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INDEPENDENT KOSOVO IS THE BLUEPRINT FOR INDEPENDENT ARAB “PALESTINE”….A NATION TORN FROM ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS TO SATISFY JIHADIST ENEMIES….RSK
Haaretz Wants Israel to be 100th Kosovo Recognizer; Kosovo’s Mengele Commemorates Jewish Cemetery, Interrupted by Islamic Call to Prayer; Kosovo’s Expelled Jews Complain; WWII Croatians to be Honored Today in Skokie by Holocaust Museum Unfamiliar with WWII Croatian Genocide; College Kids Prepped on it All

Leftist Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently treated us to an article by editor Adar Primor, titled “Israel Must Recognize Kosovo.” For Israel’s own sake, no less. ( “Israel must remain faithful to the principles of self-determination on which it was founded and be the 100th country to recognize Kosovo. Not just for Kosovo’s sake – but for its own.”) The cheap piece was a rehashing of the 90s-born pop platitudes, cliches and myths such as Milosevic’s “nationalist” speech which “ignited” four wars, and “national aspirations of an oppressed people [who] suffered massacres, rapes and ethnic cleansing,” plus tired and debunked designations such as “Butcher of the Balkans” and “worst war crimes in Europe since World War II.” The article was replete with the Pristina/Washington talking points: “unique case, modern-dressed girls, alcohol sold freely, and no chance of Islamization.” This autopilot was also the last guy who still on “quarter of a million” dead in the Balkan wars. Not surprisingly, Primor didn’t miss the opportunity to bring in the UN vote against Israel, on which Albania abstained but Serbia did not (that sad story is explained here). He also did the usual projection of the Albanians’ uncompromising “it’s all mine” demand onto the Serbian side. But then, this is someone who still perceives “unconditional” American support for Israel.

He also credulously quoted the prime minister, Hashim the Snake Thaci giving one of his usual Washington-Pristina talking points: “[Former foreign minister Vuk] Jeremic warned against a domino effect that could undermine the stability of the Balkans, bring to the surface both ‘dormant’ and new disputes in the world…Prime Minister Hashim Thaci answered this concern… ‘Kosovo is a unique case and, as a result, its independence doesn’t set any precedent. On the contrary; its freedom will be a cornerstone of stability for the Balkans, which will enter an era of cooperation and peace.’ From the perspective of five years hence, it’s clear: Thaci was right, and Jeremic (and Israel) were mistaken.”

Because a mere five years is such a long, long time, right, providing all the hindsight on Kosovo anyone will ever need. Five years, incidentally, during which the international overseers are still there and so Kosovo is still on good behavior (compared to what’s going to be once the do-gooders leave. That’s if you don’t count a pogrom of the dead, digging up bodies and scattering the remains to mark five years of “independence”).

Primor couldn’t resist mentioning the monument that Pristina dedicated two weeks ago “to commemorate Kosovo Jews murdered in the Holocaust,” and that the authorities have been going out of their way (lately) to make Kosovo’s 56 Jews feel welcome.

The monument he’s talking about: Kosovo unveiling Holocaust memorial (JTA, May 23)

Kosovo is unveiling a plaque commemorating its Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was scheduled to unveil the plaque on Thursday in Pristina at the site of the country’s last synagogue, across the street from the parliament.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is staring at me with the uncontrolled intensity usually reserved for serial killers and time-share salesmen. “We know how to get the country back to work. The government needs to lead the way.” He folds a napkin in what looks like some expensive oyster bar, but is probably just a television […]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3820/ten_dumbest_crime_excuses_used_in_the_uae

THE WORST EXCUSE FOR CRIMES IN THE EMIRATES IS THEIR PARTICIPATION IN TERRORISM, SHARIA, SLAVERY,MISOGYNY AND JIHAD….RSK

A compilation of some of the weirdest and oddest excuses ever made by criminals… in the United Arab Emirates

CASE 1 – ONE SIZE FITS ALL

Caught trying to sneak past Dubai Airport customs with hashish hidden in his shoes, an Afghan drug trafficker claimed he was in someone else’s shoes when he was hauled before the court. His plea: The drug-stuffed footwear wasn’t actually his as he had swapped his own warm ones with the ones of a compatriot shivering from cold just before boarding a flight to Dubai. “And you were sure his shoes would fit you just perfectly?” the judge enquired during the trial, before eventually delivering a fitting verdict last month — 10 years in prison followed by deportation.

