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by Uzay Bulut • January 24, 2025 at 5:00 am
On January 17, Azerbaijan began trials of 16 Armenian captives... in military courtrooms, to which international media and observers have been denied access. The next court hearings are slated for January 27, during which court decisions are expected to be announced. As of now, the trials are open only to Azerbaijani state media. Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing against the Armenian people of Artsakh has been proceeding for the past four years.... Azeri soldiers posted videos and photos of themselves beheading and mutilating Armenians. "A court hearing of my case is scheduled for January 27 at 3:00 PM. I have been informed that I am facing 42 charges, some of which carry sentences up to life imprisonment. However, I have not been granted the opportunity to fully review the official indictment. My lawyer and I were merely allowed to skim through 422 volumes of the case files, all written solely in the Azerbaijani language, which I do not understand.... Moreover, pressure has been exerted on me, my lawyer, and my interpreter to force us to backdate and sign documents, including falsified protocols and records of interrogations that never took place.... Let me reiterate: all protocols bearing my signature are falsifications." — Ruben Vardanyan, former State Minister of Artsakh, January 16, 2025. One of the Armenian hostages tortured in an Azeri prison is Vicken Euljekjian... [detained] 10 hours after the ceasefire had gone into effect.... A court sentenced Euljekjian to 20 years imprisonment after a short trial without adequate legal representation.... Liparit Drmeyan, an aide to Armenia's representative to the European Court of Human Rights, said that Euljekjian did not have access to lawyers that were chosen by him.... [His wife said he] has requested a retrial and a lawyer, but the Azeri authorities refuse to meet these requests. The Trump administration needs to make Azerbaijan release these hostages. US President Donald Trump needs to sanction Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and other Azeri officials for carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Nagorno-Karabakh that continues to threaten the territorial integrity of Armenia while refusing to release the Armenian POWs and hostages.
Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing against the Armenian people of Artsakh has been proceeding for the past four years. Pictured: The Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) on October 13, 2020, after it was bombed by Azerbaijani forces. (Photo by Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)
Azerbaijan's government authorities refuse to release the Armenian hostages whom they have illegally held and abused since they captured them in 2020 and 2023. On January 17, Azerbaijan began trials of 16 Armenian captives -- including the former leaders of Artsakh (Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh) -- in military courtrooms, to which international media and observers have been denied access. In a press release, the Center for Truth and Justice (CFTJ) requested that Azerbaijan allow international legal experts to observe the trials. The request remains unanswered. The next court hearings are slated for January 27, during which court decisions are expected to be announced. As of now, the trials are open only to Azerbaijani state media.
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by Robert Williams • January 23, 2025 at 5:00 am
"This is Qatar's classic game: support the Islamist terrorists and then present itself as a mediator, liaison, and even peacemaker – the arsonist playing firefighter. As in Afghanistan, as in Egypt in 2010, and as in every Muslim country. In every Muslim country where there is a battle between the Islamists and the secularists, Qatar supports the Islamists, as in Gaza supporting Hamas for years, building its military might and enabling October 7." — Colonel Yigal Carmon (ret), MEMRI, January 21, 2025. [Syria's de facto leader Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa], who claims to have broken completely with Al Qaeda, apparently did so only because of strategic disagreements, not because he suddenly abandoned its plan to create an Islamic state in Syria. Hurrying to the next scandal, the Biden administration practically threw itself at Sharaa's feet. It rushed to meet with the terrorist leader, then immediately removed the $10 million bounty for his arrest, without even waiting to see what he would do. The US cannot continue to reward terrorism. President Donald J. Trump would do well to declare as a Foreign Terrorist Organization the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the font of all Sunni Islamist terrorism and is effectively promoted worldwide by Qatar's television bullhorn, Al-Jazeera. Trump would also be well-advised to move American forces completely out of Qatar's enormous Al-Udeid Air Base, headquarters of the US Central Command, transfer them to the United Arab Emirates, and effectively cut ties with Qatar, a country "pretending to be an ally." "Biden failed miserably. Trump should not recycle Biden's approach, and should recognize that Qatar and Erdogan are enemies despite their incredible skill in presenting themselves as friends, and as firefighters when they are actually arsonists. Trump would achieve the release of all the hostages if he were only to hint that it is conceivable that the CENTCOM base could be relocated out of Qatar. In fact, he owes this to the Saudis and the Emiratis, who are his true allies. If Trump clings to Qatar and Erdogan against these allies, he should not then wonder why his true allies, the Saudis and the Emiratis, are drifting towards America's adversaries, China and Russia" — Yigal Carmon, MEMRI, January 9, 2025.
