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Nobody in his right mind doubts that President Obama fully appreciates the existential threat Israel faces by having Iran, which seems hell-bent on building nuclear weapons, continually threaten to wipe it off the map. In point of fact, he has repeatedly vowed that the United States will not allow Iran to build those weapons, let… Read more.
No doubt the rhetoric now being hurled between the United States/Israel and Iran smacks of an unnerving echo of that which was hurled between the United States/Britain and Iraq before the ill-fated invasion of that country in 2003 – complete with UN nuclear inspectors (then and now) on a wild-goose chase to find weapons of mass destruction.… Read more.
Two years ago, agents from Israel’s revered Mossad were caught on CCTV in Dubai carrying out a hit on a senior Hamas leader. They were universally ridiculed, and I duly piled on: It’s bad enough that these spies can be seen in Technicolor going into public bathrooms and coming out in their laughable disguises (some… Read more.
I am loath to join the members of the inside-the-beltway commentariat who spend every day frothing at the mouth over the latest poll or political development that supposedly either portends Obama’s doom or reaffirms his messianic stature. But I simply cannot remain above the latest fray in this respect. Because there seems to be rare consensus… Read more.
Yesterday Israel demonstrated why it stands out in the Middle East not just as a Jewish state surrounded by mostly hostile Muslim ones, but as an unqualified democracy amidst dictatorships in varying degrees of benignity. (Granted, the dramatic revolutions now unfolding throughout this region might usher in bona fide democratic governments in a few countries, but… Read more.
Israel incited worldwide condemnation on Monday after its commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists in a raid on their flotilla about 72 miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The majority of those killed were Turkish citizens. This prompted Turkey, Israel’s most important ally in the Muslim world, to call it a “bloody massacre”… Read more.
I believe there’s going to be a signed peace treaty [between the Israelis and Palestinians] by the time I leave office . . . I’m on a timetable . . . I’ve got 12 months. (President George W. Bush, January 11, 2008) Just weeks ago, President Bush went to Iraq hoping to be serenaded with… Read more.
Kidnapping is the only language Israel understands [Gaza militant as reported by the Associated Press] The Israel government is being criticized at home and abroad for a prisoner swap it executed with the Hezbollah terrorist group yesterday, which involved exchanging one notorious terrorist, four Gaza militants and the bodies of 199 Arab fighters all for the bodies of just… Read more.
Western democracies should be celebrating Gaza’s democratic elections on Wednesday. Instead, they’re acting as if Gaza morphed into a theocratic autocracy overnight. Hamas wins in Gaza Of course, Western democracies have branded Hamas a terrorist organization. And they accuse Iran and its “wipe Israel off the map“ president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of funding the organization’s terrorist activities. That’s why Western democracies had… Read more.
