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Abbas meets with child-murderer

Story speaks for itself.

Here Bibi reacts on the verbal level. What he says is OK, but it's not enough. This requires punitive action by Israel.

Debka asks: Why'd Panetta change his tune?

Suddenly Panetta is saying rather starkly that Iran is going to have nukes in less than a year and has to be stopped. Just a couple of weeks ago he was saying there's plenty of time and military action against the mullahs' nuke program would just wreak various kinds of havoc without accomplishing anything.

Why the sudden change? Debka has a good analysis. They think Obama's recent chat with Ehud Barak had something to do with it. Considering the timing, it sure looks that way. Can we in Israel dare to be more optimistic? It may be too soon yet. One has to stay tuned.

Mona Charen--no, Obama, you're no friend of Israel

Obama told liberal Reform Jews that he's the greatest friend Israel has ever seen, and naturally they fell off their chairs applauding. Obama knew he was orating to a very "safe" audience. Mona Charen concisely demonstrates why what he said is so much tripe.

Elliott Abrams makes clear: the voice of the (Jewish) anti-Semite is heard in the land

He notes that Thomas Friedman and Time's Joe Klein have gone right off the deep end to engage in classic gutter anti-Semitism. Why?

Perhaps it is their hatred of Israel’s right of center government, or of modern Israel, or of the rise of Orthodoxy in Israel and in the American Jewish community. Let us not descend into such analyses when what matters is not abnormal psychology but the bounds of public discourse....  where are the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee, and all the Jewish “defense” organizations?  Where are all the Jewish groups which have given Klein and Friedman awards, demanding them back? Where are Jewish Democrats in Congress, who have no doubt wined and dined both Klein and Friedman in a thousand dinner parties, and Congressional leaders from Nancy Pelosi to Harry Reid? And what about our other supposed moral leaders, religious, intellectual, or political?

Good questions all.

I like the sentence about abnormal psychology. I consider it close to hopeless to try and understand these people.

Here's something heart-warming

Lately some radical-fringe Israelis have defaced some mosques. Here some "settler" youth undo the damage at a mosque, revealing the true face of Israel and of Judaism.

Israel deals--mostly well--with complex problems

And it's not turning into Iran. Gender segregation on Israeli buses! Yes, there's a certain problem, but it's being dealt with, and its existence actually stems from pluralism and tolerance--not as Israel-bashers like Hillary Clinton and Loathsome Tom Friedman would have you believe. As I discuss today on Frontpage.

What the "Palestinian people" are really like

Their values, their enthusiasms, their allegiances, as I discuss today on Frontpage.

Cliff May on Obama administration's Islam madness

It's now forbidden in security documents to connect Islamically inspired terrorism with Islam. This kind of thing can get us all killed, says May in a crucial column.

Bibi tells NYT to buzz off

The famous rag invited the Israeli prime minister to contribute an op-ed, but he declined. Why? Read all about it, it's fascinating.

Krauthammer: Obama's Russia and Iran policies a ludicrous flop

What takes the cake, I think, is Obama's incredible polite request to the Iranians to give his downed drone back. That bespeaks a disconnect from reality if anything does. CK sums up the record of delusion and failure on these two crucial and interrelated fronts.