http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3892/political-fairy-tales Cyber privacy, while a valid concern, is preventing us from seeing how cyber technology is a tool of war our enemies are busy perfecting. Can you imagine what Iran will do once it has a nuclear weapons shield under which to act, in addition to terrorism, cyber warfare and escalating fuel prices? The Soviet […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/a-call-to-arms-boycott-the-boycotters/ The Israeli Far Left has long been promoting an international boycott of all Jews and Jewish settlements located outside Israel’s pre-1967 “Green Line,” meaning the Jews living in what the Left calls “occupied Palestinian territory.” The mischief of the Left has caused serious damages to numerous Israeli enterprises and business. Just one such example […]
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. John Chambers, Cisco CEO: “Israel will be the first end-to-end digital nation” in cooperation with Cisco, connecting homes with fiber-optic networks and infrastructure in businesses, education, healthcare and security all at once. Chambers announced three Cisco initiatives in Israel: a Cyber security R&D laboratory, security consulting services and launching a pilot training program on information security. Cisco intends to invest in Israel $15MN in VC funds (Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2013).
2. Lockheed Martin (L&M) plans to establish an R&D center and an information system center in Israel, as a follow up to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) manufacturing the wings for L&M F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. IAI manufactures wings for the F-16 and T-38 trainer aircraft. L&M will partake in the construction of Israel’s Military Intelligence center in the Negev. L&M expands its Cyber security cooperation with Israeli companies (UPI, July 2).
3. 2012 tourism income reached $5.1BN (despite the war against Hamas), compared with $5BN in 2011, $4.8BN in 2010 and $4BN in 2009. 80% of the tourists contemplate a return-visit; 4% do not (Globes Business Daily, July 25, 2013).
4. The $30BN EMC acquired Israel’s ScaleIO for $200MN. In 2012, EMC acquired Israel’s XtremIO for $430MN (July 15). Samsung acquired Israel’s Boxee for $30MN (Globes, July 5). IBM made its 12th Israeli acquisition – CSL – for $10MN (Globes, July 11).
5. Israel’s Plus500 raised $75MN on the AIM (London) Stock Exchange (July 22). The Boston-based Bessemer Venture Partners and the Seattle-based Pacific Technology Partners co-led a $25MN round of private placement in Israel’s Altair (Globes, July 2). The Palo Alto-based Sequoia Partners and Norwest Venture Partners co-led a $10MN round of private placement by Israel’s Seculert (Globes, July 9). The NJ-based Edison Ventures led a $7MN round by Israel’s RealMatch (Globes, July 24).
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/07/egypt_where_military_coups_equal_freedom_and_hope.html Pundits have lauded Egypt’s “Second Revolution,” in reality a military coup which ousted the economically and socially failing regime of the country’s first freely elected President, Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Muhammad Morsi. One expert has even declared that Morsi’s removal reflects a larger contemporaneous series of “internecine” events which indicate that his chimerical construct of […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/vladimir-tismaneanu/the-politics-of-resentment/print/ Under the guidance of general director Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian socialist politician and daughter of the adamant communist ideologue Georgi Bokov, editor-in-chief of “Rabotnichesko Delo,” the party daily newspaper during Todor Zhivkov’s dictatorship, UNESCO recently decided to add hundreds of manuscripts by Ernesto “Che” Guevara to the Memory of the World Register. In so doing, Mme Bokova […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/petas-nutritionists/print/ PETA or the “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” is the largest and goofiest group of “animal rights” nuts on the planet. They consider the eating of chicken to be the moral equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust of Jews. They advocate euthanasia of humans if it helps preserve any animals. PETA has had […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Rarely has there been a policy as universally supported in Washington and as universally rejected by Americans of all ages, races, genders, incomes and religions as the proposal to send weapons to the Syrian terrorists. The average American who has never heard of the Al-Nusra Front, is utterly in the dark about the differences […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/u-s-allies-lead-on-female-genital-mutilation/ UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has issued a new report on FGM/C, female genital mutilation/cutting, that raises troubling questions about the practice and the American response to it, particularly in nations such as Egypt. “Girls and women are made to have their external genitalia removed fully or partially– some when they are just […]
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The debate over the nature of Islam continues to fester not only between liberals and conservatives, left and right, but among conservatives as well. It is one of those issues that remain divisively controversial, even among those who share a common or similar political orientation. There is no ultimate consensus on the horizon and there will probably not be a decisive verdict until civil disruption and social mayhem can no longer be ignored or dissembled—what we might designate, taking a page from Janet Napolitano, as “Muslim-caused disasters.” But for the time being, the discussion seems clearly to favor those who maintain that Islam is a “religion of peace” that has been “hijacked” by the extremists within its ranks, a conclusion promoted by politicians seeking votes, professional multiculturalists, brain-dead Hollywood celebrities and producers, and a vast and corrupt media conglomerate that lost its bearings back in the diversity-crazed Sixties when minority hiring and a concomitant “fractious ethnic politics”, as William McGowan put it in a 1993 article for City Journal, became the rules of the game.
Sometimes the pro-Islam argument is rendered a little more intricate to introduce distinctions that lend a scholarly patina to the dispute. Clare Lopez, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, writes of a member of the anti-Muslim Brotherhood community who nevertheless regards “Islamist ideology as a mere ‘Sharia Hypothesis’…that has no demonstrable connection to classical Islam” (personal communication). For this conflicted individual, as for so many of his likeminded counterparts, Islamic doctrine does not form the basis for Islamic terrorism. Frequently we are told that Islam does not constitute a solid bloc of theological conviction and practice but is many different things, a protean religion subject to myriad interpretations. The split between Shia and Sunni would seem to reinforce this notion, except for the lamentable fact that both wings of the faith are united in their desire to restore the Caliphate and to subdue the West to its hegemony.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/jihadist-camps-in-america-a-ticking-time-bomb/ The Muslims of the Americas (MOA), a Pakistan-linked Islamist group that runs 22 “villages” across the U.S., is waging a litigation jihad against Martin Mawyer, President of the Christian Action Network. His offense, for which MOA demands $30 million, is exposing the group’s extremism in a new book with the help of inside information […]
