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Wall Street Journal: U.S. spooks--and president--have to stop the nonsense on Iran

An editorial that every reasonable person in the world should read.

Avigdor Haselkorn: Why Iran must be stopped

A scholar of Middle East and security issues has one of the best short discussions of the topic.

Quote of the day

It goes to Israeli commentator Dan Margalit:

What more needs to happen before the enlightened world understands that the current Iranian regime poses a danger to humanity, and to the Jewish state first and foremost? The day will come when a play written by the next Hanoch Levin or Hillel Mittelpunkt will depict, in an all too lifelike manner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveling from capital to capital, from leader to leader, grabbing their lapels and screaming into their ears that he is developing nuclear weapons. The leaders will not listen and refuse to understand what is required of them. They will tell the Iranian president that his confession is not convincing and requires further examination.

The whole short column is thoughtful and well worth reading.

Demented, destructive Haaretz

My article on the pernicious leftist paper, which came out on Frontpage on Feb. 17, is also out today on ArutzSheva.

Sarah Honig writes about the Struma

Read her powerful, important article on this appalling WW II episode and its implications for Israel today.

Michael Ledeen praises Santorum's foreign policy positions

In this very interesting and informative analysis in the WSJ.

Claudia Rosett deconstructs New York Times hogwash

The Times--obviously an ally if not lackey of the Obama administration in trying to rein in Israel and pull the wool over everyone's eyes--reported here that "U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb." Except that the report itself is full of equivocations if not outright absurdities. Claudia Rosett masterfully deconstructs.

Woe to Israel, woe to the Middle East and its future relative stability, woe to the United States, and woe to the world that an irresponsible administration like Obama's is in office at this time of crisis.

Ever wonder why Arab society is so violent?

Here are some clues. (In Israel, for instance, the Arab population has far higher violent-crime rates than the Jewish population.)

Leslie Gelb: U.S and Iran subtly colluding (via Russia) to stop Israel; Israel not impressed

And the collusive efforts, at this point, amount to little more than a prayer. This analysis by Gelb is somewhat along the lines of Haselkorn (linked-to here in an earlier post today). It all has more than a whiff of truth to it.

Quote of the day

Yoram Ettinger asks:

"Could the less than 100-year-old Palestinian issue be the core cause of the 1,400-year-old Middle East reality?"

Of course it isn't, not anywhere near being so, as Ettinger explains in another of his great, compendious volleys of truth.