Al Ahram - Blame Isreal .. What else is new?

Al-Ahram Weekly, Eqypt
April 12, 2007

America as proxy

Whereas Israel has appeared in the past as the US's main proxy in the Middle East, now it apears the relation has reversed, writes Ramzy Baroud*

Conflicts in the Middle East are often orchestrated from afar, using proxies -- the least risky method to fight and win a war. Despite its geopolitical fragmentation, the Middle East is loosely united insofar as any major event in any given locale can subsequently be felt throughout the region. Thus Lebanon, for example, has been a stage for proxy wars for decades. And it is not just Israel and the United States that have laboured to penetrate and further fragment Lebanese society. The intelligence services of various Arab countries, as well as Iran, have used Lebanon as a hub for their invariable interests, the outcome of any conflict -- be it internal or external -- directly affecting the image and political positioning of this or that country.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/840/re52.htm

Mark Steyn on English Anti-Semitism

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
By Mark Steyn, SteynonLine

English antisemitism [Mark Steyn]

I've been brooding on Derb's aside about English antisemitism. I would agree with him that historically it's by far the mildest and most harmless, and I never understand fellows who comb through, say, the works of John Buchan and alight triumphantly on a passing reference to a hooked nose as evidence that middle England was slavering to open up an Auschwitz in the Home Counties.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWFkMTRkMTFiN2Q4ZWRlZmMyNDIwZGFmOTA0OGU2MzI=

Al Jazeera Reports on freedom Putin Style !

Kasparov held in Moscow protest

Police in Moscow have detained Garry Kasparov, the Russian opposition leader, along with at least 170 other activists, ahead of a banned anti-Kremlin protest.

Thousands of riot police closed off the centre of the capital on Saturday, as authorities tried to stop opponents of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, from taking to the streets.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BE9266B0-031B-409E-A684-769CAC429619.htm

David Horowitz on Distorted Realties ...

From David Horowitz,
The Jerusalem Post, April, 12, 2007

"The Hour [Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the rock and the tree will say: Oh, Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, kill him!'" -- Hamas spokesman, Dr. Ismail Radwan, Palestinian Authority TV, March 30, 2007:

Maybe it's the fact that I'm a Jew that I take the determination of Hamas to kill me personally; or that I find it morally repellent that the Speaker of the House should pay a friendly call on the dictator of Damascus who hosts, protects and arms these genocidal jihadis, but I do. I find it equally depressing that my fellow Jews who fund the Democratic Party (an estimated 80% of its donations no less), and my fellow Americans who are not Jews and vote Democratic but do not wish Jews like me dead, are not burning up the phone lines, and crashing the Internet with howls of protest over their Party's collusion with our contemporary Hitlers. Because that is what they are. They are not "Hitlers" in the sense that Cindy Sheehan thinks George Bush is Hitler as a metaphor of her hatred for her country. They are Hitlers in the sense that they are Hitlers. They want Jews dead. They are preparing the next war to see that the Jews are dead. And they will not rest until they complete the final solution or until they are stopped.

American defenders of the Nazi Axis which includes Hezbollah and Iran -- are located squarely on the left side of the political spectrum. The movement to stop America from stopping Iran has already begun. The voices of this fifth column include Cindy Sheehan, Rosie O'Donnell, Medea Benjamin, and their "anti-war" comrades at MoveOn.org. It would be a mistake to regard these individuals as marginal. They are the same crowd that brought us the war against the war in Iraq.

Krauthammer on Democrats and Iraq

April 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Turning the Corner in Iraq
Democrats are ignoring real progress.

By Charles Krauthammer

By the day, the debate at home about Iraq becomes increasingly disconnected from the realities of the actual war on the ground. The Democrats in Congress are so consumed with negotiating among their factions the most clever linguistic device to legislatively ensure the failure of the administration’s current military strategy—while not appearing to do so—that they speak almost not at all about the first visible results of that strategy.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWE3Mjc0YWRjNzdiOTY3MzZkNWRhYWNiNGZjOGExYzE=

Victor Hanson on How The West Might Self-Destruct ...

Victor Davis Hanson writes about a western world where partisan politics does not supercede national agenda. He clearly spells out how political agendas are counter productive to national policy once they cross certain lines and uses today's political climate as the example.

April 13, 2007
The Post-west
A civilization that has become just a dream.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online

I recently had a dream that British marines fought back, like their forefathers of old, against criminals and pirates. When taken captive, they proved defiant in their silence. When released, they talked to the tabloids with restraint and dignity, and accepted no recompense.

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson041307.html

Don Imus and America ... What it says ....

Is there anything more hypercritical than Keith Olbermann, smug, obnoxious and a daily hate monger, the hero of the Left, sitting down for the past few nights quizically asking how a man like Don Imus could survive spewing hatred for so long? Maybe Olbermann, pushing 50, can get the answer from the his additmately first serious relationship in his life, the 23 year old collage collage student he lives with. (This is Keith Olbermann's perspective on reality) ...

Man oh man does the entire Imus circus nausate me. It goes without saying that he is and has always been a nasty man. For decades he hs been saying rude, tasteless things on the air about all types of people. No one or nothing was off limts. His audience always knew this, the guests who came on to sell themselves knew this, the networks who employed him always knw this and the corporate sponsers who endorsed him always knew this. There are no surprises in this weeks comments nor were they the "worst" that ever came out of his mouth.

What I find so distatseful is the hypocrasy surrounding his firing. All of a sudden everyone gets a concosious. Complete hukster opportunists like Sharpton and Jackson find a crusade to revive careers as sagging as their jowels. The media, which daily searches out morbid curiorsity driven train wrecks to feed their ultra competitive livelyhoods is actually covering his downfall while passing judgement. It's all such a farce and the worst of American culture.

I personally couldn't care less if Imus never shows his hideous face in public again or never addresses a public audience. He has always been a repulsive creature from my perspective. I just don't like how all the creatures that have crawled out from under rocks are standing on platforms to take advantage of it for personal gain. Let's see Sharpton, Jackson and all the community leaders from the African American community actualy attack the language now deemed ordinary from the rap world and the violent, rudderless culture it has spawned.

My hat is off to the Rutgers team who have handled this event with class ... at least so far ... hopefully there will not be any book or movie deals announced anytime soon ...