Hired help might be hard to find nowadays–but not for Fidel Castro. Jack Benny had his Rochester. Louise Jefferson had her Florence. And Fidel Castro now has his Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic‘s freshly-minted “Cuba Expert.” Last month Fidel Castro granted
Overshadowed by the announcement that Saudi Arabia will purchase a record-setting $60 billion in U.S. arms was news that the Saudis have given about $30 million (practically nothing compared to the defense outlay) so far this year to the Palestinian
My organization, Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), just released a video showing 6th graders from Wellesley, MA as they rise from prostrating themselves alongside Muslim men in a prayer to Allah while on a public school field trip to
One look at circulation and ad sales and it’s plain to see that this kind of advocacy journalism is killing the New York Times: The Senate primary in Delaware on Tuesday was prompting anxiety among party officials, who feared that
The Arab and non-Arab Muslim umma, or global community, vehemently denies pre-Islamic Jewish and ignores pre-Islamic Christian connections to all the territories that comprised historical Syro-Palestine–including Judea, Samaria, modern Israel within the 1949 armistice borders, and Gaza. This historical negationism
It’s about Mideast peace and a Palestinian state, but this summit is President Obama’s show. The President greeted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Wednesday, in preparation for peace talks that began
President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor John Brennan created a stir recently when he talked of building up the “more moderate elements” of the terrorist group Hezbollah. But in response to such an idea, one Christian member of Lebanon’s Parliament
Last week the North Korean government (officially, the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, a misuse of the word “democratic” if ever there was one), threatened a massive nuclear strike if the United States and South Korea carried out their annual
Just earlier this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Amhadinejad announced that the United States and Israel would attack two countries in the Middle East. Charles Krauthammer suggests he has in mind Lebanon and Syria. That Middle Eastern autocrats focus myopically on
Last week the North Korean government (officially, the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, a misuse of the word “democratic” if ever there was one), threatened a massive nuclear strike if the United States and South Korea carried out their annual
Turkey is a member of NATO and has long been held out as an example of democracy and secular society in the Middle East. That has been changing since Prime Minister Erdogan came to power in 2003. He and his
How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals? Kennedy said in his speech to a Joint Session of Congress in May 1961: “First, I believe that this nation
Bet CNN’s Octavia Nasr, the network’s “senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs,” wishes she’d never sent this Tweet: Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot. Yes, you read
Last week, with nearly unanimous support, Congress agreed to a new package of unilateral sanctions against Iran, which, if enforced, will put significant pressure on the regime. The failure of our current policy to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions presents a
This week, we saw partisan Washington Post blogger David Weigel resign for getting caught showing his private but unabashed disdain for conservatives. Weigel, who was hired by Post editors for his perceived thoughtful analysis of the issues, was actually a
Genocide is an ugly subject that needs to be shoved into every generation’s face because the deliberate extermination of some targeted group by their own government occurs somewhere in the world during every generation. What does not need to be
Wonkette needs to grow a pair… or buy a pair and have them installed. Either way, I won’t care. The recent “did she or didn’t she” piece about Sarah Palin’s breasts is just one more in the seemingly endless supply
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is attempting to bully the Tennessee Tea Party Convention into dropping Pamela Geller as one of their speakers for their event this weekend in Gatlinberg. In a stirring piece of Orwellian propaganda, CAIR cautioned
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is attempting to bully the Tennessee Tea Party Convention into dropping Pamela Geller as one of their speakers for their event this weekend in Gatlinberg. In a stirring piece of Orwellian propaganda, CAIR cautioned
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com The Washington Post: In an interview, I asked Fanelli if the message of the spot was that darker people are more likely to be terrorists. He said it wasn’t, claiming that the
“Since you, Mr. President and you, the members of the American administration, believe in this (a two-state solution), it is your duty to call for the steps in order to reach the solution and impose the solution (emphasis added) —
Barack Obama has found yet another way to express his special brand of anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel – while the mainstream media looks the other way. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday dropped out of Obama’s 47-nation nuclear
This is the time of year when most people are busy resolving to do better in the future. Some people vow to go on diets or exercise more, some promise to give up smoking or booze. But, year in and
As Washington extends its reach farther into our lives and limits our freedoms, the Fed destroys the value of the dollar and our savings, and Wall Street continues to make billions of dollars using taxpayer money without creating any sustainable
How much access can a possible agent of influence for state sponsors of terrorism buy from President Barack Obama? For Jodie Evans, a progressive Hollywood activist, the going rate appears to be $30,400 for dinner and a conversation. Last week
