Arab-Israeli Conflict
Harvard Promotes the Palestinians’ Slow-Motion ‘Final Solution’
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Media There is no idea so hateful or useless that some university somewhere won’t hold a conference on it. The latest example of this unfortunate truism is the recently announced “Israel/Palestine and the One-State Conference” scheduled for early March at the Harvard Kennedy School. Share This
Panetta’s Failure of Imagination: The Defense Secretary Gives Israel a ‘Turn of the Screw’
by Bruce S. Thronton FrontPage Magazine Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s “chiding” of Israel, as the Washington Postput it, was a strange performance, so muddled in its ignorance of fact and logic that one wonders if the Secretary was attempting some rhetorical misdirection to lull our enemies into complacency. Share This
The Resignations in Turkey
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner News that the top echelon of Turkey’s military offered their joint resignations is not much of a surprise, given ongoing politicized trials against particular officers, and the general acceptance that a secular military is at odds with an increasingly Islamicized government. But there will be lots of long-term ramifications. …
Memo to the General: Free Speech Doesn’t Kill People, Jihadists Kill People
by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society Citizen control of the military is one of the most important foundations of political freedom. Rather than an instrument of a powerful autocrat or king, the army in a republic serves the collective interests, security, and policies of the state as determined by the citizens through the …
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