Gates Says EU Pushed Turkey Away U.S. Defense Secretary Blames Bloc’s Resistance to Granting Membership for Ankara’s Turn from Israel and the West By MARC CHAMPION in Istanbul and PETER SPIEGEL in Washington Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused the European Union of pushing Turkey toward the East by its resistance to letting the mainly Muslim […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704575304575296371206044884.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_lifeStyle By AMY CHOZICK “Vice President Joe Biden is here, and he looks very handsome.” With those words, Barbara Walters opened up a recent segment of “The View,” a daily TV gabfest known for gossip and girl talk. But on this day, Ms. Walters asked Mr. Biden about UN sanctions against Iran. An audience member […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342604575222194271251722.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories Why I’m Running as a Tea Party Republican Tocqueville said that Americans ‘love change but dread revolutions.’ By JOEL B. POLLAK ‘What’s an Orthodox Jew doing with the tea party?” It’s a question I often confront, though I’ve never been asked it by fellow Republicans, or anyone involved in the tea party itself. The […]
BEST OF THE WEB TODAY JUNE 8, 2010 ‘A Living Icon of Journalism’ The Society of Professional Journalists honors Helen Thomas. Still! By JAMES TARANTO Among her many honors, Helen Thomas, who “retired” yesterday as a columnist for Hearst Newspapers, in 2000 received the Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society of Professional […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion  The Alien in the White House The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president’s earliest enthusiasts about […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875604575280462094012870.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion#printMode With Friends Like the United States . . . President Obama has emboldened America’s adversaries and unnerved its allies. By ELIOT A. COHEN What do the following have in common: the piling on Israel after the botched interception of the Hamas relief flotilla, the Chinese military telling the U.S. secretary of defense that he […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704515704575282670417642484.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories By CHARLES LEVINSON And JAY SOLOMON JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused his nation’s critics Wednesday of an “international offensive of hypocrisy,” as the growing diplomatic crisis over the raid on a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists threatened to deepen Israel’s isolation from much of the rest of the world. Speaking as Israel said it was […]
FRANKLY MY DEARS, I DON’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT THE WORLD THINKS….THIS REMINDS ME OF THE SABRA-SHATILLA FOLLIES WHERE ARABS KILLED ARABS AND SHARON TOOK A FALL AND ISRAEL CREATED AN “INVESTIGATION”…IN AN OLD WOODY ALLEN MOVIE MIA FARROW PLAYED A MAFIA MOLL AND SAID HER MOTTO WAS “SCREW THEM BEFORE THEY SCREW YOU.” NOW […]
By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR.AND LEE A. CASEY Â http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704852004575258433073503318.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion Sixty-eight senators have sent a letter to President Obama urging U.S. ratification of the Ottawa Convention. The 10-year-old treaty, banning the production and use of land mines, has been accepted by over 150 countries, including most of our allies. The U.S., however, should not join this […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559004575256133800412468.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By WARREN KOZAK We measure their rhetoric, we monitor their actions both within their borders and abroad, and we wonder: “Once they get it, would they use it?” But perhaps we are asking the wrong question when it comes to Iran’s race to get the bomb. That question may have been answered 31 years […]
