Middle East

WHAT IF JEWS HAD FOLLOWED THE PALESTINIAN PATH?

JUNE 20, 2011 Postwar Jewish refugees left everything they had in Europe—no ‘right of return’ requested. By WARREN KOZAK EXCERPT FROM  THIS ARTICLE: Golda Meir is credited with having said that if the Jews had not fought back against the Arab armies and had been destroyed in 1948, they would have received the most beautiful

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OUR REACTIONARY PRESIDENT – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

June 16, 2011 Our Reactionary President ‹ By Victor Davis Hanson Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government.

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DON’T BANK ON BEIRUT

JUNE 14, 2011 Lebanon is a money-laundering haven for the region’s bad guys. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Following the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a U.N. investigation noted that “it very much seems that fraud, corruption, and money-laundering could also have been motives” in the murder. Hariri,

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SYRIA: WHERE MASSACRE IS A FAMILY TRADITION

JUNE 13, 2011 The mask of the Assad regime finally falls, and the world is forced to confront its illusions about Iran’s ally and Hezbollah’s patron. By FOUAD AJAMI Pity the Syrians as they face the Assad regime’s tanks and artillery and snipers. Unlike in Libya, there is no Arab or international “mandate” to protect

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AMERICA’S FADING EXCEPTIONALISM – MORT ZUCKERMAN

US NEWS America’s Fading Exceptionalism Only serious leadership on immigration, the national debt, and unemployment will make America great once again By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: June 10, 2011 Our 21st century does not seem to be on course to be described as the “American century,” the title indubitably merited for the 20th century. For

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GATES WARNS AGAINST DEFENSE SPENDING CUTS

MAY 28, 2011 The Gates Farewell Warning America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both. Robert Gates, who steps down next month after four-plus years at the Pentagon, is making his retirement lap a tutorial on America’s defense spending and security needs. His message is welcome, especially on Memorial Day, and

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IS SPECULATION THE REASON FOR OIL PRICE HIKES?

Thu, May 26, 2011 NEWS&OBSERVER Srinivasan Krishnamurthy and Richard S. Warr are both associate professors of finance in the Poole College of Management at N.C. State University. Is speculation the reason for oil price hikes? BY SRINIVASAN KRISHNAMURTHY AND RICHARD S. WARR Published in: Other Views RALEIGH There’s been some speculation lately that Wall Street

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KRAUTHAMMER – WHAT OBAMA DID TO ISRAEL

By Charles Krauthammer, Published: May 26 Every Arab-Israeli negotiation contains a fundamental asymmetry: Israel gives up land, which is tangible; the Arabs make promises, which are ephemeral. The long-standing American solution has been to nonetheless urge Israel to take risks for peace while America balances things by giving assurances of U.S. support for Israel’s security and

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OSAMA IS DEAD BUT RADICAL ISLAM IS NOT

WASHINGTON TIMES OSAMA IS DEAD BUT RADICAL ISLAM IS NOT:LT.COL.(RET.) JOSEPH MYERS By Ruth King on May 7th, 2011 Muslim Brotherhood moves more slowly but is no less of a threat http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/2/osama-is-dead-but-radical-islam-is-not/print/ Americans can rightly rejoice at the long overdue demise of Osama bin Laden. His death, however, as with the deaths of other key

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