in terms of a larger strategy....
Regime Change, Anyone? by Donnel Jones, 1/29/2004 North Korea seeks to sell missile technology to Nigeria. NK needs $ for nukes while Nigeria needs the technology for peace....
American Youth: More Enlightened? by Donnel Jones, 1/27/2004 Bush may have more support among American youth than the media lets on, but not necessarily on important social issues....
A Decent Palestinian Man Identifies Root of Conflict by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/27/2004 Walid Shoebat used to be a Palestinian militant. Not anymore. Shoebat has renounced violence and has recognized the right...
Iraq WMDs in Syria? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/26/2004 The question of whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) became even more cloudy or clear this week, depending on...
Wesley Clark: Another Democratic Nutcase by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/24/2004 I myself saw Clark blow his top on national television (MSNBC) when he was simply presented with a record of his own words....
Deaneology by Donnel Jones, 1/24/2004 Definition: the belief in conspiracies about the U.S. government and adoration for the man who embodies that belief....
Enron: Yet Another Step Closer to Ken Lay by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/22/2004 Causey reported directly to Enron former CEO, Ken Lay, and probably knows all sorts of things about his involvement...
Office of Ambiguous Affairs by Donnel Jones, 1/22/2004 WMD fatigue sets in, just as North Korea could be a pot boiler of WMD madness. Stay tuned. . . ....
Still Want Dean For President? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/21/2004 The Dean outburst was one in a long line of gaffes that he has blurted out over the last few months. I know a lunatic when...
SOTU 3 by Donnel Jones, 1/21/2004 Bush stays the course in the war on terrorism yet is catering to ideologues on the domestic front....
SOTU Speak 2 by Donnel Jones, 1/20/2004 In less than one hour Bush will deliver his State of the Union. And Kerry and Edwards just upped the ante. . . ....
SOTU Speak by Donnel Jones, 1/19/2004 Bush has a lot riding on his State of the Union (SOTU) address tomorrow evening. How will he perform before a divided nation?...
Elon Plan should be Israeli Plan by Ted Belman, 1/18/2004 The Benny Elon plan, The Right Road to Peace, is the perfect solution. It postulates a two state solution: namely Jordan and...
Iranian Pretend Democracy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/17/2004 What is that status quo? It is the rule of a religious elite who have created sham elections and sham pseudo-democratic...
Sistani An Iranian Plant? by Donnel Jones, 1/16/2004 Demonstrations in Iraq yesterday point to growing instability in Iraq and a possible debacle for the American occupation....
Left Ruins Martin Luther King Birthday by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/15/2004 A rowdy crowd of several hundred protesters booed the President. What a disgusting display of bad taste and bad timing...
Chavez Redux by Donnel Jones, 1/15/2004 Hugo Chavez is a political animal with known spots and stripes. Reading his words is like a carnival of errors....
Enron: One Step Closer to Ken Lay by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/14/2004 Two ex-Enron employees are expected to plead guilty tomorrow for their roles in causing the company to implode in 2001....
Eje of Folly by Donnel Jones, 1/14/2004 El Colombiano has an interesting take on the proceedings of the Monterrey Summit held this week....
Assad News by Donnel Jones, 1/13/2004 News from Syria: Syria has no free press. Also, reading Syrian news may cause brain drain. You have been warned!...
What To Believe? by Donnel Jones, 1/12/2004 Much will be made of the 60 Minutes interview debunking Bush. For starters, how do you invade Iraq before 9/11?...
Iranian Islamists Try To Derail Elections by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/12/2004 The Iranian Council of Guardians has banned hundreds of reform-minded candidates from running in elections scheduled for next...
Castro Bans Internet Access by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/11/2004 Castro has banned average Cuban citizens from using the Internet/World-Wide Web. So Castro has made the political repression...
Steyn Logic by Donnel Jones, 1/10/2004 Mark Steyn once again takes his countrymen to task (up north), making note of the moral decay of contemporary liberalism....
Can Musharraf Bring Democracy to Pakistan? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/8/2004 Musharraf is the best that is to be gotten from present-day Pakistan. Just keep in mind his admiration for Ataturk....
Palestinian Pathology by Donnel Jones, 1/8/2004 Palestinian NGOs refuse U.S. foreign aid because they are being asked not to use the $ for terrorism....
Cruelty To Animals Must End! by Donnel Jones, 1/8/2004 Our troops are cruel to animals. This will only give the animal-loving anti-war folks at home more gumption....
Dean and Osama by Donnel Jones, 1/7/2004 Howard Dean is a provocateur whose outrageous statements might reflect more a lack of seriousness than conviction....
Bush Immigration Policy: Ensure Cheap Labor by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/7/2004 President Bush wants to open the floodgates to illegal immigration. After 9/11, you think he would be more cautious....
Bashar Assad Will Not Give Up His Toys by Donnel Jones, 1/6/2004 Syrian President Bashar Assad is not seeing the light that fellow-traveler-in-thuggery Gaddafi does....
