Monthly Archives : June 2010

Alternatives to surrender


To the roaring cheers of the local media, on Sunday the Schalit family embarked on a cross-country march to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s residence. They set out two days after the fourth anniversary of IDF Sgt. Gilad Schalit’s captivity.   Outside their home in the North on Sunday, Gilad’s father Noam Schalit pledged not to return home without his son.…

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The Western Way of War


General Stanley McChrystal has paid a huge price for his decision to give Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings free access to himself and his staff. But he performed a great service for the rest of us. US President Barack Obama fired McChrystal — his hand-picked choice to command NATO forces in Afghanistan — for the things that he and his…

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The high price of coalition stability


Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his colleagues are doing their best to put a pretty face on an ugly situation. After nearly three weeks of deliberations, Netanyahu and his government caved in to massive US pressure to ease, if not end, Israel’s blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza.   On Sunday the government announced that all economic sanctions on Gaza will be…

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Weathering the approaching storm


Israel is endangered today as it has never been before. The Turkish-Hamas flotilla two weeks ago precipitated a number of dangerous developments. Rather than attend to all of them, Israel’s leadership is devoting itself almost exclusively to contending with the least dangerous among them while ignoring the emerging threats with the potential to lead us to great calamities.    Since…

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Latma strikes back


Here’s the newest installment in Latma‘s English language musical crash course in reality perception. We bring you The Three Terrors! Enjoy and spread it far and wide. Personally, I hope the good folks in Iran’s Green Movement get a kick out of it.     

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Hamas rises in the West


Since the navy’s May 31 takeover of the Turkish-Hamas flotilla , Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his advisors have deliberated around the clock about how to contend with the US-led international stampede against Israel. But their ultimate decision to form an investigatory committee led by a retired Supreme Court justice and overseen by foreign observers indicates that they failed to…

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New postings of We Con the World


Thanks to Ed Morrisey at Hot Air, our video was reposted at Eyeblast. Also, our friends at WeJew have kept up their copy. You can embed both. First eyeblast       Now WeJew.   We’ll have more versions for your download pleasure tomorrow morning. Meantime, our friend Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has her own idea for how to…

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