http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=292100 Despite the deadly display of hi-tech pyro-technics by the IDF, the depressing sense of déjà vu conveyed by the events unfolding in Gaza comprise a devastating indictment of Israel’s past and present political leadership. Watching the morning newscasts and the spectacle of Israelis scuttling to shelter from incoming projectiles, launched by implacable enemies, from […]
ttp://freebeacon.com/congress-backs-israel/ Members of Congress are standing with Israel as it wages a defensive war against Palestinian terrorists who in recent days have fired hundreds of rockets at citizens of the Jewish state. The bipartisan consensus among U.S. lawmakers is that Israel has the right to defend itself from terror attacks which have already killed three […]
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It took a Seinfeld episode to clear the air and allow people to confess that “The English Patient” was basically a bore. Seinfeld is no longer live but truth demands that someone speak up and remark how overly long and somewhat dull Stephen Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is. Yes, it has the sainted Daniel Day Lewis, overly made up so that his natural genius for characterization is compromised by too much goop forming too many wrinkles and too much facial slack. It has the feisty Sally Field, playing Mary Todd Lincoln with the same brio she brought to Norma Rae and the same weltschmerz she brought to the matriarch in Brothers & Sisters. Even if the discrepancy in Abe and Mary’s height is historically accurate, it’s too distracting in scenes they play together, probably accounting for why she’s prostrate on the floor in one crucial scene and sitting next to him in a horse drawn carriage in another. Too much of the movie looks like painterly tableaux of various events instead of scenes where characters interact dramatically with each other. Spielberg pays attention to landscape, interiors, lighting and the inclusion of representatives of every class; he’s careful to have black people be well-spoken, well-dressed, literate and kind. Lincoln himself is played in a very understated, folksy manner with little range in the performance except for a marital fight with his wife and a final outburst with his inner circle as he pounds on the table, insisting on the importance of passing the 13th amendment. It’s hard to create a historical epic with the star acting in a very low register
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/15/why-land-for-peace-is-dead/ By Michael Rubin, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. The views expressed are his own. On September 18, 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the so-called Camp David Accords, cementing […]
Dear E-Pals….Those who cheered the camp David Accord, and who supported the Oslo Accord and, in spite of all evidence, counseled Israel to leave Gaza should read this poem…..rsk
EMILY DICKINSON: I MANY TIMES THOUGHT PEACE HAD COME
I many times thought Peace had come
When Peace was far away—
As Wrecked Men—deem they sight the Land—
At Centre of the Sea—
And struggle slacker—but to prove
As hopelessly as I—
How many the fictitious Shores—
Before the Harbor be—
Emily Dickinson
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Obama, along with Rice, is ‘easy target’
Commentary magazine
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Commentary
To the degree that Susan Rice is an “easy target,” it’s because the case against her and the administration is overwhelming. And the gallant Obama need not worry. The concerns about the negligence and misconduct of his administration go right to the top. Read more…
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Holder defends timing in FBI’s Petraeus probe
The Hill
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Blogs
Attorney General Eric Holder defended the FBI’s decision not to release information about former CIA Director David Petraeus’s extramarital affair sooner, saying the investigation turned up no threat to national security. Read more…
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GOP leaders back West’s call for recount
Dinan and Lengell
State and national Republican Party officials are getting behind Rep. Allen B. West’s call for a recount of all early votes in St. Lucie County, Fla., saying it would be “unconscionable” not to answer lingering questions about the results, which show the outspoken GOP lawmaker trailing Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy. Read more…
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Benghazi hearing turns to shouting, accusations
NBC News
Thursday, November 15, 2012
News
A House Foreign Affairs hearing on “Benghazi and Beyond” turned into a shouting and accusations forum. It began when Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said, “This administration, including the president himself, has intentionally misinformed, read that LIED, to the American people.” Read more…
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Columnist Douglas Murray writing online for the Spectator, Nov. 15:
The papers and media are full of the news that Israel has killed a Hamas leader in the Gaza. Why did this happen? Where did it come from? Is it not yet another example of the blood-thirsty Zionists doing their worst?
If you read most of the British media that may well be what you think. After all there has been barely any previous mention in the British papers of the massive escalation in rocket fire into Israel in the last month or the even swifter escalation this week. Certainly no British paper or broadcaster has come close to giving these attacks the front-page publicity they grant to Israel’s response today.
Nobody much bothered to report that in October alone, 116 rockets and 55 mortar shells were launched against Israel in 92 separate attacks. . . .
Since last Saturday, when Hamas terrorists fired an anti-tank missile into an army jeep [in] Israel, injuring four Israeli soldiers, more than 120 missiles have been fired at Israeli civilians by terrorists in Gaza. Israel has now responded to random targeting of civilians with the targeted killing of a terrorist.
Yet because of the way in which this is reported, many decent people will once again come away with the idea that it is the Israelis who have started this latest round of blood-letting. Whatever atrocity Hamas carries out next will be portrayed as a response, regrettable or otherwise, to Israeli provocation. Thus the British media ends up legitimising terrorism and demonising an ally which is behaving with more restraint than this country would in the face of such barbarism.
ttp://frontpagemag.com/2012/ben-shapiro/hollywoods-perverse-feminism/ Modern feminists began with the correct observation that men too often see women as sex objects. They opposed the objectification of women by people like Hugh Hefner, whom they felt was a relic of a bygone era – a time in which it was decent to treat women as receptacles for the male sexual […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/steven-plaut/letter-from-haifa/print/ Rockets from Gaza landing near Tel Aviv. Arabs and Jewish leftists at my own University of Haifa and at other universities demonstrating their solidarity for the Hamas. I was being facetious before when I suggested that such people would mourn the death of the uber terrorist Ahmed Jabari but this is PRECISELY what they […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/jill-khawam-kelley-acted-as-go-between-for-central-command-officers-and-muslim-leaders/ Buried in a flattering Washington Post article is a single extremely troubling quote that turns another otherwise tawdry affair into something much darker. A military officer who is a former member of Petraeus’s staff said Kelley was a “self-appointed” go-between for Central Command officers with Lebanese and other Middle Eastern officials. And from the […]
