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BUT HE HAS THE USUAL CAVILS: “….UNDERSTAND THE ANGER AND DISMAY ABOUT SETTLEMENTS”…I WOULD ASK HIM WHICH “SETTLEMENTS” THAT THE PALARABS HATE EQUALLY…..ARIEL OR TEL AVIV AND HAIFA?RSK

Ed Miliband has pledged to protect Jewish customs including brit milah and shechita if he becomes Prime Minister.

Speaking at a Board of Deputies event the Labour leader said he was opposed to boycotts of Israel and warned of the need to be “ever-vigilant”against antisemitism.

Asked whether he would work to ensure religious slaughter and circumcision practices could continue in Britain, Mr Miliband said: “Yes, these are important traditions. The kosher issue has recently been brought to my attention. Ways of life must be preserved.”

He added: “I take antisemitism very seriously. Any kind of delegitimisation of Israel is something we should call out for what it is and not tolerate it.

“I think the boycotts of Israel are totally wrong. We should have no tolerance for boycotts. I would say that to any trade union leaders.”

But Mr Miliband warned the audience that while he was opposed to anti-Israel activities in this country, people must “understand the anger and dismay about settlements”.

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Authorities in the Swedish city of Malmö have dropped an investigation into the vandalism of a Jewish center, saying it was probably a “derailed prank” rather than a hate crime.

Unknown vandals threw rocks and a firecracker at the Jewish community building last September, breaking a window in the entrance door. No one was injured, but the incident raised concerns about an anti-Semitic motive in a city where some Jews say they have been harassed by Muslim immigrants.

Police said the perpetrators could not be identified, but Prosecutor Hans Harding on Wednesday said the investigation pointed to “a derailed prank by a group of friends seeking attention.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578344534093602790.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Since 2002, total federal spending has increased nearly 89% while median household income has dropped 5%. Now that budget sequestration is under way, it looks less like the fiscal apocalypse that had been predicted and more like a long-overdue intervention with politicians who are addicted to borrowing and spending. I agree with President Obama […]

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Wahied Wahdat-Hagh is a Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy

Some years ago now, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “Our nuclear train has no brakes.” Some people laughed about it; some were concerned; and some still are.

It is not clear whether Yukiya Amano, chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog (International Atomic Energy Agency – IAEA), falls strictly in the latter category, although he did this week demand access to Iran’s Parchin military site. “Without further delay”, he added.

As was to be expected, the demand was rejected, keeping the military base, which is possibly used for the development of nuclear weapons, shrouded in mystery. What is more, Olli Heinonen, Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at the IAEA can’t rule out the possibility that Iran has further secret sites.

At the same time, Fereidun Abbasi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced that Iran has built, and will install, centrifuges of a new generation in its nuclear plants.

It should be recalled that Ali Khamenei, the “leader” of Iran, ultimately makes the decisions over the nuclear programme, and not the nuclear negotiators – though they can give an indication of the leadership’s thinking. But as well as keeping tabs on Iran’s nuclear scientists, sometimes it is worth keeping an eye on the Friday preachers when looking to determine the final destination of Iran’s ‘nuclear train’.

The Friday prayers in the “Islamic Republic Iran” are in many ways a form of propaganda; a chance for preachers to propagate the policies of the dictatorship in the name of religion and revolution. But on March 1st, the propaganda reached a new dimension: a nuclear dimension.

Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi delivered a “sermon” and stressed that “Iran will never go one step back from its obvious nuclear rights.” He added: “The percentage of our enrichment is nobody’s business,” reported Farsnews.

Sedighi said: “The talks between Mr Jalili and 5+1 have shown that the positions of Iran are consistent and unwavering.” He confirmed, however, that this time the “5+1 positions were more realistic than in the past.”

Then he said: “But some news agencies have told nonsense that Iran had agreed to stop the 20 percent enrichment. This talk is without any basis. The Iranian nation is nuclear.” Iran would enrich Uranium according to its needs and “is not afraid of any power.”

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/newsletter?utm_source=P&P%20Auto%201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6463 Talking is the national sport in Washington. For the old geezers in Congress it’s more fun than watching baseball, complaining about the weather or remembering sex. Nobody drones on like a United States senator and nobody loves the sound of his raspy voice like a senator. Rand Paul, the freshman from Kentucky who stars […]

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Hugo Chavez’s death was met with tributes from Iran, Bolivia, China and El Salvador. The Western left did not waste much time adding their withered roses to El Comandante’s coffin. George Galloway called him another Spartacus. Jimmy Carter described him as a leader who fought for the “neglected and trampled”. Michael Moore praised him for declaring that the oil belongs to the people.

Whether or not the oil belongs to the people is a matter of some debate considering how much of it seemed to end up in Chavez’s pocket.

