http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/10098 The Obama administration hardly regards itself to have failed at anything. In fact, it judges itself by its intentions, not by its results. Hillary Clinton, in her first major foreign policyspeech in 2009, put the Obama approach on the table. To paraphrase: If we succeed around the world, it will be because of our […]
http://nsroundtable.org/as-we-see-it/about-painful-sacrifices/
Brilliant, simply brilliant. And KUDOS to Professor Eugene Kontorovich for his response to the so-called “prominent American Jews,” who released a letter last week calling on Israel to make precisely the kind of sacrifices the former have refused to make (see below).
As we’ve written before on these pages, SHAME on these Jews, who periodically send “painful concession” letters to Israelis. Living in America, perhaps they’ve forgotten the fruits of appeasement, so here’s a quick video reminder for them, and for all who talk about painful sacrifices.
Of course, these prominent folk could always follow Prof. Kontorovich’s sage advice, and make their own painful territorial sacrifices for peace.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/painful-concessions-and-american-jews/
Painful Concessions and American Jews By Eugene Kontorovich
Women make up over 50 percent in IDF staff officer schools, indicating a rise in leadership positions. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Courtesy: businessinsider.com
A group of prominent American Jews released a letter last week, calling on painful compromises for peace. The sacrifices they envisioned potentially include hundreds of thousands of Jews leaving their homes and livelihoods behind, being uprooted and relocated, all for the sake of a Jewish majority in Israel. Similarly, in April, 100 prominent American Jews signed a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu also calling for the proverbial “painful sacrifices” for peace. Apparently, such painful concession letters have become a trend.
The inevitable destruction resulting from fanaticism wound with fantasy.
Why those who are pro-Israel — Jew and gentile alike — should be on high alert
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W ERUSALEM— Standing next to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday morning, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni gushed that through his indefatigable efforts to bring Israeli and Palestinian officials to Washington, Kerry proved that “nothing can stop true believers.”
As usual, the cognitively-challenged Livni told us something she hadn’t intended to say. The term “true believer” was coined by Eric Hoffer in his classic work The True Believer from 1951, which Livni has obviously not read. Hoffer’s epic study of the psychological roots of fanaticism, described a true believer as a person so fanatically committed to a cause that no amount of reality can make him abandon it.
And that just about sums up Kerry, and the man he works for, US President Barack Obama.
Kerry visited Israel six times in the four months leading up to the meetings in Washington this week, during which Americans, Palestinians and Israelis discussed the size of the table they will be sitting around in the coming discussions.
During the sam
http://myprivateselfmeandyou.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-moral-defeat.html E-PAL Joel Fishman is a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Chairman of the Foundation for the Research of Dutch Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sometime in the early seventies, I lived in the Boston area and attended a shiur (class in Jewish texts) of Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903 […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13626#.Ufpq-M7n_AU Mahmoud Abbas, Israel’s Palestinian peace partner, (an oxymoron if ever there was one) just announced that: “In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier – on our lands.” And this was uttered by Abbas even as the farcical but perilous peace talks in Washington, […]
Another Tack: Who’s the sucker? Almost five years ago the foreign ministry, then under the aegis of Tzipi Livni, published the following official press release: On 25 August 2008, Israel released 198 convicted Palestinian terrorists. Israel undertook this risky measure in the hope of promoting dialogue with the pragmatic Palestinians who reject terrorism and are engaged […]
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139605/robert-springborg/sisis-islamist-agenda-for-egypt?page=show Addressing graduates of military academies is a standard responsibility for high-ranking military officers all over the world. But last week, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the commander of Egypt’s armed forces, which recently deposed the country’s first freely elected president, went far beyond the conventions of the genre in a speech to graduates of Egypt’s Navy […]
You Know the Karadzic Trial Isn’t Going Well When… …the tribunal resorts to repackaging a Hitler-era policy against Serbs, as a Serbian policy against Hitler’s side. An astonishing paragraph appeared in The New York Times and Al Jazeera. Astonishing even from the tried and true Balkans tall-tellers who for 20 years have been doing the […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3905/europe-moral-values
European governments speak as enemies of Israel, behave as enemies of Israel and take decisions only enemies of Israel would take. They are at war with Israel. There is no doubt they hope for results similar to those at Auschwitz, just by other means. If moral values are what Israelis and Jews are looking for in Europe, they are looking in the wrong place.
For nearly two millennia, the European continent has been a land of persecution and hatred for the Jewish people. The blood libels and the vilest accusations against the Jews have been accompanied by violence, pogroms, and confinement in ghettos and of course death camps. Eight decades ago, in the 1930’s, anti-Semitism was considered honorable and aroused few objections. Later, the Nazi machine set into motion the “final solution,” and zealous collaborators existed in virtually all of continental Europe. “Willing executioners” were not only Germans — far from it.
After 1945, anti-Semitism suddenly became unmentionable, and European anti-Semites had to be silent. But they did not disappear. In the 1960s, after the Six Day War, a new way of being anti-Semitic emerged that allowed them to recycle their old way: they could not be “anti-Semites”, but they could be “anti-Israelis”. They rejoiced when General de Gaulle in France spoke of the Jews as a “proud and domineering people,” and saw those words as a kind of official sanction, a green light. Since then, “anti-Israelism” rapidly became mainstream. European politicians, diplomats and journalists have done their best never to miss an opportunity to berate and criticize Israel. Anti-Semitic terms used in the 1930s began to be used again, this time to describe the Jewish State.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3911/eu-political-wing The Muslim Brotherhood is embraced as a friend and partner of Europe, but Jewish sportsmen, artists and scientists are considered a dangerous threat to peace in the Middle East. The EU’s policies towards Israel and the Jews has become so vicious, dishonest and unfair, that it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the […]
