MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY:Venezuela’s Docs Flee—So Does Chávez It’s no coincidence that the president has returned to Cuba for medical attention.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304521304576447851715104560.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond If we are to believe Hugo Chávez, doctors have removed a cancerous tumor the size of a baseball from somewhere inside his body. The type of cancer he has and the stage of its advance remain a Venezuelan state secret, but it is likely that he is a very sick man. This news, for […]

THE PERIPATHETIC SEC. OF STATE IS NOW OFF TO INDIA: ANDREW QUINN

http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE76H0TD20110718 UNDAUNTED BY FAILURE WITH IRAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, EGYPT, NORTH KOREA, RUSSIA AND CHINA….RSK ATHENS (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hopes to cement gains in ties with emerging global power India when she flies to New Delhi on Monday ties while heading off new frictions with fragile U.S. ally Pakistan. Clinton’s two-day trip […]

SAM WESTROP ON THE BRITISH/ISRAEL COALITION: “LET’S MAKE IT WORK”….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/let%E2%80%99s-make-it-work WILL IT WORK?….THE NOTION OF TERRITORIAL APPEASEMENT BY ISRAEL HAS TO BE REJECTED FULL FORCE, OTHERWISE, IN SPITE OF GREAT INTENTIONS….THE MOVEMENT WILL FOUNDER…..I WISH THEM LUCK…..RSK It came as no surprise when Vivian Wineman admitted the Board of Deputies exerts ‘no influence’ over government policy. It has also come as no surprise that […]

THE NEW BRITISH/ISRAEL COALITION…

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Putting Some Grit Into Pro-Israel Advocacy In Britain: The British Israel Coalition Sam Westrop is a young pro-Israel activist who featured on a video I posted some time ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUneU8p20gHe is the convenor of a new group, the British Israel Coalition, which, in his words, “is an umbrella organization for groups and individuals who […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: IS OBAMA OUR GORBACHEV?

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ He was a youthful leader with a law degree elected on the promise of reforms that would revitalize a world power trapped in the economic doldrums by its bureaucracy and huge debt. His approach of international engagement attempted to break through his country’s global isolation by forging new ties and treaties with old enemies. […]

DAVID ISAAC: STAYING THE COURSE

http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=744 Golda Meir famously quipped that Moses led the Jews to the one place in the Middle East without oil. It’s ironic then that Israel Energy Initiatives’ office is located at 1 Golda Meir Boulevard in Jerusalem. Last month the energy company pulled its first shale sample from the Zoharim drilling site southwest of Beit […]

LATE AND LAME: BENNY MORRIS RESPONDS TO KARSH….SEE NOTE PLEASE

Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/my_response_to_efraim_karsh.html BENNY MORRIS WAS AMONG THE FIRST AND MOST VICIOUS  OF HOME GROWN ISRAEL BASHERS TO THE DELIGHT OF ISRAEL’S ENEMIES….THIS IS A VEILED ACCUSATION OF ETHNIC CLEANSING WHICH HE REITERATES….“I wrote, in Righteous Victims (1999), that Zionism was a “colonizing and expansionist ideology and movement … intent on politically, and even […]

Bodyguard who killed Karzai’s brother was trusted CIA contact before being recruited by Taliban

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/bodyguard-who-killed-karzais-brother-was-trusted-cia-contact-before-being-recruited-by-taliban.html Bodyguard who killed Karzai’s brother was trusted CIA contact before being recruited by Taliban He “been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban.” How is it that the Taliban were able to recruit him? When he went to work for the CIA, didn’t they determine […]

Israel: Since the Egyptian revolution, “the IDF believes Hamas has smuggled in three times the amount of explosives it brought into Gaza in all of 2010”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/israel-since-the-egyptian-revolution-the-idf-believes-hamas-has-smuggled-in-three-times-the-amount-o.html Israel: Since the Egyptian revolution, “the IDF believes Hamas has smuggled in three times the amount of explosives it brought into Gaza in all of 2010” Gaza’s jihadists are only using the ceasefire as Islamic law intends it: to regroup and re-arm for the next round. “IDF doesn’t view rocket attacks as real escalation,” […]

AND IN IRAQ SURGEISTAN: 2010 “WORST YEAR FOR CHRISTIAN MINORITY

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/07/17/post-surge-iraq-2010-%E2%80%9Cworst-year%E2%80%9D-for-small-christian-minority/ Post-Surge Iraq: 2010 “Worst Year” for Small Christian Minority Posted By Andrew Bostom On July 17, 2011 David “What have you done to win Iraqi hearts and minds today [2]?” Petraeus’s Legacy of Post-Surge “Success” General David Petraeus continues to receive plaudits for the “successful surge” in Iraq—based upon his credo [3], “What have […]