http://www.nationalreview.com/article/357011/israeli-spring-victor-davis-hanson Israel’s enemies are doing more damage to each other than Israel ever could. srael could be forgiven for having a siege mentality — given that at any moment, old frontline enemies Syria and Egypt might spill their violence over common borders. The Arab Spring has thrown Israel’s once-predictable adversaries into the chaotic state of […]
Keeping one’s eye on the ball in the MidEast isn’t easy. But as Syria draws our attention, don’t miss the latest exciting, insane developments in Egypt http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4086/syria_don_t_look_now_here_come_egypt_s_moderates As a researcher in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics, I can say that anytime you hear or read anything, your brain is activated, and that repeating narratives, frames, […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4087/yep_george_galloway_says_israel_was_responsible_for_syria_chemical_attack
But even by George Galloway standards this is looney tunes stuff…
Quick apology and quick credit where credit is due. The apology being that this is the silly season for the media and this is late; but heck, if it’s news to me, it’s, er, news…..; the quick credit where credit is due belongs to Alex Massie at The Spectator for pointing out that if sheer, mad conspiracy theories were not running and sprinting rife enough in the MidEast over Syria, we got another one for you.
Yes indeedy, the Syria chemical attack is all Israel’s fault. Well I never.
Please read Massie’s posting, here. But in the spirit of fair use, get your little heads (none of us could compare to Galloway’s; he even uses the word “theory”!) around this extract quoting said Mr. Galloway:
“If there has been a use of chemical weapons it was al-Qaeda who used chemical weapons. Who gave al-Qaeda chemical weapons? Here’s my theory: Israel gave them the chemical weapons so that they would use them so that they would bring the international community into the final destruction of Syria.”
Well my little head is non-plussed. But that’s probably because I’m not a member of parliament for a far-Left political party with a heavily Muslim constituency in Yorkshire. Yes, they do call me “Yorker”, so I know what I’m talking about…
Is this the kind of BS we should ignore? Or does it portend darker times?
Credit again to Alex Massie at the Speccie. As we put this all together, It does just add something, doesn’t it…? To the unending madness in the MidEast, I mean. Speaking of which, check out the latest loon-level stuff from Egypt.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324009304579040822709807800.html?mod=opinion_newsreel Thousands of American higher-education administrators will spend part of Labor Day weekend trying to plumb the meaning of the ideas President Obama dropped on them last week to “reform” the American college and university system. Given the political genome of college administrators nowadays, they’ll try to make the Obama plan work. But for the […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324591204579037880644807254.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond Barack Obama entered the White House with the promise of restoring our nation’s standing in the world. Suffering from war fatigue and concerned with the demands of being the sole superpower in an increasingly dangerous world, many Americans found it tempting to believe that promise. As a candidate, Mr. Obama had been cheered by […]
Whipping boy no more “If Damascus is attacked, Tel Aviv will burn,” a Syrian higher-up bristled this week. Israel, therefore, cannot watch the escalating cliffhanger with detached equanimity from the sidelines. There can be no passivity when potent threats are hurled at Israel from a coterie of evil powers in the context of a struggle in […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3949/us-missile-defense The U.S. Air Force has just completed a review of the ballistic missile threats to the U.S.: China is building more ballistic missiles than anyone – and faster. By 2015, Iran’s and North Korea’s long-range missiles will be able to reach the United States. The Israeli Air Force, on June 7, 1981, carried out […]
From my e-pal Dr. John A…..
Why are the leftists who excoriated Bush for acting against Iraq, partly because Saddam had used chemical weapons of mass destruction against his people, now encouraging Obama — or not objecting at least — to doing the same thing in Syria!?
Why did the same people not excoriate Clinton for the earlier launching of massive cruise missile attacks — killing many civilians — against Baghdad for similar reasons?
Are Democrats sacrosanct and Republicans open game?
How does one spell hypocrisy?
RSK: How indeed? And, are honor killings, public stoning and beheading for crimes against Sharia law less morally objectionable? Not to the victims.
The Saudi-Egyptian Connection: The New Version Of The Quadruple Alliance Of 1815 Democracy has not worked in the Middle East or in North Africa. It has just led to the installation of Islamist regimes who use the power they acquired in free elections to end democracy, abolish civil and human rights, enslave women, kill Christians […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/muslim-brotherhood-groups-and-their-jewish-friends/print/ An organizer of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked rally explicitly acknowledged its “friendship” with both the Brotherhood and “the Jewish Voice for Justice and Peace,” apparently referring the Jewish Voice for Peace. The organization is at the forefront of activism against Israel and the “Islamophobes” that stand against American Islamists, earning the affection of the Brotherhood’s […]