Move On MoveOn.Org by Donnel Jones, 1/6/2004 Wes Boyd of MoveOn.Org tries to CYA over the Bush/Hitler pact....
Can India and Pakistan be Friends? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/6/2004 India and Pakistan have announced they will meet next month to kiss and make up. This is great news if the two sides are...
The Bush/Hitler Pact by Donnel Jones, 1/5/2004 Bush is compared to Hitler by Move On Dot Org. And all along I thought a comparison to Truman would do instead. . . ....
Huh? by Donnel Jones, 1/5/2004 A fisking is in order when another writer claims it is all about oil. The war against Saddam Hussein, that is....
Afghans Ratify New Constitution by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/4/2004 It was very gratifying to see that many female delegates attended the loya jirga or grand assembly and voted....
Chalk One Up for Uribe by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/3/2004 A top commie rebel leader, Ricardo Palmera, was arrested today in a joint Colombian/U.S. military operation....
Axis of Weasel Offers Debt Relief to Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/2/2004 Many of the Axis of Weasel nations agreed to forgive the enormous $120 billion mountain of foreign debt Iraq owes. But wait,...
Sophistry By Any Other Name: Jews Are Not Semites by Donnel Jones, 12/31/2003 Did you hear the latest? European Jews are not Semites. At least that is what Tarif Hourani claims in an interview he gave...
Lithuanian Pres. Paksas: Toilet Paper Magic by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/30/2003 But great changes have taken place since Lithuanians overthrew their brutal Soviet (Russian) occupiers and indigenous...
The Problem With Serbia by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/29/2003 You would think that after all these years, Serbians would have had enough of ultra-nationalism, campaigns of genocide, and...
Please Help Victims of Iran Quake by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/26/2003 Many Iranians have been angered by the Islamist regime response to the quake. SMCCDI claims the regime is providing...
Muslim Students Association Telling Lies by Diana Appelbaum, 12/25/2003 At some point in the last two or three years, someone who hates Israel fabricated a bloodthirsty quotation and attributed it...
Do Not Feed the (Palestinian) Hand that Bites You by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/24/2003 PA President Yasser Arafat and his minions have been stealing UN, US, European aid money for years. The PA funds terrorism....
BBC Political Correctness Out of Control by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/22/2003 And it seems nothing is sacred to Palestinians. They attack one of their own inside a Mosque? Yes, poor Palestinians are not...
Lies Mariam Sobh Tells by Diana Appelbaum, 12/22/2003 Miriam Sobh is entitled to her opinions. What she is not entitled to do is to publish obvious falsehoods as fact....
Water From a Hard Place by Paul C. Merkley, 12/17/2003 The basic intent of the book is clear enough: it is to stoke anti-Israel attitudes among Lutherans worldwide....
On The Wrong Side of History, Again by Donnel Jones, 12/17/2003 The U.N. should just as well stay out of Iraq. It does not embody the values that are in the interests of the Iraqis....
Vatican Sinks to New Lows by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/16/2003 With members of the Catholic clergy running around justifying homicide bombings, its not surprising that all they can feel fo...
The Security Fence by Diana Appelbaum, 12/15/2003 You have probably not heard much about the controversial security fence that India is building to wall itself off from...
Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel by Paul C. Merkley, 12/15/2003 The sturdiest champions of the Restoration of the Jews to Israel were Evangelical Christians. The rest of the Western...
SADDAM HUSSEIN IS CAPTURED by Donnel Jones, 12/14/2003 Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Allahu Akbar!...
Saddam Gone. Be Patient: Think of Post-War Germany. by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/14/2003 At least 39 U.S. servicemen were killed by the Nazi Werwolf resistance movement in the fisrt few months of the occupation....
Syria Accountability Act Signed Into Law by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/13/2003 President Bush has signed the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act into law. The bill...
Democratic Party Sinks to New Lows by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/9/2003 So the Democratic Party is on its way to naming an apologist for terrorism as their 2004 presidential candidate? Am I...
Doing Dean by Donnel Jones, 12/9/2003 Two conservative pundits have two different takes on whether Howard Dean will take the White House....
Reports of Riots/Uprising in Iran by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/6/2003 The WorldNetDaily.com reported 30 dead and 80 wounded in the disturbances which they termed an uprising,...
Hillary Dillary by Donnel Jones, 12/6/2003 Senator Hillary Clinton bashes Bush big time. It will only get uglier and just think the election is a year away!...
Muslims Throwing Stones by Diana Appelbaum, 12/5/2003 By assuming that throwing stones has the same symbolic meaning in the Islamic cultural context that it possesses in the Judeo...
Another Mutual Fund Scandal by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/4/2003 Mutual funds are supposed to allow investors to purchase an ownership stake in a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, or...
Allies Ignored by Donnel Jones, 12/4/2003 The American media is ignoring the sacrifice of lives and material among our allies in their fight against terrorism....
