Turkey’s Ambassadors vs. Erdogan
Damla Aras:
In June 2010, the deepening rift between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) unexpectedly came to the public eye when seventy-two retired ambassadors and consul-generals issued a written statement protesting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s lack of respect in dubbing them “mon chers” and criticizing the government’s foreign policy. Why did the prime minister publicly snub his diplomats? By way of answering this question, this article reviews the ongoing rift between Erdogan and his diplomats before carrying an English translation of the ambassadors’ statement and interviews with two retired senior diplomats. …
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Rule 303 is Good Enough for Somali Pirates
Somali pirates murder 4 Americans in cold blood but Navy captured 13 pirates alive
by Bill Levinson
As reported by the Christian Science Monitor, Somali pirates killed four American captives while the United States was negotiating peacefully for their release.
US Central Command said four Navy warships were deployed in an effort to secure the Americans’ release, and “negotiations were ongoing” when the shooting occurred at 1 a.m. today. Upon hearing gunfire, US forces boarded the Quest and confronted the pirates, capturing 13 and killing two. Attempts to revive the four Americans were unsuccessful and all four died from the gun wounds.
Our Armed Forces were obviously under orders to accept the surrenders of the 13 surviving pirates. From where we sit, this order should be rescinded. Uniformed enemy combatants who conduct themselves according to the Hague and Geneva Conventions have a right to surrender and be treated as prisoners of war. Pirates who...
Sheik Qaradawi is back in Egypt
Powerline
Professor William Jacobson of Cornell Law School writes that “the yuppie revolution in Egypt is over.” He points to the return to Cairo, in triumph, of Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who had been exiled by Mubarak. al-Qaradawi spoke to a crowd of, reportedly, more than a million Egyptians in Tahrir Square on Friday.
Sheik al-Qaradawi has been whitewashed somewhat in the liberal press, but he is a hard-core radical Muslim. Discover the Networks has the details. Here is al-Qaradawi on the Jews, in January 2009:
Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers.
And on the United States and its efforts in...
Bibi totally capitulates to Obama’s demands
By Ted Belman
PM Netanyahu issued the following statement as payment or part payment for the exercise of the US veto.
“Israel deeply appreciates the decision by President Obama to veto the Security Council resolution today. Israel remains committed to pursuing comprehensive peace with all our neighbors, including the Palestinians. We seek a solution that will reconcile the Palestinians’ legitimate aspiration for statehood with Israel’s need for security and recognition.”
No longer is he claiming defensible borders, a united Jerusalem or the settlement blocks. Not only is he not asserting our legal rights, he is also not asserting our historical rights. The fact that he has maintained a defacto freeze and that the Cabinet Committee voted unanimously to not extend Israeli law to the communities in Judea and Samaria, says volumes.
The Right must find another leader.
Ban Ki Moon: Shameless UN Whore, Disgrace to His Family and Country
by Bill Levinson
The concept of family and honor is perhaps stronger in Asian cultures than it is in Western ones, but Ban Ki Moon’s continued tenure as United Nations Secretary General shows him to be a shameless political whore with no honor or sense of duty to family and country whatsoever.
The United Nations is best known for its unremitting attacks on the legitimacy of Israel, which also lend legitimacy to terroristic violence against Israel. It is also necessary however to look at the United Nations’ acts of omission, i.e. that which it does not do. The UN’s inactions serve to legitimize and enable genocide, terrorism, violence against women, and murderous acts of war against innocent people. Ban Ki Moon’s failure to resign as Secretary General makes him directly complicit in North Korea’s recent act of war against his country and its murder of his fellow South Koreans. Ban Ki Moon is effectively the South Korean counterpart of a kapo or Judenrat: a...
The Leftist Media Downplays Islamic Violence
Laura: As to why CBS at first kept quiet about Lara Logan’s gang rape, it is because the muslims have the status of being among those groups perceived to be “victims” by the left. Therefore their actions are to be ignored or downplayed. The left cannot conceive of non-white, non-westerners as being the dangerous aggressors and white westerners and Israelis as their victims.
Lara Logan and the Media Rules
Caroline Glick, Townhall
Among the least analyzed aspects of the Egyptian revolution has been the significance of the widespread violence against the foreign media covering the demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
The Western media have been unanimous in their sympathetic coverage of the demonstrators in Egypt. Why would the demonstrators want to brutalize them? And why have Western media outlets been so reticent in discussing the significance of their own reporters’ brutalization at the hands of the Egyptian demonstrators?
To date the most egregious...
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