http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/06/23/line-of-the-day/ Today’s memorable line comes from Powerline’s Scott Johnson [I somehow first attributed the piece to Scott’s colleague John Hinderaker: my apologies], commenting on Obama’s speech about the U.S. role in Afghanistan. Responding to the President’s declaration [1] that “it is time to focus on nation building here at home,” John says [2]: nation building […]
Here comes another lost tribe by Michael Freund The Jerusalem Post June 23, 2011 http://www.michaelfreund.org/9808/another-lost-tribe Thousands of kilometers to the east, in the furthest reaches of northeastern India, a long-lost community continues to nourish its age-old dream of returning to its ancient homeland, the land of Israel. The Bnei Menashe, or “sons of Manasseh,” are […]
Marine reservist charged in D.C.-area military shootings By Allison Klein http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/marine-reservist-charged-in-dc-area-military-shootings/2011/06/23/AGZ5CMhH_blog.html?wpisrc=al_national A 22-year-old Alexandria man has been charged with shooting at military buildings in the D.C. region last fall, and federal officials said in court papers that he videotaped himself shouting “Allah Akbar” after he fired shots at the U.S. Marine Corps museum in October. […]
AN E-PAL HAROLD W. SENT THIS http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6076323184217355958# a film the British Government deemed too grisly for release after World War II – has received its public debut on British television. Fifteen minutes of the black-and- white film, which was shot by the armed forces after the war, were televised Tuesday night by the Independent Television […]
by Asaf Romirowsky http://www.romirowsky.com/9814/israel-jordanian-friends President John F. Kennedy once said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. As a case in point, the so-called “Arab Spring” in the Middle East has now spread to the traditionally stable country of Jordan, a historical ally of the United States and Israel. The past […]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394625/40-UK-universities-breeding-grounds-terror.html#ixzz1Q6Q6nnaU 40 UK universities are now breeding grounds for terror as hardline groups peddle hate on campus By James Slack, Home Affairs Editor England’s universities have become a breeding ground for extremism and terrorist recruitment, according to a disturbing government report. Officials have identified 40 English universities where ‘there may be particular risk of radicalisation […]
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2011/ss_media0772_06_23.asp The FBI terror probe of an international network that ‘crossed paths’ with the president By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in MediaIn a front page story about a major FBI terrorism investigation, The Washington Post has reported that the targets include “Chicagoans who crossed paths with Obama when he was a young state senator and some […]
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=226386&R=R2 Aumann: Palestinians need incentives for peace By GREER FAY CASHMAN 06/24/2011 03:34 Nobel Prize Laureate and game theory expert says he wants real peace, which does not come from concessions and gestures. “If you want peace, be prepared for war,” Nobel Prize laureate Yisrael Aumann told participants in the third Israeli Presidential Conference in […]
http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/notreg LOS ANGELES – It is a California conceit that the culture begins on the Pacific and spreads not so slowly toward the Atlantic. Showbiz governors, governments of costly dreams, freeways, homosexuality as fashion, Valley Girl talk (like, you know), and once upon a time, even right-wing politics, more or less originated here. […]
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/06/23/kelly-mcparland-dog-days-in-the-hate-israel-industry/ Kelly McParland Things must be getting tougher in the Hate Israel industry these days, what with Arab leaders slaughtering their own people everywhere you look, in order to hold onto their jobs. People were killed in Egypt, people were killed in Tunisia and Bahrain, people are still being killed in Yemen, Libya and especially […]
