Israel has been doing the above a lot lately. Not knowing how to say no to those shoving a peace of the grave “peace” deal with the “good” terrorists of Fatah rather than the “bad” ones of Hamas comes to mind for starters. And, for quite some time, it has put up with outright treason [...]

Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is slated to arrive in the United States this week to address the United Nations. Columbia University’s president, Lee Bollinger, has also extended an invitation to him to address his prestigious university. Bollinger’s colleague, Dean John Coatsworth, subsequently stated that if Hitler was alive, he’d invite him as well, primarily to [...]

My wife, Elisabeth, amazes me for many reasons. Not long ago, however, she raised a question that I had thought about before, but this time she truly shoved it onto the front burner of my brain… We’ll return to this shortly. During the 19th century, European scholars of the Middle East–German Jews in particular–were prone [...]

Imagine For One Moment that instead of Iranian artillery indiscriminately shelling Kurdish civilians across the border in Iraq, it was Israeli artillery doing likewise to Arabs in Gaza. Let’s step back a bit. For weeks now, Iran has been shelling Kurdish villages in Iraq, supposedly because it fears that Iranian Kurds, who wish for autonomy [...]