The two major forces in the history of Islam have been Arabia and Turkey. Islam arose in Arabia, in less than a decade conquered a world bigger than the Roman Empire and centuries later was deposed by the Turks. The succession of the prophet, the appointment of a Caliph as leader of Islam, move[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
May 7th, 2015 - 10:01 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS: Turkey and Saudi Arabia Alliance
May 6th, 2015 - 9:15 am § in America
BLACK RACISM .. on FACEBOOK
Anyone who thinks that only “white” folks are racists should spend a bit of time on Facebook. Here is a post that just appeared. The thread began with my (apparently) irritating post of a picture of the remarkable Miss Israel from 2013. This lady is an officer in the Israeli Defe[...]
Israeli Hero
StandWithUs Israeli Soldiers’ Stories IDF res. Ashager gives a shout out to her little brother currently serving in the IDF in honor of #NationalSiblingsDay: “I want to give a shout out to my little bro serving in the #IDF Protecting the citizens of Israel”[...]
Bani Sadr: An Iranian President Sees The Lausanne Agreement as a Major Blow to Iran’s Theocratic Rulers.
For the US, the news is very good. For Israel, not so much. The Global Post has a very important interview with Abolhassan Bani-Sadr:, the first President of the Iranian Republic. Bani-Sadr was forced to into exile because his views on the US were too moderate for the radicals who had fermented [...]
April 2nd, 2015 - 11:57 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Response to a UW Prof: In Support of Free Speech
Michael Goldberg Commenting on a furor avout Steve Salaita speaking next Monday on UW campus The overarching lesson for me about the Salaita case was how little interested those on either side seemed to be about attempting to move towards a vision of two democratic states peacefully co-existing, a v[...]
March 31st, 2015 - 8:32 am § in Misc.
The Freedom to Read The Torah
Bibi Netanyahu has told heads of the haredi political parties that women will not be allowed to read from the Torah at the wiling wall. WoW won the right to pray at the Western Wall in accordance with their own practices, such as wearing prayer shawls and tefillin, which in Orthodox Judaism is d[...]
Maybe we could give Arizona to Jews Fleeing Bibi’s Israel?
Mirel Goldenberg wrote a very depressing view of Israel under Netanyahu. Mirel is painting the future of Israel as a modern Sparta. This is the Israel warned of by Yitzhak Rabin, an Israel that chooses to define itself by war rather than peace. Bibi’s Israel would be a bitter state, not unlik[...]