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http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/south_african_bds_or_just_bs.html

The government of South Africa has defined the State of Israel as not including Beersheva, Yad Mordechai, Acco, Afula, and Nahariya. It creates an “Arab Enclave” in Jaffa not governed by Israel. It reduces the borders of Israel in two places to points on a map — one in the Galilee and one in the Negev Desert — and, for good measure, restores Jerusalem and certain of its suburbs to “corpus separatum.” Yasser Arafat didn’t have the nerve to define such borders.

South Africa has decided to label goods entering the country from certain places as “IOT” for “Israeli Occupied Territory.” The outraged Israeli government called the decision “blatant discrimination based on national and political distinction. This kind of discrimination has not been imposed — and rightly so — in any other case of national, territorial or ethnic conflict[.] … What is totally unacceptable is the use of tools which, by essence, discriminate and single out, fostering a general boycott.”

It is worse than that.

The statement by the South African cabinet “approved that a notice … be issued by the minister of Trade and Industry requiring the labeling of goods or products emanating from IOTs (Israel Occupied Territories) to prevent consumers being led to believe that such goods come from Israel. This is in line with South Africa’s stance that recognizes the 1948 borders delineated by the United Nations and does not recognize occupied territories beyond these borders as being part of the State of Israel.”

The South African Cabinet appears to insist on the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan as the parameters for an Israel with which it is morally comfortable. Aside from the historical oddity of choosing 1948 — a year in which no borders for Israel were determined — there is the question of how to react to the delicate moral sensibilities of a government that just shot and killed 34 of its own citizens and wounded more than 70 others for protesting over pay.

Sticking to history, there are three possible eastern boundary lines for the State of Israel1: the 1947 U.N. partition line, the 1949 Armistice Line (also and incorrectly known as the “pre-’67 borders”), and the Jordan River post-Six-Day War. None are recognized borders, and none were established in 1948.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2457 NAM and The New York Times Comic relief can be a good temporary remedy for actual, long-term tragedy. This must be why there was such a heavy dose of it in The New York Times on Thursday. Any other explanation for the piece by former political science professor at Tehran University and former adviser […]

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/obama-campaign-enlisting-support-from-radical-anti-israel-rabbis/2012/08/24/ Some of the “Rabbis for Obama” group in conversation with an Ayatollah on their recent visit to Iran. Photo Credit: Shalom Rav blog According to Noah Pollak, executive director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, President Obama’s attitude towards Jewish voters is astonishing. Speaking to The Jewish Press, Pollak said, “the Rabbis for Obama […]

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/08/israel-faces-the-cynical-world.php?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel+faces+the+cynical+world&utm_campaign=20120824_m113354915_Israel+faces+the+cynical+world&utm_term=Continue+Reading This week a German doctor in Bavaria filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg. Rabbi Goldberg’s “crime”? He performs ritual circumcisions on Jewish male infants in accordance with Jewish law. The doctor’s complaint came shortly after a ruling by a court in Cologne outlawing the practice of male circumcision. The Austrians and the […]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159239

The United States is colluding with a top Israeli newspaper to stymie Israel’s efforts to strike Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and the IDF knows it, according to a leading nationalist pundit.

Writing in Friday’s edition of Makor Rishon, one of the Israel’s veteran journalists, Amnon Lord, paints a picture of intense U.S. meddling in internal Israeli political and security-oriented processes in an effort to prevent a successful Israeli strike on the weapon program meant to make it extinct.

“From a technical military point of view, Israel does not require any kind of coordination with the Americans,” writes Lord regarding the plan for a raid on Iran. “There is a concern that the Americans will learn of the date for an attack and try to prevent it in different ways. The Americans have not given the Israelis a feeling that they are true partners in the operative arena, in the past two years. On the contrary, the IDF has identified preventive American activity against an Iran operation.”

“This is particularly evident in the grave matter of the leaks regarding Azerbaijan in the past, about the Kurdish region, and recently in the publication of the flight paths to the target. All this is being produced by our ally, with the cooperation of one of the largest media platforms in Israel, which serves and assists the Obama administration against the government of Israel. The Americans are the ones who are feeding some of the arch-pundits with damaging information.”

