What is the effect of Washington’s recent decision to allow web companies such as Google and Yahoo to operate in closed societies, such as Cuba and Iran?
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Dershowitz urges, “Middle East Apartheid Education Week”
The growing global effectiveness of Israel Apartheid Week is pleasing. Suffice to say, this doesn’t please Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: Every year at about this time, radical Islamic students—aided by radical anti-Israel professors—hold an event they call “Israel Apartheid Week.” During this week, they try to persuade students on campuses around the world to…
Iran is not threatening Israel, says Israel
Remember this: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: “Iran is not currently an existential threat to Israel. However, Iran has to potential to develop an existential threat to Israel, and we are taking action to prevent this.”
A women’s burden in the Islamic Republic
An Iranian friend sent the following cartoon, drawn by Mana Neyestani, on International Women’s Day:
How to ween America off its love of big cars and invading other countries?
An ad by US veteran’s group VoteVets that argues for Congress pushing a clean energy bill to stop the US backing fundamentalist regimes in the Middle East. Putting aside the fact that American troops are largely being attacked in places like Iraq because they’re occupying another people’s land, there is no doubt that the over-reliance…
Being pro-Israeli means backing murder anywhere, anytime
Paul Howes is national secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union. He loves Israel like it’s a woman he’s dying to take to bed. In other words, any flaws are utterly ignored. His latest piece, in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph, totally backs Israel’s murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai: Let’s be clear: the death of al-Mabhouh…
Name me a company that isn’t trying to make serious money in Tehran
It’s like Iraq’s Oil for Food program all over again. This New York Times article is fascinating yet one wonders if any examples can be given of the corporate world not colluding with dictatorships in the name of making profits: The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other…
Getting tough on Tehran makes you a man (or woman) in Washington
How excited are the US Congress and the Obama administration to impose sanctions on Iran?
Bombing Iran becomes a popular thought in America
The selling of a war against Iran seems to be going swimmingly well in the US: A majority of American voters think military force will be necessary to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons program, and many think it will be “a disaster” if Iran gains nuclear capabilities. A Fox News poll released Tuesday…
The Castro regime is still standing (remind yourself of that, Israel)
A report in the Israeli press says that Israel is looking to push United States to apply the ”˜Cuban model’ to Iran.