“Islamism is the sole growing, developing, and truly popular populist ideology in the Middle East,” wrote House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Director Yossef Bodansky in 1999. His book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, documented the enduring appeal in Muslim-majority societies of Islam as a political system as opposed […]
No US ‘investment’ has paid such large and steady dividends as the investment made in Israel
Israel has shared its experiences in fighting terrorism with the U.S. It was the first country that had to plan and execute a long-distance commando raid against terrorists, long before the Navy Seals’ night-time raid, thousands of miles from home, on Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Yoram Ettinger offers more evidence of Israel […]
Iran’s Rouhani: ‘Trump’s fate will be no better than Saddam’s fate,’ as Saddam ended up ‘hanging from the gallows’
Iran has become confident and emboldened. The jihadist regime of Iran is salivating at the thought of a Biden administration, during which it is confident that it will have free rein to expand its global adventurism. In its view, America will now “bow” and sanctions against it will end, as the disastrous nuclear deal is […]
In Iraq, Stirrings of an “Ungrateful Volcano”
Perhaps you remember all those high hopes once expressed by Americans for bringing democracy to “ordinary moms and dads” in Iraq, as President George Bush called them. America would not only topple Saddam Hussein, and play its famous game of fifty-two pickup – that is, bring to justice the 52 top figures in his regime […]
Saddam Hussein bribed Jacques Chirac with $6,150,000 to get France to oppose the Iraq War
Chirac was right to oppose the war, which was directed at the wrong foe, one who had not attacked us on 9/11. It failed to confront the real causes of the 9/11 jihad attacks, which have still not been confronted. But the really interesting aspect of this story is that it raises another question: how […]
26 Muslim Scholars Denounce “Fascist” Israel, Claim Jerusalem Will Be Capital of a New Caliphate (Part 1)
A group of Muslim “scholars” in the U.K. has issued a joint letter condemning what they call “fascist” Israel. Breitbart has the story: Twenty-six “Muslim scholars” based in Britain have called for “fascist” Israel to be returned to the Arabs, and expressed their hope that “Jerusalem will be the capital of the Islamic Caliphate when […]
How Trump Can Help Persecuted Christians and Protect Americans with One Move
During a recent interview on CBN, President Trump was asked if he thinks America should prioritize persecuted Christians as refugees. He responded: Yes. Yes, they’ve been horribly treated. If you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, or at least very, very tough, to get into the United States. If you were a Muslim […]
Christians facing extinction in Iraq at the hands of jihadist warriors
The Christian population in Iraq has now diminished to an alarming 50,000 to 250,000, compared with 1.4 million in 2003. They were either massacred by jihadists or abducted. Christians have faced being forced to convert to Islam, pay a high living tax (jizya, mandated in the Qur’an) to the Islamic State, or abandon their ancestral […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Was Trump Right that the Iraq War Was “A Big Fat Mistake”?
TRUMP: Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake. All right? Now, you can take it any way you want, and it took — it took Jeb Bush, if you remember at the beginning of his announcement, when he announced for president, it took him five days….. –at the Republican debate […]