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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=265765
Into the Fray: Stop calling a “spade” a “manually operated tool for producing elevation differentials in earth’s crust.”

There is something frankly silly to me about a Jewish community that feels so self- confident in how our values apply in Bosnia, the former Soviet Union and Darfur, but is so timid in talking about how our values apply in [Israel] the place we care about most. – Peter Beinart, Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, June 21, 2010

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year …was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby (September 17, 2011)…. The powerful pro- Israel lobby in an election season can force the administration to defend Israel at the UN, even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America’s. (13 December, 2011) – Tom Friedman, New York Times

Jonathan Pollard: Clemency Long Overdue
by Jerrold L. Sobel

THE ARGUMENT IS NOT ABOUT POLLARD’S GUILT….MY OWN VIEW IS THAT HE IS NO HERO, WAS GUILTY AND DESERVED PUNISHMENT….BUT 26 YEARS, MANY IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, IS TOO LONG AND TOO HARSH ……RSK

Back on New Years Day of this year, the Tea Party Tribune published, “Jonathan Pollard: Revisited Again and again,” the third of three articles I had written about Jonathan Pollard and the wrongful sentence he received for the crime he committed. Some of my dear readers wrote to me me “he’s a traitor,” “he should rot in hell,” and so on. Interestingly, I was accused of being a leftist for stating Pollard had engaged in criminal behavior; me being accused of being a leftist, that’s a new one, others on the right called for my head because I advocated for his release. In all my years of writing I can’t remember another situation having to defend my position to both sides of the political spectrum. What castigators on both sides fail to recognize, this is not about left or right, it’s not about Pollard being Jewish; although the veracity of this statement could come into question, it’s not even about Pollard. It’s about a modern day injustice which has kept a man incarcerated for an inordinate amount of time despite protestations from those most closely related to this action.

For those interested in the facts of this case and not just gut feelings, you may wish to read the article.
Jonathan Pollard: Revisited Again and again
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/01/05/jonathan-pollard-revisited-again-and-again/

However, mitigating circumstances aside; and there are many, the question begs, why after 26 long years; many of which served in solitary confinement hasn’t Pollard been granted clemency? Many, many people have done far worse and in times of war but have been either pardoned or granted clemency, why not Pollard? Let’s review some of them.

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/15510/Climate-Depot-Exclusive-Climategate-professor-Michael-Mann-may-be-moving-back-to-the-University-of-Virginia–Reportedly-offered-chaired-professorship-at-UVA – By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot has learned that Climategate professor Michael Mann, who has been at the center of a legal firestorm, may be moving back to the University of Virginia. Climate Depot has heard that the UVA Environmental Sciences department has just offered Mann a “chaired professorship”. Sources tell […]

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Nigeria: Christians stream southward after Muslim attacks
http://www.speroforum.com/site/e.asp?l=LZUSMIKWAU50&u=IARPETXVDN12

Turkey: Evangelical church assaulted by Muslim activists
http://www.speroforum.com/site/e.asp?l=MCZJWJBVSL50&u=IARPETXVDN12

Kenya: Christians killed in grenade attack by Islamists
http://www.speroforum.com/site/e.asp?l=WXWKBBJZHU50&u=IARPETXVDN12

Beheadings benight the Arabian Peninsula
A witch was beheaded in Yemen, and two murderers beheaded in the Oil Kingdom.
http://www.speroforum.com/site/e.asp?l=TAQUAHXDZQ50&u=IARPETXVDN12

Saudi Arabia: Woman to be flogged for cursing

http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/gray_and_blue_jews_of_the_civil_war/30850

Gray And Blue Jews Of The Civil War Yonatan Grossman-Boder

TODAY, AMERICAN JEWS ARE FIGHTING A RATHER UNCIVIL WAR OF WORDS AND IDEOLOGY ABOUT ISRAEL AND AMERICAN DOMESTIC POLICIES…..RSK

Passover was just around the corner that spring in 1862 when J.A. Joel, like so many other Jews, sought fixings for his seder. But it was a little harder for Joel, who was stationed at Sewell Mountain in eastern Fayette County, W.Va., with the Union’s 23rd Ohio Infantry.

Joel turned to his fellow Jews in the regiment — 20 in all — to acquire the necessary items. With some foraging, the group found eggs, chickens and cider. Also, the group members procured matzoh and haggadot from their Jewish regimental merchant.

