The Coming Post-Obama Renaissance Posted By Victor Davis Hanson URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-post-obama-renaissance/ The Parting of the Clouds In every literary, historical or cinematic masterpiece, times must grow darkest before the sunrise and deliverance. Tolkien worked that classical theme to great effect. A sense of fatalism overtook a seemingly doomed Gondor — right before the […]
Obama Proudly Declares Class War http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278930 But the rich are already getting soaked. It’s official: America is engaged in a class war, and Pres. Barack Obama proudly leads the charge against this country’s wealthy. “If asking a millionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber makes me a class warrior — a warrior […]
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/editorials/bashing_israel_again_2R1oVFVvOW13eURyTrbIOO O: Bashing Israel, again Ed Koch says President Obama got his message about White House hostility toward Israel, so the ex-mayor is now back aboard the “Obama Re-election Express.” You may be jumping the gun, Ed. Just days after Palestinians thumbed their nose at peace talks and instead went directly to the UN Security […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/10/pastor_yousef_nadarkhani.html It is my moral obligation as a Jew to speak out on behalf of an Iranian Christian whom I have never met. Imprisoned since October 2009, Yousef Nadarkhani was first accused of apostasy against Islam by the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2010 he was found guilty “and sentenced to death … for abandoning […]
The Worldwide Cells That Are All Hezbollah Now http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ It’s hard to contemplate unpleasant realities at the start of a new (Jewish) year, but, alas, it’s not all sweetness and honey out there … I posted a few days ago about the aggressive “export-the-1979-Revolution” foreign policy that’s being openly boasted of in ruling circles within […]
Another Imam Bites the Dust Posted: 02 Oct 2011 08:15 PM PDT November 2001, Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki of the Falls Church Mosque was busy answering questions for Washington Post readers on its website. Al-Awlaki did his part to assure WaPo readers that Islam was a religion of peace. “The greatest sin in Islam after associating […]
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New Pro-Israel Group Launched In Australia
Mazal Tov to Australians For A Secure Israel (AFASI), which has just been launched in Sydney. I’m delighted to see that, in addition to a certain lady for whom my admiration is boundless, one of my favourite international affairs analysts, David Singer, is on the steering committee of this laudable new initiative.
To quote J-Wire (where further details and photographs of the inaugural occasion can be found):
‘In his opening speech, AFASI’s president Danny Ginges said:
“Our group was formed out of concern about the growing attempts to delegitimise the State of Israel. Not just by the extremist fringes, but by elements of the political party that currently holds the balance of power in this country. Not just by radical followers of Islam and the church, but by members of our own faith….
http://bigpeace.com/abostom/2011/10/02/will-mainstream-american-islam-condemn-pastor-nadarkhanis-apostasy-death-sentence/Almost 90 years ago, in his 1924 The Law of Apostasy in Islam, Samuel Zwemer made these observations, regarding the post World War I “Arab Spring” of that era: The story is told that Damocles, at the court of Dionysius of Sicily, pronounced the latter the happiest man on earth. When, however, Damocles was permitted […]
http://bigpeace.com/jpollak/2011/10/02/clueless-joe-biden-reassures-jewish-voters-i-told-obama-hell-release-pollard-over-my-dead-body/
Clueless Joe Biden ‘Reassures’ Jewish Voters: I Told Obama He’ll Release Pollard ‘Over My Dead Body’
Yesterday’s New York Times reported that President Barack Obama has dispatched Vice-President Joe Biden to reassure wavering Jewish voters about the administration’s foreign policy towards Israel.
During a meeting with rabbis in Florida, Biden was asked about commuting the sentence of Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of spying for Israel in 1986, and who is serving a life sentence that many Jews feel is disproportionately harsh.
Biden’s answer:
“President Obama was considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going to let him out before his time,’ ” Mr. Biden said. “If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life.”
Whether you agree or disagree with Pollard’s punishment, Biden’s undiplomatic language was a colossal blunder, and suggests the following possibilities:
(Biden? That’s when you know they’re in trouble.)
Turkey playing with fire in ramping up anti-Israel rhetoric
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/495/turkey_playing_with_fire_in_ramping_up_anti_israel_rhetoric
It is hard to remain unmoved by acts of blatant cynicism. Not those small, petty gestures of crass stupidity that seek to advance a particular vested interest, but grand acts of faux-statecraft that leave the observer unsure whether to laugh or cry.
The recent antics of Turkey’s “mildly Islamist” Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, offer a textbook example.
After expelling Israel’s ambassador to Ankara, severing military ties and ending its strategic co-operation with Jerusalem, Turkey’s (non-Arab) Prime Minister flew to a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo. There he presented himself, shiny new credentials intact, as the “cheerleader-in-chief” of the Palestinians.
“We must work hand-in-hand with our Palestinian brothers,” Erdogan lectured his fellow Middle East leaders. “It is time to raise the Palestinian flag at the United Nations.” International recognition of a Palestinian state was, he declared, an obligation, not an option.
