"Best of the Web Today's" James Taranto points out this story regarding an Al Qaeda plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Taranto then makes the following astute observation: Is this because the Vatican is too pro-Israel, or because of the troops it stations in Saudi Arabia? Most of us get it. Arab terrorists (or […]
That's what Yasser Arafat's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade discovered earlier this week. Apparently some intern in the Brigades' office was working hard, trying to make a good impression on his bosses. He thought, "I'll just try and get ahead on all these press releases I have to write taking credit for our suicide bombings." Then, when […]
U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley was gunned down yesterday as he walked to his car outside his home in Amman, Jordan. Authorities have said that they are looking for a lone white male driving a white van with a ladder on top.
The National Review Online has an excellent letter from an Iranian student on what the people of Iran really want. Iranians, as a people, do not have problems with Western civilization. We are Muslims, but our sense of Iranian national identity dwarfs any religious identity we hold. We are proud heirs of a once-great civilization […]
The New York Times' Thomas Friedman takes on the liberal college-driven divestiture campaign against Israel and calls it what it is -- hypocrisy and anti-Semitism. Memo to professors and students leading the divestiture campaign: Your campaign for divestiture from Israel is deeply dishonest and hypocritical, and any university that goes along with it does not […]
So sayeth the Union-Tribune's James Goldsborough in his Monday column. While making some well-considered points regarding the recent 10-day siege of Arafat's compound by Israeli forces, Goldsborough systematically ignores the plight of Israeli civilians who face suicide bomb attacks on an almost-daily basis. Not only is America nearing the brink of war with Iraq, but […]
Interesting op-ed piece by Max Boot (what a cool name) over at The Washington Post. It's entitled "Doctrine of the Big Enchilada."
The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn offers the latest update in the Saudis holding American citizens against their will.
Al Gore's ritualistic political suicide with his speech last week to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco continues to draw fire. Former Secretary of Education, Bill Bennett wrote an excellent article on Gore's speech over at OpinionJournal.com. As a U.S. senator, Mr. Gore backed the resolution to go to war with Iraq in 1991, and […]
I spotted this item last week over at National Review Online, but never got around to addressing it. A piece by Kathryn Jean Lopez takes Congress to task for considering a bill "allowing American servicewomen and other Prince Sultan airbase personnel to go off base without the attire the kingdom of Saudi Arabia requires all […]