As America approached its national holiday this year, Israel and world Jewry were plunged into mourning for three students who were abducted and murdered by members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas. Thirty-eight years ago, on July 4, 1976, jubilation greeted the news that an Israeli commando raid had freed 102 fellow citizens held hostage by Palestinian terrorists at an... Read more
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ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical IslamDon’t think this cannot come home to roost in America. ===== Iraqi antiquities officials are calling on the Obama administration to save Nineveh and other sites around jihadist-occupied Mosul. But are drone strikes really the answer? PARIS — More than two and a half millennia ago, the Assyrian King Senaccherib descended on his enemies “like the wolf on the fold,” as the Bible... Read more
Where are the Palestinian Mothers?
July 2 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical Islam, The LeftVery tough for me to understand the mindset, thought process, etc. I have tried. ============= In March 2004 a Palestinian teenager named Hussam Abdo was spotted by Israeli soldiers behaving suspiciously as he approached the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank. Ordered at gunpoint to raise his sweater, the startled boy exposed a suicide vest loaded with nearly 20 pounds of explosives... Read more
US Personnel Required to “Bow” to Muslim practice during Ramadan?
June 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Radical Islam, US ConstitutionGideons can no longer distribute Bibles to service men/women, but all US service men/women will be required to adhere- more or less -to Muslim traditions during Ramadan. “A stricter practice of separation of ‘church and state'”. Say, what?!! The ACLU’s position on this is, er, ….. Not sure they have gone public with their opposition just yet. ================ MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. personnel... Read more
Fouad Ajami on America and the Arabs
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Radical IslamSome exerpts from a very good thinker and writer. =============== Editor’s note: Fouad Ajami, the Middle Eastern scholar and a contributor to these pages for 27 years, died Sunday at age 68. Excerpts from his writing in the Journal are below, and a related editorial appears nearby: “A Tangled History,” a review of Bernard Lewis’s book, “Islam and the West,” June 24, 1993: The... Read more
Obama’s Iraq Feint
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamHe fooled Americans with a promise of change and transparency. Is his real goal offering the US to Islam in exchange for “Supreme Islam Ruler of the World”? ======================= So President Obama now says he will send “up to 300” military advisers to Iraq to help reverse the advance of al Qaeda, but not to do any fighting. He may agree... Read more
