Saturday 9 May 2009
Israel Matzav: If the demography is no longer 'inevitable,' do we still 'need' a 'Palestinian state'
Israel Matzav: If the demography is no longer 'inevitable,' do we still 'need' a 'Palestinian state'
Israel Matzav: A 'phony fight'
A 'phony fight'
In his Friday column in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer dissects the New York Times interview with Khaled Meshaal from earlier this week. Krauthammer concludes that Meshaal learned his lessons well from Yasser Arafat.
Westerners may be stupid, but Hamas is not. It sees the new American administration making overtures to Iran and Syria. It sees Europe, led by Britain, beginning to accept Hezbollah. It sees itself as next in line. And it knows what to do. Yasser Arafat wrote the playbook.
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Israel Matzav: A 'phony fight'
Israel Matzav: F-35 purchases held up over computer access
F-35 purchases held up over computer access
I have discussed the purchase by Israel from the United States of the stealth-enabled F-35 fighter jet, most recently here. In that post, I noted that the United States was refusing to let Israel install its own technologies in the jets. With the cancellation of the F-22 Raptor program by the Obama administration, Israel has felt a greater need than previously to purchase the F-35. This morning, JPost is reporting that the F-35 purchases are being held up again, this time over Israel's request to be granted access to the plane's internal computer mainframe. As a result, Israel may choose to upgrade existing F-15's instead.
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Israel Matzav: F-35 purchases held up over computer access
Israel Matzav: Steyn: Who will dare not to damn Israel?
Steyn: Who will dare not to damn Israel?
Mark Steyn has a lengthy and brilliant column in the upcoming issue of Commentary (Hat Tip: Melanie Phillips). I'll give you a teaser than then you have to read the whole thing.
The Muslim world has spent decades peddling the notion that the reason a vast oil-rich region stretching thousands of miles is politically deformed and mired in grim psychoses is all because of a tiny strip of turf barely wider than my New Hampshire township. It will make an ever more convenient scapegoat for the problems of a far vaster territory from the mountains of Morne to the Urals. There was a fair bit of this in the days after 9/11. As Richard Ingrams wrote on the following weekend in the London Observer: “Who will dare to damn Israel?”
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Israel Matzav: Steyn: Who will dare not to damn Israel?
Israel Matzav: Were AIPAC delegates instructed to lobby for a 'two-state solution'?
Were AIPAC delegates instructed to lobby for a 'two-state solution'?
Earlier this week, I linked an article from JPost whose headline was that AIPAC was sending its delegates to lobby members of the US Congress to sign a petition endorsing the 'two-state solution.' The article included the following in its text:
In this year's lobbying effort, to take place on Tuesday, the AIPAC thousands will be asking their congressmen to sign on to a letter addressed to Obama that explicitly posits the need for a "viable Palestinian state."
It is expected that the overwhelming majority of the congressmen will sign it.
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Israel Matzav: Were AIPAC delegates instructed to lobby for a 'two-state solution'?
TERRORISTS USE PUBLIC ACCESS IN L.A. TO LURE RECRUITS
Free Trips & Tips if You’re an Arab!
See L.A. and Find Out How to Infiltrate Public Access to Recruit Terrorists!
By Arlene Peck
As Jay Leno says on his late night show, “Folks we’re living in tough times” However, that doesn’t seem to be the case if you’re a member of the press, and a Muslim, wanting to travel to our shores from any one of a dozen countries to learn how to do ‘’creative broadcasting programming.”
As many of you know, I have, for the past twenty years hosted a television show, “Wow it’s Arlene Peck,” which is mostly a celebrity interview show. Recently, the city fathers of Los Angeles, in their infinite wisdom, decided to cancel Public Access. And I, along with others, have been meeting with the L.A. City Council to try to get them to see what a mistake this would be and to have them reconsider their decision.
As a result, I happened to be in the office of the woman who has been working with me on this campaign, and who produces a successful Public Access program, “Disclosure", where she tackles issues and brings them to the attention of the public.
While there, I glanced down on her desk and saw a letter from the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles. Its contents caused me to do a double-take. It was from Kim Ngoc Le who is the Senior Program Officer of the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles, thanking this producer for “taking time out of (her) schedule to host our delegation of broadcasting experts from North Africa and the Near East.” Apparently the nine lucky 'honored guests' were from such countries and television stations as Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel, GAZA, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.
