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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/us-russia-from-reset-to-regret

There’s little doubt from the reporting of the lackluster meeting between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 in Mexico yesterday that the White House’s Russia policy is moving from “reset” to “regret.”Of course, we’ve seen this coming for awhile – despite lots of wishful thinking on the administration’s part.

Team Obama’s hope over the last three-plus years has been that Russia would become a partner of the United States on a range of international issues if ties could only be “reset,” pruning away thorny tensions that have grown in the relationship.In other words, if we could just get relations chummy enough, the Kremlin and the White House would become a dynamic duo, tackling a growing list of world problems.

So much for that plan.

One key focus of the “reset” policy was getting Russia to help stop Iran’s expanding nuclear (weapons) program. While supporting some added pressure on Tehran, Moscow hasn’t really come on board.

This week’s P5+1 meeting (the latest in a seemingly endless series) in Moscow on Iranian nukes probably won’t change that.

In fact, after the supposed “reset,” Russia finished building Iran’s first nuclear reactor and provided fuel for it. If Tehran doesn’t return the fuel rods, it could reprocess them for plutonium, providing another avenue for making nukes.

The Russians have been continually cranky about US-led missile defense in Europe, too, seeing it as being aimed at their nuclear deterrent rather than at the growing Iranian missile threat.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Israeli demographics have always made for a chaotic political culture. While to the outside world, it’s a nation of Jews, internally it’s a nation of Russians, Anglos, native Sabras, Yemenites, Syrians, Persians and a hundred others. Even the smallest group has its compartmentalized identities: the delicate differences between immigrants from a single country but […]

AGAIN, AT THE RISK OF PERSEVERATING…..ISRAEL HAS FULLY MET ITS OBLIGATION TO UN RESOLUTION 242 BY SURRENDERING THE SINAI …..92% OF THE LAND WON IN 1967. THE REST OF THE LAND, GOLAN, JUDEA AND SAMARIA ARE ISRAEL PROPER…AND LET US NOT FORGET GAZA…..THE LAST SURRENDER WHICH BROUGHT THE ‘PEACE” OF ROCKETS AND HAMAS……RSK

Almost four dozen Arab rockets and missiles slammed into Israel proper today, June 19th, wounding, terrorizing, and sending hundreds of thousands of civilians into shelters. This has become routine by now–yet, ask yourselves how other countries would be responding to such costly “routine.” Would they be settling for virtual tit-for-tat responses, like those that the Israeli government seems determined to indulge in to try to score brownie points abroad, or would they be sending a stronger message designed to promote deterence? These attacks are nothing less than acts of war. Ask General Colin Powell what his Powell Doctrine has to say about such things…

Here’s just a few of many more stories, from recent memory, originating in the camp of Israel’s American State Department-designated “peace partners”…

A family asleep in their own home was decimated. Among the five massacred, the 3-month old infant was decapitated and her two young siblings’ throats were slashed.

A young father, driving with his infant son, were killed in his car; people were murdered on a bus; schools and homes have been repeatedly blasted by rockets, mortars, and missiles; and so forth.

After the Jews traded over a thousand Arabs for one kidnapped Israeli soldier (many of the former with blood on their hands whom should have never been taken alive given the history of blackmail tied to such experiences), as we’ve again witnessed today, Israel has been bombarded almost daily with increasingly more powerful and longer distance weaponry. The UN and the rest of the world do nothing but wag their finger at the Arabs and then next lecture Jews about the need to continue to show restraint.

Jews who dare to travel into Arab towns or neighborhoods within Israel proper do so at risk to their lives, not to mention Jews who dare to go for a hike in Judea and Samaria outside the 9-15-mile wide ghetto of a state allotted to them by the UN-imposed ’49 armistice lines.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3124/peace-process-dead

NICE TRY BUT THE SO CALLED PEACE PROCESS IS DEAD, NOT BECAUSE ISRAEL NEEDS THE RECOGNITION OF BARBARIANS FOR ITS RIGHT TO EXIST. IT IS DEAD BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER ANYTHING BUT A PROCESS TO DISMEMBER ISRAEL. IF ARABS WANT PEACE THEY CAN GET IT IN ANY OF THE 22 OTHER NATIONS…PARTICULARLY JORDAN WHICH IS EASTERN PALESTINE. HIGH TIME TO SAY IT AND REPEAT IT. ISRAEL, INCLUDING GOLAN AND JUDEA AND SAMARIA IS THE ONLY, REPEAT ONLY…..NON NEGOTIABLE ITEM IN THE ENTIRE ROTTEN MIDDLE EAST…..RSK

The peace process is dead because a majority in the Arab and Muslim world still has not come to terms with Israel’s right to exist.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced this week that the Middle East peace process was “clinically dead” because Israel was refusing to accept his conditions for returning to the negotiating table.

