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LAUREATE PROFESSOR YISRAEL AUMANN: IF YOU WANT PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR AND STOP CONCESSIONS

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 […]

WES PRUDEN:POLITICIANS AND THE SHALLOW LEARNING CURVE

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.     […]

Kelly McParland: Dog days in the Hate Israel industry

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 […]

THE UN PREPARES FOR DURBAN 111..ELECTS QATAR PRESIDENT AND IRAN VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: ANNE BAYEFSKY

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/un-prepares-durban-iii_575485.html info@eyeontheun.org   The U.N. Prepares for Durban IIIElects Iran VP and Qatar president of the General Assembly.Anne Bayefsky On Wednesday, the U.N. General Assembly elected Iran one of its vice presidents and Qatar as president, each for a year-long term starting in September. At one and the same time the Obama State Department has […]

The Zawahiri Era Begins What’s in store for al-Qaeda’s new leader?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/16/the_zawahiri_era_begins?page=0%2C3 J.M. Berger is editor of Intelwire.com and author of the new book, Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam Osama bin Laden liked having Americans in his entourage. Mohammed Loay Bayazid, a former resident of Kansas City, took notes at the meeting in which al-Qaeda was founded. Wadih El-Hage, […]

ELENA BONNER: ON ISRAEL IN 2009 PLEASE READ HER MAGNIFICENT SPEECH

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/05/20/elena-bonner-speaks-on-israel-and-russia/ Elena Bonner speaks on Israel (and Russia) Elena Bonner, the widow of great scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov and an outstanding human rights activist in her own right, is truly one of the heroes of the modern age.   (It was my privilege to interview Bonner nearly two years ago for this article.)  Yesterday, the 86-year-old […]

ELENA BONNER: R.I.P.

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/23/elena-bonner-r-i-p/ Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Jay Bergman, Professor of History at Central Connecticut University and the author, most recently, of Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov, published by Cornell University Press in 2009. Elena Bonner, R.I.P. Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine’s editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History […]

NIGERIA’S TALIBAN BOKO HORAM: FRANK CRIMI

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/23/nigeria%e2%80%99s-islamic-import/ A day after announcing its official partnership with al-Qaeda, the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram launched Nigeria’s first suicide bombing. Sadly, the Nigerian importation of Islam’s favorite weapon of choice signals a serious escalation in an already brutal sectarian war. According to Nigerian police, the suicide bomber in the capital city of Abuja […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: GLENN BECK’S BASHERS

Glenn Beck and His Bashers Posted By P. David Hornik http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/23/glenn-beck-and-his-bashers/print/ When Glenn Beck’s upcoming Jerusalem rally was first announced last month, he said it would be called “Restore Courage”—modeled on his “Restoring Honor” rally last year in Washington that drew half a million. Or as Beck put it: “Last summer, we set out to […]

DAVID SOLWAY: SEEING THE LIGHT

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/seeing-the-light/ Seeing the Light Posted By David Solway I have often wondered why the preponderance of left-liberal writing and expression-in-general has recently grown so wrong-headed, obtuse, hackneyed, tedious, stagnant, uneventful, dismal, shallow, and, in a word, dingy. Long have I sought for an answer to this nagging question as I struggled through the curdled murk […]