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PUTIN TO GET COVETED GERMAN QUADRIGA PRIZE

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-773631,00.html Politicians Criticize Prize for Putin According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which obtained internal documents relating to the prize, the Quadriga Prize committee wrote of Putin that he possesses “calculability paired with staying power,” and that he has created stability for Russia “through the interplay of prosperity, economics and identity.”The award, which is given by […]

THE PEACEFUL PALESTINIAN “FLY-IN” LIE: RICK MORAN

The Peaceful Palestinian ‘Fly-In’ Lie Posted By Rick Moran URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/11/the-peaceful-palestinian-fly-in-lie/ More than 120 foreign pro-Palestinian activists were detained at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on Friday and Saturday in connection with a long-planned “Welcome to Palestine” fly-in to protest the government’s policies toward the West Bank. The demonstration, sponsored by 15 Western Palestinian […]

BRUCE THORNTON: STOP TALKING TO WOLVES

Stop Talking to Wolves Posted By Bruce Thornton http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/12/stop-talking-to-wolves/   Admiral Michael Mullen’s recent announcement that Iran is sending weapons to our enemies in Iraq, including rockets and explosively formed projectiles designed to penetrate armor, is almost a foreign policy dog-bites-man story. Ever since it declared war on the United States over 30 years ago, […]

MICHAEL LEDEEN: ARE WE GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO THOSE WHO KILL AMERICANS?

Are We Going to Do Anything to Those Who Kill Americans? Posted By Michael Ledeen Article printed from Faster, Please!: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen   At first, I thought all the statements — about Iranian support for terrorists (in both Iraq and Afghanistan) who kill Americans — were parting messages from government officials on their way out, and […]

Aiding and Abetting the Enemy By Lauri B. Regan

Aiding and Abetting the Enemy By Lauri B. Regan http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/aiding_and_abetting_the_enemy.html This past week, the Obama administration informed Congress that it had approved the sale of 125 M1A1 Abrams Tanks to the government of Egypt. The question of just who is running the government of Egypt was apparently insignificant to the decision-makers. And this goes to […]

The New Flare-Up between Israel and Lebanon Over Gas :(COL.Ret.)Jaques Neriah

The New Flare-Up between Israel and Lebanon Over Gas :(COL.Ret.)Jaques Neriah http://www.jcpa.org/. The potential oil and gas fields off the Lebanese and Israeli coasts look set not only to become a long-term source of heavenly bounty – but also a source of conflict in the years ahead. Behind the tensions over the potential gas discoveries […]

KERRY PATTON: KEEP YOUR EYE ON OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS

http://bigpeace.com/kpatton/2011/07/12/keep-your-eyes-on-operation-fast-and-furious/ The recently exposed ATF led Operation “Fast and Furious” has not saturated the media as it should. Budget dilemmas, economy, Casey Anthony, and other topics such as the withdrawal of surge troops in Afghanistan have played as distractionary news topics. These topics have shielded the United States government from possible violations of U.S. and […]

MAN, OH MAN, OH MANISCHEWITZ: JONATHAN SARNA

Man, Oh, Manischewitz By Jonathan D. Sarna http://www.jidaily.com/DjoH “Holy Matzo!” a recent Forward headline read. The accompanying article announced the baking of the “world’s largest matzo” — 82 square feet — to mark the opening of the new Manischewitz matzo factory in Newark, N.J. The matzo proved ephemeral; it was soon broken up and distributed. […]

DAPHNE ANSON: THE BLIGHTED LIVES OF SDEROT

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Research carried out by a team at Natal, a trauma center for victims of terror and war, under the supervision of Professor Marc Gelkopf, shows one-third of the population of the southern Israeli city of Sderot,which  in recent years has been the target of thousands of Qassam rockets launched from Gaza (see, for instance, […]

HERBERT LONDON: THE ISOLATIONIST IMPULSE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9922/pub_detail.asp Like a recurrent tide that ebbs and flows isolationism, what some have called Fortress America, arrives at water’s edge each generation. War fatigue, monstrous expenditures, casualties and the cri de coeur that we cannot be the world’s policeman contribute to the belief from the left and the right that we should turn inward concentrating […]