http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576427592896119826.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop DSK and the District Attorney New York’s prosecutor could have chosen to exploit race and status in the high-profile case. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It should have been no surprise to hear that the career and reputation of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. had sustained a deadly blow as a result of revelations […]
Remembering Entebbe 35 Years Ago Today: When Leaders Still Fought For Freedom http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/07/remembering-entebbe-35-years-ago-today.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1cb696e944-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN On America’s two hundredth birthday it was Israel that showed the world the “Spirit of 1776.” On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139, carrying 248 passengers and a crew of twelve, took off from Athens, heading for Paris. Soon after the […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=227931 On Monday, saboteurs bombed the Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel for the third time since former president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February. The move was just another reminder that Israel today faces the most daunting and complex threat spectrum it has ever seen. From Egypt to Turkey to Iran to the international Left […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/577121/201107011811/Our-Independence-Flags-On-This-Glorious-Fourth.htm Dozens of countries have “Independence Days.” Nov. 25, for example: Independence Day in Suriname. In that instance as in most others, the designation signifies nothing more than transfer of de jure sovereignty and de facto operational control from a distant European capital to a more local regime. 1975 in Suriname’s case. It had the […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ When Madame Roland, the moderate French Republican, was a prisoner in the hands of the radicals, she wrote; “Oh my friends. Heaven grant that you may reach the United States– that last refuge of liberty– in safety!” Two-hundred years later, her “last refuge of liberty” is under siege by the same power hungry fanatics […]
On July 4, 1976, a beautiful and cloudless day my husband and I and four kids were in Connecticut preparing to toll a large brass bell to celebrate the bi-centennial of our great nation. All our neighbors and friends and townsmen in Connecticut were poised to do this in unison at precisely three o’clock. Our home was […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/270994 Forget You, Feminism No whine from Bachmann ‘Are you a flake?” With that question on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace may have given a rallying cry to the new feminist revolution in American politics. Except this time, the favored f-word of faux liberation will likely be nowhere to be seen. Wallace apologized, and, in […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/ Australia: New South Wales police given authority to remove face veils for identification on traffic stops In the West, the female face is not a private part. This necessary and eminently logical move comes in the aftermath of the Carnita Matthews case, which set up a perfect Catch-22 wherein the defendant would not remove […]
Patriots, Refugees and the Right of Return Posted By Steven Plaut http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/04/patriots-refugees-and-the-right-of-return/print/ When the War of Independence began, it quickly assumed the nature of a civil war. Those opposing the declaration of statehood fought alongside the organized armies of their kinsmen, which invaded the territory of the infant state from all directions. The fighting […]
http://badrachel.blogspot.com/ Headache Among the Believers We spend Shabbat afternoon with beloved friends who live beyond the Green Line in the Judean hills. They were in the first group of eighteen settlers to break ground here, to scrabble their desert plot into lovely terraced gardens, and on it to build the house they still inhabit thirty-two […]
