Here are some thoughts, cartoons and youtube video’s on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy. In these days, the issue of the Muslim decision to build a mosque near the place where the crime of… Continue reading
De resultaten van deze opiniepeiling geven aan dat er een grote kloof bestaat tussen het Midden-Oosten zoals het werkelijk is en het Midden-Oosten zoals veel Westerse politici en de Westerse media het ons… Continue reading
Since September 11 2001, the crusades are news and are quite possibly the most misunderstood event in European history. So, what do the medieval crusades have to do with… Continue reading
There are two ways of looking at General Stanley McChrystal’s interviews with Rolling Stone magazine: one is to focus on whether he should have said such things, the other is to analyze the important truths he unveiled. Here, I’m going to look at… Continue reading
The elections to the UN Human Rights Council brought onto that body such human rights’ violators as Libya, Angola, Malaysia, and Uganda. Indeed, 80 percent of UN members, thought the Qadhafi dictatorship… Continue reading
“Barack Hussein Obama is merely doing what he thinks is necessary… and he will continue doing it as long as it keeps him in power…” Continue reading
Today a post from the Dry Bones blog. The comparison between Obama and Carter is captious and discouraging at the same time… Continue reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held marathon meetings with the six most powerful ministers to come up with a course of action that will satisfy the US, particularly Secretary of State Hillary Clinton… Continue reading
Yesterday, I read an interesting article from Barry Rubin about the double standard the world is showing against Israel. It reminded me of a discussion I had with a dutch (socialist) parliamentarian, Martijn van Dam, a while ago… Continue reading
The Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace is a peace treaty signed in 1994. The treaty normalized relations between the two countries and resolved territorial disputes between them. Its signing is also closely linked with the efforts to create peace between Israel and… Continue reading
In a CNSNews.com report U.S. President Obama characterized Turkey as “a great country” and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “as a personal friend”. Obama said also that he was optimistic about the prospect of “stronger and stronger” bilateral ties in the future. According to Obama Turkey could be “an important player” in efforts to prod Iran to keep its nuclear program peaceful. But in saying this, questions arise about Obama’s… Continue reading
The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran’s government in 1953 offers an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans. Written in 1954 by one of the coup’s chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran’s elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist… Continue reading
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books… Continue reading
Could it really be that the United States spent decades cultivating Islamists? And that it manipulated and double-crossed them, cynically using and misusing them as Cold War allies? And that all of this spawned a force that turned against its sponsor with a vengeance… Continue reading
Recently several statements have been made by senior members of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority regarding plans to unilaterally declare the establishment of a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital, and to that end to appeal to the the Security Council… Continue reading
On 11 november 2009 a small group of demonstraters are waiting on the arrival of Israels Minister of foreign affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Amsterdam. They are yelling slogans as “Lieberman – Doberman” and “Intifada.” Lieberman was invited by the CIDI to give a speech about Israels policy on foreign affairs and he said rather cynical at the beginning of his speech that… Continue reading
Watch these video’s and listen to what Wafa Sultan has to say about Islam. If you hear what influence the Islam has on the minds of the ordinary people, do you still really believe that Israël is the agressor in the middle east or are they trying to survive in the harsh enviroment called ‘Dar al-Harb = house of war’… Continue reading
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