Colonel Bagshot : Six Day War

5 June 1967 : Six Day War Begins

AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.05.25

Arcade Fire: Month of May

AoSHQ: Morning Report 05.09.22

Bernard Lewis RIP

Mark Steyn: "We Don't Know Who We Are"

Bernard Lewis will be missed. RIP. 

Haaretz: Bernard Lewis, Dead at 101

Jerusalem Post: Bernard Lewis, Scholar and Political Advisor, Dead at 101

The Atlantic: Bernard Lewis: The Roots of Muslim Rage Amazing piece given it was written in 1990. 

#BerlinAttack Killer Dead, but came to Europe as refugee in the Arab Spring

AoSHQ's J.J. Sefton is right: January 20 can't come fast enough...

DRUDGE REPORT: The Sun: BerlinAttack Killer's Path To Jihad

Instapundit: Berlin Attack Suspect Shot Dead in Milan, Democrats Turn On Obama, God Save The Queen

EBL: The Followers of Mohammed Have Been Busy This Christmas, Manhunt for ISIS Terrorist, Terror Attack at Berlin Christmas Market, and Russian ambassador killed in Ankara

Mark Steyn: The Mopping Up Operation, Christmas Glow Worm, and Market Forces

Weasel Zippers Australia Terror plot foiled

Heavy: Pledging Allegiance To ISIS

TOM: #BerlinAttacker Apprehended And  Shot Dead In Italy

Shia vs Sunni, Persian vs Arab, can you imagine these players with nuclear weapons?

The Shia Sunni Divide is not going away...

Iran's Nuclear Timeline. It is almost certain Saudi Arabia will obtain nuclear weapons if Iran gets them (the quickest way would be by buying some from the Pakistanis).

Legal Insurrection: While it would be preferable they both lose, if this escalates they are likely to drag the rest of the world in with them

Saudis sentenced Nimr al-Nimr's nephew to beheading and crucifixion.

RedState/Leon Wolf: What The Media Is Getting Wrong About The Execution of Nimr al-Nimr 

RedState/Joe Cunningham: After execution of Nimr, Iranian Protesters Storm Saudi embassy

American Thinker: Did Obama destabilize the Middle East on purpose? 

Instapundit: Collapse? (no this would not be a good thing, the alternative would be worse), Spengler: Panic by the Saudi Monarchy, Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with Iran, Obama's Bizarro World Victory Tour and French ambassador is okay with embassy burnings?

Richard Fernandez: Assassin's Creed (President Obama don't know much about history...)
Victor Davis Hanson: Mother of Peace (President Obama doesn't know much about human nature either)
Regular Right Guy: Saudis execute 47, but only some by beheading...

Truck Driver Takes on Migrants in Calais

Conservative Tribune: Do you think Europe has a problem?  

EBL: We have a problem too

Mark Steyn: That'll show ISIS and House Calls for Jihadists

Lem's Levity: Obama has blank check for Syrians and An Act of Love (Troop blogs on the Hungarian driver at Calais)

Obama chides the United States overseas (again)

Via Washington Free Beacon (Really, Mr. President)

I am tired of Chidey Obama (especially overseas)

Mass Shooting only happen in the United States? Barack Obama said that is Paris this week. Is this difficulty with telling the truth (and this list is generous to Obama), past head trauma, or too much weed (back in the day).  

Obama said 'it is not who we are" to single out Christian Syrian Refugees for preferred entry.  Boy Howdy does Obama policy demonstrate that:  All Syrian Refugees admitted since Paris attacks have been Muslims (mostly male).  No Christian Syrians were admitted.

Instapundit: Jonah Goldberg: Christians are blamed for Planned Parenthood but Muslims for Paris..., Why are voters looking for an alternative, CO2 Hypocrisy, Democrat Double Standards, advantage is always with VDH

Regular Right Guy: Obama in Paris: Mass shootings only happen in the USA
American Power Blog: What the Paris attacks tell us about ISIS/Daesh strategy
Protein Wisdom: Good Man?  I think not

Barack Obama needs to own the crisis he helped create in Syria...

President Obama is a liar, is covering up his own failures, and is trying to divert blame...

The Syrian Crisis that Obama Helped Create

Peter Beinart claims Obama wants to stand on the right side of history in dealing with America's evil? Say what? So merely questioning the wisdom of Obama's reckless Syrian refugee plan makes us all xenophobes and nativists?

How pathetic and disgraceful such a comment is made by an American President (it is almost like his pal from the neighborhood Bill Ayers was saying it)...

Oh wait, we were talking about evil. You know who's really evil? ISIS is evil. You know how ISIS managed to take over huge swaths of Syria and Iraq?  How soon we forget Biden and Obama declaring Iraq to be a success story.  So what happened? What happened is Obama allowing Iraq and Syria to become disaster cases.  Oh yeah, Obama's and Hillary War of Choice in Libya too (maybe Beinart can go down the hall at The Atlantic and speak with Conor Friedersdorf about that). Obama also wrecked US and Egyptian ties. I am not even sure it is bumbling and incompetency, it is arguably far more malevolent than that.