Beautiful cell phone towers by Diana Appelbaum, 12/3/2003 I diverge from my usual range of topics to discuss a blight of deliberate ugliness spreading across the continent: cell phone...
U. of Toronto permits hate-speech, intimidation by Diana Appelbaum, 12/1/2003 Principles 1 and 2 call for destroying the state of Israel; Principle 5 is an endorsement of terrorism and suicide bombing...
Words Can Kill by Diana Appelbaum, 11/29/2003 At a time when Muslim teachers, journalists, imams, and politicians routinely demonize Jews as sub-human murderers, large...
American Injustice by Donnel Jones, 11/29/2003 Not all is well on our own shores. If we have a way of life and government that allows for self-scrutiny , use it but wisely....
I Used to Love Watching M.A.S.H. by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/28/2003 When I watch M.A.S.H. reruns today, I see nothing but the dogmatic preaching of hopeless left-wingers. M.A.S.H. producers,...
Banishing Race-hatred from Campus by Diana Appelbaum, 11/27/2003 Until Rutgers University President Richard McCormick courageously moved to deny the use of campus space to a Palestine...
Second Chance by Donnel Jones, 11/25/2003 Paramilitary fighters in Colombia give up their arms and will enter civil society....
Can the Creative Class Cure the Rust Belt? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/24/2003 The City of Dayton, Ohio has had to face up to the seismic shifts taking place in the American economic landscape....
Oh, The Humanity! by Donnel Jones, 11/24/2003 American education is the laughing-stock of the world. All this wealth and privilege and Johnny still cannot read....
The Evil at Christ Church by Diana Appelbaum, 11/23/2003 The Rector of Christ Church, Reverend Robert Tobin, raises funds for people who actively support terrorists and suicide...
Georgia On My Mind by Donnel Jones, 11/22/2003 In a dramatic turn of events in Georgia, Nino Burdzhanadze declares herself President....
Two Plays on Israel by Diana Appelbaum, 11/20/2003 When a new play set in Israel opens I wonder, Will the playwright shed light on some aspect of the complex situation? Make us...
Iron Hammer by Donnel Jones, 11/20/2003 Some good news. UPI reports that Operation Iron Hammer, a crackdown on insurgents in parts of Baghdad, is working. I said yes...
What Is A Wall For? by Donnel Jones, 11/19/2003 A wall is a sign that things are hopeless and that they are hopeless because the true cause for there being no hope has not b...
How much do you hate Israel? by Diana Appelbaum, 11/18/2003 Enough to go every day to www.petitiononline.com and type hate-filled remarks into all petitions supportive of Israel? Somebo...
Massachusetts Approves Gay Marriage... Sort of by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/18/2003 The Massachusetts Supreme Court today voted 4-3 deciding that gays are allowed to marry under state law... sort of. The court...
Bush Finally Goes After Saudi Terror Funding by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/17/2003 The LA Times reported today that the Bush Administration has started a far-reaching inquiry into Saudi funding of terrorism....
Can Japan Ever Emerge from Stagnation? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/13/2003 Remember Japan, Inc., the envy of American corporate bosses? Remember when many Americans were afraid that prime property in...
Arafat Has Stripes, Not Spots by Donnel Jones, 11/12/2003 Arafat is at it again. Now he declares Israel has a right to live in security alongside a future Palestinian state and...
Canadian Minister Encourages Terrorism by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/12/2003 Last week, someone in Canada phoned in a threat to shoot down an Israeli airliner using a surface-to-air missile. How do you...
Wheels of Justice Will Catch Ken Lay (Enron) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/10/2003 The wheels of justice are fast on the heels of Ken Lay, former chairman of the now bankrupt Enron. They are already catching...
Hug Your Teddy Bear by Donnel Jones, 11/9/2003 Did you know that world peace is coming our way? It is true. Because the stars said so. No, not Barbra Streisand or Richard G...
BBC Exposes More Palestinian Summary Executions by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/9/2003 The left-wing BBC has been taking a more balanced view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict of late. On Monday this past week,...
Sanctions, Dictatorships, and Lenin the Shopkeeper by Donnel Jones, 11/8/2003 Sensible op-ed in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristoff concerning the ineffectiveness of sanctions against dictatorships....
Coalition Educates on PSM While PSM Obfuscates by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/7/2003 A broad coalition of conscientious, peace-loving individuals and organizations has done great work in exposing the Palestine...
BBC Exposes Arafat/PA Funding of Terrorists by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/7/2003 The left-wing BBC has conducted an investigation exposing Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority funding terrorists...
More Evidence Economy/Jobs on the Mend by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/6/2003 Today, economic news was more good news for the economy as a whole and for American workers. The count of Americans filing fo...
Iraq Turns Down Invitation To Arab Six Meeting by Donnel Jones, 11/1/2003 Reuters reports that Iraq has been belatedly invited to security talks in Damascus, Syria. If perhaps a little bitter,...
