Posts Tagged: Daniel Pipes
Turkey’s New Prime Minister is Erdogan’s Lackey
As Recep Tayyip Erdogan ascends Thursday to the presidency of Turkey, his hand-picked successor, Ahmet Davutoglu, simultaneously assumes Mr. Erdogan's old job of prime minister....
CNN Picketed for Anti-Israel Spin – Israel Supporters Raise Awareness of Media Bias (VIDEO)
CNN's New York City office was picketed on Thursday by throngs of Israel supporters who called out the broadcaster for the continual spin in its...
Are Millions of People Really Protesting Israel?
RT, the Russian government's news network - and successor to the Soviet-era Pravda - published an article under the extreme, attention-seeking headline, "'In our millions, we're...
Don’t Put Terrorists on Trial
The Obama Administration has brought an accused Libyan terrorist named Ahmed Abu Khattala to Washington for trial. His saga reveals how the government views the...
This Time Around, Surprising Support for Israel – Not Hamas
The current Hamas assault on Israel has lured the predictable coven of Palestinian nationalists, Islamists, Leftists, and antisemites from the woodwork to bash the Jewish...
Why Hamas Wants War
Politicians start wars optimistic about their prospects of gaining from the combat, Geoffrey Blainey notes in his masterly study, The Causes of War; otherwise, they would avoid...
ISIS Threatens to Commit Another Holocaust Against Jews
A Twitter post Thursday by supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic State (IS), has promised a Holocaust against...
One Year After Morsi, Things Look Glum in Egypt
Egyptians took to the streets in numbers never seen anywhere, ever on June 30, 2013 to protest against their Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi. Three days...
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Steady Hand Amid Middle East Chaos
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an important speech worthy of discussion when he addressed the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv on June...
One Hundred Years Ago: The Worst Day in History
A hundred years ago today, June 28, 1914, was arguably the worst day in human history. Not that anything so awful happened during those 24...
ISIS Rampages, the Middle East Trembles
The jihadis' takeover of Mosul on June 9 won them control of Iraq's second-largest city, a major haul of weapons, US$429 million in gold, an open...
Opinion: Syria’s Looming Water Catastrophe
Two reports from Beirut's Al-Akhbar point to potentially catastrophic water problems about to affect Syria. The lesser concerns Aleppo, where mortar shells and barrel bombs have slackened off...
The Trajectory of Islam
Andrew C. McCarthy and I are allies over the long term, fighting the Islamist scourge in the same trench for two decades. But alliance does...
Can Islamists Move From Totalitarianism to Democracy?
Until now, Islamist rule has implied violence and dictatorship. Can it evolve into something decent? Put differently: If the brutality of Ruhollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden marked...