CASE 2 – GAME OVER FOR VAMPIRE

Confronted with bite marks on the cheeks, neck and thighs of a six-year-old British girl, a Sri Lankan driver facing molestation charges attributed the bruises to a vampire game he was playing with the child. “I acted as a vampire and we were playing a game when I bit her neck, cheeks and thighs. I did not kiss or molest her,” he said in his lame defence. Obviously, it didn’t work. Early last year, the Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced him to six months in jail. Mr Count Dracula was deported after completing his prison term.

CASE 3 – NOT ONE’S CUP OF TEA

For months in 2012, an Indonesian housemaid diligently mixed her urine in a pot from which her boss and his wife poured tea. But when the woman was arrested and charged with endangering lives, she insisted that the urine-mix was actually a secret potion that would cast a spell on the family and prompt them to hike her salary.

“I hoped to win their affection… I didn’t intend to endanger their lives,” she claimed before Dubai Court of Misdemeanours which sentenced her to two months in prison.

CASE 4 – EMERGENCY AID

A couple thought it was a good idea to cozy up in a lifeguard tower on Jumeriah beach. But when the Indian man and the Filipina were caught early this year and charged with having an illicit affair, the man came up with a defence plea that appears to have been lifted straight from Bollywood movie Cocktail. “I was giving her an emergency CPR (Cardiopulmonary) resuscitation because she was cold,” he claimed. However, an Emirati mum who watched the act for 50 minutes testified otherwise and the duo were sentenced to one year in jail.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3817/why_we_shouldn_t_send_arms_to_syria David Baker worked as a daily newspaper journalist focusing on political reporting before becoming a Church of England minister. He currently serves three churches in Sussex Syria is not a matter of black and white, of tyranny against liberty, of “good guys against bad guys”. It is messy, complex, and multi-layered. The conflict in […]

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AT THAT TIME FBI INVESTIGATOR JAMES KALLSTROM, A SERIOUS MAN WITH IMPECCABLE CREDENTIALS HEADED THE CRIMINAL PROBE AFTER THE CRASH. HE CALLS THIS DOCUMENTARY ” A BUNCH OF BULL CRAP”..

READ:http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/19/former-fbi-official-new-theory-on-flight-twa-800-is-a-bunch-of-bull-crap/

American Thinker has long taken a skeptical attitude toward the official account of the TWA 800 disaster. Jack Cashill, who also wrote a book on the subject, has an impressive body of work on the subject, some of it published on these pages. Co-founder Richard Baehr took up the subject. Now comes news of a new documentary film that says it has proof of a cover-up. Via Fox News:

A group of whistle-blowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago.

However, the six whistle-blowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down.

Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996, en route to Paris when it exploded and crashed off the coast of nearby East Moriches, Long Island, killing everyone on the plane.

“..This team of investigators who actually handled the wreckage and victims’ bodies, prove that the officially proposed fuel-air explosion did not cause the crash,” reads a statement by the producers of the film, which will debut on cable network EPIX next month. “They also provide radar and forensic evidence proving that one or more ordnance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash.” However, the statement said they did not speculate about the source or sources of any ordnance explosions.

News of this is not making a huge splash beyond Fox News, and I fully expect a media cofferdam to be erected, confining concern about a huge government cover-up to the 30% or so of the population reached by the conservative media. The CBS website features coverage that raises questions:

The ‘death panel’ is a new beast, with god-like powers. Congress should repeal it or test its constitutionality. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324634304578539823614996636.html?mod=opinion_newsreel Signs of ObamaCare’s failings mount daily, including soaring insurance costs, looming provider shortages and inadequate insurance exchanges. Yet the law’s most disturbing feature may be the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB, sometimes called a “death […]

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Speaking in Berlin on Wednesday, Barack Obama looked and sounded more like a dreary American technocrat than a citizen of the world.

Freddy Gray, writing at the Spectator magazine’s Coffee House blog on Wednesday:

Obama-love is not what it was. The man who just spoke against nuclear proliferation at the Brandenburg Gate today is quite obviously not the avatar of progress who appeared before adoring crowds near the same spot in 2008. . . .

