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- Here We Go ’Round the Cactus Bush August 29, 2010 Sarah Stern
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Taxpayer Funded Public Relations for the Palestinians
By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Last week, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth reported that American Taxpayer dollars, a quarter of a million dollars through USAID, were being used to fund a series of advertisements in Israel, featuring leaders of the Palestinian Authority assuring Israeli citizens that they are reliable partners for peace and asking Israelis to be the same. Newswire UPI... »
Here We Go ’Round the Cactus Bush
“When the pursuit of peace becomes the entire objective of foreign policy, it becomes a weapon in the hands of the most ruthless. It produces moral disarmament.” —Henry Kissinger Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent announcement that peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which are set to resume on Thursday, “should resolve all final-status issues within one year” indicates such... »
There Are Some Things That Money Simply Can’t Buy
By Sarah N. Stern and Kyle Shideler After Lebanon’s August 3rd cross-border sniper attack that killed Israel Defense Forces Colonel Dov Harari and injured a second officer, the U.S. Congress, led by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) ordered a hold placed on $100 million in military aid for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). The United States previous... »
Israel’s Elusive Qualitative Military Edge
By: Kyle Shideler, Senior Research Fellow The recent announcement of a proposed $30 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, which includes 84 F-15E fighter jets, has once again raised questions on whether the United States is honoring its oft-stated commitment to help maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge (QME). It has long been an unwritten staple of U.S. foreign policy, beginning with President... »
Rewarding Misbehavior
The Obama administration has recently decided to upgrade the diplomatic status of the Palestinian Authority. The PA mission in Washington has been seeking this since President Obama assumed office eighteen months ago, although they have not done very much to earn it. In fact, for the last eighteen years, the Palestinians had met with the Israelis in direct, face-to face... »
All the Troubles of the Middle East, In One Little Country
By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler There is a country in the Middle East accused of a brutal decades-long occupation. A country where a blockade causes starvation among a civilian refugee population. A country which violently cracks down on those who oppose it, shooting into crowds of protestors, while it receives substantial aid money from the United States as an ally... »
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... »
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... »
More on Material Support
In our article last week, we made mention of the Material Support law, and how it specifically prevents the transfer of money or other support, even on humanitarian grounds, when the provider of those funds have reason to believe that the money will go to a designated terrorist organization.We used this to point out that the Administration's intention to transmit... »
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... »