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THE NEW YORK TIMES….THE PAPER OF DRECKORD LOVES OBAMA, HATES REPUBLICANS, HATES ISRAEL AND THINKS JEWS ARE A POLITICAL NUISANCE….RSK

The New York Times has been a bit obsessed this campaign cycle with all the big-money checks going to groups backing Mitt Romney for president, or to support conservative causes. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case, the political left has railed against the decision, which in their collective minds has meant that rich corporations, and/or their super-rich executives, might be able to buy the election this year for the Republicans.

Of course, in 2008, the left seemed little bothered that the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate of a major party to refuse to accept federal funding for the general election. Obama was running against John McCain, the co-author of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws, a candidate who was certain to take the federal money, and its associated limits of $75 million in direct spending, for the general election. After all, limits on campaign spending were an article of faith for McCain. Knowing this about McCain, and aware of the excitement and enthusiasm his own campaign was generating, Obama knew that by opting out of the federal campaign financing system, he could raise and then spend multiples of the $75 million McCain had to spend in the two-month general election period.

This, of course, is exactly what occurred. In September and October, Obama spent five times what McCain did in key battleground states such as Florida, and Ohio, most of it on negative and deceptive ads aimed at McCain. Obama won easily. Given the financial crisis in September of 2008, the unpopularity of George Bush, the contrast between Obama and McCain in terms of age and charisma, and the media love affair with Obama, it is a stretch to argue that all the extra campaign cash was the reason Obama won. But it certainly helped widen his margin of victory, and his coattails probably carried other Democrats to victory in Senate and U.S. House races.

The 2012 presidential race is shaping up as one where the financial resources of the two major candidates and their support groups will be much more in balance than was the case in 2008. This in and of itself is very upsetting to the left. They like their party to have more resources than the other side, and they particularly do not like big spending by very rich Republicans, or corporations. Spending by very rich Democrats and by unions seems to bother them far less, or not at all.

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“The longer the crisis goes on, the worse Israel’s position becomes, the lower its morale falls and the fewer options it has. The crisis of unfulfilled peace cannot continue indefinitely and while it does, the only ones who benefit are those who write the books and plant the bombs.The Jewish State can have the peacetime war of the peace process or the wartime peace of the old status quo. Jabotinsky warned once that it came down to ending the exile or the exile will end you. The ashes prove the truth of his words. Now Israel has another choice, either it will end the peace process or the process will end it.”

In the library’s history section all the shelves are crowded together. In the Middle East, opposing polemics are wedged up against each other. Alan Dershowitz rubs shoulders with Tony Judt who leans onto George Gilder who balances out Norman Finkelstein who flakes bits of paper on Benjamin Netanyahu. Though located in the history section, most of these books are not history. They are long opinion pieces, arguments for and against the Jewish State.

On the left there are vituperative diatribes and on the right there are earnest defenses. The Holocaust Industry contends with The Case for Israel, The Jewish Lobby with Start Up Nation. Every few months brings new combatants to the shelves. Shlomo Sand is swapped out with Peter Beinart who is swapped out with Noam Chomsky like a baseball team that is forever calling the same players off the bench to make the same plays.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-rise-and-threat-of-radical-islam-an-interview-with-brigitte-gabriel?f=must_reads With so much media attention in this country focused on the presidential race and the Supreme Court’s ruling on ObamaCare, not enough attention is being paid to what is going on in the Middle East, and at the United Nations. Egypt has recently chosen as its next president Mohamed Morsi, who was the candidate […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/projected-cost-of-obamacare-is-now-26-trillion-nearly-17-trillion-more-than-obama-pledged?f=puball http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-now-estimated-cost-26-trillion-first-decade_648413.html The Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee will later today release the following chart, detailing the rising projected cost of President Obama’s signature legislation, Obamacare:   The latest estimate, as the chart details, is that Obamacare will cost $2.6 trillion dollars in its first real decade. The bill does not fully go […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-somali-saga-continues Case # 1: Al Shabab British Somali — “CF” A Somali Al Shabab Al Qaeda affiliate member, age 24, referred to as “CF”, was re-arrested after having violated his ban not to trespass the Olympic Park in London, while wearing his court ordered electronic tracking device. CF was reportedly doing reconnaissance as a suicide […]

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2176/Dissing-Israel-The-Ultimate-in-Dhimmitude.aspx The Free Beacon reported this week on the continuing omission of Israel from the new Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). At a recent forum meeting in Spain, Maria Otero, US Under Secretary of State, delivered a speech titled “Victims of Terrorism” but she didn’t mention Israel The conference at which she spoke was called a […]

http://israel21c.org/health/israeli-system-stops-leading-hospital-killer/?utm_source=Newsletter+7%2F11%2F2012&utm_campaign=July+11+2012+&utm_medium=email Sepsis, a blood infection, causes more than 200,000 deaths in US hospitals every year. A non-invasive monitoring device from Israel is changing that. A nurse can easily hook up this NICOM monitor by sticking leads on a patient’s skin. “Sepsis is a huge issue — one of the top killers, often as a complication […]

http://freebeacon.com/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-palestinian/ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has allegedly deposited nearly $13 million in U.S. taxpayer aid into a secret bank account, and routinely uses his political connections to profit from the stagnant peace process, according to testimony presented to Congress Tuesday by several Middle East experts. Abbas has enriched himself during his seven years in […]

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/israel-next-generation www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com As a fan of the classic TV series Star Trek Next Generation, I’m always on the lookout for Israeli inventions that were once only in the imagination of science fiction writers. Just recently, the Jewish State has made some “out of this world” advances in science, medicine and in several other areas. One […]

There has been great reporting on the report from Israel that declares the legitimacy of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. It brings joy as well as a bittersweet reflection.

Herbert Zweibon the late Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel, my beloved friend and mentor is not here to see his words and deeds vindicated.

Shmuel Katz, the late mentor and early founder of Americans for a Safe Israel is also not here to see his words and deeds vindicated.

I can imagine their response. Repeat….imagine.

Herb: “Big deal. What took them so long? It was always true and that’s why we stayed on message at Americans for a Safe israel.”

Shmuel: “Outrageous! They come to this conclusion after having signed away so much patrimony and endangered the nation with so much withdrawal and appeasement? Don’t bother me with this. Call me when they annex it.”

Yes Herb and Shmuel…rest easy. AFSI is alive and well and carrying on with Helen Freedman at the helm. And OUPOST appears on schedule thanks to Rael Jean Isaac.