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Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Feb 15, 2019, 4:07 AM

No to the US War Plan for the Middle East!

As to be expected and as I predicted, the main architect of his Mideast "peace plan" has now declared that both parties need to compromise. Doesn't that sound reasonable? No, it doesn't for people who know anything about what...

Raymond M. Berger

Feb 11, 2019, 7:41 AM

Those who seek to destroy today’s Jewish state no longer cry, “Go Back to Palestine.” Now they cry, “Go back to Europe.” Juden Raus! Jews Out! At about 7:00 am on November 8, 1938, a gaggle of thirty Hitler youth in brown...

Feb 6, 2019, 1:49 AM

Napoleon and the Muezzin

The Mosque of Huzaifa ibn al-Yamani as photographed from in front of the church. (Bill Slott)

That morning the call to prayer turned a church and a mosque into a shooting gallery

Raymond M. Berger

Feb 2, 2019, 11:49 PM

The Truth Teller’s Dilemma

To be fair we should sympathize with all human loss. We should try to avoid it at all costs. Anyone who wants to find out what anti-Semites are saying can turn to YouTube. I wanted to find out for myself. So I...

Allen S. Maller

Feb 1, 2019, 4:40 PM

The Qur’an declares: God dwells among us; and also among others

What does it mean when the Torah states: “Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. They will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell...

Jan 28, 2019, 6:11 PM

An Ode to My Mother

My dear reader(s) - How could it be that I wrote an entry entitled "Ode to My Father" in September and now I must pay tribute to my mother? How, as a 65-year-old, first-born son and father to four, grown men,...

Jan 24, 2019, 1:24 AM

Peacefulness: Can our own past be a guide for the Qur’an’s followers?

In the wake of the jihadi attacks of 9/11, on September 20, 2001 President Bush famously told the world from the austere venue of a Joint Session of Congress at the Capitol that the 9/11 al Qaeda terrorists had...

Jan 22, 2019, 5:34 PM

Why as a Muslim, I feel Holocaust Memorial Day is as essential as ever

Sadiq Khan hosts Holocaust Memorial Day in City Hall (Jewish News)

Earlier this week, I listened to community plans for the burial of six victims of the Holocaust over the radio, as I made my way for my daughter’s secondary school “student consultation”. I asked the history teacher how the...

Jan 22, 2019, 8:22 AM

Which Countries Are Apartheid States?

Apartheid word in old textured dictionary (Shutterstock).

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom Although Israel is frequently accused of being an “apartheid state,” few of those who hear the accusation...

Jan 20, 2019, 3:55 PM

Transition of Power within Hezbollah?

Information: Since early December 2018 until the date of this Intelligence Bulletin, Lebanese Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah has not appeared in public, nor has he delivered any visual or audio messages. Reportedly, he is hospitalized following a heart...

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