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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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The BND is now disowning the published report by Stern which I linked to yesterday, regarding a potential Iranian nuclear weapon within six months. The Jerusalem Post reports today, that their requests for clarification with the BND led to a “four-to-seven-year” timeframe. So what happened? Did Stern get it wrong, and misconstrue what their...
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Reuters today (h/t Jammiewearingfool) is reporting that the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, the Germany Federal Intelligence Service) believes that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in as little as 6 months. Please note this quote from the piece, “If they wanted to, they could detonate an atomic bomb in half a year’s time,” the story quoted...
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From EMET advisory board Member Caroline Glick, comes this article about the opportunity presented to Israel to support the Iranian Revolution now in the streets, despite all of the many reasons to doubt Mousavi and what a Mousavi government might be: The fact of the matter is that with each passing day, Mousavi’s personal...
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A lot has gone on since I’ve last checked in with you here. But of most crucial importance I think is probably events as they are now unfolding in Iran. I think its fair to say few expected this in the aftermath of the Iranian Election.  According to The International Business Times (h/t Jihad...
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Mixed reports say either two or three people have been shot at the United States’ Holocaust Museum here in D.C, with one subject taken into custody by police. The Scene is secure now, and the FBI Terrorism taskforce appears to be on the scene.  There doesn’t seem to be anything else available on this...
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