Monday, 12 March 2012


Israel to delay strike on Iran until after US elections?

I object to Obama coming to Israel. Its just politics and many Jews will be impressed. Not me. If Netanyahu agreed to this, what did he get in return? Just the bunker bombs or inflight refueling or did he ask for no pressure in the second term. Ted Belman

White House tells Sunday Times Obama pressed Netanyahu to postpone Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities until after November, adding president ‘might visit Israel in summer’

Israel will only strike Iranian nuclear facilities in September or after the United States presidential elections in November, a White House official told the British Sunday Times newspaper after a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama last week.

According to the report, Obama has taken Israel’s warnings about a possible strike in Iran very seriously. The Washington source added that the president “might visit in the summer to reassure the Israelis that the US commitment to defend...

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Deadliest gun ever.




Time for Israel to act

Arab Spring reduces the risks of an attack on Israel

By Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post, Canada:

Israel should hit Iran’s pipelines, refineries and ports, in addition to its nuclear facilities. Destroying its energy infrastructure would severely weaken Iran.

President Barack Obama recently provided Israel with a choice: Rather than bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities now, when success would be iffy at best, give diplomacy and “crippling” economic sanctions time to work. If crippling sanctions don’t work, Israel would still have the option to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities later, and with the promise of U.S. help.

But Israel, frustrated at the West’s tardiness in applying economic sanctions, has a third option that could have a high probability of success. In addition to attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israel could unilaterally cripple Iran’s economy by bombing its commercial energy facilities. Doing so soon — rather than after the U.S. election, as...

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Zev Jabotinsky and Sarah Palin

By Ted Belman

You are probably LOL. Stop it. Bear with me.

For those not familiar, Jabotinsky (1880 to 1940) was recognized as the greatest orator of his era who the lead the fight for Jewish national liberation.

We often read that people either love Palin or hate her. Similarly, Shmuel Katz, in The Lone Wolf, his biography of Jabotinsky, said of him “he was both, the best beloved and the most maligned, Jewish leader of his time”. Palin who is constantly being maligned, can relate.

The common denominator for both of them is that they both took on the permanent political class, the establishment or the intellectual elite, however you refer to them. They took the battle of ideas to them in defiance of conventional wisdom or political correctness. In many ways, they were both “lone wolves”. In Palin’s case, perhaps a momma grizzly.

In both cases, this class stood for progressivism, universalism and collectivism. In opposition, they both stood for...

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The Death of Oslo and the Rebirth of Jordan-is-Palestine

By Matthew M. Hausman

The “Jordan-is-Palestine” option for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict is an idea that, despite history and logic, was beaten into silence by Israel’s enemies and detractors. Critics denounced the concept as preposterous, reactionary and counterproductive. And yet, the idea has been resurrected from within Jordan itself. There can be no dispute that Jordan was created in a sovereign vacuum on land that had comprised most of the Palestine Mandate. However, its creation as Transjordan in 1921 satisfied a geopolitical need unencumbered by a Palestinian national myth that had not yet been invented. In contrast, the Oslo peace process was based on the false premise that an ancestral population was indiscriminately displaced by Israel’s establishment and now must be repatriated at her expense. Because Jordan embodies the concept of Arab self-determination as contemplated by the San Remo Conference and the Palestine Mandate, and because most Jordanians already...

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Israel’s pre-emptive assassination policy

Analysis: IDF prepared to kill terror masterminds even if assassinations prompt rocket barrages

YNET

The targeted assassination in Gaza Friday was meant to avert or at least disrupt a terror attack being prepared in the Sinai.

The Popular Resistance Committees, just like other Gaza groups – headed by Islamic Jihad - exploit the Egyptian chaos in Sinai and the willingness of the Bedouins to carry out attacks based on ideological and religious motives or for money. These terror groups are also trying to prevent a major Cast Lead. Terrorist organizations know that the IDF is preparing such operation and therefore prefer not to provoke Israel directly from the Strip.

Sinai-based attacks grant terror groups another advantage – they estimate that the IDF would not enter Egyptian territory in order to thwart such offensives.

Lesson learned

Al-Qaisi was among the initiators of the latest attack. The decision to target him is part of the IDF’s policy to...

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HuffPo’s Pro-Jihad Propaganda

By Pamela Geller, AMERICAN THIN KER

John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, has written a curious apologia for the irrational murders and riots taking place in Afghanistan in response to the inadvertent burning of Qurans at Bagram Airfield. In “America’s Image Problem in Afghanistan” in the Huffington Post, Feffer says that “the United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world.”

The messages don’t seem mixed. Obama’s abandonment of our allies, his alienation of Israel, and his deference and submission to the Muslim world: bowing to the Saudi king; groveling to the Muslim world at Al-Azhar University in June 2009; ordering NASA to extol the contributions of the Muslim world; giving vocal support to the reviled Ground Zero mosque at his Iftar gala; the administration’s endless apologies for the Quran-burnings; his $800 million in aid to the Muslim Brotherhood for their Islamic Spring; his...

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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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