Monthly Archives: July 2012

Understanding Real Israeli Politics

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/07/understanding-real-israeli-politics/?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gloria-campaign “Can’t anybody here play this game?” -Casey Stengel, great baseball coach Stengel’s complaint is the precise description of Israeli politics nowadays. To a remarkable extent-and this has nothing to do with his views or policies-Bibi...

Romney’s Remarkable Speech in Jerusalem

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2012/07/romney-remarkable-speech-in-jerusalem Mitt Romney, the all-but-official Republican presidential candidate, delivered a stem-winder of a speech to the Jerusalem Foundation today, packing emotional support with frank policy statements. The contrast with Obama could hardly be more dramatic....

A Mormon in the Holy Land

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-medoff-elbert-thomas-mormon-israel-20120729,0,1753057.story Mitt Romney 's visit to Israel will generate much speculation on the role Jewish voters will play in the U.S. presidential election. His visit may also spark discussion about Mormon-Jewish relations in the wake...

Eric Cantor Rips Nancy Pelosi For ‘Patronizing’ Comments About Jews

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/eric-cantor-nancy-pelosi_n_1715736.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012 WASHINGTON -- In unusually sharp words, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Sunday fired back at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for suggesting that Republicans exploit Jewish people for political gain. Pelosi told...

Remembering the Munich Massacre at the London Olympics

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/26/remembering-the-munich-massacre-at-the-london-olympics/ Two years ago, during the Winter Olympic games in Vancouver, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), observed a moment of silence - appropriately enough - in memory of the Georgian athlete, Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died...

Suppose Michele Bachmann Is Right?

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2012/07/26/suppose_michele_bachmann_is_right/page/full/ Like the ghosts of Shakespeare's Banquo or Dickens' Jacob Marley, the specter of the late commie-hunting congressman from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, will always be with us. It is summoned up today, by some on...

Syrian nightmare for Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4260723,00.html Intelligence information collected and analyzed by the CIA shows that Israel has many causes for concern about the day after Assad. It turns out that there is a fundamental gap between what the White...

Chemical weapons and missiles reaching Hezbollah: Israel’s

The eyes of the IDF Intelligence Branch are on Damascus, for three reasons. The first involves the possible flow of chemical and biological weapons out of Syria into Hezbollah’s hands in Lebanon. The second is if...

Egypt and Hamas have reported an agreement

http://www.menewsline.com Egypt and the Hamas regime agreed to cooperation on border security as well as an increase in the flow of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip. They said Hamas Prime Minister...

Challenging an obituary to PM Shamir: Letterto the Editor, Translated from Dutch to English

NRC AH Letters Editor Amsterdam, 03.07.2012 Dear Sir, The obituary of your Israel correspondent, Leonie van Nierop, re Yitzchak Shamir is quite biased. It was mentioned in this obituary as though the reliability of Israel’s Arabs adversaries is rather...