The US cannot continue to reward terrorism. President Donald J. Trump would be well-advised to move American forces completely out of Qatar's enormous Al-Udeid Air Base, headquarters of the US Central Command, transfer them to the United Arab Emirates, and effectively cut ties with Qatar. Pictured: U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers sit on the ramp of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at Al-Udeid Air Base on Aug. 19, 2017. (Photo by U.S. Air National Guard/Master Sgt. Andrew J. Moseley)
Qatar, the world's foremost terrorist state, which seems never to have met an Islamist terrorist entity it did not support -- from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to Al Qaeda and ISIS -- has gained yet another win. It is Syria, the latest country seized in a hostile Islamist takeover by the formerly Al Qaeda affiliated organization Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known by his "nom de guerre," Abu-Mohammed al-Jolani.
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by Drieu Godefridi • January 22, 2025 at 5:00 am
Brussels has entered a wild-west era of "every man for himself," in which people try to protect themselves as best they can without relying on the failing "authorities." Brussels' financial situation is also alarming. [Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration] Nicole de Moor... did acknowledge the problem of the high number of Palestinian asylum-seekers in Belgium, and that they had already been recognized elsewhere in Europe. Nevertheless, they demand to come to Belgium: it guarantees them more than any other country in Europe. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the streets and media of Brussels have witnessed the normalization of unabashed Islamist discourse and Jew-hatred -- less and less hidden behind the pretext of "the fight against Zionism."
Brussels has entered a wild-west era of "every man for himself," in which people try to protect themselves as best they can without relying on the failing "authorities." Pictured: Police work to clear a street amid violent riots on November 27, 2022, in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga/AFP via Getty Images)
When President Donald Trump compared Brussels, Belgium to a "hellhole" in 2016, the statement caused quite a stir, especially in Europe, and was treated with that mixture of contempt, ignorance and denial of reality typical of a certain "elite" in the European Union. Trump had made these remarks in the context of discussions on immigration and security, and suggested that Brussels had changed for the worse over the years, mainly as a result of uncontrolled lawless migratory submersion. While the facts proved him right at the time, it might be said in 2025 that the Lebanonization of Brussels shows that his judgment was visionary. Crime explosion
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by Gerald M. Steinberg • January 21, 2025 at 5:00 am
Fringe activists and their "positions of moral outrage" continue to be funded by the German government, with high visibility platforms to promote their blatant anti-Israel and antisemitic campaigns. In the face of poisonous propaganda, the Bundestag resolutions calling for an end to German government funding to "organizations or projects that spread antisemitism [or] question Israel's right to exist" are important. Implementing them and stopping the support via cultural and academic institutions will not "silence" the voices of hate, but at least the German state will no longer be providing them with resources or legitimacy.
Klaus Biesenbach, director of Berlin's National Gallery, was recently shouted down when he attempted to distance himself from anti-Israel statements made at his institution in a speech by American photographer and political activist Nan Goldin. Pictured: Biesenbach speaks in Berlin on February 9, 2024. (Photo by Stefanie Loos/AFP via Getty Images)
On November 22, 2024, at the National Gallery of Berlin, the American photographer and political activist Nan Goldin asked, "Why can't I speak, Germany?" With apparently no sense of irony, she spoke at a lectern in front of a large audience, with numerous phones pointing at her, at the opening of her retrospective, titled "This will not end well." The subject of her talk was not her artistic portfolio but rather her political agenda on Israel. An enthusiastic audience applauded her outrage and indignation over the "genocide" in Gaza and Lebanon, and her immoral equivalence between the Palestinian population after the October 7 atrocities with pogroms against Jews under the Russian Empire. Goldin's false claim that "antizionism has nothing to do with antisemitism" was followed by loud chants of appreciation and applause.
