Video: The Love Boat From Iran

The actual crew of the Love Boat was nothing like this.

Poster: Palestine Is Not A Liberal Cause

The Huffington Post Monitor has created some posters illustrating Palestine Is Not A Liberal Cause

Below is one of them:

Video: Why Are Those "Human Rights Activists" Aboard The #Flotilla So Eager To Help Terrorists?

Instead of helping terrorists, wouldn't it make sense to free Gazans from those terrorists?

Muslim States Tell Hamas To Recognize Israel

Just last week, the question was Why Is The Arab League Suddenly Condeming Syria?

Now Hamas is the target of the Muslim world:

Muslim states call on Hamas to recognize Quartet terms

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean called on Monday for Hamas to accept the Quartet’s three conditions for recognizing the Islamist movement – renunciation of violence, recognition of Israel and accepting the agreements signed in the past by Israel and the PLO.

Video: Ingrid & Jörgen go to Gaza Aboard The #Flotilla

There is aid to Gaza, and then there is support for the Gazans

The Next Big US Aliyah To Israel Might Not Include Only Jews

Dovber Halevi, a freelance writer in Israel, writes about The American Aliyah . . . . and how it will happen.

He contrasts US present--and the prospects for continued--economic problems with the economic situation in Israel:

Israel has a debt that is, according to the CIA factbook, 77% of its economy. This ratio is concerning, but not critical. The difference is that Israel has just discovered $1 trillion in natural resources off its coast. The next 15 years will see massive development of these resources and its use domestically, as well as its export to the world. Yes, Israel will probably double its debt in the next one to two decades, but her economy will grow at twice that pace. By 2025, Bezrat Hashem, the ratio of debt to GDP could be 45-50%, a very healthy number.

Mideast Media Sampler 06/21/2011

From DG:

1) Religious extremism in the Middle East

No not in Israel. In Egypt.

2) Friends don't let friends support terror

Foreign Affairs has a fascinating article, Aiding Friend and Foe in Palestine (h/t Retweet by Jonathan Schanzer )

Additionally, it could be argued that because Hamas does not control the PA outright, aid to the PA is not the same as aid to Hamas. This may seem persuasive in some circumstances; for instance, if Hamas held only a small minority of the PA’s parliamentary seats.

Beyond The Narrative Is The Historical Fact Of Zionism And 1948

Daniel Pipes writes that contrary to Arab claims, the history of Zionism was all about Not Stealing Palestine, but Purchasing Israel.

Pipes points out that conquest has been the historical norm, where countries have been established through invasion and at someone else’s expense.

Germanic tribes, Central Asian hordes, Russian tsars, and Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors remade the map. Modern Greeks have only a tenuous connection to the Greeks of antiquity. Who can count the number of times Belgium was overrun? The United States came into existence after the defeat of Native Americans. Kings marauded in Africa, Aryans invaded India. In Japan, Yamato-speakers eliminated all but tiny groups such as the Ainu.

Policeman Punished For Refusing To Muslin Prayers

In the context of other stories that have surfaced about Muslim attempts at proselytizing, this story is not unique--but the attempt to punish someone who wanted no part of it is:

Policeman sues over orders to attend Islamic prayer

A Tulsa, Okla., police captain is suing his chief and the city after he was demoted and targeted by an internal investigation for refusing orders to attend an event featuring lessons in Islam, a tour and a prayer service at a mosque linked to an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror financing trial.

With All The Turmoil There, Why Is Israel Obama's Favorite Target In The Middle East

Jackson Diehl asks the question: Why is Obama so tough on Israel and timid on Syria?:

One of the hallmarks of the Arab Spring has been the emergence of a new and more modest American foreign policy. The Obama administration has insisted on not taking the lead in promoting democratic change; it has declined to act unless not just the French and British but the Arab League go first. It still can’t bring itself to say that Bashar al-Assad, a dictator and implacable U.S. enemy who is using tanks and helicopter gunships to slaughter his people, is not qualified to lead Syria to democracy.

Yet there is one big exception: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.