NYT: Israel got first GBU-28 bunker busters in 2006 *UPDATE*
J.E. Dyer, HOT AIR
It’s hard to figure out what Eli Lake is talking about in his “scoop” today for the Daily Beast (andNewsweek). (H/t: Ed Morrissey.) Lake writes the following:
The Israelis first requested the bunker busters in 2005, only to be rebuffed by the Bush administration. At the time, the Pentagon had frozen almost all U.S.-Israeli joint defense projects out of concern that Israel was transferring advanced military technology to China.
In 2007, Bush informed Ehud Olmert, then prime minister, that he would order the bunker busters for delivery in 2009 or 2010. The Israelis wanted them in 2007. Obama finally released the weapons in 2009, according to officials familiar with the still-secret decision.
This passage is virtually verbatim from a Jerusalem Post report from September 2010, which cited (but did not directly quote) Newsweek:
Israel first put in a request for the bunker busters in 2005, but...
Yedida Freilich sings about the rockets from Gaza
Over 1.2 million people have viewed this. I was one of the first to publish it.
and here is another Song for Gal
What the Palestinian Street Wants
by Samara Greenberg, Jewish Policy Center
According to a poll conducted this month by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, more Arab East Jerusalemites prefer to become citizens of Israel than citizens of a future Palestinian state, with 35 percent choosing Israel and 30 percent choosing the future state. The remaining 35 percent either declined to answer or said they didn’t know.
Moreover, according to the poll, 42 percent of respondents said they would move to a different neighborhood in order to remain under Israeli rule if need be. As for their reasoning, the participants said they would prefer Israeli citizenship as it comes with greater freedom of movement, higher income, more employment opportunities, and better social benefits. In addition, more than half of the respondents said they are concerned about corruption and the safety of their freedom of expression under Palestinian rule.
In another recent poll (Poll No. 179) conducted by the same organization,...
The Soros Plot to Topple Netanyahu
Not only does Soros want to bring down the Netanyahu government in order to install the Left in power, he wants to destroy Israel. Soros is behind Durban I, II, III and the Goldstone Report. He does it all with NGO’s that he backs or creates. He funds the NIF, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, among others and he does it in partnership with the Ford Foundation. He is also behind J-Street and Pres Obama. I will be posting an article to this effect in a day or two. And the big surprise is that Soros doing this all as an agent for guess what government. Ted Belman
By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag
In late February, the Israeli Knesset passed the NGO Funding Transparency Bill by 40 to 34. It had been a long journey for the bill, which despite, its neutered, state was still a declaration of war by the conservative Likud Party against the shadow NGO empire that was the Soros way.
While the bill was no longer able to empower the lifting of tax exempt status for foreign...
Looking a gift horse in the mouth
By Ted Belman
Leading Jews are out shilling for Obama again. They are sure to mention the unprecedented security cooperation that now exists between the US and Israel, even more so than under Bush. In fact the latest revelation was the sale to Israel of much sought after bunker-bombs denied to Israel by Bush.
Jonathan Tobin discusses the bunker-bombs in Commentary.
A few months ago when they were enlisted to do this, I wrote that the US exacted a price for such cooperation namely that Israel had to agree to refrain from attacking Iran. But that is not sufficient a come back.
I am reading a book by Robert E Kaplan (not yet published) entitled The Soros Connection, in which he draws attention to “gifting” as the primary means of influencing individuals and even countries..
He writes “Robert Cialdini, a social psychologist, describes “gifting” in his book Influence: Science and Practice, using the term “reciprocation”for what I have called “gifting”.
Muslim Student Association members guilty of misdemeanor disruption at UC Berkeley
Muslim Student Association promoted Islamic awareness by disrupting Israeli diplomat’s speech
Posted by Bill Levinson
UC Muslim students get probation, fines
The jury of six men and six women deliberated about two days before finding the students guilty on one count each of misdemeanor disturbing a public meeting and conspiracy in connection with the Feb. 8, 2010, talk by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
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