Saudis looking to Israel for defense? Allies, Adversaries and the Right to Self-Defense :: Gatestone Institute

Ali Salim, writing for the Gatestone Institute, issues a warning about the perceived decline in American power and, I guess, worth overseas.

One view of diplomacy, deemed misguided by leaders such as Churchill, is to abandon one's friends and court one's enemies in the assumption that the friend is yours and will not abandon you. The United States deserted the Shah for the Ayatollah's Revolutionary Guards; it abandoned Mubarak for the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist Mohamed Morsi, and it has abandoned Iraq and Afghanistan to domestic chaos, growing terrorism and the approaching Islamist takeover.

America's withholding of aid to the Egyptian government and Saudi Arabia's refusal to accept a seat on the UN Security Council don't bode well for American influence in the Middle East.  Add to that the shopping for a new ally to take the place of the US.

While Israel's nuclear umbrella may work for a while, no Islamic nation will rely on it for too long (the Israelis are Jews, after all), a nuclear arms race in the Middle East may be on the table.

So, rather than criticize America's eavesdropping and drone attacks, the world should focus on destroying terrorism now, rather than later.

That's what I think.

The full report will be found here - Allies, Adversaries and the Right to Self-Defense :: Gatestone Institute

Stephen M. Flatow

Drone strikes - what's the fuss?

The fuss over drone strikes against terrorists?  "Innocent" bystanders.  OK, so you are going to ask what they had to do with the dead terrorist?  All I'm saying is that there's a larger question, one not being asked.

The question - what happens when you allow terrorists to use your country, your neighborhood, your streets, and you, as a ploy to avoid attack?  These guys are counting on, they're absolutely depending on, those tasked with the job of removing these creeps from society on stopping cold in their pursuit when their target is in the midst of a public situation involving people on the street.

But isn't a missile strike from the air better than armies moving into the streets using tanks, artillery and other large weapons?

Isn't this a war?

Read from Voice of America -  http://www.voanews.com/content/pakistani-taliban-leader-dead-in-us-drone-strike/1782006.html

From Al-Jazeera - http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/31/pakistan-report-saysonly3percentofdronedeathswerecivilians.html

Well, that's what I think.

Stephen M. Flatow

With neighbors like these....Mosaic Magazine - Tunnel Vision

Leave it to the gangsters and thugs from the Hamas in Gaza to never surrender, never quit trying to figure out ways to kill or injure Israelis.

As Israel has feared, building supplies intended for civilian use found there way into a tunnel over 1 mile long from Gaza under the Israeli border to the gates of a Jewish community.  What should one expect from those who brought Israel the saga of Gilad Shalit?

So, Israel will punish Hamas by limiting the importation of building supplies to organizations directly responsible for construction projects.  And they'll still be criticized.

Read the full report here - Mosaic Magazine - Tunnel Vision

Well, that's what I have to say.

Stephen M. Flatow

Who's watching the hen house at the White House?

Douglas Murray at Gatestone Institute invites us to Bizarro world [OK, you have to have read Superman comics to know that in Bizarro world everything was backwards] asks:

Imagine that in recent weeks alone, dozens of Muslims around the world had been murdered by Christian extremists armed with suicide belts and similar paraphernalia.

Imagine that at the same time, around other parts of the world, Christian mobs had set fire to, and burned to the ground, the holy places of some of the oldest and most established Muslim communities in the world.

Do you think there would be a reaction to such events? Probably yes.

Would that reaction be wholly negative and unceasing in its condemnation? Probably yes.

Would it be remotely conceivable that a senior U.S. government official or advisor would have used the opportunity to claim that Muslims who had been targeted had brought it upon themselves? Probably no.

Welcome then to the mirror-image of the real-world persecution of Christians that is going on across the globe today.

And say hello again to two of the most appallingly over-promoted and sinister figures involved with the current U.S. government: Mohamed Elibiary and Dalia Mogahed.

Elibiary and Mogahed are shining lights in the Obama Administration's attempts to reconcile America's role in the world with its perceived bias towards thing Western.  Unfortunately, the president didn't pick the best of the best to assist him.

Read the full article - New Extremist Foxes Welcomed into U.S. Chicken Coop and I think you will agree.

Well, that's what I have to say.

Stephen M. Flatow

Scary plot for a B-movie!

A plot right out of a scary B-movie!