Items from Richard Baehr

1. Olivier Guitta on Iran's Syrian plan. Caroline Glick sees some
connections between Iran, Syria and Iraq's WMDs. And the sometimes
controversial John Loftus also weighs in on what may have happened to
Saddam's WMDs.
http://www.metimes.com/International/2007/11/19/
analysis_irans_secret_syrian_plan/7451/
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
cid=1195127544177&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.israpundit.com/2007/?p=6535

2. Danielle Pletka thinks Condi Rice is buying into diplomacy with
the devil (s). Caroline Glick says the Olmert government (let it
fall) is too.
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27120,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
cid=1195127516829&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

3. Egypt is not a moderate Arab state. It is part of the problem in
the region, not the solution. I guess trying to bribe them with $2
billion a year in foreign aid has been a bad bet (kind of like taking
the Bears and 5 and a half points yesterday)
http://www.www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?
GUID=05C1C31E-1F8B-4096-A41E-4C5F5EB64618
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?
GUID=56E2A983-895F-4A10-905D-5F3263C7A7D8
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10147681

4. Steve Emerson on the FBI mole case
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1176

5. Even the New York Times is reporting that attacks in Iraq are way
down. Does this mean the surge is working? What would Frank Rich
say? How about better late (to get it right) than never (for both US
strategy and Times reporting).
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html?
_r=2&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

6. Hugo Chavez' slapdown by King Juan Carlos of Spain is big news in
the Latin press. This is the way to treat a bully. And by the way,
Chavez now says Venezuela needs to have its own nuclear program (for
peaceful uses of course).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/
AR2007111800945.html

7. Mark Silverberg on the end of the Bush doctrine
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/12365.htm

8. Hamas is looking to move up in class (as far as its military
capability.) I still do not see them as BCS material. Perhaps the
Fighting Illini are.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124289

9. David Frum with a good summary of the Al Dura affair. Augean
Stables weighs in on same subject.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=877a8d56-
eda5-4b86-96c6-9e1ab9a07880
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2007/11/14/gambling-with-a-lie-
enderlin-pulls-a-rosemary-woods/

10. Lots of good stuff in the latest issue of Outpost, put out by
Ruth King and AFSI. In particular I liked the Moshe Sharon article
on the Arab negotiating style. Offer meeaningless promises (to be
broken every time) in return for real things. Israel has fallen for
this, as has Dennis Ross (repeatedly).
http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2007/Outpost_2007_11.pdf

11. A few documentaries worth seeing:
http://www.godandcountry.tv/
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=1385550

12. Are any of Paul Revere's descendants around? One if by land, two
if by sea. The British are coming. The British are coming. Or at
least they are leaving Britain. And the Dutch (50,000 to 100,000 a
year) are leaving Holland. In fact, the population transfer going on
in Europe is accelerating.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2007/11/16/
noindex/nemi116.xml

13. CAMERA has more on the Jews who left Arab lands after the 48 war.
Joan Peters devoted two chapters of her book " From Time Immemorial"
to this subject.
http://blog.camera.org/archives/2007/11/
jews_from_arab_lands_forced_to.html

14. Abbas calls for an overthrow of Hamas in Gaza. And who exactly
will do the job? Would not bet on this one happening soon. Tom
Bevan would not bet on the Patriots getting beaten anytime soon.
Has Tom Brady gotten that much better since he started dating Giselle
Bundchen?
http://voanews.com/english/2007-11-15-voa14.cfm
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2007/11/watching_greatness.html


Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg