MY PREDICTION IS THAT BASHING ISRAEL WILL REMAIN THE NATIONAL SPORT OF THE EUROSNOTS…RSK Europe 2010 preview http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/6873498/Europe-2010-preview.html At the close of the “noughtiesâ€, Europe will still be grappling with the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s as the 21st century shows the world still to be an uncertain place.  Britain’s […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/the_prosecution_of_rifqa_bary.html The Prosecution of Rifqa Bary By Pamela Geller There is a war of attrition going on in the Rifqa Bary case. Rifqa is the girl who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her family in fear for her life — and the Islamic machine is attempting to grind her down by constant […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/my_friend_in_kfar_saba.html My Friend in Kfar Saba By Jerold S. Auerbach Whenever I visit Israel — most recently, last month — I spend a day with Haggai. We have shared a deep friendship for thirty-five years, ever since I taught American history at Tel Aviv University as a visiting Fulbright Lecturer. To my surprise and initial […]
Israel’s Shalit Dilemma Posted By P. David Hornik As negotiations intensify for a deal to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas to Gaza in June 2006 when he was 19, Palestinian Media Watch has released an important bulletin [1] on how Israel’s radically lopsided prisoner deals encourage further kidnappings. The bulletin gives […]
For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement By Barry Rubin* http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/12/for-obama-2010 The year 2010 is going to be interesting. Well, all years in the Middle East are interesting; many of them are far too interesting. For the Obama Administration, I’m going to predict, it will not […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516288 2009: The Year Of Living Fecklessly By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Last Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama’s latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran “will continue resisting” until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads. So ends 2009, the year of “engagement,” […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516277 What’s Behind War Targeting Wannabe Rich? By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Posted 12/24/2009 06:17 PM ET View Enlarged Image There is class warfare going on in this country — but it’s not against the established rich. It’s against those who are trying to become wealthy. President Obama has declared that those who make over $200,000 […]
http://www.mererhetoric.com/Â I posted theses quotes about Hamas – one from Larijani and the other from Ahmadinejad – on Is Iran‘s Fist Still Clenched? yesterday. But they’re worth reposting here so that maybe we can puzzle them out together. Because Sunnis and Shiites don’t cooperate, and yet here are Sunnis and Shiites seemingly cooperating. Mindbending: Iranian […]
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story “If you don’t believe Jesus was God, OK, go write your own damn “Silent Night” and leave ours alone. This is spiritual piracy and cultural elitism, and we Christians have stood for it long enough. And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the […]
EGYPT: Mubarak, on tour of Persian Gulf, may be carrying a secret message from Iran Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s sudden visit to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait saw the Arab-Iranian relations issue top the list of discussions with his fellow Arab heads of state. The previously unannounced tour came one day after […]
