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December 2009

HOW IMPORTANT IS MARJEH: DIANA WEST

How Important Is Marjeh? Written by: Diana West http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1153/How-Important-Is-Marjeh.aspx Prezident Obama gave his big Afghanistan speech last night, and it was, of course, a mess. It was rhetorically deceptive — what with the 9/11 jihad further attributed to “men” from al Qaeda, a “group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the […]

WHERE HAS THE OBAMA “MAGIC” GONE?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-664753,00.html Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic By Gabor Steingart Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric — and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught. One can hardly […]

CAN WE REVERSE THE KSM TRIAL? ABSOLUTELY….ANDREW McCARTHY

National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor December 02, 2009, 4:00 a.m. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzIwMmIxMWQyZTEyZDRiMjI4ZjU0YmUyZTkyNjM4OGY= Reversing Obama on the KSM Trial The prisoner abuse photos show it can be done. Is there any way of getting Obama to reverse himself on KSM? If I’ve heard that question once, I’ve heard it a thousand times since […]

THE SULTAN: CHOOSING FREEDOM OVER ISLAM..THE STORY OF WAFA SULTAN

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Choosing Freedom over Islam, and the Story of Wafa Sultan Today I attended a Q&A Wafa Sultan as part of a book signing for her new book, and I noticed that the common theme of virtually every question that was asked by the attendees could be summed up as, “What can we do to […]

OUR SUICIDAL IMPULSES: LESLIE SACKS

Exclusive: Our Suicidal Impulses http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4908/pub_detail.asp Leslie Sacks Is American-born Jewish liberalism pushing us, lemming-like, into the morally opaque sea of self-defeating multiculturalism? This may be the defining question for contemporary American Jewry. That over 75 percent of Jews voted for Obama, and that in the past the Democrat party generally garnered 70 percent of the […]

“BANG, BANG TALIBAN” UK GANG WARNS THEY WILL BECOME JIHADIS

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/ Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Birmingham: Gang warn about becoming Taliban suicide bombers Birmingham: Gang warn about becoming Taliban suicide bombers GUN-toting members of a new Birmingham teenage gang are boasting about becoming suicide bombers, it was claimed last night. The chillingly named Bang Bang Taliban have told community workers they want to dominate the […]

SWEDEN PUSHES EU TO BACK PALARAB STATE AND DIVIDE JERUSALEM

Anti-Israeli Swedish government pushes EU towards backing unilateral declaration of Palestinian state and division of Jerusalem http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/anti-israeli-swedish-government-pushes-eu-towards-backing-unilateral-declaration-of-palestinian-state-and-division-of-jerusalem/#more-1768 Sweden, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, is pushing the EU to make an official statement next week backing both a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood and also the division of Jerusalem, a draft […]

ON THE ROAD TO TEHERAN?

ISRAEL’S PATIENCE WITH TEHRAN IS WEARING THIN

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,664329,00.html ‘It’s 1938, and Iran Is Germany’ Israel’s Patience with Tehran Wearing Thin By Dieter Bednarz, Erich Follath and Christoph Schult Iran’s leaders continue to reject compromises over their nuclear program and are rebuffing the IAEA. The West is likely to respond with tighter sanctions, but that is unlikely to satisfy Israel, which has attack plans […]

PARSING THE SPEECH: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWM5YTUyMmUzZjVhY2UzNWRhYWExNzBlMGY2MjBjOGY= Tuesday, December 01, 2009 Dean Obama [Victor Davis Hanson] That was such a strange speech. Deploring partisanship while serially trashing Bush at each new talking point. Sending more troops, but talking more about when they will come home rather than what they will do to the enemy. There was nothing much new in the […]