Bitter Fruits of Mideast Wars

Friday - October 2, 2009 at 1:06 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Impending today are two of the most critical decisions Barack Obama will ever make, which may determine the fate of his presidency, as well as the future of the United States in the Near and Middle East. Continue reading...

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Tell Israel: Cool the Jets

Friday - July 31, 2009 at 1:37 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan July 31, 2009 Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it. Defense Secretary Gates' mission to Israel this week, says Bolton, to relay Obama's red light, was listened to attentively, but will not be decisive. Israel will Continue reading...

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Outlasting the Ayatollahs

Tuesday - June 16, 2009 at 12:19 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan The Obama policy of extending an open hand to Iran is working and ought not be abandoned because of the grim events in Tehran. For the Iranian theocracy has just administered a body blow to its legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people and the world. Before Saturday, the regime could credibly posture as defender of the nation, defiant in the face of the threats Continue reading...

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Breaking Bibi

Friday - June 5, 2009 at 12:12 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem." Thus did Israeli government press director Daniel Seamen caustically dismiss President Obama's opposition to Israel's right to "natural growth" of its settlements in Arab East Jerusalem and on the West Bank. Though Obama's address in Continue reading...

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Did Bibi Box Obama In?

Thursday - May 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to "a mushroom cloud over an American city," The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight for an atomic bomb. "This is a dictator who is ... feverishly trying to acquire nuclear weapons," wrote Bibi Netanyahu, Continue reading...

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Bibi and Israel at Dead End

Monday - May 18, 2009 at 12:03 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan If there are no peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians for an independent Palestinian state, war next year is inevitable. So King Abdullah II of Jordan has told the London Times: "If we delay our peace negotiations, then there is going to be another conflict between Arabs or Muslims and Israel in the next 12 to 18 months." Whether the king's timetable is Continue reading...

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The True Haters

Tuesday - April 14, 2009 at 11:25 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan On Good Friday, John Demjanjuk, 89 and gravely ill, was ordered deported to Germany to stand trial as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews -- at Sobibor camp in Poland. Sound familiar? It should. It is a re-enactment of the 1986 extradition of John Demjanjuk to Israel to be tried for the murder of 870,000 Jews -- at Treblinka camp in Poland. How many Continue reading...

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