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December 2010

DAVID ISAAC: ARMING ISRAEL’S ENEMIES

Arming Israel’s Enemies By David Isaac http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=449&Source=emailIn part I of this series, we looked at the failure of AIPAC, America’s largest pro-Israel lobby, to make an effort to thwart the sale to Saudi Arabia of an assortment of advanced fighter planes and helicopters worth $60 billion, the largest arms deal in U.S. history. According to […]

DIANA WEST: THE AFGHANISTAN SECURITY SCANDAL CONTINUES

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1606/The-Afghanistan-Scandal-Contd-ANA-Recruits-Require-Backing-of-Village-Elders.aspx On Dec. 3, Maj. Gen. John Campbell, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, spoke to reporters about the Afghan Border Policeman who shot and killed six US soldiers from the 101st on Nov. 28. He doesn’t mention teatime, as NATO reported, also on Dec. 3, but he does add details, particularly to the […]

FORMER DUTCH EURO COMMISSIONER WARNS “”RECOGNIZABLE” JEWS NO LONGER SAFE DUE TO MUSLIM ANTI-SEMITISM

‘I see no future for Jews in the Netherlands’ http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=198382 Former Dutch EU commissioner says “recognizable” Jews are no longer safe in Netherlands due to Muslim anti-Semitism. Talkbacks (28) Former European Union Commissioner Frits Bolkenstein said that Jews have no future in the Netherlands and recommended that they emigrate to the US or Israel, Dutch […]

PROSECUTING ISRAEL SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT:EVELYN GORDON

Prosecuting Israel sets dangerous precedent By EVELYN GORDON http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=198228 The EU is working to end ‘lawfare’ in national courts but facilitating it in the International Criminal Court. Last week, Britain’s new government submitted legislation to amend its universal jurisdiction law, under which pro-Palestinian groups have repeatedly tried to indict Israeli ministers and army officers for […]

MOSHE PHILLIPS: HOW THE NEWSPAPERS IGNORED PEARL HARBOR DAY

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/phillips/101207 By Moshe Phillips Metro International brands itself as the “world’s largest international newspaper.” But the bottom line is the Swedish owned company consistently slaps its American readers in the face. There was simply no room in the Philadelphia edition of the Metro newspaper for any mention of the World War Two attack Pearl Harbor […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: ON GITMO RECIDIVISM AND THE AWLAKI ASSASSINATION SUIT

NRO — The Corner The 25 Percent Recidivism at Gitmo[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy Regarding this eye-opening new study to which Dan alluded,[2] a few observations. First, as I’ve been arguing ever since Obama counterterrorism advisor John Brennan absurdly claimed[3] that a 20 percent recidivism rate for mass-murderers is pretty good, the truth is we […]

WIKILEAKS 1941: SRDJA TRIFKOVIC

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2010/12/07/wikileaks-1941/ WikiLeaks, 1941 by Srdja Trifkovic December 7th, 2010 Over two thousand four hundred American sailors, soldiers and airmen were killed in Pearl Harbor 69 years ago today. Had we had an equivalent of WikiLeaks back in 1941, however, the course of history could have been very different. FDR would have found it much more […]

GABRIEL SCHOENFELD: CAN THE US BRING JUSTICE TO ASSANGE?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703814404576001921148451638.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Can the U.S. Bring Assange to Justice?by Gabriel Schoenfeld To convict under the Espionage Act, a trial must prove bad faith on the part of the accused. With WikiLeaks, that’s easy. “WikiLeaks is something else. It is not informing our democracy but waging war on its ability to conduct diplomacy and defend itself. If […]

SEX, LIES, A TWO NIGHT STAND, AND JULIAN ASSANGE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336291/Wikileaks-Julian-Assanges-2-night-stands-spark-worldwide-hunt.html?ito=feeds-newsxm The Wikileaks sex files: How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange By Richard Pendlebury A winter morning in backwoods Scandinavia and the chime of a church bell drifts across the snowbound town of Enkoping. Does it also toll for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange? Today, this small industrial centre, 40 miles […]

ISRAEL SALUTES NEW UNDERWATER MISSIONS UNIT

http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/ Tuesday, December 7, 2010     INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING Ceremony salutes 2010 operations by Israel’s new Underwater Missions Unit TEL AVIV — The Israel Navy unveiled details of its new Underwater Missions Unit, designed to conduct sabotage, reconnaissance and other operations. Military sources said the unit was also trained to repair the hull of ships while […]