As usual, Carolyn Glick gets to the point. This is not only of interest to those of us who follow Israeli politics and wonder why in the world Olmert and his cronies are still in office, but its lessons can apply to those of us still in the US, as well.

David Landau, editor of [...]

The US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, published in December, 2007 caused a major stir and serious reconsiderations among American allies in the Mideast and elsewhere by saying that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and was not likely to develop nuclear weapons in the forseeable future.

Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter has declared that all Jewish prayer, even the silent moving of lips, is illegal on the Temple Mount.

by Nadia Matar
I dreamed a dream. I dreamed about a fly who understood human speech. In my dream I see the fly coming through a window into the Prime Minister’s residence, where it encounters Ehud Olmert and his guest, President Shimon Peres. This is the conversation between those two Israeli leaders:
Shimon Peres:
Listen, Ehud, Abu Mazen [...]

Bolsheviks and Islam part 2: Sharia Law
Alliance for Workers Liberty5 March, 2004
Islamism
Gerry Byrne continues an examination of the relationship between the Russian Bolshevik Party that made the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Islamic subject states of the Tsarist empire they inherited. What, if anything, can it teach us about socialists’ relationship to Islam today?
The [...]

Bolsheviks and Islam Part 3: Islamic communism
Alliance for Workers Liberty17 March, 2004
Islamism
Gerry Byrne continues an examination of the relationship between the Russian Bolshevik Party that made the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Islamic subject states of the Tsarist empire they inherited. What, if anything, can it teach us about socialists’ relationship to [...]

The Bolsheviks and Islam
Alliance for Workers Liberty 25 February, 2004
Islamism
Gerry Byrne begins an examination of the relationship between the Russian Bolshevik Party that made the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Islamic subject states of the Tsarist empire they inherited. What, if anything, can it teach us about socialists’ relationship to Islam today?
“Rewriting history” is [...]

The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
As published by the London Review of Books on March 23, 2006
For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to [...]

The Israeli Department of Antiquities demanded that the Islamic Wakf cease digging with heavy equipment and at night. At this point the purposeful destruction of the remnants of the Second Temple is continuing.

Over 100 Arabs and their supporters, including the mayor of Ramallah, Israeli and foreign leftists, and Arab journalists representing foreign news agencies marched to a Jewish vineyard and destroyed it.

Memri recently published yet another valuable article, which is included below. Iran and Syria appear to be moving to the next stage of their takeover of Lebanon, and many signs point to this beginning soon after July 15, 2007, as explained in the Memri article.
The intention of Iran and its ally, Russia, is obvious. The [...]