Turkey has been an ongoing menace in the region, as well as a global threat. It is mystifying that Turkey remains part of NATO, considering that it is in reality an enemy of NATO. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s missions of reviving the Ottoman Empire is directly contrary to the goals and philosophy of the […]
The Three Things of Significance That Happened During Secretary of State Pompeo’s Visit to Israel
Three things of significance happened during Secretary Pompeo’s visit to Israel. First, he went to a settlement in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the “West Bank”), Psagot, where he visited the winery that Israeli farmers and oenologists have managed to create in what was during Jordanian rule a wasteland. He is the first American Secretary of […]
Saudi Arabia denies secret meeting with Netanyahu and Pompeo, says no normalization with Israel without Palestinians
The Saudis are unpredictable. Amid moves toward reform in Saudi Arabia, Turkey has been become more prominent as the exporter of militant Islam worldwide. Yet how much Saudi Arabia has really reformed is an open question: recently the Saudis condemned the “offensive” cartoons of Muhammad in wake of the beheading of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, […]
Hungary’s FM praises Trump for raising issue of persecuted Christians to international political agenda
In 2017, Mike Pence promised that the U.S. would defend Christians who were being slaughtered by the Islamic State in the Middle East. This past Wednesday, Fox News published an article about persecution of Christians by Muslims in Africa: Nigeria’s Christians become target of genocide as international community remains silent: advocates. The genocide is worsening: […]
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister condemns Pompeo’s planned visit to ‘settlement’ as ‘dangerous precedent’
The peace process is a delusion. The Palestinian leadership is a jihadist operation which seeks a one-state solution, that is, a Palestinian state in which no Jews live. Anything that offends jihadists is regarded as an unacceptable provocation. The Palestinian National Charter states: Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis peace in the Middle […]
Irked Turks slam Pompeo for promoting religious freedom, call on him to focus on ‘Islamophobia’ instead
Pompeo is set to meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Tuesday in Istanbul. He is not scheduled to meet Erdogan. The Turks are enraged because Pompeo is slated to focus on religious freedom, just months after Turkey converted two venerable Byzantine churches, Hagia Sophia and the Monastery at Chora, into mosques. Pompeo should instead, the Turks […]
State Dept: UK, France opposing Iran sanctions an ‘abdication of duty.’ Pompeo: They’re ‘siding with the ayatollahs’
Pompeo is correct, of course. The post-World War II global order is crumbling, but Britain and France are clinging to the old arrangements and hoping to revive them, selling the mullahs the rope they’ll use to hang them. “US says France, Britain ‘abdicating duty’ on Iran,” AFP, August 21, 2020: The US accused China and […]
Pompeo: For Iran’s Grasping Leaders, It’s All About the Benjamins
As the Iranian leadership tries to exploit the riots in America for their own purposes, it is useful to recall an event from several weeks ago, when Secretary of State Pompeo tweeted about Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, commenting on how Rouhani was caught on tape telling Iran’s leadership that the purpose of Iran’s public relations […]
Secretary of State Pompeo: West Bank Annexation is Israel’s Decision (Part 2)
The Mandate for Palestine unambiguously assigns the entire West Bank to the future Jewish State. And there is a second, independent basis for Israel to lay claim to some, and even to all, of the West Bank. That is U.N. Resolution 242. According to that Resolution, Israel was required only to withdraw “from territories” it […]
Secretary of State Pompeo: West Bank Annexation is Israel’s Decision (Part 1)
It is a great relief to realize that Israel no longer has to endure being bullied on matters of life and death by its American ally, as has happened in the past, especially during the administrations of distinctly unfriendly presidents, including Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. At last we have an administration that recognizes Israel’s […]
Hamas Wants Americans Dead of Coronavirus, Democrats Want to Send Hamas Aid
“They talk about 25 million infected people in just one of the 50 states. Allah be praised.” Thousands of Americans have died of the coronavirus. But ‘Gaza Firster’ Democrats don’t care. Eight Senate Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, dispatched a four-page letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, demanding to know what America […]
US and Taliban agree to ceasefire that could see most American forces leave Afghanistan
The US/Taliban peace talks are a grim charade. No one in the foreign policy establishment will acknowledge the fact, but the Taliban are strict, Sharia-observant Muslims, and the Sharia guidelines for treaty-making with Infidels are based on Muhammad’s Treaty of Hudaybiyya. Muslims can only enter into such a treaty when they are weak and need […]
Muslim State Department ex-employee sues Pompeo for $500,000 for discrimination over eye-rolling and dirty looks
“A Muslim State Department ex-employee is suing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the agency for allegedly refusing to let her work from home on Ramadan….The suit alleges that after Zaki made her request, she was ‘subjected to ridicule’ and ‘harassing emails’ as well as ‘eye-rolling, dirty looks, huffing and puffing when she spoke [and] […]
Iran publishes film portraying jihad attack on the White House and Capitol, killing Trump, Pompeo and Netanyahu
Iran didn’t indulge these fantasies when Obama was President, right? Wrong. Iran: Muslim cleric vows to “raise flag of Islam on White House” February 28, 2015 You know the regime in #Iran is utterly weakened & desperate when their propaganda machine produces short films literally portraying an attack on the White House & Congress, and […]
Soleimani killing: Russians, Europeans enraged, Pompeo says “Americans in the region are much safer today”
These are entirely predictable reactions. The idea has become almost universally accepted that we must avoid confronting our enemies because doing so will only provoke them. The fact that they were already at war with us doesn’t seem to register. “Iran’s top general Soleimani killed in US drone strike,” by Tara John, Julia Hollingsworth and […]
How the Mainstream Media Covered Secretary Pompeo on the Settlements
When Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the Trump Administration did not view Israeli settlements as violating international law, the American media did its best to convince its audience that this was a radical departure from “40 years” of settled policy. The New York Times outdid itself, insisting in its headline that: In Shift, U.S. […]
Pompeo States a Home Truth, and the Media Mostly Mocks
When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on November 18 that the Administration did not regard Israeli settlements in the West Bank as violating international law, there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the Great and Good in our media. The New York Times characteristically did not bother to address the truth […]
Pompeo: Israeli Settlements ‘Not Inconsistent with International Law’
My latest in PJ Media: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, which was renamed “the West Bank” by Jordan in 1948, were not “inconsistent with international law.” CNN noted indignantly that this “breaks with international law and consensus,” but in reality, no state and no entity, […]
Pompeo: Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are “not inconsistent with international law”
Pompeo is right. As is explained in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, no one but Israel has any legal right to the land known as the “West Bank.” “Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements,” by Jennifer Hansler, Nicole Gaouette and Jeremy Diamond, CNN, November […]
Pompeo Says the Taliban Must ‘Behave’ — But They Won’t
My latest in PJ Media: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday: “If the Taliban don’t behave, if they don’t deliver on the commitments that they’ve made to us now for weeks, and in some cases months, the president is not going to reduce the pressure, we’re not going to reduce our support for the […]