Most Clicked This Week
- Pensacola Saudi gunman's Twitter account "condemned US support for Israel and included a quote from Al-Qaeda’s deceased leader, the Saudi Osama bin Laden"
- Israel to no longer bar travelers from US and UK
- CBS, NBC Bash Netanyahu on Election Night; ‘Could Destroy’ Chances for Peace with Obama, Palestinians
- An otherwise positive story from #NYT about Israel's battle against coronavirus "marred by its opening" which has now been changed online
- 49 US Republican senators say they will not back new #Iran nuclear deal. This Isn’t #Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.
- Harold Rhode: Critical thinking on Islamic Law was shut down by Sunni leaders 1000 years ago. This meant the end of progress, situation continues to this day
- “Most radical leftists believe this noxious legacy foretells our future and will continue unabated unless American politics is fundamentally overturned”
- As small but growing numbers of Haredi men enlist in the Israeli military, attitudes in their strictly observant communities start to shift
Tag Archives: Ottoman Empire
“‘International law’ hardly demands a ‘two-state solution’ to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nor can it properly limit Israel’s sovereignty over its own territory”
TABLET MAG Yes, Israel Can Apply Israeli Law to the West Bank Eugene Kontorovich January 14, 2026 …There is a simple, clear rule to determine the borders of new countries, whether they arise from imperial collapse, decolonization, federal breakup, cession, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Eugene Kontorovich, Jordan, Judea, Natasha Hausdorff, Ottoman Empire, Samaria, West Bank
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“Under a doctrine known as takfir, these jihadis excommunicate and, on many occasions, kill Muslims who decline to toe their theological line”
FDD The many shades of Islam Clifford D. May December 31, 2025 …It was not until the 1920s, in the aftermath of World War I, that the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the last Ottoman caliph, Abdülmecid II, boarded the Orient … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Jihadists, Muslim Brotherhood, Ottoman Caliphate, Ottoman Empire
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Recalling the lessons of Armenia
WASHINGTON TIMES by Clifford May April 28, 2015 Genocide of 100 years ago is recurring, now in the Middle East Displayed outside the Turkish embassy in Washington last week was a large banner reading, “Armenian genocide is an imperialist lie.” … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Armenian, Armenian Genocide, Christians, genocide, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 