Columbia’s Catastrophic “Nakba” Conference

comment by Jerry Gordon

The new Palestinian ploy is to trash Israel on the 60th Anniversary by trying to focus the media’s attention on ‘Nakba’- the Disaster referring to the Arab defeat during Israel’s War for Independence in 1948-1949 and the flight of refugees. Of course there were several more ‘nakbas’ meaning the Wars that Israel [...]

Rochester (NY) Yemenis charged with money laundering for Hezbollah

comment by Jerry Gordon

A tip of the chapeau to Barbara T for this story. Yesterday in Rochester, NY it was the matter of the Muslim woman 911 operator hit with felony charges on misuse of state police and FBI databases. Today, it is the arraignment of three Yemenis for money laundering-they sent $12.3 million in [...]

Olmert and Israel Agonistes

by Jerry Gordon

The blood sport in Israeli politics has turned serious. Knesset Members increasingly cry out for Olmert’s resignation as the gag order is lifted and more revelations come out about the Talansky dealings. NU-NRP M.K. Arieh Eldad and his colleague Uri Ariel had these telling comments in today”s Jerusalem Post article, MK’s Call for [...]

Vatican Flypaper May Entrap Shia Iran

by Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast, May 8, 2008

Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein, noted theologian, distinguished university professor of comparative religion and former University president is among the few academics who ‘get it’ about the threat of radical Islam. He sent a number of us an interesting article about a recent Vatican encounter with Shia clerics [...]