http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/history/index.htm The History In the winter of 1776, General George Washington and his ragged army had experienced only defeat and despair. The War for Independence was going badly, with failure following failure. In the preceding months, Washington’s campaign in New York had not gone well; the Battle of Long Island ended in a loss when […]
GEOSTRATEGYDIRECT….DECEMBER 30 ISSUE…NO URL  LONDON — The shifting sands in Syria’s geopolitical neighborhood has strengthened its ties to Iran, a relationship that is unlikely to be affected by Western incentives. A report by the International Crisis Group asserted that Syria would not sever its strategic alliance with Iran. ICG, regarded as close to the […]
Ehud Barak’s Dismal Record By Victor Sharpe On Christmas Eve, Palestinian terrorists belonging to a gang linked to the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah organization murdered a young rabbi, firing seven bullets into his head in a drive by shooting. The atrocity occurred in Samaria, the northern part of the so-called West Bank and was a direct […]
Column One: Israel’s PTA commander-in-chief Dec. 24, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Unbeknownst to most Israelis, this week marked a critical shift for the worse in the regional balance of power. While IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi was busy demanding that the government pay a ransom of more than a […]
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/23/christmas-obama-climate-change-opinions-columnists-claudia-rosett.html Freedom’s Edge A Bureaucratic Christmas Claudia Rosett, 12.24.09, 12:00 AM ET ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and with the East coast buried in snow, I was doing some last-minute gift shopping from home, surfing the online catalogs. The room was warm, and in the background the TV news muttered on–the Copenhagen climate summit, the […]
EDITORIAL: The house that Ruth built http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/25/the-house-that-ruth-built//print/ THE WASHINGTON TIMES Although the young woman was a stranger to Bethlehem, she arrived there in the company of a Bethlehem native. The residents did not know what to make of her and did not have room for her at first. But they recognized that her heart was […]
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 […]
