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Kidnapping is the only language Israel understands [Gaza militant as reported by the Associated Press] The Israel government is being criticized at home and abroad for a prisoner swap it executed with the Hezbollah terrorist group yesterday, which involved exchanging one notorious terrorist, four Gaza militants and the bodies of 199 Arab fighters all for the bodies of just… Read more.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is fighting an insurgency within his Anglican Church that makes the one President Bush is fighting in Iraq seem relatively mundane. In fact, here’s a little of what I wrote in a commentary on Williams’s internecine struggle a year ago: …the battle within the Anglican Church over the… Read more.
Western democracies should be celebrating Gaza’s democratic elections on Wednesday. Instead, they’re acting as if Gaza morphed into a theocratic autocracy overnight. Hamas wins in Gaza Of course, Western democracies have branded Hamas a terrorist organization. And they accuse Iran and its “wipe Israel off the map“ president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of funding the organization’s terrorist activities. That’s why Western democracies had… Read more.
