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David Singer :”Out Of Tune And Out Of Time”: The Quartet, Negotiations, and the Palestinian Authority

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ That frequent commentator on Middle East politics, David Singer, a Sydney lawyer and founder member of the International Analysts Network, has written another of his perspicacious articles.  Coming as usual via the antipodean J-Wire service, it’s entitled “Palestine: Quartet Misses The Beat”. Writes David Singer: ‘The utter  futility inherent in pursuing the two-state solution […]

HERBERT LONDON: VENICE: CITY OF DREAMS

Venice: City of Dreams by Herbert I. London http://www.hudson-ny.org/2279/venice-city-of-dreams Venice is more than a city; it is the embodiment of the human spirit. Each day nature sends rising tides to test the resilience of this remarkable place. Barriers have been placed at sea to guard the land, but nature is relentlessly testing Venetian mettle. It […]

HUMBERTO FONTOVA: DESPERATELY FLEEING FREE HEALTHCARE

http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/07/18/desperately_fleeing_free_healthcare This week an Iberia Airliner left Havana, landed in Madrid and found an obviously desperate Cuban stowaway. The 23 year old Cuban man named Adonis G.B. was curled in the landing gear, crushed to death. He joins an estimate of 50-70,000 Cubans dying (literally) to leave Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s handiwork. Almost two […]

CAL THOMAS:FIXING THE PRESENT, ENSURING THE FUTURE

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/07/19/fixing_the_present,_ensuring_the_future/print PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. — If your disgust over America’s crushing debt and the irresponsible leaders who refuse to reduce unnecessary spending has reached the fed-up point, there is an easy solution beyond whatever compromise might be reached in the current standoff between President Obama and congressional Republicans. Vote Republican in 2012.But don’t vote for […]

Ibn Warraq: The Judeo-Christian Origins of Islam (Part 6)

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/ibn-warraq-the-judeo-christian-origins-of-islam-part-6.html The Judeo-Christian Origins of Islam by Ibn Warraq Part 1 here; part 2 here; part 3 here; part 4 here; part 5 here. Tisdall takes up the story, “In the book to which we have just referred, the event is connected with the Flight into Egypt. The tale records how the Holy Family started […]

WES PRUDEN: THE GAME OF BLIND MAN’S BLUFF ISN’T WORKING

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php? The game of blind-man’s bluff isn’t working. More and more Americans are catching on to the game. President Obama’s threat to withhold Granny’s Social Security check did not send millions of Grannies into the streets, her walker banging noisily against a wheelchair, leaving the wounded lying bloodied amidst splintered walking canes. The president, who […]

JOHN BERNARD: THE SPECTER OF SUCCESS IN COIN….BUT FOR WHOM?

http://www.letthemfight.blogspot.com/ Juxtaposition is a literary expression of the side-by-side positioning of incongruent terms or ideas. Politics and culture seem to do this as a matter of the normal transaction of day to day business; suggesting that certain ideas or arguments make a point that is polar opposite. Most of the thinking population would describe these […]

GLEN BECK: SECURITY CONCERNS…LOCATION CHANGE FOR AUGUST EVENT

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/beck-announces-location-change-for-restoring-courage-event/ On radio Monday, Glenn Beck announced a major change to his massive Restoring Courage event in Israel on August 24. The site of the event has been moved from the historic Temple Mount. It’s a move Beck says is due to security concerns. “Last week I was told by several security firms that because […]

ELI HERTZ: THE ARAB LEAGUE AT WAR WITH ISRAEL

The Arab League at War with Israel | Eli E. Hertz http://www.mythsandfacts.com/ According to media reports, on July 11, 2011 President Obama invited the other members of the Quartet – Russia, the UN, and the EU – as well as representatives from China and the Arab League,[1] to the White House for a summit on […]

NURIT GREENGER: A WORLD HIJACKED BY EVIL

http://www.israelforum.com/blog_article.php?aid=3547748 (To Score) http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2011/07/world-hijacked-by-evil.html A World Hijacked By Evil July 17, 2011 Nurit Greenger There are times in history when people stood up and made the difference, good, or bad. The world is at this tipping point, ‘for better or for worse’, as the wedded couple vows to each other, with a twinkle of unlimited […]