http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/91513/sec_id/91513 On June 10th, a board fight erupted at the National Defense University Foundation (NDUF) meeting at Fort McNair in Washington, DC. Fort McNair is the home of the National Defense University – our nation’s premier senior military education institution, established by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5). The NDUF board has 26 members, 18 of whom have […]
Bachmann Smart, Media Dumb June 14, 2011 8:27 A.M. By Stanley Kurtz Seems like only yesterday when Michelle Bachmann was supposed to be dumb. Come to think of it, it was yesterday, until about 8:30pm anyway. I found out how silly it was to think of Bachmann that way late last year, when I heard […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaelweiss/100092061/breaking-syrian-state-documents-show-assad-orchestrated-nakba-day-raids-on-golan-heights/ Michael Weiss is the Communications Director of the Henry Jackson Society and the Spokesperson of Just Journalism, which monitors the British media’s coverage of Israel and the Middle East. I have just been forwarded what appear to be Syrian state documents leaked by the governor of al-Qunaitera, in south-west Syria, which suggest that the regime […]
Archbishop of Dhimmitude? A press release from Lambeth http://markdurie.blogspot.com/ The following press release from Lambeth Palace, issued on Tuesday June 14, has some positive features, including its concern for religious freedom and religious rights. However it has grave weaknesses, quite apart from the mis-naming of the OIC (it is the Organisation for the Islamic Conference, […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=225000 An open letter to Norwegian FM Jonas Gahr Støre By SHIMON SAMUELS P.S. DROP DEAD YOU HYPOCRITICAL ANTI SEMITIC BASTARD….RSK Mr. Foreign Minister, your statement seems to fly in the face of both your training as a military officer and your country’s own World War II history. Your June 7 condemnation of Israel’s defense […]
Europe’s Arizona ProblemBy CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/opinion/12Caldwell.htmlALONGSIDE Greek debt and the Libyan intervention, European Union countries are bickering over another issue, one that could well determine the future of their would-be megastate: immigration and internal borders. A growing number, including Italy, France and Denmark, want to carve out exceptions to the agreements under which member states […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144926 Wolfensohn Barred from Beirut U., Learns Arab Gratitude Firsthand by Aryeh Ben Hayim When the Sharon government uprooted the Jewish residents of Gaza, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn personally bought the hothouses of the evicted Jews for millions so they could be delivered intact to the Palestinians. This was intended to help underpin […]
Twilight of the Idols By Emmanuel Navon www.navon.com Israel’s intellectuals are worried. The Israeli Holy Trinity (Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman) is getting old. The Hebrew University’s Pantheon (Martin Buber, Yehuda Magnes, and Yeshayahu Leibowitz) belongs to History. Avraham Burg tries to mimic Leibowitz, but it is hard to inherit the Lithuanian brainbox […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1705/Iraq-40-Billion-Missing.aspx From AFP: Around $40 billion are ‘missing’ from a post-Gulf War fund that Iraq maintains to protect the money from foreign claims, its parliamentary speaker said on Monday. “There is missing money, we do not know where it has gone,” Osama al-Nujaifi said at a news conference in Baghdad. “The money is around $40 […]
http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/kuwaiti-lawmaker-proposes-15000-reward.html Interesting that this is coming out at the same time that a former Kuwaiti candidate for parliament is calling for a revival of the old Qur’anic system of taking sex slaves from infidel raids, and selling them in Kuwaiti markets to help satisfy the Kuwaiti man’s sexual appetite (stay tuned here for more on […]
