April 3, 2014

Endgame: Israel, 'Palestine' and the Post Peace Talks Era

In spite of an American brokered last minute Israeli proposal to try and preserve peace talks, Mahmoud Abbas has canceled a scheduled meeting with U.S.  Secretary of State John Kerry and decided to take the quest for Palestine's statehood un...

November 13, 2013

Iranian Checkmate

What happened in Geneva depends a lot on whom you talk to. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's take on the matter is that the Iranians 'walked away' from the impending deal: According to Mr. Kerry the P5+1 group, representing the five permanent mem...

December 19, 2012

A Game-Changer in Syria

The situation in the Syrian insurgency has changed in an interesting way. We started out with the Obama administration actually supporting Bashar Assad -- remember Secretary of State Hillary Clinton referring to Assad as a "reformer" and Senator John...

November 21, 2012

BREAKING: Gaza Ceasefire To Take Effect Tonight ( And The Back Story)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Egyptian equivalent Mohamed Kamel Amr held a joint press conference today announcing a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel with Egypt as a mediating partner. The deal basically takes effect at 8 PM ...

September 11, 2012

How The NYT Commemorates 9/11: 'It Was Bush's Fault'

I ordinarily wouldn't even take notice of something like this appearing in Pravda-on-the-Hudson, especially given their record of endangering our troops and our country by leaking classified information. But these shameless,brazen lies demand a respo...

September 6, 2012

Mr. Bill: 'Who You Gonna Believe, Me Or Your Lying Eyes'?

When a bull or a bucking bronc rider at a rodeo gets thrown from the saddle, out comes the rodeo clown to distract both the animal and the audience while the fallen rider is pulled to safety.Bill Clinton's speech last night was something like that. ...

September 5, 2012

The Democrats' Anti-Israel Party Platform

This year's Democratic Party Platform is an interesting document to read.  Aside from radical stances on things like same-sex marriage and unlimited, government-funded abortion on demand including partial birth abortion, it's noteworthy in that ...

August 24, 2012

Speaking of Rape and the War on Women - Democrats Oppose Mandatory Sentences for Child Rapists

Even though almost every major figure in the Republican party and the conservative movement has condemned him and called for him to leave the race, Democrats are now accusing Republicans of condoning rape and a "war on women" because of Missouri GOP ...

August 22, 2012

Media Revives the Bipartisanship Con

Yesterday's Washington Post has a 3-pager purporting to show that independents favor cooperation between the two parties and less partisan warfare. The backbone is a study the Post did with the Kaiser Family Foundation that polled 3,000 randomly sele...

August 16, 2012

The GOP Now Owns the Medicare Issue

A number of prominent ex-Journolist members and reliably left leaning media lackeys are working overtime repeating one line over and over to try to aid the Obama Campaign...that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to end Medicare and leave seniors wi...

July 19, 2012

Why I'm Boycotting the Olympics: IOC Admits Muslims Prevented the Honoring of Murdered Israeli Athletes (updated)

The Olympics are due to start in London.  But I will not be watching them, discussing them, or even thinking about them, and I urge anyone with a claim to human decency to do the same. In 1972, at the Olympics in Munich, PLO terrorists murdered ...

July 17, 2012

Nobody Else Made It Happen, Mr. President

President Obama unwittingly defined himself as clueless about business in Roanoke late last week: If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. And of course, since you did nothing to build your business...

April 20, 2012

The Sudan Declares Jihad War On South Sudan

After ethnically cleansing its over 500,000 Christians, the rogue Arab Islamist regime of the Sudan has declared war on the Christian and black South Sudan, which broke away last year after peace talks under UN auspices supposedly ended the civil war...

April 4, 2012

Silent Scream: The Sudan Ethnically Cleanses Its Christians

The government of the predominantly Muslim nation of Sudan has stripped its 500,000 to 700,000 Christians of citizenship and has put them on notice that they have one week to leave the country.  Even sub-Jim Crow dhimmi status is to be denied th...

February 8, 2012

The Real Story on Syria, and Why It Matters

By now, literally thousands of protesters in Syria have been killed by President Bashar Assad's forces, beefed up with Hezbollah fighters from next-door Lebanon. Recently, a U.N. Security Council resolution backed by the Arab League that condemned th...

February 1, 2012

The New Egypt: Bankrupt and Sinking Fast

All hail the wondrous Arab Spring! It is one year ago today that the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square began, ending in the fall of the Mubarak regime.  It was fitting that President Obama mentioned it at the State of the Union, since he had a m...

February 1, 2012

Newt Attacks Romney For Fiscal Conservatism And Leaner, Smarter Government

This gets more bizarre the longer it goes on.Florida has a large population of elderly retired Jews, and Newt Gingrich targeted them in his personal appearances by claiming that while he was governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed kosher food i...

January 25, 2012

Obama's State Of The Union: The Hollow Man Speaks

Ah, the Hollow Man...I listen to these things so you don't have to, and I've got a pretty strong stomach - but last night's festivities were truly something else.A transcript is available here for those of you into self-mortification, but I'll go ove...

