Left: Protesters display placards and banners as they take part in demonstration against Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in central London on July 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Carl Court) From ACD A View from the “Emergency Routine” under the Iron Dome … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – July 13-19, 2014
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A View from the “Emergency Routine” under the Iron Dome
These lines are written ten days after the beginning of the latest Gaza conflict and thirteen years since the Hamas started launching thousands of rockets from Gaza exclusively into Israeli civilian targets. It has also been nine years since Israel … [Read more...] about A View from the “Emergency Routine” under the Iron Dome
Backgrounder: Students for Justice in Palestine
The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) today exists as a consortium of campus “clubs” throughout the American and Canadian college systems which work to oppose the existence of Israel and to promote Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against the … [Read more...] about Backgrounder: Students for Justice in Palestine
Hamas, the dying shark*
The current battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza resembles nothing so much as the violent thrashing-about of a mortally wounded shark leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Nothing remains static for any length of time, especially in the Middle … [Read more...] about Hamas, the dying shark*
Hamas Uses Mosques in the Gaza Strip for Military Purposes
The use of mosques in the Gaza Strip for military purposes by Hamas and other terrorist organizations: The Al-Farouq Mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp after being attacked on July 12, 2014, by the Israel Air Force. According to Israeli military … [Read more...] about Hamas Uses Mosques in the Gaza Strip for Military Purposes
Celebrating Ramadan – From the White House to Gaza
Expressions of sympathy to Gazans, for having their Ramadan celebrations foiled by Israeli retaliations, highlight a prevailing ignorance of Islamic values, not only on the part of the American media. On July 9, in his “Ramadan Message,” President … [Read more...] about Celebrating Ramadan – From the White House to Gaza
Horror Vacui
* This column was originally published in The Washington Times, Sunday, March 20, 2011, and it has not been updated. President Obama has given new meaning to that epithet “imperial presidency.” It was slung at Richard M. Nixon not only for his … [Read more...] about Horror Vacui
Weekly Briefing – July 7-12, 2014
From ACD WMD and the Islamist Threat - Cory Davenport - The ability for terrorists in the Middle East to get their hands on WMDs has never been greater. It might be easy to look at Libya, which in 2003 agreed to the ending and dismantling of its WMD … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – July 7-12, 2014
Israel Cannot Afford Obama’s Islamist Appeasement
Nor can the U.S. The ability of the Jews in their State of Israel to defend themselves against an ongoing barrage of rockets fired by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists in Gaza has lifted the thin veil of supposed objectivity claimed by major … [Read more...] about Israel Cannot Afford Obama’s Islamist Appeasement
The Ghastly Transaction That Freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl*
The seeds of what blossomed grotesquely in the Rose Garden last weekend — a celebration of the release of five senior Taliban military leaders in exchange for a U.S. sergeant purported to be a deserter — were sown a long time ago: on the second and … [Read more...] about The Ghastly Transaction That Freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl*