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http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2189/unbelievable_uk_hypocrisy_on_israel_again

he statements (below) today from the British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, are so gratuitous it beggars belief. The US has also condemned Israel for announcing a relatively tiny number of new settlement apartments in existing blocks, though not new settlements as such.

It’s all in response to the Palestinians’ “successful” move last week to upgrade their status as a quasi state at the United Nations.

Britain was initially opposed to the move; then was about to vote in favour; then took the coward’s way out and abstained. Here’s William Hague on the building plans:

“If implemented, these plans would alter the situation on the ground on a scale that makes the two-state solution, with Jerusalem as a shared capital, increasingly difficult to achieve.”

Absurdly, he added:

“Israeli settlements are illegal under international law and undermine trust between the parties,”

Oh, come off it Mr. Hague. The Palestinian move fundamentally undermines the Oslo Accords, the legal basis on which the two-state solution is based. All objective observers can see that. (Equally, as the Al Jazeera leaks showed, even the Palestinians accept that 95 percent of “settlements” would become part of Israel under any peace agreement anyway. Talk about a red herring issue.)

Real world observers can also see that Israel would have had no choice but to respond. So please, an end to all this fake indignation.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2191/uk_threat_to_israel_over_settlement_building

UPDATE: THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS BUT THE PERVERSITY OF LIMITING ISRAELI HOUSING TO PRESERVE EAST JERUSALEM FOR THE ARABS IS APPALLING….RSK

The British government is threatening to remove its Ambassador from Israel as the Jewish State reopens settlement building plans in response to the Palestinian statehood bid

Britain has today threatened to recall its ambassador to Israel over the row over settlement building.

Since the Palestinian Authority’s UN statehood bid last week, tensions between Western governments and Israel have run high, as Israel has sought to penalise the Palestinians for seeking a unilateral solution to the peace process and ruling out negotiations with Israel.

Embarrasingly for Britain, the argument is now reaching its peak with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office threatening trade sanctions and even the withdrawl of Britain’s ambassador, a move that will likely illicit poor reactions from the Israelis given Britain’s recent cowardice on the UN vote and increasing irrelevance in the peace process.

The recent authorisation of new settlement homes in the E1 area of Jerusalem are a continuous sticking point for foreign leaders who fail to understand Israel’s quagmire in attempting to deal with, as well as financially prop up the Palestinian Authority while taking much of, if not all of the flack for the failure of peace negotiations.

E1 is incredibly sensitive as development would close off East Jerusalem – a likely future capital of Palestine – from the West Bank.

The Commentator’s sources have stated that while this may be an empty threat, the government is on course to isolate itself from its allies in Israel and the United States, a development that could negatively impact trade relations with two key economic partners.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334596/care-plan-b-kathryn-jean-lopez

Have you heard about the holiday gift some people think American girls should be getting this year? “Emergency contraception.”

Truth be told, it’s not likely to happen before the winter solstice. But a fiscal cliff isn’t the only disaster to be on alert about. During Thanksgiving week the American Academy of Pediatrics announced its recommendation that “morning after” prescriptions be issued to adolescent girls as a matter of course, allowing them the false security of what has long been described by advocates as a “fire extinguisher” in their purse to counter at least some of the consequences of risky behavior.

“There’s no good reason” why there should not be follow-through on the recommendation, the San Francisco Chronicle asserts. No good reason? Good and plenty, as it happens.

This approach, besides being deeply insulting to the human dignity of adolescents, exposes the reality that when we talk about sex these days, we all too often put good health and good sense aside, despite the rhetoric about “women’s health.” (Even the pediatricians do!) “Women’s health” routinely assumes promiscuity, whatever the age, and despite the risks to the girl’s or woman’s physical and mental health.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
Take a ride to a welfare neighborhood some fine morning, evenings are best avoided even in the safest such places. Don’t go in expecting Detroit. Even much of Detroit doesn’t look like Detroit. Newark and Oakland aren’t even there yet. Detroit is what happens when the load is too big and there’s no one left to carry it. Most welfare neighborhoods are still located in cities where there is someone left to pick up the tab.

You’ll see less charred buildings and more towering multistory housing projects. Some of these are the ugly bestial fortresses that date back to FDR’s championing of affordable housing. One such monster, the Knickerbocker Village, former home of the Rosenberg spies, had to be evacuated in the recent hurricane and residents lived without heat and power for weeks.

30 years later they began to run to 20 story gray and brown towers reek of hopelessness. When power company workers came to restore power to the Brooklyn shoreline, they were sent to these places first in the hopes of calming mob reaction. Instead televisions came raining down from the upper floors forcing the workers to flee for safety. But don’t expect that to happen during your visit. That sort of thing is reserved for major holidays and power outages.

