In our previous article, “Exonerating President Obama”, we noted that the only Supreme Court precedent for the meaning of the term “natural born Citizen” in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution appears to be the Judge Harlan dissent in the United States v. Wong Kim Ark case. In collaboration with a constitutional attorney,
The anniversary of Israel's Six Day War not only commemorates an unlikely military victory, resulting in the Jewish liberation of Jerusalem, Hebron and other ancient Jewish cities, but also one of the last modern day catalysts of near universal Jewish self-regard. Just recently I heard a Siberian Jew reminisce about just how proud he
The leader of Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has said during an interview that Istanbul could be restored to Greek control, private broadcaster NTV reported Friday on its website. "Is it realistic to ask for Istanbul, where 15 millions Turks live, while there are only 3,000 Rum [Anatolian Greek]?" Greece's daily Proto
Egypt will try again on Tuesday to set up an assembly to write a new constitution, the parliament speaker said on Saturday, after the previous such body was dissolved for failing to represent all interests following the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s government. The make-up of the constitutional committee has been in deadlock since April
A suspected Islamist stabbed two policemen Friday at an underground station in a Brussels neighborhood where scuffles broke out a week earlier, local media reported. The two victims, a man and a woman who were attacked during a routine check, did not sustain life-threatening wounds, the reports said. The attacker was quickly subdued
Egypt’s prosecutor summoned an Islamist MP for questioning after he was caught performing an indecent act with a teenage girl, an Egyptian daily reported late Friday citing an unnamed security official. “The normal legal procedure in this case is to send the prosecutor’s order to the People’s Assembly [Egypt’s lower house of parliament] on
Hundreds of activists gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to demonstrate against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq ahead of a run-off vote, saying they did not want to be ruled by another former military man. Some of those in the square supported Shafiq’s rival Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, which already controls parliament,
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned on Friday that he may seek non-member status for a Palestinian state at the United Nations if peace talks with Israel do not resume, The Associated Press reported. The PA currently has observer status at the UN and an upgrade by the General Assembly to “non-member” would give
Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had approved $430 million in project aid to Egypt and would allow Cairo to use a $750 million line of credit to import oil products. The aid, to be provided by the Saudi Fund for Development, is part of a package that Saudi Arabia announced a year ago
Members of the International Israel Allies Caucus Foundation met in Washington, D.C., this week and called on the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, CBN News reported. Several Jewish and Christian leaders, as well as pro-Israel lawmakers, attended the group's Jerusalem Day celebration on Capitol Hill, which took place
