George Friedman of Stratfor discuses the prospect of Israel bombing Irans nuclear facilities. VIDEO Among other things, he said 1. Obama promised Israel he would apply meaning sanctions within months. With Russia and China balking, what is the likelihood? What is “meaningful”? Will Obama deliver? 2. There is no question that Israel can do it. Read More »
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Saudis fail to heal Palestinian breach
Saudis say Mitchell’s visit waste of time DEBKAfile Exclusive Report There was no word by Friday, Jan. 15, that Syrian president Bashar Assad, who arrived seven hours late for his appointment with King Abdullah in Riyadh Wednesday, Jan. 13, had left for home or any announcement about their talks, DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report. Read More »
US is under control of Muslim Brotherhood
Pyjamas Media has produced a video expose that should blow the roof off the Whitehouse The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets|14min Read More »
Obama Campaigns for Martha Nifong Coakley
Obama supports former prosecutor who kept innocent man in prison to advance her political career by Bill Levinson Barack Obama demonstrated his true level of character, ethnics, and integrity when he announced his decision to campaign for Martha Coakley: Massachusetts’ counterpart of Mike Nifong. Read More »
Good News, Israel
Compliments of Anglo Raanana Real Estate · As we write, a group including 40 doctors and 24 nurses is leaving for Haiti to establish a field hospital at the scene of the devastating quake. The facility will include an intensive care unit, two operating rooms, a pharmacy an X-ray lab and the capacity to treat 500 patients. Read More »
Michael Steinhardt Criticizes the Failures of Jewish Leadership
by Avi Yellin (IsraelNN.com) Michael Steinhardt, one of world Jewry’s most philanthropic benefactors and a co-founder of Birthright Israel, delivered a scathing criticism this week of all that he sees wrong with the Jewish world today and singled out non-Orthodox life. In a television interview on Thursday with Mark S. Read More »
Let’s talk it over
By Aluf Benn, HAARETZ The signs are multiplying: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has exploited to the hilt his refusal to talk with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. U.S. envoy George Mitchell is hungry for action. Read More »
Honest Broker, Anyone?
By Evelyn Gordon – Commentary Nothing in George Mitchell’s interview with PBS last week received more attention than the envoy’s implied threat to revoke American loan guarantees to Israel. That’s a pity — because far more worrisome is the goal he set for the negotiations, as highlighted by Aluf Benn in today’s Haaretz. Read More »
Canada cuts funding to anti-Israel groups
Pro-Palestinian, Christian groups among those targeted by Canadian government Roni Rachmani, YNET VANCOUVER – The Canadian government has recently decided to cut back or entirely withdraw the funding to organizations that encourage a boycott of Israel or Israeli products, including pro-Palestinian and Christian groups. Read More »
Arab Strategy
These are excellent articles, teaching us as they do, the Arab strategy and rejection of all compromises. Read More »
Political Correctness – a Deadly Infection
Tom McLaughlin Only recently have I become aware of the depths to which political correctness has permeated our culture. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know how bad. It’ll be the ruin of us if we don’t kill it and comb its nits out of our hair. Read More »
Tolerance will be the death of us.
As a result of the excellent article on Secular tolerance of Arab and Muslim intolerance by Mathew Hausman, Howard Rotberg wrote to remind me of his book on the same subject. Read More »
Catholic priest: Over 6 million were killed in Shoah
E.B. SOLOMONT, , THE JERUSALEM POST Father Patrick Desbois believes that many more than six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and he can prove it. Through interviews with more than 1,200 witnesses, Desbois has uncovered upwards of 700 previously unknown Jewish mass graves in Eastern Europe, where at least 1. Read More »
AIPAC: “Rosenthal has committed an unpardonable sin.”
