Frauke John and Sabrina Schmitt, suggest these:

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Good news. If Washington Institute’s David Pollock report on the Middle Eastern/Muslim reaction to events in Iran is to be trusted, Iranian opposition forces can expect some serious help. It is Saudi financial support, rather than Obama’s Cairo speech, that was behind the recent electoral victory of the anti-Syrian, anti-Hezbollah forces. The Saudis, unlike the Americans, have money, are willing to spend it and need to answer to no one.

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Those who continue to insist that what we’re facing is not a clash of cultures, might consider this Associated Press story about the women participating in election protests in Iran.

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Nov. 4 will mark the 30th anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history.

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Qatar’s English daily,The Peninsular,provides us with the information MSM does it’s best to hide for it does not support the claim that Obama’s caution has been reciprocated or prevented the US from becoming “the issue.” The chants were too complex not to have been carefully orchastrated:

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I hope Barack Obama takes the time to read Ayatollah Khamenei’s speech. He would find it most educational. For the Supreme Leader, as Obama likes to call him, has not directed his rhetorical fire at his most forthright detractors, France and Germany. No, he directed them, as he always did and would have done if Obama had been more forthright in his response, at the United States. If president Obama hoped his “tepid” response would undermine Khamenei’s ability to posit America as the enemy (second, of course, to the Zionists), he was wrong. In other words, he betrayed American values in a manner that disgusted EVEN the editors of the Egyptian government daily Al Ahram and got “Death to America” chants in return.

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The head of Israel’s military intelligence argues that Street protests beginning of end for Iran

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First, a recent news item, about which JihadWatch.com’s Robert Spencer would say “tiny minority” alert:

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President Obama: We are good boys. You may do anything you wish to your people and we will remain respectfully silent:

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There is a popular notion that the world has changed dramatically with the election of a new American President and that the United States will not be challenged by ambitious peer competitors and rogue states in the coming decades. While this is a hopeful concept, it is also inaccurate.

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By the way Moussavi is no Moderate or reformist either. You Americans are interesting people. Get with the program - Moussavi is the means we used as an excuse to tear the regime apart.

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In a superb article one of my favorite columnist, Brett Stephens, points out that Obama would much rather see “regime change” come to democratic Israel than to Theocratic Iran and, hence, can be expected to treat Netanyahu much more harshly than Ahmadinejad. Of course, nothing else can be expected from the man whose most beloved mentor is Jeremiah Wright. Unfortunately, Stephens goes on:

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IRANIAN ARTISTS IN EXILE URGE the world not to recognize the legitimacy of the elections.

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They are demonstrating in Boston, Toronto, London, Vienna, Berlin, Budapest and more importantly, in Dubai and Malaysia!  Watch videos here http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/92055.html

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The Obama administration, according to Haaretz, hopes to improve relations with the Arab world by putting pressure on Israel.

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Marty Peretz, who so recently half-defended the Reverend Mr. Wright, has thrown in the towel.  Today he half-defends Bill Kristol for reporting the results of a new study by Stanford/Columbia U professors on the anti-semitism of Democrats vs. Republicans.  The issue is not Israel for once - it’s the old canard that the Jews are responsible for economic disturbances.   The original study is reported in the liberal Boston Review - and I recommend that you read the comments, particularly the chap who says that even the anti-Israel is not anti-Jewish, just anti-Zionist, except for the few who think the Arabs are better behaved than the Jews. 

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In the new Weekly Standard (June 22), see my new piece on the Cuba spy Myers.

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Consider: ”U.S. analysts find it “not credible” that challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote, a senior U.S. officials told FOX News.” American “experts” on Iran are shocked, shocked, shocked Karim Sadjapour, analyst at carnegie endowment for international peace:

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The government-run media in Iran (as opposed to the government-run media here) is announcing that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has “won” “re-election.”

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“Your writeups or anything by anyone are always of help to me,” he writes. “It never hurts. Rather silence would.”

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A little basic psychology here.

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Roula Khalaf of the Financial Times reports: ”Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has often backed Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s approach, has taken notice. Last week he responded to the criticism by insisting the “honour of the nation” was “reflected in the world”.“I do not accept the sayings of those who imagine that our nation has become belittled in the world be-cause of its commitment to its principles,” he said. “This path will continue until final victory.”

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There are times I wish for creative ambiguity. Watching Hillary Clinton dial back not only her own campaign assertion but also her own envoy’s recommendation that the US would make clear to Iran that it would retaliate militarily against an Iranian nuclear attack, I wished George Stephanopoulos had not stiven so hard for clarity.

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Obama offered a “personal commitment” to bridge US differences with Muslims in his much anticipated speech to the Islamic world this week in Egypt. As his aides said leading up to the speech: “He will discuss how the United States and Muslim communities around the world can bridge some of the differences that have divided them.”

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The brilliant Ira Stoll is dismayed.  He writes on Commentary’s Contentions that he “ had actually defended Obama against those who felt he would be a disaster for Israel. This speech makes me think that may have been a mistake.”

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The president’s Cairo speech was by no means as bad as I feared, but he dropped a wonderful opportunity to link Arabs (in particular, not Muslims in general) and Jews. Both peoples - not just the Jews - owe their independent nations to the sacrifices of the Western democracies in World War I and specifically to the principles of national self-determination that America’s race-obsessed president Woodrow Wilson insisted upon. Israel, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia - all of these states were created by the British forces (freed by the American rescue of the Allies) fighting the Turkish state in the war to end war.

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In an interview broadcast today on the BBC, President Obama said this about the terrorist, murderous, apocalyptic, and maniacal regime in the Islamic Republic of Iran:

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There can be nothing more dangerous to Israel and onerous to the US than a compliant Israel for it invites endless pressure on the US. Indeed, it makes the US responsible for each and every Israeli action. This has been true in the past and it is true at the present. Hence, the greatest help Netanyahu can give Obama is to continue to say no.

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While advocating “conversations” with sworn enemies the new administration neglects allies. Gibbs disses the entire British press, once again Obama fails to include Israel in his PRESIDENTIAL visit to the Middle East, Buchenwald is an unsettling substitution, to say the least, relations with Germany are poor and disillusioned Indians see “Hazardous days ahead.” Former Democratic defense secretary, Bill Cohen could not agree more

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What may be the final follow-up to the Valentine’s week massacre of 2007 got local coverage only — in the Salt Lake Tribune and by Salt Lake City radio station KSL. But at least a couple of the findings in this recently released FBI report on the incident go unmentioned by either news organization. Here are the significant findings in the report about Bosnian-Muslim murderer Sulejman Talovic, who killed five Americans and wounded four:

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The first U.S. jihadi cell of 2009 was just busted by the FBI and New York City Police Department. Four Muslim men were arrested in connection with alleged plots to blow up synagogues and shoot down military aircraft en route Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Pundits profess to be amazed at the way in which Congress has treated President Obama’s request for funding to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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