DAMASCUS (AFP) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomed on Thursday the policy of dialogue with his country initiated by his US counterpart Barack Obama.
Assad said he “appreciates that President Obama has adopted dialogue as the way to deal with difficult issues,” a reference to years of sour relations with former president George […]

Andrew Bostom: “These were people who were eager to bring death to the Jews and the Jewish community.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder provided this apt characterization of the four converts to Islam whose plans to bomb a Bronx synagogue and a Jewish community center were thwarted.
Richard Williams, uncle […]

MEMRI: In early May 2009, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus. In a joint statement issued after the meeting, the two declared that the relations between Iran and Syria were strategic and served as an example to the region and to the world at large. They added that […]

DALLAS — Two founding members of what was once the nation’s largest Muslim charity were each sentenced to 65 years in prison Wednesday for funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Shukri Abu Baker, 50, and Ghassan Elashi, 55, were among the five members of the Holy Land Foundation for […]

Iran’s Ahmadinejad wants to debate Obama at UN
Iran Sends 6 Warships to International Waters in ‘Saber Rattling’ Move
Israeli document: Venezuela sends uranium to Iran
‘If Israel doesn’t remove Iranian threat, no one will’
An last of all, but not least:
Iran arrests 104 “devil worshippers”
Which included this very quotable line:
The Islamic Republic, which bans […]

International Analyst Network: According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, National Security Advisor General Jim Jones was quoted in a classified foreign ministry cable as having told a European foreign minister that unlike the Bush administration, Obama will be ‘forceful’ with Israel. Jones is quoted as saying: “The new administration will convince Israel to compromise on […]

Last weekend, I did a hour with our friend Jan Markell on her radio show Understanding the Times. Click Here to listen

The Dartmouth: The struggle between Islamic fundamentalism and “the forces of human rights and democracy” is largely responsible for conflict in the Middle East, Gordon Zacks, a former adviser to President George H.W. Bush and a Middle East expert, said in a lecture held in the Rockefeller Center on Thursday.
Although the lecture […]

Debka: Israel may find Iran as one of the administrators of the Temple Mount, according to a new Palestinian Authority plan reported Thursday.
PA sources said giving up claims to the Temple Mount and handing over control to the 57-member Saudi-based Islamic Conference Organization is conditional on Israel’s agreeing to a final status […]

By (my friend) Pastor David Crisp.
This week in our nation’s capital a very important meeting will take place between President Obama and Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. On the front burner for these talks will be the Obama administration’s attempts at pressuring Israel to accept what “everybody and their dog” seems to be pushing these […]