From Slaying of RFK Gave U.S. a First Taste of Mideast Terror: Some scholars see the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy as America’s first taste of the political violence of the Middle East. “I thought of it as an act of violence motivated by hatred of Israel and of anybody who supported Israel,” said Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor who had worked on Kennedy’s campaign as a volunteer adviser. “It was in some ways the beginning of Islamic terrorism in America. It was the first shot. A lot of us didn’t recognize it at the time.” A year after
Read More +Via LBJ’s Newly Released Oval Office Recordings Disclose His Deep Feelings toward Israel: Tapes of Lyndon Johnson’s Oval Office conversations, released to the public for the first time on Wednesday, reveal that the American president had a personal and often emotional connection to Israel. “I sure as hell want to be careful and not run out on little Israel,” Johnson said in a March 1968 conversation with his ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg. In a taped conversation from June 25, 1967, about three weeks after Israel defeated three Arab armies, Johnson relates a conversation with Soviet Premier Alexey
Read More +Israel at 60. The charge that domestic politics determined US policy on Palestine angered President Truman for the rest of his life. In fact, the President’s policy rested on the realities of the situation in the region, on America’s moral, ethical, and humanitarian values, on the costs and risks inherent in any other course, and on America’s national interests. Israel was going to come into existence whether or not Washington recognized it. But without American support from the very beginning, Israel’s survival would have been at even greater risk. Truman’s decision, although opposed by almost the entire foreign policy establishment,
Read More +But David Bedein does. The following twenty Middle East policy questions are the questions that American voters may wish to pose to Senators Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Whomever can answer the questions the most intelligently will be the one whom I will consider giving my vote. I’ll tell you though, I’m not that hopeful that I will be voting this election. Via INN: 1. Numerous declassified security reports confirm that Saudi Arabia continues to fund groups defined by the US government as terrorist organizations, while Saudi Arabia maintains an active state of war against the state of
Read More +“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but
Read More +From Eisenhower Regretted He Pushed for Sinai Withdrawal in 1956: In Israel’s 1956 joint military undertaking with Britain and France, President Eisenhower warned Israel of severe consequences were it not to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and Sinai. Israel complied. Peter Golden in his “authorized biography” of Max M. Fisher, Quiet Diplomat (1992), relates that in October 1965 Fisher met with Eisenhower in Gettysburg. Toward the end of the visit Eisenhower “wistfully commented, ‘You know, Max, looking back at Suez, I regret what I did. I never should have pressured Israel to evacuate the Sinai.’” Eisenhower’s remark astonished Fisher. Nixon
Read More +The Kennedy Irony
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Isn’t it ironic, and rather fitting that Ted Kennedy, the major author of the current amnesty/immigration reform bill who is hell-bent on getting illegal immigrants into our country as fast as possible without legal recourse, is trying to protect Muslim terrorists who were going to blow up something named after his brother, John?
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