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Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Israel Matzav: Where are American Jews?
Where are American Jews?
Richard Greenfield looks out over the Obama administration's continued swipes at Israel and asks "where are American Jews?" (Hat Tip: NY Nana). Israel Matzav: Where are American Jews?Where are American Jews during all of this?
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Israel Matzav: Christopher Hitchens on how Obama is handling Iran#links
Christopher Hitchens on how Obama is handling Iran
Christopher Hitchens has correctly summed up the inadequacy of President Obama's handling of Iran: There is then the larger question of the Iranian theocracy and its continual, arrogant intervention in our affairs: its export of violence and cruelty and lies to Lebanon and Palestine and Iraq and its unashamed defiance of the United Nations, the European Union,
and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the nontrivial matter of nuclear weapons. I am sure that I was as impressed as anybody by our president's decision to quote Martin Luther King—rather late in the week—on the arc of justice and the way in which it eventually bends. It was just that in a time of crisis and urgency he was citing the wrong King text (the right one is to be found in the "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"), and it was also as if he were speaking as the president of Iceland or Uruguay rather than as president of these United States. Coexistence with a nuclearized, fascistic theocracy in Iran is impossible even in the short run. The mullahs understand this with perfect clarity. Why can't we?
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Israel Matzav: Christopher Hitchens on how Obama is handling Iran
Israel Matzav: 'An international laughingstock'
'An international laughingstock'
Caroline Glick reflects on the real 'Obama effect,' a result of the American mainstream media's unwillingness to relate critically to the President: Read All at :
Israel Matzav: 'An international laughingstock'
Israel Matzav: State Department: 'Settlement freeze' includes Jerusalem
State Department: 'Settlement freeze' includes Jerusalem
In case you had any doubts, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly made it official on Monday in an interview with the Jerusalem Post: The Obama administration demand for a 'settlement freeze' includes the eastern part of Jerusalem. Israel Matzav: State Department: 'Settlement freeze' includes Jerusalem"We're talking about all settlement activity, yes, in the area across the line," he said, referring to neighborhoods in Jerusalem over the Green Line, or pre-1967 armistice line, in response to a question on where America's calls to halt construction in the settlements would be applied.
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Problem for Italian FM Frattini and for too many others
Problem for Italian FM Frattini and for too many others
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OK Frattini listen, here is a problem for you. I am an Italian citizen resident in Efraim, Samaria. Because I am a Jew and as a Jew I reside here, on my ancient, G-d given Holy Homeland, and as such I will defend it against the enemy, whoever that might turn out to be. It is a mitzvah, a Jewish religious duty, to do so. You say, Frattini, that I should be deported from here, because I'm a Jew and as a Jew you want me to be deported from where I supposed to live as a Jew, for my own good, for "peace". If I were not Jewish, I could stay, according to you and to your distinguished friends in Europe and in America. The question is this: what is the difference between your position today and Mussolini's deportation of the Jews of Italy to the camps and to Germany in the '40s? What IS the difference, Frattini? Never Again! Never! Get off from our backs!
- This is talkback # 16 on "Bibi: Preoccupation with settlements waste of time"
OK Frattini listen, here is a problem for you. I am an Italian citizen resident in Efraim, Samaria. Because I am a Jew and as a Jew I reside here, on my ancient, G-d given Holy Homeland, and as such I will defend it against the enemy, whoever that might turn out to be. It is a mitzvah, a Jewish religious duty, to do so. You say, Frattini, that I should be deported from here, because I'm a Jew and as a Jew you want me to be deported from where I supposed to live as a Jew, for my own good, for "peace". If I were not Jewish, I could stay, according to you and to your distinguished friends in Europe and in America. The question is this: what is the difference between your position today and Mussolini's deportation of the Jews of Italy to the camps and to Germany in the '40s? What IS the difference, Frattini? Never Again! Never! Get off from our backs!
- This is talkback # 16 on "Bibi: Preoccupation with settlements waste of time"
taken from :The Torah Revolution
The Middle Satan
The Middle Satan
Simon Tisdall at The Guardian is offended that Ahmedinejad and colleagues are blaming the UK for inciting the turmoil in Iran, along with the usual suspects such as the CIA and the Mossad.
Near the bottom of his column he admits, through very gritted teeth, that the antics of the Iranian regime are making Netanyhu's job easier.
So far so uninteresting. What is of greater value, if you're interested in peering into the cesspool of antisemitism and related hatreds beneath the veneer of civilisation in the UK and elsewhere, are the comments at the bottom of the column. Many of the peole who comment at CiF, that's the readership of the Guardian's website, fully accept Ahmedinejad's line. I remind you that comments on CiF are moderated by Guardian staff.
Near the bottom of his column he admits, through very gritted teeth, that the antics of the Iranian regime are making Netanyhu's job easier.
So far so uninteresting. What is of greater value, if you're interested in peering into the cesspool of antisemitism and related hatreds beneath the veneer of civilisation in the UK and elsewhere, are the comments at the bottom of the column. Many of the peole who comment at CiF, that's the readership of the Guardian's website, fully accept Ahmedinejad's line. I remind you that comments on CiF are moderated by Guardian staff.
taken from : Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations
We Don't Deny the Holocaust, We Do Accept Israel's Rights
We Don't Deny the Holocaust, We Do Accept Israel's Rights
CNN has an interview with an Iranian student in Teheran. His opinions are anecdotal - there's no way of knowing how representative he is - but his description of how the demonstrations are organized is less anecdotal; he tells that they're being organized by a leadership council, and people like himself go when and where the leaders tell them.
The anecdotal part is of course encouraging, were it to be widely accepted:
The anecdotal part is of course encouraging, were it to be widely accepted:
For about three decades our nation has been humiliated and insulted by this regime. Now Iranians are united again one more time after 1979 Revolution. We are a peaceful nation. We don’t hate anybody. We want to be an active member of the international community. We don’t want to be isolated. Is this much of a demand for a country with more than 2,500 years of civilization? We don’t deny the Holocaust. We do accept Israel’s rights. And actually, we want — we want severe reform on this structure. This structure is not going to be tolerated by the majority of Iranians. We need severe reform, as much as possible.
It occurs to me that if Israelis ever manage to talk to Iranians again, they won't be confronted by the Palestinian narative about how the European Jews colonized the Palestinians land and invented a false history. The Iranians have a long memory, apparently, so we can appeal to the mutual parts of it, which go back a very long time. Cyrus, for example, the Persian emperor who granted the Jews the right to return from Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE: that's quite a while ago, isn't it, and the Palestinian insistence on denying it denies one of his most famous acts, too, doesn't it?
takenfrom : Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations
SIX AFTER THE REVOLUTION
Six After the Revolution
Naj, the Iranian blogger to whom I reached out the other day, has responded. She assures me she's no enemy of Israel, and would be happy to talk once things calm down.
We all hope they'll calm down on the right side of history, not the wrong.
On a related matter, it's interesting to note that not only I admit not to knowing what's going on in Iran. Apparently, the American government doesn't know much, either, in spite of all those tweets, You-tube films, and what have you. It would be better, of course, if they did know, but it's reassuring to hear they don't think the stuff we're being inundated with is really enough.
We all hope they'll calm down on the right side of history, not the wrong.
On a related matter, it's interesting to note that not only I admit not to knowing what's going on in Iran. Apparently, the American government doesn't know much, either, in spite of all those tweets, You-tube films, and what have you. It would be better, of course, if they did know, but it's reassuring to hear they don't think the stuff we're being inundated with is really enough.
TAKEN FROM : Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations
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