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August 2010

COL RICHARD KEMP: WILL AN IDF WITHDRAWAL FROM THE WEST BANK MEAN A SAFE HAVEN FOR EXTREMISTS?

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=283&PID=1845&IID=4579&TTL=Will_an_IDF_Withdrawal_from_the_West_Bank_Mean_a_Safe_Haven_for_Extremist_Groups Will an IDF Withdrawal from the West Bank Mean a Safe Haven for Extremist Groups? Col. Richard Kemp is former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan. This Jerusalem Issue Brief is based on his presentation at a conference on “Israel’s Critical Security Needs for a Viable Peace,” held in Jerusalem on June 2, 2010. […]

WHY THE LEFT HATES DEMOCRACY: THE SULTAN

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Why the Left Hates Democracy Posted: 21 Aug 2010 07:01 PM PDT Democratic governments derive their legitimacy from popular support in direct elections. Non-Democratic governments derive their legitimacy from a “special duty” to protect the country as embodied by a particular racial or economic group, in accordance with a set of overriding values. Such […]

Imam Feisal’s Trip of ‘Great Importance’: We Have a Sighting in Bahrain Caludia Rosett

Imam Feisal’s Trip of ‘Great Importance’: We Have a Sighting in Bahrain URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/imam-feisals-trip-of-great-importance-we-have-a-sighting-in-bahrain/ Posted By Claudia Rosett On August 21, 2010 @ 10:17 pm In Uncategorized | No Comments Thank you, New York Post. We have a report Saturday that “[a]ppearing in public for the first time in weeks,” the man behind […]

RING WEEKEND AT WEST POINT

My Place in West Point’s Ring Cycle http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437830598650428.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop By MARGARET LOUGH West Point, N.Y. Yesterday the first class cadets at West Point, also known as firsties, changed from their drab, gray class uniforms to the crisp and seldom-worn India Whites, belted with the red sash that denotes a senior. Surrounded by family and friends, we […]

JENNIFER RUBIN: IT’S DESPERATION TIME FOR THE DEMS

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/category/contentions Desperation Time Jennifer Rubin – 08.22.2010 – 8:00 AM The Democrats are now in full retreat. Less 75 days before the midterm elections, the Republicans have a historic lead in congressional generic polling. The president’s approval rating is sinking. It is now every man for himself, as the Democrats scramble to be the ones […]

RYAN BRUMBERG FOR CONGRESS IN NY DISTRICT 14: ELECTIONS ARE COMING

http://brumberg2010.com/ http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/344611 Interview with Commentary Magazine about the Ground Zero Mosque How Is the Ground Zero Mosque Playing in NYC? Jennifer Rubin – 08.20.2010 – 7:45 AM It takes a perfect storm for the Republicans to win a congressional seat in Manhattan. But there is a storm brewing, so is it possible? Well, it’s not […]

“ISLAMOPHOBIA” OR EMPOWERING PRO-WESTERN MOSLEMS? ANDREW MCCARTHY

NRO — The Corner http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/244400/islamophobia-or-empowering-pro-western-muslims-andy-mccarthy “Islamophobia” Or Empowering Pro-Western Muslims? August 21, 2010 12:00 PM By Andy McCarthy My column today addresses what I think is the real battle for religious liberty in the Ground Zero mosque controversy. The question is whether, wittingly or unwittingly, we are going to keep supporting authoritarian Islam – the […]

THE HEBRON MASSACRE: AUGUST 23, 1929….SEE NOTE PLEASE

} THIS WAS A JIHAD AND THE “TWO STATERS’ WHO THINK PALARAB BLOOD LUST CAN BE CONTROLLED WITH 2200 SQUARE MILES OF “WEST BANK” ARE FOOLS OR INDIFFERENT TO ISRAEL’S DESTRUCTION…..RSK http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com Aug 23, 1929, The Arabs Massacred the Jews Of Hebron While the British Watched As Iran moves closer to producing nuclear weapons many […]

ROGER KIMBALL: ACCOMODATION OR RESISTANCE?

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/08/21/accommodation-or-resistance-a-reply-to-ron-radosh/ Accommodation or resistance? A reply to Ron Radosh Posted By Roger Kimball Elsewhere at Pajamas Media, my friend Ron Radosh has posted a long and thoughtful “Message to Conservatives” [1] on the question “Is Islam Really our Enemy?” Now, you don’t nail up an open-letter, 39-Articles question like that — savor the force of […]

NEWSWEEK ON ISRAEL’S DEMOGRAPH AND YORAM ETTINGER

http://www.theettingerreport.co.il. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/17/the-phony-number-maker.html ” Ettinger concludes. “Anyone claiming that Israel must concede geography in order to secure demography is either mistaken or misleading.” Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: A US-Israel Initiative”, Jerusalem, Israel The Phony Number Maker Dan Ephron, Newsweek’s Israel Bureau Chief Aug. 17, 2010 “The two-state solution rests on the idea that the […]