The so-called Arab Spring is looking pretty parched right now. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is on the rise and has struck up an electoral alliance with even more openly radical Salafis. Muslim attacks on Egypt’s besieged Coptic Christians continue. Mass demonstrations by the secular (but often hard-leftist or Nasserist) Facebook revolutionists have sought to quell anti-Christian feeling by turning anger against Israel instead. This continues even today. (The Facebook revolution was supposedly not anti-American or anti-Israeli, but any serious study of the revolutionists background would have shown that hope to be false.) debkafile’s Washington sources report exclusively that President Barack Obama has finally resolved to stamp down hard on Syrian President Bashar Assad in person as the man responsible for the inhuman Syrian crackdown on protest against his regime and the massacre of hundreds of dissenters. Before his much-awaited speech on US relations with Middle East Muslim nations Thursday, May 19, Obama is preparing to impose sanctions on the Syrian president. The White House is working on the final text of the announcement but has already decided to recall the newly-appointed US Ambassador to Damascus Robert Ford for consultations. The administration has also decided to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna to report to the UN Security Council... Bibi referred to J&S as “our hmeland”. I think that is significant. I.e. this means he is positioning himself to claim it as ours, not theirs. T. Belman Yesha Council chairman Danny Dayan, responding to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech of Monday night, said Tuesday, “His analysis of the geo-political situation was correct, but his conclusions were wrong… Settlement blocs alone do not provide even minimum security for the State of Israel.” Dayan, who heads the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, told Arutz Sheva, “The Prime Minister was correct in saying that the struggle is not over...
Glen Beck implores Christians to stand by Israel
Arab Spring Turns to Fall (Winter to Follow?)
The Syrian government, under siege from its own people, is permitting civilian attacks on Israel as a way of diverting attention, and to warn the West away from further pressure. Israel’s foes have united and seem primed to provoke a war designed to tilt the Middle East’s playing field toward Iran, and perhaps even draw in a...Debka: Obama to get tough with Assad.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 17, 2011,
An American ambassador was last recalled from Damascus in 2005. It took five years for Obama to appoint Robert Ford to the post in late 2010.We Need Much More than Blocs!
Netanyahu said he would be willing to withdraw to the West Bank settlement blocs and leave only an Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley if an agreement is reached for a demilitarized Palestinian state.More Recent Articles
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Posts