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by Lawrence Kadish • January 20, 2025 at 4:00 am
For President Donald Trump, prioritizing a Maganomics "Manhattan Project" to produce nuclear fusion for clean energy -- before China beats the US to the finish line -- is a crucial investment, well worth making. Pictured: China's HL-2M nuclear fusion device, at a research laboratory in Chengdu, on December 4, 2020. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Among the first, most urgent, orders of business for President Donald J. Trump should be to create a Maganomics "Manhattan Project" to develop a nuclear fusion reactor superior to China's tokamak. Communist China, which has a head-start, has just helped place a tokamak in Thailand. This century's great clean-energy revolution is science's newest frontier: producing inexpensive, unlimited energy through nuclear fusion. It is done in containers, called tokamaks, giant nuclear reactors to make and store it. Smaller reactors "barely 3 feet across" are already being developed in the US, including one in Idaho and two in northern Nevada. Nuclear fusion consists of heating two electrons at 27 million degrees Fahrenheit, forcing them to fuse, producing clean energy similar to the Sun's:
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • January 19, 2025 at 5:00 am
The ceasefire-hostage deal does not require Hamas to disarm or cede control over the Gaza Strip.... The terrorist group seems to be convinced that the deal will enable it to keep control of the Gaza Strip and prepare for more massacres of Jews. Shortly after the ceasefire-hostage deal was announced on January 15, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya made it clear that his group intends to pursue its Jihad against Israel. The new US administration, to avoid more violence and bloodshed, must insist that Hamas be removed from power. This can only be accomplished by applying pressure and sanctions on Hamas's Qatari and Iranian sponsors.
The ceasefire-hostage deal does not require Hamas to disarm or cede control over the Gaza Strip. The terrorist group seems to be convinced that the deal will enable it to keep control of the Gaza Strip and prepare for more massacres of Jews. Pictured: A terrorist flashes a "V for victory" sign to celebrate the ceasefire agreement, near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)
Those who think that the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas will abandon its Jihad (holy war) to murder more Jews and destroy Israel in the aftermath of the recent ceasefire-hostage agreement are mistaken. Although the agreement may put an end to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, it does not, in any way, reflect a shift in the radical and dangerous ideology of the Islamist group, as outlined in its 1988 Covenant. The document quotes Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization (of which Hamas is an offshoot), as saying: "Israel will arise and continue to exist until Islam abolishes it, as it abolished what went before." The main points of the Hamas Covenant state:
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by Amir Taheri • January 19, 2025 at 4:00 am
In Iran itself, even figures within the "southern" system are beginning to realize that their regime may be heading south. In what is labeled "the Greater Middle East", another shibboleth that is best avoided, there is an overwhelming desire for social reform, economic development and political participation, in other words for heading "north" rather than "south." A new generation of leaders has understood that unless they turn change into an ally, they risk turning it into a mortal foe.