January 15, 2012

The Tale of the Swine

Once there was a tribe of wild pigs who lived in a remote area of the woods. As anyone who's spent time around pigs will tell you, they are by no means the most unintelligent of animals, and these pigs had learned to adapt quite well to their circums...

December 18, 2011

Rats in the Kitchen: A Parable

Once, there was a man who had to deal with rats when he had a major infestation in his home. The rats' normal environment became unable to support them all, and they began coming down from the hills looking for new digs... and decided they liked the ...

October 7, 2011

How Obama Got Around Congress Withholding $200 M In Aid To The 'Palestinians'

A story in the UK Independent says that the US Congress showed its displeasure with the 'Palestinians' going unilaterally to the UN by withholding $200 million in aid that was supposed to be disbursed to Mahmoud Abbas' little fiefdom by the end of th...

October 3, 2011

Can Israel Survive?

There's a great deal of speculation these days on Israel's dire situation, most notably from renowned author and scholar Victor Davis Hanson in the National Review, who prefaces it with a remark that the country has never been in more danger. The I...

August 16, 2011

China's Chief Of Staff Visits Israel To Discuss Strategic And Military Cooperation

This is one of those important stories you won't see reported on much. General Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army of China arrived in Israel on an official 3 day visit to discuss military cooperation between the two c...

July 29, 2011

Turkey's Military Leaders Resign En Masse In Disagreement With Erdogan Government

Turkey's army chief-of-staff and the entire military command have resigned in a major disagreement with the Erdogan government.General Isik Kosaner stepped down after several meetings in recent days with Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...

July 28, 2011

Norwegian Ambassador: The Oslo Attacks And Palestinian Terrorism Are 'Different'

I've long been aware that Norway is one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe, but this is a rather unique bit of supremely ugly hypocrisy.In an interview with the Israeli daily Maariv, Norway's ambassador to Israel Svein Sevje patiently expla...

July 7, 2011

BATF Head Melson Implicates DOJ In Surprise July 4th Testimony

Over the July Fourth weekend, there was a major development in the Fast and Furious investigation when BATF head Ken Melman made a surprise July 4th appearance before Darrel Issa and Chuck Grassley's congressional committee put together to investigat...

June 12, 2011

What Does Peace Mean Anyway?

Peace is said to be a high priority, no matter whom you talk to. People crave it and pray for it, and rightly so.This is a much more important issue, I think, than most of us realize, especially in these days when people use terms like 'The Long War'...

March 26, 2011

Egypt: Arab 'Democracy' Gives Way To A New Islamist State

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January 17, 2011

Ehud Barak Splits From Israel's Labor Party

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has formed a new faction and split off from the Labor Party. Apparently he and Bibi Netanyahu had this planned for a while.Barak plans to set up his new faction with Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon, Deputy Defen...

January 12, 2011

Hezb'allah Forces Collapse of Lebanese Government

Hezb'allah and its allies force the collapse of Lebanon's year-old unity government when its 11 ministers resigned en masse while Lebanese PM Saad Hariri was out of the country, meeting with President Obama.The reason for the walkout is fairly simple...

January 5, 2011

Why Israel Is Losing the Information War

Many people who are informed about what's actually happening in the Middle East constantly wonder why Israel fares so badly in the information wars.  The following example gives us a pretty good idea why.Jawaher Abu Rahmah, a "Palestinian...

December 10, 2010

Israel Slammed For Rejecting Non-Existant Obama 'Offer' On Building Freeze

When the United States officially announced that negotiations over the proposed extension of Israel's building freeze had failed, an interesting thing happened. The way the news was announced, it was phrased in such a way as to appear that the Israel...

December 7, 2010

US And Israel To Announce that the Freeze Deal is Off the Table

Channel Two in Israel has reported that the US and Israel will make announcements tonight that the proposed deal of US benefits and assurances in exchange for a 90 day extension of the building freeze in Judea and Samaria is off the table, and peace ...

December 2, 2010

Breaking: Palestinians Say They Are No Longer Bound By The Oslo Accords

Al Quds al Arabi ( Arabic ) is reporting that the Palestinian Authority's unelected Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad announced on his radio show that the PA no longer will be bound by the Oslo Accords they and Israel signed in 1993:Fayyad announced on Pa...

June 24, 2009

Masquerade In Iran

Are Mousavi and his followers in Iran an actual reform movement and a positive democratic change in Iran? The pictures of student demonstrators in Tehran being brutalized by the basij and Iranian security forces present a heart-rending spectacle. But...

May 17, 2009

Land For Peace, American Style

" Never ask a friend to buy a horse you wouldn't buy yourself" - (Loose translation of an old Yiddish proverb) Apply the principles urged on Israel to the United States, and you end up with a scenario something like this:The new final settl...

April 27, 2009

The Torture Controversy

Amidst the huge controversy surrounding the story on the so-called torture memos, the bedrock issues are being almost entirely ignored in favor of political theater. And the potential for harm is enormous.After promising not to indulge in revenge pol...