UCI on TwitterPreserving Israel at the Eleventh Hour
Louis René Beres, PhD - The Jewish Press, August 26th, 2010Faced with the daunting prospect of seemingly endless terrorism, and with staggering global opposition to any of its essential and altogether permissible forms of self-defense, Israel now requires a complex and capable counter-terrorism strategy merely to survive.
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Why Does Obama Keep Apologizing?
Moshe Dann - History News Network, August 30th, 2010President Obama's defense of the right of Muslims to build a mosque and Islamic center in New York City turned the issue into one of religious freedom. That was wrong.
Obama's first priority—like that of every national leader—is to speak for his country and on their behalf.
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Israel to blame if talks fail over settlements issue: Abbas
Associated Free Press - Yahoo! News, August 29th, 2010
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A Palestinian Victory
Unknown - The Wall Street Journal, August 28th, 2010...Last week, Lebanon's parliament amended a clause in a 1946 law that had been used to bar the 400,000 Palestinians living in the country from taking any but the most menial jobs. "I was born in Lebanon and I have never known Palestine," the AP quoted one 45-year-old Palestinian who works as a cab driver.
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Ground Zero imam hails Iran's Islamic revolution
Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily, August 24th, 2010
Iranians wave flags as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran on February 11, 2010. Ahmadinejad said that Iran has succeeded to produce its first batch of Uranium enriched to 20 percent.
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Obama@70/30?
Fred Barnes - The Weekly Standard, August 30th, 2010Recovery summer, opposition to Arizona’s immigration law, negative campaigning, and intervention in the Ground Zero mosque dispute—call them Obama’s Four Disasters. As policy, they’re questionable. As political exercises, they’re losers.
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Thousands brave heat to celebrate Israel in downtown Dallas
Kim Horner - The Dallas Morning News, August 22nd, 2010At an outdoor celebration of Israel on Sunday, there was plenty of live music, dancing, kosher food – and heat. But the 105-degree scorcher did not spoil the fun for the thousands who came downtown to the "Party on the Plaza: A Celebration of Israel" in front of American Airlines Center throughout the afternoon.
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The New Generation of Security Threats
Elise Cooper - American Thinker, August 25th, 2010In Newt Gingrich's latest book, To Save America, he reflects on the five potentially catastrophic threats to the United States. Gingrich lists the threats as "Terrorists with nuclear weapons, Electromagnetic pulse attack, Cyber warfare, Biological warfare, and the potential gap between Chinese and American capabilities.
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Which Side Are You On?: The 'Moderate Muslim' Litmus Test
Barry Rubin - GLORIA Center, August 27th, 2010In the controversy over the "Ground Zero" mosque in New York and other issues, Muslims are often asked if they condemn terrorism, Iran, or Hamas and other revolutionary Islamist groups, along with other questions. The idea is to determine whether they are moderates or radicals.
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Inventing Moderate Islam
Andrew C. McCarthy - National Review Online, August 24th, 2010It can’t be done without confronting mainstream Islam and its sharia agenda.
‘Secularism can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society.” The writer was not one of those sulfurous Islamophobes decried by CAIR and the professional Left.
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