Shmuel Katz was a disciple of the great Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and was himself one of the great political minds modern Israel has produced. Katz, who passed away in 2008 at age 94, wrote Lone Wolf, the definitive account
At this week’s meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Iran was the major topic of discussion among the foreign ministers of the six Arab member nations (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait). GCC meeting in Jeddah
I wrote a letter in late May 2011 to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) requesting that Congress reconsider repealing what is popularly known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). DADT is a misnomer. And so I shall refer to
It’s all over. The Democrats finally have owned up to what everyone else in America has known for the past two and a half years. Dual-hatted Congresswoman and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz claimed that her party “owns the economy.”
Twenty-six years ago, the world watched one of the most horrific atrocities taken against innocent civilians–this event was aired live on televisions around the world. TWA Flight 847 was hijacked, terrorists held their captives for seventeen days, and brutally murdered
I’ve seen a lot of weird movies in my day; it’s safe to say I seek them out. I once saw a flick that depicted a “post-apocalypstick” world where men have devolved into apes, and the women of the world
You’ve certainly heard of the new film Super 8. Not the self-serving Anthony Weiner autobiography- the new summer flick about a small town in 1979 invaded by a strange alien creature that was written and directed by J.J. Abrams and
From the Associated Press: BAGHDAD — The suggestion by a U.S. congressman that Iraq repay the United States for the money it has spent in the country has stirred anger, with an Iraqi lawmaker ridiculing the idea as “stupid” and
[youtube tssBq4jCWtw] After Egyptian Shaykh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni’s controversial comments about jihad and slavery (see here) were published on YouTube, Facebook, and also in Egyptian press, he was given the opportunity to respond in a telephone interview aired on the Islamic
In November 2008 a majority of voters chose to put Barack Obama in the White House, ostensibly to be president: which entails doing what a president should do, speaking as a president should speak, etc. The expectations for Obama were
In my most recent book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (completed July 4, 2010), I argued that civil societies in the Greater Middle East (GME) and Arab World had reached a “critical stage” in their
Three weeks ago, a fistfight broke out among seven members of Kuwait’s parliament. It started when a Shia pro-government lawmaker referred to Kuwaitis being held by American armed forces at Guantanamo Bay prison as “terrorists.” A pro-Sunni Salafist opposition lawmaker
For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world. It does so in two principal ways. First, even before the current political upheaval began there on January 15, violence out of Yemen already impinged
According to Wikipedia, “the Reform Party of Syria, or RPS is a political party committed to democracy and reform in Syria. It is based in the United States because the present Syrian government does not allow opposition political parties to
From the Associated Press: BAGHDAD — Five American troops were killed Monday in central Iraq, U.S. officials said — the single largest loss of life for the American military in Iraq in the past two years. The military said in
On Sunday night, May 1st, President Obama put news outlets on alert that a big announcement was imminent. Soon, as reporters gathered to be briefed and waited until late into the night, media personalities across the board predicted the announcement
I sometimes wonder if the media thinks the public has a universal case of amnesia. Like we can’t remember what they were saying way, way back in the days when George W. Bush was president. Bush was president right after
I greatly appreciate this blog (below) by British commentator Nile Gardiner on the president’s crummy decision to get in a golf game after fufilling his presidential duties at Arlington on Memorial Day. It’s not that anyone begrudges the president his
This Memorial Day is one of extreme significance for me. It’s more than complicated solely for the fact that I have lost friends of mine fighting in today’s war on terror. With that, it is also my birthday–a time to
On Feb 24th 2008 two men in Class A Army uniforms knocked on my door.. my son David called me to tell me they were there, I had been shopping… so I walked into my living room knowing my oldest
Barack Obama’s tenure as Commander-in-Chief has not exactly been characterized by success. What comes next, however, may make his record to date look like the good old days. To be sure, on his watch, an extraordinary intelligence-special forces team liquidated
From The Daily Mail: A U.S. Marine who was killed when he was gunned down in his home near Tucson, Arizona, never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house firing 70 times in a hail of bullets, a
Images of Iraq’s “successful transformation” into a society dominated by Shiite fundamentalism and its accompanying hatred of the West, and of course, Jews Veiled women supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr march while holding a sign that reads, “no, no to
This week President Obama revealed his latest attempt to control the media, the Internet, and the information revealed to the people of the United States by creating a new “press” office of sorts, an Obama ministry of truth, if you
The Living Legacy of Zia Ul-Haq, Godfather of Pakistan’s Modern Jihadist Military Then U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson, alarmed by her interaction with trainees at Pakistan’s National Defense University (NDU), where, after addressing them, she had “received astonishingly
