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Happy Birthday, America
It is with a heart full of gladness that I wish a happy birthday to the America that I love. I had been worried for a while there, that the America that my father and maternal grandmother had both come to, fleeing Cossacks and Nazis, as so many other millions of other immigrants had come to before them, fleeing religious... »
Deporting the “Son of Hamas?”
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... »
Israel at 62: Will it make it to 70?
(This is a speech that Sarah Stern delivered to Beth Jacob Congregations in Los Angeles) We recently celebrated the 62nd anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel. The scratchy video tape of that momentous vote in the United Nations will be forever etched on the collective memories our generation. And as you can recall, there was that brief moment of... »
We Can’t Even Contain a Non-Nuclear Iran
It appears that the United States foreign policy community has now successfully moved through all five-stages of grief, when it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear weapons ambitions. First was Denial, of which the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was the best example, proclaiming that Iran "halted its nuclear weapons program," despite ample evidence to the... »
For Syria’s Terror Regime: All Carrots No Sticks
By Sarah Stern & Kyle Shideler In the past two and a half weeks, the Obama administration has ramped up its efforts to engage with Syria's Dictator Bashar Assad, announcing its intentions to appoint an ambassador to Syria 5 years after the Bush Administration severed ties in the aftermath of the Rafik Hariri assassination, the killing which led to the Cedar... »
EMET, Iranian Dissidents speak to Congressional Members, Staff
On Tuesday, February 23rd, Endowment for Middle East Truth President and Founder Sarah Stern had the opportunity to speak to a select group of Congress members and their staff regarding the Iranian "Green" movement and the importance of supporting Iranian dissidents. The following are her remarks: Today, we are living in a time when the entire free Western world, as we... »
Sailing in Dangerous Waters
"If I am not for myself, who am I for?" -----Hillel This Tuesday evening, November 3rd, the Francopt, a ship bound for Syria and Lebanon was intercepted by the Israeli military approximately 100 miles off the coast of Israel. On board were hundreds of tons of weapons intended most likely for Hizbullah. What had been seized there was an arms cache approximately... »
How the Arabs Manipulate the Media, Israelis and the West
(The following article is from Dr. Alex Grobman Dr. Grobman is a Hebrew University trained historian. He is the author of a number of books, including Nations United: How The U.N. Undermines Israel and The West, Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? and a forthcoming book on Israel's moral and legal right... »
Reducing Foreign Policy to the Lowest Common Denominator
"Everything would have been just fine, if only Adolf Hitler hadn't lied to me." --- Neville Chamberlain The problem with a multilateral approach to foreign policy is that it entrusts governments who do not have the same moral standards that we do, to operate along the same moral lines; it reduces our foreign policy to the lowest common denominator. This might be alright... »
Kafka is Alive and Well
Kafka is alive and well and lives in a building in Turtle Bay, New York, called the United Nations. The United Nations had been a very noble experiment. Conceived in the midst of the earthquake to the civilized world that was the Holocaust, the premeditated, systematic attempted total annihilation of the European Jewish community, and born shortly after Germany's defeat... »
