9:56pm
The brazenness of the lie just makes you gasp.
Obama’s attempted ambush of Israel over the ‘1967 lines’ has been boomeranging in all kinds of ways, including in Israel itself. Netanyahu’s magisterial and strategically shrewd resistance has resulted in Netyanyahu’s ratings back home going though the roof. Ha’aretz has reported that, according to an an opinion poll:
47 percent of the Israeli public believes the U.S. trip was a success, while only 10 percent viewed it as a failure... While in a Haaretz poll five weeks ago Netanyahu seemed to be in hot water with the public, with 38 percent expressing satisfaction with his performance and 53 percent disappointed with it, in yesterday's poll the results were essentially reversed: 51 percent were satisfied, while 36 percent were not.
Now look at what Ethan Bronner wrote in the...
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12:20am
The profound illiberalism of the British so-called liberal has been on egregious display over the past day. The British government has a new advisory panel on sexual health, replacing its old Independent Advisory Group on the issue. It has appointed to this body the anti-abortion campaigning group Life, which favours an abstinence-based approach to sex education.
Cue foaming hysteria. According to reports in the Guardian, it is an outrage that Life should have been appointed to such a body. People who are against abortion and believe in an abstinence approach to sex education by definition can apparently have no voice at all in public debate on this subject. That is after all an axiomatic fact, and it is therefore apparently utterly incomprehensible that Life has been invited on. The Guardian reports:
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5:53pm
Apparently the British government is shocked – shocked! – that the European Union’s foreign service is attempting to usurp the role and authority of British diplomats.
Fancy!
The Times (£) reports that Foreign Secretary William Hague has ordered British ambassadors around the world to fight off what he believes are attempts by the EU foreign service to usurp their positions:
David Lidington, the Europe Minister, made no secret of Mr Hague’s suspicion of the ambitions of Lady Ashton’s External Action Service (EAS) in a briefing in Brussels yesterday.
‘We see some evidence of EU delegations in particular parts of the world where they try to push for an enhanced leadership role,’ Mr Lidington said. ‘William has sent out instructions to all our posts around the world to be vigilant about any risk of competence creep. It is things
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5:24pm
The splendid Daniel Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish, has penned a savage satire, ‘Three cheers for Terroristine’, on the madness through which we are living:
Why do we need Terroristine? Peace. There can be no peace without a terrorist state. Not a chance of it. The only way we'll ever have peace is to give the terrorists a country of their own. A country dedicated to terrorism. Only then will the Terroristinians finally give up on all the killing, and dedicate themselves to medical research, quantum physics and the arts. It hasn't happened yet to. But it's bound to.
... We know the Terroristinians want their own state. Every time they walk out of negotiations or end them with a round of terrorist attacks, it shows their deep and abiding passion for a state. They want it so badly
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4:22pm
In these terrible times when western elites are dominated by the fellow-travellers of Islamo-fascism and genocidal Judeophobia, it is very important to realise that there are also some outstandingly decent, courageous and rational individuals who are putting their heads above the parapet and speaking up for Israel, truth and justice.
One such is Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Within a few hours of Obama’s call for Israel to return to the ‘Auschwitz borders’ with land swaps (as if the Arabs really do own all the territory beyond the Green Line, which legally, historically and morally they most emphatically do not) Harper was saying ‘not in our name’:
The Harper government is refusing to join the United States in calling for a return to 1967 borders as a starting point for Mideast peace, a position that has drawn sharp
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11:02pm
I don’t know what strategic purpose Obama had in mind for addressing the Middle East impasse when last Thursday he made the first of a series of speeches on the subject. Whatever this may have been, that speech produced one satisfactory result. The Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, for once started to tell the west a few home truths about what it was doing.
With the world’s cameras trained upon him and looking Israel’s potential nemesis in the eye, Netanyahu at last did what he and other Israeli prime ministers should have done a long time ago. He seized the moment, and used the presence of the icily immobilised President to speak electrifyingly over his head to the American people and the world about the likely terrible consequences for Israel of the President’s policy. He began to strip away...
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