http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1899/Our-Man-in-Tripoli.aspx John Rosenthal provides a cheat sheet on Al Qaeda in Libya — US-supported Al Qaeda in Libya — at Hudson New York. It is shocking evidence of how far off course we have drifted since September 11, 2001. Abdul Hakim Belhadj — today, “commander of Tripoli”; yesterday, founder of the Al Qaeda affiliate called […]
The British government and Israel Derangement Syndrome Melanie Phillips http://melaniephillips.com/the-british-government-and-israel-derangement-syndrome Government ministers might be concerned to know quite how often I am now accosted by strangers in public places. These strangers are usually, although not always, Jews. They accost me on the Tube, at the theatre, in the supermarket, in restaurants and in the street. […]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/09/us-melgibson-idUSTRE7884PD20110909 Mel Gibson film about Jewish hero draws criticism LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A film about a Jewish hero being produced by Mel Gibson, the actor who went on a public anti-Semitic tirade in 2006, drew sharp criticism on Friday from Jewish leaders who felt it was a slap in their faces. Gibson’s company, Icon […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/09/09/shut-up-he-explained/?print=1 “Sobering isn’t it? It’s an unmitigated litany of failure, evidence of economic illiteracy, political incompetence, and ideological extremism. What a legacy. No wonder that nearly everywhere one turns these days you hear echoing the same acronym: OMG: Obama must go.”So where’s Ring Lardner when you need, like now? “Are you lost daddy I arsked […]
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/07/v-print/2395698/link-to-911-hijackers-found-in.html#ixzz1XSyualSE Link to 9/11 hijackers found in Sarasota By Anthony Summers and Dan Christensen Special to The Miami Herald Just two weeks before the 9/11 hijackers slammed into the Pentagon and World Trade Center, members of a Saudi family abruptly vacated their luxury home near Sarasota, leaving a brand new car in the driveway, a […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4120175,00.html Embassy riots: Israeli envoy leaves Egypt Mob attack on Israeli embassy in Egyptian capital leads to dramatic decision: Air Force plane returns ambassador, 80 diplomats and their family members to Israel. Six Israelis stranded in building rescued by Egyptian commando force Attila Somfalvi Night drama: Friday’s violent clashes at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo continued […]
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/09/09/egyptians-ransack-building-housing-israel-embassy/ Israeli Ambassador Flees After Egyptians Ransack Embassy in Cairo CAIRO – Protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo Friday and dumped documents out of the windows as hundreds more demonstrated outside, prompting the ambassador and his family to leave the country. The unrest was a further worsening of already deteriorating ties between Israel […]
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Martin Sherman, one of Israel’s fines commentators is right and my argument is not with him but rather with the fantasies promoted by “Orientalists” is that there was a great comity between Turks and Jews. It was tolerance of the dhimmis at best and harsh Ottoman rule in Palestine which always favored the Arabs. Furthermore, throughout the Ottoman Empire, despite periods of relative calm there were outbreaks of violence, dislocation and forced migration of Jews and Assyrian Christians. And, one of the most painful episodes was the sinking of the ship Sturma in Turkish waters in 1941. The ship carrying 769 Jewish refugees in appalling conditions was chased from Palestine by the British. It foundered off the shores of Turkey which refused to assist or accept the refugees when the ship sank with all its wretched passengers including children.
Turkey is not changing…it is reverting to form. A pox on them! rsk
Martin Sherman: Turkish Tantrums
The loss of Turkey as a strategic ally is a huge blow. But it is a result of what Turkey has become, not what Israel has – or has not – done.
… Shut up. Go back to Auschwitz!
… We’re helping Arabs go against the US. Don’t forget 9/11, guys
– Radio transmission from the Gaza bound flotilla in May 2010 in response to the Israel Navy’s warning that it was entering an area under naval blockade Nothing could illustrate more graphically the sentiments that prevailed aboard the Mavi Marmara than the invective hurled by the “activists” at the Israeli naval forces charged with enforcing the eminently legal and legitimate maritime quarantine of Gaza.
Israeli Tensions Rise over ‘Radical Islamic Winter’ Posted By P. David Hornik URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/09/israeli-tensions-rise-over-radical-islamic-winter/ A battle raged in Israel this week—for the time being, a verbal one. It started with some words from the homefront commander, Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg, in a conference at Tel Aviv University on Monday. First it should […]
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“As for that famous “peace treaty” with Egypt often touted as proof of the possibilities of a negotiated settlement, the fall of Mubarak is making it increasingly clear that it was merely a 30-year cold truce purchased with the Sinai’s oil fields and the $2 billion a year in U.S. aid. Now with Mubarak gone, the border with Gaza is open to weapons, and the Sinai is a launching pad for terrorist attacks like the one a few weeks ago that killed eight Israelis.”
The idea that conflicts between peoples can be resolved by diplomatic negotiation has frequently been a dangerous delusion. Duplicitous states bargain in bad faith, using the process to buy time and mask their aggression. States unwilling or unable to use force will make diplomacy an excuse to substitute words for deeds. Too often, as historian Robert Conquest wrote about Cold War diplomacy with the Soviet Union, “since diplomats’ forte is negotiation, they believe negotiation to be good in itself . . . But the Soviets did what their interests required when the alternative seemed less acceptable, and negotiation was merely a technical adjunct.”
