Bush Promotes a Palestinian “Right of Return”

Posted by Daniel Pipes - January 14, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

[FPM title differs slightly] The Palestinian “right of return” entered the lexicon of American policymakers in December 2006, when the Iraq Study Group Report urged the U.S. government to support Israel-Palestinian negotiations that addresses what it termed a “key final status issue.” That recommendation came as a mild shock, given that the “right of return”

 


Bush Promotes a Palestinian “Right of Return”

Posted by Daniel Pipes - January 14, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

[FPM title differs slightly] The Palestinian “right of return” entered the lexicon of American policymakers in December 2006, when the Iraq Study Group Report urged the U.S. government to support Israel-Palestinian negotiations that addresses what it termed a “key final status issue.” That recommendation came as a mild shock, given that the “right of return”

 


Fascism’s Legacy: Liberalism

Posted by Daniel Pipes - January 10, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

Liberal fascism sounds like an oxymoron – or a term for conservatives to insult liberals. Actually, it was coined by a socialist writer, none other than the respected and influential left-winger H.G. Wells, who in 1931 called on fellow progressives to become “liberal fascists” and “enlightened Nazis.” Really. His words, indeed, fit a much larger pattern of fusing socialism with fascism:

 


Fascism’s Legacy: Liberalism

Posted by Daniel Pipes - January 10, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

Liberal fascism sounds like an oxymoron – or a term for conservatives to insult liberals. Actually, it was coined by a socialist writer, none other than the respected and influential left-winger H.G. Wells, who in 1931 called on fellow progressives to become “liberal fascists” and “enlightened Nazis.” Really. His words, indeed, fit a much larger pattern of fusing socialism with fascism:

 


Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam

Posted by Daniel Pipes - January 7, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

In a recent analysis, “Was Barack Obama a Muslim?” I surveyed available evidence and found it suggests “Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father.” In response, David Brock’s organization, Media Matters for America (MMfA), which calls itself a “

 


Palestinians Who Prefer Israel

Posted by Daniel Pipes - January 2, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

Palestinians have a hidden history of appreciating Israel that contrasts with their better-known narrative of vilification and irredentism. The former has been particularly evident of late, especially since Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, floated a trial balloon in October about transferring some Arab-dominated areas of eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority. As he rhetorically asked about Israeli actions in 1967, “Was it necessary to annex the Shuafat refugee camp, al-

 


Sudden Jihad Syndrome – It’s Now Official

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - January 2, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments The attempt by Mohammed Taheri-azar in March 2006 to drive a rented Jeep Cherokee onto a plaza at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and kill as many students as he could prompted me to coin the term Sudden Jihad Syndrome to describes cases "whereby normal-appearing Muslims abruptly become violent." I noted the many good citizens who surreptitiously adopt radical Islam and then violently lash out against non-Muslims in acts of terrorism, such as the 9/11 hijackers, the London

 


Bibliography – My Writings on Arabs Appreciating Israel

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - January 2, 2008 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments Amid the fury and violence of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a not-insignficant number of Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims maintain a high regard for the Jewish state. They represent the potential solution to this problem, so their views are more important than eccentric. Let us hope the augur a better future. In the meantime, here, in chronological order, updated as needed, are my writings on the subject: "Palestinians Who Praise Israel." Forward, 11 February 1994. A post-Oslo declaration report,

 


Will Geert Wilders Show His Film on the Koran?

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 29, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments By my count, there have been six major episodes in modern times in which Muslims rioted and killed in protest to some Western-based person making comments about Islam: 1989 – Salman Rushdie publishes his novel, The Satanic Verses. 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to remove a 1930s frieze showing Muhammad as lawgiver. 2002 – The American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell calls Muhammad a "terrorist." 2005 – An incorrect story in Newsweek, reporting that American interrogators at

 


The Palestinian Economy in Shambles

Posted by Daniel Pipes - December 27, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

[JP title: "Turning Abbas's logic on its head"] Western financial aid to the Palestinians has, I showed last week, the perverse and counterintuitive effect of increasing their rate of homicides, including terrorist ones. This week, I offer two pieces of perhaps even stranger news about the many billions of dollars and record-shattering per-capita donations from the West: First, these have rendered the Palestinians poorer. Second, Palestinian impoverishment is a long-term positive development.

 


Did Divine Intervention Fell Ariel Sharon?

