In what is evidently not a joke, three Palestinian NGOS have sued – in a Palestinian court, of course, in Nablus – the government of Great Britain for the Balfour Declaration which, say the plaintiffs, has been the cause of all the subsequent misery the “Palestinian people” have suffered. The story is here: “Palestinian NGOs […]
PA Promises a Doomsday Scenario If It Doesn’t Get a State Right Now
The story is here: “Palestinians threaten Israel: ‘Either Palestine, or a fire for a generation,’” JNS, October 28, 2020: Claiming that the United States and Israel are planning to “redesign” the Middle East via “normalization” and the US peace plan, the Palestinian Authority is threatening “anarchy, violence and instability.” “Normalization” of ties with Israel by […]
Meet the New York Times’ New Jerusalem Bureau Chief
He’s only 31, but hey, who’s counting? The news about the latest New York Times expert on the Middle East, by Ira Stoll, is here: “Newly Appointed New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Has History of Mistakes in Israel Coverage,” by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner, October 29, 2020: The New York Times’ next Jerusalem bureau chief […]
Archbishop Le Gall Genuflects to Islam
The Archbishop of Toulouse, Robert Le Gall, has weighed in on Macron’s defense of freedom of expression and the subsequent world-wide Muslim rage against him. And the Archbishop, instead of supporting Macron, and that freedom that the French hold dear, has come down on the side of thin-skinned, murderous Muslims. The story is here: “Prophet […]
Muslim Leaders Worldwide Silent About Pakistani Cleric’s Call to Nuke France
The Muslim hysteria over President Macron’s insistence that in France French values, including the freedom of expression, must not be compromised, is not diminishing. It’s become quite a spectacle for the non-Muslim world to observe. Muslims first began with demands for an apology from Macron himself, which was not forthcoming. Then the focus shifted […]
Islamic Scholar Yasir Qadhi Says There’s a ‘Brutal’ Campaign Against Islam in France
Yasir Qadhi is an Islamic scholar living in the U.S. who in a recent sermon deplored what he describes as an anti-Islamic campaign by the French government. The report on his sermon is here: “Prominent American Islamic Scholar Dr. Yasir Qadhi: The ‘Unfortunate’ Beheading Of Samuel Paty Is A Pretext For A Campaign Against […]
The French Ambassador to Sweden is Wrong: France is Not a Muslim Country
🇫🇷🇸🇪L’ambassadeur de France en Suède: “La France est un pays musulman” Selon lui nous avons un héritage/des racines musulmanes. Le plus drôle c’est quand il affirme que ce qui importe c’est d’écouter les musulmans🇫🇷mais est incapable de répondre à la question “Et que disent-ils?” pic.twitter.com/A2ry3FHDHW — Patrick Edery (@patrick_edery) October 26, 2020 Another telling story […]
For Three Frenchmen, Three Corrections
In a short piece that appeared at the Times of Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron, the Chief Rabbi of Nice, Daniel Teboul, and the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, all had something to say about the latest Muslim atrocity – the killings of three people in Nice by a Tunisian who had arrived in the […]
Are Bunker Busters Ready For Their Close-Up?
As everyone now knows, on the “sideline” of the United Arab Emirates’ agreement to normalize relations with Israel was another, separate but linked understanding, that at long last the U.S. would be willing to sell an undisclosed number of its top-of-the-line Stealth fighter jets, the F-35, to the UAE. Israel was not happy with this; […]
Muslims Around the World Want to Punish France; Where is the West’s Solidarity with the French?
The murder of a French middle-school teacher by a Muslim fanatic would, one would have thought, led to an expression of horror worldwide, and a demand not only in France but by non-Muslims everywhere that the Muslim political leaders and clerics denounce that murder in no uncertain terms. Alas, that is not what has happened. […]
Macron Sticks Up For Free Speech, Jaffa Muslims Riot In Response
After the murder of Samuel Paty, the French middle-school teacher murdered by a Muslim Chechen for including cartoons of Muhammad in a lesson on free speech, President Macron refused to condemn those cartoons, angering many Muslims around the world, for whom the Prophet is “the most sacred thing in Islam.” At a ceremony in Paty’s […]
Mahmoud Abbas Has Learned His Lesson, Tones Down Criticism of Sudan
When the United Arab Emirates and then Bahrain announced their normalization agreements with Israel, the PA was quick to denounce both as “betraying Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Palestinian issue.” The two countries were further accused of “stabbing the Palestinians in the back.” This did not have the desired effect. Both the UAE and Bahrain […]
Iran Denounces Sudan’s Normalization Agreement As Paying ‘Ransom’
Tehran appears to be almost as unhinged as the Palestinians in its reaction to the normalization agreements that three Arab states – the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan (once its government approves the deal) – have now made with Israel. Iran’s charge of “ransom” is reported on here: “Iran slams Sudan’s Israel deal, says it paid […]
Biden Would End U.S. Support For Saudis In Yemen
Joe Biden has called for the U.S. to end its support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. Many beg to differ, as here: “Should the US Support Saudi Arabia’s Intervention in Yemen?,” by Eric Bordenkircher, Algemeiner, October 21, 2020: The Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, is mistaken to call for an end to US support […]
The Trump Administration’s Geopolitical Hat Trick
Sudan has become the third Arab country to agree to normalize relations with Israel. The Palestinians are most unhappy: “Palestinians condemn ‘shameful’ Israel-Sudan accord,” by Khaled Abu Toameh and Celia Jean, Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2020: The Palestinian Authority said on Friday that it “condemns and rejects” the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel. […]
Erdogan Antagonizes His ‘Arab Brothers’
Burak Bekdil is a brave and humorful Turkish journalist who dares, while living in Ankara, to highlight the political follies of President Erdogan in articles he writes for foreign websites. A recent column of interest from him is here. Neither the Ottoman nor the modern Turkish language has ever been short of racist proverbs denigrating […]
In France, Macron Claims That ‘Fear is About to Change Sides’
Will the murder of Samuel Paty at long last lead France to do what it must to meet the Islamic threat within? Or will there be rhetorical resolution, a laying of flowers, marches of solidarity in major cities, a series of well-publicized roundups and then, again, a relaxing of resolve and of raids, as happened […]
Sudan Will Be Next to Normalize Relations with Israel
Sudan will soon be taken off the American list of state sponsors of terrorism. It has first to agree to pay $335 million dollars to the families of victims of Sudan-sponsored terrorism. And the next step, which is not being made explicit but that everyone understands is coming, will be for Sudan to establish diplomatic […]
Antisemitic Attack In Paris, WZO Head Yaakov Hagoel Wants to Find ‘Source of Antisemitism Worldwide’
Antisemitic graffiti – 20 Swastikas – were spray-painted on October 9 in Paris, in the very poshest part of the city, right near the Louvre, along the Rue de Rivoli and the Place de la Concorde. The story is here. Swastikas were spray-painted on walls and columns near the Louvre Museum in Paris’s first district […]
How NPR Still Reports Falsehoods About Those Murders of Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
While listening to NPR on Sunday, October 9, 2020, at 1:25 PM Pacific Time, I heard the NPR announcer mention the “anti-Muslim killings some years ago in Chapel Hill.” This dreamy bit of misinformation, so offhandedly delivered (as if no one could disagree), startled me. And not for the first time. On February 10, 2016, […]