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In November 1947, the United Nations was considering the creation of a
Jewish state in parts of Western Palestine and a new Arab state in the
other parts.
The hopes of the Jews rested in large part on China. The five-member
Security Council had to approve putting the resolution before the
General Assembly, but China, one of the five, was threatening to veto
it.
The head of the Chinese delegation was approached by a hero of the
Chinese campaign against the Japanese during World War II, a man who
had been a general and senior adviser to President Sun Yat-sen.

The general persuaded the delegation to abstain. The Security Council
voted approval and the Partition Resolution was sent to the General
Assembly, where it passed. Modern Israel came into existence.
The general who persuaded the Chinese not to oppose the resolution was
not Chinese himself – but, in fact, a Jew born in Poland in 1887.
Morris Abraham Cohen was brought to London from Poland when he was
still a toddler and grew up in the impoverished East End of London.
By the time he was 12 he had become a skilled boxer and a pickpocket.
He quickly amassed a police arrest record and his family sent him to
reform school until he was 16. Once released, he went to Canada to
work on a farm in rural Saskatchewan, near some Indian reservations.
The farming bored him; he preferred work as a carnival barker and con
man. This got him arrested yet again and he did some jail time.
While wandering the Canadian West he became friendly with the local
Chinese. Cohen liked Chinese cuisine (what Jew doesn’t?) and the
Chinese outlook on life.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5606

Anti-Semitic attacks in France surge by 40% since March

The Toulouse shooting: An estimated 550,000 Jews live in France.
Anti-Semitic attacks against French Jews have increased by 40 percent in France since March this year, when an al-Qaida inspired terrorist Mohammed Merah went on a killing spree that ended with the murder of three Jewish children and a rabbi in the south of France, a top Jewish leader said on Tuesday after meeting the country’s interior minister to discuss the phenomenon.

Abraham Cooper, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, met French Interior Minister Manuel Valls against a backdrop of what he said was rising anti-Semitic and hate crimes reported to his organization by families in Toulouse, Marseille and Lyon. France has the world’s second-largest Jewish population outside of Israel, estimated at 550,000 individuals, following the U.S.

Cooper said he pressed Valls for extra measures to secure the safety of French Jews and to discuss strategies to thwart a growing trend of lone-wolf terrorists on the Internet.

“He [Valls] confirmed that following that murder, there was an increase of 40% in anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish crimes in France. A shocking number especially because in this round that was taking place, the French authorities on both sides of the political aisle did exactly the right thing immediately after Toulouse,” Cooper told Reuters.

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FROM ROGER KIMBALL:
– Roger’s Rules – http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball –

The speeches yesterday provided plenty of rousing, feel-good moments. But to my mind the most important event of the day was something whose effect was sobering if not devastating. I mean the private screening of Stephen Bannon’s new movie The Hope and the Change [5]. Bannon has assembled an eloquent and moving collage of 40 Democrats and independents from different backgrounds all across the country. All voted for Barack Obama in 2008. All give voice to their frustration, disillusionment, and sense of betrayal at the hands of a man who came promising “hope an change” but delivered a fiscally incontinent governmental leviathan that has impoverished America.

The Hope and the Change is a brilliant piece of cinematic story telling. It begins with the wild and weepy enthusiasm that greeted Obama in 2008 and moves slowly through the effects of his efforts to “fundamentally transform [6]the United States of America.” Pat Caddell, the Democratic polling whiz who helped Jimmy Carter to victory in 1976, helped assemble the cast. Although he is a lifelong Democrat, he understands the destructive nature of Obama’s tenure, and he was on hand to praise the film and point out that its portraits of everyday suffering and disillusionment might well prove to be the Obama’s administration’s “biggest nightmare.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/mia-love-speech-_n_1838028.html

WE BUILT IT!!!

MIA LOVE FOR CONGRESS

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http://pjmedia.com/blog/fast-and-furious-prosecutions-coming/ House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa indicated on August 23 that the five Department of Justice officials the committee held responsible for Operation Fast and Furious may face criminal charges. Speaking with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News, Issa discussed allegations that Deputy Assistant ATF Director William McMahon was “double-dipping […]

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
2012.08.28 (Chirkey, Dagestan) – A female suicide bomber takes down a Sufi cleric and six others at his home.
2012.08.28 (Kandahar, Afghanistan) – Four civilians are sent to Allah by Fedayeen suicide truck bombers.
2012.08.27 (Quetta, Pakistan) – Sectarian Jihadis fire on a car carrying Shia civilians, killing three.
2012.08.27 (Musa Qala, Afghanistan) – Fundamentalists interrupt a party and behead two women and fifteen men for dancing to music.
2012.08.26 (Sampang, Indonesia) – ‘Mainstream’ Muslims stop a group of Shia children and teachers, and proceed to hack at least two to death.
2012.08.26 (Pailoch, Afghanistan) – A ‘girl and two boys’ are shot to death by the woman’s brother for committing adultery.

