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President-elect Trump has the opportunity to make a historic course correction, and to do so in a manner consistent with his administration's stated goals. By...

"If you want to land in hell like all unbelievers that is your problem. ... We do not have an ounce of respect for you, infidels, nor for the way you live. Our...

Writings by Thomas Smith :: Gatestone Institute

In the Dutch province of Friesland, 250 of 720 existing churches have been transformed or closed. The Fatih Camii Mosque in Amsterdam once was the Saint...

Shariah Courts in Britain :: Gatestone Institute

If you want to root out a Hindu family from its ancestral home in Bangladesh, just accuse one of its members of insulting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. You...

For many years, the Palestinians had been complaining about Israeli restrictions that ban them from entering Israel, but during the holy month of Ramadan, in...

Reports from the Oslo-based non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights state that in recent anti-regime protests, 326 people have died and 15,000 have...

These Russian claims have not yet been adjudicated by international law courts, the United Nations, or by any bilateral or multilateral treaty. Russia's...

"This is an administration which never seems to find a good enough excuse to help Christians, but always finds an excuse to apologize for terrorists ... I hope...

Writings by Omer Demir :: Gatestone Institute

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) openly says it wants to establish dominance in emerging critical technologies as part of its strategy to supplant the United...

To understand how the UN effectively runs the Hamas propaganda war, it is important to know that the UN, through its agency for Palestinian refugees, the...

Syrian border guards blocked an infiltration attempt from Turkey by about 35 "armed terrorists," the official Syrian news agency SANA said on Tuesday, as...

It is, therefore, the epitome of hypocrisy for Mr Erdogan to offer to take responsibility for the ISIS fighters being held in Kurdish-run detention camps... If...

While President Obama and his European counterparts are going out of their way to apologize for defending their citizens' democratic way of life and to assure...

Recent comments by the head of the Muslim Brotherhood [MB], the winner of the recent elections in Egypt, and others, provide yet another jolting reminder of...

Who Should We Believe? :: Gatestone Institute

Whether it is using schools, hospitals and other public buildings that are supposed to be afforded immunity in conflict under international law, or simply...

Seven key countries are involved in an elaborate kabuki dance over nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles: Iran, Turkey, Brazil, Romania, China, Russia and the...

[T]he news of the week is most likely the crash of China. Real estate, currency, stock markets, technology, demographics: it all fits together, and what lies...

The GCCEI needs to examine, among other things, the way in which its patron, Saudi Arabia, has participated in, if not spearheaded, the very extremism that it...

Gatestone Institute is so thankful for you, our many friends, determined to keep as much of the world as free as possible for everyone. We have so much to be...

Palestinian Authority: Fayyad's Gamble :: Gatestone Institute

Writings by Shelby Steele :: Gatestone Institute

As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his efforts to revive the peace process in the Middle East, Palestinian officials in the West Bank are...

The difficulty was that the leadership of the revolution had no intention of creating a Western-style society in which economically and socially Westernized...

Critics of Israel almost never cite comparable data from other military encounters. This omission creates the false impression that the civilian death tolls in...

These threats hardly align with the EU's stated ambition of "ever-closer union" between member states. They are a gun to the head of EU integration. The...

By not directly targeting the source of support and funding, the Iranian regime, the administration may inadvertently be treating the symptoms rather than the...

Which European country would tolerate 50,000 rockets, mortars and missiles fired at it -- or even one rocket or missile? Before the October 7, 2023 attack.......

Following accusations of slanted reporting of the second Palestinian intifada, which began in 2000, and the rise in Jew-hatred caused by it, in 2004 the BBC...

Six years have passed since the death of Yasser Arafat and it does not seem that many Palestinians really miss the man. The number of Palestinians who show up...

Phase 1. Hamas frees some surviving female hostages and returns the bodies of the others in return for Israel releasing hundreds of terrorists. Then Hamas...

Hamas leaders are working hard these days to have their movement removed from the U.S. State Department list for Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The Hamas...

The U.S. Department of State needs to analyze the Kurdish issue more closely and carefully. When they do, they will see that the problem should not be called...

Hamburg city officials say that owners of vacant real estate have refused to make their property available to the city on a voluntary basis, and thus the city...

With the formation of a new provisional government of the Algerian region of Kabylie, the Western world might have gained a precious ally to fight al-Qaeda in...

While so many tragedies and disruptions have fallen on Japan and the Middle East in recent weeks, a singular event went almost unnoticed: the extermination of...

Europe's unreasonable acrimony towards Israel has finally gone beyond the usual condemnations, and been sealed in a document worthy of the pro-Palestinian...

How can a religion seize so much power in a country? Before Islamists come to power, they make sham promises to every faith and political party. Using charm,...

The real question is why, when it comes to the most extreme, anti-Western nation-destroyer of them all -- a country committed to the annihilation of a UN...

Syria, Lebanon and the U.S. :: Gatestone Institute

The Pakistani Taliban caused widespread revulsion when it recently gunned down 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, whose "crime" was to ask for an education....

"I think that the practice of automatic, early release where you cut a sentence in half and let really serious, violent offenders out early simply isn't...

On Sharia Law :: Gatestone Institute

Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, said that U.S. sanctions would have no impact on the organization, as it already obtains complete financial and weaponry...

Palestinian Authority :: Writings by Gatestone Institute

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is calling on Arab countries to launch a military strike against the Gaza Strip -- even as the PA plans to bring "war crimes"...

