MY SAY: WHY NO MENTION OF JIHAD AS A FACTOR IN THE ARAB/ISRAEL CONFLICT?

AGAIN….A LOT OF GOOD ARTICLES ON THE PRESIDENT AND ON THE ‘CONFLICT” (NEW WORD FOR A DEADLY WAR WAGED BY ONE SIDE AGAINST ANOTHER’)….AND A WELCOME CONVERSION BY BRET STEPHENS… HOWEVER, WHERE IS THE MENTION OF JIHAD, THE FAITH DRIVEN FORCE AGAINST ALL “INFIDELS” WHO INHABIT THE PUTATIVE ARABIAN CALIPHATE? SO FAR ROBERT SPENCER, BRUCE […]

OBAMA’S ACHIEVEMENT: THE MOUSE THAT ROARED MELANIE PHILLIPS

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6966810/obamas-achievement-the-mouse-that-roared.thtml “Bottom bottom line: it’s all a pile of steaming irrelevance. The Arabs aren’t going to play anyway. The immediate reason for the nine-decade war thus remains firmly in place. The deeper reason, that the aggressor is indulged and rewarded by the west and thus has every incentive to ratchet up his rejectionism and aggression, […]

DAVID SINGER: Obama Continues to Fudge on America’s Commitment to Israel”.

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ “Israel made a historic – and highly controversial – political decision to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza as a condition of obtaining the Bush Letter. Israel paid dearly for that decision when tens of thousands of its civilian population were subsequently murdered, wounded or traumatized following that disengagement.” President Obama in an address to the […]

DAVID SOLWAY: OBAMA’S BORDER PROBLEMS

Obama’s Border Problem Posted By David Solway http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/23/obama%e2%80%99s-border-problem/print/ In his recently published Grand Strategies, Charles Hill reflects on the reason that the Republic of Venice, a vast commercial, naval and diplomatic power stretching across the eastern Mediterranean, ultimately failed to become a modern state, meeting an ignominious end in 1796. Its failure, Hill explains, was […]

RON RADOSH: A REVIEW OF DAVID MAMET’S PROGRESS

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/05/23/david-mamets-progress/?singlepage=true Roger L. Simon Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine The Secret Knowledge is a cry of “Basta!” Buy this book. But, more importantly, buy another copy for your liberal friends, the ones you may still have. They may even read it. And then… who knows? David Mamet’s Progress The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling […]

EDUCATING CHRIS WALLACE: RICHARD BAEHR

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/chris_wallace_says_israel_kick.html Chris Wallace says Israel ‘Kicked Out’ Palestinians By Richard Baehr I think Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday is one of the better interviewers among the various news channel hosts.  He is prepared, and pushes pretty hard with everybody, though not in an obnoxious fashion.  He chooses to remain the interviewer, and not become […]

JOEL MOWBRAY: PUTTING TEETH IN OBAMA’S LIP SERVICE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/23/putting-teeth-in-obamas-lip-service/ House could send tough message about Hamas subterfuge It has been a week since Arabs marched on Israel’s borders on four sides, yet that media spectacle remains a potent metaphor for the mounting threats facing the tiny Jewish state, from Hezbollah taking over Lebanon to the Hamas-partnered Palestinian government attempting to circumvent peace talks […]

DUTCH TREATS FOR SHARIA….APPALLING

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/expert-witness-in-wilders-trial-the-dutch-will-from-now-on-have-to-live-with-unpredictable-limitatio.html Expert witness in Wilders trial: “The Dutch will, from now on, have to live with unpredictable limitations of the freedom of speech” The great Islamic scholar Hans Jansen, who is an expert witness in the Geert Wilders show trial and charged judge Tom Schalken with witness tampering, has sent this statement on the trial […]

JIHADIST WHO FOUGHT AMERICA SNEAKED INTO PORT NEWARK

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/jihadist-who-fought-against-americans-in-fallujah-eluded-border-checkpoints-sneaked-into-port-newark.html Jihadist who fought against Americans in Fallujah eluded border checkpoints, sneaked into Port Newark Near “the kind of oil refineries that Osama bin Laden talked about blowing up as part of a global-chaos plot in papers found in his Pakistan hideout.” “Stowaway at Port Newark sparks terror probe,” by Philip Messing in the New […]

ADRIAN MORGAN: Taliban Terror Network Establishes Itself in Southern Pakistan

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9582,css.print/pub_detail.asp On May 11, the Pakistani Taliban carried out a twin suicide bomb attack against a police training center in Shabqadar, Charsadda district, in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier province. That attack claimed the lives of 80 police personnel, in a Pashtun region of Pakistan that is renowned as a center of Taliban and al-Qaeda activity. Yesterday, […]