Pinch me, I must be dreaming: This analysis of Israel and the 1949 armistice lines by CNN is—dare I say it? Fair and balanced.
She does the work, so I don’t have to: Jennifer Rubin has an excellent roundup of analysis from experts on Obama’s mideast speech.
It must be Bizarro Day: This AP analysis of Israel trying to prevent Iranian arms being smuggled into Gaza is another fairly balanced piece.
No way this can go wrong: The G-8 nations are pledging $40 billion to the new “democratic” governments of the Arab Spring, thus proving they are utterly ignoring the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which now openly promises that they will enforce Sharia law when they get into power, and Islamists everywhere else. But then, they intend to keep funding the Palestinians in spite of Hamas joining the government, so when has a little anti-Western, anti-Semitic Islamism ever been an issue for the chattering classes? Sadly, things are going to get worse before they get better. Imagine four or five more Irans. Well, thanks to the “Arab Spring,” that’s now more than a possibility.
She is the very model of a female major general: I’m fairly certain there is not a single woman general in the Arab and Muslim world. (Do they even have women in their armies?) Oh, and she’s a mother of three, so yes, you can have a family and a career—in an enlightened nation like Israel. (But sure, keep on supporting the misogynists in Gaza and the West Bank, Code Pink.)
I hope that when Obama talks about the Palestinian state being “contiguous,” he just means that the West Bank portion should be contiguous with itself. Because when he just says “contiguous” (implying connecting the West Bank and Gaza via now-Israeli land), that goes over with me about as well as it would go over for an American president to go to Vancouver and demand that the United States be contiguous.
Making Alaska contiguous with the mainland makes more sense. A strip of land along the coast wouldn`t leave Canada non-contiguous the way Israel would be. Next up, build a bridge to Hawaii :-)