Guess Who is Speaking at the PSM Conference at OSU? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/31/2003 The Palestinian/Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) has lined up a list of very questionable speakers for their planned...
The ISM and PSM ARE Linked Together by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/29/2003 Some have expressed concerns that linking the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) and the International Solidarity Movement...
Good Old Times by Donnel Jones, 10/28/2003 The 22nd Socialist International Congress met today in Sao Paulo Brazil. The event was noted for being a non-event with atten...
Iranian Leaders Kill the Democratic Messenger by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/28/2003 The mullahs are not interested in hearing what their own people want. In 2002, Iranian state news agency Irna and the Nationa...
Saudi Democracy? Colombian Democracy by Donnel Jones, 10/27/2003 Before you get warm and fuzzy about the demonstrations in Saudi Arabia, here is reason to believe there will be no reform unt...
Another Victory by Donnel Jones, 10/25/2003 Good news for the war against terrorism, which is beginning to show us the winners and losers in the continuing fight....
The (Changing?) Lunacy of Arab Press by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/24/2003 I chose an Egyptian newspaper because the press there is especially well-known for its virulent racist, anti-Jewish, and anti...
Senator Dianne Feinstein Defends Patriot Act by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/22/2003 Readers might find it surprising that Senators like Dianne Feinstein reported no abuses of the Patriot Act....
Ledeen Takes CIA To Task by Donnel Jones, 10/22/2003 Historian and pundit Michael A. Ledeen has some bruising words for the CIA. The point? We need a top-notch CIA more than ever...
Security and Freedom Ensured (SAFE) Act by Donnel Jones, 10/16/2003 Congress is taking a positive step in weighing the balance between our security and our freedom....
Economic Recovery Becoming a Fact by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/16/2003 Evidence of an improving U.S. economy is becoming indisputable. Whether it be commentary from the Federal Reserve talking...
3 Americans Killed In Gaza, No Neutrality Possible by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/15/2003 The Palestinian Authority, with a police force of 40,000, is quite capable of stopping terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza....
Bush Sticks It To The U.N. by Donnel Jones, 10/15/2003 Bush proves yet again he has the steel to lead. The U.N. is finally coming around. Hint: Just say no to France....
Bloom On Bush And Clark by Donnel Jones, 10/15/2003 Harold Bloom opines on Gen. Wesley Clark and his qualifications for the presidency. Hint: Bush is not up to the job....
Finally, Movement on Syria Accountability Act by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/9/2003 Finally, the Syria Accountability Act is moving towards passage in the U.S. Congress. The Bush Administration has come...
Gays Need To Assimilate by Donnel Jones, 10/8/2003 Andrew Sullivan argues for the normalization of gays--something the gay left and the social right do not want....
Haifa Bomber Kills 4 Israeli Arabs, Children, etc. by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/7/2003 How are the terrorism apologists -- like the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) -- going to rationalize the Haifa...
Saudi Women Demand Human Rights by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/1/2003 Saudi women are demanding basic human rights that people in the free world have taken for granted....
Sci-Fi Writers Predict the Future: Ion Drive by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/30/2003 The predictions of science fiction writers came to fruition with the Sunday launch of the Smart 1 spacecraft...
More Evidence of CAIR Links to Terrorism by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/29/2003 More evidence surfaced last Thursday of CAIR (The Council on American Islamic Relations) links to terrorism....
Mark Steyn Makes Me Howl by Donnel Jones, 9/28/2003 Mark Steyn is a jewel among writers. He takes no prisoners and makes you laugh out loud in the bargain....
BBC: Poor, Desperate Homicide Bombers by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/27/2003 In the Moroccan capital of Rabat, three teenage girls appeared in court to face charges for planning homicide bombings....
They Egg Him On by Donnel Jones, 9/27/2003 David Blaine is a human shield for Americans. Troops in Iraq draw in terrorists. He draws in anti-Americanism abroad....
U.S. Drug Companies Exempt from Free Markets by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/26/2003 U.S. pharmaceutical companies have lots of clout in Washington. They get subsidies from American taxpayers and are in...
Oil, Iraq, OPEC, and World Climate Change by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/24/2003 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is feeling threatened -- again. Non-OPEC oil-producers like Russia...
Not All Muslims Are Evil by Donnel Jones, 9/24/2003 It is just as important to know who our friends are as it is to know who the enemy is....
Grasso Resignation Proves FREE MARKET WORKS by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/22/2003 When the NYSE revealed that Grasso was going to receive a $140 million pay package, the sh*t hit the fan....
Latvians Think Through Decision to Join EU by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/20/2003 Latvians are getting ready to vote on whether or not to join the EU (European Union). The EU got its start as an economic...
If This Man Is Guilty, He Should Die by Donnel Jones, 9/20/2003 You would think treason would warrant the death penalty. Not, apparently, in the age of political correctness....