And, according to Ms Ngoc Le, "These distinguished visitors have been nominated by our Department of State to travel to the U.S. to learn from their American counterparts about creative broadcast programming. The IVCLA is pleased to entertain them during their short time in L.A.”
Later in this letter, which I came upon by happenstance, my friend was asked if she could book a room for them to meet with her. “It is difficult for us to find a place. Even though the United States State Department FUNDS their airfare and lodging, there is no provision in the budget for meeting rooms. Hence the IVCLA has been asked to seek out community centers, libraries, and other public institutions willing to donate their meeting space.” So, being a citizen of good standing, I got in the car and we booked these representatives of the State Dept We also found a meeting room at a neighborhood park. After all, how could you refuse a request saying, “We just need a private room for thirteen people (the delegation consists of nine visitors and three interpreters). It would be a shame for them not to be able to meet with you because we cannot find a meeting space."
Well, for sure! Rumor has it that our country is in a depression. But if we have the money to bring over a group of distinguished representatives, from such marvelous countries as Gaza and Saudi Arabia, we can’t be doing so badly. I just hope, in this little junket that Obama and company have arranged, they’re taking them to Disneyland and all of our other fun spots.
For a brief period, I was looking forward to sitting like a fly on the wall at this meeting to see what transpired. However, in my over zealous effort to bring this information to the public, I contacted terrorism expert, Dr. Carole Lieberman and journalist Ari Bussel, so they might join me, utilizing their expertise on terrorism to contribute to the discussion and to assess their motives for learning how to use the Public Access airwaves. It seemed more than likely that any Public Access TV show put on by journalists from terrorist countries would be used to spread propaganda and recruit terrorists! What's worse is that our government is paving - and paying - the way for them to learn these skills! I was then un-invited and never was allowed to attend.
I remember several years ago, going to the local mosque in Mar Vista. They had some visitor’s day or something, again sponsored by our Justice Dept. I remember the panel on the dais was teaching their audience how to know when they had a complaint or they felt they were being ‘profiled’. I thought it obscene that the members of the mosque were being given information on how to use our laws and customs to harm us. However, the topper was when a well-dressed woman stood up and said, “Our children are now grown and going into the universities. Our next job has to be to propel them into three fields: education, politics and finally media.”
Well, folks, it is my opinion, that they accomplished it all. Our universities are hotbeds of Muslim teachings and conflict. How many of you have noticed the names on the articles in your local newspapers praising the Muslim lifestyle? The L.A. Times seems to have a three-page spread every week or two deploring the plight of the poor Palestinians. And, as far as politics, I feel it pretty safe to say they have arrived! From the White House on down. And, finally, as Jay Leno says, "We're going through tough times.” But don’t you feel encouraged?
Personally, I think that we are ignorant and ill-informed to consider it positive and hospitable to teach terrorist nations how to use our system of Public Access as a cheap and easy way to recruit more terrorists. And amazingly, even though our programs are being cut and there are no funds for schools and police, we can always find spare money to play host to these visitors from 'poor' countries like Saudi Arabia, United Arabs Emirates and the rest.
taken from : B'NAI ELIN (http://bnaielim.blogspot.com/)
The Torah Revolution: A thought on the pop's visit to Israel
B"HI couldn't agree more with the "all due respect to Rabbi Lau" part of your post, only to find that, again, I couldn't agree more with you where you add your thoughts to his. So, what's going on? He is right or you?
I think it may be worth while to point out that what we are in front here is a pattern.
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The Torah Revolution: A thought on the pop's visit to Israel
The Pope's Visit And The Final Solution
The Pope's Visit And The Final Solution
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ESSER AGAROTH - The Pope's Visit And The Final Solution
DoubleTapper: Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel
The Obama Administration has broken down its plan to destroy Israel into two subsections, Israel itself, and American Jews. Obama's people have studied the problem and understand where Carter went wrong. Obama does not want to have the same image problems as Carter in the Jewish community.
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DoubleTapper: Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel
Peres tells Ban: Israel will never accept UN Gaza probe - Haaretz - Israel News
Peres tells Ban: Israel will never accept UN Gaza probe
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies
Tags: Syria, Golan Heights
President Shimon Peres said on Wednesday that Israel would never apologize for its military offensive on the Gaza Strip earlier this year, calling a damning United Nations report on its conduct there "unfair and one-sided."
