Copyright 2013 Gatestone Institute Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:01:02 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Gatestone Institute :: Writings http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org webmaster@gatestoneinstitute.org (Gatestone Institute) webmaster@gatestoneinstitute.org en-us http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3766/religious-war-middle-east Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:00:00 EST Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been doing a lot of soul-searching these days. He has been assessing his options and those of his terrorist organization and wondering about the outcome. Despite his usual smug boasts, in his last speech he could not http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3774/erdogan-gift-to-turkey Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 EST The Turkish Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Bağış, has declared that Prime Minister Erdoğan is a gift sent by God to Turkey and to humanity. But what do half the Turkish electorate do – as well as the rest of humanity – when the gift is unwanted? There http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3776/hassan-rouhani-quotes Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:30:00 EST The following are excerpts from interviews with Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani, all within the last three weeks, in Asharq Al-Awsat and a few live television debates with the other candidates in Iran's recent election: Iran's nuclear program and http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3773/rouhani-iran-nuclear-program Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:00:00 EST The Iranians are the best strategists in the Middle East, better than those in the West, and the reason the Iranians constantly succeed in out-maneuvering the West. In the West, we constantly look for ways not to engage in military conflict; the Iranians http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3767/beheading-koran Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:00:00 EST "So when you meet in Jihad in Allah's cause those who disbelieve, smite their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them…" — Surat 47, al-Qital (The Killing), Ayat 4 The May 12 canonization by Pope Francis of more than 800 Catholics http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3775/hassan-rouhani Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:00:00 EST The eleventh Iranian elections are over but were not really open and fair. No election can be fair when the candidates have been handpicked and propped up by one man: the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The entire event, mostly a show for international http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3769/iran-rouhani-moderate Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:00:00 EST The 686 men who expressed their desire to run in Iran's presidential election were whittled down to 8 -- not by primaries, debates and polls, but by the six theologians and six jurists on the Guardian Council. The candidates had to be Iranian-born, over http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3765/prominent-british-charity-linked-to-hamas Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:00 EST Britain's leading Jewish newspaper, The Jewish Chronicle, issued an apology recently to Human Appeal International, a British charity with a number of worldwide affiliated branches, all particularly active in the Palestinian territories. The apology was http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3763/national-defense-jihad-ideology Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:00:00 EST Counterterrorism expert Patrick Poole has compiled a meticulously-documented record of disastrous U.S. policy behavior that is as chilling as it is comprehensive. In "Blind Terror: The U.S. Government's Muslim Outreach Efforts and the Impact on U.S. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3762/propaganda-war Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:00:00 EST In 2000, a French television station, France 2, broadcast footage of a gunfight between Palestinian terrorists and Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Caught in the middle, a father shields his young son, Mohammed, as bullets rake the air around them. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3761/palestinian-authority-terror Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:00:00 EST Until recently, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank used to arrest Palestinians who criticized its leaders, especially Mahmoud Abbas. But now the Palestinian Authority has resumed using thugs to break the bones of its critics. It is an easy and http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3758/new-iran-crisis Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:00:00 EST At a time when news headlines from the Middle East are dominated by battles in Syria, growing Sunni-Shi'ite conflict in Iraq and Lebanon, and mass disturbances in Turkey, it is easy to forget about Iran's nuclear program; but early warning indicators are http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3760/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:30:00 EST The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. A new report states that 70% of Christians killed around the world in 2012 were killed in that African nation. Among some of the atrocities committed in March alone, at http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3759/middle-eastern-hornets-nest Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:00:00 EST "Islamophobia" is a word about which we have heard plenty over the last decade. It can include saying anything about Muslim behavior, Muslim scripture or Muslim history of which any Muslim anywhere disapproves. If you say that you do not think that http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3757/missile-defense-new-york-times Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:00:00 EST In nearly two thousand stories and editorials since President Reagan identified missile defense as a critical new capability needed for America's security, the New York Times has rarely found anything positive to say about America's first line of defense