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February 2010

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME: DAVID SOLWAY

Charity Begins at Home Posted By David Solway Whenever the world gets into serious difficulties, whether owing to acts of men (i.e., “man-caused disasters”) or an act of God, it is almost always the United States that steps in to save the day. And what it generally gets for its troubles are tirades of denunciation […]

JIHAD AND GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM IN SHI’ITE IRAN: ANDREW BOSTOM

Jihad and Genocidal Islamic Anti-Semitism in Shi’ite Iran, Part Three http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/jihad-and-genocidal-islamic-anti-semitism-in-shi%e2%80%99ite-iran-part-three/?print=1 Andrew G. Bostom How have the jihad and its corollary institution, dhimmitude — including “najis-inspired” dhimmitude — been conjoined to Islamic anti-Semitism, past and present? Demonizing Israel and Jews via motifs in the Koran, hadith, and sira (the earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad), […]

OBAMA VERSUS EINSTEIN…..MUSTREAD

Obama vs. Einstein Posted By Frank J. Tipler According to the Washington Post [1], David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s senior advisor, said that the president worked with “[Harvard professor] Laurence Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein’s theory of relativity.” I’ve read that paper, “The Curvature of Constitutional Space.” It’s complete nonsense. It […]

BENNY MORRIS LECTURE CANCELED AT CAMBRIDGE SEE NOTE ON MORRIS PLEASE

PULEEZ!!! IF BENNY MORRIS HAD SPOKEN OF HIS DAMNED BOOK ON THE 1948 WAR…HE WOULD HAVE BEEN LIONIZED. MORRIS IS A SCOUNDREL WHO DESERVES OPPROBIUM FOR HAVING REFERRED TO ISRAEL’S “ETHNIC CLEANSING” OF ARABS AND ZIONISM’S “DARK SIDE”…..HE IS ISRAEL’S DARK BOTTOM…..RSK http://www.jihadwatch.org/ UK: Israel Society at Cambridge University calls off talk by historian “for […]

PHONY MOSLEM “DERADICALIZATION EXPERT” ALSO HAS A WAY WITH WORDS….READ IT

“Expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe.” has a nice ring to it….rsk http://www.jihadwatch.org/ Texas: Muslim who spoke at pro-Khomeini conference and threatened columnist anointed as “the country’s leading Muslim deradicalization expert” Does Mohamed Elibiary, who is called in this ridiculous puff piece “the country’s leading Muslim deradicalization expert,” need to deradicalize […]

GEERT WILDERS’ “BLASPHEMY TRIAL’ ADJOURNED

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/02/the-peculiar-adjournment-of-geert-wilders-trial-perhaps-a-year.html The Dutch court has adjourned the trial of Geert Wilders to give the three witnesses testifying for Wilders time to schedule their testimony. The Dutch blogger Snouk writes that: The court has requested Mr. Geert Wilders to provide verhinderdata (can’t-make-it-dates) from the three witnesses whom he’s been permitted to call. The trial will resume […]

OBAMA BLOCKING SALES OF APACHES TO ISRAEL…HE’S “DISMAYED’ AT THEIR USE IN OPERATION CAST LEAD..

http://www.mererhetoric.com/ OBAMA BLOCKING SALES OF APACHES TO ISRAEL…HE’S “DISMAYED’ AT THEIR USE IN OPERATION CAST LEAD….Blocking Apache Sales To Israel, “Dismayed” At Use During Cast LeadSo perfectly does this fit the “Obama is deepy anti-Israel” narrative that I’m almost inclined to doubt it’s true. A story about how the WH is generically hamstringing weapons sales, fair […]

CNN’S COMBAT BIMBO JUST CAN’T HELP SMEARING ISRAEL

THANKS TO CAMERA FOR THIS…………………………………………………….RSK January 21, 2010 by Andrea Levin Amanpour’s Impulse: Smear Israel CNN’s Christiane Amanpour can’t seem to help herself. Whatever the subject of the program, she’s inclined to inject mention of Israel and its alleged myriad faults. An interview with Tibet’srevered Dalai Lama prompted her to insert jarring comparisons of Tibet […]

ARTHUR KOESTLER; A BIOGRAPHY REVIEWED BY ELIZABETH POWERS

Man vs. Machine The intellectual legacy of Arthur Koestler. BY ELIZABETH POWERS February 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 21 Weekly Standard Koestler The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell Random House, 720 pp., $35 According to Iain Hamilton, his first biographer, Arthur Koestler was a man of “disquieting intellectual passion,” […]

A REASSESSMENT OF WESTERN POLICY AND CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: ETTINGER

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger “Second Thought,” Jerusalem 1. An assessment of the politically-correct Western policy-making, media commentaries and conventional wisdom raises the following questions: *Is the Palestinian issue the crux of Middle East turbulence? *Is the Arab-Israeli conflict the core cause of anti-Western Islamic terrorism?* *Are Arab leaders preoccupied with the Palestinian issue and with […]