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CONRAD BLACK: Israel’s Raid on Syria Lights the Way for the West Amid a Fraternity of Silence – The New York Sun
By MB Snow at May 9, 2013 | 8:58 am
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | May 9, 2013 Once again, Israel has demonstrated a commendable sense of self-preservation, and shown the way forward on how to deal with the world’s principal current center of violence by its example and professional military execution. It has also highlighted the torpor of much of the rest of the blowzy, sluggish world. Of ... Go To Article
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EXCLUSIVE: Assad Green-Lights Palestinian “Operations” Against Israel on the Golan Heights, Threatens Missile Attacks – TheTower
By MB Snow at May 7, 2013 | 10:05 am
by Avi Issacharoff | 05.06.13 2:07 pm -- Two mortar shells struck Israel’s Golan Heights on Monday in the early evening local time. Though the IDF described the mortars as accidental spillover from fighting across the border in Syria, they are bound to deepen fears of escalating violence in the region. On Friday and Sunday Israel reportedly struck Iranian and ... Go To Article
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ISRAEL’S RED LINE Crossed, U.S. Tacitly Backs Ally’s Strikes in Syria – The Daily Beast
By MB Snow at May 6, 2013 | 4:25 am
by Eli Lake May 6, 2013 In a series of meetings over the past year, Israel laid out to the U.S. beforehand what would trigger a strike in Syria. Eli Lake reports. Israel did not seek permission from the United States before launching two missile strikes this weekend hitting targets inside Syria—but the strikes were part of a policy that Washington had already ... Go To Article
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REPORT:: Israel Strikes Syria; ‘At Least Some…Take Red Lines Seriously’
By MB Snow at May 5, 2013 | 5:32 pm
Reports in Syrian and international media indicate that early Sunday, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck a military research facility on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus, shaking the city. The airstrike was the second in three days, after the IAF reportedly attacked a weapons convoy inside Syria carrying Iranian-made long-range missiles to Hezbollah in ... Go To Article
ANDREW C. McCARTHY:: Shhhh, Don’t Tell Anyone: Hamas Won – NRO
By MB Snow at April 1, 2013 | 12:43 am
By Andrew C. McCarthy -- Barack Obama brought enough Chicago-style community organizing to Israel that Benjamin Netanyahu knew what he would have to do. If he hoped to keep the tepid support of his country’s essential but icy ally, Israel’s prime minister would have to do what he’d spent nearly three years steadfastly refusing to do. Netanyahu would have ... Go To Article
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: What really happened in Jerusalem – WaPo
By MB Snow at March 29, 2013 | 12:50 am
By Charles Krauthammer, Thursday, March 28 “I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those [Palestinian] kids, they’d say, ‘I want these kids to succeed.’ ” — Barack Obama, in Jerusalem, March 21 Very true. But how does the other side feel about Israeli kids? Consider that the most revered parent in Palestinian society ... Go To Article
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MAX BOOT: Obama in Israel: Hope over Experience? « Commentary Magazine
By MB Snow at March 26, 2013 | 4:37 pm
Max Boot | @MaxBoot - 03.25.2013 I was traveling last week, so have not had an opportunity until now to comment on President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem and his visit to Israel in general. I only now read the speech and, like many of Obama’s speeches, it is a rhetorical masterpiece. It is also a tacit repudiation of his entire first term, which began, as far as ... Go To Article
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LOCUSTS IN ISRAEL:: Fertile locusts swarm into Israel on Passover eve | The Times of Israel
By MB Snow at March 25, 2013 | 12:05 am
A day before Passover, farmers in southern Israel were suffering from another plague of locusts, entering the country from Egypt with biblical timing. The pests hit fields and greenhouses in the south; the Agriculture Ministry was working to prevent heavy damage to crops in the Negev and stop the insects from penetrating deeper into the country. Unlike previous ... Go To Article
MORE SPENDING:: Obama Admin Unblocks $500M in Funding for Palestinian Authority
By MB Snow at March 24, 2013 | 12:09 am
by BEN SHAPIRO 23 Mar 2013, 10:58 PM PDT -- After jet-setting to Israel to lecture citizens of the Jewish State about how they needed to empathize more with Palestinians who elect Hamas and back Israeli extinction, President Obama demonstrated what empathy means to him: the State Department has announced that it will unblock $500 million in aid to the Palestinian ... Go To Article
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JOEL POLLAK:: ‘Reset’: How Netanyahu Stood up to Obama–and Won
By MB Snow at March 21, 2013 | 11:07 am
by JOEL B. POLLAK 20 Mar 2013 -- The mainstream American media are grading President Barack Obama’s trip to Israel as a win, after just a few hours of events and meetings. And it is a success thus far--even without the grade inflation from the “incestuous” American press (in the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu). Yet the media are missing the ... Go To Article
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