The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Herman Cain Issues Clarification

Walking back his widely-criticized remarks on Fox News Sunday about the Palestinian “right of return”: I have long been a vocal and unwavering supporter of our friend and ally, Israel. All Israeli governments have rejected the “right” of large numbers of Arabs or Palestinians to return to what is now the state of Israel. Such […]

Arab Spring, Palestinian Autumn

A predictable outcome: Palestinians will seek recognition as a United Nations member-state in September given the deadlock in U.S.-brokered peacemaking with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said Saturday. Nabil Shaath urged President Barack Obama, who Thursday criticized the planned move at the U.N. general assembly, to join other countries in endorsing a Palestinian state taking […]

David Gregory, Putz

“Just take my word for it, I’m David Gregory, and I’m paid to make up lies for the White House on television.”

The Cain Doctrine: ‘You Mess With Israel, You Are Messing With the United States’

“It’s that simple,” he tells Neil Cavuto: Meanwhile, The Right Scoop also has this video of Charles Krauthammer dissing Herman Cain as mere “entertainment”: Wow. I never thought I’d see the day when I agreed more with Tucker Carlson than with Krauthammer. Herman Cain: A Real Leader MONEYBOMB UPDATE: Allahpundit takes notice of Krauthammer dissing […]

Did Bibi Diss Obama?

That’s what Jeffrey Goldberg says, but Professor William Jacobson springs to the defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet it is also reported that Netanyahu feels disrespected by President Obama, so that the question is, “Who dissed whom?” All in all, this atmosphere of mutual disrespect bodes ill for prospects of Mideast peace, arousing suspicions that […]

Obama the Neocon?

Max Boot’s take on the president’s big “Arab spring” speech: As John [Podhoretz] and Jonathan [Tobin] have already noted, today’s speech at the State Department marks Barack Obama’s emergence as a full-fledged, born-again neocon firmly in the George W. Bush mold. . . . Obama, like Bush, is a neocon because he has been mugged […]

The Terrorist Times

The New York Times publishes an op-ed column by Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Liberation Organization. If you click that link, be prepared to wipe the blood off your computer screen.

Her Name Was Simona Rudina …

Tel Aviv, June 10, 2001 (Photo by IDF) . . . and she was just 17 years old. Simona was born in Lithuania, when that nation was still under the heel of Soviet despotism. When she was 3 years old, her family emigrated to Israel. On the evening of June 10, 2001, Simona and some friends wanted to […]

« go back — keep looking »