The UN-commissioned investigation found the Israel Defense Forces were responsible for civilian deaths and damage to UN compounds in Gaza Strip.
"We will never accept it," Peres, after meeting with UN Secretary Genera Ban Ki-Moon in New York. "It's outrageous."
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Actor Will Smith wins Jewish group's highest honor - Haaretz - Israel News
Actor Will Smith wins Jewish group's highest honor
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel news, Will Smith
The international Jewish human rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center has bestowed its highest honor, the 2009 Humanitarian award, on Hollywood mega-star Will Smith.
Holocaust survivors, prominent businesspeople, politicians and members of the entertainment industry joined members of the Jewish community in honoring the accomplished actor and philanthropist at the Wiesenthal Center's National Tribute Dinner in Los Angeles.
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Actor Will Smith wins Jewish group's highest honor - Haaretz - Israel News
The adventures of 'Milton' - Nazi spy in Eretz Israel - Haaretz - Israel News
The adventures of 'Milton' - Nazi spy in Eretz Israel
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel news, Nazi, spy
Twelve years ago, a friend handed an envelope to Gad Shimron. At the time, Shimron was the Israeli daily Ma'ariv's correspondent in Germany, and he was occupied with tying up loose ends as the end of his stint in Germany loomed. He didn't bother looking at the contents of the envelope.
It was only a few years ago that Shimron finally got around to looking inside the envelope, when he moved from one apartment to another. In the envelope, shimron discovered a historical treasure, which he incorporated into his new novel "The Templer's Lover from Emek Refa'im" (Matar) - which tells the story of a love affair between a Hadassah nursing school student and a Jerusalem German Colony native, which sparked uproar in the thirties and forties.
The book combines fictional details with historical fact as Shimron exposes a historical event that has never before been published: the story of a spy for the Abwehr - a Nazi intelligence organization - who operated in Palestine while it was under a British mandate during World War II. The documents in the fateful envelope were apparently from this spy's operations dossier. The spy's code name was Milton.
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The adventures of 'Milton' - Nazi spy in Eretz Israel - Haaretz - Israel News
Lucky Number Eight
Lucky Number Eight
Life on the Planet Eight
Have you ever sensed that there is more to life than you can touch or feel or smell? That there is a dimension to reality that cannot be experienced by any of your senses but that you know to be as real as the feeling you have when holding the hand of someone you love? Are you convinced that you have a soul, a nonphysical core to your being that will never be detected by an x-ray, MRI or any other type of technology? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the number eight is for you.
The world was created in seven days and therefore, in Jewish thought, the number seven represents the natural, physical world, the world that we can touch and smell and feel. The number eight, on the other hand, represents that which transcends the natural world, that which emanates from beyond the limits of our senses but that we can reach out and touch—and be touched and stirred by.
Seven is the world we live in. Eight is the world that fills the lives we lead with depth, meaning and spirituality—and that is our great challenge: To infuse the common place, natural, physical, pedestrian activities of life with the refined spices of kindness, integrity, spirituality and the pursuit of meaning.
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Lucky Number Eight
Chesler Chronicles » Brother on Trial for Killing Sister in Ottawa: Guess Where He’s Originally From
Brother on Trial for Killing Sister in Ottawa: Guess Where He’s Originally From
In the fall of 2006, in Ottawa, Canada, a twenty three-year-old Afghan brother, Hasibullah Sadiqi, shot his 20 year-old sister, Khatera Sadiqi, and her fiance, Feroz Mangal, while they sat in a parked car. Both victims died.
Now, three years later, Sadiqi is on trial. According to the Ottawa Citizen, “The defence is expected to advance the argument of provocation, which could reduce a murder charge to manslaughter…The Crown, meanwhile, intends to prove that Sadiqi’s actions were planned and deliberate.”
In other words: Sadiqi will argue that the alleged “dishonor” his sister brought upon her family by choosing her own husband was a “provocation.” This is similar to Zein Isa, the Palestinian terrorist father who, together with the sixteen year-old girl’s mother, Maria, stabbed their allegedly “too-western” teenage daughter, Palestina, to death in St. Louis in 1989. Zein Isa insisted that he did this in “self-defense.”
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Chesler Chronicles » Brother on Trial for Killing Sister in Ottawa: Guess Where He’s Originally From
