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February 2011

HERBERT LONDON: ABBAS REVEALS HIS TRUE AGENDA

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8574/pub_detail.asp Abbas Reveals His True Agenda Herbert London In a recent discussion of the anticipated Palestinian state Mahmoud Abbas, leader in the territory, said he “would not tolerate one single Jew in his new country, Palestine.” Speaking before journalists in Ramallah, he clearly and unequivocally noted, “We have already said completely openly, and it will […]

ROGER KIMBALL: A HISTORY LESSON FROM ANDREW ROBERTS

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/02/01/a-history-lesson-from-andrew-roberts/ A history lesson from Andrew Roberts Posted By Roger Kimball Here’s some food for thought from the English historian Andrew Roberts writing The Daily Beast. Hosni Mubarak might just survive the current assault on his administration. If he does, there won’t be any more invitations to Cairo for American Presidents. Turns out that even […]

CAL THOMAS: EGYPT AFLAME

http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2011/02/01/egypt_aflame “The turmoil in Egypt must not be seen in isolation from other events in the world. Neither is it an aberration. It is the next scene in a long-running play whose final act is the domination of the world by radical Islamists.” The Obama administration has been delusional in its belief that dictators and […]

ROBERT SPENCER: WHY COPTIC CHRISTIANS FEAR THE REVOLUTION

Why Coptic Christians Fear a Revolution Posted By Robert Spencer http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/01/why-coptic-christians-fear-a-revolution/print/ Forgotten in all the excitement over the revolution in Egypt has been the precarious situation of Coptic Christians there. Yet just weeks ago, Copts in Egypt experienced an unprecedented reign of terror. An Islamic jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber murdered twenty-two people and wounded eighty more […]

DICTATORSHIPS AND REVOLUTIONS: NONIE DARWISH

Dictatorships and Revolutions Posted By Nonie Darwish http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/31/egypt-between-dictatorships-and-revolutions/print/ The pressure in Egypt has been building for a long time and has now finally exploded –  inspired by the events in Tunisia. The fact that the Egyptian government has been taken by surprise is a sign of how disconnected the regime has become from the reality […]

MIDDLE EASTERN MOMENT OF TRUTH? P.DAVID HORNIK

Middle Eastern Moment of Truth Posted By P. David Hornik http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/01/middle-eastern-moment-of-truth/print/ Over a quarter-century Israel fought Egypt in the 1948 Independence War, the 1956 Sinai War, the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1967-1970 War of Attrition, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Since then, for 37 years, Israel and Egypt have not fought. This may have […]

THE ONGOING WAR AGAINST INSPECTOR GENERALS: ED LASKY

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/obamas_ongoing_war_on_inspecto.html The administration fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin after he dared to report that Sacramento’s mayor, a Democrat and personal friend of Barack Obama, had engaged in improper use of federal money. From the Wall Street Journal: A George W. Bush appointee, Mr. Walpin has since 2007 been the inspector general for the Corporation for […]

A VANISHED WORLD: THE NOVEL BY H.G. ADLER LOST FOR SO MANY YEARS

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Shulevitz-t.html?_r=1&sq=A VANISHED WORLD&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print A Vanished World By JUDITH SHULEVITZ PANORAMA By H. G. Adler Translated by Peter Filkins Every so often, a book shocks you into realizing just how much effort and sheer luck was required to get it into your hands. “Panorama” was the first novel written by H. G. Adler, a ­German-speaking Jewish […]

CYRUS, AHMEDINEJAD, AND THE POLITICS OF PURIM

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/2/1/main-feature/1/cyrus-ahmadinejad-and-the-politics-of-purim Cyrus, Ahmadinejad, and the Politics of Purim By Alex Joffe Anyone who deplores the politicization of the past should have been apoplectic in September 2010 at the sight of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad receiving the loan of the “Cyrus Cylinder” from officials of the British Museum. Often touted as the “world’s oldest human-rights charter,” this clay […]

BBC GUSHES: “ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU” TO THE MAN MARK STEYN CALLS A “CELBERITY ELIMINATIONIST”

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ “Always Good to See You,” gushed the BBC Presenter to the Anti-Israel Arab Extremist London-based Dr Abdel Bari Atwan, who’s dedicated (for some audiences subtly) to Israel’s overthrow, is, thanks to a fawning media, a familiar face on British television. Born in Gaza in 1950, he attended school in Jordan and studied journalism in Cairo […]