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By ignoring the honor-shame dynamic in Arab political culture, is the West keeping itself from making headway toward peace?

The missing teen, son of Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe columnist, has been found safe. Other reports say he was found in New York City. One blog says Times Square area.

Caleb Jacoby is the son of Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby and his wife Laura. Caleb Jacoby, the son of Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, has been reported missing. Police searching for missing Brookline teen Brookline police are searching for a missing teenager. His mother told NewsCenter 5 that her son left for school Monday, but never arrived at the Maimonides School in Brookline that he attends. Images of missing teen [at the link] Caleb, 16, is known to frequent public libraries and Temple Young Israel on Green Street in Brookline, police said. Caleb is 5 feet 11 inches tall,...

Suit in the International Criminal Court Alleges Involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood. They know of what they speak. Soon the American public will stop believing the siren call of the media that fronts for Obama's terrorist supporting actions.

American military intervention in Syria is likely to begin this week, and one thing we know amid the general confusion is that the objective is not to oust Bashar Assad: . .... How the Obama Administration plans to deal with Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons without challenging his grip on power is unclear, but then again, so is everything else about this misadventure. Epitomizing the muddle surrounding the likely attack on Syria was former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair is several months too late. Syria is already a breeding ground for “extremism.” The New York Times reported no...

The outrage of Dominican religious leaders to the Obama administration’s appointment of a homosexual activist as ambassador to the country has sparked a call for a nation-wide protest, dubbed "Black Monday," to take place July 15. Christian leaders are asking people to wear a black arm band, to show a black banner or ribbon on cars, or to dress entirely in black on Monday, to show that the public rejects the US State Department's promotion of its homosexual agenda in their country. ... Church leaders are saying that his appointment is an insult to the moral sense of the country's...

America at Crossroads: Operation Hot Mic. Here what Obama wants Vladimir Putin to know off the record.

The recent executive director of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations' South Florida chapter is a founder and spokesman of Occupy Miami, WND has learned. Mohammad Malik currently is as an activist with several other Islamic groups. He has led hate-filled anti-Israel protests in which participants were filmed wearing Hamas paraphernalia while chanting "Nuke Israel" and "Go back to the oven" – a reference to Jews being killed in the Holocaust. Malik has been widely quoted in the Florida news media in recent weeks speaking for Occupy Miami. The Miami Herald identified Malik as one of the organizers of Occupy's...

Department of Justice Challenges South Carolina's Immigration Law: Complaint Cites Conflict with Federal Enforcement of Immigration Laws WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice challenged South Carolina’s recently passed immigration law, Act No. 69, in federal court today. In a complaint, filed in the District of South Carolina, the department states that certain provisions of Act No. 69, as enacted by the state on June 27, 2011, are unconstitutional and interfere with the federal government’s authority to set and enforce immigration policy, explaining that “the Constitution and federal law do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local...

When the White House posted online an image of President Obama's purported long-form birth certificate, it also linked to the previously circulated "Certification of Live Birth," the short-form version that had been presented as the only birth documentation available. However, the short-form certificate to which the White House linked April 27 was a forgery, claims computer expert Ron Polland, Ph.D., who says he made the image himself. "I made the birth certificate image that was given to the media at the White House press conference held on April 27, 2011," Polland told WND. Jerome Corsi's book, "Where's the Birth Certificate?"...

It is doubtful that there has ever been a more miserable human refuse than Jewish survivors after WWII. Starving, emaciated, stateless—they were not welcomed back by countries where they had lived for generations as assimilated and educated citizens. Germany was no place to return to and in Kielce, Poland, 40 Jews who survived the Holocaust were killed in a pogrom one year after the war ended. The European Jew, circa 1945, quickly went from victim to international refugee disaster. Yet within a very brief time, this epic calamity disappeared, so much so that few people today even remember the period....

Let's return the bored Obama wind up toy to the the box where he came from.

Primary source footage of Jerusalem and its history and archaeology. Interviews with Jews who were expelled from the Old City and whose family members were killed by Arabs in 1948. Jerusalem was divided for only 19 years of its thousands of years being an undivided Jewish city. For those 19 years Jordan treated the part of Jerusalem it held like a cesspool and would not allow any Jews to go there. There is no such place as "Arab East Jerusalem," despite media's use of this misnomer.

Dear Prime Minister, I was interested to read that, when you met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, you said: ‘Britain is a good friend of Israel and our support for Israel and Israel's security is something I have described in the past, and will do so again, as unshakeable.’ I wonder, therefore, if you make a habit of threatening your friends? For you also said that unless Israel ‘engages seriously in a meaningful peace process’ with the Palestinian Authority, the more likely it is that Britain will endorse the ‘State of Palestine’ for which the PA is expected...

Zuhdi Jasser is a respected Arizona-based doctor of internal medicine and nuclear cardiology, formerly a lieutenant-commander in the US Navy and attending physician to the US Congress. As founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, he is also one of the most controversial Muslims in the United States. Jasser, raised in Wisconsin by Syrian immigrant parents, describes himself as a devout Sunni Muslim, but his organization’s unyielding battle against political Islam has placed him in the crosshairs of groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Center of America, which he says have failed to...

Egyptian Revolution Blues - by Sandy Cash

In our White House, it's no crime to be clueless. But It's no great honor either.

... I was floored to see just how bad it was when I was researching Dupes, and, specifically, digging into the Soviet Comintern Archives on Communist Party USA, where TNR frequents the files.... here are just a few examples from those opening decades, smack in the middle of Lenin’s and Stalin’s unholy rampage: From the outset, TNR peddled gibberish on Bolshevism.... it's no surprise that numerous TNR editors, regulars, and contributors did pilgrimage to the Soviet Motherland, where they were paraded from Potemkin village to Potemkin village by master manipulators. From the likes of Lincoln Steffens to John Dewey, they...

.... According to Holder, in the last two years, 50 of the 126 people charged with terrorism were U.S. citizens. . . . . . . .the fact that Americans are being radicalized not only bodes ill for U.S. security; it also suggests that American efforts in the Muslim world are doomed to failure. Consider: if American Muslims, who enjoy Western benefits—including democracy, liberty, prosperity, and freedom of expression—are still being radicalized, why then do we insist that importing these same benefits to the Muslim world will eliminate its even more ingrained form of "radicalization"? After all, the mainstream position,...

Israeli athlete wins gold medal in ceremony in Poland. Iranian athlete behaves like an anti-semitic spoilsport.