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From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

As a small boy my imagination was captured by aeroplanes although I rarely saw one. In the early 1950s, images and stories from the World War penetrated neutral Ireland. Sometimes Spitfires of the Air Corps tore through the sky around Sligo and we gawped at these magical machines, their Celtic roundels and tricolour under wing stripes so different from the RAF rings shown in our comics. I clearly recall a solitary one doing a slow roll over Sligo town, gracefully rotating on its own axis. I was fascinated by aeroplanes, read everything I could find about them, and had no greater desire than t...

Most of his forces now in the territories, you know how air power function. there are no surgical strikes, as we well know. once casualties take place in libya, you can imagine how the gadhafi regime would exploit this particular situation. you asked me a question about the arab states. look at the position of the arab league. the arab league has made it very clear, the support in no-fly zone over libya, yet at the same time, the arab league has made it very clear they are against western intervention, military intervention in libya. what this tells you is that the leaders, arab leaders, are f...