Aug 21/10 Deadline for Israeli Attack
John Bolton: Russia’s Loading of Nuke Fuel Into Iran Plant Means Aug. 21 Deadline for Israeli Attack
By: David A. Patten, NEWSMAX
News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran’s Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively “immune” to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton.
Once the fuel rods are loaded, Bolton told Fox News on Friday afternoon, “it makes it essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf.”
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared in March that Russia would start the Bushehr reactor this summer. But the announcement from a spokesman for Russia’s state atomic agency to Reuters Friday sent...
The Arab Mentality
By Ted Belman
I hooked up with Michael Totten today and we headed to the Old City to talk to some Arabs. Michael, as you may well know, is a well know ME journalist who writes for the likes of Commentary, Pajamas Media, City Journal and others.
As it turned out we only had time to converse with one shouk merchant. This is what he had to say,
America supports Israel and as long as that is the case, nothing will change in the ME. I argued to the contrary that the State Department has always been dedicated to pushing Israel back to the green line. He answered that Israel is still in the Westbank and America gives her billions. But America, I said, gives to both Hamas and the PA hundreds of millions. This he knew nothing about. Here was his bottom line, if Obama can’t force Israel back, nobody in the US can. He is not hopeful at all. “The israrelis will never give us anything.”
Then he gave me a history lesson. In ’47 Israel got 80% of Palestine and the Palestinians...
The Other Side: The Jews of Judea and Samaria, Part 5
Clips 1-4 in this series can be viewed Here
Israel Matzav
A resident of Shiloh talks about the time he was a victim of a terror attack, in part 5 of this series of videos.
The media invariably portrays the Jewish citizens of communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as fanatics and intolerant bigots. Yet no one really talks to them to see how they really are and what they really think.
This series intends to find out who these “settlers” are, why they choose to live there, and what their aspirations and fears are.
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Israel aims to be space superpower
THE SKY’S THE LIMIT! BB would make a great finance minister but as PM, he could be a poster child for the PETER PRINCIPLE, he has reached his level of incompetency. Yamit
Aiming to be a space superpower 
Prime Minister Netanyahu has approved an ambitious plan that hopes to give Israel $8 billion in annual sales of satellites and related equipment.
The multi-year plan calls for the government to annually increase support for space research and development by several hundred million shekels. This investment would focus on new platforms – primarily Israel’s niche market in “mini satellites” – intended to yield billions in sales.
The plan was drafted by a team of scientists and economists that includes Prof. Haim Eshed, head of the Defense Ministry’s Space Division, and the director-general of the Science and Technology Ministry, Menahem Greenblum.
Israel is one of the few countries that can independently develop, manufacture and launch satellites, Eshed told the...
Jew vs. Jew
“The creation of Israel was supposed to turn Jews into a “normal” people. But the psychosis of Jewish anti-Semitism has no comparable analogue among the nations, making the Jews a therapist’s sui generis.
The disease of Jewish anti-Semitism not only illustrates the absence of normality among 21st century Jewry, it threatens the very survival of Israel and of Jewish communities around the world.” SP
Jew vs. Jew
By Steven Plaut, Jewish Press
It sounds like a contradiction in terms. An oxymoron. If only it were.
Jewish anti-Semitism is a modern disease. The world is experiencing an explosion of it. Among the most malicious and venomous of all bigots, Jewish anti-Semites are at the forefront of just about every smear campaign against Israel and other Jews.
Such Jews are leaders in the campaigns to boycott and divest from Israel. A number of them make pilgrimages to the terrorist camps of Hamas and Hizbullah, with some even rationalizing or justifying...
Explaining Jewish Political Behavior
The key to understanding contemporary Jewish political behavior in Europe and North America is the history of Jewish assimilation strategy. I tell the story more fully in my book, Assimilation and Its Discontents, but here is a short version, adapted for what’s happening right now.
This strategy was developed in Western Europe in the mid-1800s. There was no single theorist, influential book, or coherent doctrine. Rather, it was a pragmatic approach to the issue of how Jews could adapt to the pressures and opportunities of democratic societies. The assimilationist strategy continues to this day though people aren’t aware of it.
There were many—religious traditionalists, Zionists, and leftist revolutionaries—who pursued alternative routes but I’m not going to talk about them here. I am also fully aware of exceptions, such as the Jewish Bund and the post-World War One political situation in Poland, but cannot deal with them in this limited space. Please...
Crunch time
By Ted Belman
Both the EU and the US are demanding
–A permanent suspension by Israel of settlement construction.
–An agreement by Israel that creation of a Palestinian state would be based on the 1967 borders.
–An Israeli commitment that a peace deal would be achieved within two years.
to permit direct talks to begin.
Will Bibi cave? I hope not. I can’t imagine his coalition surviving if he does.
Bush was wrong, Obama doubly so.
The “Bush Did It” Defense of the Ground Zero Mosque Imam
By Andy McCarthy, NRO
It’s always rich when reliable Democratic Party organs like the Washington Post, which couldn’t bash the Bush administration often enough, defend Obama administration initiatives on the ground that “Bush did it too.” But, as evidenced by this item from Journolister Greg Sargent, that is the current defense of the administration’s otherwise indefensible deployment of sharia-touting Feisal Rauf on State Department business in the Middle East.
The sharia-indifferent Left has convinced itself that the Bush administration’s foolish forays into “Islamic outreach” somehow undermine current concerns about Rauf and the giant monument to Islam he wants to erect near the site where nearly 3000 Americans were killed by Islamist supremacists. On that score, GZ mosque proponents make much of the fact that Liz Cheney — Vice President Cheney’s daughter and a director at Keep America Safe — is a...
Model corruption: The truth about the GM ‘rescue’
By MARK MODICA & HAL JOHN, NY POST
General Motors plans an initial public offering as soon as today — a first step in the government’s effort to sell its ownership stake to private investors. The IPO comes on the heels of a much publicized plant tour by President Obama, who’ll certainly hail the stock sale as proof he made a smart decision by bailing out the automaker with billions of taxpayer dollars.
But, to us, the IPO will be proof of something else: a White House that purposefully trampled the legal rights of investors — many of whom, like us, are small savers — to benefit its political supporters. Rather than a model of success and foresight, the GM episode is a model of corruption and cronyism.
Steering to favor his friends: President Obama, here getting behind the wheel of a Chevy Volt at a Michigan auto plant last month, led a government takeover of GM that vastly benefited his labor-union allies.
Let’s review the sordid...
The Latest Developments on the Iran Nuke Front
Laura: Not only are those Russian scoundrels accelerating Iran’s nuclear weapons program by loading fuel rods into Iran’s nuclear reactor, they are also actively engaged in blocking a potential American or Israeli preemtive strike on Iran.
Russian S-300s in Abkhazia block possible Israeli air route to Iran
Unknown – DEBKAfile
US and Israeli military sources told debkafile Thursday, Aug. 12, that a threat from Georgia was not the reason why Russian posted advanced S-300 interceptor batteries Russia in Abkhazia and air defense weapons in South Ossetia on the northern shore of the Black Sea -as Moscow officially maintained, but rather possible moves by the US and/or Israel against Iran and its nuclear facilities.
Georgia’s armed forces do not run to the sophisticated warplanes, missiles or drones that would warrant establishing the high-powered S-300 interceptors for defending the breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia.Ordinary air defense batteries would do for...
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