Chavez died with an estimated net worth of 2 billion dollars making him the 4th richest man in Venezuela and the 49th richest man in Latin America. For a while, Chavez weathered attacks from the media empire of Gustavo A. Cisneros, the richest man in Venezuela. Then before the 2004 election, their mutual friend Jimmy Carter brokered an agreement between them. Cisneros’ media stopped criticizing Chavez and both men bent to the task of getting even richer.

While the Bolivarian Spartacus lined his pockets with oil money, Venezuela’s middle-class was struggling to get by in a country where the private sector had imploded. Income increased on paper, but decreased in reality as inflation increases ate the difference. Around the same time that Comrade Hugo was launching the third phase of his Bolivarian Revolution, inflation had decreased household income 8.8 percent while consumer goods prices increased 27 percent.

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Dr. Jamie Glazov’s brilliant book, “United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror,” explains the bizarre love affair that the Left has had for every mass-murdering Communist, Dictator and/or Marxist throughout time. It chronicles their dangerous obsession with evil from the likes of Stalin and Mao to their current tolerance for all-things-Islam, all the while shouting their anti-capitalistic mantra that “human blood purifies the earth”.

“To be materially comfortable meant to be empty and selfish,” writes Glazov. “They consider free expression their inalienable right, but hated the society whose institutions gave it to them…”

An especially disturbing case-in-point is found in Chapter 7, “Flirting with Mao’s Executioners” when in 1972, actress/believer Shirley MacLaine toured communist China. Charmed by the propaganda thrown her way by Mao and company, MacLaine viewed China as a leftist utopia instead of the oppressive, murderous country it really was. Unfortunately, her belief that the Chinese had caused “the better side of human nature to dominate” involved ignoring the fact that over 70 million Chinese who had been exterminated by her beloved Mao. As Glazov writes, “The Chinese children who had not died of starvation or been eaten by their starving parents greatly impressed MacLaine.”

Another interesting aspect covered in “United in Hate” is the fact that despite the Left’s “anything goes” mentality here in America, they adore oppression in other countries. They cheer the unisex clothing of China and the burqas of the Middle East, hypocritically proud of women for covering up any type of sexuality as opposed to the “evil ways of the West”. Of course what they forget to mention (or choose not to think about) is the fact that these women aren’t given a choice about what to wear and, in fact, are beaten mercilessly if they dare to show their faces in public.

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2444/The-Senate-Strikes-Back-But-Watch-Out-for-the-Old-Bulls.aspx “One of the stranger results of the popular Paul filibuster was the instant coalescence of an ad hoc “Calm down, Rand” (read: shut up) effort. This political eruption loosely and overlappingly linked “surge” and Arab Spring diehards, neocon-esque conservative journals and blogs, and establishment pooh-bahs such as Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham.” Republican […]

Another Tack: Why it matters There might not be any point to responding if it were only Shaul Mofaz who wondered why we need harp on Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Mofaz has just barely managed to cross the Knesset entry threshold (having started out not too many months back with a 28- […]

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The death of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela President Hugo Chávez may have been untimely, but it couldn’t have come soon enough for those of us who believe in the values of the free world. This is why many experienced what my son Noam wittily referred to as “Chávezfreude” when the 58-year-old tyrant was laid to rest on Thursday.

Much has been written over the past two days about the Chávez legacy, with discussions on whether he was actually a dictator. Whatever one wants to call his 14-year stranglehold on power, it was characterized by socialist policies and Communist methods that turned Venezuela into the most backward and broken-down country in Latin America.

It was also marked by a despotic quashing of opposition, and employing narcissism and megalomania to try to control the hearts and minds of the masses. This Chávez did by constantly appearing on television, giving performances that were a creepy mixture of charisma and clown-like craziness.

Contrary to what progressives like former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore assert about El Presidente’s concern for the poor, Chávez was far more focused on his hatred of Western democracy than on easing the economic, social and educational plight of his people. They were his pawns, not his project.

This is not only illustrated by the untreated sewage, power outages, and poverty to which his citizenry was subjected; it is also reflected in the global alliances he forged.

Let’s start with Iranian President Mahmound Ahmadinejad, whose close political and personal ties with Chávez were born of a mutual hatred for the United States. Both leaders spent their lives denouncing American “colonialism and imperialism.” Ahmadinejad calls it the “Great Satan.” Chávez attacked Christopher Columbus for being “the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity.”

This match made in hell — also cemented by shared anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism — resulted in the establishment of an “Axis of Unity” against the U.S., which involved Venezuela’s assisting a nuclearizing Iran to get a foothold in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. Chávez visited Ahmadinehad in the Islamic republic 13 times. Ahmadinejad’s trip to Caracas for the funeral was his seventh.