Unfortunately, they could not find horseradish. However, Joel recounted they “found a weed, whose bitterness, I apprehend, exceeded anything our forefathers ‘enjoyed.’” They also obtained a lamb. Though uncertain which part to use for the seder, Joel wrote that “Yankee ingenuity prevailed, and it was decided to cook the whole and put it on the table.”

With matzoh, egg, maror (bitter herbs), a shank bone and wine in hand, the men of the 23rd celebrated the Festival of Freedom in grand style. Joel was proud of their accomplishment and wrote to a local newspaper, “There, in the wild woods of West Virginia, away from home and friends, we consecrated and offered up to the ever-loving G-d of Israel our prayers and sacrifice.”

During the Civil War, J.A. Joel was one of approximately 10,000 Jews who fought in the armies of the Union and Confederacy. His story reminds us during this sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War that the history of the Jews in the United States is part of the larger story of American history.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128823/Archbishop-sparks-outrage-saying-Jews-intellectually-morally-inferior.html

By RICK DEWSBURY

Australia’s most senior-ranked Catholic official has risked an international backlash by claiming that Jews are ‘intellectually and morally inferior’.Cardinal George Pell said ‘the little Jewish people’ were shepherds who lacked intellectual development during a debate with atheist Richard Dawkins.
He went on to claim that Germans had suffered more than the Jews during the horrors of the holocaust in the Second World War.

The remarks came during a televised debate with Dawkins on Australian TV in which the pair became locked in a heated discussion on religion and evolution.
‘I’ve got a great admiration for the Jews but we don’t need to exaggerate their contribution in their early days,’ Cardinal Pell said during the debate on ABC television.

‘They weren’t intellectually the equal of [the Egyptians or Persians] – intellectually, morally … The poor – the little Jewish people, they were originally shepherds. They were stuck. They’re still stuck between these great powers.’

Cardinal Pell said Jews had been stuck between the Egyptians and Babylonians, and that this reflected their intellectual development. He said this included Jesus.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/41523#CurDomainURL#/blog.cfm

POSTED BY JERRY GORDON

It is this right – I would even say duty – to describe, criticise and oppose a totalitarian ideology that I have tried to exercise to the best of my ability.My speech and my writings have had no other purpose than to alert my fellow citizens to the danger inherent in the Islamic concept of the state and the law.I have made no secret of the fact that I consider this fight for our liberties to be the most important political struggle of our time.I would not be able to live with my guilty conscience if – out of fear of public condemnation and ridicule – I refrained from telling the truth as I see it.And regardless of the outcome of this trial, I intend to continue my struggle for free speech and against totalitarian concepts of any stripe.

Today, Friday, April 13th, a Supreme Court Hearing was held for Danish Free Press President and heroic free thinker, Lars Hedegaard arising from his prior convictions and fines imposed at the Eastern Superior Court in Copenhagen in May, 2011. He was accused of “racism” for criticizing Islamic doctrine and treatment of Muslim Women. He was denied under Danish law something that we take for granted in the US, the defense of the truth based on facts. Our interview with Hedegaard is included in the recently publish collection, The West Speaks.

We noted at the conclusion of our recent post on the background of Hedegaard’s Surpeme Court Hearing in Denmark:

In the Epilogue after noting the predicament of Hedegaard and other free thinkers, we concluded:

By recognizing the courageous actions of these free thinkers and advocates, we might follow their example thereby informing and emboldening others to rise up and avert the severe decree of Islamic conquest by Grand Jihad.

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/seeking_justice_at_the_circus

Everybody in trouble with the law is entitled to a fair trial. Nobody is guilty until a court looks at the evidence and decides. A man is innocent until proved guilty. But sometimes we hold the trial at the circus, not the court house.

The state of Florida says George Zimmerman is guilty of second-degree murder for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Mr. Zimmerman says he shot the boy in fear of his life. Now the court, and a jury if it gets that far, must shut their ears to the shriek and clatter of the circus, listen to cold facts, and decide.

This won’t be easy. The suspect made his first appearance in court Friday, arraigned on the second-degree murder charge, and his lawyer in his best judgment declined to ask for bail, citing “fervor” outside the courthouse.