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In the early years of the Iranian Revolution, an obscure cleric named Ayatollah Gilani became a sensation on state television by contemplating bizarre hypotheticals at the intersection of Islamic law and sexuality. One of his most outlandish scenarios -- still mocked by Iranians...

one of the Islamic delegates—usually Egypt—intervened to change ‘Holocaust’ to ‘holocausts.’ Adding insult to injury

an expert on Dhimmi behavior throughout Islamic history. In Islam

in exchange for life in an Islamic controlled land. It is a protection contract: you can

Islamic Jihad and Fatah’s “Al-Aqsa Martyrs’

Under this structure, Hezbollah's militia and terrorist activities, along with its security organ, all report to the Jihad Council. Until he was killed, Mughniyeh was Hezbollah's top militant commander and reportedly led the Jihad Council himself. By some accounts, he also held a...

The other tendency is an immense secularization of the West. And I know we've talked about secularization for a long time, but if you look at younger people, especially millennials under 30, the overwhelming drive of popular culture is to absolutely secularize this rising iterati...

More importantly, even if the Assad’s regime is overthrown, the opposition is unlikely to succeed in forming a stable and functional democratic government. Admittedly, Bashar Assad has made immense mistakes since the beginning of the war. Human rights have been viciously violated...

85 surveillance, if Gellman agreed to write a story on it for the Washington Post. Even though Gellman had left the staff of the Washington Post in 2010, he had previously written several stories on that subject for the newspaper. He was also highly-regarded by the editors there...

…ing an error on the scale of 1948, when the Palestinians had rejected the partition of Palestine and the creation of an Arab state; or in 1978, when by negotiating on the basis of Sadat’s Palestinian-rights framework, they would have ended up with a mere 5,000 Israeli settlers on...

…ld be under Palestinian sovereignty. The rest of the city would remain under Israeli sovereignty, but most of the other Arab villages would be subject to a system of Palestinian administration. The Haram al-Sharif, the mosque complex above the wall of the Jewish temple, would be...

…ld be under Palestinian sovereignty. The rest of the city would remain under Israeli sovereignty, but most of the other Arab villages would be subject to a system of Palestinian administration. The Haram al-Sharif, the mosque complex above the wall of the Jewish temple, would be...

…f “disengagement” between Israel and the Palestinians to Jerusalem? Meaning Arafat getting control of the predominantly Arab neighborhoods in the east of the city. Dennis knew my long-standing reluctance to commit to concessions until we got to real, final negotiations with Araf...

…mayors crippled for life. The terror campaign had ended only when the Shin Bet caught the cell placing explosives under Arab-owned buses in Jerusalem. Hopeful of preventing misunderstandings, and ideally building a relationship of trust, I visited many of the settlements during...

…against Palestinians, but specific Jewish settlers. We arrested about a half-dozen leaders of Kach, the far-right, anti-Arab political movement founded by the American Rabbi Meir Kahane, of which Baruch Goldstein had also been a member. Still, there were repeated clashes anyway —...