Monthly Archives : July 2009

The Lonely Israeli Left


Israel’s leftists are lonely these days. This was the central thrust of an opinion column in Tuesday’s New York Times authored by Aluf Benn, editor-at-large of the left-wing Haaretz newspaper.     Benn’s article, “Why Won’t Obama Talk to Israel?” was a plaintive call for US President Barack Obama to woo the Israeli public. As Benn put it, “Next time…

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Terror Training Grounds


From 1970 to 1980, Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Now she’s a law professor at Northwestern University Law School where she teaches a course on law and the Palestinian conflict with Israel.     During her time as co-commander of the Weather Underground terrorist organization with her husband, education professor William Ayres,…

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I’m baaack


Hi friends. Sorry I was away for the past couple of weeks. If you scroll down to the photo from Ft. Leavenworth, you’ll understand that it was due to important issues pertaining to Israel’s national demographic security….     Anyway, I’m back more or less. And what follows are two columns that came out this week – the first from…

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Syria’s hour of triumph


In an interview with Britain’s Sky News over the weekend, US President Barack Obama was asked whether he is planning to accept Syrian President Bashar Assad’s invitation to visit Damascus. The very fact that an American presidential visit to the Syrian capital is on the international agenda demonstrates how radically US foreign policy has shifted.     Four years ago,…

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Numbering the days of dictators


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had reason to feel good about himself this week. Less than a month after he secured his hold on power for another four years by rigging the presidential elections, Ahmadinejad felt comfortable addressing his subjugated nation as its rightful dictator. So in a chilling televised performance on Tuesday, he triumphantly declared the stolen June 12 poll…

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Avoiding an American Ambush


It works out that US President Barack Obama is a man of heartfelt, long-held principles. It also works out that his principles are divorced from reality and unresponsive to any facts that contradict them.     This much was made clear by a New York Times report on Sunday which discussed a recently “rediscovered” 1983 article Obama published in a…

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Israel’s democratic challenge


It works out that retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak – the man who shaped Israel’s judiciary in his own image – doesn’t care much for Jews.     In a speech last Thursday sponsored by the post-Zionist New Israel Fund, Barak said, “If you ask a Jew whether he supports equality with the Arabs, he will say: ‘Certainly.’ And…

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