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Blaming Israel for evil, rather than her many Islamic neighbors and enemies, is -- despite the views of Obama and His colleagues -- contrary to American values. Doing so is based on Jew hatred, envy of success, and the multicultural absurdity that no culture or religion is better or worse than any other. As I argued most recently here and here, Israel is fighting for her survival against regimes that want her to cease to exist because she is Jewish, not Islamic, and her government is free and democratic, not dictatorial. She is, therefore, an outsider in the Middle East. This video identifies many of the reasons why Israel is viewed harshly by other Western civilizations while Islamic nations, which...

After Arab MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash) said Israel is like the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, and Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat likened the Jewish state and “Islamic state,” Arab MK Ibrahim Sarsour (Ra’am-Ta’al) has now raised the bar. Sarsour, who heads his Arab Islamist party, was asked what its position is on ISIS by Prof. Marwan Dwairy of the Oranim Academic College located near Haifa. According to the Arab member of Israel’s Knesset, Israel is “crueler” than the brutal jihadist regime. […] “We support one united state in the Arab world as preparation for one united state...

Does anyone know who the real enemy is any more? There is going to be more news of slaughters in the Middle East because the Islamic State is going to challenge every nation there. Assad retains control over an estimated 40-60% of Syria. Iraq has been halved with just the south remaining. Lebanon will likely fall under IS control and that is bad news for the Christians who have lived there for centuries. Jordan is girding for an attack. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are watching the situation with increasing apprehension. The Islamic State has been officially designated as...

A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or ‘defame' Islam. In a new resolution circulated at a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 11, a paper entitled "Combating Defamation of Religions" was circulated ahead of the Council's next meeting on March 26-27, when the resolution will be voted on. Though the 57 nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a bloc which also dominates the UN's Human Rights Council, have been lobbying for the move since 1999, the signs...

Islamic countries, preparing to hold an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss the Mideast crisis, want to ensure that Muslim countries participate in any multinational force deployed in Lebanon. The government of Malaysia, which chairs the 57-member Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), says the bloc will likely call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hizballah. It also will demand the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force that must include OIC members, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Representatives from at least 17 member states plan to attend the meeting in the Malaysian administrative capital of Putrajaya. They include...

Israel plays up Hamas links to Chechen separatists By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Outraged by Moscow's overtures to Hamas, Israel has told its diplomats to play up alleged ties between the Palestinian militants and Chechens fighting to break away from Russia, Israeli political sources said on Monday. They said the Foreign Ministry supplied embassies in Russia and elsewhere with an information pamphlet linking the Hamas and Chechen causes after Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week he wanted to invite leaders of the Islamic group to visit. Putin's move raised hackles in Israel and the United States by challenging...

Visiting Speaker of Bosnia's House of Representatives Nikola Spiric leading a parliamentary delegation conferred here Sunday with Majlis Speaker Gholam-ali Haddad Adel on expansion of parliamentary cooperation between the two countries. According to the Press Bureau and Public Relations Department of Majlis, at the meeting, Haddad Adel expressed the hope that the current visit of Bosnian parliamentary delegation would result in all-out expansion of mutual cooperation mainly in parliamentary affairs. Referring to Iran's economic and commercial capabilities, he voiced the readiness of the Iranian government and Majlis to expand relations between the two countries. Given the restoration of peace and...