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History's Tragic Farce

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:36:29 GMT

Here we go again, George Mitchell has been appointed by President Obama to aggressively pursue a peace agreement between Israel and its enemies. So far it looks like Obama's going down the same road that his predecessors have gone down, and gone down on. Results are predictable. Sigh! Caroline Glick writes:

"It is a fundamental truth that while history always repeats itself, it
almost never repeats itself precisely. There is always some measure of
newness to events that allows otherwise intelligent people to repeat the
mistakes of their forbearers without looking completely ridiculous."

"Given this, it is hard to believe that with the advent of the Obama
administration, we are seeing history repeat itself with nearly unheard
of precision."

History's Tragic Farce

Sowell On Our New President

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:56:27 GMT

Regular readers of Thomas Sowell's columns and other writings don't need to be told that nigh everything he writes is worth reading. Here is Sowell on the ascendance of President Obama.

Political Speeches

The Bush Legacy

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:53:49 GMT

Moonbats will dismiss what Thomas Sowell has to say on The Bush Legacy If you think it will upset you perhaps you had better not read it.

Israel' Response Is Disproportionate!

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:56:55 GMT

I fully agree with Jonathan Marks when he writes:
"A war (and Hamas has repeatedly said this is war) is never won if you are disproportionately kind to someone who wants to destroy you and, failing in that, demands with indignation that you not destroy him."

Israel's Response Is Disproportionate

I'm Goin' To New York...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:09:06 GMT

I seem to remember a Jimmy Reed tune with that title.

But I'm indeed goin' to New York. Read all about it here

"A letter to the president-elect from a Middle East realist" by Barry Rubin

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:33:45 GMT

Rubin writes: "Today, everyone's talking about how wonderful you are.

Right now you don't understand why Bill Clinton and George Bush couldn't solve a little thing like the Arab-Israeli conflict, defuse the massive hatred of America in the Middle East, end terrorism or turn radical Islamism into an ideology of peace."

Don't worry. You will."

[I hope Obama reads this. I'd like him to succeed. BIK]

A letter to the president-elect from a Middle East realist

Running against Bush by Caroline B. Glick

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:02:43 GMT

I consider Caroline Glick one of the sharpest political commentators around. Here's her latest take on the U.S. Presidential Election. She contends that the American media's pro-Obama bias partly results from their misrepresentation of outgoing President George W. Bush's record in office. That misrepresentation cannot be ascribed merely to the leftist sympathies of the media. For the media are not the source of that misrepresentation. Bush himself is the source of that misrepresentation. Brilliant.

'Reality' Check

Yom Kippur Greetings

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:18:23 GMT

On the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of repentence, tradition has it that a person should ask for a piece of lekach, sweet cake, from a parent, teacher, friend, etc. so as as to receive sweetness in the year to come.

My cyber-lekach doesn't have any calories, and you may ask for it now by clicking here.

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One Reason That I'm Voting For McCain

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 22:10:41 GMT

Well, the election for POTUS is only a few weeks away so I've decided to come out of cyber-hibernation (after a number of months of inactivity on this blog) to feature the video below.

I have many friends and family who are voting for Obama. I hope they will watch this, check out the information and tell me where it misses the boat on the economic crisis and how Obama's and the Democrat's policies are going to get us out of it and prevent this kind of boondoggle from happening again.

I was once a big government 'liberal' who became a free-market 'liberal'. But I'm willing to learn and change because I have learned and changed. Tell me why Obama knows better.

Happy Birthday, Israel!

Wed, 7 May 2008 22:51:39 GMT

"Birthing pains"
ABRAHAM RABINOVICH , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 7, 2008

"Arieh Handler participated in Israel's birth on two separate occasions.
The lesser event, in his view, was on May 14, 1948, when he was among some
200 persons invited to the Tel Aviv hall where David Ben-Gurion proclaimed
the establishment of the state. Handler, 93 this month, is believed to be
the only one of those present still alive.

"The other occasion took place a month earlier in the auditorium of a
girls' school on Tel Aviv's Rehov Frug. The Va'ad Hapoel Hatzioni, the
parliament of the world Zionist movement, met there for six days to weigh
the imminent departure of the British and the prospect of all-out war.
Handler, a delegate of the religious Hapoel Hamizrahi movement, recalled
in a recent interview the electric atmosphere at that April meeting as the
participants took their places in the small hall, delegates grouped at
separate tables according to party. At the front, facing them, sat
Ben-Gurion and other leaders of the Labor movement, including Golda
Myerson (Meir) and Moshe Shertok (Sharett).

Fighting with Palestinian Arabs was already raging around the country,
Jerusalem was surrounded, and several Arab armies were preparing to invade
in a month on the heels of the departing British. Topping the meeting's
agenda, however, was a political issue - the startling shift in the
position of Washington toward Israel's establishment. President Harry
Truman's approval half a year before of the UN partition proposal, and
America's pressure on other countries to do likewise, had been major
landmarks in the march toward a Jewish state. However, strong objections
from the State Department and American defense officials had brought
second thoughts.
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