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Ray Hanania is a compassionate and, in fact, delightful person, with rare insight into the aspirations and failings of Palestinians and Israelis. In the eyes of many, that alone ought to disqualify him from consideration as a leader in the Holy Land. Add to that, the fact that the acclaimed journalist also happens to be a first-generation Palestinian-American married to a Jewish woman, as well as a stand-up comedian who has appeared alongside Jewish comics, and the self-destructively polarized electorate of the Holy Land will need to expend not a whiff of thought in dismissing him out of hand. Which...

TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian Authority officials told WND the Obama administration offered their group guarantees that the U.S. would pressure Israel over a Palestinian state in exchange for the PA's withdrawal of support for immediate U.N. action over an investigation claiming Israel committed war crimes. The PA officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told WND the guarantees include pressing Israel to agree to a two-year timetable to negotiate a Palestinian state set along the pre-1967 lines – meaning a state in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem. The officials said the Obama administration hopes to...

Every now and then, you stumble upon a town that's gotten everything right—great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. These 10 spots have it all, in perfectly small doses.

Here are the last names of all 75 congressmen who voted to preserve ACORN's stream of funding: Baldwin Becerra Brady (PA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capuano........

Barack Obama began the first week of June with a series of interviews on the eve of his journey to Cairo to deliver his address to the “Muslim world.” In all of them, he spoke of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and the central importance of resolving it as part of his aim of beginning anew with the Arab and Muslim nations that have grown so disenchanted with the United States.

The timing is uncanny. In the last week, two liberals strongly defended Obama's policies toward Israel. Yet, their defenses are diametrically apart from each other. As such, at best, one is terribly wrong. At worst, both are wrong. In my opinion, both are delusional.

The folks at Pharyngula have gotten a hold of it and swayed it up to 85%+ in favor.Do you support a government imposed healthcare policy?

It has been documented that Barack Obama has committed various impeachable offenses. But one single violation of the law stands alone as the one that could bring about his downfall. The key is if and when liberals rediscover their conscience.

A `Brothers Grim’ Fairytale for 2009 and Beyond:Once upon a time there came a president who crossed the global village telling bigger whoppers than any other president, including George W. Bush. But the one he told at Buchenwald when the 65th Anniversary of D-Day was being celebrated, really sticks in the craw.

Late on Friday The Washington Times' Christian Bourge obtained a copy of Presidential Determination 2009-19, latest in a series of pro forma memos to the Secretary of State entitled "Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act."

... addressing the demand to freeze the settlements, Mr. Obama stated that “the United States has to follow through on what it says.” If he truly means that, then a dramatic change in American policy is coming. Hopefully President Obama will deliver, because he is playing with fire. ...

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I know there are many — Muslim and non-Muslim — who question whether we can forge this new beginning. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort — that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There is so much fear, so much mistrust. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward.

Respect is a two-way street. Recent polls suggest that about half of Americans hold negative views of Islam, and this is not merely blind bigotry. If they want respect, Muslim states must seek active ways to improve relations with the United States.

The HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) (is employing McCarthyism-style tactics to silence their leading opponent Dr. Stephen Steinlight. Steinlight has provided a long-standing, if independent-minded (this is a bad thing?) service to the Jewish community, including at the American Jewish Committee, the US Holocaust Museum, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews, prior to his work at CIS. Now, he is being promoted as a persona non grata by HIAS through McCarthyite tactics. This email was sent to various Jewish newspapers and organizations by Roberta Elliot, the HIAS V.P. of media and communications:

Why Michael Savage should expect nothing from the leaders in talk radio.

Feeling bruised and abused this morning? Well, you can't say you didn't see it coming. The polls have been saying for weeks that voters were going to do just what they did on Tuesday: Conclusively reject your slate on the ballot, Propositions 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E.

We all know what happens when we procrastinate in school. You cram three weeks worth of studying all in one night. You get little sleep, you don't study nearly enough, and almost always you do poorly on said test. In the next year or so, we are about to find out what happens when you procrastinate in the world of geopolitics. President Obama made this troubling statement coming out of his meeting with the Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu.

Supreme Leader Obama—who usually appears on television at least once a day—recently spoke at a high school to a group of his adherents in Rio Rancho, NM. Now that he and his minions have systematically gutted the US Treasury, Obama may have finally uttered a truth. Of the now close to $2TRILLION in debt that he has already instituted against We-the-People

The joint statement video is below. Obama simplistically clings to the only phrase he knows - "two-state solution." Bibi broadens the discussion deftly. Obama: "I've said before and I'll say again" blah blah blah. So narrow. The "broader" peace Bibi mentions is actually a slap at Obama. Remember that Obama wanted Turkey to run the peace negotiations. Jordan and Egypt took over, tossing the Turks. Jordan has offered a 57-state solution - complete recognition of Israel by every Arab state.

On the occasion of President Obama’s first 100 days in office, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) highlights five memorable quotations from the Obama Administration:

Strange Discovery on Table MountainJack Lee Mark Filcher woke up early in the morning, had a shower, put on his jeans and tee shirt and downed a strong cup of hot black coffee, as he prepared for another day at his pit mine. But, this one particular day would differ from all the rest in a most unusual and significant way. Mark owns a 12.5 acre parcel on Table Mt., where he's done some prospecting with modest results for the last 23 months. And he was back at work last Monday, scratching at the ground in his big yellow John...

I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided. After visiting Sderot last April and seeing the serious psychological damage caused by the rockets that had fallen in that area, my wife, Rosalynn, and I declared their launching from Gaza to be inexcusable and an act of terrorism. Although casualties were rare (three deaths in seven years), the town was traumatized by the unpredictable explosions. About 3,000 residents had moved to other communities, and the streets, playgrounds and shopping centers were almost empty. Mayor Eli Moyal assembled a group of citizens...

But Hollywood’s Chattering Classes are thoroughly, completely and spectacularly wrong. And therein lies the source of a looming tragedy so great it would take a thousand movies to simply sketch it out… were it not for the fact that if Hollywood as it now exists continues to do what it is doing unopposed, there will be no more movies because there will be no more electricity.

War's two exit strategies: Victory or defeat Osama is not Ho Chi Minh, and al-Qaida are not the Viet Cong. If you exit, they will follow.

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We might have had a faster response to Katrina, and prevented the 9/11 attacks altogether, if only we'd followed the advice of Dick the Butcher. Dick the Butcher is the character in Shakespeare's "Henry VI" who says: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."