Beinart is often wrong.

Instapundit: Peter Wehner: Our Bitter Graceless President, Hillary helped screw it up too, Dianne Feinstein tells Obama we are running out of time to defeat ISIS, to divert blame for their own failures Democrats and their media lackey blame Republicans for being Islamophobes

EBL: FBI investigating 900 homegrown ISIS cases, Is it Trump's race to lose?, there is a fundamental difference between fundamental Islam and Christianity, why would Syrian-Americans say no to Syrian refugees?, and ISIS is a symptom of a far bigger problem

Regular Right Guy: Media Hammers Obama on ISIS strategy
Mark Steyn: The Week In Nothing To Do With Islam
AmPowerBlog: Obama's Syrian Refugee Debacle
Camp of the Saints: Obama: Talk to the Hand
Legal Insurrection: Obama Blames GOP
AoSHQ: Obama Intel Book Cooking

Isn't the possible bomb attack on the Russian tourist aircraft the real story out of Egypt right now?

I am less concerned with Ben Carson's archeology knowledge than how he would deal with ISIS

Barack Obama's handling of the middle east has been a complete and utter disaster.  

What does the ISIS bombing mean for worried travelers?

Obama's war advisors turn on him

Is CNN in for Ben Carson?

CNN says it's ISIS

ISIS?

BREAKING NEWS: Black boxes show an on-board bomb took down the Russian jet in Egypt, @CNN is reporting.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 6, 2015

Instapundit/Ed Driscoll: CNN Media Hit Job on Ben Carson

AoSHQ: Politico walking back its hit on Carson
TOM: Faisal Mohammed not a terrorist? (just a knife wielding freak)
Wombat: Pam Geller: Wait, Mohammed's manifesto said "Praise Allah"?
Smitty
Mark Steyn: The Shrinking Horizon, No Islam To See Here

Egyptian TV Paris Hilton Airline Crash Hoax

Egyptian TV Reality Show Terrorism

TMZ: Paris Hilton is suing!

Instapundit: FBI cancelling all agent vacations for July 4th weekend and airline karma
Was Paris Hilton in on the prank?

I've called these terrorist bastards ISIS, or sometimes Islamic State, and then of course ISIL too, but they really hate being called Daesh?

I am not buying the Obama Administration explanations (this is way more revealing about Obama Administration than trying to effectively communicate to our enemies). But if ISIS hates being called  Daesh, I have no problem calling them Daesh.

DAESH Rule 5

This is what DAESH stands for as an acronym. It makes sense if you speak and read Arabic.

I would just assume seeing these terrorists all D-E-A-D

Some are not actual terrorists, they just sympathize with them…

BTW they hate these terms too.  These are linguistic weapons of mass destruction in most conversations with Arab speakers, so use them sparingly on directed appropriate targets. The one about mother's lady parts is especially offensive.

Smitty: The Quotable Andrew Klavan
Protein Wisdom: Jesus vs. Mohammed

Ted Cruz is right about Israel

If religious minorities will not stand together they will all fall…

I agree with this: "He didn’t get booed off the stage, he stood up there like a man and told the audience that he wouldn’t stand in front of them if they didn’t support Israel. It was a great moment."

It wasn't Jews that did this.  Never forget. 
Memory and Remembering

Update:
More at Lem's Place
Matt Lewis argues it may be more nuanced than it appears…
Ted Cruz was right and people who booed him wrong
In defense of Ted Cruz
Why was Ted Cruz booed off the stage?

Instapundit : Spengler takes on Ross Douthat

President Obama admits he has no plan for dealing with ISIS; Unfortunately ISIS does have a plan for dealing with us...

President Obama admits "we don't have a strategy yet" to fight the terror group ISIS.

But what the President really wants to know:  Do you like my suit? 

The President does not want to acknowledge 

what it will take to defeat ISIS.

The American public is catching on that President Obama is exceedingly weak on foreign policy.  How bad are things? The Democrats and White House have a strategy of keeping Barack Obama out of any Senate battleground states, pandering to his diminishing base, fund raising for Democrats, and of course, blaming Israel.  

Meanwhile, unfortunately, as both Drudge and Instapundit point out, ISIS has a plan: 

• Inspire Muslims to engage in terror either in Syria/Iraq or at home! Fort Hood shooter requests to become citizen of ISIS... Hey, wait a second, I thought that was just workplace violence?  
• Kill Pope Francis: REPORT: Pope Francis 'In Crosshairs Of ISIS'... Italy Steps Up Security...
• More terrorist attacks! Chatter increases as anniversary of September 11 approaches!  
• Engage in biological warfare/weapons of mass destruction terrorism.
• Slaughter without mercy anyone who opposes them.
• Pandering to its own base by giving captive "sex slaves" to ISIS fighters (who are mostly young sexually oppressed male losers)
• Work together with former Saddam Sunni Loyalists/Military Officers to defeat Shiites in Iraq and Syria.  
• Attack the USA via the southern border with Mexico.  

