President Obama devoted the bulk of his U.N. speech to the fight violent Islamic extremism and all but ignored the subject of Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran’s nuclear pursuits were a major focus of Obama’s address last year at the U.N. General Assembly, but at this year’s General Assembly, Iran got just a couple of lines…
New York City politicians and religious leaders on Tuesday criticized a series of anti-Islam advertisements due to appear on 100 city buses, with many critics calling for the campaign to be blocked. Melissa Mark-Viverito, the speaker of the City Council, and Comptroller Scott Stringer joined a rally outside City Hall organized by the Arab American…
French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia made an urgent plea to Europe to defend non-Muslims in the Middle East, whom he likened to Holocaust victims. Speaking Sunday at the Grand Synagogue in Paris at a commemoration for Holocaust victims, Korsia cited the Yazidis’ plight in Iraq as an example of a minority group in need of…
The Israel Air Force shot down a Syrian warplane that infiltrated Israeli airspace. The plane crossed the border Tuesday morning. The Israel Air Force fired a Patriot anti-aircraft missile at the warplane, hitting it and shooting it down, according to the IDF. The breach of Israel’s border with Syria “is a continuation of the growing…
The jihadist group ISIS called on its followers to attack U.S. citizens and said President Obama was a “mule of the Jews.” ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani issued a statement that said the coalition led by the United States against ISIS was the “final campaign of the crusaders.” “It will be broken and defeated, just…
Drek’s ISIS-inspired party poster / Facebook Advertising is a tough business. People are busy. Getting them to come out to your event can be hard. But does that justify using ISIS imagery to gain publicity for your party? Tel Aviv’s popular gay party organizers, Drek, apparently think so. In recent advertising, they used imagery from…
If there’s one thing we should have learned from the 20th century, it’s that wars are wicked, murderous affairs that defile the spirit of humankind. That despite this universal truth, there are some wars that must be fought, as wicked as they might be, because the alternative is even more unspeakable. And that some other…
Something absolutely astonishing is going on right now in northern Syria along the Turkish border: refugees streaming on foot across the barbed-wire frontier by the tens of thousands, fleeing the advance of the terrorist army known as the Islamic State. As many as 100,000 refugees, mostly Kurds, have crossed the border in the past week…
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