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The Obama administration is set to notify Congress of plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia worth up to $60 billion, the largest U.S. arms deal ever, and is in talks with the kingdom about potential naval and missile-defense upgrades that could be worth tens of billions of dollars more.

Obama and many of his appointees “aim in particular to use American courts to import international law to override the policies adopted through the processes of representative government.”

Jonathan Spyer is not your typical Israeli journalist and political analyst. He has a PhD in International Relations, he fought in Lebanon during the summer war of 2006, then went back to Lebanon as a civilian on a second passport.

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton discusses the nuclear progress of Iran and the likelihood of an Israeli attack. “A huge victory for Iran”

While Obama dials back the space industry in the US, Israel looks at it as a growth industry.

“In other words, Netanyahu’s threat of a Middle Eastern conflict that could devastate Israel and escalate to all-out nuclear war carried less weight with Obama than the far less severe consequences threatened by the Saudis.” – American Spectator

It was the second such attack this year, following a similar volley in April that Israeli authorities say was fired from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.

The best look into Turkey’s turn toward radicalism has been provided by independent Turkish journalists who have for months been arguing that Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) is leading the country into the asphyxiating embrace of the East. The Islamist “lite” party, which won power in 2002, used to adhere to a policy of “zero problems with the neighbors;” today it prefers one of helping the neighbors cause problems with the West.

Writing in the London based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid, general manager of Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV, said that a nuclear Iran would seek to dominate the Gulf States in the Middle East and said he supported a military attack against Iran before it produces nuclear weapons.

Ok, I hate to admit it. I am one of those Jews who voted for Barack Hussein Obama (yuck!) thinking he had all the answers. Wrong! He not only didn’t have ALL the answers, he didn’t have ANY of the answers.