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  THE HATE THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME Walter Russell Mead American Interest, July 18, 2011   This time of year it is worth remembering Mein Kampf, the turgid and unreadable Bible of the Nazi movement that was published back in July of 1925. The last time I looked, you could still buy it […]

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  “The nation of Greece would like to express its deep love and friendship for another ancient people in this region, the nation of Israel.… We are united with your nation historically and culturally, and in our joint desire to advance security and peace. I hope that the new chapter recently opened in the ties […]

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OBAMA’S WEAKNESS INVITED IRAN’S PLOT Mona Charen National Review, October 14, 2011 If the Iranian government doesn’t frighten you, you haven’t been paying attention. The regime in Iran has been killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan for many years and has sworn countless times in the past 30 years to preside over the destruction of […]

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    SYRIA PROTEST LARGEST YET: HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE, 17 KILLED Zeina Karam & Elizabeth A. Kennedy Huffington Post, July 15, 2011   Hundreds of thousands of Syrians mounted the largest protests Friday since the uprising began more than four months ago, pouring into areas where the government crackdown has been most intense in […]

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  THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: LEADING FROM BEHIND Charles Krauthammer Washington Post, April 28, 2011   Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.”—Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2 issue To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not […]

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    THEY TRIED TO KILL US, WE WON, NOW WE’RE CHANGING THE WORLD David Horovitz Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2011   To our considerable sorrow here at The Jerusalem Post, our super-smart, relentlessly questioning, insightful editorial writer, Saul Singer, left the paper three years ago to write a book. To the great and still […]

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    SLAPPING PAKISTAN Michael A. Walsh NY Post, July 11, 2011   …[A] war of wills is being waged halfway around the world in Pakistan. In response to Pakistani intransigence and duplicity—especially by the country’s army and intelligence agency, the ISI—America is withholding some $800 million in aid, including $300 million earmarked for counterinsurgency […]

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GILAD SHALIT RELEASED IN PRISONER SWAP Joshua Mitnick Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2011 Israel and Hamas carried out an unprecedented prisoner swap on Tuesday, freeing Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit after five years in captivity in return for some 477 Palestinian prisoners that were released to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and to Egypt.… […]

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        LEARNING LEBANON II’S LESSONS Liat Collins Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2011   Time flies not only when you’re having fun. Proof: On July 12, it will be five years since the Second Lebanon War broke out, and the intervening years seem to have gone quickly. Perhaps it was because they were […]

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          UN RULES THAT ISRAELI BLOCKADE IS LEGAL IN BLOW TO FAILING FLOTILLA   More bad news for the dwindling number of flotilla activists hanging around the ports of Greece. The now completed UN Inquiry on last year’s Gaza flotilla incident aboard the Mavi Marmara found that Israel’s blockade of Hamas-ruled […]

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        REMEMBERING THE ‘ALTALENA’ Jerold S. Auerbach Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2011   Israel is confronting increasingly virulent worldwide challenges to its legitimacy. An expanding chorus of politicians, journalists and academics relentlessly denounces the Jewish state as a racist, apartheid abomination. The resemblance between their shrill diatribes and the rhetoric of anti-Semitism […]

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      JEWISH DEMS LOSING FAITH IN OBAMA Ben Smith Politico, June 29, 2011   David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama’s standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples—all Obama voters in 2008—nearly turned into a screaming match. Ainsman, a […]