Romney’s Citadel Address Hammers Obama on Foreign Policy
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By Amiel Ungar, INN
The Citadel is located in South Carolina, a key early primary state where Romney was given no chance. Now, with Rick Perry’s campaign in the doldrums, Romney is making forays into the state. If he can score in a rock-ribbed conservative state, the game may be over quickly.
Another sign of Romney’s growing confidence is that he departed from his signature issue of economic competence to concentrate on foreign policy in his speech.
Romney promised his audience that as president he would restore the United States to its position as undisputed world leader by rebuilding the sources of American strength: “a strong economy, a strong defense, and the enduring strength of our values.”
Obama, argued Romney had permitted all three of these sources to atrophy.
Despite America’s weakened economic position, America under Romney would not...
Better ally than honest broker
Ettinger is wrong to say, “On the other hand, U.S. administrations have played the role of an honest broker between Israel and its Arab enemies. They usually follow the lead of the U.N. and Europe-oriented State Department bureaucracy”. I don’t believe they have ever been an honest broker in bringing about an agreement. Secondly, it doesn’t the lead of others but pursues its own agenda which is to force Israel to give up its gains from the ’67 War. The EU is pursuing its own agenda which leads it some where between the agenda’s of the State Department’s and the Arab League. Ted Belman
By Yoram Ettinger. ISRAEL HAYOM
All U.S. administrations have displayed a split personality when it comes to Israel.
On the one hand, U.S. administrations have been Israel’s unique ally, implementing the will of the American people and Congress since the 17th century, thus forging a mutually-beneficial, two-way street for security and commercial alliance...
Likud MKs seek to block further outpost destruction
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, LAHAV HARKOV AND JOANNA PARASZC, JPOST
Likud ministers and parliamentarians want to block any future plans the IDF might have to demolish illegal settlement and outpost construction on private Palestinian property in the West Bank.
In the aftermath of the demolition of three unauthorized homes at the Migron outpost in September, politicians are particularly concerned about a number of High Court decisions and state statements to the court regarding pending settler housing demolitions in the next half-year.
At the Likud ministerial committee on Sunday, the Minister of Culture and Sports Limor Livnat proposed the creation of a committee of independent, professional experts to examine alternative options that would avoid demolitions and allow for the authorization of such homes.
“Our job is not to be bulldozers and to destroy,” she said.
Livnat said she had calculated that possibly as many as 160 homes could be removed, and that this was unacceptable.
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Paying the Obama price
Op-ed: Egypt’s disintegration highlights president’s Mideast ignorance, policy failure
Yigal Walt, YNET
The deadly clashes between Egypt’s Copt minority and security forces further stress what should have been clear for a while now: America’s insistence on President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster helped create a catastrophe, with Israel’s southern neighbor increasingly descending into the throes of chaos.
While tensions between Copts and Muslims have persisted for some time, such bloody clashes mark a new low in interethnic relations within Egypt. The violence followed growing attacks against Egypt’s Christian Copt minority in the wake of Mubarak’s dismissal. Needless to say, this would not be happening had the longtime president remained in power.
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Arab Spring myth exposed / Yigal Walt
Op-ed: West faces quickly radicalizing Mideast after foolishly lauding Arab uprisings
The growing pandemonium across Egypt is evident on all fronts. The turning of...
Trajtenberg recommendations are good for Israel’s hard-working middle class
What angers Shas are proposed reductions in housing benefits for the ultra-Orthodox, and reduced funding for Yeshiva students.
What didn’t they say about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his response to the social protest: They said he would not establish a committee, that the Trajtenberg Committee is a mere fig leaf, that he won’t adopt the recommendations and that the cabinet will reject it again like it did last week.
But Netanyahu did it. And while it is only the beginning of the road, it is still starting off on the right foot.
Netanyahu has a lot of work left to do. First, the Finance Ministry has to turn the recommendations into proper decisions and to get the cabinet to approve them. Some of the proposals require Knesset legislation – for example those concerning taxes.
It will take time, because every lawmaker will want something for his or her public, at the expense of Trajtenberg. It will clearly be hard to get it...
Riots over church attack in Egypt kill 23
By MAGGIE MICHAEL – Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Massive clashes that drew in Christians angry over a recent church attack, Muslims, and Egyptian security forces raged over a large section of downtown Cairo Sunday night, leaving at least 19 people dead and more than 150 injured, Health Ministry officials said. It was the worst violence since the 18-day uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February.
The ongoing clashes lasted late into the night, bringing out a deployment of more than 1,000 security forces and armored vehicles to defend the state television building along the Nile, where the trouble began. The clashes spread to nearby Tahrir Square and the area around it, drawing in thousands of people. They battled each other with rocks and firebombs, some tearing up pavement for ammunition and others collecting stones in boxes.
At one point, a group of youths with at least one riot policeman among them dragged a protester by his legs for a long distance. Witnesses...
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