Obama’s self-defeating crusade against Israel
President Obama is attempting to use a mis-timed announcement by Israel of its intention to build housing units in East Jerusulem as a means of pressuring Israel into making major concessions to the Palestinian Authority. Israel has apologized for the timing of its announcement, but the White House is demanding much more in the [...]
Nature abhors a vacuum
Bill Clinton is in Jerusalem trying to clean up behind President Obama and Hillary, whose strident anti-settlement policy has blown up in their face. Clinton’s comments are significant only because they show what a shambles the administration’s Middle East policy has become. Obama and his Secretary of State have managed to alienate [...]
"Peace Process" Follies
Peace is not a process. Peace exists when one of two conditions is met: 1) two groups of people have no wish to kill one another (e.g., the U.S. and Canada), or 2) one or both of the groups would like to kill the other, but is deterred or otherwise prevented from doing [...]
"…UK-funded Torturers on West Bank"
The full headline is: British police and intelligence officers sent to tackle UK-funded torturers on West Bank. There’s no surprise here, of course:
The Government is sending British police and intelligence officers to the West Bank to try to stop a wave of brutal torture by Palestinian security forces funded by UK taxpayers. …
Yesterday [...]
Found: "Another irrefutable piece of evidence that the Jewish Temple existed in Jerusalem"
The AP is reporting (via onejerusalem.org) the discovery of the ancient quarry used to supply material for the construction of the Second Temple.The 2,300 year old quarry provided the massive walls of the Temple:
[...] Dr. Ofir Safir the director of the excavation made these observations:
“The massive quarrying effort, on the order of hundreds of thousands [...]
Obama Is For Democracy, Except When He’s Not
From Obama’s presser today with Uribe:
Over the last several years, I think both Republicans and Democrats in the United States have recognized that we always want to stand with democracy, even if the results don’t always mean that the leaders of those countries are favorable to the United States — and that is a tradition [...]
