http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=219451 It was encouraging to hear British Prime Minister David Cameron voice his unequivocal support for Israel. It was encouraging to hear British Prime Minister David Cameron voice his unequivocal support for Israel, during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. “Britain is a good friend of Israel and our support […]
The Pakistan conundrum http://www.yeoldecrabb.wordpress.com Everything about Pakistan from its very beginning has been anomalous. It was dreamed up by romantic poets but survival has depended on a stolid military drawing on British Indian Army professionalism. Its parameters were defined by Islam but its secularist elite sought a nation-state where none had ever existed. Its ethnic […]
Annals of the Arab Spring: Egyptian “Democrats” Praise Bombing of Gas Pipeline to Israel By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266648/annals-arab-spring-egyptian-democrats-praise-bombing-gas-pipeline-israel-andrew-c-mcca The Jerusalem Post reports that peaceful Egyptian protestors have descended on the Israeli embassy in Cairo today to celebrate the bombing of a pipeline in Sinai that delivers gas to Israel. [Hat tip: Andrew Bostom.] They demanded […]
The Waterboarding Trail to bin Laden Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said that as late as 2006 fully half of the government’s knowledge about the structure and activities of al Qaeda came from harsh interrogations. By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Mr. Mukasey was attorney general of the United States from 2007 to 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859304576305023876506348.html Osama bin […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/266446 Hamas Mourns Osama So do the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. But that can’t be an obstacle to the peace process! It requires a keen sense of irony to write the headline that Newsweek ran last week: “The Wrath of Abbas: Fed up with stalled peace talks, the Palestinian leader defies Israel and vents about Obama.” […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6921095/an-open-letter-to-the-rt-hon-david-cameron-mp.thtml Dear Prime Minister, I was interested to read that, when you met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, you said: ‘Britain is a good friend of Israel and our support for Israel and Israel’s security is something I have described in the past, and will do so again, as unshakeable.’ I wonder, therefore, […]
Obama’s Old Senate Seat Is Haunting Him Posted By Seth Mandel http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/06/obama%e2%80%99s-old-senate-seat-is-haunting-him-2/print/ Republicans frustrated on Election Night 2010 that the GOP was unable to win Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware were heartened later in the night when they won a more symbolic and consequential seat: President Barack Obama’s seat in Illinois. […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/06/castro-and-che%e2%80%99s-foiled-and-forgotten-911/print/ Castro and Che’s Foiled (and Forgotten) 9/11 Posted By Humberto Fontova “I’m proud of the path of Osama bin Laden,” gushed Ilich Ramírez Sánchez from a French prison in 2002. Ramirez was also known during the 1970’s as “Carlos the Jackal,” and “The World’s Most Wanted Terrorist.” In 1967, Ramirez-Sanchez was an eager recruit […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/06/a-voice-of-reason-from-an-arab-dissident/print/ A Voice of Reason from an Arab Dissident Posted By Yoel Meltzer On May 6, 2011 @ 12:05 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments Introduction: The following is an interview with Mudar Zahran, a Palestinian Jordanian and former political insider who fled Jordan and currently resides in England. In an open and honest […]
No Honorary Degree for Israel-Hater Tony Kushner Posted By Arnold Ahlert http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/06/no-honorary-degree-for-israel-hater-tony-kushner-2/print/ For the first time since 1961, the City University of New York (CUNY) has rejected a candidate for an honorary degree. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner’s nomination was tabled at a meeting of the board of trustees at member college John Jay on Monday, when […]
