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Jan. 5, 2009

Mark Steyn: Gaza has its version of rocket scientists

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Jan. 2, 2009

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Having a holy tongue

Caroline B. Glick : Hamas' march to victory

Dec. 31, 2008

Dore Gold: Is Israel Using 'Disproportionate Force'?

Renee Enna:: Succulent 'stewp' is quick, easy fix

Dec. 30, 2008

Jonathan Mark: Israel's Response Is Disproportionate

Wesley Pruden: It's time once more to blame the Jews

Dec. 29, 2008

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Chanukah: 'Give me Judaism or give me death'

Michael B. Oren: A crisis and an opportunity

Dec. 26, 2008

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: When the past meets the future

Caroline B. Glick: Iran and Hamas do Christmas

Dec. 24, 2008

Rabbi Dovid Zauderer: Judaism's Santa problem

The Kosher Gourmet by Ethel G. Hofman CHANUKAH FORK-FINGER FOOD FEAST

Dec. 23, 2008

Caroline B. Glick: Repeating failure in Gaza

Dec. 22, 2008

Rabbi Boruch Leff: Too many Jews today are missing the intended purpose of one of Judaism's most beloved holidays

Barry Rubin: Liar, liar, pants on cease-fire

Dec. 19, 2008

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The Final Battlefield

Caroline B. Glick: Betting on a dead horse

Dec. 18, 2008

The Kosher Gourmet by Steve Petusevsky: Juicy Chef's hella top, hella bottom, hallelujah in the middle

Craig Crossman : More gifts for geeks --- and those who love them

Dec. 17, 2008

Dion Nissenbaum: Israel kicks out outrageously biased UN official

Craig Crossman : Gifts for geeks --- and those who love them

Dec. 16, 2008

Jonathan Rosenblum: The Gift of Joy

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Uncle Shariah

Dec. 15, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Expert witnesses who put themselves first

Barry Rubin: What they say isn't what you hear

Dec. 12, 2008

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Can the Bible be a secular language?

Caroline B. Glick: What a PM Netanyahu faces from Washington

Dec. 11, 2008

Rabbi Leiby Burnham: Our role in the Divine's global corporation, World Inc.

The Kosher Gourmet by Steve Petusevsky: A retro-tasting pareve pot pie made with a light hand

Dec. 10, 2008

Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn: Groom admits he was caught "red handed"

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Dec. 9, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Can I make my boss treat me fairly?

Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report: Next Steps in the Indo-Pakistani Crisis

Dec. 8, 2008

Rabbi Avi Shafran: 'Chanukah Bush' flap and graciousness

Mark Steyn: Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable

Dec. 5, 2008

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: Truth --- The Key to Gratitude

Jeff Jacoby: UN's obsession is grotesque and Orwellian

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Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Jewish World Review June 27, 2005 / 20 Sivan, 5765

Democracy on the march

By Jack Kelly

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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice raised eyebrows when she criticized the human rights record of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a visit to Cairo Monday.

"We are all concerned for the future of Egypt's reforms when peaceful supporters of democracy — men and women — are not free from violence," she said.

Rice went on to criticize the human rights record in Saudi Arabia, the next stop on her Middle East tour.

After Rice linked Syria's "long and continued presence" in Lebanon to the assassination of an anti-Syrian Lebanese politician, Syrian state radio said Wednesday America's plan for the Middle East "is no longer a secret."

"The plan which was launched with the U.S. war in Iraq is continuing today in Lebanon," Radio Damascus said.

Indeed it is. President Bush's strategy for winning the war on terror is obvious, but sometimes the obvious must be repeated over and over before people pay attention.

America's enemies are also enemies of freedom and democracy. Our enemies are our enemies mostly because they fear we might bring freedom and democracy to their neck of the woods. So Bush made a conscious decision to ally the United States with freedom and democracy the world over.

History is the tale of one war after another. Dictatorships fight other dictatorships, dictatorships attack democracies. But democracies don't fight other democracies. (The last time two democracies squared off was in the War of 1812.)

So how is the Bush doctrine doing?

The chairman of the committee drafting Iraq's new constitution told the newspaper al Sabah Monday the document was 80 percent written. "The final draft will come out with an Iraqi spirit and there are actually little differences to debate," Humam Hammodi said.

"Bottom line, the people won the war when they said their word on the 30th of January and since then, many of the hesitant elements have recognized the winning side and began joining it while the barking dogs will have nothing left to chew on but their bitter defeat," said the Iraqi web logger Omar.

Lebanon concluded its first fair election in decades last weekend, and the mullahs in Iran held a sham one. The results of both contain good news for the United States.

In Lebanon, an anti-Syrian coalition won a solid majority of seats in Lebanon's parliament (although not, alas, the two-thirds majority required to oust the puppet president Syria installed). The victory was made possible by the withdrawal, in April, of the Syrian troops who had occupied Lebanon since 1976.

The Syrian withdrawal was forced by the "Cedar Revolution" that was sparked by the murder by Syrian agents of popular Sunni Muslim politician Rafik Hariri in February, and inspired by the success of the Iraqi elections the previous month.

The withdrawal is only partial, since many Syrian intelligence operatives remain in Lebanon, and likely were responsible for the assassinations of George Hawi this week and an anti-Syrian journalist June 2nd.

But it has been a major loss of prestige for the Baathist regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and an even bigger blow to Syrian pocketbooks, since much of Syria's meager wealth consists of what it has looted from Lebanon.

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The democratic pressures Bush has unleashed in the Middle East are responsible for the modest reforms Assad announced at a Baath party congress earlier this month. Assad, of course, doesn't want real democracy for Syrians, but hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

Speaking of hypocrisy, the first round of the Iranian election June 17th was so clumsily stolen that it didn't even fool the New York Times.

"One of the reasons why I have been so concerned about Iran for such a long time is that I fear the mullahs' cleverness, ruthlessness, and ability to mount brilliant deceptions," wrote Michael Ledeen.

But, he said, "They couldn't even stage a phony election without appearing inept and thuggish...And the spectacle of intense internal conflict among leading figures in the Islamic republic makes me wonder if the revolution is beginning to devour its own fathers and sons."

Bush has put democracy on the march in the Middle East. It is making America and the world safer.

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