Obama’s Hostility to Israel Continues
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 25th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama’s Hostility to Israel Continues
Ed Koch, RealClearPolitics
Not since 1973 and the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria – with logistical help from other Arab countries — joined forces in an attempt to crush Israel has the survival of Israel been in question. Today, however, Israel is in danger.In 70 AD, the Jewish nation was sold into slavery by the Romans and condemned to wander in the Diaspora until David Ben-Gurion, its George Washington and founding Father, called it back into existence. A United Nations vote in 1947 called for the creation of two states in the historic mandate of Palestine, one Jewish and the other Palestinian.The Jews…
Religious Doomsdays vs. Leftist Ones
Dennis Prager, Townhall
It appears that the Rapture leading to the end of the world predicted by a Christian radio broadcaster for this past Saturday, May 21, 2011 did not take place. And the failure was covered worldwide. A Google search on Saturday evening, Pacific Time, yielded more than 32,000 articles — in English alone — in the world media.The secular, especially the anti-religious, left, enjoy these spectacles of religious foolishness. They seem to confirm for them not only how absurd these end-of-days predictions are, but how absurd religion is in general.But the left should not laugh too loudly. The…
Obama Embraces Middle East Complexity
James Fallows, The Atlantic
Three points about Obama's recent speeches on the Arab world and the Middle East — the one at the State Department, and the one today at AIPAC. Jeffrey Goldberg has been responding to these in detail.1) It's complicated. We should no longer be surprised that a major Obama speech on an important topic is characterized mainly by its embrace of complexity.