Daily Archives: March 19, 2010

If Obama abandons Israel, what then?

Victor SharpeBy The Jerusalem Connection March 19, 2010

By Victor Sharpe August 15, 2005, began as a day of infamy. It ushered in a great tribulation for the Jewish state, but one forced upon it by its very own Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. It began one day after the annual commemoration of the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’ Av, the…

How Obama created the Biden incident

UncategorizedBy The Jerusalem Connection March 19, 2010

By Charles Krauthammer Why did President Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in Israel’s Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Biden was visiting,…