Because the world would prefer not to be reminded, Charles Krauthammer is here to remember June 1967: a time when Israel had no friends.
The world will soon be awash with 40th-anniversary retrospectives of the war — and exegeses on the peace of the ages that awaits if Israel would only to return to lines of June 4, 1967. But Israelis are cautious. They remember the terror of that June 4 and of that unbearable May when, with Israel in possession of no occupied territories whatsoever, the entire Arab world was furiously preparing Israel’s imminent extinction. And the world did nothing.
That was the UN 40 years ago. Here it is today.
World Bank without Wolfowitz nicely summed up by Power Line.
Mark’s Corner post on the Flight 93 memorial.
Last time out Nat Hentoff told of efforts to boycott China because of its refusal to help bring Sudan to heel in Darfur.
Bloomberg News tells us Fidelity Funds has responded.
May Month item is on China’s cultural revolution.
If you’re like Pickerhead, you don’t quite know what to make of the immigration bill. When we see Dems and the GOP all smiles, it’s safe to assume the country is getting hosed. However, we know something needs to be done. Steve Malanga of City Journal has tepid support for the bill.
Because emotions are running so high on both sides of the political aisle over immigration legislation, there’s likely to be lots of heated debate and perhaps more compromise. But although both liberals and conservatives are going to focus on the hot-button issue of amnesty, the real linchpin of the legislation is a shift to a skills-based immigration system. If we do that sensibly and thoroughly and don’t allow amendments to undermine or weaken it, we may finally have a chance to create an immigration policy that works.
More lukewarm support comes from Ruben Navarrette of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Fred Barnes is a little happier with the effort.
Mark Steyn is decidedly against. He makes a good point here about the people who will be administering the process.
As for the notion that dumping a population the size of four mid-size European Union nations into the lap of America’s arthritic “legal immigration” (please, no tittering; apparently, there is still such a thing) bureaucracy will lead to tougher enforcement and rigorous scrutiny and lots of other butch-sounding stuff, well, if that were the case, there wouldn’t be a problem in the first place. You can declare that “illegal” now mean “legal” very easily; to mandate that “incompetent” now means “competent” is a tougher proposition.
Pity John Edwards as he tries to differentiate himself from the rest of the field. And yet now he has done something that makes it hard to contain contempt. Thankfully, a grownup from the left delivers a spanking. Here’s Joe Conason from Salon.
While one can oppose the war and still support the troops, the presidential candidate’s call for antiwar protests on Memorial Day is a bad idea.
The Captain posts on a Fred Thompson ‘Fairness Doctrine’ piece.
New Editor on George Will column. And a link to a PBS interview with Andrew Young who called the charges against Wolfowitz, “bureaucratic crap.â€
The humor section is graced with Paul Greenberg’s letter to folks who can’t take a joke.
Oh, yes, the letter in question (“Daylight Exacerbates Warming,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, April 16, 2007) drew attention from Juneau to Timbuktu. It was the work of the Sage of Hot Springs, Ark., Connie Meskimen-a lawyer there who keeps his powder dry and tongue firmly planted in cheek.
There’s no need to go into the scientific details, but the burden of his missive was that by, moving Daylight Savings Time up a month this year, thus providing an extra hour of sunlight in March, Congress had thoughtlessly brought summer on in spring.
One of WaPo’s bloggers has some thoughts about Montgomery County, MD.