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July 2013

WORLD REFUGEE DAY…SCANT MENTION OF THE JEWS FROM ARAB LANDS IN 1948: NOAH BECK….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3871/jews_from_muslim_lands_the_forgotten_refugees_of_1948

NOT ONLY ARE THESE REFUGEES GENERALLY IGNORED BUT PEOPLE LABOR UNDER THE FANTASY THAT JEWS LIVED IN COMFORT AND FREE FROM HARASSMENT IN ARAB/MUSLIM LANDS….THEY WERE ALWAYS DHIMMIS….RSK

June 20th was World Refugee Day, dedicated to nearly 60 million people worldwide who were forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution. One group of refugees rarely acknowledged is the Jews who were indigenous to Muslim lands but compelled to flee around the time when the State of Israel was established.

One group of refugees rarely acknowledged is the Jews who were indigenous to Muslim lands but compelled to flee around the time when the State of Israel was established.

A Google search for “1948 refugees” produces about 6 million results. All but a few (at least through page six) are about the Palestinian Arab refugees, as if they were the only refugees of 1948. But it is estimated that from the beginning of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War through the early 1970s, up to 1,000,000 Jews fled or were expelled from their ancestral homes in Muslim countries. 260,000 of those refugees reached Israel between 1948 and 1951 and comprised 56 percent of all immigration to the fledgling state. By 1972, their numbers had reached 600,000.

In 1948, Middle East and North African countries had considerable Jewish populations: Morocco (250,000), Algeria (140,000), Iraq (140,000), Iran (120,000), Egypt (75,000), Tunisia (50,000), Yemen (50,000), Libya (35,000), and Syria (20,000). Today, the indigenous Jews of those countries are virtually extinct (although Morocco and Iran each still have under 10,000 Jews). In most cases, the Jewish population had lived there for millennia.

STEVE APFEL: RETURN OF THE YELLOW STAR?

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3873/return_of_the_yellow_star In the post-Holocaust era it is infra dig to hate Jews, publicly at least. Hence the transmogrification from Jew to Zionist Nothing is new beneath the sun. King Solomon the wise discerned that everything existed from the beginning, so that ‘new’ things are really very old things, manifestations of eternal concepts; like the badge […]

PETE DU PONT: OBAMA’S ANTI- ENERGY AGENDA

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323419604578573531565348760.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond Not surprisingly, President Obama and Speaker John Boehner have different views on energy policy, differences brought into stark contrast by their recent statements. The president sees our nation’s energy policy primarily in terms of the environment, with the economy a secondary concern. His policy is grounded in a view that government regulation and subsidies […]

Hassan Rouhani to Again Take Over as Nuclear Negotiator by Banafsheh Zand

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3806/hassan-rouhani-nuclear-negotiations Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday that newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will once again head up Iran’s nuclear negotiation team. The next negotiation round of the P5+1 group [the five permanent members of UN Security Council plus Germany] will also be overseen by an investigative body, all of whom […]

The Arab Spring in Europe by Anat Berko

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3772/arab-spring-europe It is not difficult to portray Western women as licentious whores. For Muslim men, the West has no honor whatsoever. Even if immigrants try to adopt the culture of their new countries, the cultural and religious indoctrination breeds only the rejection of all the values of the host countries. What we are witnessing is […]

Gettysburg and the Eternal Battle for a ‘New Birth of Freedom’ ALLEN C. GUELZO

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323873904578571390930041734.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Lincoln, describing the fight of July 1-3, 1863, showed the world what was at stake in a Pennsylvania crossroads town. Among my great-grandfather’s papers, carefully set down in his small, gnarled handwriting, is a copy of the Gettysburg Address. When Lincoln delivered the speech, my great-grandfather was 10 years old and living in Sweden, […]

Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller Banned from the U.K. — on The Glazov Gang

Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller Banned from the U.K. — on The Glazov Gang
by Frontpagemag.com
Why Jihad supporters are welcome — and why freedom fighters and truth-tellers are not.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/robert-spencer-and-pamela-geller-banned-from-the-u-k-on-the-glazov-gang/

IN THE U.K. A PREVIEW OF OBAMACARE….PATIENTS WAIT IN AMBULANCES FOR FIVE HOURS OUTSIDE OF EMERGENCY CENTERS: LAURA DONNELLY

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10150635/Patients-facing-eight-hour-waits-in-ambulances-outside-AandE-departments.html Patients facing eight-hour waits in ambulances outside A&E departments Sick patients have been forced to wait up to eight hours in ambulances queuing outside Accident & Emergency units amid a crisis in the system. An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph shows that the number of patients forced to wait at least two hours parked […]

AAYAN HIRSI ALI INTERVIEWED BY DROR EYDAR

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=10309

‘Even if you give up all the land, it won’t solve the problems in the Mideast’

An interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of “Infidel” • “From the perspective of the Arab leaders, reaching a two-state solution is to betray God. If you want peace and not merely a process, you must make peace with the people. The negotiators themselves are of no importance.”
There is something dignified in the quiet, determined manner of Ayaan Hirsi Ali as she rises from the audience and walks towards the podium to deliver her lecture. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s intricate history starts in Somalia, where she was born to a Muslim family. At the age of five she underwent female genital mutilation. By her teens she was a devout Muslim. In her early twenties, upon learning of plans for an undesirable arranged marriage, she made her way to Holland, where she applied for asylum. Hirsi Ali studied at Leiden University and began publishing critical articles about Islam, the condition of the Muslim woman, and so forth.

She wrote the script for the Dutch movie “Submission” for director Theo van Gogh, who was subsequently murdered by a Muslim assassin. Hirsi Ali joined the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and in 2003 was elected to the Dutch parliament. A few years later she moved to the United States, where she became a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute. She published some books; notably, an autobiography titled “Infidel” that became an international bestseller. Already in 2005, Time magazine named Hirsi Ali among the 100 most influential people in the world. The internet abounds with information about her, with articles and videos of her lectures.

She is doubly courageous: in her stand against Islam, leading to threats on her life, and vis a vis the Western liberal elite, which disapproves of criticism of multiculturalism and the blindness afflicting Western society in grasping the strategic threat to its existence as a free societ