23 November 2012 Is Middle East Peace A Mirage

Is Middle East Peace A Mirage

Friday - November 23, 2012 at 12:07 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan With the truce in the week-long Gaza war, Barack Obama is being prompted by right and left to re-engage and renew U.S. efforts to solve the core question of Middle East peace. Before he gets reinvolved in peacemaking, our once-burned president should ask himself some hard questions. Is real peace between Palestinians and Israelis even possible? Is there any Continue reading...

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‘Bibi’ Votes Republican

Tuesday - May 24, 2011 at 6:49 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Not since Nikita Khrushchev berated Dwight Eisenhower over Gary Powers' U-2 spy flight over Russia only weeks earlier has an American president been subjected to a dressing down like the one Barack Obama received from Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. With this crucial difference. Khrushchev ranted behind closed doors, and when Ike refused to apologize, blew up the Paris Continue reading...

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Israel in a Post-American Era

Thursday - May 19, 2011 at 11:55 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth. World War II, ending in 1945, produced two truly victorious nations, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the America of Harry Truman. Out of the Cold War that lasted from Truman to the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and breakup of Continue reading...

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Osama’s Dead — But Are His Ideas?

Tuesday - May 10, 2011 at 1:11 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan When President Obama announced that U.S. special forces had helicoptered into Pakistan, broken into a secret compound an hour from the capital and killed Osama bin Laden, celebrations broke out all across America. The man who plotted the mass murder of 3,000 of us had at last received his just reward. College students ran to the White House to chant "USA! USA!" Even Continue reading...

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The Poodle Gets Kicked

Monday - March 15, 2010 at 11:32 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Actually, Joe set himself up. From the moment he set foot on Israeli soil, our vice president was in full pander mode. First, he headed to Yad Vashem memorial, where he put on a yarmulke and declared Israel "a central bolt in our existence." "For world Jewry," Joe went on, presumably including 5 million Americans, "Israel is the heart. ... Israel is the light. ... 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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