Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Iran, Israel
Joe Lieberman has been persona non grata for pal-ing around with the Republicans, but the media was incredibly excited to discover that a few “leading” Republicans have moved over to the Obama side — as if nobody has ever heard of RINOs in the first place. Aside from the fact that these RINOs are leaders [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article
At long last, not a moment too soon, and probably way too late, horrible Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is stepping down:
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Wednesday he would step down in September after a party leadership vote, announcing the end of a premiership dogged by graft investigations.
“After the election of my successor [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jul 22 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Iran, Israel, The War on Terror
Obama’s getting the press, but McCain’s saying the important stuff, at least to those who believe that Israel, as the sole liberal democracy in the Middle East, deserves our support:
American presidential candidate John McCain told Israel’s Channel 2 News station that stiffer sanctions might stop Iran’s threats against Israel. In the interview broadcast Monday, the [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jul 17 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media Watch
I’ve been moving around the internet a bit looking at stories about the way in which Israel turned a brutal, mass murderer over in exchange for two bodies. What’s fascinating is that the stories keep calling it a “prisoner swap,” as if there’s parity in the exchange. Prisoner swap, after all, implies that Israel gave [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Israel, Media Watch
From The Jerusalem Post:
The Anti-Terror Branch of the Institute of National Security issued an immediate call to Israelis vacationing in the Sinai that terror cells in the peninsula were planning a kidnapping attack on an Israeli citizen.
The warning is effective immediately and is the most severe warning issued in the past [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Media Watch
For those of you who think Obama flip flops, your worries are over. Hendrik Hertzberg, who writes the political op-eds at The New Yorker explains that you’re just blind to the gossamer nuances of Obama-speak, nuances that place him squarely in the ring with all prior politicians (emphasis mine):
Winning a Presidential election doesn’t require [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Jul 08 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iran, Israel, Politicians at Work, The War on Terror
Iran is continuing it’s threats against the United States and Israel: Iran will strike Israel and the US navy in the Gulf if it is attacked over its nuclear program. On the one hand, we need to take Iran’s threats seriously, but on the other hand I fear some people see them like [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Palestine
Did you know that a rocket could break a truce? I didn’t. Being neither a scientist nor a weapons expert, nor a member of the MSM, I kind of thought that, absent human intervention, rockets would just lie around inert. It’s just always seemed to me that, for a rocket to fly [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 23 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article
Believe it or not, the words of my post title were my exact words to my children the other day. My daughter came up to me, very concerned, because she’d heard somewhere that Iran has a nuclear bomb. I assured her that Iran does not yet have a nuclear bomb, although it wants one. My [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 18 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Palestine
Richard Baehr initially supported Ariel Sharon’s decision to withdraw Israel from the Gaza Strip. He now believes that the withdrawal was a terrible mistake, and carefully explains why. As for me, I don’t think it was a mistake then. I think it collapsed for a reason that could not be foreseen. Let me explain.
What I [...]
