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DID YOU KILL ANY BABIES BRUCE?

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“Did you kill any babies, Bruce?” As we lay in bed on New Year’s Eve 1970, this is what the girl asked who a friend had introduced me to when I returned from Vietnam a couple of months before. I got up and drove home in the snowy streets from Queens to Brooklyn. I didn’t even try to date another girl for almost a year after. But, I moved past it and didn’t dwell on that night.

Some returned soldiers and Marines had worse experiences and some had better and almost all just blended back in after an initial adjustment. Studies show that most were more successful in their lives than their non-serving peers. But, what the major media and liberal opinion-setters painted was an image, usually grossly ignorant and mendacious, of a mentally and morally scarred Vietnam veteran. The purpose was to reduce support for the US commitment to South Vietnam. It took several decades before this image from the Left was reversed and due pride in veterans’ service returned to America. Yet, that erroneous and harmful image of Vietnam veterans still lingers in many minds.

Aside from the opprobrium poured upon us Vietnam veterans from the Left in the pop culture and academia, the goal of our war was lost and we had little reason to exhibit pride in the outcome of our service as millions of IndoChinese were murdered by the conquering communists in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The perfidy of so many of our Senators and Congressmen, and the indifference of most opinion-leaders, only deepened the alienation from authority, and increased the vulnerability to the anti-Vietnam messagers.

That’s what the fall of Saigon has to do with the life paths of Vietnam veterans.

JANET LEVY: “SHOULDER TO SHOULDER” INTERFAITH COALITION WITH ENEMIES

Shoulder-to-Shoulder is an “interfaith” coalition that includes unindicted co-conspirator and Muslim Brotherhood front, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Arab American Institute, the Universal Muslim Association of America (UMAA) and over 20 national Christian and Jewish religious groups. The Coalition tools send their religious leaders into the community to speak about “anti-Muslim bigotry,” work with Congress to fight “anti-Muslim sentiment” and seek media coverage for their work against “Islamophobia.”
No word on any efforts to promote religious practice for Jews and Christians in Muslim countries OR to extinguish the persecution and murder of Jews and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa OR to combat Muslim Jew hatred and anti-Christianism in the West.
Shoulder-to-Shoulder offers strategies to fight controversies such as building a mosque at Ground Zero in New York City (the despicable, insensitive Muslim Brotherhood attempt to celebrate their 9/11 “victory”), rail against threats to burn the Koran and fight against legislation to preserve Constitutional Law in America (and prevent a medieval, supremacist, totalitarian doctrine – Islamic shariah – from destroying our great republic).
Their programs include the Christian-Muslim Consultative Group to promote “interfaith” and “social justice” issues, Daughters of Abraham to bring Christian, Jewish and Muslim women “together” (to model burkas, show off bruises and compare FGM scars), Faith Shared to “unite in prayer and understanding,” the New Evangelical Partnership Film Festival to fight “Islamophobia,” NewGround to respond to the “climate of tension and mistrust between Jews and Muslims in Los Angeles and beyond, Odyssey Networks for youth to exploit their personal experiences with “Islamophobia,” Our Better Angels to engender respect for Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions, the Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee to promote a “pluralistic” (read “Islamic”) society, Prepare New York to push New Yorkers to “get over” 9/11, Project Interfaith, Ravel/Unravel Community Mosaic Video Project to promote Islam, South West Interfaith Team, The Safe Nation Collaborative to “bridge the gap” between law enforcement and American Muslim communities (to put an end to surveillance and anti-jihad efforts), Torture Awareness Month, the Tri Faith Initiative, United in Peace, Healing with Hope, WMATA to stop “hateful” ads (a.k.a. ads that tell the TRUTH about Islam) and Weekend of Twinning in which Christian and Jewish organizations in 26 countries delude themselves into thinking that Islam is “the religion of peace.”
See the list of Christian and Jewish traitor Islamo-panderers below.

SARAH HONIG: LEVI ESHKOL…PLUCKY IN PAJAMAS

http://sarahhonig.com/2013/06/14/another-tack-plucky-in-pajamas/

In our collective memory Levi Eshkol is perceived as a weak, even a vacillating prime minister. Perhaps this was unjust already back on the eve of the Six Day War, when his image became thus ingrained in our popular lore. Certainly, compared to many of his successors in ensuing decades, Eshkol can be portrayed as a resolute upholder of Israeli national pride – especially when clad in pajamas.

