Ted Belman. I beg to differ. Yes Israel has turned right/conservative but so has America. The liberal left got slaughtered in Nov ’10. The last poll records that Americans are 3% more likely to identify as conservatives than three years ago.The Tea Party has shifted the balance and Republicans are totally in sync with the new Israel. The problem is that Jewish American and the Democratic Party that they embrace are the ones out of sync like the Left in Israel. It has been acknowledged that US/Israel strategic and military cooperation is at an all time high. The only thing out of sync was Obama’s decision to undermine Mubarak, attack Libya and embrace the Brotherhood and al Qaeda.
Further more, after saying Meirsheimer and Walt were flawed, he embraces them. He quotes Gates and could similarly quote Pres Clinton, both of whom attacked Israel. Not only were they both wrong but they both represent Obama’s attempt to undermine Israel. The three of them aren’t in...
In memory of Jean Kirkpatrick
By Janet Tassel
“We are in the world of doublethink and doublespeak, where words are emptied of their normal meanings and turned into their opposites…in a world where language depends on politics and on majorities of the General Assembly.”
So wrote the late and deeply lamented Jeane Kirkpatrick 22 years ago, July 1989, in her brilliant and prescient essay inCommentary, “How the PLO Was Legitimized.” For those who find themselves shocked by this week’s diseased antics at the UN, Kirkpatrick examines their insidious origins. There is nothing new in bedlam.
It was December 1988. A special session of the UN General Assembly was convened in Geneva for a single purpose: To hear Yasir Arafat plead the cause of the PLO. “Arafat exulted on that occasion,” Kirkpatrick writes.
And why not? One hundred fifty-four members of the UN had voted for this special session. Now his appearance was being treated as the diplomatic event of the year. The UN...
Israel should legally annex West Bank settlements in response to the Palestinians’ recent bid for recognition in the United Nations, the leaders of several right-wing Knesset factions said in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.
The letter was signed by Likud chairman Ze’ev Elkin, Shas chairman Avraham Michaeli, Habayit Hayehudi chairman Uri Orbach, and the leader of the National Union faction Yaakov Katz.
The New Replacement Theology
By Daniel Greenfield
In the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section, a story asks; ‘Judaism without God? Yes, say American atheists’. You can have Judaism without G-d, much as you can have an “On Faith” section without anything to have faith in.
It’s all a matter of definition. If you define Judaism by its covenantal document as a binding agreement between a people and the Creator of the universe, then an atheistic Judaism is a contradiction in terms. But if you define it as a cultural experience that calls us to social work and spirited debate, then it makes no real difference what you believe, so long as you volunteer at the Tikkun Olam soup kitchen.
What goes for Judaism, also goes for Christianity. The issue is not atheism, it’s the nature of religion and what it is and what it isn’t. Either religion is a specific belief in a deity accompanied by textual revelations, or it’s the Democratic party with its own pulpit. ...
FBI talks about Islam the ideology
Bibi to build in Jerusalem. Will he build in J&S?
By Ted Belman
And the good news is, Bibi said in a JPOST interview he wouldn’t renew the freeze.
Netanyahu said he had no intention of intervening with the Interior Ministry’s District Planning Committee that is scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss the construction of more than 700 housing units in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood, located over the Green Line, even though the Quartet – in its statement Friday – called on “the parties to refrain from provocative actions if negotiations are to be effective,” a veiled reference to construction beyond the pre-1967 lines.
“I don’t think there is anything new,” Netanyahu said of the plan.
“We plan in Jerusalem. We build in Jerusalem. Period. The same way Israeli governments have been doing for years – since the end of the 1967 war.
“We build in Jewish neighborhoods, the Arabs build in Arab neighborhoods – that is the way the life of this city goes on and develops for its Jewish and non- Jewish...
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