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Always anxious to portray the Islamic Republic of Iran in a world leadership position, the official media in Tehran have been trumpeting a three-day visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian to Dushanbe and Moscow as a "significant strengthening of the global south." You might wonder what the "global south" is all about. This is a cliché invented in the 1970s to distinguish "Third World" countries from the two blocs of East and West, without abandoning its sister cliché of "non-aligned world." With globalism in decline if not actually moribund yet, the "global south" is gaining new adepts in circles seeking to divide humanity on ideological grounds, with Western democracies cast as villains as authoritarian regimes as choirboys.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • January 18, 2025 at 5:00 am
Even though Iran keeps increasing its military support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- posing a significant threat to the European Union, the EU policy of appeasing the mullahs persists. "These drones [in Russia] aren't just a threat to Ukraine — they're a threat to every NATO country bordering Russia." — Henrik F. Rasmussen, executive director of the Institute for Science and International Security, politico.eu, November 13, 2023. "The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was responsible for at least 11 attempted attacks in Europe between June 2018 and June 2024, making it clear Tehran sees Europe as one of the battlefields in its conflict with Israel and the West, going so far as to partner with organized crime to achieve its ends." — Oliver Rolofs, Strategic security and communication expert and the director of the Austrian Institute for Strategic Studies and International Cooperation, politico.eu, October 9, 2024. Europe is bankrolling Iran to devour it.
Even though Iran keeps increasing its military support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- posing a significant threat to the European Union, the EU policy of appeasing the mullahs persists, and the EU blithely continues to trade with Iran. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)
Even though Iran keeps increasing its military support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- posing a significant threat to the European Union, the EU policy of appeasing the mullahs persists. The EU blithely continues to trade with Iran, the top state sponsor of terrorism. The Tehran Times bragged in a recent report that the country's exports to the EU have increased by 28% in just 9 months: "The Eurostat's data show that Iran exported commodities worth €799 million to the union in the nine-month period of this year, while the figure was €623 million in the same time span of the previous year, IRNA reported. "The EU's export to Iran has also risen 31 percent to €3.148 billion from €2.402 billion. "According to the Eurostat, the total value of trade between Iran and the European Union reached €3.947 billion in January-September 2022, while the figure was €3.025 billion in the same period of 2021.
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by Alan M. Dershowitz • January 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a "deal." It was an extortion.... The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime. When a terrorist group "negotiates" with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families. Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals. [L]et us put the blame for ALL the deaths in Gaza where it belongs: on Hamas and the useful idiots and useless bigots who support murderous terrorists.
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a "deal." It was an extortion. Would you call it a deal if somebody kidnapped your child and you "agreed" to pay ransom to get her back? Of course not. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime. Pictured: A Hamas terrorist holds two of the many Israeli children that Hamas murdered, or abducted and brought as captives to the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023. (Image source: Hamas/X [Twitter]) The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a "deal." It was an extortion. Would you call it a deal if somebody kidnapped your child and you "agreed" to pay ransom to get her back? Of course not. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime. So the proper description of what occurred is that Israel, pressured by the United States, capitulated to the unlawful and extortionate demands of Hamas as the only way of saving the lives of kidnapped babies, mothers and other innocent, mostly civilian, hostages. This was not the result of a negotiation between equals. If an armed robber puts a gun to your head and says, "your money or your life," your decision to give him your money would not be described as a deal. Nor should the extorted arrangement agreed to by Israel be considered a deal. So let's stop using that term.
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by Daniel Greenfield • January 17, 2025 at 4:00 am
On January 2, for example, 189 trucks filled with aid entered Gaza. Only 147 trucks, however, were collected on the Gazan side, with another 800 trucks worth of aid waiting to be collected. Food has been piling up and rotting on the Gaza side because it's not being delivered by the UN. The United Nations claims that Israel is starving Gaza, when it's the UN that is actually stalling aid deliveries to save Hamas. Mercy Corps, for example, issued a statement blasting Israel for supposed "impediments to aid delivery" and demanded a crackdown on Israel. An NPR story, however, revealed that "some organizations have hired armed men in Gaza to protect their trucks, but most, including Mercy Corps, refuse to do this." There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The only crisis is that Islamic terrorists are losing a war that they started. International organizations have become an arm of Islamic terrorism, funding, employing and lobbying for Islamic terrorist organizations who are at war with the free world. Not only should we not fund the UN and other "aid groups" or provide them with tax-exempt status, we should sanction them for their financial and political relationships with Islamic terrorist organizations, and treat any money going to their operations in Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and other terror zones as a criminal act of providing material support to terrorists.
