America is back- and scaring off even its most fervent allies

Check out this editorial from JPost today; Israel must stay out of US-China struggle.

Well that's gratitude for you! Hundreds of billions in free money over the years, not to mention that indispensable veto Uncle Sam whips out whenever that nest of Antisemites at the UN starts talking about Palestinian rights, and this is how they thank America?

America is back to lead the Nations of Virtue in the global struggle for human rights and democracy, and the only democracy in the Middle East can't figure out whose side they're on? 

Shame!

 

The 24 hours that saved Assad and sunk Obama

This is the tits-up moment for war-monger number one, Senator John McCain.

John's been lobbying for war with Syria for the last two years.

All of America's besties are busy on Saturday night.

Canada is scheduled for a shampoo and curl.

The Brits have let the democracy cat out of the bag and seem to be scaling down the war rhetoric in favour of the will of the people.

The only NATO ally still on board is Francois Hollande. The poor devil is determined to win his spurs one way or another. Mali didn't quite do it, so he has been hoping for a second chance.

And of course the only democracy in the middle east would dearly love to see an all-out assault on the people of the towel, but the Likud crowd must be beyond despairing that such a thing is going to happen this time around.

Maybe even a few of the smarty-pants know-it-alls around Obama have concluded that dumping Assad isn't worth risking WW III.

So carry on with the whatever, Mr. Assad; we were just joking around with that "red line" shit.

Twenty-four hours ago, the Nations of Virtue were coordinating their plans to annihilate Syria.

Tonight they're not.

There is hope for humanity.

Israel at the brink

It's not the Israel we've been relentlessly cheerleading these last fifty years. It's not an Israel her founding fathers would recognize.

Yesterday there were two attacks on IDF posts by so-called Hilltop Youth gangs. Who are these "Hilltop Youths?" The new generation of militant settlers that have been coddled and courted by the state for far too long.

There are at least 600,000  Israelis who hold German passports. Well over a million who hold American passports. To say nothing of the hundreds of thousands who can fly "home" to England or Canada or France or Brazil. For several generations affluent secular Israelis have kept that other passport in the bottom drawer as an insurance policy of last resort. If the Arab tide ever rose too high, there was a fall back position.

I think a lot of those secular Israelis are rumaging through the bottom drawer these days. Not because of the Arabs. Because of that radical settler fringe that is no longer on the fringe.

Even Netanyahu, who has done more than any leader to nurture the sense of entitlement that is now on full display in the settler population, seems to be taken aback. Tragically, the so-called Christian Zionists and the American Right won't even notice, and the money and the missles will keep right on flowing.

After all, this is predicted in the Book of Revelations.