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Danny Ayalon - WSJ.com, July 29th, 2010A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and laid siege to by an army of tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers. Attacks initiated by Palestinian militants triggered an overwhelming response from the army that took the life of almost 500 people, including many civilians.
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Israel's ruling class
Caroline Glick - CarolineGlick.com, July 29th, 2010In a much discussed article in the current issue of the American Spectator titled "America's Ruling Class," Prof. Angelo Codevilla describes the divide between those who run the US - the politicians, bureaucrats and policy establishment - and the rest of the country.
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F-35 – take it or leave it
Moshe Arens - Haaretz.com, July 29th, 2010
Just imagine Israel's position today had the Lavi fighter jet project not been canceled.
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Weep for Britain: 1940 this is not
Melanie Phillips - Spectator.co.uk, July 29th, 2010
When David Cameron became Britain’s Prime Minister, I warned that he would turn out to be even worse than Labour on the related issues of Israel and the global threat from Islamism to Britain and the west.
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Waqf Bulldozers on Temple Mount May Be Destroying Jewish History
Eli Stutz - Israel National News, July 27th, 2010Jewish residents report that Waqf works at the Dome of the Rock have restarted 'under cover', likely destroying Jewish archaeological artifacts.
Arnon Segal, a resident on the Beit Hoshen neighborhood on the Mount of Olives, told Arutz-7 that there have been changes in the area recently.
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WIKILEAKS: The Implications
B. Raman - South Asia Analysis Group, Paper no. 3950, July 27th, 2010The leakage of nearly 90,000 documents relating to the Afghan war for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 by Wikileaks, a US web site which disseminates secret information of public interest received from whistleblowers after verifying the authenticity of the secret information, could damage the chances of re-election of President Barack Obama in the presidential elections of 2012.
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WikiLeaks and the Afghan War
George Friedman - Stratfor Global Intelligence, July 27th, 2010...Let’s step back and consider the conflict dispassionately. The United States forced the Taliban from power. It never defeated the Taliban nor did it make a serious effort to do so, as that would require massive resources the United States doesn’t have.
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Imagine a Nuclear Iran – It's easy if you try.
Clifford D. May - Stop Radical Islam.org, July 22nd, 2010It’s been said that a diplomat is a gentleman paid to go abroad and lie for his country. Sometimes, however, diplomats slip up and tell the truth. In response to a question at the hopefully named Aspen Ideas Festival this month, Yousef al-Otaiba, the ambassador from the United Arab Emirates, said bluntly: “We cannot live with a nuclear Iran.
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John Brennan: Witless for the defense (Jihad means one thing – violence)
Andrew Bostom - The Washington Times, July 12th, 2010A dry pun asks, "When is a door not a door?" - the answer being, "When it is ajar." But dry humor is clearly preferable to the deluded warping of the lexicon by the Obama administration's lead counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan [Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism], which leads to this question, and requisite answer, "When is jihad not jihad?" - "When it is bloodless, spiritual struggle.
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No Mosque at Ground Zero
Newt Gingrich - Unknown, July 28th, 2010One of our biggest mistakes in the aftermath of 9/11 was naming our response to the attacks "the war on terror" instead of accurately identifying radical Islamists (and the underlying ideology of radical Islamism) as the target of our campaign. This mistake has led to endless confusion about the nature of the ideological and material threat facing the civilized world and the scale of the response that is appropriate.
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