terrorism
If They Strapped Bombs on Dogs or Horses…
December 10, 2007
Last month’s Annapolis conference, like Oslo, was pure kabuki theater, in which leaders gathered to pretend that the central issue of the Arab/Israeli conflict is land, not irrational hatred, corruption, and brainwashing of the next...
An Issue for Obama?
December 5, 2007
Here’s an issue for Barack Obama, or any presidential candidate who is sincere about both fighting terrorism and championing human rights: condemning the recruitment of children to become suicide bombers. Today in her talk to U.S....
U.S. Attorneys Rally to Support Pakistani Brethren
November 14, 2007
After writing a curtain raiser for The New York Sun of yesterday’s lawyers’ rally in downtown Manhattan, I attended the rally and ended up writing this piece about it for Jewishworldreview.com. As I am learning, the issues...
The Truth About Iraq: We Say Karate, Iran Says Crowbar
September 5, 2007
Over a year and a half ago, Mithal al-Alusi, a courageous Iraqi politician about whom I have written for The Wall Street Journal, who has lost more than his life in the struggle to build a democratic Iraq, told me that Iran had...
Queen of Stereotype
August 29, 2007
Officials are meeting this week in Geneva and Brussels to plan the 2009 U.N. Conference Against Racism, a sequel to the infamous 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa, which turned into an anti-Israel frenzy. When it comes to Israel-bashing...
Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics
June 15, 2007
Special to the Sun
June 15, 2007
A lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government claims there is a double standard by which Muslim clerics are criticized for not condemning Islamist terrorism when “rabbis are...
Recruited To Die
June 1, 2007
June 1, 2007
In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo...
Taking Courage
June 5, 2006
Monday, June 5th, 2006
“When I lost my arm, I thought, ‘That’s the end of my life,'” says Muctar Jalloh.
“My goals had been to attend school and to write. Sometimes I would think, ‘I don’t think it...
What’s Right With ‘Munich’
February 8, 2006
I’m a Zionist, and I liked Spielberg’s film.
Avner Kaufmann, the reluctant warrior and protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s movie “Munich,” is honorable, strong, a family man–that is, a typical Israeli. That is...
Jewish Community Helps Victim of Russian Hostage Crisis Recover
November 14, 2005
November 14, 2005
Shifting from foot to foot in Kennedy Airport here, Anya Kadalaeva waited for the plane that would bring her father and sister.
In her jeans and lavender winter coat, her light brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, she...