Remember that AIPAC represents the 78% of Jews that voted for Obama. Also AIPAC gave Obama a pass when he met with Jewish leaders. AIPAC also said it was against the settlements. Thus this rejection of Obama is HUGE AIPAC calls for Rosenthal’s ouster. Read More »
Israel bends to Turkish ultimatum, Ankara prepares next blow
DEBKAfile Israel-Turkish relations dropped to another low Wednesday, Jan. 13, when Jerusalem was forced to send a letter of apology to Ankara Wednesday, Jan. 13, by Turkey’s president Abdullah Gul’s threat to recall the Turkish ambassador from Jerusalem. Read More »
Freund: “Ayalon has nothing to apologize for”
Turkey has been insulting Israel for a year now and it was entirely appropriate to dress down their Ambassador. Yalon was showing he was mad as hell and that Israel wouldn’t simply absorb the insults. The insult extended to Turkey through their Ambassador was nothing compared to the insults hurled our way. Read More »
New Battle Lines in the ME
Analysis: Saudis seek illusory ‘third way’ in regional diplomacy By JONATHAN SPYER Syrian President Bashar Assad is reportedly scheduled to visit the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he is to meet with Saudi King Abdullah. The meeting is rumored to be a prelude to a three way summit also to involve Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Read More »
Senator Mitchell’s Wake-Up Call
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, Executive Director, “Second Thought”, YNET NEWS The threat issued by Special Presidential Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, to withhold US loan guarantees, in order to extract excessive concessions from Israel, constitutes a wake-up call for wishful-thinkers. Read More »
Secular tolerance for Arab and Muslim intolerence.
By Matthew M. Hausman Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef recently took a public flogging for allegedly describing Islam as “ugly,” specifically with respect to its laws concerning marriage and divorce. The liberal blogosphere had a field day, calling the Rabbi a bigot and labeling his comments hate speech. Read More »
‘Large majority in favor of peace talks’
By HAVIV RETTIG GUR Both Jewish and Arab Israelis support peace talks with the Palestinian Authority by a large majority, but also trust the government’s handling of Israel’s security challenges, according to the latest Tel Aviv University “War and Peace Index” survey. Read More »
Aaron Klein to broadcast live on US super station
This Sunday, January 17, Jerusalem-based American reporter Aaron Klein will be hosting two hours live on WABC Radio (770 AM), the megawatt New York station that has the largest reach in the U.S. Klein, who is senior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily. Read More »
Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press
All five papers deal with the controversy over Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon’s recent meeting with the Turkish Ambassador: Yediot Aharonot questions why the Egyptian and Jordanian ambassadors have not been summoned for reprimands, given the Read More »
Obama’s Brzezinski Plan
By Ted Belman In Appraising Obama’s Foreign Policy: From Hope to Audacity, Zbigniew Brzezinski, described Obama’s, and his, world view which he characterized as “reconnect(ing) the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century.” To this end, he writes Obama “has comprehensively reconceptualized U.S. Read More »
Secret talks to carve up Israel and Jerusalem
This has a ring of credibility to me not withstanding Netanyahu’s strident denial. In other words the partial freeze was enough to get him to the table, notwithstanding his posturing. Read More »
US Loan Guarantees Cost US Nothing – Yet Cost Israel Her Sovereignty
By Rob Muchnick, Manigut Yehudit American Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell stated last week that if Israel doesn’t advance the peace process, “ can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel”. Read More »
Jewish brains beget antisemitism
George Gilder writes in the Israel Test, Israel is hated not for her vices but her virtues. “Like the Jews throughout history, Israel poses a test to the world. In particular, it is a test for any people that lusts for the fruits of capitalism without submitting to capitalism’s imperious moral code. Read More »
Today’s News and Views
Speech to UN by Hillel Neuer of UN WATCH is banned Speaking truth to corrupt power. That’s why it was banned. Read More »
Palestinians Need a Generation or Two
Eli E. Hertz, Myths and Facts “Applying double standards by requiring of a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” is antisemitism. A Case in Point: Yardsticks – Turkey versus Palestinian Arabs. For over 46 years, Turkey has knocked on Europe’s door requesting membership in the European Union. Read More »
The Palestinians’ Unilateral “Kosovo Strategy”:
As far as I am concerned the key impediment to this happening is that statehood has never been recognized on land the fledgling state didn’t control. Read More »
How do Jews feel about Sarah Palin?
