Why does Paul Ryan scare the president so much? Because Obama has broken his promises, and it’s clear that the GOP ticket’s path to prosperity is our only hope. by Niall Ferguson The Daily Beast I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the apotheosis of Barack Obama. You would not be human if you failed to acknowledge this as a cause for great rejoicing.” Despite having been—full disclosure—an adviser to John McCain, I acknowledged his opponent’s remarkable qualities: his soaring oratory, his cool, hard-to-ruffle temperament, and his near faultless campaign organization. Yet the question confronting the country nearly four years later is not who was the better candidate four years ago. It is whether the winner has delivered on his promises. And the sad truth is that he has not. The Kurdish population totals an estimated 30 to 50 million people in the Middle East alone. Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the Kurds were dispersed between Turkey (15-25 million), Syria (3-4 million Kurdish-speaking and 4-5 Arabic-speaking Kurds), Iran (7.9-12 million) and Iraq (more than 6 million).(Read more…) by Shoshana Bryen, GATESTONE INSTITUTE Secretary Panetta is talking about helping Egypt to do something forbidden by the Camp David Accords — bring large-scale forces into Sinai. Israel’s long term concern is whether Egypt will at some point remove the additional forces. Recent comments by Egyptian government officials suggest they will not. Egypt has moved forces into the Sinai beyond what was agreed to in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Getting them in wasn’t that difficult – Israel agrees that security in the Sinai has deteriorated. Getting them out again later may be another matter. And how the U.S. positions itself to safeguard the treaty itself will be crucial. Advanced Praise for Danny Danon’s Israel: The Will to Prevail “Danny Danon is one of Israel’s emerging leaders and a force for keeping Israel free and strong. He unabashedly rejects the notion of making concessions and capitulations to terrorists, whether individuals or rogue nations. His skills as a political figure are exceptional and matched by his keen intellect and commitment to a strong and stable Israel. You will love the strength, thought, and clarity of his book.” –Mike Huckabee, host of Fox New’s HUCKABEE and New York Times best-selling author of A Simple Government, among others “Danny Danon has written an important and tough book about Israel’s situation in the world today. Though I fundamentally disagree with many of his proposals, especially with regard to the West Bank and the two state solution, his is a voice of an emerging young leader whose views must be considered. It is written with passion and deep love for his country and is part of an important debate whose resolution will affect the entire Middle East, if not the world. Read it, argue with it, disagree with it-but don’t ignore it.” –Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor and author The latest reported defection of Syrian Vice-Prime Minister Faruq al-Shara has sharpened the nature of the struggle to control Syria’s and crystallized the fact that there is an ongoing civil war between competing Syrian sects. President Assad’s Alawites, who control the army and the intelligence branches – the Mukhabarat – are fighting the Sunnis, who, while being the majority, lack the means to fight the mighty Syrian army and suffer from disharmony inside their leadership and disagree about the kind of Syria they want to arise out of Assad’s ashes. We don’t hear much anymore the breathless celebrations of Egyptian democracy that followed our abandonment of the creepy but reliable Hosni Mubarak. The “Facebook kids” who enchanted our media with their tech-savvy cool have been forgotten. It’s hard to find anymore the optimism of Senator Joseph Lieberman, who in Foreign Affairs called the Arab Spring a struggle for “democracy, dignity, economic opportunity, and involvement in the modern world.” Events in Egypt every day reveal that shortsighted enthusiasm to be singularly lacking in prudence, and almost delusional in its naïve understanding of genuine democracy. But our government continues to pretend that the Muslim Brothers running the show are democrats whose interests can align with ours. By Abraham Katsman, AMERICAN THINKER Since the dawn of the Cold War, has Russia enjoyed as accommodating a president in Washington as Barack Obama? President Obama has been so serially weak in standing up for the interests of America and our allies — particularly when confronted by Russian President Vladimir Putin — that one wonders whether an actual Russian operative in the White House could have achieved anything materially different. It’s not just a couple of worrisome incidents; there is a disturbing litany of acts and policies carried out by Obama that could have been scripted by President Putin and his puppet/placeholder, Dmitry Medvedev. By Gerald Steinberg and Yitzhak Sentis In the last decade a worldwide all-out political war has been waged against Israel which is intended to undermine its legitimacy. The objective: to deny the Jewish people the right to equalitarian sovereignty. In view of the extent of this campaign of de-legitimization, the Jewish People is facing the most severe challenge. The opening event was the UN commission on the subject of racism in 2001 in Durban, South Africa, when about 1,500 non-governmental organizations, who had appointed themselves as having responsibility for human rights, adopted a strategy designed to isolate Israel. The “Durban Strategy” aspires to present Israel as a colonialist apartheid, unrepentantly criminal state. The intention was to create a moral atmosphere that would support the position that Israel has no right to exist. Israpundit has been publishing many articles on this problem. Search Area C or Regavim. This Is How the UN and the European Union Intentionally Promote Illegal Construction in Judea And Samaria Over the past few years, European countries, European NGO’s and international support organizations have carried out at least 200 illegal building projects in Area C of Judea and Samaria, reports Makor Rishon. This is referring to construction of public buildings (schools and mosques), paving of roads, installing electrical equipment, and appropriating State owned land. Most of these illegal actions have been conducted by non-governmental organizations supported by European governments, however in some of the instances it is being done by direct agents of the countries themselves.
Niall Ferguson: Obama’s Gotta Go
Quest for an Independent (Israel-friendly?) Kurdistan- Part I
Egypt Fully Rearming Sinai – with US Help
(Read more…)Danon: “ISRAEL, the will to prevail”
(Read more…)WJC ANALYSIS – Will Syria split?
(Read more…)The Muslim Brothers Take Over Egypt
(Read more…)Barack Obama: No Better Friend in the World (to Russia)
(Read more…)The Campaign to destroy Israel
(Read more…)Why is Israel negotiating about this?
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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