KYLE-ANNE SHRIVER:America Drowns, But Obama Throws the Mideast Our Life Preserver

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/america-drowns-but-obama-throws-the-mideast-our-life-preserver/?singlepage=true Taking a brief timeout from his perennial campaign, Obama has given a big speech on the Middle East. It’s not surprising how many billions more dollars Obama wants in his quest to save the world with our money. None of that really matters, though, to the struggling American who’s out of work, on food […]

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:OBAMA’S RECIPE FOR DISASTER IN THE MIDDLE EAST

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/05/19/hold-that-tiger/?singlepage=true by Richard Fernandez “When it is too hard to ditch your enemies, ditch those who trusted you. In that spirit, the Obama plan appears to involve giving the only democracy in the region the heave-ho.” The Arab reaction to the president’s Middle East speech as reported by the Christian Science Monitor is reminiscent of […]

PEGGY SHAPIRO AND STEVE McGANN IN AMERICAN THINKER

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/obama_and_israel_1.html Obama and IsraelSteve McCann http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/disturbing_questions_about_pre.html Disturbing Questions about President Obama’s Vision for Israel By Peggy Shapiro   FIRST McGANN….SHAPIRO FOLLOWS I forced myself to listen to Obama deliver his so-called new Middle East policy speech.  It was exceedingly difficult to do.  During the speech, as Obama declared that Israel should acquiesce to the 1967 […]

JAMES LEWIS: OBAMA’S BORDERS CAUSED 60 YEARS OF WAR

Obama’s borders Caused 60 Years of WarBy James Lewis http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/obamas_borders_caused_60_years.html Obama has just given an eager world his fantasy answer for the last sixty years of Arab-Israel conflict. The Great One’s long-awaited solution is for Israel to pull back to the cease-fire lines of the 1948 War of Independence, or what Obama, in a moment […]

JEROLD AUERBACH: WHAT SHOULD NETANYAHU SAY?

What Should Netanyahu Say? By Jerold S. Auerbach http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/what_should_netanyahu_say.html Next Tuesday, four days after he meets with President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu will address Congress.  With Israel now confronting a triple-security threat that leaves the country more vulnerable than at any time since the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, it is imperative […]

OBAMA’S ISRAEL SURPRISE By JAY SOLOMON And CAROL E. LEE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704904604576333314204138294.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read Obama’s Israel Surprise President Issues Clear Call for Talks on Palestinian State Based on Pre-1967 Borders WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama, seeking to get ahead of historic changes rolling through the Middle East, promised support for democratic uprisings in the Arab world and called for the first time to begin negotiations for a Palestinian state based […]

SETH LIPSKY: SHOULD AMERICA SELL ITS GOLD?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576331364065189624.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By SETH LIPSKY It’s been 25 years since I found myself sitting in the office of Karl Otto Poehl, the president of the West German Bundesbank. I was then a young editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal intent on asking Europe’s most powerful central banker how he felt about the monetary crisis of […]

Mark Steyn On Barack Obama’s Israel Problem

http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=9ef90326-5f62-4694-9b35-36def9d1642e Mark Steyn On Barack Obama’s Israel Problem Friday, May 20, 2011 HH: I begin on this Thursday as I do when we are lucky with Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn. You can read everything Mark writes at www.steynonline.com. Mark, a remarkable speech by the President today, your assessment? MS: Well, at a certain […]

SURPRISE! SURPRISE!….CAIR LIKED OBAMA’S SPEECH

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=xprnw.20110519.DC05943&show_article=1 Reps of Syrian and Libyan-American communities participate in viewing and press conference WASHINGTON, May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today said that President Obama’s speech this afternoon on the “Arab Spring” freedom movements in the Middle East and North Africa sets the right tone but needs to be translated […]

ROBIN SHEPHERD ON OBAMA’S FUTILE GESTURE OF APPEASEMENT

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/171/instant_view_obama_throws_israel_under_the_bus_in_futile_gesture_of_appeasement Jeremy Bowen was glowing. The BBC’s Middle East editor said President Obama’s speech yesterday, in which he effectively threw Israel under the proverbial bus by demanding the Jewish state accepts the completely indefensible 1967 lines as the basis for a peace deal with the Palestinians, represented a clear move by the United States to […]