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Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Israel Matzav: Left waking up to reality?
Is America's Left starting to realize that President Obama isn't God and that the World will not necessarily follow Obama's dictates? There's an interesting comment in Monday's Washington Post by Jackson Diehl (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). It's limited to foreign policy, it does include Israel, and surprisingly, it does not only blame Israel for the 'impasse' in our region
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Israel Matzav: Breaking: Europeans walk out on Ahmadinejad; UPDATE: Video added
The European delegations that remain in attendance at the Durban II hatefest in Geneva, Switzerland walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he attacked Israel.
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Israel Matzav: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center: Iran using Chavez to export Islamic revolution to Latin America
Just two days after US President Barack Hussein I'm Sorry Obama shook his hand warmly in Port of Spain, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a willing tool to export the Islamic revolution to Latin America and to threaten United States interests in the region.
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Israel Matzav: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center: Iran using Chavez to export Islamic revolution to Latin America
Israel Matzav: Watch Libyan Durban II chair squirm when confronted by Libyan torture victim (longer version)
On Sunday night, I ran a video of a Libyan torture victim speaking to the Durban II preparatory conference and making its Libyan chairwoman squirm. Here is a much longer, clearer and more explicit version of that video. This is great.
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Israel Matzav: Watch Libyan Durban II chair squirm when confronted by Libyan torture victim (longer version)
Israel Matzav: B-14594, B-14595, B-14596 and B-14597; UPDATED with video
The story of two former concentration camp inmates who met in Israel this month
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Israel Matzav: Roger Simon and Alan Dershowitz get up close and personal with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mystery writer Roger Simon (pictured) is in Geneva covering the Durban II hatefest for Pajamas Media. Simon filed a report about his coming close to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is staying in the same hotel as Simon and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Simon and Dershowitz were standing outside the hotel on Sunday night when Ahmadinejad and his entourage arrived. Here's how Roger described the experience (Hat Tip: Instapundit).
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Israel Matzav: A week too rich in bitter irony
During the night between Sunday and Monday, New Zealand and Germany joined Canada, Israel, Italy, the United States, Australia, Holland and Sweden in announcing that they would boycott the Durban II conference opening on Monday in Geneva. England and the Czech Republic announced that they would attend, but would only send low-level representatives. France is apparently still undecided.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, probably the world's most prominent Holocaust denier today, arrived in Geneva and met with Hans-Rudolf Merz, the President of Switzerland, a country that did as little as it could to save Jews during World War II so as to maintain it's 'neutrality.'
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Israel Matzav: A week too rich in bitter irony
DoubleTapper: Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day
The sirens wail for two minutes, the entire country comes to a standstill. Cars stop in the middle of the road, people sad, and take time to remember the martyrs and heroes.
Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day (Monday evening until Tuesday) was set to mark the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and has been traditionally commemorated around the world.
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DoubleTapper: Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance DayDoubleTapper: IDF Jets fly over Auschwitz
"We pilots of the Israeli Air Force, flying in the skies above the camp of horrors, arose from the ashes of the millions of victims and shoulder their silent cries, salute their courage and promise to be the shield of the Jewish people and its nation Israel."
-formation leader Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel
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HITLER. DURBAN, HOLOCAUST
Jewish holidays begin at sunset and end at sunset. This evening will see the beginning of Holocaust Commemoration Day in Israel (and in some Jewish communities beyond), called Yom HaShoah in Hebrew. The New York Times has a chilling article about the Nazi killing fields in the Soviet Union. A brief reminder of the dimensions of that horror.
Once every 19 years or so Yom HaShoah falls on April 20th, Hitler's birthday. During the Nazi era this was a very important day, with parades and ceremonies. Someone I know who went to an AUstrian highschool in the 1970s once told me that every year on April 20th many of the students appeared at school in brown shirts. In the 1970s.
Of course, we've got the Durban II United Nations anti-racism conference starting today, too. So far it's being boycotted by Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States and New Zealand, because it's got nothing to do with anti racism, and everything to do with antisemitism and shielding Islam from free speech. Iran's president is scheduled to give a speech there today, and the representatives of the UK, France, Austria, and other upright democracies will be there to celebrate with him, as will the Arab folks who recently feted Sudan's Omar Bashir, the indicted mass murderer and genocidaire.
The AP has a roundup on the event, which is mostly reasonable except for this wierd paragraph:
Still, after years of preparations there appears little evidence to validate these fears. The statement of 2001 that is so contentious now was cheered in Israel at the time, as it recognized the Jewish state's right to security.
Antisemitism has always flourished on lies, nothing new there. Anyway, the conflation of all these events on one day do rather serve to underline the state of the world. There have been worse moments of time, certainly, but the room for improvement keeps on getting bigger. Finally, the Palestinian contribution: a recent sermon by Ziad Abu Alhaj, broadcast on Hamas television on April 3rd, 2009. Here's some background. Notice that while the man doesn't like Israel, his hatred is directed at Jews, all of them always, his source is (his reading of) the Koran, and he's very clearly calling for world-wide genocide.
Before you get agitated about the wrong things, however: the content of his hate speech isn't new. People have been saying things like this with regularity for millennia, and some of their listeners have acted upon it will regularity of their own, even if the attempt to kill all Jews was a Nazi novelty. If there's anything new about that sermon, it's that now there's a large international constituency, a broad deep and important one, that fervently tells us the sermon doesn't mean what it says, it's not serious, or if it is it could easily be defused if only the Jews took note and changed, and what have you. That, perhaps, may be new. And perhaps not.
taken from:Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations (http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/)
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