WES PRUDEN : CAN ISRAEL SURVIVE WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/26/can-israel-survive-friends-like-these/ PRUDEN: Can Israel survive friends like these? Says Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the House Republican Conference: “I never thought I’d live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the Jewish state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.” This is the moment a certain number of a certain breed of […]

KEEPING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL BI-PARTISAN: JOEL MOWBRAY

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/keeping_support_for_israel_bip.html March 26, 2010 Keeping Support for Israel Bipartisan By Joel Mowbray While most political eyes have focused on the Obama Administration’s recent puzzling fight with the Jewish state over building homes in “east” Jerusalem, ignored by the press and chattering classes was something else with potentially more severe long-term implications for the U.S.-Israel relationship. […]

INTERMISSION MARCH 21-28TH

I WILL BE ON VACATION UNTIL MARCH 28TH AND POSTINGS WILL RESUME THEN.

THE SULTAN’S WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Friday Afternoon Roundup – And the Voice of the Liar is Heard in our Land ×›×™-×”Ö´× Ö¼Öµ×” הַסְּתָו, עָבָר; הַגֶּשֶׁם, חָלַף הָלַךְ לוֹ הַנִּצָּנִים נִרְאוּ בָאָרֶץ, עֵת הַזָּמִיר ×”Ö´×’Ö¼Ö´×™×¢Ö·; וְקוֹל הַתּוֹר, נִשְׁמַע בְּאַרְצֵנוּ For lo the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has […]

WHY CAN’T FOLKS JUST GET OVER HOW I CONDEMNED ISRAEL AND WILL DO SO AGAIN? JOE BIDEN

http://www.mererhetoric.com/ Biden: Why Can’t Folks Just “Get Over” How I “Condemned” Israel, Which I Will Now Do Again I kind of want to sympathize with him. Marty Peretz is reminding everyone – again – that the order to detonate the US/Israel alliance came directly from Obama, who is “rip shit” with the Israelis. Apparently learning […]

GENERALLY SPEAKING: ON PETRAEUS….PLEASE READ

Dear E-pals: Many defenders of General Petraeus are now in high gear defending him against allegations that he is far more sympathetic to the Arab cause. Among them a dear friend who knows three generals very well assures me that they deny every single accusation…and Max Boot goes so far as to say “they lie”…. […]

WHILE BAN KI MOONS ISRAEL A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CASE OF CORRUPTION AT THE UN

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/03/18/v-print/1071248/multimillion-dollar-un-corruption.html Multimillion-dollar UN corruption case uncovered By JOHN HEILPRIN The deal looked simple enough: U.S. military equipment suppliers bribed an African defense minister’s salesmen to secure part of a $15 million gig to outfit a presidential guard. But the salesmen were actually FBI agents. And the operation resulted in what U.S. authorities in January called […]

THE LATE MILTON FRIEDMAN ON SOVIET STYLE MEDICAL CARE WRITTEN IN 1996

OPINION MARCH 20, 2010 A Way Out of Soviet-Style Health Care Solzhenitsyn’s prophetic warning about the depersonalization of medicine. By MILTON FRIEDMAN Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from an article with the same headline by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman that was published in the Wall Street Journal on April 17, 1996. Friedman […]

QUARTET RAISES PRESSURE ON ISRAEL: ROBIN SHEPHERD

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/   Mid-East Quartet raises the pressure against Israel as US policy confusion deepens over settlements     While Russia continues with the de-facto annexation of the South Ossetian and Abkhazian provinces of its southern neighbour Georgia, Ban Ki-Moon, Hilary Clinton and the other members of the Mid-East Quartet met in Moscow this morning to […]

QUARTET RAISES PRESSURE ON ISRAEL…

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/ Mid-East Quartet raises the pressure against Israel as US policy confusion deepens over settlements While Russia continues with the de-facto annexation of the South Ossetian and Abkhazian provinces of its southern neighbour Georgia, Ban Ki-Moon, Hilary Clinton and the other members of the Mid-East Quartet met in Moscow this morning to reaffirm the international […]