http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/16/iran-encircles-israel/ It was just a matter of time before the disruptions in the Middle East began to have an impact on Israel. Unfortunately, the border violence there over the weekend had more to do with preventing change than promoting it. Sunday marked the annual Palestinian political ritual of Nakba (“the catastrophe”), which marks Israel’s founding […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/16/middle-east-muddle-388037495/ President Obama will “reach out” yet again on Thursday to what he insists on calling “the Muslim world.” Think of it as the 2.0 version of his much-ballyhooed but seriously deficient 2009 speech at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. His message this time, we are told, will be that the death of Osama bin Laden […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/16/reduced-jobless-rate-in-virginia-ends-extended-ben/ HOW ABOUT ANOTHER LOOK AT GOVERNOR ROBERT McDONNELL?????RSK Reduced jobless rate in Virginia ends extended benefits About 5,700 expected aid for three more months By Paige Winfield Cunningham Virginia’s slow-but-steady economic recovery spells the end of unemployment benefits for those out of work the longest. About 5,700 Virginians claiming unemployment for 18 months or […]
ISLAM: THE GOOD THE TRUE THE BEAUTIFUL Paris May 14, 2011 By Nidra Poller Debate on Islamic Reform: Robert Spencer and Zuhdi Jasser, moderated by Andrew McCarthy, April 3, at the David Horowitz Freedom Center‘s West Coast Retreat in Palos Verdes, California. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/zuhdi-jasser-and-robert-spencer-debate-islamic-reform.html Dr. Zuhdi Jasser is handsome, youthful, smooth, urbane, soft-spoken, the very image […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/05/16/only-the-good-die-young-92-year-old-palestinian-arab-woman-who-witnessed-the-1929-hebron-anti-jewish-pogrom-urges-another-larger-one/ Only The Good Die Young: 92 Year-Old Palestinian Arab Woman Who Witnessed the 1929 Hebron Anti-Jewish Pogrom, Urges Another Larger One MEMRI has excerpted a pathognomonic interview of a 92-year-old Palestinian Arab woman who witnessed the murderous1929 anti-Jewish ethnic cleansing pogrom in Hebron. She openly celebrates the slaughter of the Jews of Hebron as […]
Converting Mamet A playwright’s progress Andrew Ferguson http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/converting-mamet_561048.html “When I pushed him on the subject, he started talking about Jon Voight, another show business Republican.One day Voight handed him Witness, the Cold War memoir by the Communist-turned-anti-Communist Whittaker Chambers.“This book will change your life,” Voight told Mamet.“And he was right,” Mamet said. “It had a […]
http://www.letthemfight.blogspot.com/ It is a universal truth that some are won over by love and others through fear. Those without a natural malice toward others are naturally drawn by acts of love and charity. Those who harbor ill-will and whose natural tendency it is to harm others, typically require a solid dose of fear to encourage […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=220865 The defense minister has been too busy warning about the widely exaggerated diplomatic ‘tsunami’ at the UN in September to notice events in the Middle East in May. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have some explaining to do. On Sunday, Israel was invaded along its border with Syria. More than […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576327094275297416.html Israel Will Never Have Peace This weekend’s border-crossing demonstrators believe, like Hamas, that the Jewish State has no right to any territory from the river to the sea. STEPHENS IS ANOTHER TWO STATE GROUPIE THAT NOW “GETS IT”????? No doubt it is true, as the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday, that among […]
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/05/14/white-house-down-in-middle-east/ White House Down in Middle East WALTER RUSSELL MEAD I CAN’T EXACTLY AGREE THAT OBAMA HAS POLICY SUCCESSES ….HOWEVER THIS COLUMN MAKES SOME GOOD POINTS…RSK The news that George Mitchell is resigning as US special envoy closes a chapter in the greatest international failure of the Obama administration to date. The President’s foreign […]
