The Palestinian Authority Pays Terrorists at the Expense of Its Neediest Citizens
Don’t believe its excuses about “social welfare.”
January 14, 2019
With Iran’s Help, Iraq Slaughters Sunnis under the Guise of Punishing Islamic State
Sowing the seeds of future conflict.
Having reclaimed most of the territory once held by Islamic State (IS), the Iraqi government has before it the daunting prospect of jailing and punishing the jihadists who terrorized its people; many Iraqis, moreover, are understandably eager to see evidence of retribution. But Baghdad’s security forces, working in cooperation with Iran-backed militias, are in many cases simply rounding up Sunni Muslims for imprisonment and execution. In other cases, the militias have massacred civilians and raped women whose only crime was living under IS rule. Ben Taub writes:
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With Iran’s Help, Iraq Slaughters Sunnis under the Guise of Punishing Islamic State
Sowing the seeds of future conflict.
Europe Should Be Eliminating Blasphemy Laws, Not Expanding Them
Such laws neither promote tolerance nor protect minorities.
The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism, and the Realities of Jewish Bolsheviks
Refuting an anti-Semitic libel need not involve papering over Soviet crimes.
An Orthodox Rabbi’s Case for Interfaith Prayer with Christian Zionists
“For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.”