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- ADL: ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate’
- DPS: "So far the story has been primarily about the self-absorbed "we-are-the-story" media's having been duped. But the really important aspect of the story is the arrogant, uninformed, ideologically driven worldview of the administration and the damage that has been done to America and our allies all over the world as a result. Mike Makovsky covers the real story here"
- Newton, MA: Orthodox rabbi quotes Isaiah, warning Jewish community who turned a blind eye to antisemitic curriculum, "Your destroyers and demolishers will come from your own"
- “The poll suggests that majorities of Hispanic, black and young male Republican voters “believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen”
- On #MemorialDay or any other day, the cemeteries for those Americans who fell in battle offer profound lessons
- E.U. countries continue to do business with China, Iran, and Turkey despite blatant, glaring human rights violations and occupations in Tibet, Syria, and Northern Cyprus. But it's only with Israel they draw the line.
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- Former Likud MK Yehudah Glick: "Police officers are in my house at midnight after a day of harassing me"
Tag Archives: Turkey
Turkey and Israel: Starting Over?
GATESTONE by Burak Bekdil June 28, 2015 Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold reportedly met secretly in Rome with Turkey’s top career diplomat, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu. For Turkey’s Islamist government, breaking up with Israel, a credible regional ally … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Dore Gold, Erdogan, Feridun Sinirlioglu, Turkey
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Turkey’s election is a blow to Erdogan and a victory for Kurds
WASHINGTON POST by Ishaan Tharoor June 7, 2015 Turkish voters delivered a dramatic blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice Development Party on Sunday, with results showing it losing its majority in parliament. And, in a historic first, … Continue reading
Turkey’s ‘Jerusalem Fetish’
GATESTONE by Burak Bekdil May 30, 2015 It is truly fascinating that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a professor of political science, believes that Jerusalem, built a millennium before the birth of Islam, is originally a Muslim city. And, according … Continue reading
Reconsidering Fethullah Gülen
COMMENTARY by Michael Rubin May 20, 2015 Fethullah Gülen, the 74-year-old Turkish Islamic thinker, has long been the subject of controversy in both American and Turkish policy circles. Born in Erzurum, Turkey, he taught and preached in Turkey for decades. … Continue reading
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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Turkey’s “Muslim God”
GATESTONE by Burak Bekdil April 9, 2015 Turkey is probably one of the best social laboratories in the world to prove why Islamist ideology cannot be compatible with a culture of humor, dissent and protest. It also offers a unique … Continue reading
Assessing the Strategic Threat from ISIS
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE Testimony before House Committee on Foreign Affairs by James F. Jeffrey February 12, 2015 A serious alliance against ISIS built on Sunni Arab states and Turkey cannot hold together over the long term without a more forceful U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Iraq, ISIS, James Jeffrey, Shiite, Sunni, Syria, Turkey
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Turkey’s PM says AKP will not succumb to ‘Jewish lobby’
HURRIYET DAILY NEWS by Anadolu Agency February 9, 2015 Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said his government will not succumb to the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the lobby of the Turkish-Greek minority, a sentence he said in regards … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Armenian, Fethullah Gülen, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey
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When Hitler Looked East
WALL STREET JOURNAL by Dominic Green January 17, 2015 ‘It’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion,” Hitler complained to his pet architect Albert Speer. “Why did it have to be Christianity, with its meekness and flabbiness?” Islam was … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Politics
Tagged Adolph Hitler, Islam, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nazis, Turkey
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Erdogan’s Egyptian Nightmare
GATESTONE by Burak Bekdil December 30, 2014 …..In its immediate vicinity, Turkey does not have diplomatic relations with three countries — Armenia, Cyprus and Syria — and has deeply problematic diplomatic relations with two countries: Israel and Egypt. This situation … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Egypt, Emir of Qatar, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 