Merely by refusing to change into proper daytime attire, Eshkol struck a plucky patriotic pose. In his humble night clothes he evinced more audacity than most of the wishy-washy variety that followed him in office.

Eshkol took his steadfast stand in the ungodly hours of May 27, 1967, when Soviet Ambassador Dmitri Chuvakhin arrived on the PM’s doorstep and demanded to wake him up to deliver an urgent message from Moscow. The envoy insisted he couldn’t wait till dawn.

Rather than be overawed and flustered, Eshkol chose to deliberately express his defiance of what was surely a bullying superpower diktat. He told his bureau chief, veteran diplomat Aviad Yaffe, that “under no circumstances do I have any intention of getting dressed for him” [Chuvakhin].

Those were the suffocating super-tense days in which the Arabs boasted belligerently that they were about to annihilate the Jewish state, after Egypt had blockaded the Tiran Straits and ignominiously tossed the UN peacekeepers out of Sinai.

Surrealistically, as the scary siege against Israel intensified, both the State Department and the White House “couldn’t find” copies of America’s ten-year-old guarantees to prevent precisely such a scenario. This was despite the fact that these very much-publicized guarantees were what swayed Israel, under Washington’s aggressive prodding, to withdraw from the Sinai in 1957.

Israel seemed alone, callously abandoned by its allies and coldly intimidated by the Russians. Things looked grim. How today’s crop of Israeli politicians would have coped with such extreme challenges is a matter of conjecture. But Eshkol stood his ground in his PJs and in fluent Russian rejected the stern warnings against a preemptive strike delivered by the emissary dispatched to harass him in the middle of the night.

SUPERMENSCH? THE MAN OF STEEL AND HIS JEWISH CREATORS: RAFAEL MEDOFF

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/06/13/superman-saving-his-jewish-creators/#

JNS.org – Millions of Americans will flock to movie theaters this week to see “Man of Steel,” in which Superman will once again be called upon to save the world from some menace. But back in 1975, Superman’s Jewish creators found themselves broke, nearly homeless, and desperately in need a hero of their own. It’s a story with the pathos and drama of a comic book adventure—and it has a happy ending.

As teenagers growing up in Cleveland’s mostly-Jewish Glenville neighborhood in the 1930s, writer Jerry Siegel and his artist friend Joe Shuster created Superman, the mighty costumed hero who has been a fixture of American pop culture ever since.

Siegel later wrote that he and Shuster were influenced by a combination of “being unemployed and worried during the Depression and knowing hopelessness and fear,” and “hearing and reading of the oppression and slaughter of helpless, oppressed Jews in Nazi Germany.” The Superman character emerged from their “great urge to help the downtrodden masses, somehow.”

Comics historians have compared Superman’s origins to both the Jewish immigrant experience and the biblical story of young Moses. With the planet Krypton on the verge of destruction, desperate parents send their infant off in a rocket ship to Earth, where heis raised by strangers—Jonathan and Martha Kent taking the role of Pharoah’s daughter. Whether disguised as the Midwestern newspaper reporter Clark Kent, or as an Egyptian prince whose Jewish roots are hidden, our hero would prefer to quietly assimilate into his surroundings but his outrage at injustice propels him into the role of rescuer.

Not realizing the fortune Superman would reap, Siegel and Shuster sold their first 13-page Superman comic strip, and the rights to the character to National Periodicals (later known as DC Comics) for $130.

The betrayal of the Jewish Left By PAMELA GELLER

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-betrayal-of-the-Jewish-Left-316472

In condemning Jews who speak out against jihad and Islamic supremacism, leftist rabbis are enabling the worst enemies of the Jewish people.

Last Monday in the Toronto Star, Rabbi Dow Marmur wrote an article criticizing what he referred to as my “customary rants against Islam,” saying that they would “create tensions between the two communities.”

“Rants against Islam,” i.e. condemnations of Islamic anti-Semitism, hatred of infidels, wife beating, honor killing, clitoridectomies, murder of apostates, denial of the freedom of speech, and so much more. On the heels of three anti-Semitic attacks in Montreal, another Canadian rabbi saw fit to condemn a fellow Jew for the crime of telling the truth about how jihadists use core Islamic teachings to justify various kinds of violence.