Yeah, but . . . by Donnel Jones, 9/19/2003 What do you get when you have a democracy that denounces terrorism as a criminal act? Answer: justice in a court of law....
Never Forget the Muslim Holocaust in Bosnia by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/18/2003 Today was a tragic day for Bosnian Muslims. A mass grave containing the bodies of approximately 500 Muslims was discovered in...
Arafat For Martyrdom by Donnel Jones, 9/18/2003 Arafat is playing it up again. The script is so familiar....
Col. David Hunt by Donnel Jones, 9/13/2003 A spokesman for the war on terror. You have seen him on T.V. Straight-talking, straight-shooting, here is Col. David Hunt....
Howard Dean: Enemy of Israel by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/13/2003 Howard Dean, now the front-runner for the U.S. Democratic Party presidential nomination, can be counted as an enemy of Israel...
The Peace Must End by Donnel Jones, 9/13/2003 The roadmap to peace was still-born. Now, Arafat must finally and forevermore be gone....
WorldCom & Enron: Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/12/2003 Because of the complexity of accounting standards and laws (sometimes politically motivated), its not always easy to prove...
Saudis Cry In Soup by Donnel Jones, 9/12/2003 Arab News does it again. The Saudis excuse mass-murder while they are the victims of criticism!...
How the Saudis See It by Donnel Jones, 9/11/2003 The free press in Saudi Arabia has issued a report card on America and the war on terrorism. Care to read?...
Remembering 9/11: Islamists are Our Enemy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/11/2003 Today is the second anniversary of the vicious attacks wrought against the United States on September 11, 2001 by Islamists...
Boob TV by Donnel Jones, 9/10/2003 When politics is entertainment that means it is devoid of content. Voila! Witness the Democrat Party....
Bush Knew But Ignored Intelligence by Donnel Jones, 9/9/2003 Bush and his administration were told by intelligence that there should be adequate preparation to fight a likely insurgency....
Bush Whacked by Donnel Jones, 9/8/2003 Quagmire by any other name would smell as sour. The New York Times does it again....
The Usual Bookends: India and Israel by Donnel Jones, 9/8/2003 India and Israel should be close allies They share something neither does with the U.S.: an ancient bond....
The U.N. Revisited by Donnel Jones, 9/4/2003 I still loathe the idea of U.N. involvement. Perhaps it is inevitable. If so, it will be as much trouble as solution....
Daniel Pipes Takes on Islamist Sophistry by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/3/2003 I only note that while Pipes is an intelligent, soft-spoken man, I cannot say the same for Khalidi....
America Has Failed and the Terrorists Win This Time by Donnel Jones, 9/3/2003 The war on terrorism is not over by any means but it just took a turn for the worse. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the U.N....
India and Israel? by Donnel Jones, 9/2/2003 Indian journalist, Bharat Karnad, argues that India should develop closer military and diplomatic ties with the Jewish state....
The BBC, Over-eager Reporting, and Dr. David Kelly by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/2/2003 The UK press seems bent on blaming the British government for the Kelly suicide. Was it really all that simple? No proof...
What is the U.S. Role in Iraq--and in the World? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/30/2003 So just what is the U.S. role in Iraq--and in the world? When getting answers to this question, you will probably hear a lot...
Arabs Killing Arabs: Fault of the U.S.? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/29/2003 This blame-game against the U.S. is fear and cowardice of the worst kind. Leftists think that if they stick their heads in...
An Interview With Robert D. Kaplan by Donnel Jones, 8/28/2003 The always-interesting Robert D. Kaplan gives us his take on current affairs in the world and the role America must play....
Cats: The New Persecuted Minority by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/26/2003 It has come to my attention that the domestic cat (Felis catus) is now the number one persecuted minority. I have had first-...
The Big One by Donnel Jones, 8/24/2003 Thomas Friedman of NYT has some good points about post-war Iraq. Not least of which that it is a just war. Fancy that!...
Fooled Again: Let Loose the Dogs of War by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/22/2003 Harsh words, but now necessary because of the Wednesday homicide bombing against Israeli civilians, wrought by Palestinian...
Hail To Bonehead by Donnel Jones, 8/20/2003 When the going gets rough, the rough get rougher. No velvet glove for Hugo Chavez. He just assumes you want him in control....
More BBC BS: Iraq the ungovernable by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/20/2003 The notoriously leftist, agenda-driven BBC has bestowed more enlightenment on Iraq to all us fools, specially them there...
BREAKING NEWS: Palestinian Killers Attack Jerusalem by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/19/2003 A Palestinian murderer/homicide bomber, disguised as an Orthodox Jew, killed 15 people and injured 70 in Jerusalem today....
Israel Takes A Tough Measure by Donnel Jones, 8/18/2003 A few weeks ago, Israel passed an amendment to its national citizenship law that prevents Palestinian spouses...
