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May 2011

DAN FRIEDMAN: WHAT WOULD JABOTINSKY DO?

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/what-would-jabotinsky-do/87359/ It’s strange that a man who needs no introduction should need an introduction. But such has been the fear and loathing for Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky by the Jewish socialists who founded Israel — and ruled unopposed for decades — that they have almost succeeded in obscuring his name. Born at Odessa in 1880, Jabotinsky […]

ILARIO PANTANO: “MASADA SHALL NEVER FALL AGAIN”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/267892/masada-shall-not-fall-again-unless-obama-says-so-ilario-pantano Masada Shall Not Fall Again, Unless Obama Says So Ilario Pantano, NRO.com As 18-year-old Marines in the first Gulf War, we joked that “Onward, Christian Soldiers” was the Kuwaiti, Bahraini, and Saudi national anthem. Today it would be ’N Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye.” It was just a few years after that first war where […]

ALAN CARUBA; THERE IS NO PALESTINE*****

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/36808 “In just over 600 days President Obama’s regime will end. He will no doubt link arms with former President Jimmy Carter to become another huge embarrassment to the United States of America.” Despite a very forthright speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday in which the President stated his “unshakeable” support […]

JENNIFER RUBIN:SENATE BROWNOUT IN MASSACHUSSETTS?

Sen. Scott Brown attacks Ryan plan, but did he read it? By Jennifer Rubin http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is apparently so nervous about his reelection prospects that he has taken to Politico to write an opinion piece announcing he’d opposed to Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan. After all, savaging Ryan and undermining the House […]

BRUCE THORNTON: OBAMA’S SECOND BOW TO THE ARAB WORLD

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/24/obamas-bow-to-the-muslim-world-round-ii/ In September 1938 English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, explaining why he was flying to Germany a third time in order to make peace with Germany, recited the old nursery rhyme: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.” Cynical wags in the Foreign Office, who knew Chamberlain was in fact appeasing Hitler […]

DR. KENNETH LEVIN: OBAMA, CHAMBERLAIN AND APPEASEMENT

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/23/obama%e2%80%99s-neville-chamberlain-speech/ In his May 19 speech on the Middle East, President Obama, in a matter of minutes, abandoned Security Council Resolution 242, which for more than four decades had been the cornerstone of diplomacy in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace; likewise abandoned the Roadmap, adopted in 2003 by the so-called Quartet (the U.S., UN, EU and […]

RUSH LIMBAUGH ON OBAMA/BIBI

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052311/content/01125108.guest.html I’m sure he thought Bibi would play Mr. Diplomat and go in there and eat his excrement sandwich as Obama intends and so forth. To sit there and openly suggest a plan that guarantees the destruction of Israel down the road? . . . I also happen to know Netanyahu. I’ve had the privilege […]

CAL THOMAS: BETRAYING ISRAEL *****

Betraying Israel: CAL THOMAS http://washingtonexaminer.com/print/opinion/columnists/2011/05/betraying-israel With friends like President Obama, who needs enemies? If you’re Israel, you already have quite enough of those.On May 14, 2011, the state of Israel observed the 63rd anniversary of its independence. But if the proposals made by Obama in his State Department speech are implemented, that observance could be […]

YOEL MELTZER: WHAT IF ISRAEL CHANGED DIRECTION? ****

What If Israel Changed Direction? Posted By Yoel Meltzer http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/24/what-if-israel-changed-direction-2/ In the early years of Saturday Night Live there was a classic skit called “What if?” Posing as pseudo-intellectuals, Jane Curtain and company discussed such nonsensical topics as “What if Napoleon Bonaparte had B-52 bombers at the Battle of Waterloo?” or “What if Superman had […]

MARK GARDNER: THE POLITICAL EXTREMISTS WHO HATE ISRAEL IN THE UK

http://thecst.org.uk/blog/?p=2575 And on his blog he notes, inter alia: ‘This resolution … not only hurts Jews and the fight against antisemitism, it actually reinforces antisemitism; and does so notwithstanding that noisy minority of people of Jewish identity or origin, who consciously parade their Jewishness in order to help legitimise political and rhetorical attacks upon Israel and […]