On February 9, 2014 we reported on the Wall Street Journal’s investigation into an apparent terrorist attack on the Metcalf Substation of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) in Silicon Valley, “The Metcalf Incident: California Power Station Terrorist Attack Reveals Highly Vulnerable National Grid”. We noted: In the early morning of April 16, 2013, the Metcalf, California transmission substation […]
I watched the confused early morning US live broadcast of press conference held by Malaysian military and civilian aviation authorities. They were endeavoring to answer questions of an international press perplexed by the conflicting information about the final moments and whereabouts of Malaysian Air Flight MH 370 with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board departed […]
Today’s Israel Hayom published a report on IAF Gen. Air Defense chief Maj. Gen. Shachar Shohat citing the threat of terrorist drones, “IAF officer: Israel will face terrorist drones in next war”. Shohat noted: Israel fears terrorists in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip will deploy exploding drones in a future war, in addition to their main rocket arsenals, the […]
The Obama White House and the world media are pre-occupied with Russian President Putin’s grab of the Ukrainian autonomous province of Crimea. There are undertones of “Back to the Future”- meaning a possible return to Cold War era geopolitics with Russia. Despite that overriding ruckus there was a less well publicized series of events in […]
One of horrors that have confronted American women who naively marry Saudi men is the possible risk of having children of those marriages kidnapped following divorce in accordance with Sharia and removed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There are estimated to be in excess of 1,000 such cases. A few have been featured in […]
Credit the Israeli Naval Commandos of Sayeret 13 and missile boats with another coup seizing the Panamanian flagged vessel, the KLOS-C packed with clearly marked Iranian M302 Rockets bound ultimately for Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza. You may recall the Sayeret 13 boarded the Turkish ferry the Mavi Mamara in the May 2010 Free Gaza Flotilla. […]
Iranian Fateh-110 series Missiles with alleged Multiple warhead capabilties. Source FARS news agency 3-5-14. Iran’s Revolutionary guard unveiled a new class of missiles which it alleges has multiple warhead capabilities. In our March NER article, has Iran Developed Nuclear Weapons in North Korea? , We reported sources suggesting that the Islamic regime , in cooperation with North […]
Washington was the center of contretemps over Putin’s seizure of Crimea and widening public differences with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu We recently interviewed Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute and reviewed of his new book Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes. (See The Peril of Engaging Rogue States: An Interview with Dr. […]
On January 1, 2014 a spectacular explosion and fire occurred at a building in the predominantly Somali émigré area of Minneapolis located in Congressional district of US Rep. Keith Ellison. A Gates of Vienna (GOV) report noted what occurred: At 8:16am a catastrophic fire broke out at 514 Cedar Avenue South in a predominantly Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis. The blaze […]
At our usual Sunday brunch with friends we covered a host of topics. We chatted about the further demise of American exceptionalism evidenced by Putin thumbing his nose at Obama and the West by seizing Crimea. Then we dawdled over coffee about the advent of meteorological spring, yesterday, March 1st; although folks up North are […]
Premier Erdogan appears to be digging a hole deeper and deeper hole in his credibility to keep his Premiership in Turkey. The latest example is the kerfuffle that was created by the release of several alleged phone calls with his son, Bilal, a person of interest in the corruption probe, mid-December 2013. The several calls […]
Michael Rubin, former Bush era Pentagon official who is currently a Resident Scholar at the Washington, DC –based American Enterprise Institute(AEI), has been engaged in intense media interviews since the launch of his new book, Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes. Dancing with the Devil covers Rubin’s research on fifty years of US and […]
On Monday night of Presidents’ Weekend, Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) premiered a new film, The J Street Challenge, to an audience of 400 at a theater in Miami Beach. It is the latest in a series of provocative films by Avi Goldwasser and Charles Jacobs. These films include: Columbia Unbecoming, about intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian faculty at an […]
Re: HB 895 – Foreign Law; prohibit the application of foreign law in Georgia courts; violations of rights guaranteed natural citizens by U.S. and Georgia Constitutions Dear Congressman Hightower, My name is Rabbi Jonathan Hausman. I have a BA in Judaic Studies, MA in International Affairs concentrating on the Middle East (both degrees from The […]
A century ago the Presbyterian Church was among the leading Christian Zionists. These days a minority within the Presbyterian Church USA is engaged in relentless delegitimization of Israel through a decade long BDS campaign. Their affiliate the Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) released last month a 74 page guide, Zionism Unsettled (the Guide) that recently stoked the ire […]