And yet and yet, Obama still tries to present himself as a 21st century Camelot. His rhetoric has been toned down: today he looked and sounded more like a dreary American technocrat than a citizen of the world. But he continues to pose as a global dove and utters lofty phrases about creating a “world of peace with justice.” It’s just he sounds like he doesn’t believe it anymore—and, increasingly, neither do we.

Justin Welby’s grandfather fled from Germany; his father bootlegged alcohol, knew JFK and was engaged to Vanessa Redgrave; he worked in the oil industry before feeling a call to God after his daughter’s death in a car crash
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-first-jewish-archbishop-of-canterbury-heads-to-israel/

ONDON – The father of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, kept many secrets. Gavin Welby never told his son that he had an estranged older sister, or a first wife. He never told him his real birthdate, or the name under which he was born. And, it has emerged, he never told him that he was born a Jew.

“He told lots of stories but one was never really sure what was true and what wasn’t,” Archbishop Justin told The Daily Telegraph, which broke the news to him just days after he was appointed head of the Church of England in November 2012. “He drank quite heavily and, you know, he would say things sometimes when he had been drinking and you did not know what was true or not.

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“He wouldn’t talk about his family at all,” he said.

Naturally, the bombshell that the leader of 80 million Anglicans worldwide is a half-Jew has captured the imagination of Britain’s Jewish community. The Anglican Church, by contrast, has so far reacted apathetically, perhaps inured by previous examples of Jewish-Christian clerics such as Giles Fraser, until 2011 Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, who had a Jewish father; and Hugh Montefiore, a well-known bishop in the 1970s and ‘80s, who converted from Judaism in his teens.

But beyond the gossip element lie serious questions. Will Archbishop Justin be able to improve Jewish-Anglican relations, which have gone through a rocky patch over the last few months? And how will the revelations about his heritage affect his attitudes and worldviews?

With little track record to go on, observers are reluctant jump to any conclusions: “It’s very early days,” says Rev. David Gifford, CEO of the Council of Christians and Jews, noting that Welby was only installed in March.

Archbishop Welby, whose decade-long rise in the church is considered meteoric, has had limited experience working with Jewish groups, but activists speak positively of his relations with Jews in his former parishes and in the interfaith world.

They point to two hopeful early signs. The first is that the archbishop has chosen to visit Israel next week, which is considered very early in his tenure (he will also be visiting Egypt, the Palestinian territories and, briefly, Jordan). A visit to Yad Vashem may be particularly poignant as he recently discovered that he has relatives who perished in the Shoah. He will also engage with as-yet-unnamed “communities and leaders” and pay his respects to the patriarchs of the Jerusalem churches, in particular Jerusalem’s Anglican bishop, Suheil Duwani.
The Prince of Wales speaks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Justin Welby following his Enthronement at Canterbury Cathedral. (photo credit: AP Photo/Chris Ison, Pool)

The Prince of Wales speaks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Justin Welby following his Enthronement at Canterbury Cathedral. (photo credit: AP Photo/Chris Ison, Pool)

The other is that, completely regardless of his Jewish background, he appears to have long had an affinity for, and interest in, Jewish issues and in Israel.

According to the philo-Semitic Canon Andrew White, “Israel has no fear with him, nor does the Jewish community. He’s a friend, not an enemy.”

http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/19/obama-in-berlin-vows-us-will-do-more-before-it-is-too-late
Obama in Berlin vows U.S. ‘will do more…before it is too late’ to battle climate change: Warns of ‘more severe storms, more famine & floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise’

Meanwhile: Earth undergoing global COOLING since 2002!

http://www.timesofisrael.com/tough-guy-de-niro-likes-tough-israel/
Tough guy De Niro likes tough Israel
American actor says Israelis need to be aggressive in their situation; visits Western Wall

American actor Robert De Niro praised Israeli aggressiveness during a talk at the President’s Conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

“I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they’re energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They’re nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation,” he said.

The statement was akin to praise from Caesar, coming from the man who has made a career out of playing aggressive tough guys in movies from “Taxi Driver” to “Meet the Fockers.”

De Niro, 69, is one of several high-profile guests who came to Israel this week to celebrate President Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday and participate in his annual Facing Tomorrow conference. He flew back to New York late Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, De Niro visited the Western Wall with his son Julian, 17, putting a note in the Jewish holy site. He also visited the Western Wall Tunnels.