FrontLine Issues

John Hagee
Mr. David Brog
Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D
Stephen Mansfield

America's Key to Survival
by Mike Evans

If America continues to sleep, Jihadists will bring their battle to America. On September 23, 1980, the senior adviser to then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin and I had dinner with Isser Harel, who was the director of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, from 1952-1963. I asked Harel: "Will terrorism ever come to America?"
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Thou Shalt Know Thy Friends
by David Brog

Earlier this month, Abraham Foxman took to the podium to address the leadership of his Anti-Defamation League, the leading watchdog of anti-Semitism in America. In somber tones, Mr. Foxman sounded the alarm over the "key domestic challenge to the American Jewish community and to our democratic values." The threat he described focused neither on Islamic terror nor assimilation, but on a more imaginative target.
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Untruths, Distortions, And Fear Mongering Characterize Liberal Attacks Against Judge Alito
by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon

On January 24, Republican and Democrat Senators on the Judiciary Committee spent three hours giving their final thoughts as to why they would oppose or support Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. In listening to the eight Democrats (mostly liberal or far left) give their reasons why they would vote no to confirm Judge Alito, I was struck by how amazingly similar each statement was?and how inaccurate. The Democrat statements appeared to have been written by the same person ? or persons ? using the same badly researched information on Alito?s record.
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Al-Qaeda in Iraq
by Dr. Mark A. Gabriel

When people hear the news of insurgent attacks in Iraq, they wonder, "Why are these people trying to destroy this country?" To understand the situation, you need to recognize that "insurgents," as they are referenced in the media, are not all the same. There two kinds of motivation for insurgents: (1) those who are motivated primarily by nonreligious reasons (such as politics, money, power, etc.), and (2) those who are motivated primarily by Islamic teaching.
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Men of Cloth and Steel
by Stephen Mansfield

America's military chaplains occupy what must surely be among the most unique positions in the world. Theirs is a universe of contradictions. They are a holdover from an earlier age of faith, much like congressional chaplains or the words "In God We Trust" on American coins or religious inscriptions on the official buildings in the nation's capitol.
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