TU QUOQUE, THE ECONOMIST: EMMANUEL NAVON

Tu Quoque, The Economist “Can the whole world be wrong?” asked Koffi Annan in April 2002.  His was a rhetorical question meant to make a sophistic point: If the UN says black and Israel says white, do the math and guess who’s right.  Coming from a man under whose watch (whether as Head of the […]

DEPORTING “SON OF HAMAS” WHO IS NO SECURITY THREAT

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282412942302170.html The U.S. may send an antiterror agent back to the West Bank.Mosab Hassan Yousef is a best-selling author who wrote “Son of Hamas” about his life as a Palestinian who became an informant for Israeli intelligence. He’s probably near the top of every Islamist terror hit list, yet, incredibly enough, the U.S. may soon […]

ARAB LEAGUE CHIEF VISITS GAZA…AND CALLS FOR AN END…..TO THE BLOCKADE…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100613/wl_nm/us_palestinians_arabs ABOUT MOUSSA: Arab League chief: No Israel recognition DAMASCUS, Syria, May 24 (UPI) — Islamic countries should make clear there will be no normalized relations with Israel until it stops breaking international law, an Arab League official says.And he is the new pal of Erdogan and old pal of bashir the butcher of Darfur…. […]

SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL….SEE NOTE

WHY IS NEWS LEAKED ABOUT A “SECRET DEAL” BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA?….REMEMBER “LOOSE LIPS SHINK SHIPS”…..RSK http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/some_encouraging_news_about_is.html Some encouraging news about Israel Clarice Feldman This past week was full of the usual: Double standards being applied to cast Israel as a vicious, law-breaking state and more threats from Iran to an already besieged country. […]

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? EGYPT BANS MARRIAGE TO ISRAELIS

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100612_Editorial__Where_is_love_.html#ixzz0qgVSPXsa Associated Press Muslim clergymen greeting Pope Benedict XVI this week. Posted on Sat, Jun. 12, 2010 Editorial: Where is love? How bad are the prospects for peace in the Middle East? Here’s a hint. The highest court in Egypt, the only Arab country to make peace with Israel, recently ruled that any Egyptian man […]

OBAMA’S ALBATROSS

» Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Obama’s Health Care Albatross – Big Government http://biggovernment.com/gopelka/2010/06/12/coleridges-ancient-mariner-and-obamas-health-care-albatross/ Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Obama’s Health Care Albatross by Gregg Opelka Even most native speakers of English don’t realize how many of our commonest clichés—phrases you hear verbatim in venues as diverse as a gabfest on The View, an Elvis Presley song, […]

SARAH HONIG: WE HAVE TO DO WHAT’S GOOD FOR US****

Another Tack: Edgardo and the quarterbacks By SARAH HONIG In the recesses of too many minds throughout the int’l community dwells the notion that Jews are inherently to blame for whatever befalls them. Fate inserts assorted unexpected subplots into our lives. Some months ago, a reader from Germany responded to a column of mine in […]

SHOE BUSINESS: MARILYN PENN

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/topic/politics/ According to the Times reporter, the 5,000 year old leather shoe that was just unearthed from a layer of sheep dung in a spacious Armenian classic six cave was a size 7 and probably belonged to a woman.  This left me puzzled and befuddled.  My own 20th century Eastern European grandmothers and aunts, as […]

THE SULTAN: HE KNOWS…HE JUST DOES NOT CARE

Friday Afternoon Roundup – He Knows, He Just Doesn’t Care The most damning thing about Obama’s response to the Gulf Crisis (the other Gulf Crisis) is not what it reveals about his lack of competence, but what it reveals about his lack of interest. And it has forced many liberals to recognize, what so many […]

AYAAN HIRSI ALI: WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD TRY TO CONVERT MUSLIMS

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/05/21/why-christians-should-try-to-convert-muslims/ On why Christians should try to convert Muslims Maclean’s talks to writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali about living under a fatwa by Kate Fillion on Friday, May 21, 2010 10:30am – 314 Comments Photograph by Steve Simon Born Muslim in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, fleeing to the […]