http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/al-qaedas-lone-mujahid-pocketbook-lone-wolves-homegrown-terrorists-and-the-threat-among-us The March issue of Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine is now out and is this time featuring The Lone Mujahid Pocketbook-drawing heavily on past issues-and emphasizing home-grown, lone wolf and softer target attacks with instructions to make them accessible to many. While on some levels it’s laughable -it also brings up some troubling issues to […]
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The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who reportedly discovered only in adulthood that his paternal grandfather was Jewish, has been described as “a good friend” to Jews.
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/28-march/news/uk/welby-regrets-synod%E2%80%99s-eappi-vote
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that he should have voted against a General Synod motion that endorsed the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).
Archbishop Welby abstained on a private member’s motion on Palestine and Israel that was passed by the Synod last year (News, 29 June 2012, Synod, 13 July 2012). The Board of Deputies of British Jews objected to the motion’s calling for the Synod to “affirm its support” for EAPPI. It said that EAPPI’s “ecumenical accompaniers”, who monitor human-rights abuses of Palestinians, had “almost no grasp of the suffering of normal Israelis”.
In an interview with The Jewish News, published on Thursday of last week, Archbishop Welby, who is scheduled to visit Israel in June, said: “On reflection, I’d have voted against. I wasn’t quite up to speed when I went into that vote. I think the situation in the Holy Land is so complicated . . . and I don’t think the motion adequately reflected the complexity.”
He said that he would have added to the motion that Israel had the right to “live in security and peace within internationally agreed bor- ders, and the people of the region have the right to justice, peace, and security, whoever they are”.
Dr John Dinnen, the Synod member for Hereford diocese who proposed the motion, said on Monday that he was “sad” that Archbishop Welby “now feels he should have voted against my private member’s Measure”.
Home The rugs under President Obama’s vows to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons are being pulled out constantly. Last Monday, former EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, pointed out that the negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group (Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States), scheduled to begin […]
A major reason for observing “Holocaust Remembrance Day” is to recognize when a Holocaust is in the making. With the drastic escalation of anti-Semitism in the world history could be repeating itself. Many Jews fought in the German army during the First World War. And doing so they felt a strong allegiance to Germany. However, […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/344598 My column last weekend dealt with the travesty of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s apology to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, under great pressure from President Obama, for Israel’s self-defense against Turkey-based jihadists who attempted to break its lawful blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza. Netanyahu not only apologized but added to the humiliation by agreeing to Erdogan’s […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/344469/ascent-man-mark-steyn Re that New York Times notice regretting its “mischaracterization” of “the Christian holiday of Easter”, Michael Walsh is right to point out that the “correction” is equally idiotic. As Michael says, what does “resurrection into heaven” even mean? How could any expensively credentialed J-school grad type those words? Where I think Michael understates the […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/trusted-travel-status-for-country-that-produced-most-of-911-hijackers/ THIS ONE HANGS ON THE NECK OF GEORGE BUSH AS WELL…NOT ONLY WERE ALL SAUDIS GIVEN EXIT WITH NO SERIOUS QUESTIONS ASKED, BUT ONLY MONTHS AFTER 9/11 HE INVITED THE WAHHABI DESPOT TO HIS RANCH AND PROMOTED THE LATTER’S SO CALLED PEACE PLAN FOR YOU KNOW WHO…..JUST ANOTHER WAY OF BOWING TO THE THUGS….RSK […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/march-mayhem-mayor-never-waste-a-crisis-oversees-chicago-free-fall/ It had been an unusually cold month of March in Chicago, but with the first 50 degree day in weeks, about 500 African American teenagers heated up [1] Chicago’s Gold Coast on Saturday night. By the time the mayhem ended, 28 had been arrested [2], two women had been beaten badly on a CTA […]
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President Obama has a situation on his hands where charisma and media support do him no good. He is dealing with a nuclear-armed regime with a history of military attacks, provocations as a means of extortion, and brutality. Now they have announced they are restarting a reactor that produces enough plutonium to make a bomb a year — a reactor that had been shut down before as part of a previous deal in which the North Koreans got things of value in exchange for shuttering it.
Worse yet, the dictatorship is now in the midst of a possible power struggle. Kim Jong Un is a man barely thirty, if that (we don’t really know for sure), advised by his aunt Kim Kyong Hui and her husband, Jang Song Thaek, reportedly taking power from military factions and giving lucrative sources of income, including drugs and counterfeiting, to party factions. Gordon Chang writes:
Every year, Pyongyang makes bombastic threats before the U.S.-South Korea military exercises. Then, the North Koreans go quiet when the drills begin. This year, however, the tantrum has continued and the words have become increasingly dire. This month, for instance, Pyongyang abrogated the armistice ending the Korean War and threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the United States. The one-a-day rhetorical blasts suggest something is terribly wrong inside the North Korean regime.
Chang explains what he believes is happening inside the power circles of Pyongyang:
Jang has stripped the military of much of its coveted revenue streams from illicit activities. About 70% of North Korea’s foreign currency business was conducted by the flag officers under Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Un, under Jang’s tutelage, has set about gaining control of that business. The new leader, for instance, shuttered Taepung International Investment Group, which has been described as the military’s conduit for investment abroad.
Jang is also said to have been behind the shutting of the notorious Room 39, the “slush fund” that was the center of disreputable activities, such as drug smuggling, the counterfeiting of U.S. currency, and the making of fake Viagra. This is not to say the Kim regime is exiting illegal activities. As the Korea Times reports, “Experts say the developments may shift responsibility for attracting outside money to the party, which has been refurbished after gathering cobwebs under Kim Jong Il.”
Moreover, Kim and Jang have sacked top flag officers, most notably Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho, the respected chief of the General Staff. Some analysts believe there was a shootout between forces opposing Ri and those loyal to him when he was deposed last July. Whether or not these rumors are true, it has become clear that Kim’s removal of the popular Ri did not sit well with front-line commanders. In a further sign of turmoil, Ri’s successor, Hyon Yong Chol, was subsequently demoted.
It is bad enough that China Is Taking Steps. According to a report by Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon:
China has placed military forces on heightened alert in the northeastern part of the country as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula following recent threats by Pyongyang to attack, U.S. officials said.
The Mad Zionist Imagine an English officer who enjoyed walking around as naked as on the day he was born, happily munched away on raw onions, wrote blistering reports on his colleagues, defied his superiors, ran roughshod over his subordinates, ridiculed authority and rules, and was careless in his manners and impatient with mediocrity. Now […]
