New York Times Op-Ed Index for February 2013 

1) Israel’s Mr. Normal – Roger Cohen – February 2, 2013

To get beyond nothingness, Lapid has at the very least to declare that he opposes...

In February 2011, Roger Cohen of The NY Times demanded that we abandon the phrase “the Arab Street” as a relic of the past which no longer applied, even as crowds in Tunisia surged around a Synagogue shouting “”Jews, remember Khyabar, the army of Mohammed is returning”":

Cohen further asserted that “the usual Muslim-hating naysayers” were...

Nothing to see here, move along.

The head of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center told lawmakers on Wednesday that the deadly attack on Sept. 11 that claimed the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three aides...

It is plainly obvious that we have not been getting straight answers from Obama officials about what they knew and when they knew it about the dangers facing our consulate in Benghazi and throughout the region. It may be deception, or they may be so incompetent they still don’t know.

There is credible information...

Roger Cohen of The NY Times was one of the worst cheerleaders of the Islamist takeover of Egypt.

On February 3, 2011, Cohen already was framing concerns about Islamist influence in the revolution as a right-wing and Israeli distraction:

Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could...

Violence continues to erupt across the Middle East and North Africa today following the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya on September 11 that killed the ambassador and three others Americans. An interactive map of the violence is available from National Journal detailing where and what is occurring.

In a press conference today, White...

An American Ambassador and three American security guards were butchered, anti-American riots broke out across the Middle East, a U.S. Embassy both before and after being stormed issued apologies for the exercise of our constitutional rights, our Secretary of State practically prostrated herself, the President had a good night’s sleep through it...

If there ever were a doubt, no matter how small, that the mainstream media is deeply in bed with the Obama campaign, the reaction to the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and several other Americans should put such doubt to rest.

Beginning early this morning, when news was just breaking,...

Multiple news agencies are reporting that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three others were killed in a rocket attack on their vehicle (although reports as to where he was at the time conflict).  The State Department has not confirmed as of this writing.  (Update – The White House has

This 30-minute video was produced in March 2012 by the Emergency Committee for Israel.

Unlike 2016: Obama’s America, the video does not attempt to ascertain a cause, it just deals with the facts of how Obama has undermined Israel:

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The cycle of perpetual outrage and victimhood continues.

Mitt Romney pointed out something obvious, that Israel has a record of economic success unmatched by those under Palestinian Authority control, attributing it to cultural and other factors:

“As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is...

Its case for a separate state is as good as if not better than the Palestinians since it was its own entity prior to French colonial rule.

Via JPost:

For Ferhat Mehenni, Israel is an ideal partner and friend for Kabylie, a geographic sliver of Algeria’s northern coast whose people wish to secede...

The successful Navy SEAL raid which killed Osama bin Laden is becoming one of the central themes of the Obama campaign.

Almost every other sentence out of the mouth of Joe Biden (who opposed the raid) is about ”bin Laden.”

We know that bin Laden was located as the result of years of work...

Joel Brinkley, currently a Professor at Stanford who spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has a column in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Islamists in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia not democratic.

The thesis of the column is that Westerners who took Islamists at their word that they...

No one could have seen this coming.

Via The Jerusalem Post:

Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank arrested over the weekend a Palestinian blogger who launched a Facebook campaign under the title “The people want an end to corruption.”

The arrest of Jamal Abu Rihan is part of a clampdown by the...