I was very upset when I read the title to Jennifer Rubin’s piece in Commentary. First of all, to write that “Jews” hate rather than “some Jews” is entirely misleading. There has been no recent poll. Secondly, “hate” is a strong emotion. Generally Jews don’t hate. Many people have weighed in on the article. Read More »
Taking the Measure of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Saying that the U.S. will ‘bear witness’ to brutality around the word is, in effect, to say that we will send flowers to funerals. By ELIOT A. COHEN, WSJ If the first year of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy were a law firm in Charles Dickens’s London, it would have a name like Bumble, Stumble and Skid. Read More »
Today’s News and Views
Netanyahu: Israel will never share Jerusalem with Palestinians Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday that Israel would never cede control of united Jerusalem nor retreat to the 1967 borders, according to a bureau statement. Read More »
Fox Snares A Fox
FOX NEWS Excerpt: 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is joining Fox News as a contributor, the news channel announced Monday. The former Alaska governor, whose book, Going Rogue: An American Life, became a bestseller weeks before it was released and remains No. Read More »
Martha Coakley: Massachusetts’ Mike Nifong
Democrat Martha Coakley helped keep an innocent man in prison to advance her political career by Bill Levinson We encourage our readers to circulate this material as widely as possible in Massachusetts before the upcoming election. Read More »
Senator Harry Reid: Obama Can Talk like a Negro at Will
Harry Reid adds that only light-skinned African-Americans are electable in the U.S. by Bill Levinson Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized (who cares, noting that Don Imus lost his job for similar commentary about Black people) for saying the Read More »
Planned Israel-Egyptian border fence will tighten Gaza siege
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu approved Sunday, Jan. 10, the construction of a security barrier along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The $1. Read More »
David Horowitz’s Ultra-Popular “Alinsky, Beck, Satan, and Me” Series
In August, David Horowitz began NewsReal’s first series exploring Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals. He explained how the modern Left had put Alinsky’s ideas into practice. Read More »
Officials: IDF may take over Philadelphi in future conflict
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST The IDF is prepared for the possibility that in a future conflict with Hamas it will be ordered by the government to take over the Philadelphi Corridor in the southern Gaza Strip, which is lined with hundreds of weapons smuggling tunnels, defense officials said on Sunday. Read More »
Has Worldwide Jihad Woken Up America Yet?
By Yitz Dekel, M.A. By most measures, international Jihadists have clearly won the 1st decade of this new Century! Ironically, tragically and yet ingeniously, Osama Bin Ladin has almost “Stolen Christmas” from Santa Claus in the sky over Detroit on Dec. Read More »
Petraeus: “Iran can be bombed.”
Telegraph The US military commander for the Middle East and the Gulf region has confirmed that the United States has developed contingency plans to deal with Iran’s nuclear facilities. Read More »
Battling in the Court of Public Opinion
A few days ago I posted a very important article by Evelyn Gordon namely Evelyn Gordon: “If Israel has no claim, it is nothing but a thief.”. There is a very important comment on the article by Itzik Basman. This article expands on his earlier comment. Read More »
Carter is to blame for the mess we are in.
