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The rumors that President Obama would throw Israel under the bus appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Palestinian moderates say hope in President Obama has “evaporated.” That’s the damning message contained in a memo circulated among the top leadership of the Palestinian faction Fatah, the faction which is led ...
Here’s your chance to get your name in Michael J. Totten’s new book.
In another excellent column, Michael J. Totten interviews the vice president of Lebanon’s Kataeb (Phalangist) Party: Where the Middle East Fights Its Wars. I visited Lebanon after wrapping up my last trip to Iraq, and was pleasantly surprised all over again by how much nicer Beirut is than Baghdad ...
Part three of Michael Totten’s must-read series on The Future of Iraq: The United States has basically won the war in Iraq. No insurgent or terrorist group can declare victory or claim Americans are evacuating Iraq’s cities because they were beaten. America’s most modest foreign policy objectives there have ...
Michael Totten talks with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about The Real Quagmire in the Middle East. MJT: You have talked to Hamas people. Should the Israelis or Americans talk to them? Goldberg: I don’t know what they’d get out of it. MJT: What did you get out of it ...
Michael J. Totten, Middle East, Journalism, Israel, Palestinians, Hamas
Two good posts on the absolutely disgraceful mainstream media reporting about Israel’s invasion of Gaza, and the “war crimes” that never happened: Soccer Dad: Now he tells us. CAMERA Snapshots: NY Times Backpedals on Gaza Atrocities Story.
Melanie Phillips pulls back the curtain on The Real Lobby And Its Acolytes.
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, Gaza, Hamas, Media Bias, Arab Lobby
The mainstream media unanimously gave credence to reports of IDF atrocities in Gaza, and now these reports have been shown to be completely false. Will they publish corrections? (A rhetorical question.) CAMERA: Charges of IDF ‘Wanton Killing’ Crumble.
It’s as predictable as an atomic clock. Every time Israel strikes back against terrorists after months or years of attacks, the international media screams “War Crimes!” Equally predictable: many of the accusations turn out to be false.
New York Times correspondent Michael Slackman is convinced he’s figured out the real problem in the Middle East, and pleads with the Obama administration to stop saying the ‘T’ word: Memo From Cairo - Disentangling Layers of a Loaded Term in Search of a Thread of Peace - NYTimes.com. ...
Israeli President Shimon Peres admits he was wrong about withdrawing from Gaza. President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that he had erred in supporting Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. The revealing remarks come three years after Israel’s evacuation of the volatile coastal strip which has since been seized by Hamas. ...
Noam Chomsky outdoes himself in this interview for the “progressive” radio show Democracy Now: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis ‘Approximately the Bush Position’. I can only stomach so much of this stuff, but here’s Chomsky’s solution to the Arab-Israel conflict: Israel should “leave.” AMY GOODMAN: It’s good ...
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, Noam Chomsky, Progressives
For his hateful outburst at Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was given a hero’s welcome on his return to Istanbul. Turkey is slipping back into the pre-Ataturk Dark Ages, with an Islamist prime minister at the helm. UPDATE at 1/30/09 10:34:43 am: Meanwhile, ...
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, Turkey, Davos, World Economic Forum
At about 39:20 into this video from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Shimon Peres launches into an impassioned defense of Israel’s actions against Hamas—provoking an angry outburst from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who then stalks off stage as Washington Post moderator David Ignatius sputters and the ...
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, Turkey, Davos, World Economic Forum
This is the latest video from Michael Fenenbock, whose group “The 18” is adamantly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian terror state on Israel’s border. [Video]
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, The 18, Two State Solution
You may recall our posts about Richard Falk, the United Nations “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” who compared Israel to Nazi Germany and is a 9/11 Troofer. That’s correct. It’s the United Nations. Did you expect something else? Today ...
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, United Nations, Richard Falk, 9/11 Conspiracies, Troofers
Here’s a powerful new video produced by a group named The 18, formed to oppose the “two-state solution” that Barack Obama and his advisers plan to force on Israel. [Video]
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, The 18, Two State Solution
Former IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon has a thoughtful piece in Azure Magazine: Israel and the Palestinians: A New Strategy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German priest executed by the Nazis, once wrote, “If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite ...
Once in a while the Associated Press can still surprise you with good reporting. Here’s an uncharacteristically honest and forthright assessment of the rise of militant Islam in the Middle East; what surprised me the most about this article is that AP writer Paul Schemm doesn’t try to blame it ...
Islam, Militant Islam, Middle East, salafism, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Extremism
The Islamist government of Turkey continues marginalizing the Kemalist secularists, and although no one has claimed responsibility this is probably an Islamist attack to further intimidate the secularists: Istanbul rocked by bomb attacks. Turkey’s political landscape was plunged further into turmoil last night when two bombs exploded in a ...
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Middle East, Terrorism, Bombings
Jerry Pournelle has some interesting (if not very reassuring) comments on the dangerous situation in Turkey. (Hat tip: Insta P.)
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Middle East, Jerry Pournelle, Pournelle
In Dubai, the Arab country that tried to buy a controlling interest in American seaports and a 20% interest in the NASDAQ stock exchange, slavery is alive and well. To enter Dubai’s most notorious brothel, the Cyclone, I paid $16 for a ticket that the bursar stamped with the ...
LGF, Dubai, Slavery, Islam, Middle East
So what is the British government, or the world for that matter, getting out of this cushy sinecure for Tony Blair? There are only 86 bedrooms at the American Colony Hotel and ten of them – more than an entire floor – have been booked indefinitely by Tony Blair ...
Here’s video of an excellent panel discussion on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East, featuring Mona Charen, John Podhoretz, and Dennis Prager, moderated by Michael Medved. (Thanks to John Podhoretz for the big plug for LGF.)
The foreign minister of the religious apartheid tyranny of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud al-Faisal, says Israel should commit suicide as a goodwill gesture to Arabs. Israel should stop work on a security barrier in and along the West Bank and halt settlement activity there as a good-will gesture to ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Israel, Middle East