The United Nations claims that Israel is starving Gaza, when it's the UN that is actually stalling aid deliveries to save Hamas. Pictured: A line of trucks carrying humanitarian aid wait to cross into the Gaza Strip on November 11, 2024 at the Erez Crossing, in Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
Every day, the UN, international organizations and the media claim that everyone in Gaza is starving to death because they have no food, and every day Israel's COGAT aid coordination agency lists exactly how many trucks filled with humanitarian aid have actually entered Gaza. On January 2, for example, 189 trucks filled with aid entered Gaza. Only 147 trucks, however, were collected on the Gazan side, with another 800 trucks worth of aid waiting to be collected. Food has been piling up and rotting on the Gaza side because it's not being delivered by the UN. Politicians, activists and the media have spent over a year perpetuating a myth that Israel is blocking food deliveries into Gaza, when there is actually more aid coming in than the aid groups complaining about Israel "blocking aid" can handle or be bothered to deliver to Gazans.
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by Gordon G. Chang • January 16, 2025 at 5:00 am
The law is clear: No third-party service provider, such as Google or Apple, may "distribute, maintain, or update" a "foreign adversary controlled application." The measure designates any app owned by ByteDance, such as TikTok, as such an app. Radio Free Asia reported in August 2020 that a Chinese People's Liberation Army intelligence unit, working out of China's Houston consulate, used big data to identify Americans likely to participate in Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests, and then created and sent them "tailor-made" videos on how to organize riots. Related reporting reveals the videos were TikToks. Fomenting violence in another country is considered an act of war. Moreover, in their Supreme Court brief, TikTok and ByteDance argue this: "No arm of the Chinese government has an ownership stake—directly or indirectly—in TikTok Inc. or ByteDance Ltd." .... the statement does not cover ownership by the Communist Party of China, which is separate from the Chinese government. Articles 7 and 14 of China's 2017 National Intelligence Law require an entity such as ByteDance to commit acts of espionage if so directed by authorities in China. Moreover, the statement ignores the Communist Party's demand that any entity in China, regardless of ownership, obey its dictates. Now, "TikTok refugees" are flocking to another Chinese app, "RedNote," known in China by the characters for "Little Red Book." RedNote, the most downloaded app in Apple's U.S. store, should be treated the same as TikTok.
The law is clear: No third-party service provider, such as Google or Apple, may "distribute, maintain, or update" a "foreign adversary controlled application." The measure designates any app owned by ByteDance, such as TikTok, as such an app. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
The Washington Post on January 15 reported that President-elect Donald Trump is thinking of issuing an executive order suspending the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The law is often and incorrectly referred to as the "TikTok ban." Trump has no power to suspend the law by executive order. In any event, a delay in enforcement, even in accordance with the law's provisions, would be a grave mistake. TikTok, China's ByteDance Ltd. (TikTok's owner), and TikTok creators sought Supreme Court review of the decision in TikTok Inc. v. Garland, issued last month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, upholding the constitutionality of the measure. The law is clear: No third-party service provider, such as Google or Apple, may "distribute, maintain, or update" a "foreign adversary controlled application." The measure designates any app owned by ByteDance, such as TikTok, as such an app.
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by Guy Millière • January 15, 2025 at 5:00 am
That the attacks are jihadist is rarely mentioned, or only briefly. Then everything gets forgotten until the next jihadist attack. In many American universities, tenured professors have openly supported radical Islam for years, described Hamas as a liberation movement, supported terrorism, shown their hatred of the United States and brainwashed students. Radical imams in many US mosques have incited their followers to hate and even murder Jews, and appear to be trying to legitimize jihad. Political Islam, support for Islamic terrorism and incitement to jihad -- Islamic holy war -- need to be squarely faced and defeated. It is hoped that the Trump administration will allow no place for jihad in the US or the West.
The jihadist attack in New Orleans on January 1, in which 14 people were murdered by an American convert to Islam, should come as no surprise. In many US universities, professors have openly supported radical Islam for years, described Hamas as a liberation movement, supported terrorism, shown their hatred of the US and brainwashed students. Radical imams in many US mosques have incited their followers to hate and even murder Jews, and appear to be trying to legitimize jihad. Pictured: Police investigators surround the truck used by the terrorist in New Orleans, on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Matthew Hinton/AFP via Getty Images)
The jihadist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 1, 2025, in which 14 people were murdered by an American who converted to Islam and became an Islamist, should come as no surprise. This was not the first time that a jihadist in the United States or Europe had attacked in "vehicular jihad." The Islamic State (ISIS) appears to have "encouraged" it in 2010. ISIS even recommended that to cause "maximum carnage," it be used preferably in "pedestrian only" sites. In the US, jihadist attacks, vehicular and other, include 9/11/2001, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Fort Hood slayings and the New Orleans attack (for more, see Appendix 1).
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • January 14, 2025 at 5:00 am
"Among the Islamist terrorist organizations that Qatar and Al-Jazeera have supported over the years are the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Hizbullah, the Al-Nusrah Front/ Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham, ISIS, Hamas, and even the Shiite Iranian proxies in Yemen, Ansar Allah (the Houthis)..." — MEMRI, May 6, 2024. "The Al-Jazeera TV network is an arm of the Qatari regime. It is owned by the government and carries out its foreign policy by means of indoctrination of the Arabic-speaking masses worldwide. Al-Jazeera, therefore, should not be discussed as a means of telecommunications, but instead as an unyielding and forceful political tool of Qatari foreign policy under the guise of a mass media network." — MEMRI, May 6, 2024. "Al-Jazeera was the prime power for toppling the secular authoritarian regime in Egypt, when Qatar, by means of Al-Jazeera, supported the Muslim Brotherhood in ousting then Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Al-Jazeera, the single most significant platform for mainstreaming jihadi and Muslim Brotherhood ideology, was the power that accorded [Muslim Brotherhood member] Mohamed Morsi his victory [in Egypt's 2012 presidential election]." — MEMRI, May 6, 2024. Al-Jazeera's role in providing a platform for promoting extremist Islamist ideologies goes back decades: "The case of promoting Al-Qaeda is of particular interest.... Al-Jazeera's official role in the current Israel-Hamas war is nowhere more evident that its exclusive broadcast of Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif... at the very time that Hamas terrorists were carrying out their mega-terror attack in Israel... Deif declared the launch of 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' and incited all Palestinians to join the war, using all means in their possession – guns, knives, Molotov cocktails, and vehicles." — MEMRI, May 6, 2024. They [Israelis and Palestinians] have both come to the conclusion that Al-Jazeera's goal is to promote radical Islam and terrorism. It now remains to be seen whether the US and other countries will follow suit and stop the Qatari-owned TV station from supporting terrorism, poisoning the hearts and minds of millions worldwide, and ravaging global security.
The Israelis and Palestinians have both come to the conclusion that Al-Jazeera's goal is to promote radical Islam and terrorism. It now remains to be seen whether the US and other countries will follow suit and stop the Qatari-owned TV station from supporting terrorism, poisoning the hearts and minds of millions worldwide, and ravaging global security. Pictured: The headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images)
The Palestinians have finally discovered that Qatar's Al-Jazeera television network -- which has long been serving as a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and virtually all other Islamic terrorist groups -- is "broadcasting inciteful content, spreading misinformation, and interfering in internal Palestinian affairs, which [the Palestinian Authority Ministerial Committee] claimed stirred division and instability." On January 1, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced the suspension of Al-Jazeera's broadcast operations in the West Bank, ordering the temporary suspension of work by all journalists, staff and associated channels affiliated with Al-Jazeera, adding: "The decision will remain in effect until the network resolves its legal status, which was deemed in violation of applicable laws and regulations in Palestine.
