No surprise there.

No Muslim ruler has visited Israel.

I do not believe this is coincidence.

To visit Israel is to recognize it. Obama is being simpatico.

At least the NYT went this far but it is wrong to assume that Obama’s intention is to strengthen the democratic forces. It is in fact intended to strengthen the MB. That’s why he put Islamist Turkey and pro-Hamas Qatar in charge. Ted Belman

By DAVID E. SANGER, NYT

WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.

That conclusion, of which President Obama and other senior officials are aware from classified assessments of the Syrian conflict that has now claimed more than 25,000 lives, casts into doubt whether the White House’s strategy of minimal and indirect intervention in the Syrian conflict is accomplishing its intended purpose of helping a democratic-minded opposition topple an oppressive government, or is instead sowing the seeds of future insurgencies hostile to the United States.
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Arlene Kushner

See also: Rupert Murdoch: “Nightmare for Israel if Obama Wins”

Obama Administration Doubles Down on Middle East Policy Errors

By Barry Rubin, RUBIN REPORTS

There are two problems with current U.S. policy toward the Middle East: both the analysis and response are not simply wrong, but rather make the situation in the region much worse.

The White House has supported the antisemitic, anti-American Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria; insisted the Brotherhood is moderate; gave untrained, unreliable Libyans control over the U.S. ambassador’s security leading to his death; denied that revolutionary Islamists attacked the U.S. embassy and ambassador in Libya for reasons having nothing to do with a California video; apologized for the video in a way that escalated the crisis elsewhere; wrongly claimed that al-Qaida is finished when it is still strong in several countries; defined the Afghan Taliban, despite its involvement in the September 11 attacks, as a potential partner, etc.
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Protests against the monarchy—the biggest since the Arab Spring began—are bad news for Israel and the U.S.

By Lee Smith, TABLET

By Ted Belman

From time to time I receive an email from a person who is anything but Israel’s friend. This time she/he send me a major article, The Root Cause of Our Problem in the ME and Steps we Might Take to Alleviate It, by Dr William E Howard III written during the Iraq war and published in American Diplomacy.

I replied:

Howard ignores facts and arguments that undermine his thesis and invents facts in support. These errors or omissions are far too numerous to list and confront.

In essence he denigrates Israel and supports the UN and Muslims. I take a totally opposite position on each of these.
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By CAROLINE B. GLICK, JPOST

For 70% of American Jews, party loyalty trumps all of their conceivable rational interests. Decades ago, the sociographer Milton Himmelfarb coined the aphorism that “American Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.” And his words ring as true today as ever. Surveys show that roughly 70 percent of American Jews intend to cast their ballots for President Barack Obama’s reelection next month.

Himmelfarb’s quip indicated that American Jews abjure their economic interests in favor of their liberal values. Certainly it is true that for American Jews to vote for Obama next month they must act against their economic interests.
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By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST

As a Holocaust survivor, commenting on the lessons of WWII, said:

‘When somebody says they want to kill you, you should believe them.’

To remain at peace when you should be going to war may be often very dangerous. The tyrant city… is a standing menace to all…. Let us attack and subdue her, that we may ourselves live safely for the future. – Thucydides, (circa 460–395 BCE)

No government, if it regards war as inevitable even if it does not want it, would be so foolish as to wait for the moment which is most convenient for the enemy – Otto von Bismarck (1815–1890)
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by David P. Goldman, PJ MEDIA

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The America of 2012 is not the America of 2008. If Barack Obama wins this election, the America of 2016 will resemble the beaten and bankrupt countries of Western Europe more than it will the America we grew up in. This isn’t Chicken Little speaking. Take a hard look at the trends, and then drop everything else you had in mind for the next four weeks, and make sure everyone you know votes for Romney-Ryan. We have one last chance to save the republic.
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By Daniel Greenfield

Civilization is law. A civilization makes its own laws and enforces them. And it views those who do not abide by those laws as lawless savages. Who the civilized lawkeepers and who the lawless savages is a matter of perspective.

From the perspective of our rulers, law is defined by multilateral human rights commitments. From the perspective of their rulers, law is defined by the Koran and allegiance to Islamic law. Both consider their approach just and believe that their mission is to extend and universalize their legal codes. The transnationalists believe that they can integrate Muslims within their codes. Muslims believe that they can integrate transnationalists within their system.
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By: Jacob Edelist, JEWISH PRESS

Two out of the four MKs of the right-wing, pro-settlement National Union, Michael Ben Ari and Aryeh Eldad may resign from their lame-duck seats and run on an independent list which would constitute the most right-wing party in the Knesset.

In an interview on Radio Kol Chai, MK Ben Ari explained: “I do not see myself as belonging to the National Religious bloc. I am National Religious, but I think the time has passed for Religious Zionism as a political sector.”

Ben Ari says he is “in full coordination with MK Aryeh Eldad. There is a plan to run together and unite with those who aligns with the ideological line” of maintaining Jewish ownership of the entire Land of Israel (Shleimut ha’aretz).
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[I thought Biden won it on points but lost it on demeanor. Biden was fluent and comfortable and explained things well. Ryan seemed constrained and formal. But most polls show him the winner.]

By Ben Shapiro, BEITBART

This evening, vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) took on Vice President Joe Biden in a wide-ranging debate covering everything from Libya and Iran to the economy. Biden’s demeanor was the story of the evening: smirking, laughing, snorting, shaking his head. The strategy seems to have been to laugh off America’s problems, since the Obama administration has done nothing to solve them.

The debate itself was secondary to the demeanor of Biden. Biden had nothing to run on, so he decided to distract. And those pearly whites were a bizarre distraction from what could have been a substantive debate.
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Another Attack: U.S. Embassy Security Official Killed in Yemen

OBAMA’S RING: ‘THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH’

GAI report exposes Obama campaign accepting foreign donations

JOEL B. POLLAK: OBAMA’S LIES UNRAVEL IN CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON COVER-UP OF LIBYA 9/11 ATTACK

By Michael Ordman, JPOST