AMERICAN SPECTATOR
AIPAC’S Unhelpful Omission
by Andrew D. Lappin
April 1, 2016

What became apparent at the AIPAC Policy Conference is that Donald Trump is light years ahead of AIPAC on the issue of stopping radical jihadist Islam. Despite being short on details, Trump’s visceral understanding of Islamism’s collective power and the malevolent course it has taken throughout its fourteen hundred-year history is not off the mark. Although crudely crafted, his statement that “Islam hates us” embodied a fundamental recognition of Islamism’s voracious appetite. Trump paints with a broad brush but he has obviously read some history. Through his simplistic prism, he observes that the butchery and cruelty committed by Islamists is no less heinous than the crimes committed by Hitler, Stalin, Chairman Mao, or Pol Pot. READ MORE