When will Palestinians have rights in arab countries?

Israel has absorbed hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from all over the world. Palestinians are locked into camps to rot decade after decade by arab countries. Why.

Via @ActForIsrael

The lie of moral equivalence

via baynews9

Some will say that Americans celebrating Osama Bin Laden's destruction are as bad as the dancing Palestinians of 9/11/2001. We know this is not true. Celebrating the end of a mass murderer of innocent civilians is quite different from celebrating the murder of innocents. The same people danced and passed out candy in the streets after 9/11 and after the Fogel family murders.

Please be on the lookout for news stories that try to claim moral equivalence in the middle east. A bomb sent to destroy a school bus is very much different from a bomb sent into a terrorist's hideout, or when a terrorist's home is bulldozed, after warnings are sent to the women and children to depart. Very much different and not the tit-for-tat scenario that many news outlets try to paint.

Here is an assignment.  Please tell me how the India/Pakistan conflict is even-sided.  Are India and Pakistan morally equivalent?  Or is one country trying to force the other to submit.  Submit to Islam, perhaps?  Is one country instigating terror against the other?  After finding Pakistan hiding Osama Bin Laden, there may be a reason why Indians are nodding their heads and quietly saying, "we told you so."

US Rejects Palestinian claim of no Jewish connection to Western Wall

And a Happy Hanukkah to you! It is nice to hear that the Obama administration called them out on this. All holy places need to be protected.

The United States...condemned claims by a senior Palestinian official that the Western Wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount holds no significance for Jews.

Al-Mutawakil Taha, the Palestinian Authority' deputy minister of information, had said Wednesday that the wall, regarded as Judaism's holiest site, was part of an Islamic waqf, or religious endowment, and that only "Islamic tolerance" allowed Jews to pray there.

	Jews praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, December 25, 2009
	Photo by: Emil Salman

"We strongly condemn these comments and fully reject them as factually incorrect, insensitive and highly provocative," a U.S. State Department spokesman said.His claims drew immediate anger in Israel, which on Tuesday was echoed by the U.S.

"We have repeatedly raised with the Palestinian Authority leadership the need to consistently combat all forms of de-legitimization of Israel including denying historic Jewish connections to the land."

via Haaretz.

Why Is Everyone Saying No to Obama?

Everybody is saying no to the American president these days. And it's not just that they're saying no, it's also the way they're saying no.

The Saudis twice said no to his request for normalization gestures towards Israel (at Barack Obama's meeting with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, and in Washington at meetings with Hillary Clinton). Who says no to the American president twice? What must they think of Obama in the desert kingdom?

The North Koreans said no to repeated attempts at talks, by test-launching long-range missiles in April; Russia and China keep on saying no to tougher sanctions on Iran; the Iranians keep saying no to offers of talks by saying they're willing to talk about everything except a halt to uranium enrichment; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is saying no by refusing to meet with Binyamin Netanyahu until Israel freezes all settlement construction; the Israelis said no by refusing to agree to a settlement freeze, or even a settlement moratorium until and unless the Arabs ante up their normalization gestures. Which brings us back to the original Saudi no.

The only thing Obama did manage to get Bibi and Abbas to say yes to is a photo-op at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in NY. Mazel tov.

It's the economy, stupid.

Everyone has worked it out by now: The great secret is out. America's economy has made Obama a weak president, and he will likely remain weak throughout his first term. He has about two years to pull the American economy out of its free-fall before he begins his reelection campaign. If he can do it, and that's a big if, chances are good that he'll get reelected, and in his second term he can try to pull some geopolitical strings. But for the next three years, expect to see a world that says no to Obama. No meaningful and dramatic diplomatic initiative can come out of the White House in the next three years, as long as Obama remains weak. More here.