By Lloyd Levy LONDON–The death of Osama Bin Laden had been long in the coming, and many people celebrate that he has reaped what he has sown. Nevertheless I do believe that his portrayal in the “West” has been deliberately misleading. Blaming something called Al-Qaida, for the world’s terrorism is a deception, a politically [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) on Tuesday, May 10, introduced H.R. 1790, the “Defund United States Assistance to Pakistan Act of 2011,” after last week’s successful raid to Kill Osama Bin Laden made it clear that Pakistan’s leadership concealed, protected and enabled the al-Qaeda leader for many years. Pakistan has received over $18 [...]
MUMBAI (WJC)–Twenty-one people were involved in plotting the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008, including four serving officers of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and three former officers of the Pakistani Army, the suspected terrorist David Headley has reportedly told Indian investigators in June 2010. Headley, who was born Daood Sayed [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. – How long did the Administration think the Pakistani government could or would let the Allies kill people in their country? True, most of the people we’re killing are as much or more of a threat to Pakistan than they are to the United States – we, after all, can leave [...]
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — When I opened this morning’s paper, I groaned when I saw that the stock market had dropped below 10,000. I began to feel sorry for myself until I read the next headline: “Flooding displaces one million more in Pakistan.” At least 1,600 people have been killed and 17 [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– More than any other national leader, Barack Obama has a global constituency. The world does not vote in American elections, but his capacity to fulfill his obligations depends on the cooperation of other national leaders, and the opinions of publics that have at least a minimum of influence on them. Balancing [...]
NEW YORK (WJC)–The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is collecting funds to help the victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan with food, clothing, medicine and other necessities. Flooding began about three weeks ago and has affected an estimated 170 million people in Pakistan. The United Nations has described Pakistan’s worst humanitarian crisis as [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The issue of the New York City mosque near ground zero has awakened discussion of that big gorilla in the American living room. Despite all the platitudes slung back and forth about religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and the assertion that the problem of terror is not Islam, [...]
-Reprinted from Summer 2010 issue of inFocus Quarterly- On May 27, inFOCUS editor Matthew RJ Brodsky interviewed Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from 2005-2009. As secretary he developed and implemented border security policy, homeland security regulations, and a national cyber security strategy. He also served periodically on the National Security [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, in the wake of the killing of an IDF officer inside Israel by Lebanese Armed Forces personnel, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) announced that Congress would block the disbursement of $100 million in U.S. military aid to Lebanon. Lowey chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee that authorizes such funds. Similarly, [...]
