The Guilt Ridden, Self-Hating Jew

An interesting editorial in today's New York Post details the phenomenon of the self-hating liberal Jew in America and how potentially harmful they are for both Jews worldwide and the State of Israel.

LEFTIST JEWS' HATEFUL OBSESSION

By EDWARD ALEXANDER, The New York Post

February 18, 2007 -- TOO many writers and pundits today are obsessed, almost pathologically, by the conviction that Israel is the most evil country that ever has existed, and that its removal from the family of nations is a precondition of world peace.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02182007/postopinion/postopbooks/leftist_jews_hateful_obsession_postopbooks_edward_alexander.htm

Thomas Friedman with an Iran Strategy

Not-So-Strange Bedfellow

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Here's a little foreign policy test. I am going to describe two countries -- ''Country A'' and ''Country B'' -- and you tell me which one is America's ally and which one is not.
Let's start: Country A actively helped the U.S. defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan and replace it with a pro-U.S. elected alliance of moderate Muslims. Country A regularly holds sort-of-free elections. Country A's women vote, hold office, are the majority of its university students and are fully integrated into the work force.

http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=FA081FF73F5B0C728FDDA80894DF404482

Hillary Ripped By Obama Fundraiser Host David Geffen

At a closed door, press barred, star studded, L.A. based fundraiser last night, co-host David Geffen bashed former best pal Hillary Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton. It surprised many to see just how estranged Hillary Clinton, former Hollywood elite, has become over her initial support for the Iraq war. It is obvious that it has severely pissed off her former buddies on the Left Coast who have long memories to go along with their deep pockets.

Obama’s Big Screen Test
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: February 21, 2007
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

Hillary is not David Geffen’s dreamgirl.

“Whoever is the nominee is going to win, so the stakes are very high,” says Mr. Geffen, the Hollywood mogul and sultan of “Dreamgirls,” as he sits by a crackling fire beneath a Jasper Johns flag and a matched pair of de Koonings in the house that Jack Warner built (which old-time Hollywood stars joked was the house that God would have built). “Not since the Vietnam War has there been this level of disappointment in the behavior of America throughout the world, and I don’t think that another incredibly polarizing figure, no matter how smart she is and no matter how ambitious she is — and God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton? — can bring the country together.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/opinion/21dowd.html

Imagine: Amanpour on Peace with Iran

I found what appears to be a hopeful article by Christiane Amanpour of CNN that paints a potentially rosier picture of the relationship between the U.S. and Iran. According to the article, of course quoted by an unknown high ranking source, there is a desire from very high up in the Iranian governing body for a peaceful alliance with the United States. While it is great to hear anything positive potentially coming from this mess, the questions are ones of validity and how to move forward? Hopefully calm, smart and above all "rational" minds are at work. I personally feel the root of the whole Mid-Eastern mess is the Wahhabi's Sunni mentality that has been bred all over by the self-serving Saudi regime. If by some miracle the U.S. and Iran could connect it would be a huge positive for the region and the planet.

As always, time will tell.

Iranian official offers glimpse from within: A desire for U.S. ally
POSTED: 11:07 a.m. EST, February 21, 2007
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- As I sat down recently with a senior Iranian government official, he urgently waved a column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in my face, one about how the United States and Iran need to engage each other.
''Natural allies,'' this official said.

It was a surprising choice of words considering the barbs Washington and Tehran have been trading of late.

"We are not after conflict. We are not after crisis. We are not after war," said this official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "But we don't know whether the same is true in the U.S. or not. If the same is true on the U.S. side, the first step must be to end this vicious cycle that can lead to dangerous action -- war."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/21/btsc.iran.amanpour/index.html

The New York Times - Relentless and Losing all Credibility

I am continually tracking the one sided, partisan coverage of The New York Times because I simply cannot believe what I see. The entire newspaper has become a one-sided editorial section. The editorial section campaigns to bash the Bush Administration every day, every step of the way. It is astonishing to see.

Today's lead editorial basically blames the Bush Administration for continued war between Israel and Palestine, a condition that has existed for close to sixty years despite the best efforts of a dozen administrations. However, according to today's Times, the Bush Administration squandered a "special" opportunity for peace. Their audacity is remarkable.

I think that before the Times blames the Bush Administration for this mess they should choose which of their sacred horses they are backing as "Jimme" and "Bubba" have each accused the other of lying over their interpretations of the events resulting from President Clinton's tremendous efforts for peace in 2000.

Editorial: The New York Times
Charade in Jerusalem

It speaks volumes when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies to Jerusalem to try to revive peace talks between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and cannot even get the two to show up when she reads out the content-free joint statement to which they have grudgingly agreed.

Volume 1 reminds us of the six feckless years during which the Bush administration has squandered America’s once commanding prestige in the region. Volume 2 portrays a secretary of state who clearly arrived with no new ideas — and no idea of how to wheedle or pressure either side into making any of the compromises needed to stimulate the dangerously moribund peace effort.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/opinion/21wed2.html?_r=1&oref=slogin