Category Archives: Israel

Israeli police bar Jews, tourists from Jerusalem’s holiest site after Palestinian protests

Posted on May 16th, 2013

JERUSALEM – Israeli police have temporarily barred Israeli Jews and tourists from entering a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem after Palestinian demonstrations. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the ban, announced Thursday, is a precaution. On Wednesday, violence erupted as the Palestinians held an annual day of mourning and protests over the displacement over millions of Palestinians [...]

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Israeli Jets Strike Gaza to Retaliate for Attacks

Posted on April 3rd, 2013

By JOSHUA MITNICK TEL AVIV—Israeli jets struck the Gaza Strip late Tuesday and early Wednesday for the first time since a week of fighting with Hamas in November, in retaliation for what Israel said the renewal of rocket and mortar attacks by Palestinian militants in the territory. Israel Air Force targeted two “extensive terror sites” [...]

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P.J. O’Rourke: Dear Mr. President, Zero-Sum Doesn’t Add Up

Posted on December 28th, 2012

  Is life like a pizza, where if some people have too many slices, other people have to eat the pizza box?   By P.J. O’ROURKE Given that hypocrisy is an important part of diplomacy, and diplomacy is necessary to foreign policy, allow me to congratulate you on winning a second term. I wish I [...]

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Rendezvous with Disaster

Posted on November 16th, 2012

  America’s prospects after the election debacle.   By:  Conrad Black The United States has endured a dumbed-down, hideously expensive election that retained gridlock and showcased the modern enfeeblement of its political process. The only previous time the U.S. had three consecutive two-term presidents, they were the principal authors of the Declaration of Independence, the [...]

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War looms over Gaza as Israel mobilizes troops near border

Posted on November 16th, 2012

  JERUSALEM –  Both the Israeli military and  militants in the Gaza strip continued relentless air strikes Friday as Israeli  troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers massed near the Palestinian  territory, signaling a ground invasion might be growing near. Hopes of even a brief cease-fire were dashed after both sides accused the  other of violating [...]

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Region on the precipice: Israel, Gaza slide closer to war neither side wants

Posted on November 15th, 2012

[Editor's Commentary:  In another example of how liberals and conservatives think so differently about just about any subject that comes up for discussion, I had to shake my head at the above headline on Martin Fletcher's NBC News article. Mr. Fletcher states in his article that Hamas has fired hundreds of Iranian manufactured missiles at [...]

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Romney’s Loss and Geopolitics

Posted on November 8th, 2012

By Bill Schanefelt   After Midway, Japan’s fate was sealed, as was Germany’s after Stalingrad. Will Romney’s defeat seal America’s fate? Benghazigate provides a clue that provides a possible answer, in a troubling fashion, to that question, and to a number of other serious questions. The National Command Authority knew that an American ambassador was [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on September 29th, 2012

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Romney campaign to attack Obama on Israel

Posted on September 7th, 2012

By REID J. EPSTEIN and BYRON TAU  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The last thing President Barack Obama needed was for his convention to give Mitt Romney a new way to attack him on Israel.   But the Romney campaign believes that’s just what it has gotten from the Democrats’ omitting platform language calling for moving the [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on August 5th, 2012

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