http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/the_futile_search_for_mr._goodbar The Pundit Primary is getting silly, as it usually does at this point in the chase, but fortunately it won’t last much longer. Relief will be arriving just in time. The pundits (and some of the pollsters) are waiting for Mr. Goodbar, the elusive good man in a singles bar. They’re hankering for the […]
Happy New Year, 5772, http://www.theettingerreport.com> www.TheEttingerReport.com “Israel Hayom” newsletter, Oct. 2, 2011 http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=576 Time is running in Israel’s favor, in contrast with conventional wisdom, as evidenced by the “global economic walk” and irrespective of the “global political talk.” At the outset of the Jewish New Year, 5772, Israel’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is $240BN – […]
http://sarahhonig.com/2011/10/07/editorial-shechtman%e2%80%99s-kudos/
“We – both as Jews and as Israelis – are too few to figure even as a marginal statistical error in world population figures, yet we persevere and excel despite matchless adversity. Shechtman’s own road to the Nobel embodies our oft-downplayed collective tenacity.
When Shechtman first published his theories, they were much too nonconformist and revolutionary for their time. He suffered merciless ridicule for his ideas. Ridicule transformed into out-and-out hostility. Shechtman was roundly maligned in the global scientific community. Even ostensible friends distanced themselves from him.
But in science at least – as distinct perhaps from statecraft and international diplomacy – truth eventually has the last word. Today the production of hundreds of crucial synthetic materials hinges upon Shechtman’s discoveries.”
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/07/from-israels-bus-300-affair-to-the-al-awlaki-assassination/ From Israel’s Bus 300 Affair to the Al-Awlaki Assassination It is perhaps the ultimate irony that the Israeli “Bus 300” affair is once again popping up in the media just days after the al-Qaeda terrorist with the US passport, Anwar al-Awlaki, was liquidated by a drone in Yemen. Many of the points being raised […]
This week the President of France, Nicky Sakozy, announced that the
very notion of a “Jewish State” is a silly idea. See the report here:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148556
Well, it occurs to me that if you REALLY want to find a truly silly
idea, it is the idea of a French state.
I reprint here an older posting of mine:
http://www.meforum.org/62/land-for-peace-the-french-solution
Land for Peace: The French Solution
by Steven Plaut
Middle East Quarterly
June 2000, p. 96