Update:
Regular Right Guy is way more generous than me to the President!
Joe Scarborough is obviously wanting to keep things friendly at the wedding he is going to with the President. No immediate plans to defeat ISIS (you would have to be Joe Scarborough to find that reassuring)
AoSHQ:

And you may find yourself in a beautiful Oval Office... pic.twitter.com/m7N8DDQrZe
— Doktor Zoom (@DoktorZoom) August 28, 2014

They were moderate beheadings 

The Arab Spring: Winter is Coming…

TOM: Obama's Foreign Policy Not Working Out As Promised

TOM: Equal Rights for Hostages

Michael J. Totten: Worst Fate Possible for a Journalist (regarding Steven Joel Sotloff)

Instapundit: Meet Dustin McAurthur McCain (American killed fighting for ISIS)

Update:

Excuses for Barack Obama

Why Fracking Insulates the US from Putin and the Middle East

Trifecta: Who is to blame for this Dark State Caliphate?

Tripoli falls to Islamic Jihadis

Libya was President Obama's War of Choice,  Obama abandoned our Ambassador and personnel in Benghazi.  Now Tripoli has fallen.  

Image from Bare Naked Islam

More from AoSHQ

Disney Princess Jasmine Rule 5

Jasmine's dad got her that tiger for a reason…to keep unsuitable suitors away!

TOM: Feminists worry that Disney movies are making girls heterosexual… and given how Feminists never seem to have any issues with the Arab world's (mostly the Muslim Arab world's) treatment of women, well never let a Rule 5 opportunity go to waste, especially when Princess Jasmine is definitely attired properly for the climates of Southern California and Central Florida…

Clearly a dad "suffering" through a Disney Princess breakfast…

Rule 5 and FMJRA
TOM: Feminists against the unnatural roles assigned by the Patriarchy or something…
TOM: Crazy People, Crazy Times
TOM: Yahoo Lesbian Executive accused of being a sexual predator
TOM: It's a man's (virtual) world…
Why is Aladdin is secretly horrifying…

Update:
Now a professor slams Pixar for its sexist portrayal of boys? #WarOnWomen

The Arab Spring Four Years Later

Michael Totten: The Arab Spring proved everyone wrong…

It is complex (read the whole thing)

Tunisia, where everything started, proved the pessimists wrong, and Egypt, which rapidly followed Tunisia, all by itself proved both the optimists and the pessimists wrong.
The mostly nonviolent removal of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali from office in Tunis led to free and fair elections in 2011 that brought to power the Islamist party Ennahda, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. But Ennahda only won forty-one percent of the vote, with a majority voting for secular parties—hardly a mandate for radical Islam. From the very beginning, Tunisia’s liberal and secular opposition resisted Ennahda so effectively that the Islamists had to abandon their push for a religious state and grudgingly accept a secular civil state. Even that wasn’t enough for the majority; in January 2014, Ennahda, exhausted by the unrelenting onslaught from moderates, liberals, and leftists, resigned from the government. Later that same month, Tunisia adopted one of the most liberal constitutions in the entire Arab world. “With the birth of this text,” center-left President Moncef Marzouki said, “we confirm our victory over dictatorship.” 

So much for Iranian-style revolution. 

But the optimists were wrong everywhere else.

h/t Instapundit

Partners for Peace? Palestinian Leader Abbas and Arab League refuse to recognize Israel's right to exist…

How can Israelis make peace with this position from the Palestinians?    

Palestinians are becoming more hard line.  Yet we can be sure Kerry and Obama will argue Israel needs to be more flexible.  

Muslim Brotherhood to Egyptian Coptic Christians: Convert to Islam or pay jizya tax

Koran 9:29

So how is that Arab Spring working in Egypt:

The Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters have began forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village in Egypt to pay a jizya tax as indicated in Koran 9:29, author and translator Raymond Ibrahim reported on Sunday.
Jizya is the money, or tribute, “that conquered non-Muslims historically had to pay to their Islamic overlords ‘with willing submission and while feeling themselves subdued’ to safeguard their existence,” Mr. Ibrahim explained.
According to Fr. Yunis Shawqi, who spoke yesterday to Dostor reporters in Dalga, all Copts in the village, “without exception,” are being forced to pay the tax.
“[The] value of the tribute and method of payment differ from one place to another in the village, so that, some are being expected to pay 200 Egyptian pounds per day, others 500 Egyptian pounds per day,” Mr. Shawqi said, according to the translator.

That tax is about $30 to $60 a day.  That would annoy the hell out of a person with a western income (and be intolerable), but that rate would be absolutely crippling to the average Egyptian is making way less than $600 a month (especially in rural Upper "Southern" Egypt).

Update:
Christians killed in Egypt for failing to pay the jizya tax...

September 11, 2012: Benghazi, Libya attack on U.S. Consulate starts at approximately 8:00 p.m. Benghazi time (approximately 2:00 p.m. EST)

How the Benghazi Attack Unfolded

U.S. Marines on alert for 9/11 Benghazi Aniversary

Car bomb goes off in Benghazi on anniversary of Benghazi attack