Archive for June, 2010

EMET has just received word directly from Mosab that the Government has officially dismissed its deportation case against Mosab Hassan Yousef at a federal detention center in San Diego. Mosab has told us that it was thanks to the efforts of EMET that the government decided to dismiss its case and grant him political asylum. EMET is enormously grateful to all those... »

(Cross-posted at EMET with Emmanuel's Permission) By. Emmanuel Navon René Descartes’ Discours de la Méthode opens with one of the most nonsensical sentences ever written: « Common sense is the most evenly shared thing in the world. »  Then there is Immanuel Kant, who wrote in his Zum ewigen Frieden that republics are less likely to go to war than monarchies, even... »

In our article last week, we made mention of the Material Support law, and how it specifically prevents the transfer of money or other support, even on humanitarian grounds, when the provider of those funds have reason to believe that the money will go to a designated terrorist organization.We used this to point out that the Administration's intention to transmit... »

by: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Earlier this month we watched as the high seas had become the theater for staging yet another hate-infested anti-Israel drama, costumed in heart-rendering, humanitarian language.  This premeditated performance had been cynically calculated to pirate the international sympathy for the people who in open and democratic elections, freely elected the terrorist group Hamas to lead them. It... »

In what is arguably one of the most lame-brain decisions coming out of a government agency, in our  time, The Wall Street Journal Saturday warns that the Homeland Security Department is now attempting to deport Mosab Hassan Yousef, author of 'Son of Hamas' the best-selling autobiography about Yousef's time working alongside Israeli intelligence to break up Hamas terror attacks. According to... »

"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers." -Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan After last week's unfortunate Gaza Flotilla crisis, orchestrated by members of a Turkish Islamist group, with reported ties to Hamas and Al Qaeda, on a Turkish vessel carrying a Turkish flag, and which has resulted in a... »

By Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently said that the draft U.N sanctions against Iran are "stronger than he expected," according to the Voice of America, which sounds rather like a case of lowering expectations in order to preserve self-esteem. How strong are they?  Gates tells us if other countries "take significantly more stringent actions on their... »