Terrorism
October 16, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Last year marked half a century since Palestinian terrorists abducted, tortured and murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The 50th anniversary did not get the attention it deserved, and a key sequel escaped attention. The mastermind of the massacre was Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar. His grandson, calling himself Ammar Campa-Najjar, worked on Obama’s 2012 campaign, served in the Obama White House and federal Labor Department, and ran
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October 13, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Deploying an AR-15 to gun down two FBI agents, riddling their dead bodies with bullets, and fleeing the scene, would be a clear act of domestic terrorism by today’s standards. A group of congressional Democrats, joined by Rep. Tim Burchett, Tennessee Republican, want clemency for Leonard Peltier, who did all that, and more. In a letter to Joe Biden, the group claims that there were problems with the trial, and
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October 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Some of the Palestinians’ worst terrorist outrages were committed at Kibbutz Afar Aza, located almost adjacent to the Gaza border. They murdered many people there; I haven’t seen a total body count, but reportedly 40 infants were slaughtered in their cribs: 'About 40 babies were taken out on gurneys… Cribs overturned, strollers left behind, doors left wide open' Our correspondent @Nicole_Zedek continues to survey the horror scenes left behind in
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October 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Submitted for your analysis, the tweet of Secretary of State Antony Blinken (below). In it he discloses the upshot of his conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. Turkey is of course a supporter of Hamas. Blinken relates that he encouraged Turkey’s advocacy of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel now that Israel is undertaking its right to defend itself from Hamas. For some reason Blinken has since deleted the
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October 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The Biden administration promotes the line that the $6 billion ransom it has posted for the benefit of Iran has nothing to do with Iran’s support for terrorism and this line is faithfully parroted in the mainstream media, including Jennifer Griffin on Fox News. Gabriel Noronha has comprehensively refuted this assertion in an informative thread on Twitter/X. Readers can access Noronha’s thread via the Xeet below. 🧵I'm sorry Jen but
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October 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus has served as the international spokesman for the IDF. He has returned to duty in connection with current events. He is working overtime to provide public and private briefings for those who seek reliable information on the war. Last night he posted the video briefing at the bottom on the IDF’s X/Twitter feed (his own feed is here). RealClearPolitics has posted this transcript: Shalom from Tel
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October 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
News came yesterday that at least four American citizens were killed and others were taken hostage in Hamas’s 10/7 attack on Israel over the weekend. The Americans taken hostage need to be rescued, though we have to fear that the Biden administration may take their captivity as an opportunity to replenish the coffers of Hamas. Does anybody really know what time it is? It was party time at the White
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September 11, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Editors’ note: We are pleased to announce a new regular contributor to our pages: Lloyd Billingsley. Lloyd is the author of Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the Film Industry in the 1930s and 40s and other books. His work has appeared in countless newspapers and magazines, and he served as a correspondent for the Washington Times and The Spectator (London). Among many projects over his long career, Lloyd collaborated with
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September 11, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I first wrote about Rick Rescorla in 2003 after finishing James Stewart’s Heart of a Soldier, the book based on Stewart’s New Yorker article “The real heroes are dead.” (“The real heroes are dead” is what Rescorla would say in response to recognition of his heroism on the battlefield in Vietnam.) It’s a good book that touches on profound themes in a thought-provoking way: life and death, love and friendship,
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September 11, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Following 9/11 the New York Times ran Portraits of Grief profiling many of those lost in the 9/11 attacks. The Times attributes authorship of these artful profiles collectively to Kirk Johnson, N.R. Kleinfeld, David Barstow, Barbara Stewart, Jane Gross, Neela Banerjee, Constance L. Hays, Lynette Holloway, Janny Scott and Somini Sengupta. We can’t capture the magnitude of the loss, or the meaning of who and what we lost, but the
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July 5, 2023 — Steven Hayward
While all eyes are on the riots in France, not to mention the rolling riots in American cities such as—once again—the Twin Cities over the last few days, there hasn’t been as much attention here on the latest Palestinian provocations against Israel emanating from the West Bank. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared on BBC News, and had the following exchange: Here’s the full video if you can stand
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May 17, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Catching up with last week’s hard copy Wall Street Journal, I was struck by the numerous uses of “militants” in lieu of “terrorists” or “jihadists” to describe members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Take the headline of the May 9 story by Dov Lieber, Aaron Boxerman, and Anas Baba, for example: “Israeli Strikes Kill Senior Militants, Civilians in Gaza.” Query what you have to do to become a “senior militant.” Does
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May 16, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Last week in “Militant stupidity” I noted that Fox News has adopted the usage of the Associated Press referring to terrorists as “militants.” I doubt that this is a recent development, but it stuck out like a sore thumb with respect to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is a genocidal terrorist organization. Bret Baier employed the usage in stories last week on Special Report and Anders Hagstrom did as well in
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May 12, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Alisa Flatow was murdered in 1995 by an Iranian sponsored suicide bomber who plowed his car into a public bus near the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. Seven Israeli soldiers were killed along with Alisa. They were all under age 21. Fifty-two passengers were wounded in the attack. Alisa was remembered by her friend Alan Mitrani in a moving letter posted here at Brandeis University’s memorial
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May 12, 2023 — Scott Johnson
John and I started Power Line 21 years ago this coming Memorial Day weekend to support the United States and Israel in the war on terrorism. The United States has made great progress in the war. We don’t worry much about terrorist attacks on the United States nowadays. Osama bin Laden is pushing up daisies. China has become our principal national security preoccupation. In the case of Israel, Iran has
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April 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The Biden administration has conducted a comprehensive campaign of misinformation, disinformation, lying, and deception of the storied Gaslight variety. My personal favorite is the “success” of Biden’s open borders program, but you may have your own. The frequently derided White House press secretary KJP may be the perfect person for the job after all. The humiliating fiasco of our withdrawal from Afghanistan is another case in point. “Twas a famous
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March 21, 2023 — Scott Johnson
President Biden’s dissolution of our southern border on day 1 of his administration is a grave offense against the United States. Todd Bensman has followed the story as Senior National Security Fellow for the Center For Immigration Studies. He posts his work at his own site. He is the author, most recently, of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, published by Post Hill Press/Bombardier
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