For people around the world, the United States is not merely a country, and not merely a superpower. The United States is also a symbol of human freedom. Because their country is a symbol, the way that American officials behave is rarely taken at face value. Rather, their behavior is interpreted and reinterpreted by friend... [ Read entire Post ]
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October 2007 Archives
October 30, 2007 at 3:45 AM
Laura Bush's embrace of tyranny
October 26, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Preventing World War III
It goes without saying that if and when a decision is made in Jerusalem or Washington to carry out an attack against Iran's nuclear installations the public will only learn of the decision in retrospect. All the same, over the last few weeks, it has been impossible to miss the fact that the Iranian nuclear... [ Read entire Post ]
October 22, 2007 at 2:40 PM
Shari'a friendly investments
Monday the verdict in the largest terror finance case in US history was read in a Texas courtroom. The case against the Holyland Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its principal leaders -- which ended in a mistrial -- was predicated on the interconnection between terrorism and international finance. The five men were accused... [ Read entire Post ]
October 19, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Empty talk, reckless talk
Apparently US and Israeli leaders think that idle chatter is risk free. Last week, the Democrats in the US Congress decided to take on the Ottoman Empire. Acting boldly, the House Foreign Relations Committee condemned the empire (which ceased to exist in 1917) for committing genocide against the Armenians in 1915. The Democrats' goal is... [ Read entire Post ]
October 9, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Pakistani nightmare
As expected, after bending the Pakistani constitution like a pretzel, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf won his bid for reelection on Saturday. But Musharraf has not been strengthened by the race, to the contrary. In order to secure his reelection, he was forced to agree to stand down from his command over the Pakistani military. He... [ Read entire Post ]
October 5, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Rice's rabbit hole
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is moving boldly down the rabbit hole. Next week, Rice is due back in the Middle East for meetings in Jerusalem and Ramallah. The purpose of her upcoming visit, like her previous ones, will be to pressure the Olmert government and the Fatah terror organization to reach "substantive agreements"... [ Read entire Post ]
October 2, 2007 at 12:10 AM
Peace loving murderers
As the Jerusalem Post's Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported Monday, over the weekend he and the newspaper fell victim to a Fatah hoax. Saturday, Abu Toameh was "summoned" to Fatah's General Intelligence headquarters in Ramallah where he was given a "scoop" - a graphic videotape of the murder of a 16-year-old girl in... [ Read entire Post ]