Abbas has been demanding that Israel freeze all settlement construction and recognize the pre-1967 lines as the future borders of a Palestinian state.

Recently, Abbas added two more conditions for resuming the stalled peace talks: first, that Israel allow him to import more weapons for his police forces in the West Bank, and second, the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

Abbas is in fact searching for any excuse not to return to the negotiating table with Israel.

His demand that Israel stop building in the settlements sounds more like a joke: has he just discovered that there are settlements in the West Bank?

Why did his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, negotiate for many years with Israel while the construction in the settlements was continuing? And why did Abbas also negotiate with Israeli leaders before Benjamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister more than three years ago — while the construction work was continuing?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/leon-panetta-leaker_647620.html The recent congressional ire over the Obama administration’s suspiciously convenient national security leaks reminded me of an unusual bit of political trivia: Defense Secretary — and prior to that, CIA head — Leon Panetta is the prime suspect in one of the most notorious political leaks of all time. Tevi Troy, a former Bush […]

Joy Behar Wants to See Romney’s House Burn Down — on The Glazov Gang
A heated debate breaks out when Dr. Nancy Bonus, Eric Allen Bell and Karla Moxley join Frontpage’s television show.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/20/joy-behar-wants-to-see-romneys-house-burn-down-on-the-glazov-gang/

Frankly I am a tad tired of conservative reflexively shrieking about any and all efforts to confront immigration. They roasted Governor Rick Perry for offering state education to the children of illegals, they roasted then President Bush (Dubya) for promoting guest worker visas. They are properly angered at President Obama for flouting the constitution, but they hide behind the spurious notion that immigrants who do construction and landscaping and housekeeping jobs are taking those menial jobs away from Americans. Oh really? Try and get some stone masons, mowers, heavers and hoers among the legal youth.

Why don’t conservative candidates put their minds together and come up with serious and humanitarian proposals to deal with the problem? I, for one would welcome the debate, and for starters let’s do away with hyphenation. We are Americans who learn and speak English. I, for one, don’t consider myself a Polish-Jewish-Hispanic Citizen….just American.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The main weapon that progressives wield against traditionalists is their ability to break down the values that make up their worldview by challenging norms of behavior and thought, with the goal of using cultural friction to slowly replace traditional values and mores with their own. This is a weapon that progressives have explicitly disavowed […]

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2091

The Arab springboard

It is not for nothing that jihadists refer to the U.S. as the “Great Satan” and to Israel as the “Small Satan.” What the U.S. and the Jewish state have in common is so profound and unmistakable that radical Islamists have recognized and felt threatened by it from the get-go. Using Quranic texts and the “hadith” (oral traditions) to support their aim to kill or convert all Jews and Christians to Islam, they have little trouble explaining their aversion to the key countries that base their legal and moral systems on the Ten Commandments.

But this is only their theological justification for hating the West in general and the U.S. and Israel in particular. Their religious zeal in actually trying to carry out what they believe their prophet, Mohammed, had in mind for them comes from a combination of fear and envy.

What they fear is freedom. It is also what they envy.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303836404577474312596058338.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSec

STEPHENS IS A CHARMING, ARTICULATE AND THOUGHTFUL JOURNALIST….BUT MIRED IN OPTIMISM ABOUT A TWO STATE SOLUTION WHICH HE RECENTLY FORECAST “IN THIRTY YEARS”….AND NOW AGAIN,

“The good news is that Egyptians may have a wider conception of freedom in 30 years or so, about the same amount of time it took Khomeinism to lose the masses in Iran. In 30 years, too, the Greeks may have a better appreciation of the notion of responsibility, both personal and political. As for what remains of the liberal democratic world, maybe the weekend elections will be a reminder of another famous political maxim: “A republic—if you can keep it.”……OH PULEEZ! RSK

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Everyone knows who said this, and everyone thinks it’s true. But is it, really?

After last weekend I’ve begun to have my doubts. In Egypt, the ruling military junta reacted to the apparent victory of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi by stripping the presidential office of its powers. That came just days after Egypt’s top court dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament, which had been freely elected only a few months ago.

How arbitrary. What an affront to the Egyptian people. Now let’s hope it works.

Then there’s Greece, which also had an election over the weekend. The Greeks are supposed to have made the “responsible” choice in the person of Antonis Samaras, the Amherst- and Harvard-educated leader of the center-right New Democracy party. Responsible in this case means trying to stay in the euro zone by again renegotiating the terms of a bailout that Greeks cannot possibly repay and will not likely honor.

Yet the more depressing fact about the election is that Mr. Samaras didn’t even get 30% of the vote. The rest was divided among the radical-left Syriza (27%), the socialist Pasok (12.3%), the anti-German Independent Greeks (7.5%), the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn (7%), the center-left Democratic Left (6.2%) and, finally, the good old Communist Party (4.5%).