German support for Israel is fading
Thomas Paine dismissed the “summer soldiers” and “sunshine patriots” who wavered on the American struggle for independence during “the times that try men’s souls.” Germany should avoid adopting a similar mindset.
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A secular jihadi brings the intifada to Washington
The Islamist/leftist alliance metastasizes
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Arafat and the Ayatollahs
The PLO’s greatest single contribution to the Iranian Revolution was the formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but the Palestinian leader’s involvement with Iran didn’t end there.
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The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel
The historian Jeffrey Herf's profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing terrorism targeting Israel was not a tactic but rather part of a long-war strategy to destroy the Jewish s...
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The Revolution Devours Its Own
Laura Secor surprised me. I had expected to read yet another journalist’s account of an Iran where “reformists,” though bruised and battered, remain hopeful and allied to &ldquo...
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Children Raised in Nazi Period Carried Forward Anti-Semitism, Study Says
The 12 years of Nazism (1933-1945) inculcated young Germans with anti-Jewish ideas that continued after the defeat of Hitler, according to a new study on anti-Semitism. The study, which...
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Europe Needs Straight Talk About Radical Islam
BERLIN – Europe’s timid approach to Islamic terrorism imploded last week with the horrific jihadi-animated murder of 17 men and women in Paris, including most of the cartoonists...
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Analysis: In Germany a gap between ‘Never Again-Jew-Hatred’ and real action?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a characteristically excellent speech against anti-Semitism on Sunday in the heart of the country’s government district. She lambast...
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No Charity
On April 8, German police officers raided the offices of the innocuously named Lebanon Orphan Children Project (Waisenkinderprojekt Libanon e.V.) across six states in the Federal Republic. They&n...
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Analysis: What Does Angela Merkel’s Election Win Mean for Israel?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s third consecutive electoral victory has profound consequences for Israel’s support in Europe and its security cooperation with the Federal Repu...
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Vienna Protesters Call for ‘Death to Jews’
Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered on Friday in the heart of Vienna, protesting Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense and chanting slogans calling for the murder of Jews and bashing the Jewi...
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Princeton’s Iranian Agent of Influence
The cautionary tale of Seyed Hossein Mousavian
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Groups Demand Halt of Berlin Anti-Israel March
The daily (B.Z.) Berliner Zeitung's‘s popular columnist Gunnar Schupelius has called on the Berlin authorities to ban a pro-Iranian regime demon...
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Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights
The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...
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Syria Debate: I Didn’t Miss the Totalitarian Angle; I Wrote the Book On It
There is not much with which to argue in Michael’s last salvo, but I do think I’m entitled to...
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You Cannot Reform a Totalitarian (You’ve Got to Defeat Him)
Back when I was even younger, and living in Rome, the main topic of conversation was of course Communism. Italy had the largest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union, and it was forever on the...
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Democracy Project Triumph: Islamists Surge Ahead in Egyptian Elections
It would be hard to overstate what a catastrophe the Egyptian elections are shaping into. Reports abou...
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The Justice Department and the Islamists
At the Daily Caller, Neil Munro has an important report this morning about the Obama...
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An Opportunity for an Apology
The United Nations issued a rare vindication for Israel this month, when it found that the naval blockade of Gaza does not violate international law. Now that the Palmer Report, which investigate...
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Iran Approaching Fission? I’m Talking Politics, Not Nukes…
The mullahs have stepped up their tempo of killing, both at home and abroad. The main difference is that the Iranian citizens who are tortured and executed are slaughtered by fellow-Iranian...