When Obama took office, his first phone call to a foreign leader was to the head of a terrorist group. “This is my first phone call to a foreign leader,” Obama told the PLO’s Abbas. “And I’m making it only hours after I took office.” Obama repeatedly bent, twisted and mutilated existing laws to keep […]
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The Ghetto Jew and Israel
Daniel Greenfield | SultanKnish Zionism was never limited to physically living in Israel. Jews have always lived in Israel. Nor is it limited to Jewish self-government. The ghetto was also a form of Jewish self-government in which Jews oppressed other Jews in order to avoid upsetting the powers outside the ghetto. An Israeli ghetto whose […]
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The Green Socialists of Mars
We live in a strange world in which the weather is a subject of furious political debate. People have been arguing about the weather ever since the first rainstorm caught the first man without the umbrella that he did not yet know how to make, but they didn’t hold political debates over it. For the […]
Noisy Room Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix incorporating the hammer and sickle symbol during a meeting at the presidential palace in La Paz. (screen shot) To my Catholic friends, while I am loathe to criticize that which they hold dear, there comes a time when silence is the wrong answer. When […]