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by Nils A. Haug • January 13, 2025 at 5:00 am
To their enemies, the Jews cannot do anything right. They are hated when they are strong; they are hated when they are weak. They are hated when they are poor; they are hated when they are rich. They are hated when they win; they are hated when they lose. How this unfounded, blatantly anti-Semitic blaming of innocent Jews arose is difficult to fathom -- particularly as the traditional custodians and purveyors of Judeo-Christian moral-ethical precepts are, in fact, the Jews. It is their principles -- the Judeo-Christian values -- that underpin Western Civilization... Even after the unspeakable events in Israel of October 7, 2023, with the slaughter of more than 1,200 innocents, many onlookers held Israel and the Jews -- not Hamas and Iran -- primarily responsible for the horror.
Frequently, the small population of Jews are held responsible for geopolitical and other events far beyond their control. Last month, Russia's President Vladimir Putin accused "ethnic Jews" of "tearing apart Russian Orthodox Church." How this unfounded, blatantly anti-Semitic blaming of innocent Jews arose is difficult to fathom -- particularly as the traditional custodians and purveyors of Judeo-Christian moral-ethical precepts are, in fact, the Jews. Pictured: Putin speaks to the media at Igora ski resort in the Leningrad region on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Alexei Danichev/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Frequently, the small population of Jews are held responsible for geopolitical and other events far beyond their control. This month, two American "far-left" anti-Israel groups -- Code Pink and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), among others -- actually blamed Israel for the ongoing California wildfires. "When US taxes go to burning people alive in Gaza, we can't be surprised when those fires come home," Code Pink posted on Instagram. It was, in fact, Palestinians from Gaza who burned Israelis alive -- including infants -- that started the current conflict. If you do not want your people killed, do not start a war. Code Pink apparently receives a major portion of its funding from an American couple, Sri-Lankan-born Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans, based in Shanghai. "'Jewish Voice for Peace' is Neither," and appears to be a "false-flag" operation:
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by Alan M. Dershowitz • January 12, 2025 at 5:00 am
Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood in 1937-1938, 1947-1948, 1967, 2000-2001, and 2007. In each case, it was the Palestinian leadership that refused to agree to the two-state solution.... The Jews accepted the [1937] Peel partition plan, while the Arabs categorically rejected it, demanding that all of Palestine be placed under Arab control and that most of the Jewish population of Palestine be "transferred" — ethnically cleansed — out of the country... The Jewish leadership [in 1948] declared statehood in the area allocated to it by the UN. The Arab leadership responded by declaring a genocidal war against the new state of the Jewish people. They did not want a Palestinian state. And they wanted there to be no Jewish state. No one, therefore, should believe that it was Israel that has made the Palestinian people stateless. It was the Palestinians themselves... The current anti-Israel protesters in the West are not calling for a Palestinian state living in peace alongside Israel. They, like the failed Palestinian leadership, just wants to end Israel's existence. It is not going to happen. Until the Palestinians recognize this reality, they will be denying themselves any possibility of statehood.
In 1937, the Jews accepted the partition plan of the Peel Commission, while the Arabs categorically rejected it, demanding that all of Palestine be placed under Arab control and that most of the Jewish population of Palestine be "transferred" — ethnically cleansed — out of the country. Pictured: Lord William Peel (right) and Sir Horace Rumbold (left) leave the British War Cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem in 1936, as part of their work on the Peel Commission. (Image source: Library of Congress)
One of the most pervasive myths of the Palestinian protest movement is that Israel has denied statehood to the Palestinian people. To the contrary, Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood in 1937-1938, 1947-1948, 1967, 2000-2001, and 2007. In each case, it was the Palestinian leadership that refused to agree to the two-state solution that would have created a Palestinian state, alongside a state for Jewish inhabitants. In 1937 – in the midst of the terrorist revolt inspired by Adolf Hitler's ally, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – the British published the Palestine Royal Commission Report (also known as the Peel Commission Report).
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