Graham: Iraq may “go to hell” without US troops

(CBS News) South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday called for a continued U.S. military presence in Iraq, and warned that pulling American troops out in 2011 would seriously jeopardize progress there. Graham also argued that providing State Department contractors with military equipment after the withdrawal of American troops would […]

Peace Corps Volunteers Speak Out on Rape

WASHINGTON — Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer with dreams of teaching English and “helping the world.” She left six weeks later a rape victim after being brutalized in an alley by a knife-wielding gang. When she returned to the United States, the […]

NOAM CHOMSKY: MY REACTION TO OSAMA BIN LADEN’S DEATH

Via Guernica: It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who […]

Gulf states welcome Jordan membership bid

By Hani Hazaimeh AMMAN – Jordan on Tuesday welcomed an announcement by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) supporting the Kingdom’s request to join the GCC. The GCC welcomed bids by Jordan and Morocco to join the six-nation grouping, its secretary general, Abdullatif Al Zayani, told reporters yesterday. “Leaders of the […]

Goldman Discloses More Subpoenas

Goldman Sachs’s mortgage problems are far from over. The Wall Street investment bank paid $550 million last year to settle a civil fraud suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused Goldman Sachs of creating a mortgage product that was intended to fail On Tuesday, the firm disclosed […]

Terrorism, suicide bombing and Islam

A little glance at the recent history shows that hardly a day passes in which an Islamic event does not make headlines. Very unfortunately, in the world today, Islam is portrayed as a religion sanctioning violence, bloodshed, extremism, fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism. But, in reality, there is no connection between […]

Letter: Religious Difference (Jakarta Post)

This is in reference to Aries Musnandar’s letter titled “Why do you defend Ahmadiyah?” (the Post, May 4). Protestantism and Catholicism are not two different religions. They are two different strains of the same faith (Christianity), in the same way that Shia, Sunni, Alawi, Sufi and Ahmadiyah Islam are all […]

Memorial Day ceremony at Western Wall

Memorial Day ceremonies commenced with a speech by the Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, who said: The Western Wall – this wall of prayers, last memory of the Temple, in front of which we stand every year, remembering and reminding of the sons and daughters, who gave […]

Israel’s Future Focus will be the Family

In honor of Israel’s 63rd Independence Day, Arutz Sheva is undertaking a special project. Entitled “Facing Forward,” it asks personalities from different fields to respond to the question: How do you expect the State of Israel to looks in twenty-five years, and how would you want it to look at […]