Further Travels Of Imam Feisal
While debate rages over plans for an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, the imam behind this project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is not available to answer questions in New York. Since locating the absen...
Forbes
Where In The World Is Imam Feisal?
Plans for a $100 million high-rise Islamic Center next to New York's Ground Zero are generating lots of controversy, as well as great distress among families of some of the thousands murdere...
Op-eds
Iran’s Mini-Empire At The U.N.
The United Nations has just created a new "entity" on women's rights, called U.N. Women. Elections to its governing board are now being organized. How long before Iran wins a seat?...
Op-eds
Kick North Korea Out Of The U.N.
"Amputations without anesthesia" is the headline some news outlets have culled this week from a new Amnesty International report on "The Crumbling State of Health Care in North Korea." That title...
Op-eds
Being American
This weekend, on July 4, Americans celebrate the 234th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Over the burgers and sweet corn, that’s always a good day to think about what, exactly...
Op-eds
The Truth About U.N.’s Iran Sanctions
When the United Nations Security Council passed its latest sanctions resolution on Iran, on June 9, President Barack Obama hailed it as "the toughest sanctions ever faced by the Iranian governmen...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Hollow Prize
It's time Congress pulled the plug on Washington's taxpayer-subsidized Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which has turned itself into a global joke. With Turkey's l...
Op-eds
Iran’s Arc Of Injustice
When huge protests broke out in Iran over last year's rigged reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S. President Barack Obama had some cool, calm answers. The brutality of Iran'...
Op-eds
Hamas Ahoy!
With a flotilla of "peace activists" steaming toward the blockaded Gaza strip, Israeli authorities have been worrying about a showdown turning into a public relations disaster. That's a sorr...
Op-eds
A Quisling Turkey
Beware. With stunts such as this week's bid to deflect further sanctions on Iran, Turkey's leaders like to boast that they are creating a new role for their nation as a rising regional...
Op-eds
All You Need to Know About the UN: 155 Votes for Libya
All you really need to know about the United Nations is that today, in the 192-member General Assembly, 155 member states – yes, 155 – voted in favor of giving Libya — yes, Liby...
Op-eds
Paging Ambassador Susan Rice
In secret ballot, the United Nations General Assembly has just elected Libya's dictatorship to one of the 47 seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Where in the makings of this travesty was...
Op-eds
Revaluing Freedom
OSLO -- Too often in recent times Norway has embarrassed itself as a sanctimonious dispenser of devalued Nobel Peace Prizes, having more to do lately with Norway's left-leaning politics than...
Op-eds
Terrorist With A Five-Star Tab
Were it not for the recent, high-profile murder of a Hamas terrorist leader on the premises, the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel would be notable mainly for its glitz and comfort. As it is, in the many st...
Op-eds
Kim Jong Il’s ‘Cashbox’
Despite all the pomp and nuclear summitry, North Korea keeps sliding down President Barack Obama's to-do list. Yet something must be done. The threat here is not solely North Korea's ow...
Op-eds
Preemptive Disarmament
Where's realpolitik when you need it? Last September, when President Barack Obama chaired a United Nations Security Council summit themed around his dreams of a planet without nuclear weapon...
Op-eds
Turkey Tilts Toward Iran
Drinking tea with the President of Turkey has charms enough so that I wish there were no need to report the disturbing talk that went with it--of Iranian rulers and nuclear bombs. But th...
Op-eds
A Modest Proposal For Israel
Here's the latest in our occasional series of how-to memos on global diplomacy. Memo: To Israel From: Big Brother Consulting Service, Washington, D.C. Executive Su...
Op-eds
Evil As Usual
Movies and television teach us that evil comes draped in drama, set to a sinister sound track, often with lots of visible gore. But all too often, especially in matters of tyranny, evil appears i...
Op-eds
Scion Of Hamas
Meet Mosab Hassan Yousef, a genuine Palestinian freedom fighter. He was raised to become a leader of the terrorist group Hamas--strict Muslims dedicated to the destruction of Israel. But the horr...