terrorism
Fogel suspects’ arrest exposes dangers of incitement
April 29, 2011
On Sunday, Israel announced the arrest of Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad 18, both from the Palestinian village of Awarta, in connection with the murders of the Fogel family in March. Both have reportedly admitted to perpetrating the murders. Awad...
The Fifth Son Project: Frisch schoolgirls seek help through song for Gilad Shalit
April 16, 2011
In the rush of day-today life, it is easy to forget Sgt. Gilad Shalit, reflects Michaela Elias, 16, of Teaneck.
“It’s very easy to dismiss his situation because it doesn’t have relevance in [one’s] daily life,” said Michaela. “To...
Murders of settlers are attacks on all Jews
April 9, 2011
In the wake of the murders of five members of the Fogel family — father Udi, 36, mother Ruth, 35, sons Yoav, 11, and Elad, 4, and their 3-month-old sister Hadas — last month, some have begun to write about the horrific and calculated killings...
Rep. Rothman to Obama: Press Abbas to end incitement, resume talks: J Street objects to legislators’ call for Palestinian accountability as one-sided
March 26, 2011
Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) and Steve Austria (R-Ohio) are calling on President Obama to press Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to return to peace negotiations and to end anti-Israel incitement by the Palestinian Authority....
U.S. Aid to Israel is Pragmatic
February 11, 2011
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) certainly picked a chaotic moment to say that the U.S. should end all foreign aid, including to Israel. More pragmatic heads in the Senate — including New Jersey’s own Sen. Robert Menendez — should prevail. (See...
Escaped Slave Warned U.S. Re: bin Laden in the 90’s; Now Warns of South Sudan “Ticking Time Bomb”
November 22, 2010
Thanksgiving Day update: Disappointing news from Washington D.C., as Simon Deng received an update that the Sudan Peace and Stability Act, sponsored by Senator John Kerry, is “on hold.” Kerry’s office did not share the...
Andrew McCarthy: We Could Not Successfully Get Terrorists Without Help of Muslim-American Patriots & Chilling News: Top Terrorist Al-Awlaki Trained U.S. Muslim Chaplains at Pentagon
November 9, 2010
Radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born
terrorist on the CIA’s kill or capture list who
yesterday released a tape calling for the death of Americans
and is considered one of al Qaeda’s top ideologues,...
Jewish Voters, Do Not Let President Obama and the Dems Take You for Granted
November 1, 2010
With 78 percent of Jewish voters going for President Obama in the 2008 election despite his tendency to trivialize Jewish-Americans’ concerns about Israel’s security, is it any mystery that during the past two years,...
Clooney to Obama: Stop a Genocide Before it is Too Late
October 25, 2010
Earlier this month actor George Clooney met with President Obama at the White House to urge him to prevent bloodshed in Sudan in advance of the controversial referendum planned for January 9 in which the mostly Christian South is predicted to...
Alusi: Normal Muslims Say, “Why are You Leaving Us in the Hands of the Iranians?”
October 20, 2010
Interesting piece in today’s New York Post about how Sunni sheiks and others in Iraq and Afghanistan are switching sides for fear that the U.S. will abandon them as President Obama draws down troops.
This state of affairs echoes what...