The cause of 50% of the killings was not determined, but 16% of the women were killed because they wanted to make decisions about their lives, such as wanting...

Iran: Obama Pours Fuel On The Fire :: Gatestone Institute

If any measure of peace between Muslims and Christians is to prevail, no church can exist in the village, local Muslims said. "The only houses of worship that...

The Palestinians held in Syrian prisons are probably not overly concerned about whether or not a bottle of wine made by Jews is labeled by the Europeans. The...

In August alone, the PA security forces committed 287 violations against Palestinians, including arbitrary arrests of a physicist, activists, lawyers and...

In an online essay he [Dr. Stanton A. Glantz] asserts that "among Chinese patients diagnosed with COVID-19 associated pneumonia, the odds of disease...

Writings by Frank Furedi :: Gatestone Institute

Recent analyses by experts on religious freedom cite the continued prejudicial declarations against Christians, Jews and Western civilization in Saudi...

All along the Mediterranean and to the north, parties opposing the EU-mandated austerity policies are growing spectacularly. The rise of tax-and-spend parties...

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Writings by Natan Sharansky :: Gatestone Institute

"We hear day and night, 'the Muslim community' and 'Muslim-majority nations.'" "Why, then, cannot we use 'the Judeo-Christian community' or 'Judeo-Christian...

Writings by Ying Ma :: Gatestone Institute

In the past few days, the Gaza-based groups have issued several statements hinting that they would use all means, including terrorism, to foil the US peace...

The leftism of the Left Bank had little effect on French politics, which steadily shifted towards the right. What is left of the French left now waves the flag...

A large and multifaceted crisis is unfolding in China. The world's most important rapidly-developing economy is running out of clean fresh water. As things get...

The war on Christianity and its adherents in the Muslim world rages on. In March alone, Saudi Arabia's highest Islamic legal authority decreed that churches in...

When Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that the detention for 92 days of two journalists, Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, constituted a breach of their basic...

Meklat's tweets, threatening women, gay celebrities and Jews, were shared by around a million on social networks. Then whole country discovered what the most...

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At 2:30am this morning friends telephoned and told us in tears that they had been informed from Iran that the prison guards have just transferred Ayatollah...

Hezbollah and its patrons in Tehran have done nothing to help end the disastrous economic crisis in Lebanon, where nearly 80% of the people live below the...

Wang further warns that U.S. President Donald J. Trump is likely to initiate a military conflict in the South China Sea region before the November 3 U.S....

While American Muslims raise their voices in collective indignant outrage over Tahera Ahmad's accusation that she was denied a can of Diet Coke on an airplane,...

Flogging of a Saudi School Girl, a Child :: Gatestone Institute

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, moreover, provides a timely illustration of what can happen when the West does not take sufficient action to safeguard the...

It is a desperate attempt by the French government to buy a few more days of quiet from its Muslim community, especially from the members of the Muslim...

The ban is in fact a compromise measure between German lawmakers who want to take a harder line against Iran and those who do not. As a result, the ban falls...

Still another proposal involves making changes to French law that would enable police to confiscate the passports and seize the assets of suspected would-be...

Referring to the lavish lifestyle led by most Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip and abroad, many Palestinians complained that while the fish are eating the...

One of the dangers that democracies face is that of the machinery of government morphing into a political party with its own culture, traditions, methods and,...

Biden's Iran nuclear deal, complete with enriched uranium for nuclear bombs to be used whenever Russia or Iran decide.

If efforts to expose Iran's and Hezbollah's roles in the Argentinean bombings are successful, the information will elucidate for regional leaders the dark side...

Writings by Nabil Al-Haidari :: Gatestone Institute

Palestinians say that Shaheen and Fattash are among dozens of "political detainees" who are being held in Palestinian Authority (PA) prisons and detention...

The Arctic -- where both the United States and Russia maintain a military presence -- is known for being rich in hydrocarbons. The Chinese, in their claims to...

Europe's Migrant Crisis :: Writings by Gatestone Institute

What is even more painful and humiliating for the Palestinians, is that EU officials who regularly visit the Gaza Strip intentionally ignore the suffering of...

Ryan Gosling admits he sees things as a Canadian. So it is all right for Gosling to see himself as a Canadian, but it is not all right for Neil Armstrong to...

Iran, having just had two of its major proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, seriously degraded, is apparently setting its sights on a new, "consolation prize" proxy...

British and European Union leaders say the time has come to formally accept the creation of a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, Major-General Ismail Qaani, chief...

Khamenei reached the "something-must-be-done" point that all leaders who need to appear to be doing something but lack the courage to do anything reach....

"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current...

We must now come to grips with the likelihood that Wray is worse for the country than Comey. Wray has an affirmative obligation to come forward with credible...

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Writings by Vijay Patel :: Gatestone Institute

The Central African Republic is a tragic case of what happens when Islamic radicals take over a nation. The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization...

It is a society that rejects religious zealotry. Most Kurds are Sunni Muslim and one can hear the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, but it is muted and...

Turkey under the Islamist rule of the Justice and Development Party [AKP] is moving faster toward the embrace of Iran, while further alienating its domestic...

President Trump will address U.S. policy toward Iran on Thursday, doubtless focusing on his decision regarding Barack Obama's badly flawed nuclear deal. Key...