Robin M. Mills is a Dubai-based energy economist and consultant, columnist for the National, and author of The Myth of the Oil Crisis and Capturing Carbon. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/15/the_land_of_gas_and_honey Mother Nature’s distribution of oil and gas resources around the world suggests she has a mischievous sense of humor. In the Persian Gulf, South China Sea, and Caspian […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/19/diplomacy-of-September/ In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “TheGunsofAugust,” Barbara Tuchman chronicles how a cascading series of seemingly minor developments led inexorably to World War I and the worst carnage known to man up to that time. In the future, historians may point to the present “Diplomacy of September” as the catalyst for the next horrific conflict […]
Government must issue new policy supporting cutting off foreign aid to Palestinians, stop transferring tax revenues if status upgraded at UN. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=238631 Speaking Sunday at the UN’s conference of donors to the Palestinian Authority, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon warned that while Israel supports economic assistance to the PA now, that is liable to change […]
A little history lesson (division of Palestinian rejectionism) Posted By Roger Kimball As everyone knows, the United Nations is about to debate the question of a statehood for the Palestinians. “Statehood for the Palestinians”? Where have you heard that before? Here’s a little history lesson on the subject: [1] Article printed from Roger’s Rules: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10407/pub_detail.asp With a vote at the UN this week on Palestinian statehood it is appropriate to ask if the United States will save Israel or will Israel save the United States. Having spent ten days visiting defense installations in Israel and talking to members of the general staff, my confidence about Israel’s ability to defend […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277608/revolutionary-era-approaches-its-end-shoshana-bryen If you think Abu Mazen’s objective in asking the U.N. Security Council for recognition of the independence of Palestine is the independence of Palestine, stop reading here. Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) is the last of the secular, revolutionary senior Arafat cronies imported from Tunisia — a Soviet-educated octogenarian in a post-Soviet world. Israelis sometimes […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/277700 Obama Hits Bottom… Pres. Barack Obama promised to have a plan to pay for his massive new stimulus bill by Monday. He broke that promise, as he has broken so many others, and remains in the “plan to have a plan” stage of his inscrutable meditations, having only made yet another unsubstantial speech, full […]
The Sorry State of Immigration Posted By Matthew Vadum URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/20/the-sorry-state-of-immigration/ The conventional wisdom among conservatives is that if President Obama wins a second term, things on the immigration policy front will become worse. But it’s difficult to see how the situation could become much worse when the state of immigration in the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/20/anti-semitism-at-hampshire-college/ Anti-Semitism at Hampshire College In the wake of the federal investigation recently opened to investigate charges of anti-Semitism and a hostile environment for Jewish students at the University of California Santa Cruz, other students who have experienced anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist harassment are coming forward with their stories. Among these are former Hampshire College students […]
Obama: Incompetent or Malevolent? Posted By David Solway URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/20/obama-incompetent-or-malevolent/ The phrase “politics as usual” has gained a certain currency in our time. Regrettably, it is no longer relevant. What we are presently witnessing cannot be described as politics as usual. Consider the concatenation of events and factors that now confront us: […]
