‘All I Have Left…’

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Obama Took The Blue Pill

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Another Obama Press Conference

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Presumptions

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Congress: Missing The Mark

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Flying Pigs: Israel delegation to UN wins praise from Arab diplomats

Haaretz:

The United Nations headquarters in New York is usually not a place in which Israel receives compliments, yet the Israeli delegation there recently garnered rave reviews for the way it responded to the explosion of a Hezbollah weapons cache in southern Lebanon.

Though unable to say so publicly, Arab representatives at the UN were impressed with the Israelis’ efficient and successful diplomatic campaign following the incident.

Instead, Arab deputies and officials criticized the Lebanese government “whose representatives failed in a frightening fashion,” in the words of one Lebanese journalist.

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In the wake of the weapons cache explosion, diplomats in New York credit the Israeli delegation with exposing Hezbollah as “the neighborhood bully.” This is a significant achievement considering that some in the UN have refrained from labeling Hezbollah as a destabilizing factor in the region.

The Israeli contingent can take solace from an article written by the Lebanese correspondent to the UN, Nazar Abud, which appeared in the al-Akhbar newspaper.

Abud mocked “the slowness of [the Lebanese government's] response to Israel’s actions, its failure to deal with Israel’s claims, and its hopelessness in the face of Israel’s activity.”

The Lebanese journalist referred to last week’s Security Council session in which the secretary general’s liaison claimed that the weapons cache which exploded belonged to Hezbollah.

“The Security Council meeting looked like a Lebanese failure,” Abud wrote. “Israel acted in full force by launching a public relations campaign. The Israeli response was viewed as a success particularly in view of the failure of Lebanon’s counter-response.”

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev, sent no less than three letters to the UN chief and to the head of the Security Council. The missives included details which prove Hezbollah’s complicity in the incidents in south Lebanon.

In parallel, a number of Israeli diplomats, including Amir Weissbrod, who is the delegation’s liaison to the Security Council, acted behind the scenes. They held discussions with ambassadors and senior UN officials, divulging information on Hezbollah’s activities in south Lebanon.

“The fact that Hezbollah gave many different versions of the incidents and claimed that Israel wants to change UNIFIL’s pattern of operation proved that Israel succeeded in presenting a narrative for what happened in southern Lebanon,” Weissbrod said.

Obama’s Humility

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Justice Jackhammer

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White House Beer? Maybe Not

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In Praise of Prejudice: Theodore Dalrymple on where a society without prejudice will get us

The Social Afairs Unit:

Theodore Dalrymple argues that the police should use their instincts – in other words their prejudices – more, not less, if they are to be more effective in fighting crime.

…The other day I happened to see a fellow-passenger reading an article in a newspaper that I had missed, about the way in which police in Britain have now started searching white people against whom they have no suspicions whatever, simply to balance the racial proportions of people searched in their efforts to prevent terrorism.

I do not know whether the story is true, but as the Americans say, “it listens”: it is perfectly plausible or even likely, because of our obsession with targets and quotas. I admit that I am highly sceptical about how much of the activity carried out in the name of anti-terrorism is genuinely and necessarily connected with that end, but racial quotas can only weaken that connection further…

The pretence that one can approach the world without prejudice is dishonest and absurd. The sleep of prejudice brings forth bureaucratic monsters. It is to go into the world without the faintest idea about where one might find the things one is looking for…

The failure to make the most obvious judgments leads to vicious absurdity. I recall the case of one young man of Indian extraction who was set upon by three young louts with a long history of violence. The young man was thoroughly respectable, as well as being self-evidently mild-mannered; but the three louts accused him of having attacked them first, an accusation so prima facie absurd that one would have thought no one could entertain it for a moment. But, in the name of equity, the police treated it as seriously as the young man’s accusation against them, which was far from absurd. They charged him as well as the three louts; and offered to drop the charges only if he dropped the charges against the three louts.

That is justice in a society that claims to be without prejudice.

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What To Expect If Obamacare Passes

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