Will Turkey Go the Way of Weimar Germany? | The Gatestone Institute

Historian Geoff Eley

May 2, 2015, by Burak Bekdil - "That [Turkey] sounds to me like the late Weimar Republic. So I would have no difficulty at all in agreeing that the logics of certain possibilities are being put together in ways that seem very reminiscent of the broader context of right-wing thought in Weimar Republic, especially after 1930." Thus commented last month Geoff Eley, a British-born historian whose early work focused on the radical nationalism in Imperial Germany, and, in Italy, fascism.

Adam Smith on Cyprus Bizonality

Adam Smith said: “This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.” True, he said that a while back. But it applies perfectly in the case of bizonality for Cyprus. I have no doubt Adam Smith would consider bizonality for Cyprus not merely imagination defying the facts, but he would consider it an insult to capitalism itself.

Nowhere in the world are majority land owners, historically the majority land owners, required/ expected to cede administration of their lands (*) to minority land owners of a certain religious or communal background. De jure. Forever. Simply ludicrous. And sadly the idea is of British-American origin.

If Americans can change their mind on Assad, they sure can and must change their idea on bizonality for Cyprus. Else they cancel everything their very nation stands for. They cancel America.

* With property titles from a land registry set up in the 19th century by Adam Smith's countrymen 

Turkey should heed the Turkish Cypriots | Hurriyet Daily News

by SEMİH İDİZ - President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and certain members of the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP) are proving once again they are only democrats unto themselves. Erdoğan always underlines the fact that he is the people’s choice, having been elected democratically.

It appears, however, that he is not happy about the choice of the Turkish Cypriots, who overwhelmingly elected Mustafa Akıncı, a veteran left-wing politician and peace activist, as president over the weekend for the sake of the much desired change in their country, as well as a new understanding with Turkey.

Dare be an Islamophobe!

A British Conference on Israel's Right to Exist: Really? | Gatestone Institute

by George Phillips, April 12, 2015 - The notion of Israel's "right to exist" has been in the news twice in recent days. First, the University of Southampton, in Britain, announced that due to "safety fears," it was cancelling a conference, scheduled for later this month, to question Israel's right to exist.

Were the "security concerns" related to the fact that the conference would promote the rising infestation of Jew-hatred in Britain? A recent U.K. parliamentary report shows that hate crimes against British Jews have doubled in the past decade, and has called upon the British government to take urgent action.

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Three surprising things you probably didn’t know about Islam and the Quran. This subject may affect you in the near future, so take the chance to inform yourself now – before it does…