BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

from the must-read RBO : Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who campaigned for President Obama in 2008, yesterday slammed the U.S. leader’s recent treatment of Israel as “outrageous” and “hostile,” declaring he is “close” to “getting off the Obama train.” Koch’s sentiments are significant. The former politician has long been an indicator of American Jewish sentiment regarding U.S. presidents and Israel. His statements may serve as a signal that some American Jews are moving away from the Obama administration. Koch was speaking in a radio interview with WND senior reporter Aaron Klein, who hosts an investigative program on New York’s WABC 770 AM. The former mayor took issue with the Obama administration’s diplomatic row with Israel last month after a Jerusalem municipality announced the construction of 1,600 new homes in the neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, an already existing Jerusalem Jewish community. That announcement came during a visit to the region by Vice President Joe Biden...

Racial Profiling is Nothing New America has gone through many shameful periods of racial profiling. Poles, Irish and Russians. Even the Puritans wouldn't go anywhere near the Quakers. Always an 'us vs. them' mentality. (By the way, do NOT try to equivalate these things with the profiling of Islamists. I don't know of any Poles or Irish who purposefully flew planes into buildings And I certainly don't know of ANY Jew who strapped explosives to their own child and sent them onto a crowded bus!) Hizzoner The Mensch has an interesting post in JPost on the karma bus and antisemitism (I won't comment on what he says about Carter other than 'regretable' is being polite: 'I don't want to talk with that dirty Jew' by Ed Koch In 1968, I was elected to Congress from the 17th Congressional District in Manhattan, known as the Silk Stocking District. My interests in Washington were diverse, ranging from mass transit to foreign affairs and human right...

ED KOCH SEES THE LIGHT! Unfortunately it may just be a flashlight held by Tom (sociopathic pundit) Friedman. "Highly regarded?" By who, Ed? Garbagemen and Flat Earth sychophants? But he gets the rest of it right!! Good job, Ed! I'm Done Defending the Iraq Policy By Ed Koch I'm bailing out. I will no longer defend the policy of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq to assist the Iraqi central government in the ongoing civil war. While our men and women in the military suffer casualties daily, the Iraqi government refuses to take the major political actions required to end the civil war. The U.S. government told the Iraqi leaders that it needed to achieve 18 goals. Our administration's recent report to the U.S. Congress on how close the Iraqis have come to achieving those goals states that eight have been achieved, no progress has been made on eight others, and two have had mixed results. With regard to the most important goals, which include bringing the Sunni population...