Call me narrowly partisan, call me a flaming fanatic–actually, I am neither–but given what I know, there is simply no way that I can vote for any American candidate who supports President Obama’s position on Israel or on the Islamic world. I am thinking of Obama’s low bow to King Abdullah, his maiden-voyage speech in [...]

Click here for parts 1-6 of my interview with Howard Bloom. In those previous installments Howard explained his intellectual approach to the world. In today’s chunks of our discussion you begin to find out how he applies them to the issues that interest us here at NRB. First up: the anti-Semitic war against Israel. Part [...]

The Arab and Muslim world are, by nature, chronically violent. In addition to tribal and family feuds, religious and political wars are ever-constant, as are slavers, gun-runners, pirates, tyrants, torturers, and garden-variety thieves and gangsters. Add the routine and savage persecution of non-Muslims and Muslim dissidents, the savage subordination of women, the rise of jihadic [...]

Israel must say “no� to extending the freeze formally or de facto. Israel must also say “no� to the peace process sooner or later. Even if Israel continued to build and the PA was prepared to return to the peace process, Israel should refuse to negotiate unless of course she is prepared to swallow the [...]

As Turkey moves toward Sharia, it also moves toward jihad. "Gaza flotilla was ‘Turkish provocation’, Livni tells enquiry: Turkey exploitation of a diplomatic vacuum was behind the decision to launch aid convoy raided by Israel, opposition leader says," by Barak Ravid for Haaretz, October 25: Opposition leader Tzipi Livni testified…

According to this report, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Cyril Bustros "then escalated the situation by declaring that the original promises made by God to the children of Israel ‘were nullified by Christ. There is no longer a chosen people.’" If this is accurate, then it must be said that…

I knew my recent Ron Paul-bashing post would get the Paulites into a tizzy—they’ve been as charming as ever in the comments, and now Wesley Messamore at Young Americans for Liberty, an activist group started by young Paul drones, is taking shots at me for my “specious and empty charges� against the demented one. But [...]

Fascinating. "Israel’s Conflict as Game Theory," by Yisrael Aumann, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on analyzing conflicts using game theory. This piece was posted at Israel Defender on October 23: Two men–let us call them Rick and Steve– are put in a small…

Thank you to Stand With Us’ Once in a Lifetime contest for making this trip possible!
Jet lag is the Devil. I slept all day, so now I am up all night. Tomorrow may result in hospitalization from having too many energy shots.
As I was blogging last time, I was on my way to the International [...]

Prelude. “Israeli, Lebanese soldiers exchange fire on border,” from Reuters, August 3 (thanks to all who sent this in): EDAYSEH, Lebanon (Reuters) – Israeli artillery shelled a Lebanese village on Tuesday, wounding two people, after Lebanese Army troops fired warning shots at Israeli soldiers along the usually quiet but tense…