SPIEGEL ONLINE The Story of ‘Operation Orchard’ How Israel Destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor By Erich Follath and Holger Stark In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert. The incident could have led to war, but it was hushed up by all sides. Was it a nuclear plant […]
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275933.html#more  First of all – and I know this is ticky-tacky but the left’s ubiquotous pseudo-sophisticated name checking gets obnoxious – Julius Caesar was not a particularly great writer. Even if that wasn’t true, Marcus Aurelius was in every way a better scribe and at least equally as powerful. And as a purely historical […]
When No Means No Pleading with Iran will get the West nowhere. I once overhead a guy try to make a date over the phone. His end of the conversation went roughly as follows: “How about Friday?” (Pause.) “Not Friday? Because I’m free most of the weekend.” (Pause.) “Not this weekend? What about next Saturday?” […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703932904574511910510146196.html#printMode The university celebrates its history of valor. By WILLIAM MCGURN Most Americans would not be surprised to learn that Harvard is our nation’s oldest institution of higher learning, that it boasts the largest endowment, and that it has produced more U.S. presidents than any other university. Most Americans, however, might be hard-pressed to guess […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/uk-muslim-woman-admits-to-carrying-usb-drive-with-7000-files-for-the-brothers-of-the-mujahadeen-at-l.html U.K.: Muslim woman admits to carrying USB drive with 7,000 files for the “Brothers of the Mujahadeen” at Liverpool airport “It had been tied to the inner sleeve of her burka, but fell out as she reached down to scratch her leg … It was described by police as “a mini encyclopaedia of weapons-making.” […]
– FrontPage Magazine – http://frontpagemag.com – J Street Dreams, Israeli Reality – by P. David Hornik “To say that you have to love Israel or be pro-Israel to be part of J Street is a terrible mistake.†Thus Judith Baker of the fringe-left Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (its English moniker is Jewish Alliance for Justice and […]
Wesley Pruden OPINION/ANALYSIS: Elephants are supposed to have long memories, but not all do. The royal household in Thailand even assembles its elephants once a year so a holy man can preach an annual sermon to the gentle beasts, urging them to mind their manners in the presence of the king. As eloquent as the […]
Beware, Barack. Beware, Rahm. Beware, Axelrod By Martin Peretz When it comes to Israel, observes the editor-in-chief of the leading journal of liberal thought, The New Republic, the administration is clueless http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Tomorrow will be the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin at a Tel Aviv rally for the Oslo peace accords. […]
Candidly Speaking: ‘Perfidious Albion’ and Jewish leaders Nov. 2, 2009 Isi Leibler, THE JERUSALEM POST The British and French foreign ministers, both of whom have Jewish ancestors, are now among the most vociferous European critics of Israel. This was reaffirmed by their odious “absence” from the vote on the Goldstone Report at the UN Human […]
