http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Somewhere toward the end of “A Few Good Men” comes the only scene from the movie that anyone actually remembers. It’s the one where Jack Nicholson in a uniform begins chewing the scenery and turns a dreary Aaron Sorkin adaptation of an Aaron Sorkin play into a memorable movie while inflicting Sorkin on the […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/king_abdullah_ii_the_other_elephant_in_the_room.html
JORDAN HAD A GO AT “ADMINISTERING HOLY SITES IN JERUSALEM”….AFTER THE 1949 HUDNA (ARABIC FOR TEMPORARY AND STRATEGIC CEASE FIRE) THE JEWISH HOLY SITES WERE TRASHED, DESTROYED AND DESECRATED. JEWS FROM ALL COUNTRIES WERE BARRED AND CHRISTIAN TOURISTS HAD TO PRESENT BAPTISMAL CERTIFICATES TO ENTER THE AREA….THE JEWISH QUARTER, ANCIENT SYNAGOGUES WERE DESTROYED, GRAVESTONES WERE USED TO BUILD LATRINES FOR THE JORDANIAN ARMY…..UNTIL ISRAEL LIBERATED AND UNIFIED AND RESTORED JERUSALEM IN 1967…..READ ABOUT THE PA’S TREATMENT OF JERICHO AND JOSEPH’S TOMB SO CRAVENLY SURRENDERED TO THE ARABS FOR A GLIMPSE AT HOW ARAB “ADMINISTRATION” OF JEWISH HOLY SITES WORKS…..RSK
The decades of failed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations aren’t due merely to the conflicts over borders, blockades, settlements, outposts, land resources or the construction in East Jerusalem. The failure can only be attributed to three widely-ignored “elephants in the room” that have prevented the Palestinian and Israeli leadership from signing any final peace treaty.
The first elephant is that the Palestinian leadership, as with most Arab leaders, does not want a Jewish state to even exist; the second is the 1so-called Right of Return clause that is the peaceful solution to eliminate the Jewish State; and the third is quietly hiding in the corner of the room pretending that he has no reason to be there…that elephant is King Abdullah II of Jordan.
With this in mind, President Obama’s recent trip to Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman may be viewed as an effort to bring King Abdullah II into future negotiations with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas. Therefore, an agreement that was signed by Abbas and Abdullah shortly after Obama’s visit may well be a symbol of a tacit alliance by which each boasts the other’s status before going into any future peace talks.
It’s also important to note that both these leaders have lost considerable political power with their respective peoples and the void is being filled by clan leadership.
Their agreement, signed on March 31, affirms King Abdullah II as the “Custodian of the holy sites in Jerusalem” and that “he has the right to exert all legal efforts to preserve them, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque.” It is obvious that this alliance coordinates their efforts to defend Jerusalem against the Judaization of the city.
Looking back in history, this agreement can be seen as the conclusion of a verbal agreement made in 1924 that had given the Hashemite Monarchy custodianship over Jerusalem’s holy sites, but the signing was timed as a symbol right after President Obama’s trip.
Oraib Rintawi, head of the Al-Quds Centre for Political Studies, said the deal also supports the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli treaty whereby Jordan became administrator of the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem through its Ministry of Awaqf and Religious Affairs.
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2013/04/choosing_life_in_israel_a_review.html Choosing Life in Israel, by P. David Hornik (a columnist at Frontpage Magazine, a contributor to PJ Media, American Spectator, and elsewhere), is a collection of essays vividly describing the author’s life in Israel with all its attendant regional whiplashes. Its trajectory veers like a roller coaster ride from the wildly delicious to the […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2013/04/in_the_shadow_of_lady_liberty.html was a gorgeous day, with a shiny sun, clear cerulean sky and no wind and temperatures in the comfortable mid-50s. A dozen of us came from various boroughs to represent the millions who feel strongly that myriads of unvetted, undocumented, below-the-radar Hispanics from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and elsewhere in the isthmus have no business […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2013/04/boola_boola_save_your_moolah.html If you’re like me, your college alumni association floods your inbox with email invitations to contribute, often adding invites to football games and lectures by famous alums or popular professors. Except for the moment when an appeal made directly by an administrator turned out to be a multi-page swoon over Obama, most of these […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3205/the_importance_of_national_history
A people cannot forever remain a people if they forget what it is that binds them together
THIS IS REPEATED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES….HISTORY REDACTED TO FIT BIAS AND MULTICULTURALISM….RSK
There are few things more important to a nation’s sense of itself than an understanding of its own history. In fact, it might well be the most important thing of all. How the citizens of a country view that country and its place in the past can have profound consequences for the politics of that country or even, in extremis, its future existence.
