Sunday, July 26, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Mackubin Thomas Owens: The President Takes a Hard Line on Israel, Yet he doesn't want to be seen as 'meddling' in Iran - '...If Jews were prohibited from buying property in New York, London, Paris or Rome, there would be an international outcry. Why, Mr. Netanyahu wondered, should the standard be different for Jerusalem? Mr. Obama is woefully wrong if he believes that his confrontational style will provide an incentive for the Palestinians and the members of the Arab League to resolve the Arab-Israeli dispute. It will simply reinforce the long-standing Arab belief that the U.S. can "deliver" Israel if it only has the will to do so, thereby reducing Arab incentives to make concessions in direct negotiations with Israel...' [Obama is in the process of proving Khalidi and the university set wrong on everything.]
