Despite a noticeably cool reception at the White House, everywhere else India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on his five day visit to the United States he was treated more like a pop star than the self-effacing 63-year old devout
If one is looking for reasons why Washington has become so caustic, divisive and bitter, look no further than retiring Attorney General Eric Holder. If reports first published by the Los Angeles Times are correct, the always controversial Holder, aged
Assume for a moment that the Free Syrian Army, the mysterious rebel alliance to which the United States is now allied in its broader campaign to degrade and destroy ISIS, is not the ill defined and ever-changing conglomeration of tribal
Fortunately for President Obama, the world he described Wednesday as being “at a crossroads between war and peace” started its descent into chaos before the full effect of his dramatic cuts to American defenses could be implemented. A fact not loss
In uniting the world’s bitterest enemies in at least a verbal campaign against it, ISIS has done what few ever thought possible. Even though President Obama’s hopes to craft an international military coalition against ISIS looks to be stillborn, in
Even before Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey testified Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee that limited use of US ground forces could prove necessary in the US lead fight against ISIS terrorist forces in Iraq and Syria, some of
The leaders of the world’s two most populous countries joined forces today for the first of a three day summit designed to improve their troubled, but hugely important relationship. India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi is playing host to
For all the ridicule heaped upon George W. Bush’s so-called “Coalition of the Willing” by President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, among others, the US-led 2003 operation to liberate Iraq and overthrow the regime of
When Texas Senator Ted Cruz found out the hard way that he was addressing an anti-Israel crowd, he neither tried to temper his remarks, nor pander to the cries of his opponents. Neither, as the boos and hisses increased, did
They say anti-Semitism is a lot like alcoholism. Every recovering alcoholic knows their disease has no cure–that the seeds for its active return are always there, just below the surface of normalcy, requiring a constant lifelong vigilance to prevent. So,
Seventy-five years to the day after it was invaded and nearly wiped off the map by Nazi Germany, today’s Poland is more peaceful, united, and powerful than it has been since the late medieval glory days of her fabled 16th
By midnight August 31, 1939, more than one and a half million German troops had secretly taken up their final positions on the Polish border in preparation for their ordered invasion that was to commence at dawn. The last barrier
In sharp contrast to President Obama’s admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet to deal with the lightning progress and horrific brutality of the ISIS terrorist army, a new report published in the journal “Sentinel” by the Combatting Terrorism
Zeian Asfura, the mother of Widad Deif, the wife of elusive Hamas leader Muhammed Deif, who, along with her two small children, were killed while sheltering in a Hamas hideout hit in an Israeli air strike that targeted the terror
Former President Jimmy Carter is the featured keynote speaker at this weekend’s Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention at Detroit’s Cobo Hall. The Justice Department recently implicated ISNA, which claims to be America’s largest Muslim organization, as the lead conduit
There are murderers, there are terrorists, and then there is Mohammed Deif, the terrorist mastermind who has stood atop Israel’s most wanted list since emerging as leader of Hamas’s notorious Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades in the late 1980s. In the intervening
As yet another temporary ceasefire went up in the smoke of three Hamas terror rockets launched Tuesday against the Israeli city of Beersheba, the debate inside Israel regarding what lessons can be learned from this ongoing 31-day war will only
To the horror of many in Congress, President Obama has reportedly ordered lifted the 31-year ban preventing Libyan nationals from attending flight schools and studying nuclear science in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recent directive reports, “The
Together with Yazidi leaders and emergency relief agency heads on the ground in northern Iraq, UN officials immediately disputed claims made late Wednesday by President Obama that Yazidi civilians stranded on Mount Sinjar no longer faced a humanitarian catastrophe, and
Visiting India to open the gleaming Trump Tower Mumbai, Real Estate magnate Donald Trump heaped praise upon India’s newly elected conservative Prime Minister Narendra Modi, predicting that his free market policies will unleash an unprecedented wave of foreign investment into
While Jimmy Carter was busy accusing Israel of war crimes and encouraging greater international support for the terrorist group Hamas, a noted legal expert and civil rights advocate claims the former American president may have committed several criminal felonies that
Controversial Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayap Erdogan appears to have crossed the 50% threshold in Sunday’s national election, which, if confirmed, would enable him to avoid a runoff in his quest to become his country’s first directly elected president. An
A statement released Sunday by a former Egyptian Foreign Minister that rising upheaval in Libya presents Egypt with major national security implications is being interpreted by many to mean that Egypt is once again considering military intervention in Libya to
A foreign ministry spokesman has confirmed that Israeli police have lifted the gag order imposed on the recent arrest of Hamas member Hassam Qawasameh from the West Bank city of Hebron in connection with the murder of three Israeli teens
In a scathing attack against Israel’s conduct against Hamas in Gaza, former US President Jimmy Carter, writing in The Guardian, together with notorious Israel critic Mary Robinson, not only convicts Israel of the usual litany of “war crimes” routinely leveled
