AL HA-ARETZ ASKS: IS OBAMA LEARNING TACTICS FROM THE IDF?

Obama is learning from the IDF By Aluf Benn http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125723.html Israel’s critics in the United States portray it as a strategic burden. They argue that during the Cold War there was value in cooperating with the Israel Defense Forces, which gave the Americans useful information on Soviet weapons systems used by Arab armies. But the […]

ROBERT WISTRICH: COMPARING ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM TO GERMANY AT ITS WORST

Comparing Islamic anti-Semitism to Nazi Germany at its worst By Robert S. Wistrich http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125584.html On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the shooting in Paris two days earlier of German […]

MAKING MOVIES ABOUT THE PROPHET

guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 November 2009 11.00 GM Matrix producer plans Muhammad biopic Barrie Osborne, part of the Oscar-winning team behind the Lord of the Rings films, says the new production ‘will educate people about the true meaning of Islam’   Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat […]

GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL’S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS TODAY

REMARKS BY GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS THE HOUSE CHAMBER, THE CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C. 10:48 A.M. EST, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009 CHANCELLOR MERKEL: Thank you. Thank you very much. It’s — it’s very moving, I must say. Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, distinguished members of Congress — (through interpreter) — […]

FROM FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS….GOOD COLUMNS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4671/pub_detail.asp   Exclusive: FSM Interviews Dr. Jerome Corsi, Author of ‘America for Sale’ http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4670/pub_detail.asp FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY ON HOLD http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4668/pub_detail.asp WHO SAID “WITHOUT HASTE, WITHOUT FEAR WE WILL CONQUER THE WORLD?

AN ISRAELI TOURIST GOES TO SYRIA….GO ISRAEL!!!

HOW ISRAEL DESTROYED THE AL KIBAR NUCLEAR REACTOR

SPIEGEL ONLINE The Story of ‘Operation Orchard’ How Israel Destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor By Erich Follath and Holger Stark In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert. The incident could have led to war, but it was hushed up by all sides. Was it a nuclear plant […]

DOES PROPAGANDA FOR OBAMA EVER END?

http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275933.html#more   First of all – and I know this is ticky-tacky but the left’s ubiquotous pseudo-sophisticated name checking gets obnoxious – Julius Caesar was not a particularly great writer. Even if that wasn’t true, Marcus Aurelius was in every way a better scribe and at least equally as powerful. And as a purely historical […]

PLEADING WITH IRAN WILL GET US NOWHERE….BRET STEPHENS

When No Means No Pleading with Iran will get the West nowhere. I once overhead a guy try to make a date over the phone. His end of the conversation went roughly as follows: “How about Friday?” (Pause.) “Not Friday? Because I’m free most of the weekend.” (Pause.) “Not this weekend? What about next Saturday?” […]

WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK THAT HARVARD PRODUCED SO MANY MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703932904574511910510146196.html#printMode The university celebrates its history of valor. By WILLIAM MCGURN Most Americans would not be surprised to learn that Harvard is our nation’s oldest institution of higher learning, that it boasts the largest endowment, and that it has produced more U.S. presidents than any other university. Most Americans, however, might be hard-pressed to guess […]