Rumsfeld Rocks by Donnel Jones, 8/17/2003 Rumsfeld is not exactly a likeable guy. For that, we can all be grateful....
Israel Takes the High Road Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/16/2003 Israel is taking the moral high ground. She is taking risks, giving the benefit of the doubt to the Palestinian Authority...
Reporting From The Rubber Room by Donnel Jones, 8/13/2003 While the Arab press is not likely to be a fan of canned Western pop, they should be. How else to explain its insanity?...
Where Is The Rage? by Donnel Jones, 8/12/2003 The second anniversary of 9/11 approaches. The media already seeks to numb the emotions one would and should feel....
Afghanistan: Forgotten or on the Back Burner? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/11/2003 Has Afghanistan been forgotten? The mass media is not spending much time reporting on the situation there. We cannot forget...
Looking for Signposts on the Roadmap to Peace by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/10/2003 So what is going on with the current road-map for peace, particularly with Hamas? Some observers see a grudging...
Moron Alert by Donnel Jones, 8/9/2003 We try to keep things factually (not politically) correct at netWMD.com....
IRA Terrorist Gets Less Than He Deserved by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/8/2003 Did these dissidents (thugs)--calling themselves the Real IRA--know better? Were they elected to slaughter their own people?...
Total Recall by Donnel Jones, 8/8/2003 No need for a summer blockbuster, Arnold. Who cares if Terminator 3 is a bomb. You ARE the bomb!...
Hezbollah and BBC Sophistry by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/3/2003 It seems that the BBC is unwilling to describe Lebanon-based Hezbollah as a terrorist group. Today the BBC posted a...
Arab News Is No News by Donnel Jones, 8/3/2003 Arab News drums up the same old hatred against Jews and the West....
Do Not Forget the Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/1/2003 At least 500,000 pro-democracy demonstrators filled the streets of Hong Kong on July 1. That day marked the 6th anniversary...
All of One Piece by Donnel Jones, 8/1/2003 Democracy and a thriving economy cannot be mutually exclusive. They do not exist independently of each other....
It Is Only A Flesh Wound by Donnel Jones, 7/31/2003 Three IRA members, on trial in Colombia for aiding the FARC guerillas, provide some humor that in the long run is depressing....
We Are Not Neo-cons, We Are Monty Python-ons by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/29/2003 For those of our readers wondering about our core philosophy, let me confuse you all further. Here is a vignette...
Castro After 50 Years - Viva La Revolucion? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/28/2003 I wonder if Fidel Castro ever listened to the Beatles. Think he ever listened to Revolution? How about Back in...
The Times Does It Again by Donnel Jones, 7/27/2003 The New York Times continues its ideological war against Bush and against the war against terrorism....
The Uses of Hatred by Donnel Jones, 7/25/2003 Hatred is an inevitable emotion among human beings. Should we deny its use in a war for our survival?...
Info on Saudis Censored from 9/11 Report by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/24/2003 The Christian Science Monitor published a good summary today of the just-released Congressional report on the 9/11 attacks...
Another Supposed Palestinian Crisis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/23/2003 The headline I saw on BBC today was Palestinians warn of crisis. Yes, another crisis. Quick, mobilize the media to...
Gloves Off, Gentlemen by Donnel Jones, 7/23/2003 Should the war against terrorism be fought with rules that are normally outside that of most military engagements?...
Happy Birthday, Colombia! by Donnel Jones, 7/19/2003 July 20th, Colombia celebrates the 193rd anniversary of its declaration of independence from Spain....
Tony Blair Speaks by Donnel Jones, 7/18/2003 It was a speech only a true liberal could love. But not the liberal of what liberalism has become....
India Refuses to Send Troops to Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/17/2003 After months of arguing, the Indian government has decided to not send troops to support the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq...
Part 2: India Refuses to Send Troops to Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/17/2003 It seems only natural that the U.S. and India build stronger ties. Why would India decline the U.S. request? Perhaps a bit of...
Palestinian Crossroads by Donnel Jones, 7/15/2003 The Palestinians are at a crossroads that only they must choose to secure their independence....
Our Friends the Turks? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/5/2003 About 100 U.S. troops raided a Turkish military facility today in northern Iraq. The Americans arrested eleven Turkish...
Live from Lithuania: How it was then; how it is now by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/30/2003 As with many Lithuanians, the property of our Jewish friend had been communized back in 1944. After liberation from Russian...
Live from Lithuania: A Visit to Kaunas by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/27/2003 12 years after the Russian communists have been thrown out, every storefront on Laisves Aleja is occupied with cafes,...
Reporting Live from Lithuania: Economic Development by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/25/2003 Where I once saw no shops, or dismal shops with low quality products and/or empty shelves, I see a thriving economy. There...
To WMD or not to WMD? by Donnel Jones, 6/24/2003 The question of the hour is not how well the war against terror is proceeding but whether or not President Bush is a liar....
