Israel-America Renaissance Institute (I-ARI)

From Israel’s basic survival standpoint, there is no meaningful difference between Fatah and Hamas. Both the Fatah Charter, and the Hamas Covenant, call for Israel’s liquidation.

Once again, on May 15, 2012, “Palestinians” worldwide commemorated “Nakba Day,” a ritual annual remembrance of their displacement that followed Israel’s independence in 1948. Oddly enough, even now, there is no general Palestinian acknowledgment of Arab responsibility for this displacement. Nor, even now, is there any far-reaching willingness to move toward a genuine “Two-State Solution” in the Middle East. Rather, the Arab world, still beating impassioned and relentless drums of sectarian war, retains steadfast commitment to a “One-State Solution.” Unambiguously, such an asymmetrical plan would amount to a Final Solution for Israel.

From the start of the so-called “Middle East Peace Process,” beginning back at Oslo in 1993, all Palestinian “partners” have sought to excise Israel from the map. For these Palestinians—Fatah, Hamas, it makes no real difference—the cartographic objective of every written agreement with “the Jews” has been unhidden. Up to the present moment, all Palestinian factions have held one indelibly core idea in common. This is that every inch of Israel, in addition to all of West Bank (Judea/Samaria) and Gaza, is, irremediably and incontestably, an integral part of “Palestine.” In other words, there is no Jewish land in the Arab Middle East. Read More →

What irony—the threat is from an enemy that defines us as the enemy, though we sincerely profess to be truly benevolent and peace loving.

No. 1 of a Unique Series of Articles on what Eminent Statesmen, Scholars, Muslims, and Former Muslims Say about Islam

*That Muslims have exceeded the depravity of Nazis by using their own children as human bombs tends to hinder objective and comprehensive analysis of Islam. This series of articles will instead provide a thoroughly documented, interdisciplinary, transnational, and multiracial study of Islam which men with eyes and ears and a modicum of learning will discern as a unique form of paganism, one that sanctifies evil in the name of a monotheistic theology.1

Prologue

Heil Hizbollah

It is well known that Islam today is a cauldron of murderous hatred. We are no longer shocked by the fact that Muslims hate not only non-Muslims but other Muslims. It is common knowledge that Sunnis and Shiites hate each other, that both abhor Sufi Muslims as well as other Islamic sects. True, something comparable to this may also be said of certain Christian sects before the Reformation—and we dare not forget that Christians slaughtered Jews down through the centuries. But as Dr. Michael Ledeen has documented, and as will presently be seen, Islam is unique in that its love of death or necrophilia remains an ineluctable aspect of its theology.

Moreover, despite the murderous hatred Muslim sects display toward each other, we need to understand the character of their supreme role-model and prophet, Mohammad, the author of their holy Scripture, the Quran.2 We need to transcend vacuous tolerance, and we dare not yield to the timidity that poses as “moderation” in discussing Islam. Read More →

Just as [Obama] used the Constitution to justify its opposite, he now employs Christianity in the same way. Christianity, which has unambiguously condemned sodomy for more than 2000 years, is enlisted to endorse it.

Fear for the Republic.

Both Vice-President Joseph Biden and President Barack Obama have said that their positions regarding same-sex marriage have evolved. When you are “evolving,” you should really watch your grammar. Otherwise, people might suspect you are devolving instead.

Take for instance, the hapless Joe Biden’s pronouncement of why he supports same-sex marriage. It’s all a matter of “who do you love.” His statement is both substantively and grammatically incorrect. It should, of course, be “whom do you love”. “You” is the subject and “whom” is the object of the verb “love.” Biden’s grammatical error reveals the problem with same-sex marriage. It has two subjects without an object. Read More →

As a matter of fact, more Jews were murdered by Arab terrorists during Sharon’s reign than under that of any other prime minister.

The longest chapter in Machiavelli’s The Prince is on conspiracy. Conspiracy theorists love that Florentine. They sometimes forget, however, that the success of a Machiavellian conspiracy depends not only on ruthlessness, but also on foresight and panoramic intelligence. Since these intellectual qualities are not conspicuous among Israeli politicians, their political chicanery—I hesitate to say treachery—is too transparent and commonplace to merit much attention or be publicized by political scientists concerned about Israel’s image abroad. Hence, if the present article were simply entitled, “The Reported but Unpublicized Conspiracy of Israel’s Government,” it would be ignored by the pundits. I have therefore added the subtitle mentioned above, since Cowardice and Stupidity are also commonplace among Israeli politicians who have been selling the policy of “land for peace” for two decades in return for which Israel has received only murder and mayhem. These politicians hardly reach the level of pale Machiavellians.

But a less pallid conclusion about some Israeli politicians may be reached after reading the revelations of Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin recorded in a wide-ranging and lengthy interview with journalist Ari Shavit and published in the June 5, 2003 issue of Ha’aretz Magazine.1 The Rivlin interview contains unprecedented and startling revelations. I hasten to add that the Rivlin interview is more relevant than ever because Israel’s current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, having learned absolutely nothing from the past, wants to affix his own name, to the Sharon and Aharon Barak legacy exposed by Knesset Speaker Rivlin. In fact, Speaker Rivlin revealed what some shrewd pundits might call the criminal conspiracy of Israel’s entire Political and Judicial Establishment. Read More →

No More Mr. Nice Guy

by Burt Prelutsky
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Obama has proven time and again over the past three years, he’s anything but a nice guy. Not too long ago, when Mitt Romney said that Barack Obama was a nice guy, it gave me the heebie-jeebies. It was like an ice cube running down my spine, reminding me of the sissy campaign John McCain

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The Death of Moral Outrage

by Paul Eidelberg
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In today’s post-modern democratic world, lack of moral outrage may largely be attributed to the moral relativism propagated by our colleges and universities. Contrast the Western media’s cover-up of Nazi atrocities in the 1930s to today’s conspicuous exposure of atrocities inspired by Islam via Internet, Cable TV, to name only two. Why haven’t these atrocities—whether

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Dangerous Illusions about Islamism

by Robert R. Reilly
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Germany only learned its hard lesson because it lost the war to the Allies. What if the Nazis had won? Ideas have consequences, as Richard Weaver famously wrote. If one misconstrues the ideas of the Islamists who are coming to power in the Middle East, one inevitably will misjudge the consequences. Take Reuel Marc Gerecht’s

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Dereliction of Duty

by Paul Eidelberg
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Unlike liberals and their unseen mentor—Thomas Hobbes—the enemy does not regard violent death as the greatest evil. Dereliction of Duty, a book published by H.R. McMaster in 1997, is a revealing account of why liberal America, a sophisticated superpower, lost its war with Communist North Vietnam, a backward, tenth-rate military despotism. The book is more

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A New Dark Age

by Paul Eidelberg
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The nihilism that now dominates Europe, and which has all but conquered America … marks a New Dark Age. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The term “Western civilization” was very much the creation of American intellectuals at the beginning of the 20th century.  The term denoted the world outlook that American intellectuals shared

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Islamic ‘Adult Breastfeeding’ Fatwas Return

by Raymond Ibrahim
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Despite all the claims that Islam is perpetually being “misunderstood”—by terrorists, by “Islamophobes”—understanding what Islam commands and forbids is actually quite a simple matter: along with the Koran, determine what the prophet said in canonical hadiths. Back in May 2007, Dr. Izzat Atiya, head of Al Azhar University’s Department of Hadith, issued a fatwa, or Islamic

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