The top story this week was the arrests of a small number of Russian extremists who unfortunately misunderstood the moderate nature of the Russian government and its espionage services. While right wingers might insist that the arrest of a Russian espionage ring reveals the existence of a covert ...

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Think about this: there is at least one American business that is paid to demonize Israel.

The employees, well-paid professionals, go to work every day and think up ways to make Israel look like a moral monster, a rogue state dangerous to world peace for which the only remedy - as in the case of ...

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As Hollywood director Oliver Stone releases his pro-Hugo Chavez film, "South of the Border," the Socialist International (SI) reports that the oil-rich Venezuelan ruler is suppressing dissent, interfering with freedom of the press, mismanaging the economy, and threatening peace in the region.

The ...

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DUNN LORING, VIRGINIA -- Robert R. Reilly's The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist (ISI Books, May 2010) will, I am sure, fascinate other readers as it did me. I could hardly put it down until I'd read it twice. 

Reilly (a dear friend of mine, by the ...

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One of the characters Alice meets in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass is the argumentative egg, Humpty Dumpty. According to Humpty, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean", which is the problem the two parties to the Cyprus dispute are now facing.

In essence, the ...

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When you're in a competition and you're losing, one of the first thing to do is to study what your opponent is doing and copy him. In this case Israel is competing for good media coverage with the terrorists. And the terrorists are winning. And if the media likes them so much, maybe it's time to ...

Read more: A Terrorist's Guide to Improving Israel's Media Coverage

In a recent appearance before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Meir Dagan, head of the Mossad, claimed that while the Iranians are still seeking nuclear capabilities as a strategic objective, "they have encountered far more difficulties than expected and failed to advance as they ...

Read more: The Iranian Challenge: Synchronizing the Political and Technological Clocks

Since 2007, Israel has maintained a legal maritime blockade around Gaza. Gaza is a territory ruled by a known terrorist organization -- Hamas -- whose explicitly stated goal is the elimination of Israel through violence. Past experience has proven that Hamas keeps its promises of terror, cravenly ...

Read more: Israel was the first victim - It won't be the last