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Thanks to Lulu for bringing this brilliant comic video to my attention:

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I am deeply bummed by what’s happening in the Senate, but day-to-day, life still goes on.  So I’ll pass on to you a story I received in today’s email:
On a Northwest Airways flight from Atlanta , GA , a well attired middle-aged woman found herself sitting next to a man wearing a kippa (”yarmulke” in [...]

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When it comes to Obama’s speech before the UN, Brett Schaefer and Nile Gardiner are both kind enough to attribute to naivete what I’m increasingly sure is a malignant combination of anti-American feeling and antisemitism.
In the same vein, Paul, at PowerLine, a blogger who has tried to be level-headed about Obama, professes himself horrified by [...]

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You’ve already read that the Big O (an increasingly empty hole if there ever was one) is now set to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson, the Irish woman who has cheerfully led the UN into ever deeper antisemitic, anti-American depravity.  Jennifer Rubin sums up beautifully the only two possibilities that could [...]

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One thing I have to give credit to Barack Obama for being is a complete pragmatist, even if that pragmatism operates to the exclusion of moral decency.  Witness his decision to jettison Israel entirely (something Elliott Abrams explains carefully here) in order to placate the Muslim world.  Many think that Obama’s affinity for the Muslim [...]

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Most of the world’s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value.  Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein.  They care deeply, but they’ve seen it all.  To which [...]

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My Manchurian candidate post is getting a lot of readership, and I can’t even figure out what the sources are.  It’s just kind of dribbling around the internet.  That post focused on something very specific about Obama, which is the disconnect between his much trumpeted innate qualities.  We are told that he is brilliant, informed, [...]

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I agree with Jonathan Tobin, who notes the Pope’s missteps and tone-deafness while in Israel, but then goes on to add this important caveat:
But to say that Benedict is not John Paul should not be an excuse for Israelis or Jews to spend this week bashing either the Vatican or the Pope. While there are [...]

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This morning, Mr. Bookworm asked me “Who is Charles Freeman?”  Because he reads only the Times, he’d never heard of him before today.  I gave a brief summary of Freeman’s views re China, the Middle East and 9/11, as well as the fact that he lives in Saudi and Chinese pockets financially.  Mr. Bookworm listened [...]

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Regular commenter Lulu sent me the following email:
I am sending you a copy of a packet of sunflower seeds I found in a Russian grocery store [in Los Angeles] last week. Apparently it says, “Shalom from Israel” on one side and “Chew them up and spit them out” on the other.
I sent it [...]

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I see this as a running series, as more and more evidence crops proving to the 78% of American Jews who voted for Obama that he will, as conservatives warned, oversee Israel’s destruction.  Pre-election, I was assured by so many Jews that the Dems and Obama are friends of Israel, and it was irrelevant to [...]

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UPDATE:  Pardon the white heat in the title of this post, but I cannot tell you how many times, during the days and months leading to the election, liberal Jews assured me, both in the media and in personal conversations, that Obama would never do anything to hurt Israel.  Nor can I tell you how [...]

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I’m fairly disinterested in Prince Harry.  He strikes me as an unexceptional young man who grew up in an unpleasantly rarefied atmosphere, but who is finally finding meaning and purpose in his life through military service.  He keeps forcing attention on himself, though, by having foot (or costume) in mouth disease.  A few years ago, [...]

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One of the things that was most obvious about the Mumbai massacre was the extraordinary effort the attackers — who were ostensibly upset about the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir — made to kill Jews.  Not only did they seek out Jews in the hotels, they planned carefully and in advance to attack the single Jewish [...]

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You remember the “Friends of Bill,” right?  They were an unsavory bunch.  However, I’m beginning to suspect that, if Obama becomes President, the FOBs will look like pussy cats compared to the Friends of Obama.  The FOBs were merely corrupt; the FOOs are dangerous (not to mention virulently antisemitic).

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The LA Times has admitted that it possesses a video of Barack Obama cheerfully attending a radical Muslim meeting at which the speakers hurled the usual violent and threatening invective at Jews and at Israel.  Also attending were Ayers and Dohrn.
One might think that, given next week’s election, the LA Times, which is another failing [...]

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I had a lovely time last night at a reception on the Bonhomme Richard, and plan on writing about it later today.  However, other work calls, so I thought I’d fill this space with recommendations for interesting stuff you may want to read.  In no particular order:
William Katz, a witty, erudite man who has absorbed [...]

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The title of my post is not true.  But it could be, which is really, really sad:
American elementary and high school textbooks contain many “gross misrepresentations” of Judaism, Christianity and Israel, according to a book-length study released this week by the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research.
“It is shocking to discover that history [...]

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We all know the story:  Adolf Hitler planned for the 1936 Olympics to showcase Aryan supremacy, only to have his little race-building effort destroyed by the great Jesse Owens.
Iran, apparently, isn’t taking any chances.  It’s decided that it simply cannot afford to risk having one of its athletes race against Jews — for (who knows?) [...]

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Michael Ledeen has a written a wonderful article that uses the evil in the world’s recent past (Hitler, Stalin), as a springboard for discussing the West’s resolute refusal to see the evil in its midst. I think the following paragraphs are the core of his argument, but the whole article is well worth reading:
By [...]

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I’m sure you won’t be surprised that many Obama supporters are new-fashioned Moonbat, Leftist antisemites. What you may be surprised to learn is that Obama’s official blog (not some sycophantic blog that an Obama groupie sets up on his own initiative) plays host to some of the worst antisemitic canards out there. LGF [...]

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Obama adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has accused American Jews of McCarthyism for being critical of Israel’s critics. He’s not the first and he won’t be the last. The pattern, repeated over and over as we learn more about Obama’s advisers, is that one of them speaks fondly of the Palestinians or harshly of Israel, [...]

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Alan J. Lerner said it best:  “Words, words, words!  I’m so sick of words.  I get words all day through, first from him now from you.  Is that all you blighters can do?”
When it comes to Jews, Ed Lasky shows just how hollow Obama’s words of love are:
Barack Obama has also said that “…nobody has [...]

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I read an interesting pair of articles today — bookends, if you will — that discuss Obama’s increasingly tortured relationship with American Jews.
The first, by Sabrina Leigh Schaeffer, notes two things:  first, Obama’s Israel-friendly rhetoric and, second, his numerous associations with people who are openly antisemitic and actively hostile to Israel. What thinking people [...]

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In an interview for Atlantic Monthly, Obama got hit with two direct questions about Israel, both requiring a yes or no answer. Obama couldn’t do that. Instead, he blathered on and on and on, leaving discerning viewers to parse his bloviating and conclude that, perhaps, he thinks that maybe Israel was a good [...]

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