http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/western-media-slides-into-irrationality-over-gaza-flotilla-debacle/#more-2769 Western media slides into irrationality over Gaza flotilla debacle Try this for a headline from the BBC: “Witnesses cast doubt on Israel’s convoy raid accountâ€. That’s the lead story on the MidEast section of the BBC’s website. Here’s the first paragraph: “Eyewitness accounts from ships raided by Israeli commandos have cast doubt on Israel’s […]
Gaza, Gaza, on the wall Posted By Roger L Simon I have just finished reading Janine Zacharia’s [1] report on Gaza in the Washington Post from which I learned little I didn’t know. It’s notable, however, that Zacharia was unable to parrot the usual absurd line that Gazans were starving (though she does complain about […]
Turkey’s Gaza Flotilla Sails Eastward toward Sharia Posted By Abraham H. Miller Using its temporary membership on the United Nations Security Council, Turkey is showcasing the ill-fated Gaza flotilla to promote its new eastward-looking agenda. A Muslim-oriented Turkish government — with a repressive record on the rights of its Kurdish minority and now excoriated for […]
Czech Republic Supports Israel – Again Sivan 21, 5770, 03 June 10 12:11by Hillel Fendel Is the world waking up? Following U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and others, the President of the Czech Senate, Dr. PÅ™emysl Sobotka, says the Turkish flotilla was a planned provocation designed to entrap Israel. Dr. Sobotka told Knesset Speaker Ruby […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704515704575282670417642484.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories By CHARLES LEVINSON And JAY SOLOMON JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused his nation’s critics Wednesday of an “international offensive of hypocrisy,” as the growing diplomatic crisis over the raid on a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists threatened to deepen Israel’s isolation from much of the rest of the world. Speaking as Israel said it was […]
BODY,.aolmailheader {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;}  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://weeklystandard.com) Joining the Jackals BY Elliott Abrams June 2, 2010 7:55 AM At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.  The Islamic countries are […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/2/carter-astrophe-in-the-gulf-day-45/ President Obama embraces stagecraft, not statecraft By Craig Shirley When an incumbent loses his bid for re-election, it is not terribly unusual to see him lash out at his opponents, often using canards and misinformation to explain his loss. After all, how many times have we seen a politician blame himself for his defeats? […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/2/obamas-islamic-poll-dance/ EDITORIAL: Obama’s Islamic poll dance Middle East appeasement policy has failed By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 9:37 p.m., Wednesday, June 2, 2010 ASSOCIATED PRESS President-elect Barack Obama’s victory is headline news in papers Abdul Raheem is selling Nov. 5 in Islamabad. President Obama took office with a mission to transform America’s image around the world. […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/06/03/netanyahu-to-international-community-stop-the-hypocrisy/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_campaign=1178af7ebe-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=emai The IDF has released two more videos from the incident Monday morning on the Mavi Marmara, the largest in the Turkish-organized six-ship flotilla that challenged Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and the only one to prepare a violent ambush. One of these two videos is even more dramatic than the one released on Monday, now […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_grand_jihad.html June 03, 2010 The Grand Jihad By Andrew G. Bostom A review of Andrew McCarthy’s The Grand Jihad-How Islam and the Left Sabotage America During an address on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan, the Obama administration’s lead counterterrorism adviser, provided a transparently bowdlerized perspective on […]