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When Fantasies Become Policies by MARK SILVERBERG

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/when-fantasies-become-policies On July 28th8, Israel’s Ministry of Justice disclosed the names of Palestinian terrorists who will be released over the next nine months as the price Washington is demanding from the Israelis to entice the Palestinian Authority to rejoin the talks they’ve been boycotting for the past four and a half years. Failure to have […]

JAMIE GLAZOV INTERVIEWS DAVID HORNIK. AUTHOR OF “CHOOSING LIFE IN ISRAEL”

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/choosing-life-in-israel-2/print/ Frontpage Interview’s guest today is P. David Hornik, a writer and translator living in Beersheba, Israel who is a columnist for Frontpage and PJ Media, and who has also been published in American Spectator, American Thinker, the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Press, Israel National News, Ynetnews, Moment, and elsewhere. He is author of the […]

Kill Terrorists in Yemen, Free Them in Israel Posted By P. David Hornik

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/kill-terrorists-in-yemen-free-them-in-israel/print/ Mark August 13 on your calendar. It’s claimed that a big celebration is being planned in Ramallah. Of course, Americans—especially those living in the Middle East—have a lot more to occupy them these days. On Tuesday, after a drone strike in Yemen had killed four Al Qaeda members, the U.S. (and Britain) told all […]

HHS Official: Immigrants on Student Visas Will Be ‘Eligible’ for Obamacare Subsidies Posted By Nicholas Ballasy

http://pjmedia.com/blog/hhs-official-immigrants-on-student-visas-will-be-eligible-for-obamacare-subsidies/?print=1 A Department of Health and Human Services official told the House Ways and Means Committee that immigrants living in the United States on temporary visas are eligible for federally subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, “depending on their income.” “It was my understanding it was just going to be those that are […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: ERDOGAN’S ERGENEKON FARCE DRAWS TO A CLOSE

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/08/06/erdogans-ergenekon-farce-draws-to-a-close/ The five-year farce known as the “Ergenekon” trial – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s purge of military and political opponents under the cloak of an “anti-terrorism” prosecution – is now completed. On Monday, a special court pronounced the convictions and harsh sentences – ranging from decades of incarceration to life-imprisonment – for dozens […]

SILVIO CANTO: OBAMA’S UNACCEPTABLE SECURITY SILENCE

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/obamas_national_security_silence_is_unacceptable.html Do you recall the last time that a modern US president was so silent about issues of national security?  I can’t.  Day 3 of the embassy closings and now we are evacuating US personnel from the region. The UK, too!   Again, we are not second guessing the US government. It’s better to be […]

FELIX RODRIGUEZ: THE ANTI-CHE BY JAY NORDLINGER ****

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/353799/anti-che Miami, Fla. — Felix Rodriguez seems fated to be linked to Che Guevara. This is not entirely just. Rodriguez loves freedom, and has worked tirelessly for it; Guevara loved tyranny, and worked tirelessly for it. “Two sides of the same coin,” some people say. Maybe — but only in the way that light and […]

TED KOPPEL: Ted Koppel: America’s Chronic Overreaction to Terrorism ….SEE NOTE

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HERE I THOUGHT THAT THOMAS FRIEDMAN WAS THE DUMBEST PSEUDO JOURNALIST IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA….TED KOPPEL IS GIVING HIM A RACE FOR THE DUNCE CAP…..AND BY THE WAY, IT WAS BILL CLINTON AND HIS SEC. OF STATE MADELEINE HALFBRIGHT THAT FAILED TO GET OSAMA BIN LADEN IN KHARTOUM…..RSK

June 28, 2014, will mark the 100th anniversary of what is arguably the most eventful terrorist attack in history. That was the day that Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, shot and killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

In one of those mega-oversimplifications that journalists love and historians abhor, the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife, Sophie, led directly and unavoidably to World War I. Between 1914 and 1918, 37 million soldiers and civilians were injured or killed. If there should ever be a terrorists’ Hall of Fame, Gavrilo Princip will surely deserve consideration as its most effective practitioner.

Terrorism, after all, is designed to produce overreaction. It is the means by which the weak induce the powerful to inflict damage upon themselves—and al Qaeda and groups like it are surely counting on that as the centerpiece of their strategy.

It appears to be working. Right now, 19 American embassies and a number of consulates and smaller diplomatic outposts are closed for the week due to the perceived threat of attacks against U.S. targets. Meantime, the U.S. has launched drone strikes on al Qaeda fighters in Yemen.

By the standards of World War I, however, the United States has responded to the goading of contemporary terrorism with relative moderation. Indeed, during almost a decade of terrorist provocation, the U.S. government showed the utmost restraint. In February of 1993, before most of us had any real awareness of al Qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who would later be identified as the principal architect of 9/11, financed an earlier attack on the World Trade Center with car bombs that killed six and injured more than 1,000.

YEHUDA LEV:A JOURNALIST WHO SMUGGLED HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS INTO PALESTINE DIED ON AUGUST 3, 2013

Yehuda Lev, a journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, has died.Lev died August 3 in Providence, Rhode Island, after a prolonged illness. He was 86.

MY E-PAL DR. ALEX GROBMAN WAS HIS FRIEND AND SENT ME THIS COLUMN ON YEHUDA LEV:

The Frankfurt Jewish GI Council

Alex Grobman, Ph.D.

From the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 until the early 1950′s, the surviving remnant of European Jewry received aid from various sources. The American Army, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Relief Organization (IRO) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) provided the majority of the assistance to these Displaced Persons (DPs) during this period. The Vaad Hatzala, representing most American Orthodox Jews, helped in establishing yeshivas and kosher kitchens and providing religious texts and ritual items. The Vaad, the JDC, HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), aided Jews in emigrating to Palestine and the United States. Since there was an ongoing need for additional supplies, many American Jewish chaplains and American Jewish soldiers stationed in the American zones of occupation in Germany and Austria offered their assistance. Most of the Jewish GIs who helped the survivors did so as individuals or in small groups. Their activities were rarely publicized. The major exception was the Frankfurt Jewish GI Council that was established in June 1946.

SACRIFICES OF PEACE: DANIEL GREENFIELD

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ In one of the most famous events in the Bible, G-d commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only son. So Abraham took his son Isaac, bound him on an altar and prepared to bring him up as a burnt offering. And then the voice of the angel called to him and told him not to […]