Israel no longer intends to dismantle the Oslo Accords if Abbas goes through with his UN gambit. Good Morning, We’re Having a Palestinian State and Israel Kind of Approves In yesterday’s State Department press conference, Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed that the U.S. will be voting “no” on the effort by Mahmoud Abbas to raise the […]
NO URL….MY E-PAL DAVID SINGER IS AN EMINENT COMMENTATOR, WRITER AND ATTORNEY IN AUSTRALIA. I DO NOT AGREE WITH HIM THIS TIME AND THINK GLICK IS RIGHT. THE “GUARANTEES” THAT BUSH GAVE ARE USELESS AND SOON TO BE ENTIRELY ABROGATED BY THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION….NOT WORTH THE PAPER THEY WERE WRITTEN ON AND LIKE CAMP DAVID, OSLO THEY ARE IN THE DUSTBIN OF THE MISGUIDED HISTORY OF ISRAELI APPEASEMENT…..RSK
“Gambit – an act that is calculated to gain an advantage, especially at the outset of a situation” – Oxford Dictionary
The end of the eight day bombardment of Israel’s civilian population by hundreds of rockets indiscriminately fired from the Gaza Strip has caused many respected commentators such as Caroline Glick to roundly criticise former Israeli Prime Minister – Ariel Sharon – for having unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2004 by withdrawing its army and 8000 Israeli citizens – many of whom had lived there for almost 40 years.
Writing in the Jerusalem Post on 22 November Ms Glick stated:
“As for that withdrawal from Gaza, just like the phony peace process with the PLO and the strategically demented withdrawal from south Lebanon, the withdrawal from Gaza was a self-evidently insane policy. It was obvious that it would lead to the strengthening of Palestinian terrorist groups and so put Israel’s population centers in striking range of their missiles…
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/rules-of-engagement-changed-idf-may-not-shoot-back-in-gaza/2012/11/28/ THESE ARE THE AMERICAN COUNTER INSURGENCY RULES OF ENGAGEMENT THAT HAVE SO IMPERILED OUR TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ……RSK One week after the conclusion of operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza, the security reality alongside the Gaza Strip border is being reshaped, the IDF has been instructed to show restraint, farmers on both sides […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/steven-plaut/just-what-was-fundamentally-wrong-with-bolshevism/ I recently read the new biography of Trotsky by Oxford don Robert Service, published in 2009 by Pan Books. It is well-written and surprisingly interesting. The book does a great public service in describing the life of the actual Trotsky, whose previous “biographies” were little more than hagiographies written by his toady worshippers (people […]
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas112912.php3 Congress returned to “work” this week (now there’s a laugh) to complete its lame-duck session before taking another holiday. Spending other people’s money is a taxing experience. Their task is to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” a geological construct of their own making. It doesn’t take a genius to predict both parties will try to […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3467/jeremy-corbyn-mousa-abu-maria If we really want to take an effective stand against extremism, we should not obsess over the extremists; rather, we should tackle those who facilitate, empower and legitimize extremism. The worst culprits are particular British Members of Parliament – elected officials whom we employ to safeguard our liberties and democratic rights but who betray […]
Morsi at the UN: The Islamic sanctities and prophet Mohamed is a red line for all Muslims…We do not accept and we consider an enemy anyone who assaults our prophet through words or deeds http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/11/28/morsis-sharia-justice-death-penalties-for-expatriate-innocence-of-muslims-producers/ On September 23, 2012, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammad Morsi issued [2] presidential order No 1/2012 appointing 3,649 […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/11/28/the-american-publics-sobriety-on-post-arab-spring-egypt/ On the heels of Egyptian President Morsi’s recent consolidation [1] of power, polling data [2] from a survey of 1,000 Likely Voters by Rasmussen Reports, conducted November 26-27, 2012, reveal, once again [3], the American public is appropriately sober about what the much-ballyhooed Arab Spring [4] “transitions” have wrought. A mere 12% of voters […]
The Twenty-Seventh Man On the night of August 12, 1952, a group of Yiddish writers was executed on Joseph Stalin’s orders for the crime of writing while Jewish. The executions, remembered as the Night of the Murdered Poets, were the tragic culmination of the grand romance between Jewish intellectuals and Marxism. Author Nathan Englander now […]
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=v494e8bab&v=001KdaRoZmLBVwh7NHbQlfiKz-JlautdtctpNRGsZbqc0Tk7iclqCO3rwVXLfn-CeSBIKdaUxZi5s9cByO-WJGQDhQA5wJFKlJMdzMf4_baqH-8I3cqvU50M3UZPulk6pJX8mY6ocoftkmvnRAfiY-OEg%3D%3D President Morsi Acts Out Egypt’s Tragedy How should we understand the apparently erratic behavior of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi? In September, he seemed an unreliable ally, if an ally at all, after his tardy and diffident response to mob attacks on America’s Cairo embassy. Morsi rose sharply in Western esteem after the November 21 […]