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2217/Fire-General-Allen.aspx

One word for General John R. Allen’s recent explanation for the spate of Afghan murders of our men is despicable. Ramadan fasting, summer heat, and operational tempo, the general argues (is he breathing a little hard in the video below?), have driven Afghan “allies” to murder Americans in recent weeks. “The closer the relationship, the more secure, ultimately, our troops will be,” he concludes. Wanna go first, general?

Having cut all moorings of logic, the top commander in Afghanistan is showing signs of madness — or is that ideological moribundess? Either one is reason for Allen to be fired. During his Afghanistan posting, Allen has managed to scrape new lows in his supplication to Islam — in this most recent instance, letting elementary and emphatic Islamic exhortations to kill “infidels” off the hook as the likely spur to the spate of Afghan assassinations of Americans.

This isn’t to say Allen could have gotten where he is without the trailblazing downward spirals into dhimmitude of his predecessors Petraeus, McChrystal and Petraeus. Indeed, it is almost exactly three years ago since General Stanley McChrystal should have been fired over his Afghanistan assessment. The same goes for multiple reasons for Gen. Allen today.

Like his brothers-in-brass, Allen is all about ideology — the COIN ideology. This Leftist dogma transmuted to the battlefield is founded on the Big Lie of “universalism,” which takes in the absurd but also liberty-threatening belief that all cultures, all religions, all civilizations have interchangeable values and aspirations. The theory is easily disproven, but it remains a commandment of postmodern gospel. Such universalism is also, let’s face it, a crucial underpinning of the anti-nationhood, anti-sovereignty strategic drive of Marx, socialism, Communism, progressivism and whatever other label we trot out to describe the collectivist engine progressively destroying liberty in the West. In the spirit (purity) of such ideology, COIN’s founding myth is that the teachings of Islam are not factors in fighting a war in an Islamic land. This was made manifest, for example, in the 2009 McChrystal strategy mentioned above.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=282381

The Right must realize that between the river and the sea, either exclusive Jewish or exclusive Arab sovereignty will eventually prevail.

With all the money that has been invested in the problem of [the] Palestinians, it would have been possible long ago to resettle them and provide them with good lives in Arab countries – Andrei Sakharov, human rights activist and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Allow me to begin with an announcement. The decision to discontinue this column has been reversed. I should like to thank my readers for their robust support and The Jerusalem Post for its consumer-conscious response. Now to the business at hand.

This article is relevant reading only for those who share the belief that Israel should survive permanently as the nation-state of the Jewish people. For those who hold dissenting views, much of what is expressed here will be neither pertinent nor persuasive.

But for those who share my point of departure, what follows has the inexorable inevitability of deductive mathematical logic, making the conclusions that emerge from it commensurately inescapable. The fact that they may be unpalatable to some will do nothing to make them any less true.

The Right’s intellectual surrender

There have been many unfortunate developments in the evolution of the discourse conducted over the last quarter-century on the Arab-Israeli conflict in general, and the Israeli-Palestinian component of it in particular. Arguably the most regrettable of these has been the “intellectual surrender” on the part of many on the so-called Right to the tyranny of their political adversaries on the so-called Left.

True, numerous spokesmen of the Right have repeatedly provided cogent and convincing critiques of the Left’s dysfunctional doctrine and it flagship dogma, the two-state-solution (TSS). However, their most palpable and pernicious failure has been their inability/unwillingness to follow through on the logic of these critiques and draw the conclusions their rationale necessarily implies.

Democrats host radical Muslims at Charlotte Event led by imam who urged overthrow of ‘filthy’ U.S. government The Democratic Party is sanctioning a Muslim prayer event in conjunction with its nominating convention in Charlotte that will feature a radical Islamic leader who has called for the overthrow of the “filthy” U.S. government and establishment of […]

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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/will-uprising-against-muslim-brotherhood-in-egypt-start-civil-war FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Ashraf Ramelah is founder and president of Voice of the Copts, a human rights organization drawing attention to the suffering of Coptic Christians in Egypt and educating as to the chilling effect of Sharia (Islamic law). Egyptian revolutionaries of the youth uprising of January 2011 who succeeded in ousting Hosni Mubarak […]