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Two ad campaigns, one in New York City and the other in Portland, Oregon, are causing quite a controversy these days.

The first was created by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, the brainchild of Pamela Geller, best known for her blog “Atlas Shrugs.” What the group did was to purchase 30 days’ worth of billboard space in the New York City subway system for a poster that reads: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

Though this would bring in $36,000 in revenue, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not want to agree to the deal, due to what it called the “demeaning language” of the poster. But Geller filed a federal lawsuit citing freedom of speech, and won. So up went the poster, and out came police reinforcements in the MTA. After all, it appears, everyone took the text to be offensive to Muslims — and nobody feels safe when Muslims are mad.

Immediately, Jews began to express outrage along with and on behalf of those Muslims. Articles featuring a photo of a young woman in a headscarf standing next to the poster began to circulate on the Web, making it appear as though the text was explicitly directed at innocent Muslims.

According to the photo caption: “Javerea Khan … called this advertisement and others like it ‘a slap in the face to all Muslims.’” But in fact the poster doesn’t mention Islam at all. It is an indictment of the “savage” practice of holy war against the Jews. Why, I would like to ask Ms. Khan, is that a “slap in the face to all Muslims”? Is she asserting that all Muslims are jihadists? And if so, why is it that whenever non-Muslims dare to make such a suggestion, they are accused of racism? Shouldn’t she and all the other “millions of moderate Muslims” out there be joining the likes of Geller in the campaign against genocide?

Meanwhile, across the country, Portland’s TriMet buses and trains are now decorated with a poster of three maps, depicting Israel as having been a land thief since its declaration as a state. Next to the maps, there is text that reads: “4.7 million Palestinians are classified by the U.N. as refugees.”

This campaign, also scheduled to run for an entire month, was paid for by three pro-Palestinian groups, among them the Jewish Voice for Peace.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Controls/SendFriend.ashx?print=1&type=1&item=12252 The primary point of Israel’s nuclear forces must always be deterrence ex ante, not preemption or reprisal ex post. If, however, nuclear weapons should ever be introduced into a conflict between Israel and one or more of the several states that still wish to destroy it, some form of nuclear war fighting could ensue. […]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/netanyahus-blurry-red-line/article/2509503 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations has drawn a lot less attention than it deserved. It’s doubly unfortunate that most of that attention has come from people who ignored the entire speech except to make fun of Netanyahu for using a cartoonish bomb drawing to illustrate where a “red line” […]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12254 The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He is […]

Dr. Jamie Glazov’s “High Noon For America: The Coming Showdown” hits the stands!

“Brave, honest, brilliant, innovative, and hands-down winner of the gold medal for the least politically-correct work since David Horowitz’s Radical Son.”

— R. James Woolsey, Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Director of Central Intelligence 1993-95.

“These symposia are so intellectually fascinating that you will be glued to your seat once you open the first page. ‘High Noon for America’ is one of the most riveting intellectual roller coaster rides you will ever take. This book is a must read.”

–Steven Emerson, Executive Director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

To learn more about High Noon, click here.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3371/youtube-video-dress-rehearsal The Obama administration’s handling of the organized assaults on American Embassies and personnel on September 11, 2012 – and later the other organized protests across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan – is a window into its possible reaction should Israel conclude that the cost of facing a nuclear-armed Iran outweighs the […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3379/muslim-riots-europe Abu Assad al-Almani asks Muslims in Germany to attack any German citizen who supports the film by “cutting their heads from their bodies and capturing it on film so that it is accessible to the public, so that the whole of Germany, and even the whole of Europe, knows that their criminal games will […]