The Portuguese Dreyfus In 1894, the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason by an anti-Semitic French military court. It took 10 years before that injustice was rectified. The world remembers Dreyfus. It should also remember the Jewish military officer Artur Carlos de Barros Basto, wrongly convicted by an anti-Semitic Portuguese military court […]
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FIRST: MORT ZUCKERMAN CARES DEEPLY ABOUT ISRAEL…I AM NOT BEING FACETIOUS….HE HAS PUT HIS GREAT WEALTH AND INFLUENCE INTO DEFENDING AND SUPPORTING ISRAEL….BUT…..PULEEZ…HAS HE LEARNED NOTHING FROM HIS OWN INVOLVEMENT AND EXPERIENCE? ALTHOUGH IN THIS COLUMN HE WRITES: “Gaza has made the idea of a unilateral pullout widely scorned in Israel. No wonder. Within two years of Israel’s 2005 withdrawal, the Palestinian Authority there was overrun by Hamas militants, who then used Gaza as a launching pad for thousands of rocket attacks on southern Israel. A million Israelis had to go into bomb shelters. Israel was remarkably restrained.”
WHAT HE DOESN’T GO INTO IS HIS ROLE IN THAT FIASCO…HE AND A FEW OTHER MILLIONAIRES BOUGHT THE FLOURISHING AND HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE FARMS AND HOMES AND STATE OF THE ART EQUIPMENT FROM JEWISH SETTLERS OF GAZA TO ENTICE THEM TO LEAVE AND GIFTED THEM TO THE LOCAL ARABS. THEY RETURNED HIS LARGESSE BY TRASHING, DESTROYING EVERY SINGLE HOME, EVERY SINGLE FARM, EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT INCLUDING HARVESTED SEEDS…..RSK
Mitt Romney has put the Middle East back into the election debate on foreign policy, which is where it deserves to be. His speech at the Virginia Military Institute last week was more considered than the off-the-cuff remarks at the notorious 47 percent dinner where he saw “no way” for there to be a peace settlement with the Palestinians. This time he promised to “recommit America to the goal of a democratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel.” But how to get there?
In fact, an intriguing new proposal has been floated by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the former prime minister. The leadership of Israel has long understood that it is in its supreme interest to promote a peace process with the Palestinians, and Barak has pushed the objective one step further. He agrees with Romney that there is a low probability that a permanent status arrangement can be reached in a negotiation with the Palestinians and that even an interim agreement is dubious. If that proves so, Barak proposes withdrawal from the West Bank and at the same time recognizing the Israeli settlements there as an integral part of Israel. As he put it, “If there is no partner, we have to converge to within settlement blocs, to remove dozens of settlements, and to allow residents who do not want to leave their homes to consider remaining there as residents of the Palestinian Authority.”
The settlement blocs, housing 80 to 90 percent of the 320,000 people, are mostly located near the frontiers of Israel proper. These people, now behind settlement fences, would stay within Israel, and the Palestinian entity would begin on the other side of the fence. The Israelis are determined that their citizens can live in a democratic state where the Jews are the majority and have the Palestinians live in a state with an Arab-Muslim majority. In other words, two states for two people.
Barak understands that fundamental differences would remain to be negotiated. There are the issues of Jerusalem, the right of return of Palestinian refugees who have fled to the West Bank—and cast-iron security arrangements would be vital. Israel would have to maintain a military presence in the Jordan Valley and the Samarian hilltops overlooking Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-bpa-wars-junk-science-and-junk-journalism?f=puball On Tuesday, September 18, FoxNews.com posted an article by Alex Crees, a health news reporter, “Chemical BPA linked to obesity in children, teens.” If Ms. Crees had done any research to verify the facts she recounted in “a new study”, she would have known it was yet another bogus effort to correlate eating food […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-deer-crossing-principle-of-social-policy?f=puball Listening to a video recently that featured numerous stills of deer, deer crossing signs, and of cars dented or mangled by close encounters between reckless drivers and bounding deer, I had an epiphany: I finally grasped, for all time and for all mankind, how statist economists and society managers thought. A new sun rose, […]
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2732 Monday night’s final presidential debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney was surprising in more ways than one. The first was the behavior of the moderator, CBS “Face the Nation” anchor Bob Schieffer. Though known to be a liberal, and undoubtedly an Obama supporter, he was extremely professional and courteous […]
By Mark Hosenball http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-usa-benghazi-emails-idUSBRE89N02C20121024 WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show. The emails, obtained by Reuters from government […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3409/aarp-business-lobby There is nothing wrong with being a successful business, and the AARP should be credited for being just that. But there is something unsavory about being in the business of duping the elderly. What is poorly understood is that there are eight entities linked to the AARP label, of which five are taxable, for-profit […]
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/10/europes-takeover-by-islam-part-2.html
This is the second part of a four-part Israeli documentary by Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deryi about the Islamization of Europe. It has been translated from the Hebrew and subtitled in English.
The filmmaker is an Arabic-speaking Israeli whose appearance and flawless Arabic accent were sufficient to allow him to mingle freely with the Muslims in several “no-go zones” in Sweden and France, and to get an inside look at the Islamic mindset within the greater European community.
Many thanks to DarLink for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/the_real_reality_check.html
The real reality check is lurking in the wings, hanging over our heads, creeping up behind us. It didn’t really appear in Monday night’s presidential debate. Why? Was it, in fact, a debate? Or more like two gentleman on the riverbanks, fishing and chatting about the state of this troubled world. BBC World’s mid-morning newscast today went from “Obama more or less won the debate” to “the Emir of Qatar visits Gaza.” There’s reality for you. Qatar greasing palms up front and fueling jihad in the background. Does the commander in chief have a plan for that contingency? Never mind. It doesn’t matter to the majority of citizens, commentators, and media hacks. All he had to do to score points was repeat his job title — commander in chief — at regular intervals during the 90-minute session and tally up his foreign policy achievements. The majority of post-debate commentators didn’t question his figures, they chatted about his attitude. Did he look calm, cool, and collected? What does the undecided voter think?
The undecided voter who has not chosen Mitt Romney after the September 11th anniversary jihad attack in Benghazi will not be deciding on the basis of foreign policy, period. Maybe that’s why Romney took every opportunity to link the sorry state of the U.S. economy to our loss of power on the international scene. I suppose his strategy was aimed at winning the election, not winning the debate about the debate… a hopeless cause. Not only because of the stubborn subjectivity of mainstream media commentators but because that heads or tails contest is even more superficial than the debate itself.
Important foreign policy issues were indeed raised yet became weightless as they were tossed from Bob to Mitt to Barack and then dropped. The conversation bobbed on the surface of grave and urgent questions.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/10/23/obama-real-record-on-israel/
During the final debate, President Obama pointed to his 2008 pre-election visit to Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, as an answer to Governor Romney’s criticism of his foreign policy on Israel. That same stop was made by over a million visitors and hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries the same year. Invoking it as a means to establish the President’s pro-Israel credentials is an insult to the intelligence of voters who care about the welfare of the Jewish state.
The president’s move is reminiscent of a similar game played by the United Nations. The organization trashes the state of Israel 364 days a year, and pauses on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27th for an “International Day of Commemoration.”
Undoubtedly, keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive is a service not only to Jews but to anyone interested in preserving and protecting universal human rights and freedoms.
But the question before American voters, who value our special bond with the Middle East’s only democracy, is whether the specifics of the president’s four-year record are consistent with the well-being of the people who live and breathe Jewish self-determination as a bulwark against modern anti-semitism.
Just a partial rap-sheet speaks for itself.
