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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2011 12 Comments

The wilful ignorance of the Obama administration to the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists in Egypt is astounding.  Just look what happened in Gaza where the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas was elected to office and proceeded to drown out all other voices,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 13 Comments

Last June, in the midst of the "Gaza Flotilla" in which leftists joined Islamists against Israel, I asked Can Israel Survive A Second Obama Term?:This past week has seen the coming together of the growing Islamist-Leftist Coalition in the war against Israel.Leftists who, among other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 8 Comments

After yesterday's speech by Hosni Mubarek, I noted: "Things will be interesting. I can't imagine the situation will stay stable until September."Well I was right, although I didn't predict Mubarek would resign the next day.But it has happened, and now the military controls Egypt.I repeat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 8 Comments

While there was much speculation that Hosni Mubarek would resign tonight, he just announced that he was staying for the transition through September elections.There will be more on this later, but the highlights of his speech were to lash out at foreign interference ("we are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 8 Comments

Now that Sarah Palin has invoked the 3 a.m. phone call (which she says went to an answering machine when Egypt was calling), it is worth looking at the original Hillary advertisement, which touched on the doubts so many have about Obama:Here is a version...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 10 Comments

strap a suicide belt to a 14-year-old? This video is from several years ago, but it is a reminder of what the Israelis are up against, and how checkpoints and the security barrier were both necessary and effective.So the next time you hear the usual...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 12 Comments

Let's face it, he'd get the "hands off" treatment from this administration. Regime change seems to be United States policy only for our friends.Did Obama demand that Hugo Chavez transition to leave office when peaceful protesters were beaten in the streets of Caracas, or at any...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2011 6 Comments

I wish I had written such a post, but instead I happened upon it via an e-mail sent from a relative.  And it was at HuffPo, of all places.Rarely have I seen someone hit the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel movement the way David Suissa does in Israel's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2011 7 Comments

I have posted about Juan Cole before, including this sadly humorous assertion that protesters chanting "death to America" really just wanted visas to visit Disneyland:Even the ones who are chanting "Death to America," if you get them to the side, they say well you know "could you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2011 13 Comments

As much as I would have liked to weigh in on a bunch of issues during the day, I've been fighting the snow and the snow hit (my) back.Now that I can sit up straight, here are some thoughts, as usual in no particular order:Egypt...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2011 2 Comments

Not really.  Here's Jon Podhoretz's take on the recent troubles in Egypt, It's never been about Palestine:The anti-Mubarak revolution won't only topple an authoritarian regime. It will also topple 40-plus years of wrong-headed thinking about the causes of Middle East instability among the world's foreign-policy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 19 Comments

Mohamed ElBaradei is one of those figures who, because he is fairly westernized, easily manipulates western media and left-of-center bloggers and pundits into thinking he wants a western-style democracy in Egypt.It is not surprising that despite his obvious opportunism, ElBaradei has become something of a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 18 Comments

Obama does bear responsibility for the high, and now likely perpetual, unemployment rates, the skyrocketing budget deficits, and the rapid rise in our national debt in the past two years.  Domestically, the obsession with passing Obamacare and expanding government had a direct cause and effect...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 10 Comments

The upheaval in Egypt demonstrates the folly of those who claim to support Israel yet who seek to compel Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders without adjustment.The pre-1967 borders are what amounts to the completely arbitrary armistice lines drawn at the end of fighting when...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2011 14 Comments

As of this writing, it remains unclear whether Mubarek will hold onto power in Egypt.  As I pointed out before, the implications for peace in the region are enormous, as an undermining of the 1979 peace treaty with Israel could spark regional war.There is understandable caution...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2011 6 Comments

This photo of the Class of 1978 at Cairo University is worth thousands of words:Particularly when you compare it to more recent photos, as Phyllis Chesler does.(h/t @Iowahawk)--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 8 Comments

The situation in Egypt does not look dire at this moment, but it does look very serious.  Given the speed with which events can move, the situation could change dramatically for the worse in hours or days.Pursuant to the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2011 3 Comments

In an event which should surprise no one, Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy in Lebanon, has taken control of the government in anticipation of indictments of senior Hezbollah officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri:Saad Hariri, whose government was toppled after Hezbollah...

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