Category Archives: Arabs
Our friends the Saudis
Still up to their old tricks, it would seem. The Saudis, our Arab “friend” in the Middle East, still push hatred of Jews, women, and gays. This is done, among other ways*, through teaching young Saudis. As the song used to go, “you’ve got to be carefully taught.” From Fox News, a sample: In a […]
Jewish Double Standard Time
The Palestinians will attempt to gain statehood this month at the Third World and Muslim Debating Society, a/k/a the United (sic) Nations. Naturally, the air will be thick with anti-Zionist rancor, “anti-Zionist” being the polite way of not describing what actually goes on in most majority Muslim nations: pure, rabid, anti-Semitism, imported directly from Czarist […]
Zero influence
Looks like the rebels will prevail over the dictator and his family in Libya. Is this a good thing? Not if you are Qaddafi or one of his entourage. Couldn’t happen to a nastier piece of work. But before we engage in too much schadenfreude, Libya is not a nation. It’s a colonial fiction, a […]
Words to heed
There is likely no one alive in the West who knows more about the Middle East, Islam, and our relations with them, than Bernard Lewis. As reported by Jay Nordlinger at NRO, these words from Professor Lewis sum up what we ought to do and what we are not doing: “At the moment, the general […]
Hoping for change?
Anne Applebaum is encouraged by what’s going on in Egypt. Her concluding thought? “We should smile and embrace instability. And we should rejoice—because change, in repressive societies, is good.” Sounds much like liberals in the run-up to the election of the community organizer Obama, who, so far on the Egyptian fray, has voted “present.” Recall […]
