Semitic Semantics
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis engaged in a brief, cordial exchange over the language spoken by Jesus. “Jesus was here, in this land,” Netanyahu...
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A Baleful Peace Process
To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...
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Jesus of Palestine?
The members of the American Studies Association care deeply about historical truth, which is why they protested so strenuously when, over Christmas, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas...
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The New Muslim Generation
A month ago, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked whether the Taliba...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Syria Policy
“Arming the rebels — that’s an option. You look at and rethink all options. It doesn’t mean you do or you will. . . . It doesn’t mean that th...
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Being the Jew in the Box
To have conversations with Germans about Jews, I had to become an exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum
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American Pastor Jailed in Iran Faces Torture
The family of American-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini released a letter from him on Thursday stating that Iranian authorities have threatened him with death because of his belief in Christianity....
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Analysis: What Do Mideast Christians Face in ’13?
Growing persecution of Middle Eastern Christians and holy sites by radical Islamists in the Middle East and Africa in 2012 resulted in large numbers of murders, bombings, imprisonments, church cl...
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Spinning Ahmadinejad
His UN speech should have raised alarms.
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Confronting Islamic Intimidation
In 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ, the movie by Martin Scorsese, based on a novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, caused a storm of protests. Many Christian groups foun...
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Islam Blasphemy Riots Now Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The United States is the world’s undisputed king of culture. No country’s film industry can rival Hollywood; no nation’s musical artists sell more records worldwide than America...
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How Assad’s Fall Will Lay Ruin to the Alawis’ Once-in-a-Millennium Promised Land
A small, marginalized people, kicked around the Middle East for centuries by Muslim empires, finally carves out an independent home for itself on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. But life...
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3,000 Years of Mass Murder: Jerusalem’s Bloody History, and How It Shaped Us All
Seen by tourists, Jerusalem is a city of wonders. Seen by historians, it is a city of agonies. Reading through the 3,000-year chronology presented in Simon Sebag Montefiore’s newly...
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When Will the West Act Against Persecution of Christians in the Middle East?
Co-authored by Giulio Meotti The case of the Iranian pastor sentenced to death for his faith has attached a human face to the horrible situation of Christians in the...
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The Prophet, Represented
On the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 25th Street stands the Manhattan Appellate Courthouse, a Corinthian-columned marble palace built in 1900 by architect James Brown Lord. Gracing the r...
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The War Against the Christians
Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting...
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Obstructed “View”
An African-American woman who affects a Jewish-sounding surname as a running joke storms off the stage in response to what she regards as the slander of Muslims. Only in America. But let me back...
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Why Ahmadinejad Acts the Way He Does at the U.N.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches at the United Nations and his utterances elsewhere in New York are, again, proof that the Marxist-Islamist Molotov cocktail that produced th...
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How to Stifle Speech
There's an old Soviet joke in which an American tells a Russian: "In my country we have freedom of speech. I can stand in front of the White House and yell, ‘Nixon is an idiot!' a...
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Christmas is Not Negotiable
By: Dr. Walid Phares On the eve of this Christmas 2008, I shifted from my ongoing field of research and commentary in terrorism, international and ethnic conflict, and global strategies...