This was really driven home to me in a debate I ended up in last week where I once again found myself, as so often, defending Michael Gove’s schools reforms. This position was somewhat surprising because I’m currently living in Dublin, having finished the last classes of my postgraduate degree in Modern Irish History last week.
The scene was my very last seminar. One of our tutors had put it together in order to have a discussion about the practice of historical study, what changes we’d noticed in how Irish history is studied, what we’d change, and where we think Irish historiography (for such the study of the study of history is called) is going. If this all sounds a bit like specialist academic naval gazing, it is – the evolution of history justifying the continued employment of historians – but I do have a point.
What brought Gove under attack was the topic of popular history and, in particular, national history. Ireland iscurrently in the opening stretch of the so-called “Decade of Commemorations”, an eleven-year string of centenaries starting with the Ulster Covenant and ending with the close of the Irish Civil War. The source of the debate was a recently published book about the Irish Famine.
Now, the famine sits at the centre of an on-going debate in Irish history between nationalist historians, who cleave to the traditional narrative of Irish history where the English take the role of inveterate villains, and the revisionists who maintain that it’s all rather more complicated than that. To take an extreme example, a certain nationalist view of the famine maintains that it was an act of genocide, deliberately perpetrated against the Irish people.
This is not a view that has held much currency in academic circles for a while, even amongst nationalists. Yet this new book, published to take advantage of an anticipated rise in demand for national history by the Irish public, had eschewed all the historiographical advancements of academic Irish history to take up the tired arch-Anglophobic line. Why?
Short answer: that’s what people want and expect. ‘Irishness’ is informed by an understanding of its past more than many other countries, and the narrative that counts as received wisdom centres on an adversarial relationship with the big island to the east. This cultural understanding, steeped in assumptions and folklore, does not evolve to keep up with the fashionable theories of a suspect group of West Brit historians holed up in Trinity College.
Something like 6% of Israelis, or one in 16, begins his or her morning each day with a little serving of treason du jour known as Haaretz. Not only is this the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, its ideological line no longer differs in any noticeable way from the party line of the Israeli communist party, except when it comes to economics. (In bizarre only0in-Israel manner, Haaretz’ business section is the most strongly pro-market in all Israeli media.)
In the darkest days of Stalinism, communists and Soviet “citizens” would open Pravda (and its clones) each morning to discovery just what it is that they think and are expected to think. In some cases, what they were commanded to think might change throughout the day. The infamous example was the day when the morning edition of all communist papers in the world gushed about the deep friendship and lasting trust between Comrade Stalin and his ally and friend Adolf Hitler. Then the afternoon editions screamed denunciations of Nazi Germany and Hitler for invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
The Israeli radical Left works pretty much the same way. It opens Haaretz each morning in order to discover what it thinks. And it then spends the rest of the day mouthing these opinions and advocating what its gurus have instructed it to advocate.
Of the 6 percent of Israelis who read the “newspaper,” my guess is that 4 out of the 6 read it for the business/economic supplement, which is the best on these subjects in Israel. Go figure. Of the remaining 2 percent, some like me read it so they can see just what the enemy is thinking and planning. The remaining 1 to 2% are the true believers, the goose-stepping rank and file of the ultra-Left, many of these of course being tenured leftists.
Haaretz is openly anti-Zionist and pro-terror and pro-jihad. It opposes any sanctions and aggressive policy against Iran. Every day the paper is filled with mailman-bites-dog stories, about how settlers supposedly attack Arabs or vandalize Arab property. If Haaretz were reporting on World War II using its staff of today, the paper would be filled with reports about the sufferings of innocent German and Japanese civilians as a result of the aggressions of the Western imperialist powers: America and Britain. With no comment at all about Axis aggression.
The newspaper of the thinking Israeli, as it likes to dub itself, openly cheers on Palestinians who throw rocks and molotov cocktails at Jews. After all, the Palestinians have grievances. The paper only uses the “T” word “terrorist” to refer to Jews, never to Arabs. This week Jack Teitel, the mentally ill ex-American who killed two Arabs and placed a small explosive device near the home of radical anti-Israel professor Zeev Sternhall, was denounced by Haaretz (he was just sentenced to two life terms in prison) as a “Jewish terrorist.” The rest of the left repeated the mantra in unison. Teitel is not a terrorist but a mentally ill person.
