http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2858 Obama’s election and Gaza It sure didn’t take long for the effect of the U.S. election to be felt around the world, particularly in the Middle East. Within days of President Barack Obama’s victory, Israel found itself under missile and mortar attack on two fronts. Though the bulk of the blitz is coming from […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324439804578115081454748210.html?mod=opinion_newsreel If you’re a conspiracy theorist, the timing of David Petraeus’s resignation was perfect. He stepped down as CIA director Friday, six days before he was to have testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the 9/11 attacks in Benghazi and three days after Barack Obama’s re-election, thereby shielding Obama from both pre-election embarrassment and […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324894104578114791679213644.html In January I was rebuked by some readers for predicting that the GOP would lose, and for saying it deserved to lose, too. “It doesn’t matter that Americans are generally eager to send Mr. Obama packing,” I wrote. “All they need is to be reasonably sure that the alternative won’t be another fiasco. But […]
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/NK14Aa01.html It seems fitting that the director of Central Intelligence should be the first casualty of an election where both sides had more to lose than to gain by mentioning foreign policy. My admiration for General David Petraeus was grudging, but he was well-qualified for the job: a general who can manipulate his own masters […]
Herb was my dear friend and mentor and a stalwart fighter for Israel in the mold of Shmuel Katz and Zeev Jabotinski. In Hebron, the cradle of the Jewish faith and the fist capital of the Jewish people AFSI members headed by Helen Freedman gathered to dedicate ” Zweibon Hall.”
From David Wilder:
Friday afternoon we dedicated a memorial room to our dear friend, Herb Zweibon, founder and director of AFSI, Americans for a Safe Israel. Herb was a genuine friend of Israel, and especially of Hebron’s Jewish community. AFSI’s executive director, Helen Freedman led a group of about 25 friends from the US for a week-long visit in Israel, and to Hebron for this Shabbat. We all gathered at the new “Zweibon Hall,” at the entrance to the ‘Hezkiah neighborhood,” here in Hebron to dedicate this room in Herb’s memory.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/rand-recommends-us-government-sell-the-muslim-brotherhood-to-us-public?f=puball#ixzz2C6IlbHcx Washington Institute analyst Eric Trager has written an article analyzing a RAND report that discusses how the U.S. government can further engage with the Muslim Brotherhood while insulating themselves from “domestic criticism.” The article begins: November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09 There is one curious beneficiary of the September 11 attack on the […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/politics-as-culture?f=puball In Jacques Barzun’s masterwork on cultural history he describes modernity as decadent. Pitirim Sorokin’s narrative of contemporary society includes sensate culture, a belief that the senses are superordinated over ideas and beliefs. There are many explanations for President Obama’s election victory, but in my judgment, none is more compelling than the degradation of American […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/if-fiscal-conservatives-cant-win-in-the-us-can-they-win-anywhere These are awkward times to be a Right-of-Centre candidate. Many voters believe they are living through a crisis of capitalism. They blame the credit crunch on lack of regulation. They think the deficit should be filled by taxing the bankers who, they have been assured, created it in the first place. It is not […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/high-noon-for-america/?singlepage=true Jamie Glazov’s previous book, Showdown with Evil [1], was a collection of interviews he’d conducted over the years with resonant figures in the political world and authors of international standing. Glazov has now followed suit with High Noon for America: The Coming Showdown [2], a collection of symposia, dating from 2008 to 2011, which […]
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If you believe David Petraeus really resigned as CIA director over an extramarital affair, you probably also believe that Muhammad filmmaker Mark Basseley Youssef is in prison because of a parole violation. It is much more likely that both Petraeus and Youssef herald the dawning of a new style in American politics – or else Barack Obama is the luckiest man alive.
It has already been widely noted that the timing of Petraeus’s resignation was perfect for Barack Obama: on the same day that the House Foreign Affairs Committee announced that it would be calling the CIA director to testify about the ever-widening Benghazi scandal, he abruptly resigned over an extramarital affair. Now Petraeus won’t be testifying, and one of the most important witnesses as to what really happened when jihadists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and who ordered those who would have defended Ambassador Chris Stevens and his colleagues to “stand down,” has been removed from the scene. Petraeus had already said that he issued no such order, which makes it strongly likely that Obama himself did so; but now Petraeus won’t be around to say so one way or the other.