Nor was he the first rabbi to do so – a chorus of rabbis have condemned my work, claiming that it interferes with their dialogue with Muslims. But what are these rabbis really accomplishing with his dialogue, other than to obscure the root causes of the Islamic anti-Semitism that is increasing around the world? Rabbi Eric Yoffie recently published a vicious and defamatory piece attacking me in The Jerusalem Post. Where was Yoffie countering “hate” when Islamic jihadists murdered the Fogel family in Israel? Or when jihadists targeted the Chabad house in Mumbai for a savage and bloody attack? Or when Christians are persecuted on an increasingly frequent and violent basis in Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia and elsewhere? Instead, he opposes me for standing up against this real hatred.

FRANK GAFFNEY: METADATA AND THE COMMON DEFENSE

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2013/06/10/metadata-and-the-common-defense/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=metadata-and-the-common-defense The revelation that the super-secret National Security Agency has been vacuuming up so-called “metadata” from foreign and American communications has lots of us in a full-scale flail. The libertarian Right denounces it as an unacceptable abuse of government power.  Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is inviting millions of Americans to join him in bringing a […]

YORAM ETTINGER: ISRAEL-A GLOBAL LEADER IN BIO-TECH AND DEFENSE PRODUCTS

http://send.hadavars.com/index.php?action=message&l=2096&c=19077&m=17562&s=a317a26441993bdd8f740ee9a6c71bce 1.  Google is acquiring Israel’s Waze for $1.1BN.  Microsoft controls 10% of Waze. Google acquired, in 2012, two Israeli start ups for $25MN (Globes Business Daily, June 10, 11, 2013).  China’s Fusson acquired Israel’s Alma Lasers for $221MN (Globes, May 29).  Singapore’s Biosensors International acquired Israel’s Spectrom for $51MN (Globes, May 24).  The Pennsylvania-based […]

The Other Battlefront: The Propaganda War by Samuel Westrop

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3762/propaganda-war Raw footage of the event establishes that the Al-Durah affair is a prime example of Palestinian organizations’ manipulating the media with falsified footage and incorrect testimony. In 2000, a French television station, France 2, broadcast footage of a gunfight between Palestinian terrorists and Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Caught in the middle, a […]

National Defense vs. the Ideology of Jihad by Clare M. Lopez

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3763/national-defense-jihad-ideology It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the deliberate blinding of our homeland security defense capabilities, perpetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood in close cooperation with the witting, willing assistance of our own national security agency leadership , is propelling the U.S. towards catastrophe. Counterterrorism expert Patrick Poole has compiled a meticulously-documented record of […]

Ben Gurion University’s Zippergate By Steven Plaut

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/zippergate-in-zion/

While most of Israeli academia is the occupied territories of the radical tenured Left, no other institution besides Ben Gurion University has essentially made leftist anti-Israel agitprop its raison d’etre. At Ben Gurion University the notorious Department of Politics continues to operate as the worst anti-Israel indoctrination center in the country. It is a department in which no pro-Israel or non-leftist opinion may be expressed. It routinely holds one-sided “academic conferences” in which only Marxist or leftist anti-Israel opinion may be voiced. After its misbehavior and atrociously low academic standards became the focus of a report by a special international panel of experts appointed by Israel’s Council on Higher Education, Ben Gurion University carried out “reforms” in the department consisting of hiring even more anti-Israel leftists to teach there.

At Ben Gurion University animosity to Israel is a sufficient condition for a faculty member to be hired, and in some departments it is also a necessary condition. Pluralism and diversity at Ben Gurion University consist of having men and women, Arabs and Jews, Ashkenazim and Mizrachim and others all indoctrinate students in leftist ideology. In other words, pluralism of thought is widely suppressed on the campus. Academic standards are often trashed there when anti-Israel faculty are hired, and churning out Bash-Israel hate propaganda “counts” at BGU as scholastic achievement and academic excellence.

All of this is largely the doing of Ben Gurion University’s current leftist president, Rivka Carmi, although previous presidents of BGU were just as bad. (Carmi’s predecessor was Avishai Braverman, a Labor Party politician and the only “economist” in Israel who does not know that the minimum wage causes unemployment. Before him was Shlomo Gazit, another leftist activist, who favors international arming of the Hezb’Allah terrorists.)