Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Passover 2012

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By Alan Caruba If you want to understand what Israelis and most Diaspora Jews think about the threats made against Israel, ask any Holoca...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Taking Hostages: Tehran in 1979 - Cairo in 2012

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American diplomats, 1979, in Tehran, Iran By Alan Caruba As someone who vividly recalls the Iranian “students” who took our diplomats h...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Not If, But When

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By Alan Caruba The Jewish sage, Hillel, said, “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” This has been interpreted to mean ...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Christianity's Triumph

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By Alan Caruba “By far the most important event in the entire rise of Christianity was the meeting in Jerusalem in around the year 50, wh...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Yom Kippur 2011 for Jews and the World

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By Alan Caruba Ever since the Yom Kippur War in 1973 in which Egypt and Syria chose the holiest day in the Jewish calendar to attack Israe...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The World is Having a Nervous Breakdown

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By Alan Caruba If one has been in the habit of reading history then the events of the past and of the present inform each other. For this...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Pakistan Conundrum

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By Alan Caruba The answer to whether Pakistan is our friend is “It depends.” That’s an apt description of U.S.-Pakistani relations over ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Five Wars, 63 Years of Terrorism, and Israel Survives

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By Alan Caruba The people who have given us bagels and lox, potato latkes, and chicken soup, in addition to the Old Testament, Albert Ein...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

The Lessons of 9/11

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By Alan Caruba October 29, 1929 is the day the stock market crashed and is generally regarded as the day the Great Depression began. In...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

No Short Term Middle East Solutions

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By Alan Caruba A problem with which American administrations have grappled since the days of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency has been Arabs...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Time to Leave Afghanistan

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By Alan Caruba The Greek philosopher Plato said, “Only the dead know the end of war.” I doubt that in the five thousand years of what we ...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Connecting the Dots

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By Alan Caruba It has long been my habit to collect and update data on all manner of issues and topics. In this era of Google and Bing, th...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

The Swirl of Conspiracy Theories

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By Alan Caruba It is testimony to how little Barack Hussein Obama and the government he heads is trusted when one considers the swirl of ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Islam: A Battle Plan to Conquer the World

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By Alan Caruba As Christians around the world celebrate Good Friday and then Easter, it behooves them to understand what the Koran, the bo...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Welcome to the Middle East. We're All Crazy Here.

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By Alan Caruba A recent Fox News channel report concerned a student from Vermont’s Middlebury College who was studying international rela...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

War for No Particular Reason

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By Alan Caruba Thanks to the Obama administration, we have now entered upon a new phase of foreign policy. It is war for no particular re...
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