You do not make peace with enemies. You make peace with former enemies. ======= In the history of political clichés, has there ever been one quite so misjudged as the line—some version of which is attributed either to Israel’s martyred Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin or fabled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan—that “you make peace with your enemies, not with your friends”? OK, “give peace... Read more
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Exterminating Christians in the Middle East
August 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Religious Persecution, Western CivilizationAnd where is the USA????? =========== By Robert R. Reilly WSJ Aug. 20, 2015 7:19 p.m. Recently I saw a riveting new play, “My Report to the World: The Story of Jan Karski.” In 1943 Karski, a member of the Polish Catholic underground, was the first eyewitness to the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi concentration camp to reach the U.S. He sought to... Read more
Wins in the War on Terror
June 17 | Posted by mrossol | ISIS, Middle East, Radical IslamThe Kurdish advance in Syria is more important than drone kills, and no one is surprised that the Kurds were able to do it. ============== The U.S. scored a noteworthy victory last week when an American missile killed Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the longtime leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the global organization’s Number Two. Coupled with unconfirmed reports that an... Read more
Helping our Friends?
May 29 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, ObamaI would be surprised…. ====== y Mario Loyola May 29, 2015 6:24 p.m. As the fight to retake Ramadi from Islamic State, also known as ISIS, heats up, I can’t help thinking of my visit to the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province nearly eight years ago, and of America’s broken promises since then. In September 2007, I was in Ramadi for a gathering... Read more
‘Headscarves and Hymens’
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Losing Freedom, Middle EastWhere is the Left on behalf of women? ================= By Bari Weiss April 27, 2015 7:22 p.m. ET If you are cursed to be born a girl in Egypt, there is a 90% chance you will have your genitals cut in the name of purity. In Yemen, there is a 55% chance you will never learn to read and a 79% chance you... Read more
Israel Alone
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle EastSad day for sure. ==== By Bret Stephens April 20, 2015 7:37 p.m. ET 1125 COMMENTS Recent conversations with senior Israeli officials are shot through with a sense of incredulity. They can’t understand what’s become of U.S. foreign policy. They don’t know how to square Barack Obama’s promises with his policies. They fail to grasp how a president who pledged to work toward the abolition... Read more
