An excellent piece from Palestinian Media Watch’s Barbara Crook on the prevalance of hate-mongering in the Muslim world: The world reacted with outrage at the speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Durban Review Conference on Racism in Geneva. European countries stormed out of his talk and released an array of statements condemning...
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From the Jerusalem Post: An Iranian vessel loaded with weapons to transfer to Hamas via Sudan was recently sunk in the Red Sea by an unidentified missile ship believed to be Israeli, according to Arab media. The vessel was attacked by either an Israeli or American ship and destroyed, according to a report Sunday...
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From the Chicago Tribune on Sunday comes the scary, but perhaps predictable story, of Obama administration officials lobbying congress to loosen terror finances rules for Hamas if that Islamist terror group joins a unity government with the Palestinian Authority. (h/t Daily Alert): The Obama administration, already on treacherous domestic political ground with its outreach...
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(h/t Sarah Stern): Sarah sent me this piece by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal, which examines the differences in which the world treats the Russian-Chechen and the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. While most supporters of Israel have long recognized the double standard to which the Jewish state is held, Stephens runs the numbers and...
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“He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.” Arthur Henderson With a renewed sense of urgency, the Obama administration is about to take a fresh hand...
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Update: 23 EU Delegates walk out of Durban II as Iranian President Ahmadinejad Calls for the eradication of Israel. From the Jerusalem Post (h/t Jihad Watch): As Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the eradication of Israel in his address to the  United Nations anti-racism conference whichopened its week long event in Geneva on...
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(h/t) The  American Thinker: Yedioth Achronoth, the largest circulation daily in Israel, reports today that President Obama intends to see the two-state solution signed, sealed and delivered during his first term. Rahm Emanuel told an (unnamed) Jewish leader; ”In the next four years there is going to be a permanent status arrangement between Israel and the...
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The common, but false notion, that Sunni and Shia Islamist groups are like oil and water, and would “never cooperate together,” is one of those popular notions which, regardless of how many times it is proven utterly untrue, remains popular among a certain segement in the circles of foreign policy thinking regarding terror and...
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(H/T Jihad Watch): AdKronos International, a Greek news service is reporting that Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a “Confederation based on two governments,” to supervise elections and reconstruction issues, and act as a kind of central government. The article notes: Fatah and Hamas have been divided by a serious rift since Hamas took...
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Israpundit has an Republican Jewish Coalition press release calling for a final decision on whether the United States will or will not be attending Durban II: The Republican Jewish Coalition today called on President Obama to end the guessing game about whether the administration will follow through on its pledge not to participate in...
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