A guy named Robert Evans at Cracked did just that. He read some 700 pages of the glossy magazine that ISIS puts out (Dabiq) and learned a lot but also learned how little we really know. Two conclusions he drew are 1) ISIS wants the West to invade, because it needs to have its final …
and why do the Republicans think he’s the key to Benghazi? Well, they really don’t. They do seem to think they can somehow hurt Secretary Clinton if they just intone “Sidney Blumenthal” enough times. I mean, seriously. The guy’s never been to Libya. He’s kind of a Clinton hanger-on whom Hillary likes but he knows …
No, not of Secretary Clinton’s misdeeds. Nope. Not at all. Kurt Eichenwald at Newsweek expresses what many Americans feel about this committee, I think: The historical significance of this moment can hardly be overstated, and it seems many Republicans, Democrats and members of the media don’t fully understand the magnitude of what is taking place. …
what’s Bibi Netanyahu going to be like now that he’s had to form a coalition government with two little parties which are even more far-right than Netanyahu’s Likud? The late-night deal saved Netanyahu from the almost unthinkable scenario of being forced from office. But it set the stage for the formation of a narrow coalition …
As we’ve all heard by now, Bibi Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, is convinced claims that the deal the P5+1 countries just negotiated with Iran is a horrible one, one which will undoubtedly allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons and destroy Israel. That’s despite the assurances from all the negotiators that in fact inspections of …
Virtually every Republican Presidential office-seeker has said he’d blow up the nuclear deal the Obama Administration just reached with Iran if he were elected. Scott Walker was first out of the gate, talking about things he knows little about again. None of these guys seems to recognize that the deal was between something called the …
So now Prime Minister Netanyahu insists “I didn’t mean it” when he said he was abandoning the two-state solution to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday tried to backtrack from his pre-election declaration that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch… [snip] Mr. Netanyahu also said …
We now know that Netanyahu and his Likud party won more seats in the Israeli Knesset than any other party. But he has to form a coalition (you need 61 seats/votes to hold a majority in the 120-seat parliament, and Likud won 30), which might be possible if he finds common cause with the smaller …
Right. That legislative body which just found 47 members willing to tell a foreign country that the current President’s negotiations with that country don’t meet with their approval. Can you say “unseemly?” How about “unprecedented?” How about “close to sedition?” President Obama reacted coolly, saying in part it was odd to find a group of …
We give Israel about 3 billion bucks a year in various forms of aid. According to the Jerusalem Post, “Seventy-four percent of these funds must be spent on the acquisition of U.S. defense equipment, services, and training.” Secretary Kerry just announced we’ll give the Palestinians several hundred million bucks to help rebuild the buildings Israel …