Live from the New Europe: Reporting from Lithuania by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/23/2003 First of all, there are no more Russian/Soviet soldiers patrolling the streets. Second, the are no more statues of Lenin and...
Help Free Iran From Tyranny by Donnel Jones, 6/19/2003 Contact your representatives in Congress to press for passage of the Iran Democracy Act....
The Shot Not Heard by Donnel Jones, 6/17/2003 Why is there relative silence over the current momentous events in Iran?...
Rock On Freedom-Loving Iranians! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/16/2003 Sunday, a group of 248 Iranian pro-reform activists issued a statement asserting the right of Iranians to...
Wake Me Up When Cuba Is Free At Last! by Donnel Jones, 6/14/2003 What could Castro be up to, biting the hand of the European Union that has loved him so?...
Protests Against Iranian Mullahs Heat Up by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/12/2003 Iranian students and other citizens are once again protesting against their dictatorial, Islamist government. The protesters...
Powell At The OAS by Donnel Jones, 6/11/2003 Here is an interesting and brief article in the Colombian newspaper El Espectador ...
Why is Bush so concerned about Hamas? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/10/2003 Today Israel attempted to eliminate (kill) Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi by firing missiles at him from helicopter gunships...
Tidbits: S. Korea, Ashcroft, Iraq, and Arafat by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/5/2003 S. Korea - U.S. troops to be moved 75 miles south of DMZ; Attorney General Ashcroft - Has power gone to his head?;...
Road to Jew-Killing by Donnel Jones, 6/5/2003 Nothing could make me happier than proven wrong about the road map to peace being peddled by Bush and forced...
Media Monopoly or Free Enterprise at Work? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/3/2003 Yesterday, the FCC voted to relax its media-ownership rules, opening the door for companies such as Tribune Co. and...
Is Palestinian/Israeli Peace For Real This Time? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/30/2003 Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Ariel Sharon shocked hawkish members of his Likud party on Tuesday by using the O word....
Americans Need More Arab Pop Music by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/28/2003 Americans are in need of a good dose of Arab music, from artists like Cheb Mami, Fayrouz, Umm Kalthoum, and Amr Diab....
Crosshairs on the Iranian Mullahs by Donnel Jones, 5/28/2003 The Bush Administration is finally confronting Iran for harboring terrorists....
Howell and Arafat by Donnel Jones, 5/24/2003 Two of my favorite writers write about two of my least favorite individuals....
What Are Your Kids Listening To? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/22/2003 So what kind of music are your kids listening to these days? I regularly tune in to the R&B/rap radio station that my teenage...
Nuns and Guerillas by Donnel Jones, 5/21/2003 Nuns defy the laws of Caesar while second guessing God and the U.N. second guesses common sense....
Julia Gorin Article by Donnel Jones, 5/20/2003 Drop what you are doing now and go read this superb editorial from the Wall Street Journal by Julia Gorin...
Hazing Parents and Children: Get a Grip by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/20/2003 Most everyone is now familiar with the violent and despicable school hazing incident which occurred in suburban Chicago on...
Syria-ous Trouble by Donnel Jones, 5/19/2003 It is probably a commonplace, after September 11th, to note the realism and sheer believeability of black satire....
Not A Solution by Donnel Jones, 5/16/2003 The Colombian government cannot afford to appease the FARC but that is exactly what some politicians are willing to do....
Michael Ledeen Article on Iran by Donnel Jones, 5/15/2003 Michael Ledeen, writing for the National Review, has warned us repeatedly about the ruling theocracy...
Our Friends, the Saudis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/13/2003 What will it take to get the Bush administration to get tough with the Saudis? Last night, about 29 innocent civilians...
Enviro-Controversy by Donnel Jones, 5/10/2003 Naturalists and Humanists: Tension builds between the old and new environmentalists....
Oh Colombia! by Donnel Jones, 5/9/2003 This blog saddens me to write. I speak of Colombia, a land and people I love....
Corrections and Additions by Donnel Jones, 5/9/2003 There is a number of errors in my immediately preceding entry Oh Colombia....
Stop Terror (Supporters) Here at Home by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/9/2003 There are people plotting and funding terrorism right here in the U.S. Are we doing enough to stop these people, or are we...
Many War Protesters: I Want Peas by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/7/2003 This all reminds me of a great, old Simpsons episode. Somehow Homer ends up serving aboard a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine. One...
Sheikhy Ground by Donnel Jones, 5/6/2003 Laugh, cry, or be inspired by Sheikh Jamal Shakir Al-Nazzal whose sermon portrays America as good and evil...
Sure He Had Them (Hint: WMD) by Donnel Jones, 5/6/2003 Duane D. Freese asks pointed questions not raised publicly by members of the Bush Administration,...
Kling Science by Donnel Jones, 5/5/2003 Arnold Kling, writing for Tech Central Station, claims that the humanities are irrelevant now because, unlike science, it...
