Column One: Israel’s PTA commander-in-chief Dec. 24, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Unbeknownst to most Israelis, this week marked a critical shift for the worse in the regional balance of power. While IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi was busy demanding that the government pay a ransom of more than a […]
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/23/christmas-obama-climate-change-opinions-columnists-claudia-rosett.html Freedom’s Edge A Bureaucratic Christmas Claudia Rosett, 12.24.09, 12:00 AM ET ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and with the East coast buried in snow, I was doing some last-minute gift shopping from home, surfing the online catalogs. The room was warm, and in the background the TV news muttered on–the Copenhagen climate summit, the […]
EDITORIAL: The house that Ruth built http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/25/the-house-that-ruth-built//print/ THE WASHINGTON TIMES Although the young woman was a stranger to Bethlehem, she arrived there in the company of a Bethlehem native. The residents did not know what to make of her and did not have room for her at first. But they recognized that her heart was […]
MY PREDICTION IS THAT BASHING ISRAEL WILL REMAIN THE NATIONAL SPORT OF THE EUROSNOTS…RSK Europe 2010 preview http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/6873498/Europe-2010-preview.html At the close of the “noughtiesâ€, Europe will still be grappling with the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s as the 21st century shows the world still to be an uncertain place.  Britain’s […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/the_prosecution_of_rifqa_bary.html The Prosecution of Rifqa Bary By Pamela Geller There is a war of attrition going on in the Rifqa Bary case. Rifqa is the girl who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her family in fear for her life — and the Islamic machine is attempting to grind her down by constant […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/my_friend_in_kfar_saba.html My Friend in Kfar Saba By Jerold S. Auerbach Whenever I visit Israel — most recently, last month — I spend a day with Haggai. We have shared a deep friendship for thirty-five years, ever since I taught American history at Tel Aviv University as a visiting Fulbright Lecturer. To my surprise and initial […]
Israel’s Shalit Dilemma Posted By P. David Hornik As negotiations intensify for a deal to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas to Gaza in June 2006 when he was 19, Palestinian Media Watch has released an important bulletin [1] on how Israel’s radically lopsided prisoner deals encourage further kidnappings. The bulletin gives […]
For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement By Barry Rubin* http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/12/for-obama-2010 The year 2010 is going to be interesting. Well, all years in the Middle East are interesting; many of them are far too interesting. For the Obama Administration, I’m going to predict, it will not […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516288 2009: The Year Of Living Fecklessly By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Last Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama’s latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran “will continue resisting” until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads. So ends 2009, the year of “engagement,” […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516277 What’s Behind War Targeting Wannabe Rich? By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Posted 12/24/2009 06:17 PM ET View Enlarged Image There is class warfare going on in this country — but it’s not against the established rich. It’s against those who are trying to become wealthy. President Obama has declared that those who make over $200,000 […]