Christian and Muslim women are being raped in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Hindu girls are being kidnapped, raped and sold as slaves to Muslim men. Muslim girls have been incinerated for attending school.
All of these activities “please Allah.”
This is the hate ideology masquerading as a religion that we have allowed to expand into our midst.
Janet Levy, Los Angeles
P.S. Note below that the VAST MAJORITY of the Muslim Parliament calls for the release of the murderer. This is NOT A CRIME in their unholy book!
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/vast-majority-of-jordanian-parliament-calls-for-release-of-man-who-murdered-7-israeli-schoolgirls/
Vast Majority of Jordanian Parliament Calls for Release of Man Who Murdered 7 Israeli Schoolgirls by Daniel Greenfield
This is yet another reminder that meaningful peace of any kind is utterly impossible. The issue isn’t territory. It’s bone deep hatred to a degree that is inconceivable among normal human beings.
Peace is impossible.
The Island of Peace massacre was a Mass murder attack that occurred at the Island of Peace site in Naharayim on March 13, 1997 in which Ahmed Daqamseh, a Jordanian soldier opened fire at a large group of Israeli schoolgirls from the AMIT Fuerst School in Beit Shemesh who were on a class field trip, killing seven of them and injuring six others.
The shooter, who expressed pride for his actions, was imprisoned by Jordanian authorities, but was later called a “hero” by the Jordanian Justice Minister and Parliament, who called for his release.
Speaking on Al Jazeera in May 2001, Ahmed Daqamseh’s mother said, “I am proud of my son, and I hold my head high. My son did a heroic deed and has pleased Allah and his own conscience. My son lifts my head and the head of the entire Arab and Islamic nation. I am proud of any Muslim who does what Ahmad did.
“When my son went to prison, they asked him: ‘Ahmad, do you regret it?’ He answered: ‘I have no regrets.’ He treated everyone to coffee, honored all the other prisoners, and said: The only thing that I am angry about is the gun, which did not work properly. Otherwise I would have killed all of the passengers on the bus.”
In an interview Daqamseh gave in 2004 to Jordanian weekly a-Shahed, he expressed pride in his actions and said that “if I could return to that moment, I’d behave exactly the same way. Every day that passes, I grow stronger in the belief that what I did was my duty.”
www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Immune cells prevent and cause brain degeneration. Weizmann Institute’s Professor Michal Schwartz and her team have discovered that immune cells at the edge of the brain travel an extraordinary route to repair brain trauma. In the elderly, the cells no longer do their function, which could open up new treatments for dementia.
http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/gateway-to-the-brain#.UWmh3UoX7KU
Immune cells fight or cause liver disease. Sounds familiar? Professor Rifaat Safadi’s team from Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem has identified that the normal function of Neuroliglin 4 in the immune system is to fight cirrhosis of the liver. But in patients with Hepatitis or alcoholics, the cell changes and attacks the liver.
http://nocamels.com/2013/04/israeli-makes-breakthrough-discovery-in-liver-disease-treatment/
Sweetner could treat Parkinson’s. Researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that the sugar substitute mannitol protects the brain against the effects of Parkinson’s disease. Laboratory trials are to be completed before human clinical trials can commence.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-flies-potential-sweet-treatment-parkinson.html
Pediatrician delivers baby in elevator. On her way to give a lecture at Kaplan Medical Center Dr. Hanni Olivestone found a woman in labor in a public bathroom. She took the woman in a wheelchair to the delivery room but as they entered the elevator, the baby’s head emerged.
http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Passing-pediatrician-delivers-baby-outside-hospital-308774
Top US award for Israeli cancer specialist. The American Association for Cancer Research has awarded Professor Alexander Levitzki of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem its 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research. It recognizes Prof Levitzki’s work on signal transduction therapy and the development of tyrosine kinase inhibitors as effective agents against cancer.
http://www.aacr.org/home/public–media/aacr-in-the-news.aspx?d=3073
Repairing the damage from acne. (Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israel’s Syneron Medical is launching its unique bi-polar fractional radio-frequency (RF) energy device to remove acne scars. 22% of adults 18 years and older are adversely affected by acne scars and 77% of them want a low-cost, quick and painless way to remove them.
http://investors.syneron.com/2013-04-04-Syneron-Launches-its-Proprietary-Sublative-Technology-for-Acne-Scars
*Reprinted, with permission, from the Chicago Jewish Star. The first two words of the title Choosing Life in Israel, by P. David Hornik, are fraught with double meaning for any literate Jew. In Deuteronomy 30: 19, Moses calls heaven and earth “to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life […]