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 27, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments In January 2006, when Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon had a stroke, permanently incapacitating him, the American evangelical leader Pat Robertson attributed Sharon's medical condition to divine intervention resulting from Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza a few months earlier. The book of Joel, the prophet Joel, makes it very clear that God has enmity against those who, quote, "divide my land." God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says "this is my land," and for any

 


The Palestinian Economy in Shambles

Posted by Daniel Pipes - December 27, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

[JP title: "Turning Abbas's logic on its head"] Western financial aid to the Palestinians has, I showed last week, the perverse and counterintuitive effect of increasing their rate of homicides, including terrorist ones. This week, I offer two pieces of perhaps even stranger news about the many billions of dollars and record-shattering per-capita donations from the West: First, these have rendered the Palestinians poorer. Second, Palestinian impoverishment is a long-term positive development.

 


Israeli Leftists Plead for U.S. Pressure on Their Government

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 26, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments David Landau, editor of Ha'aretz newspaper, said something to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that is raising eyebrows. After a dinner at the American ambassador's residence on Sep. 10, but only reported today, Landau his thoughts on the current situation. According to Gary Rosenblatt in New York's Jewish Week, Landau, who was seated next to Rice, was said to have referred to Israel as a "failed state" politically, one in need of a U.S.-imposed settlement. He was said to have implored Rice

 


Was Barack Obama a Muslim?

Posted by Daniel Pipes - December 24, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

[FPM title: "Obama and Islam"] “If I were a Muslim I would let you know,” Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim. But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim? More precisely, might Muslims consider him a murtadd (apostate), that is, a Muslim who converted to another religion and, therefore, someone whose blood may be shed?

 


Mike Huckabee’s Unique Foreign Policy

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 24, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments Mike Huckabee's article in Foreign Affairs has come in for much deserved ridicule, for such statements as these two: Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate. "Much like a top high school student, if [the United States] is modest about its abilities and achievements, if it is generous in helping others, it is loved. But if it attempts to dominate others, it is despised." "We must first destroy existing terrorist groups and then attack the underlying conditions that breed

 


U.S.-Israel Tensions, Post-Annapolis

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 23, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments Before the Annapolis meeting took place in late November, I warned of the danger that a joint U.S.-Palestinian position might emerge that the Israelis would resist, thereby leading to "a possible crisis in U.S.-Israel relations of unprecedented proportions." Here is the first installment to follow up on that worry, to be updated as needed. "Israel fears clash with U.S. over peace talks' impasse" writes Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz: A senior adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel may come

 


Fund the Palestinians? Bad Idea

Posted by Daniel Pipes - December 19, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments

Lavishing funds on Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to achieve peace has been a mainstay of Western, including Israeli, policy since Hamas seized Gaza in June. But this open spigot has counterproductive results and urgently must be stopped. Some background: Paul Morro of the Congressional Research Service reports that, in 2006, the European Union and its member states gave US$815 million to the Palestinian Authority, while the United States sent it $468 million.

 


The Latest about Mosul Dam

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 17, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments A truck bomb has blown up about 1 kilometer away from the Mosul Dam, killing one policeman, injuring a second, and damaging a section of the main access bridge, announced Brigadier-General Abdul-Kareem al-Jubouri, the commander of police operations in northern Nineveh province. According to Reuters, "Jubouri said the bomber parked his truck near the bridge, telling police that it had broken down and that he need to fetch a tow truck. Shortly after he left the scene it detonated." This attack

 


Assessing the American-Led Effort in Iraq

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 16, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments The surge is working, which is great news. But is that reason to conclude that the whole American-led effort in Iraq is working? I think not. The reduction in fatalities of both Iraqis and multi-national force members is important but hardly the only criterion to go by. After all, the American prescence in Iraq is not intended just to avoid death but to build a model of something new and better, a "free and prosperous" Iraq. By that latter yardstick, I would say that American efforts are less

 


Guilty Pleas By Would-Be Los Angeles Terrorists

Posted by Daniel Pipes Weblog - December 14, 2007 on 9:00 am | In DanielPipes | No Comments After the arrest of terrorist suspects, the case often goes silent for so long that one forgets about them. I published a column on "L.A.'s Thwarted Terror Spree" over two years ago. Now, suddenly, Levar Haley Washington, 28, and Kevin James, 31, have reappeared in the news, having pleaded guilty to the charge of seditious conspiracy. Washington also pleaded guilty to using a firearm to further the conspiracy. Both face up to 20 years in prison on the conspiracy charge and Washington could have

 


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