The Lion's Den

What is it about Jewish organizations that they acclaim their opponents?

Things have never been so good in the Jewish state.

By all accounts, the mullahs in Tehran are getting ever closer to the point where they at will can order nuclear bombs to be made and readied for use.

Unlike nearby Israel, which is also surrounded, Cyprus lacks either a military option or protective fences.

The AWACS Israel is selling to Turkey will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.

Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.

Both law enforcement, the media and elected officials are reluctant to give out information about the attackers' religion, much less their motives.

The Nation of Islam's historic role as a bridge between American blacks and Islam ended in 1975 when W. Deen Mohammed followed his father, Elijah Muhammad, as leader of the Nation and immediately disavowed his father's folk religion, bringing his followers to normative Islam, the Islam of the Middle East. From then on, despite the theatrics of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation has been in a long downward trajectory. Now comes evidence, thanks to Tony Ortega in the Village Voice and Eliza Gray in The New Republic, of a jaw-dropping turn by Farrakhan, 79, to Scientology; as Gray's subtitle puts it, "America's two weirdest sects join forces."

If Hamas knows it cannot defeat the Israel Defense Forces and will get a bloody nose for its efforts, it obviously has motives other than victory in mind.

Other characteristically Muslim crimes taking place in Western countries include honor killings, female genital mutilation, and slave holding.

Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.

Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.

The military has grown so large because of preferential tax treatment, subsidized labor, an extra-legal status, and old-boy networks.

As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister

You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.

Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."

"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."

History and human nature say yes.

What a launch for Kerry, whose mental vapidity promises to make Hillary Clinton actually look good in retrospect.

Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.

Barack Obama has a weak record in the Middle East, but one would not learn this from the debate, where Mitt Romney praised Obama's achievements ("It's wonderful that Libya seems to be making some progress"), agreed with Obama more than he disagreed, and rarely pointed out his failings. Presumably, Romney took this mild approach to establish his likability, competence, and suitability to serve as commander-in-chief.

Odd that CUFI is out there swinging and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is silent.

His singular foreign policy accomplishment, trumpeted ad nauseam, was the execution of Osama bin Laden.

Special Ops used to be about capturing or killing enemies; now it's about shaping public opinion.

It will be a long, hard road to traverse, but there is no short cut and it can succeed.

Both Salafis and mild reformers have gained strength.

Secure Freedom Radio Originally published at Daniel Pipes

One must expect future non-suicide bombers to turn to niqabs or burqas, as many terrorists and criminals have repeatedly done.

In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.

The point of having embassies in the first place is for them to remain open...