Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
An antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of freedom (the world’s first and for a long time only successful slave revolt), and of justice and morality (the Ten Commandments), derides the whole ceremony as the unconscionable and immoral celebration of the genocide of
Continue readingI had another fascinating conversation with a liberal who offered this take on the situation with Israel: Because everyone hates Israel, it’s a brilliant strategy for Obama to attack it to raise his standing in the world. Israel wants this too. I bet you $100 that we’ll learn that this
Continue readingSo many brilliant people have written about Obama’s full frontal attack on Israel. Each has said something important, and all are very worrisome. Peter Wehner, however, has most neatly nailed the moral component, the personality issue, behind Obama’s disgraceful behavior (behavior so disgraceful even the London Times caught on). Here’s
Continue readingI like the speech that Netanyahu gave to AIPAC. It’s straightforward and practical. It hurls no insults, but also pulls no punches and tells no lies. It acknowledges threats, but responds to them without ugliness or panic. And it draws big, clear, non-weasely bright-lines, telling what a viable, ancient nation
Continue readingCaroline Glick spells out what Obama has done: Obama’s ultimatum makes clear that mediating peace between Israel and the Palestinians is not a goal he is interested in achieving. Obama’s new demands follow the months of American pressure that eventually coerced Netanyahu into announcing both his support for a Palestinian
Continue readingFamily commitments meant that I spent, perhaps, 5 minutes at my computer this weekend. That wasn’t what I’d planned, but that was what I ended up with. In today’s news cycle, of course, two days can be the equivalent of two decades. Certainly, when I turned the computer on this
Continue readingJeffrey Goldberg catches Andrew Sullivan making egregiously erroneous statements about Israel’s history, this time by publishing at his site a series of maps that purport to show that Israel has no claim to most land she now holds: The first map in the series of four is most egregious. It
Continue readingLately, you can’t read a Tom Friedman article without gagging. Oh, sorry. I didn’t mean to say that. Let me try again. I mean that you can’t read a Tom Friedman article without having him praise China to the skies as the example America should follow. (I gather that the
Continue readingEngland is not one of my favorite places anymore, because of the raging antisemitism that characterizes her politics and her street. Nevertheless, she is our ally and has been our staunch ally for more than a century. For Obama to abandon her over the Falklands is disgusting. At Power Line,
Continue readingI meant to post this yesterday, but time got away from me: many, many, many congratulations to the Marines and their Afghan allies for the Marjah victory. I never doubted that they would win, but I certainly understood that each Marine and Afghan soldier faced the risk that he would
Continue readingSeveral years ago, when Bush Derangement Syndrome was at its peak, I tackled the “he’s got his finger on the button and he’s going to blow up the world” meme that anti-war activists were so shrilly screaming. I pointed out that there was no evidence whatsoever to indicate that George
Continue readingFinally, Israel lashes back . . . at the misrepresentations in the European media. Anyone who speaks Hebrew, French or Spanish, will have a huge advantage over me when it comes to appreciating the videos at that site. To learn more about the ad campaign if you don’t speak those
Continue readingThe British, who represent what America will be in 20 years if Obama-stuff continues unchecked, are being offered a way out. Daniel Hannan, the brilliant British conservative speaker, is hosting a Tea Party. Here are details. So far, fewer than 100 people are scheduled to show but that doesn’t mean
Continue readingBrutally Honest brought to my attention the fact that the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) has released a statement denouncing Israel in terms that a Hamas member or Ahmadinejad could easily love: The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) is about to release a report which denounces
Continue readingA friend sent me this powerful (non-exclusive) image from Michael Yon: Yon describes it as follows: A crew from the United States Air Force spent Saturday night and Sunday morning airlifting different groups of wounded soldiers from Kandahar to Camp Bastion to Bagram, back to Kandahar, then back to Bagram,
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