Home Politico reports that in a midnight email to his supporters, Daniels wrote: “The counsel and encouragement I received from important citizens like you caused me to think very deeply about becoming a national candidate. In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one, but that, the interests and wishes of […]
Home It’s an odd world in which the Canadian government is more pro-Israel than President Obama, but that’s the world we’re living in nonetheless. The Globe and Mail reports that, “The Harper government is refusing to join the United States in calling for a return to 1967 borders as a starting point for Mideast peace, […]
President Obama’s Virtual Reality Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4071786,00.html On November 2, 2010, the US electorate decided that President Obama was detached from domestic reality, and therefore dealt the Democratic Party a devastating defeat in federal and state legislatures, as well as in gubernatorial elections. In his May 19, 2011 speech on the […]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mahmoud-abbass-formula-for-war/2011/05/18/AFsdUl6G_story.html Mahmoud Abbas’s formula for war By Jackson Diehl, Published “Now Abbas is trying to transform the Arab Spring into a mass movement against Israel. It’s a maneuver that he knows will not bring peace, but it spares him, at age 76, from bearing the responsibility for making the concessions — on refugees, for example […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704816604576335520135033048.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_Opinion The 1967 Line of Fire Obama creates a needless furor over Israel’s borders. “He also alienated the leader of a key U.S. ally, as yesterday’s chilly photo-op of the President with Prime Minister Netanyahu made clear. If this is what Hillary Clinton likes to call “smart diplomacy,” we’d hate to see what qualifies as […]
Much fuss is being made about the recent agreement between Fatah and Hamas. Great emphasis being placed on the latter’s pernicious and implacable rejection of the right of Israel (and the Jews) to exist – as expressed in the Hamas Charter. For some – inexplicable – reason what is being ignored is that the the […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/projection-accusing-israel-of-its-attackers%e2%80%99-crimes/ Projection: Accusing Israel of Its Attackers’ Crimes Lost in the debate over CUNY’s granting playwright Tony Kushner an honorary degree because of his anti-Israel remarks is whether his accusations are true. If Israel is guilty of massacres, rapes. and mass expulsions — ethnic cleansing — than why should anyone object if someone says it? […]
ISRAEL LIVES@GMAIL.COM JANET LEHR OBAMA’S ADVISORS SAMANTHA POWERS, formerly at the Harvard Kennedy School and on the NSC senior staff, has accused Israel of war crimes (Jenin 2002) and argued for use of multilateral forces to enforce unilateral peace agreements in Palestinian territories. SUSAN RICE, US UN Ambassador, has been a proponent of global nuclear […]