By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotSeptember 14, 2013 Via Real Science 67% Increase In Arctic Ice Extent Since Last Year Arctic Ice Area Highest In Seven Years – Blows Away The Record For Ice Growth Flashback 2009: Obama’s Science Adviser Forecasts Arctic Ice Free — Winters 42nd Daily Record of Year for Antarctic Sea Ice […]
http://mordechaikedarinenglish.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-saudis-are-trembling-quietly.html These days, the Arab media are full of reports about diplomatic activities regarding the Syrian issue, and commentators’ articles dealing with this matter fill whole pages in the newspapers of the Arab world. They all try to ascertain if there will be an American military action, what its scope will be, how powerful it […]
Irrespective of Israel, Free World inaction in the face of non-conventional military systems in the hands of rogue regimes – such as Assad, or worse yet the Muslim Brotherhood or Al Qaeda – aggravates the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and beyond; transforms tactical threats to strategic threats; adrenalizes Iran’s […]
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/142199/sec_id/142199 [N.B.: the latest episode in the Syrian Soap Opera intervened as I embarked on the final version of this text that has been modified, amplified, elaborated, extended and abridged over the past two weeks. The imminent military response to the alleged use of nerve gas by Basher al Assad, delayed by the refusal of […]
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/09/13/israel-on-yom-kippur-renewing-life-amid-traumas-of-the-past/ With the backing of his Russian patron and arms supplier, New York Times columnist [1]Vladimir Putin, Syria’s President Assad has agreed to sign on to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the treaty that President Obama has described as representing the will of 98% of the people on the planet to rid us all of […]
URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/09/13/israel-on-yom-kippur-renewing-life-amid-traumas-of-the-past/ Saturday marks Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the solemnest day of the Jewish Year and, at least in Israel, the most widely observed. Israel shuts down totally on Yom Kippur. No transportation; no TV, radio, or activity on websites; no stores, cinemas, or restaurants open. Kids exploit the utter stillness […]
http://cnsnews.com/commentary/m-stanton-evans/defense-diana-west#sthash.WX2cqtbK.dpuf Out of the public eye and far from the daily headlines, a fierce verbal battle is currently being waged about the course of American policy in the long death struggle with Moscow that we call the Cold War. At ground zero of this new dispute is author Diana West, whose recent book, American Betrayal (St. […]
In observance of Yom Kippur, there will be no postings tomorrow. May the new year bring the blessings of peace to America and Israel.
On this holiday I reflect with great rue on how many futile and suicidal efforts Israel has made to find peace- Camp David, Oslo, Wye, Gaza, -all based on the delusion that it is about territory. The great American poet Emily Dickinson who strung words together like pearls sums it all up.
The Legacy of 9-11 Hero Danny Lewin
By Steven Plaut
The Israeli-American hero of September 11, 2001 has remained largely unknown and his role largely unacknowledged. Danny Lewin was an American-Israeli, an internet entrepreneur, and the very first person to be murdered by the Al-Qaeda barbarians on September 11, 2001. He was aboard the American Airlines Flight 11 plane out of Boston headed for Los Angeles when it was hijacked by the terrorists. A veteran of the special forces in the Israeli army, Lewin quickly understood what was going down. He spoke fluent Arabic. He single-handedly attempted to attack and subdue the terrorists. He was stabbed to death on the plane by terrorist Satam al-Suqami, a Saudi law student. He was 31 years old when he was murdered.
A new biography of the hero of 9-11 just hit the book stores and is entitled, “No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet.” It is written by Molly Knight Raskin.
Lewin grew up in Denver and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1984. He served in the ultra-elite special forces combat unit “Sayeret Matkal,” perhaps best known for the operation in Entebbe to release the kidnapped Jews. He attended the Technion in Haifa, where in 1995 he was named the year’s Outstanding Student in Computer Engineering. He then worked for IBM in developing high-tech products, later doing graduate work at MIT.
Lewin had been working with MIT Professor F. Thomson Leighton, and the two developed mathematical algorithms for optimizing internet traffic. These became the basis for Akamai Technologies, which the two founded in 1998. Lewin served as the company’s chief technology officer and a board member. The company went public in 1999 and its stock market valuation rose rapidly to 345 billion dollars. Lewin was posthumously named one of the most influential high-tech figures in the world.
After his death, the intersection of Main and Vassar Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was renamed Danny Lewin Square in his honor.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/358437/print
A year and two days after the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, militants attacked the U.S. consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, this evening at 5:30 a.m. local time (9 p.m. Eastern time). According to a release from the State Department, no Americans were injured; some Afghan policemen were likely hurt and one foreign security contractor may have been injured.
The unidentified attackers assaulted the front entrance of the consulate with a truck that quickly exploded, damaging the front gate. Afghan and contractor security engaged with the attackers, who were “possibly firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles,” outside the consulate; American security personnel also engaged with the assault and dealt with any attackers inside the perimeter (local police typically secure the outer perimeter and entrances of U.S. diplomatic facilities). Some of the attackers were apparently wearing suicide bombs, the statement says.
Herat is in northeastern Afghanistan, in one of the country’s more secure regions — and near the border with Iran, which has invested in the area and helped turn it into one of the country’s more developed regions.
