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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 2 Comments

The decision by Israel to "ease" the blockade of Gaza has evoked pretty strong opinions as to whether it represents a wise strategic move by Israel (my view) or a caving in which strengthens Hamas.One thing is clear, however, the easing of the land blockade...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 2 Comments

Thanks to Solomonia for posting this 1956 cartoon about Israel's aggression. (Added) The cartoon shows Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser repeatedly taunting Israel's David Ben-Gurion, and in the last segment Ben Gurion finally hits back. The cartoon appears to be an allusion to the 1956 Suez...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments

Why does Obama want us to be more like Europe, with its supposedly compassionate and fair welfare state?The welfare state is not compassionate; it is the height of selfishness and generational cruelty:Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 11 Comments

Did I say "massive fail"? Isn't this like a horse designed by a committee? There have been some pretty awful Olympic mascots, but these have to be the worst, androgynous one-eyed freaks of nature.You be the judge of the design of Wenlock andMandeville:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcT52By_aE]Click here for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 9 Comments

Intergenerational warfare is breaking out in Greece as youth blame their elders for the economic mess, resulting from decades of welfare-state policies, that has left Greece bankrupt.I wonder whether the questions being asked by the youth of Greece are the same questions our children and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2010 5 Comments

Gordon Brown is a man of the people. When the people are around.When alone with aides, he dismissed as bigoted a woman who expressed concerns about how immigration from Eastern Europe would affect the economy. But moments earlier, in public, he praised the woman.As reported...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2010 8 Comments

Seems like someone is learning from the Obama campaign, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Sheldon Whitehouse and other American Democrats.From last night's debate among candidates in Britain (emphasis mine): [Liberal Democrat candidate Nick] Clegg, tried to tie [Conservative candidate David] Cameron to right-wing extremists, a standard...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2010 4 Comments

The ruling Labour Party in Britain has used its control of the National Health Service to help its campaign for the May 6 general election, via the Times of London:Labour was today caught up in a new row over its use of personal data after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2010 1 Comment

The more I learn about the people on board the Polish presidential plane which crashed outside Smolensk, the more I understand the depth of the tragedy for Poland.Killed in the plane crash alongside Polish President Lech Kaczynski was Anna Walentynowicz.Prior to the crash I was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2010 22 Comments

As far at I can tell, the date of the funeral for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the others killed in the plane crash has not yet been set.Undoubtedly, this will be a monumental event with dignitaries from around the world, and millions of people...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2010 3 Comments

Polish President Lech Kaczynski was a great friend of the United States and freedom loving peoples everywhere.When Kaczynski visited the U.S. in 2007 he made sure to visit Nancy Reagan and to honor the role of Ronald Reagan in securing freedom in Eastern Europe (see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2010 16 Comments

The President of Poland and much of Poland's military and civilian leadership were killed when the presidential plane crashed in Russia on the way to commemorate the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviets in 1940: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2010 3 Comments

of the British election has let Prime Minister Gordon Brown have it, via The Telegraph.LGF and TPM are searching for a Tea Party connection, Andrew Sullivan thinks Palin had something to do with it, Paul Krugman considers it an incitement to violence, Count Frankula is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 11 Comments

Barack Obama has given the go ahead for the "targeted killing" of al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, who happens to be a U.S. citizen.I don't have a problem with it. The fight with al-Qaeda is war. Al-Awlaki is trying to kill Americans, and if the only...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 12 Comments

In 1940, the Soviet Union executed 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia.The mass grave was discovered in 1943 by invading German troops, but the Soviet propaganda machine create the mythology that the massacre was committed by the Nazis:In late 1943, as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2010 10 Comments

Elections have been set in Great Britain for May 6, pitting the Labour Party (headed by Obama-wannabe Prime Minister Gordon Brown) against the Conservative Party ("Tories") (headed by David Cameron).The election is shaping up as traditional nanny-state government (Labour) against less big government (Tories), echoing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 1 Comment

"The fiercely pro-Israeli Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was among the guests at the controversy-filled Arab League summit in Libya with the supposed aim of forming a unified strategy against Tel Aviv's illegal settlement plans in Palestinian territories.At one point, according to reports, Berlusconi, whose country...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2010 5 Comments

The malicious campaign run by the coalition of leftist academics, internationalists and Islamists against Israel continues unabated.We know that in the U.S. and elsewhere, speeches by current or former Israeli officials are disrupted, and there have been organized boycotts of Israeli academics.Now they even are...

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