More recently the trend has been smaller homes that look almost like normal housing, except that there are too many of them lined up all in rows that go on forever, and even the red brickwork and white doors quickly darken with neglect, fumes and that intangible pollutant that comes to all places where the people have nowhere to go and nothing to look forward to.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/02/feinstein-well-over-200-threat-warnings-against-benghazi-mission-at-time-of-attack/ Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she has reviewed “well over 200″ threat warnings that applied to the Benghazi mission before the Sept. 11 attack that killed four Americans. “Now, it couldn’t say at a certain time or on a certain day. There had been prior attacks. It’s well known, the attack on the British […]

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/02/iraqi-refugee-arrested-for-bombing-arizona-social-security-office-with-ied-media-silence-ensues/ Editor’s Note: Updates to this story follow the article. The typically quiet town of Casa Grande, Arizona, was rocked by an explosion at the local Social Security Administration office early Friday morning of what appears to an improvised explosive device (IED). No one was hurt in the explosion, which occurred shortly before the office […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-nihilism-of-the-new-relativity?f=puball Why do Western politicians and the Mainstream Media hale and defend Islam? Why do they promote the welfare state? Why do literary critics lionize salacious and third-rate novelists? Why do art critics exhaust Roget’s Thesaurus in their praise of anti-art? Why do politicians and journalists side with the global warming advocates, and then, when […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-arabic-springs-stillbirth FSM recently sat down with Dr. Mark Gabriel for an interview. The situation in Egypt these days reminds us of the situation in the beginning of the year 2011, during what became known as the Arab Spring. Once again, people are gathering on Tahrir Square and they are demonstrating. They are protesting against the […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/the_worldwide_war_on_women.html

“Suffice it to say that while women suffer and die all around the world, in America, liberal “ladies” represented by the likes of political prop Sandra Fluke come across like a bunch of whining ingrates who defame the memory of martyrs like Maria Santos Gorrostieta and innocents like Gisa — two victims of the world’s real war on women.”

American women have now been esteemed to such a level that for taking a stand against religious liberty and becoming the nation’s contraceptive cover girl, Sandra Fluke is actually being considered as TIME magazine’s Person of the Year.

Women who commiserate with Sandra likely view themselves as also suffering the hammers of hell here in the misogynist war zone called America. After all, American women have withstood the abuse and pain of living thus far without the benefit of free contraceptives. Now, however, equipped with newfound fame and with the re-election of Barack Obama signifying a battle won, maybe Ms. Fluke can now branch out and become an international spokesperson on how women around the world can stand strong in the face of male-imposed tyranny.

Who better than Sandra to represent injustices such as a 15-year-old girl being beheaded by a male cousin over a rejected marriage proposal?

Here in America, while girls of Mexican-American descent picked out dresses for a festive quinceañera, in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province, 15-year-old Gisa was out gathering water by the river when she was ambushed by close male cousin Sadeq, who proceeded to saw off her head with a knife.

Gisa’s father refused to allow his daughter to marry because of her tender age. So, instead of a wedding dress and a wedding, the girl’s headless body was returned to her family, wrapped in a sheet and dressed for a funeral.

With that in mind, Sandra Fluke did do a bang-up job on Capitol Hill advancing awareness of the war on women by schooling the Catholic hierarchy on polycystic ovary syndrome. So why not fly Sandra out to Khanabad to give a similar speech to Afghani men about the discriminatory display of hostility exhibited when one separates the head of a young girl from her body?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/12/israel_returns_fire.html

“Perhaps the time has finally come for Israel to claim in full its settlement rights in Judea and Samaria under international law.”

One day after the United Nations General Assembly recognized “Palestine” as a “nonmember observer state” — a status that it shares only with the Vatican — an actual state responded. The Netanyahu government quickly fired a shot across the bow of the Palestinian Authority for its decision to court the United Nations rather than negotiate with Israel. Israel announced that it is authorizing the construction of 3000 housing units in East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Even more brazenly, it intends to proceed with plans for zoning and development in a barren area known as E-1, between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim to the east, on the road to Jericho.

Like Captain Renault in Casablanca, liberal pundits were “shocked, shocked” to realize that the words of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the General Assembly and the votes of its members could so quickly be trumped by the Israeli government. According to the New York Times (in page 1 coverage that read like an editorial), Israel’s response was a “surprise” that came as a “shock.” It indicated the determination of the Jewish state to wage “diplomatic war” over the future of 4.6 square miles of barren landscape with nothing on it but a police station and some Bedouin shepherds.

There is no denying the strategic importance of E-1. Its development would create a seamless corridor between Israel’s capital and Ma’ale Adumim, a hilltop community in the Judean desert inhabited by nearly 30,000 Israelis. That would effectively divide the West Bank, with Ramallah and the north linked to Bethlehem and the south only by a highway.