By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler This past Friday, at a policy conference in Washington, Puneet Talwar, Senior Director for Iran, Iraq and the Gulf States at the White House National Security Council addressed the group. In his “on the record” remarks, Mr. Talwar calmly stated, “We have a three legged stool in our...
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“The Holocaust gave the Jewish people a fifty year respite from antisemitism. I am afraid it is back again”. —Eliot Cohen,  Renowned Author, Scholar and Professor at the SAIS school at John Hopkins. Hatred. Sheer, unadulterated, potent hatred.  It is back again, in full force, and it is directed against my people in an...
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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler The Palestinian UN statehood bid — statehood without negotiations — which is now before the Security Council, is just the latest step in a never-ceasing effort by the Palestinian leadership to erase the State of Israel. This is the Two State Solution on the way to Hitler’s “Final...
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Last Friday in Cairo, a throng of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square, marching two miles to the Israeli embassy, proceeding to demolish a protective wall, entering and ransacking the embassy and the building, climbing up and tearing up the Israeli flag, urinating on the building, and concludingby shredding and throwing  Israeli documents...
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On the 9th of March, 1916, Pancho Villa led 100 members of his Mexican revolutionary army across the United States border and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico.  Eighteen Americans were killed in the attack and the Mexicans took 100 horses and military supplies stored in the town.  Incensed by this invasion of...
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As the Arab Spring has transformed itself into the long, hot Islamic summer, optimism about the Arab world has had to undergo a significant reality check in America and the West. First off, the sobering results of a recent poll, taken by  Zogby International together with the Arab American Institute; this poll, which was...
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In a rational world, this could never have happened.  A rational world would be one in which raw emotions would be kept in check by objective analysis, reason and logic; where movements that are governed by prejudice, racism and antisemitism  would be limited by civility, (if not by the loftier emotion of empathy); and...
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This past winter, the Arab and Muslim worlds have been rocked by a confluence of events, by what some people have dubbed “The Arab Spring”, but which I prefer to refer to as “The Arab Hurricane”. What began as a routine harassment by a government bureaucrat to a Tunisian vegetable vendor (and ended in...
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Just a little over 60 days ago, on March 27, 2011, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton described Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a “reformer” in her testimony before the House Foreign Relations Committee.  Not since September 30, 1938, when  Neville Chamberlain descended from a plane after meeting with Herr Hitler, waving a piece of...
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By Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler At the recent AIPAC Policy Conference, at a packed luncheon forum for higher givers, Chairwoman of the important House Foreign Affairs Committee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-FL), was interviewed by an AIPAC official.  When she mentioned that she is in favor of cutting off the military aid to Egypt, the...
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