Jimmy Carter, The Father Of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 In Iran Why America plotted the downfall of the modernizer Shah of Iran? Why Jimmy Carter Sold Iran to the anti-US terrorist Mullahs? Why America & Britain destroyed Iran and & turned Iran Read More »
Israel’s Right in the ‘Disputed’ Territories
[This is the first time in living memory (OK I exaggerate but not by much) that a Minister of the Israeli government reasserted out right to the land and in the WSJ no less. Read More »
The Last Nail in Europe’s Coffin
By Pamela Geller, AtlasShrugs Because of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership between the European Union and Islamic states in the Middle East, by the year 2050, the Islamic population of Europe will be 25% to 30% of the total population. There will be perhaps over 100 million Muslims in Europe. Partnership? More like a suicide pact. Read More »
Todays News and Views
US threatens to withhold guarantees US Middle East envoy George Mitchell on Thursday, who suggested that Washington could withdraw guarantees given to Israel in the event that peace talks with the Palestinians remained at an impasse. Read More »
Column One: Israel’s opening to China
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST This threat stems from two sources. First, the UN-led system of global governance is working to redefine international law by on the one hand whitewashing war crimes by states associated with the majority, and on the other Read More »
The freeze is illegal by Israeli law and International law
By Ted Belman In my article Can Israel be both democratic and Jewish. I wrote that one value must trump the other. “When these values are opposed to each other, one must trump the other. So the first question is which one trumps the other. If the legislation does so provide then that’s the end of it until new legislation says otherwise. Read More »
Good News Israel
Compliments of Raanana Real Estate · When the International Monetary Fund presents you with a sticker that says Israel is a safe haven this is what happens: foreign investors purchase shares worth $560 million on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in November, compared with $170 million in October – a rise of 230%. Read More »
News and Views
Inscription indicates Kingdom of Israel existed in the 10th century BCE Construction in West Bank settlements booming despite declared freeze 6 weeks into settlement freeze, Barak eases restrictions The revised order dictates that the planning powers be returned to local authorities. Read More »
Go East, young man, go East
By Aryeh Zelasko I have argued for some time that Israel needs to disengage itself from the West. The West is dying and Europe is nearly dead. Read More »
Why do we fund NGOs anyway?
Yesterday I posted a speech by Canada’s Multicultural Minister, Jason Kenney in which he listed some NGO’s whose funding he had cut off. Generally these groups were anti-Israel. This policy is not without its detractors. Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, cuts to the chase. Read More »
Iran Hasn’t Won the Cold War Yet
By Jonathan Spyer, GLORIA CENTRE * January 7, 2010 The salient strategic fact in the Middle East today is the Iranian drive for regional hegemony. This Iranian objective is being promoted by a rising hardline conservative elite within the Iranian regime, centred on a number of political associations and on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards corps. Read More »
Palin: “It’s War, not a Crime Spree”
Palin’s Facebook entry on terrorism pulls no punches…How refreshing. President Obama’s meeting with his top national security advisers does nothing to change the fact that his fundamental approach to terrorism is fatally flawed. Read More »
Israel will respond with catastrophic weapons
Israel will respond to Iran’s & Hezbollah’s missiles with catastrophic weapons Elias Youssef Bejjani This analysis was written by Hamid Ghoriafi, Middle East Analyst & Journalist, Published on 07/01/10 by the Kuwaiti Daily Al-Seyassah, Translated from Arabic by Elias Bejjani, LCCC Chairman *Israel is providing her 4. Read More »
Appraising Obama’s Foreign Policy
From Hope to Audacity By Zbigniew Brzezinski, FOREIGN AFFAIRS Summary: Barack Obama’s foreign policy has generated more expectations than strategic breakthroughs. Three urgent issues — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the Afghan-Pakistani challenge — will test his ability to significantly change U.S. policy. Read More »
New Egyptian-Saudi peace plan to be presented to Obama Friday
DEBKAfile Egypt’s minister of intelligence Omar Suleiman and foreign minister Ahmad Abul Gheit are due in Washington Friday, Jan. 7, to present US president Barack Obama with a new Egyptian-Saudi proposal for reviving Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources disclose. Read More »
Canada, under Harper, is Israel’s best friend
I have often posted speeches by PM Harper with much pride. Within his party he is not alone. Here’s one by Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism – At the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism The Read More »
I long for the end of the “peace process”
Who Needs Peace, Love, And Understanding, Anyway? Why many Israelis now believe that pursuing peace with the Palestinians is passé. By Dan Ephron | NEWSWEEK Only about 40 percent of Israelis now long for a rejuvenated peace process with the Palestinians. An even smaller number, about 20 percent, believe such talks would amount to anything. Read More »
Emanuel: U.S. is fed up with Israel, Palestinians
By Haaretz Service White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel recently told the Israeli consul in Los Angeles that the Obama administration is fed up with both Israel and the Palestinians, Army Radio reported on Wednesday. Read More »
