Whitewashing (Aztec) Terrorism
By Andrew L. Jaffee I don’t know how many of you are fans of archeology, let alone that of Meso-America, but there are certainly those of you interested in the politically-correct whitewashing of...
View ArticleMesoamerican “Scholar” Goes Apocalypto on Mel
By Andrew L. Jaffee The violent history of the Maya has been sanitized as nonviolent, proving that having a “Ph.D.” after your name doesn’t really prove anything. Case in point: Alicia Estrada, an...
View ArticleJeremiah: Biblical and Historical Convergence
By Andrew L. Jaffee Regardless of the “larger debate between scholars known as biblical ‘minimalists’ and ‘maximalists’,” this little clay tablet proves that the Babylonians knew about Jews and Israel...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of… We Ourselves?
By Andrew L. Jaffee Those who forget the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them… Did the great Maya — masters of astronomy, architecture, poetry, hydrology, engineering, mathematics, art,...
View ArticleNehemiah: Biblical and Historical Convergence
More evidence has been found corroborating Biblical texts: A wall mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found, an Israeli archaeologist says. …...
View ArticleMiddle East Studies in Fiction
by Cinnamon Stillwell* It isn’t often that characters based on the field of Middle East studies show up in current fiction, but the novels of author Daniel Silva are an exception. The last three novels...
View ArticleMore Evidence Legitimizes Israel’s Existence
By Andrew L. Jaffee An alliance — if one can call it that — of Arabs, Muslims, leftists, and fascists — has spent years trying to delegitimize Israel’s existence and deny the rights of Jews to live in...
View ArticleExclusive Scoop: A Shocking Example: How NY Times Coverage Buries Middle East...
By Barry Rubin In my entire life I have rarely read an article which simultaneously showed the need to be well-informed before reading a newspaper and the shocking shortcomings of mass media coverage...
View ArticleThe world WILL end in 2012 if YOU want it to…
By Andrew L. Jaffee Sir Isaac Newton — no slouch, inventor of calculus, discoverer of the basic principles of planetary orbital motion, a father of optics, who elucidated gravity — predicted the world...
View ArticleThe Rhetoric of Nonsense: Fabricating Palestinian History
by Alexander H. Joffe* For nearly two decades the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been denying Israel’s right to exist, and a recent “Nakba Day” was no exception. In a Gaza speech on behalf of Mahmoud...
View ArticleIslam vs. History
by Daniel Pipes* The Islamist destruction underway in Timbuktu (including the tomb of Sidi Mahmoudou, d. 955, and the doors of the Sidi Yahya Mosque, ca. 1400) raises a question: What is it about Islam...
View ArticleCalls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin
by Raymond Ibrahim* According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin...
View ArticleHuffington Post, MSM Facilitate Destruction of Egypt’s Pyramids
by Raymond Ibrahim* Because the article “Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin” went viral on the Internet—read nearly 400,000 times on FrontPage Magazine alone where it first appeared—as...
View ArticleAre we willing to die to save the past?
by Alexander H. Joffe* Preserving the past has costs. Much of the world shares the belief that the past has intrinsic value, which is encoded into laws and regulations that imperfectly protect,...
View ArticleRaiders of the Lost Archive: Don’t return the rescued written treasures of...
By Sara Y. Aharon In 2003, a team of 16 American soldiers in Baghdad stumbled upon a lost treasure trove of thousands of documents belonging to Iraq’s Jewish community. These rare materials, thought to...
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