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He doesn't get it
He doesn't get it
The American lawyer Alan Dershowitz is one of the most prolific, high-profile and indefatiguable defenders of Israel and the Jewish people against the tidal wave of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish feeling currently coursing through the west. So a piece by him in the Wall Street Journal giving ...
Has Obama Turned on Israel?
online.wsj.com — ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Many American supporters of Israel who voted for Barack Obama now suspect they may... have been victims of a bait and switch. Jewish Americans voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Obama over John McCain in part because the Obama campaign went ... (more) Has Obama Turned on Israel?
The Real Quagmire in the Middle East
The Real Quagmire in the Middle East
michaeltotten.com — The Middle East is a hard place for idealists, especially for the Western liberal variety. My feelings... of optimism for the region have been ground down over time like rocks under slow-moving glacial ice. Last time I visited Israel, at the end of the ... (more) The Real Quagmire in the Middle East
US not giving Israel 'green light' to attack Iran
breitbart.com — The Obama administration poured cold water Monday on any notion it is giving Israel the green light... to attack Iran or that it is reconsidering plans to engage diplomatically with the Islamic republic. Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview ... (more) US not giving Israel 'green light' to attack Iran
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He doesn’t get it: Dershowitz that is
Israpundit — Jerry Gordon comment: Note this observation from chaver Dan Friedman: I do not agree that Dershowitz is an “indefatigable defender” of Israel, or a Jewish partisan in any way. Dershowitz is a selective defender of Israel who selects those aspects of Israel’s struggle which coincide with his American left-liberal agenda. by Melanine Phillips, The Spectator, July 3, 2009 The American lawyer Alan Dershowitz is one of the most prolific, high-profile and indefatigable defenders of Israel ...

Larwyn's Linx: In Dependence Day
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Thuggery on July Fourth : Atlas Sarah Palin is running a marathon : Hewitt In Dependence Day : AT Palin, Cloward, Piven and Kafka : AT (Suhadolnik) Sarah Palin's Independence Day : Anchoress Obama's future memoirs : AT (Guanipa) Climate & Energy Driehaus admits all families will receive 5-10% carbon tax hit : Virtuous Republic Climate Change Factoid o' the Day : TigerHawk Some Time to Ponder : AJacksonian Media He doesn't get it : Phillips Krauthammer and Palin : Doc Zero Palin Derangement ...

Bipartisan support for Israel?
Israel Matzav — ... on for 80 per cent of whom voted for Obama, he is a Democrat supporter who is incapable of acknowledging the truth about this President. For most American Jews, the horror of even entertaining the hypothetical possibility that they might ever in a million years have to vote for a Republican is so great they simply cannot see what is staring them in the face -- that this Democratic President is lethal for both Israel and the free world." She accuses me of being "blind" and says " he doesn't get it ." Oh, I get it alright. I just fundamentally disagree with her approach, ...

The Alan Dershowitz and Melanie Phillips Show: Jewish Fury Incarnate
Pajamas Media — ... in the pages of FrontPageMag.com. I do not intend to go into a protracted discourse about the argument but will put the cat among the pigeons right here at the start: I think Dersho is right-on. The debate began when Melanie, a staunch anti-Obamaite, launched a challenge to Dershowitz after he had published a piece in the ...

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