July 18, 2008
The 60th anniversary of Israel’s birth saw a flurry of praise by the worldwide Zionist community. The Australian Jewish News editorialised that “Jews all over the world feel Israel is the most special place on earth”. Furthermore, “the Israeli Defence Forces are the envy of the world … ...
go to article »July 17, 2008
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said on Sunday he used "poor phrasing" in a speech supporting Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. "You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpret...
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A doubt has been assigned to Obama's fundraising operation. If the sum of $200,000,000 is right,(*) and the average contribution was $15.00 (?), that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. At $100, that wou...
go to article »July 16, 2008
Back to the American elections. Obama said that he misused the expression when he said that Jerusalem should be under the Israeli Control in front of AIPAC. I guess you remember this big blunder which is against the Security Council order of 1967 the very famous 242. He had to retreat especially tha...
go to article »July 15, 2008
"A" place of Jewish worship? Although details of Mr. Obama’s trip are not final, he is planning to visit Sderot, an Israeli border town that for years has been a target of Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. He is also planning to tour several sites in Jerusalem including the Western Wall, a place...
go to article »July 9, 2008
Middle Easterners are wondering about the possiblity of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear installations. When John Bolton said that Israel might strike after the U.S. elections in November, few knew what to think about Bolton's comments. Now the Economist magazine says an Israeli strike is more li...
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Obama is visiting the middle East soon insh Allah and with a quick look to his scheduled visit ,I found that my country Egypt , a leading power in the region is not included. The countries that he is going to visit are : Iraq “to meet with the troops”, Israel “to calm down the Jewish lobby...
go to article »June 19, 2008
John McCain has a daunting task ahead of him. He believes deeply in securing a victory in Iraq, at a time when the American people’s support for the war is at an all time low. He believes deeply that Islamic extremism is the transcendent issue of our time, at a time when Americans are preoccupied ...
go to article »June 17, 2008
This is a rough translation ( for the Poligazette ) of the previous posting, which was published in the Dutch daily Friesch Dagblad. Four years ago, when American voters were able to choose between four more years with Bush jr. and the unknown alternative which John Kerry offered, I wrote that ...
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