Abu Mazen: Trojan Horse by Donnel Jones, 5/1/2003 Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, known also as Abu Mazen, is apparently a man with two faces...
No Big May Day Celebrations in Lithuania Today by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/1/2003 You will not find any big May Day celebrations today in downtown Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. This country suffered...
Pipes Dream? by Donnel Jones, 4/29/2003 Daniel Pipes argues that Iraq needs a strong man to run the nation until it is ready to stand on its own....
What is Legitimate About the UN? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/29/2003 The UN Human Rights Commission has just voted to give Cuba a seat on the commission?!?!...
American Imperator? by Donnel Jones, 4/28/2003 The other day a friend of mine, who has plenty of reservations about the current war against terrorism, challenged me...
Ideology and Self-Interest by Donnel Jones, 4/27/2003 Classicist and historian, Victor Davis Hanson, gave a short interview last March with the U.S. Navy Institute...
A Few Thoughts on Anti-Americanism by Donnel Jones, 4/16/2003 Noemie Emery has an excellent screed in the Weekly Standard taking down the anti-Americanism...
Time for the Syria Accountability Act to Become Law by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/15/2003 Lebanese Americans and Jewish Americans have found common cause in supporting the Syria Accountability Act (SAA). It is now...
Domino Theory Again by Donnel Jones, 4/15/2003 An editorial from the Wall Street Journal clarifies some confusion in my post of yesterday. If one takes the domino theory...
The Democracy Challenge by Donnel Jones, 4/14/2003 Three articles, two of which, by Robert D. Kaplan and Ken Jowitt, are courtesy of The American Scene blogsite...
Paying Up For Past Sins by Donnel Jones, 4/11/2003 Here is the unseemly side of American involvement in the Middle East. It is one of many examples. Our current dependency on...
Something Nice For A Change by Donnel Jones, 4/9/2003 It gladdens my heart that some people are actually happy America exists. Gone are the days, I hope, when Che Guevara...
History: Iraqis Celebrate Demise of Saddam Hussein by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/9/2003 10:11AM: I turn on the news to see live coverage from downtown Baghdad. Iraqi civilians, feeling secure enough to demonstrate...
Another Victim of Censorship? Oh Please! by Donnel Jones, 4/7/2003 Jim Farber of the Daily News begins ominously, [i]t says a lot about the current state of debate in this country...
The Times They Are A Changing by Donnel Jones, 4/4/2003 While the rest of the world complains about American unilateralism, dissidents in Cuba are being tried for participation in a...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by Donnel Jones, 4/4/2003 Here we have a triptych outlining the moral parameters of the current war against terrorism....
Iranian Students Need Our Support by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/4/2003 When the Ayatollah Khomeini first came to power Iran in 1979, he talked about freedom and democracy. Instead Iran ended up...
Getting a Grip on Iraqi Civilian Casualties by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/3/2003 As coalition forces approach Baghdad, Iraqi civilian deaths are likely to increase. Saddam has his power base in...
The Way We Were by Donnel Jones, 4/2/2003 No one wants bombs dropped on them. Just ask the mother of my co-partner at War to Mobilize Democracy...
Vietnam Syndrome Redux by Donnel Jones, 4/1/2003 Bad habits die hard. Some never seem to die.Witness the irrepressible Vietnam Syndrome expressed in an article written by...
SARS is Nothing to Sneeze At by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/1/2003 SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has infected about 1,800 people worldwide. It has killed 63....
Peter Arnett Gets Canned for His Reportage by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/31/2003 After initially defending reporter Peter Arnett for giving an interview to Iraqi state TV, NBC has now fired him. National...
Israel Offers Humanitarian Aid to Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/29/2003 Saddam lobbed SCUD missiles into Israel during the Gulf War in 1991. Saddam has executed his own people for being...
Why is Hans Blix so Desperate to Protect Saddam? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/28/2003 Despite the fact that US marines found 3,000 chemical protection suits and masks at a hospital in southern Iraq, and the fact...
The Naysayers by Donnel Jones, 3/14/2003 The State Department is not at all sure that democracy can take root in the Arab/Muslim world. This is the same State...
Is Hans Blix Hiding Information? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/10/2003 Why did Hans Blix fail to mention last week that UN inspectors had discovered an Iraqi rocket capable of delivering chemical...
A Case for the Declaration of War? by Donnel Jones, 3/10/2003 James C. Bennett claims that the U.S. Congress should formally declare war against Saddam Hussein and his Baathist regime....
Chavez of Venezuela Goes Dictator by Donnel Jones, 3/1/2003 It appears Hugo Chavez, the elected leader turned dictator of Venezuela, is angry the world is now finally noticing that he...
EU Headed for Trouble by Donnel Jones, 3/1/2003 Looks like the European Union is headed for trouble in due time. Whatever happened to free trade among European states? Well...
Armistice Fatigue by Donnel Jones, 3/1/2003 We all want peace, though these days it is getting increasingly more difficult to define what it is. Does peace mean...