Benghazigate was all about gunrunning
Beck was wrong in one thing. He said Erdogan is in bed with Iran. Not so, at least not today. Over a year a go he was cultivating Iran but he didn’t succeed. There is great rivalry between Turkey and Russia and Turkey is near war with Syria and thus Iran.
Benghazigate worse than Watergate
Charles Woods, thefather of Tyrone Woods, said in an interview, “And apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help. This was my son, he wasn’t even there. He was at a safe house about a mile away. He got the distress call. He heard them crying for help. That’s why he and Glenn risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation. And I’m sure that she wasn’t the only one that received that distress call: “Come save our lives.” (Read more…)In response to 911, the US had to do something, but what?
By Ted Belman
The liberal left were very critical of Pres Bush, Rumsfield and the neocons for getting the US into war with Iraq and sometimes even with Afghanistan. When such criticism was voiced to me, I would always ask what should the US have done as a result of 9/11 and never got a satisfactory answer.
Douglas Feith’s recent book War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the dawn of the war on terrorism, is a fascinating account of the days immediately following 9/11 and the intellectual debate which underscored the decision making process. Feith was the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from the beginning of the George Bush presidency and as such was in the thick of things enabling him to write this first-hand account.
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Likud members rail against merger, say ‘Bibi sold us out’
Party officials rage against agreement with Yisrael Beiteinu, say it ‘changes our DNA’; Minister Michael Eitan says move ‘threatens Israeli democracy.’ Several minister mull counter vote on Tuesday
Likud officials initiated a petition for a discreet vote, to be held during the party’s Central Committee meeting on Tuesday, with aim of foiling the recent merger with Yisrael Beiteinu, Ynet learned on Friday.
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“Bibi sold Likud out only to gain another term as prime minister,” said a Likud official, “He proved that he buckles under pressure… Lieberman will eventually become his successor.”
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“Bibi sold Likud out only to gain another term as prime minister,” said a Likud official, “He proved that he buckles under pressure… Lieberman will eventually become his successor.”
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Liberman and Netanyahu still support two state solution
That may be so, but based on their preconditions, it will never happen. They both don’t want to enfranchise the Arabs in Judea and Samaria. In the meantime they will continue to build.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman appeared unimpressed Thursday by pessimistic public opinion polls and commentators’ estimates over what caused him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the friends turned rivals of Israeli politics, to merge their two parties.
In general, Lieberman sees no problem in the Likud- Yisrael Beiteinu merger, as both parties come from the same ideological background.
“The two parties are inspired by the same person: (Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev) Jabotinsky,” Lieberman says Friday in an interview to Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth. “This is our common denominator. We are in favor of Judaism and of separating Judaism from political activism. We are against separating State and religion, but we are in favor of separating from public activists whose work is defamation of God.
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Gallup finds Republicans outnumber Democrats
Gallup quietly published some stunning data this morning. Based on surveys conducted from October 1 through 24, Gallup finds that 36% of likely voters call themselves Republicans, compared with 35% who are Democrats. If leaners are included, the GOP advantage is 49%/46%.
How important is that? In 2008 the Democrats had a ten-point party ID advantage, 12 with leaners. If the data released today correctly reflect the voting population this year, you can throw away all of those polls that are D +9, D +7–or, for that matter, D +1. Substantially all polls show Mitt Romney with a wide lead over Barack Obama among independents. So if today’s party ID data are correct, not only will the presidential election not be close, but the Republicans will do better than currently expected in the Senate and House, too.
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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