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Ruth King

ARE WE STILL AN ALLY OF ISRAEL? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

National Review Online: Are We Still an Ally of Israel? Who Knows? V Victor Davis Hanson In a recent Gallup poll, 85 percent of Republicans and only 48 percent of Democrats supported Israel rather that the Palestinians. What to make of it? The hard Left’s multiculturalist furor at Israel has made enormous inroads into the […]

OBAMA CONGRATULATES ISRAEL…..NOT

  http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/04/obama-congratulates-israel-on-62nd.html   Monday, April 19, 2010 Obama Congratulates Israel on 62nd Anniversary – Just Kidding A search for “Obama congratulates Israel on 62nd anniversary” pops up numerous results, but for 2009, not 2010…you remember, back when Obama was stilll carrying on the presidential charade. Update 7:50 p.m. EDT Reader “Gee” has just sent a […]

ON HARRY TRUMAN…WITH GRATITUDE

May 1948, When American Foreign Policy Had The Moral Compass It’s Missing Today The first country to recognize the State of Israel was the United States. That recognition almost didn’t happen. It was purely by the will of the President, Harry Truman, that the UN Partition Plan was implemented. Throughout the months leading up to […]

THE STRATEGIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE US-ISRAEL ALLIANCE: CAROLINE GLICK

The Strategic Foundations of the US-Israel Alliance CAROLINE GLICK Israel’s status as the US’s most vital ally in the Middle East has been so widely recognized for so long that over the years, Israeli and American leaders alike have felt it unnecessary to explain what it is about the alliance that makes it so important […]

ROGER KIMBALL: HUMOR VS. CONTEMPT….

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/04/19/humor-vs-contempt-obama-and-the-question-of-character/ Humor vs. Contempt: Obama and the Question of Character Much has been made of Barack Obama’s claim to have been “amused” by the nationwide tea party demonstrations on Tax Day last week. Really, he told acolytes at a Democratic fund-raiser (expected haul: $2.5 million), “they should be saying thank you.” Applause. Cries of “Thank […]

REMEMBERING ZE’EV JABOTINSKY

Dear E-pals:   Americans For a Safe Israel has issued a pamphlet written by William Mehlman our AFSI chapter chairman in Israel. It is named “Jabotinsky….The Man and the Vision”.   From the foreword: Exerpts   “Seven decades have passed since the death of Ze’ev Jabotinsky. In that time great and terrible events have transpired […]

THE SULTAN: ON ISRAEL’S MEMORIAL DAY…..NO ONE SAYS IT BETTER

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/   A True and Lasting Independence Without the sacrifices made to preserve freedom, there could be no independence. And without independence, those sacrifices have no meaning. And so tonight Israel remembers its fallen in the Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day. And tomorrow, it remembers their achievement, a free and independent nation in Yom HaAtzmaut, Independence […]

CHET NAGLE: BEWARE OF GREEKS BEARING DEBT

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6010/pub_detail.asp   Exclusive: Beware Greeks Bearing Debts Chet Nagle The Trojan Horse inside the world’s financial fortress is the European Union. Lurking in it are Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. When they finally spring into the daylight and are seen by multinational banks and lenders, a second financial meltdown will begin.   What is the […]

MUST READ: GADI ADELMAN…NO BIG DEAL JUST SOME PEOPLE IN AFRICA

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6011/pub_detail.asp   Exclusive: No Big Deal, Just Some People in Africa, Right? Gadi Adelman It’s a shame that people in this country don’t believe those of us who warn about creeping Sharia and Islam. To a certain extent, it’s understandable, especially when the media just ignore not only global massacres but the obvious happening right here […]

SAUDI WOMAN CHALLENGES FATWAS..IN A NIQAB

SPIEGEL ONLINE Verse Behind the Veil Saudi Woman Challenges Religious Order with Poetry By Alexander Smoltczyk Hissa Hilal was the first woman to reach the final of Abu Dhabi world-famous poetry competition, “The Million’s Poet,” which attracts a massive television audience across the Arab world. But the success of the veiled Saudi Arabian poet, who […]