Influence.

You can thank Obama for this. Fresh off his visits to Theodore Herzl’s tomb and Yad Vashem, he decided to broker a detente between Netanyahu and a guy who told a UN conference less than a month ago that Zionism is a crime against humanity. But it’s okay: Erdogan later walked back the charge by [...]

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Hmmmm.

Daniel Freedman thinks so, and even credits the Arab Spring — in a kind of backhand manner.  In yesterday’s New York Daily News, Freedman notes that incoming Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged to make Israeli-Palestinian peace talks a high priority, a traditional pledge that goes back for decades at Foggy Bottom.  Kerry has [...]

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One-off?

An unknown group targeted the US embassy in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, with an explosive device.  At least two security guards were killed in the explosion and an unknown number of people wounded: A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital on Friday [...]

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Thanksgiving.

*** Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com *** Via the Daily Rushbo.

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“You’re being silent while people are dying left and right.”

Via the Blaze, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a reporter take a tone with a government functionary at a press conference quite like this. And it’s not the first time he’s done it, either. How does this guy not have his own cable news show already? Or better yet, an assignment as a White [...]

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Infighting between FBI and State?

Hey, maybe 12 hours is all the FBI needed for their crime-scene probe.  After all, it’s been almost four weeks — so what could be left to check? A team of FBI agents arrived in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate the assault against the U.S. Consulate and left after about 12 hours on the ground as [...]

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"Turkey cannot endure it in silence."

Things may get even hotter for Syrian dictator Bashar Assad this summer, as he fights off the most serious threat to Alawite power in decades.  Yesterday, the Syrian military shot down a Turkish F-4 fighter jet on a recon mission, and today Ankara is threatening retaliation:  Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of [...]

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"America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides."

Everyone understands why, and I doubt President Romney would do any different. Even so, it’s unthinkable that the U.S. would ever acquiesce in Holocaust denial simply in order to please some important ally. With the Armenian genocide, we’re willing to play an Orwellian little game with the Turks in which we acknowledge obliquely that something [...]

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"This isn't China, is it?"

The “nanny state tramples on parental prerogatives over kids’ diets” stories are irresistible blog fodder, arguably even tastier than the legendary “dubious taser use by police” viral vids. Remember last year when a Chicago school flatly forbade kids from bringing in homepacked lunches? A school in North Carolina has a different approach: You can bring [...]

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Intervention.

I don’t usually draft posts in advance but tonight I’m going to get cracking on the inevitable “New Syrian government dominated by Sunni fanatics” post. It may not run for another year or two, but it’ll run. Will The One try to get congressional approval for this, I wonder, or will he “wing it” like [...]

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