Mystical Politics

In Jim Davila’s blog on December 29 he quoted several sermons given by Muslim preachers employed by the Palestinian Authority over the last...

And here is today's Ha'aretz editorial about the shooting of unarmed Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign demonstrators protesting the ...

I'm now visiting Israel for a few weeks, and the view looks different from here. Suddenly what seems so clear in America now turns into ...

A good Washington Post editorial yesterday on Howard Dean, Beyond the Mainstream . If only more Democratic primary voters agreed with these ...

Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica.com quotes from the obituary of J.B. Segal, a noted scholar of Semitic languages at the School of Oriental and A...

Steven Weiss at Protocols asks why the organized Jewish community in the U.S. and France is not objecting to the proposed French ban on wea...

Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica has a very good fisking of anti-gay arguments made by David Klinghoffer about gay marriage. He exposes Klinghof...

Time Magazine Europe, in this article, Seven Days Of Hatred , recounts the many and various kinds of hate crimes committed on the European c...

And this is why I still support the U.S. war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and the Baathists in Iraq -- Survey: Saddam Killed 61,000 in Baghda...

Larry Derfner has written a very troubling article in today's Jerusalem Post -- The wages of denial . The problem is that the suffer...

Here is an article on a cool archaeological find in Jerusalem -- an inscription on the misnamed "Absalom's Tomb" -- Scholars D...

Another good British editorial on the Istanbul bombings and the blame-Israel response: The liberalism of fools . What has happened to t...

Even the Guardian (U.K.) is finally getting it about rising anti-semitism: Our dulled nerve . As they ask, after recounting the recent bombi...

Well, as I suspected when hearing about the simultaneous car bombs yesterday, Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attacks. Part of the state...

It seems likely that Al-Qaida has struck again -- Car Bombs at Istanbul Synagogues Kill 17 . One of the synagogues is called "Neve Shal...

It appears that an exhibit of anti-abortion posters that compare abortion to lynchings of black men and to the Holocaust is traveling around...

I guess I haven't been here for quite a while -- I've been pretty busy, doing research for my Society of Biblical Literature paper (...

Another piece of good (baseball) news -- Marlins Win World Series . I wanted a Red Sox vs. Cubs series, but at least the Yankees lost....

The New York Times reports that Many Iraqis Find They Like Life Without Hussein . It gives me hope that despite the many mistakes the U.S. h...

More on International ANSWER and the International Action Center . This is a letter about a U.S. committee that formed to protest the ...