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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 »