Category: Foreign Policy

If God really died in Auschwitz

God is turning  over in His grave By Neri Livneh, 02:58 22.09.11 … A thousand wealthy individuals, whose combined worth was estimated by TheMarker at $20 billion, airlifted themselves to the tomb of the “Pele Yoetz” in a remote region of Bulgaria, where they were advised to go by the rising kabbalist star, Hasidic Rabbi …

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The morning after

Obama gets a kosher seal of approval By Chemi Shalev, 00:17 22.09.11 … U.S. President Barack Obama certainly never dreamt that one day he would be so warmly endorsed by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, of all people. But today, following Obama’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Lieberman was literally gushing with praise. To …

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Egging on the Israeli equivalents

Perry’s Faith-Based Foreign Policy Directive By Justin Raimondo, September 21, 2011 … If Rick Perry makes it to the  White House, what will American foreign policy in the Middle East look  like? We got a clear indication of that, recently, when he stated: “As a Christian I have  a clear directive to support Israel, from …

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Orthodox Jewish cheerleaders

Texas Governor Rick Perry: Like a Likudnik By Chemi Shalev, 23:25 20.09.11 … Except for the fact that the proceedings were held in English, an Israeli attending Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “press conference” at the W Hotel in midtown Manhattan Tuesday morning might be excused for imagining that he was in the middle of a …

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What he must do

The humiliation of Barack Obama By Robert Grenier, 20 Sep 2011 10:40 … Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. Most likely, the moment will come just before his first head-of-state meeting in New York. Or perhaps it will happen just before his first side-bar meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu. Or then again, it may come …

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Failures to stand up

Why the Middle East will never be the same again By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 … The Palestinians won’t get a state this week. But they will prove – if they get enough votes in the General Assembly and if Mahmoud Abbas does not succumb to his characteristic grovelling in the face of …

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We became terrorists too

A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe By  Chris Hedges, September 11, 2001 … I arrived in Times Square around 9:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A large crowd was transfixed by the huge Jumbotron screens. Billows of smoke could be seen on the screens above us, pouring out of the …

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