Demanding that he back up his anti-Israel words with anti-Israel actions. “Al-Hayat: The Arab League’s Letter to Obama Was Unsigned,” from the MEMRI Blog, August 1: The daily Al-Hayat reports that the letter sent by the Arab League to Obama following the July 29 session of the peace initiative follow-up…

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

I am just flabbergasted at the way that Barack Obama continues to endear himself to Israelis and American Jews. In a recent interview Obama was asked why it is that so many Israelis, well, aren’t very fond of him.
During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama [...]

Seeing Obama’s weakness, Pakistan sheds its mask yet again and offers Karzai a deal including one of his chief rivals, a key al-Qaeda ally. And since Karzai himself has spoken about joining the Taliban, and making peace with it in a power-sharing arrangement, it is hard to see what the…

Throughout the left-liberal blogs they scream to the heavens that the West Bank settlements are the major impediment to a peaceful resolution of the I-P problem. If only those pain-in-the-neck Jews would get the hell out of the place where Jews originally came from, everything would be fine. This is essentially what we hear [...]

Are grassroots peace measures outpacing the work of the political class in the West Bank?

One thing you can say about Obama’s posture toward Israel: he is consistent. Get details in the forthcoming book The Post-American Presidency. “US gives Abbas private assurances over Israeli settlements: Exclusive: Americans consider withholding veto protecting Israel at UN if building goes ahead at Ramat Shlomo,” by Rory McCarthy in…

But deep down, they really, really want peace! Moderation = boycotting goods rather than suicide bombing. But at bottom this is just another play for victim status by what is in reality a relentless and intransigent jihad group. “Palestinian PM vows to step up ‘peaceful resistance,’” from AFP, April 21…

When I was nineteen years old, I sat in a classroom in France and was taught that the Jews control the entire world. My conservative teacher was deeply influenced by far-right French extremists and Holocaust Deniers who hated America and, of course Israel. I had always been interested, more like obsessed, with the history of [...]

Glenn Beck hasn’t been paying much attention to ACORN lately — and that’s too bad.
He’s done the nation a great service by helping to publicize ACORN’s crimes against the American people and for that we should be thankful.
But there are so many other corrupt practices ACORN is guilty of. We have only just scratched the [...]