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The century ahead could be seen to have taken shape this past week with President Obama’s stunning claim — a wish, really — that Israel repeal 50 years of history and return to its indefensible 1967 borders. It was followed by an address yesterday by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that shook the halls of Congress. Obama then, traveling in Europe, where he feels most comfortable, brought forth an op-ed in The Times of London with England’s Prime Minister David Cameron, calling the “Arab Spring” a situation similar to the fall of the Soviet Union, and comparing themselves to be...

Therefore, my brothers, you whom I LOVE and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends! Exhortations… Phil 4:1 So after one weekend the Republican field is becoming clear as glass to everybody but Bill Crystal. We have one who has beautiful hair, a nice figure, perfectly manicured face and hands against Sarah Palin. With the dropping out of Huckleberry Hound and the Trumpster as well as the self assassination of Gingrich we are really down to Sarah and the Mitt. After a year of hearing how she doesn’t have...

Israelis follow American politics as closely as most Americans, and there was a great deal of curiousity when I was there last week about who is the likeliest Republican presidential nominee. Most Israelis didn't express a strong preference on that subject -- all the leading Republicans have at least generically hawkish, pro-Israel stands -- with a sole exception: Settlers love Sarah Palin. I heard this from a few people, but most clearly from Yisrael Medad, a Queens-born dual citizen of the the U.S. and Israel who has lived for 30 years on top of a hill in Shilo, deep in...

When these gung-ho Israelis try to plot the future, what do they have in mind for a happy ending? Simple: The Republican Party’s return to power. Israel’s worldwide “loyal opposition” is asking: Where is this country going? Where is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu going? Where is this government’s policy headed? Do they think they can go on with the occupation forever, do they plan to fight the whole world forever? What is their goal and how do they expect to get there? When these gung-ho Israelis try to plot the future, what do they have in mind for a happy...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - An independent Palestinian state won't happen until 2012, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said after meeting with his Russian counterpart Tuesday. Lieberman and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also apparently disagreed during their meeting in Jerusalem about Russia's efforts to include Hamas in Middle East peace talks, Haaretz reported.. "There is absolutely no chance of reaching a Palestinian state until the year 2012," Lieberman said, adding, "(One) can dream and imagine, but we are far from reaching an agreement." Israel's Foreign Ministry last month criticized Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's call to involve Hamas in the region's peace...

Due in no small part to her strong support of Israel, at a time when Barack Obama is actively working against them, readers, voting in an online poll sponsored by Arutz Sheva, the Israel National News, overwhelmingly chose Sarah Palin as their preferred Republican candidate in 2012. This squares with a report that Peter Beinart filed earlier in his magazine, where he intimated that an Obama regime official told him that the Netanyahu administration was “waiting for President Palin.” ....

Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president, told 85 GOP freshmen Congressmen in an open letter, “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, not a settlement.” Writing on the Fox News website, the 2008 vice presidential candidate for the Republican party advised the new legislators, “You can stand with allies like Israel, not criticize them. You can let the President know what you believe… and stick to the principles that propelled your campaigns.”

The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy. America and our allies watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba. Letters are written to Iran’s mullahs only to see that regime start killing protestors in the streets of Tehran. Envoys are sent to North Korea as they continue to defy the world’s demand to give up their nuclear weapons. The Burmese military junta’s representative is allowed to travel to our nation’s capital. The President’s envoy for Sudan talks about giving that genocidal regime “gold stars,” while the President shakes hands...

The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy. America and our allies watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba. Letters are written to Iran’s mullahs only to see that regime start killing protestors in the streets of Tehran. Envoys are sent to North Korea as they continue to defy the world’s demand to give up their nuclear weapons. The Burmese military junta’s representative is allowed to travel to our nation's capital. The President’s envoy for Sudan talks about giving that genocidal regime “gold stars,” while the President shakes hands...