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Breaking News: Government Dismisses Deportation Case Against Mosab Hassan Yousef
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... »
Emmanuel Navon: The Force of Reason
(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... »
Theater on the High Seas: Who in the Audience is being Duped?
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... »
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... »
Want to Improve U.S Relations in the Middle East? Get Tough on Iran
By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler One of the many promises made by President Obama was the desire to "repair" America's relations with the Middle East and Muslim world. Hence speeches aimed at the Muslim world in Turkey, and Cairo, a reversal of long-time, American policy on Israeli settlements , numerous attempts to reconcile with Syria and holding back on supporting... »
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... »
Iranian Scholar’s Father Arrested in Tehran
We recently received this message from Washington Institute Scholar Mehdi Khalaji regarding the arrest of his father today. It is reproduced below: On Tuesday (Janurary 12) afternoon four agents of intelligence ministry went to our home in Qom and arrested my father Mohammad Taqi Khalaji. They searched the home and collected hundreds of his notes, books, personal letters, computer and also... »
Press Release: TLHRC on U.A.E Torture Case
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Co-Chairs Decry Sheikh Issa Verdict in the UAE , Vow to Continue Congressional Efforts to Highlight Human Rights Violations by Unaccountable Royal Family (Editor's Note: This is a press release from the Tomas Lantos Human Rights Commission regarding the despicable acquittal of Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, in a rape and torture case in the U.A.E) Tom... »
Israel Defender Reprimanded at UN Meeting
A recent video captures the unidentified Director of UN Watch addressing the UN Commission on Human Rights. He chose to use his time to make an impassioned critique of the Commission's disproportionate attention to and repeated denunciation of Israel. The Director said that, in the face of human rights abuses elsewhere in the world, the Commission has been silent, indifferent, and... »
For the Jewish State, Two Fateful Dates in November
The following is a guest-post from Rachel Kapen: Since the establishment of the Jewish State, the State of Israel, in May 14, 1948, it's adversaries underscored their strong belief that the state is illegal and that Palestine belongs- and belonged- to the Arabs and Jews are occupiers of Arab land. Putting aside the Jewish Bible or the Old Testament which is for... »