Tag: Terrorism

It is understandable that today many people in many lands just want the fighting between the Israelis and the Palestinians to stop. (AP Photo)

Cease the cease-fires

Thomas Sowell · July 29, 2014 2:29 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at her weekly press conference on Friday, July 25th, 2014. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Beltway Confidential

What Qatar didn’t tell Nancy Pelosi about the ‘humanitarian organization’ Hamas

Charles Hoskinson · July 29, 2014 3:07 am

People inspect the destroyed old Mosque of The Prophet Jirjis in central Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2014. The revered Muslim shrine was destroyed by militants who overran the city in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law. (AP Photo)

Seriously? Obama asks Congress to repeal 2002 War in Iraq: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 9:00 pm

Ben-Gurion Airport uses the most sophisticated aviation security in the world, which protects flights from all threats, including Hamas rocket shrapnel landing outside the airport (the occurrence on Tuesday which triggered the ban). (AP Photo)

America should help Israel destroy Hamas’ terrorist tunnels, infrastructure

Avi Dichter · July 26, 2014 2:04 pm

Kenyan police officers load the body of a female tourist into a police vehicle in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. A Kenya police official says a female tourist has been shot dead in the coastal town of Mombasa, the second foreigner shot in same area this month. (AP Photo)

Gunmen kill female tourist on Kenya coast

Tom Odula · July 24, 2014 6:21 pm

Hamas, designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S., has governed the Palestinian territory of Gaza since they defeated rival Fatah, the group that governs the West Bank. (AP Photo)

Why there can never be ‘peace in the Middle East’

Larry Elder · July 24, 2014 2:32 pm

A police officer stands guard as people attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 22. (AP/Sunday Alamba)

Beltway Confidential

Some parents of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls will never see their children again

Ashe Schow · July 22, 2014 3:48 pm

Major newspaper editorials condemned Hamas, but their condemnation was hedged by calls for "restraint" on "both sides" and "proportionality" in Israel's response to the attacks. (AP Photo)

The best way to help Palestinians is to stop helping terrorists

Cal Thomas · July 21, 2014 9:00 pm

Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike hit Gaza City, Monday. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Beltway Confidential

Why is the U.S. funding a United Nations group that transfers weapons to terrorists?

Philip Klein · July 21, 2014 3:25 pm

A motorist in Dubai in the U.A.E. holds a special afternoon edition of "Gulf News" published in response to Saddam Hussein's announcement of the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait on Feb. 27, 1991. (AP Photo/Gill Allen)

National Security

The Gulf War was no mistake

Scott Stump · July 21, 2014 10:00 am

‘The Kerry-Qatar Axis’

Daniel Halper · July 18, 2014 1:52 pm

Palestinians flee their homes Wednesday in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City after Israel had airdropped leaflets warning people to leave the area. Alongside the air strikes, Israel also ordered tens of thousands of residents of the northern town of Beit Lahiya and the Zeitoun and Shijaiyah neighborhoods of Gaza City, all near the border with Israel, to evacuate their homes. The warnings were delivered in automated phone calls, text messages and leaflets.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Beltway Confidential

Five reasons why comparing Israeli and Palestinian death totals is a misleading way to judge the conflict

Philip Klein · July 16, 2014 9:45 pm