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/us-ambassador-condemns-idf-probe-lending-credit-to-isms-rachel-corries-suicide-mission/2012/08/28/

THE IDF WAS CLEARED BUT THIS COLUMN IS A MUST READ FOR A SYNOPSIS OF THE WHOLE CORRIE ‘VICTIM” MYTH….RSK

This Tuesday the verdict is expected in a wrongful death suit against the government of Israel brought by the family of an American girl who died when she acted as a human shield against Israeli military anti-terrorism efforts.

As if there weren’t already enough drama and media attention surrounding the Rachel Corrie trial, it appears that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro this week lent credibility to the plaintiffs’ case against the government of Israel when he reportedly criticized the Israeli investigation into Corrie’s death.

According to several news reports, Ambassador Shapiro told the Corrie family that the U.S. government believes the Israeli investigation was not “thorough, credible and transparent.” That was enough to feed the liberal blogosphere, which touted the US support for the Corries, convicting Israel in their own court hearing.

But is that really the case?

The Israeli investigation, conducted immediately after Corrie’s death, concluded that what happened was a tragic accident brought on largely because Corrie insisted on entering and remaining in a military zone, and ignored repeated and escalating efforts to leave the area. Further, that investigation found that the bulldozer operator could not have seen Corrie when she was struck and killed.

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“Even an unreal economy reported on by an unreal media cheering on an unreal leader can only run for so long until reality punches through the illusion, the curtain falls, the magicians scramble off the stage with rabbits and doves tucked into their pants, and everyone wakes up to realize that the dream is over and we realize that we are entering a world where the stories no longer matter and history is about to begin.”

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away,” Philip K. Dick said, when asked to define what reality is. Dick was a Science Fiction writer and that seems appropriate enough we are living in a Science Fiction world where there is no reality anymore, because the real goes away, but the unreal does not.

Virtual reality, it turned out, was not some complicated gizmo that made you look like a blind skier and allowed you to enter into another world, instead it was an unreal world being comprehensively overlaid on top of our own. The lines between the real and the unreal haven’t blurred because the unreal has gotten so much more sophisticated. The unreal is more fake than ever, but discerning that has become more difficult now that the real has gone away.

As we watch the news covering a story, what we are actually watching is the media making up a story and then telling that story incessantly and embedding it in every nook and cranny of their coverage. This blurring of the lines between the real and the fake is not happening thanks to the magic of technology, but the prosaic methods of complete insincerity.

The fake is being overlaid on the real, like men fighting on top of a board with a movie of a train passing by in the background to give the impression that they are fighting on top of it. Such cheap trickery defines our media environment where reporters barge into events and badger the participants into playing along with their movie. Or they just play the clip of actual events and frame them so that everyone hears their version of what is going on.

There’s Godzilla and we know he’s real because we can see Tokyo in the background. There’s the latest media narrative and we know it’s real, because we can see Tampa in the background as some blow-dried buffoon does breathing exercises before commencing to tell us that the Republican Party, which supports things that would have made Ike and Ron have coronaries, has gone so far to the right that it might as well be a Godzilla of reactionary running dog capitalism.

http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/ In what can only be described as a pitiful attempt to distract Americans from the obvious truth which is being written, and rewritten in American blood multiple times per week, General Allen excused the actions of Afghanistan’s “True Soldiers of Allah”. He very publicly declared that the “stresses” endured by ANA and ANP troops […]

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The term “conservative” is used elastically these days, normally to indicate something that the author using the term dislikes. And while many such writers tend indeed to dislike conservative ideas, the objects of their dislike are rarely conservative in any sense a conservative would recognize.

A few years ago, the late Christopher Hitchens spoke [1] of fringe elements in Jerusalem seeking the expulsion of Arabs as “Israeli conservatives” – surely a surprise to Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, and other groupings that comprise the vast bulk of Israeli right-of-center politics.

Reuters thinks [2] Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a “conservative,” and the New York Times even headed its report on his election as president with the title “New Conservative President Takes Power in Iran [3].” Actually, Ahmadinejad is a radical among radicals in the Iranian hierarchy, with a penchant for Holocaust denial and harping on erasing Israel from the page of history. But then, the Associated Press regards [4] him as “ultraconservative,” so the Times appears measured by comparison.

Now, David Greenberg at Slate thinks [5] the recently deceased writer Gore Vidal was a “conservative.”

Vidal was neither insecure nor stupid, but if he can be described with a straight face as conservative, then just about anyone else can be as well. If conservatism comprises respect for custom, institutions, religious faith, the Judeo-Christian tradition, and limited government, Vidal was as anti-conservative as one could be. He regarded [6] monotheism as “the great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture.” He despised Ronald Reagan and supported the Democrats across the decades, even once running (unsuccessfully) as a Democrat for congressional office in New York. But that was altogether too mainstream for him. For two years (1970-1972), he chaired the People’s Party, a short-lived grouping that promoted legalizing marijuana and instituting such decidedly unconservative devices as a minimum wage and even a maximum wage.

In 2004, he supported the presidential candidacy of far left Democrat Dennis Kucinich.