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 […]
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 […]
