In Marseille, unease over mosque project Plans stoke debate about identity and assimilation in French city with growing number of Muslim immigrants By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, November 26, 2009 MARSEILLE, FRANCE — Notre Dame de la Garde, an elegant Roman Catholic basilica, has stood for 150 years on a promontory just […]
THE PROBLEM IS ALSO THE DEFINITION OF THE MISSION….ARE OUR TROOPS THERE TO WIN THE “HEARTS AND MINDS” OF THE LOCAL POPULATION OR TO DEFEAT TERRORISTS AND DESTROY THEM AND THEIR LAIRS EVEN WHEN THAT INVOLVES KILLING CIVILIANS….RSK http://spectator.org/archives/2009/11/25/obamas-afghanistan/print Obama’s Afghanistan By Daniel Mandel After ten months, people are rightly asking questions about the war […]
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il Freeze of Jewish Construction in Judea and Samaria: Peace or Appeasement Enhancer? 1. A Freeze will not soften – but will intensify – President Obama’s criticism of “settlements” in particular and Israeli policy in general. For instance, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s June 14, 2009 Two-State-Solution-speech triggered exacerbated pressure by Obama. Moreover, Netanyahu’s willingness to exchange […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4872/pub_detail.asp  “Good morning, everyone. You know, the Statue of Liberty and this wonderful holiday called Thanksgiving go together naturally because although as Americans we have many things for which to be thankful, none is more important than our liberty. Liberty: that quality of government, that brightness of mind and spirit for which the Pilgrim […]
Exclusive: Give Thanks to God – And a Soldier Pam Meister Many of the pieces we have up on FSM today are poignant reminders that we give thanks on this day not to the government (my tongue-in-cheek take on that topic appears here) for our many blessings, but to God. We also give thanks for […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Â Wednesday, November 25, 2009 The Dead End Quest for Peace Peace, peace. Everyone wants peace. Or so we would like to think. Chamberlain and a sizable portion of the English electorate were certain that Hitler wanted peace and all that was needed was for everyone to sit down around a table, make some […]
http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/bbc-anniversary-report-on-mumbai-massacre-censors-out-islamist-responsibility-for-terror-attacks/#more-1710 BBC anniversary report on Mumbai massacre censors out Islamist responsibility for terror attacks I have written many times on the subject of how the BBC airbrushes the anti-Semitism of Hamas out of its profile of the organisation on its website. But don’t be fooled into thinking this is just about Israel. Another favourite trick […]
White House logs point to donor access Matthew Mosk Newly released visitor logs show that more than two dozen of President Obama’s top-tier campaign fundraisers visited the White House during his first nine months in office, providing more evidence of the administration’s quiet effort to reward donors with VIP access including private briefings with presidential […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE 11/24/2009 08:26 AM Interview with US Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke ‘We’re Not in Afghanistan to Build a Perfect Democracy’ The US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, spoke to SPIEGEL about Washington’s goals in Afghanistan, President Obama’s new war strategy and the prospects of handing over responsibility to the government in […]
Miles of prejudice Thursday, 26th November 2009 A Times leader yesterday referred disparagingly to, but did not properly deal with, the disgraceful attack by Oliver Miles, Britain’s former ambassador to Libya, on two members of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the war in Iraq. Writing in the Independent on Sunday, Miles drew attention […]
