ISRAEL’S UNEVEN EXCHANGE: WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203914304576626853921639410.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop The line between moral values and moral hazard can be thin. Israel has a long history of unequal prisoner exchanges. Since 1982, it has released thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a handful of Israeli soldiers and civilians, some of them living, others already dead. Last week, it agreed to release […]

WSJ: ISRAEL’S DEAL WITH THE DEVILS….DAVID MNOOKIN

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203914304576628644114718586.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion What explains its lopsided prisoner exchange with the terrorist group Hamas, which will save one life now but endanger many lives in the future? It’s hard to think straight when negotiating with an adversary you claim is evil, and Israel proved it last week. The usual problem is a refusal to negotiate at all. […]

GORDON CROVITZ: OWS’S CRONY CAPITALISM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576630972339904448.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Occupy Wall Street’s Crony Capitalism Political extortion created Zuccotti Park, and it allows protesters to remain despite the noise, filth and stink. The Occupy Wall Street movement, now in its fourth week, has plenty to brag about. Its occasionally published newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal, proclaims: “In the great cathedral of capitalism, the […]

DAVID MOORE: THE PANHANDLER AND THE PRESIDENT

David Moore on Fox:. http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/op-ed-points-finger-at-obama-tax-increase-20111014

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I do not recall another president whose negative drumbeat about large segments of the population has been so relentless.

Walking down New York’s 55th Street near Park Avenue last Friday evening, our group of seven men in suits and ties was approached by a panhandler asking for money.

“Here are a bunch of Wall Street guys,” he said, straight out. “Give me some money.”

Although we were not all “Wall Street guys,” all except one kept walking, ignoring the panhandler as we typically do, as instructed by “experts.” Yet over the past 30 years of living in the city, I often have disregarded this advice, and so once more I gave instinctively. I pulled out a dollar, handed it to the man, smiled, and resumed walking.

But next came a revelation.

“A dollar?” the man shouted. “You Wall Street fat cats! This is what the problem is with this country. Take your damn dollar.” With that, he threw it on the sidewalk.

Apparently, street charity now has a minimum.

CLINTON v. ROS-LEHTINEN

It’s Clinton v. Ros-Lehtinen Editorial of The New York Sun | October 16, 2011http://www.nysun.com/editorials/its-clinton-v-ros-lehtinen/87525/It looks like the efforts to reform U.S. funding of the United Nations is turning into a significant showdown between two of the most powerful women in Washington — President Obama’s state secretary, Hillary Clinton, and the chairwoman of the House Foreign […]

BRUCE KESLER: POTEMKIN PROTESTS

Click here: Potemkin Protests – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/18283-Potemkin-Protests.html “About 2.5-million American volunteers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The college students at home don’t want to pay high tuition and pay loans back for basket-weaving diplomas they themselves chose. It was the same with anti-Vietnam protests. College students not wanting to serve versus 2.5-million of […]

MY SAY….END THE OCCUPATION NOW!!!

NO! NOT THE LEGITIMATE SETTLEMENTS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA…. I MEAN THE GREAT UNWASHED BRATS BEING MANIPULATED BY UNIONS AND ASSORTED LEFTISTS WHO HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY WANT OR NEED.    

A PERRY COMEBACK? KATRINA TRINKO

 A Perry Comeback? The Perry campaign gears up for a rebound. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/280188 Here is the Rick Perry comeback plan: Wow voters with specific jobs-policy proposals, and then charm them, one handshake at a time. When Perry skyrocketed in the polls after entering the race, he did so thanks to his reputation of being a conservative […]

GIULIO MEOTTI: WHY DID ISRAEL BETRAY ITS VICTIMS?*****

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Remember the body bags, remains of a stroller, a notebook, Nazi numbers tattoed on burned arms, bits of jewelry, military berets…
“But the State of Israel betrayed its victims. It’s a process that began when Yitzhak Rabin called Ofra Felix, a wonderful Israeli girl killed by the terrorists in 1995, “a victim of the peace process”. The Talmud says that in Israel, the dead protect the living. Today it’s less true.
The question everybody has to answer is: why?”

The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.

Everything has been written about the Israeli commitment not to leave its soldiers behind in the field (be they alive or dead), about the fact that no other country in the world would trade one soldier for a thousand of terrorists, about the excruciating torture that Gilad Shalit’s parents have endured over five years and about the need of relief of the Israeli society.

The Shalit affair is the psycological drama of the Jewish tiny nation under siege.

SHOSHANA BRYEN: THE RELEASE OF GILAD SHALIT IS THE END OF THE “PEACE PROCESS”

The Release of Gilad Shalit is The End of the ‘Peace Process’ By Shoshana Bryen Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/10/the_release_of_gilad_shalit_is_the_end_of_the_peace_process.html To redeem captives is a Jewish imperative, so the Israeli government’s decision to pay Hamas ransom for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit is not a surprise. Although the terms haven’t materially changed in a year, the timing […]