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http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/11/11/michael_moore_salutes_our_hispanic_veterans/print
Michael Moore Salutes Our ‘Hispanic’ Veterans By Humberto Fontova
When Japan’s ferocious General Tomoyuki Yamashita (“The Tiger of Malaya”) finally emerged from his headquarters on Luzon to surrender on September 2nd 1945 he handed his pistol, samurai sword and battle flag to the nearest U.S. soldier he saw. This was staff sergeant Manuel Perez-Garcia of the 32nd Infantry Division. Perez-Garcia was born in Cuba but immigrated to the U.S. after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Army and volunteer for combat

At war’s end the 82nd Airborne presented a special trophy to the U.S. soldier who had racked up the most enemy kills in the Pacific theater. Today that trophy sits prominently in Miami’s Bay of Pigs Museum, donated by the man who won it, WWI and Bay of Pigs veteran Manuel Perez Garcia (who started with the 82nd but fought in the Pacific with the 32nd.) The trophy sits alongside Yamashita’s samurai sword and battle flag—and the three purple hears, three bronze stars and three silver stars Mr Perez-Garcia earned in the Pacific.

Islamists Take Over Egypt
Library of Alexandria to Be Burned Again; Food for Half-Price

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2577/islamists-take-over-egypt

The Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the largest and most significant library of the ancient world, is now being targeted by radical Muslims who seek to replace it with a mosque.

Radical Islamic groups claim that the library’s art programs, which include music and ballet dancing, spread “depravity” in Egyptian society.

The Islamist campaign against the library is taking place under the looking eyes of Egypt’s military dictators, who are burying their heads in the sand and refusing to see the danger, noted columnist Mohammed al-Hamamsi.

“Is the Supreme Military Council waiting until the Islamists come to power and demand, through their parliament, that the library be demolished and that a mosque be built on its site?” al-Hamamsi asked rhetorically.

The destruction of the library will mark the beginning of Egypt’s fall into the hands of the Islamists, who seek to take the Arabs and Muslims back to dark ages.

http://www.steynonline.com/3580/remembrance

“We may not be asked to scramble up over a trench and across a muddy field in Flanders, but it’s all too possible we may be called upon to demonstrate great heroism close to home, as the firemen of New York and the passengers of Flight 93 were. They are the Dead. They lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved. They did not deserve their premature deaths. But they join the untold legions who helped the Union win the Civil War, the Americans and the British Empire win the Great War, and the Allies the Second World War. And every single American alive today — including Katha Pollitt — enjoys the blessings of those victories.”

http://www.steynonline.com/4641/war-and-remembrance

Ninety-two years ago, King George V proclaimed that “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” would be observed throughout the British Empire as a commemoration of the cessation of hostilities in the Great War a year earlier. It still is, even unto the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this eleventh year in a new century. Three years ago, just before Remembrance Day, I was in the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands and saw the islanders’ preparation for the ceremonies in Cockburn Town. In parts of Europe, they retain the day’s original name: Armistice Day. And of course it is Veterans Day in the United States. On this November 11th we thank the now very small band of surviving brothers from the First World War, and their comrades from the conflicts since.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/624/the_guardian_acknowledges_a_degree_of_anti_semitism

“The Guardian should not hold Israel up to impossibly high standards. It is no good publishing blatantly untrue headlines replete with historic anti-Semitic motifs (such as “Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs”) even when the paper later changed the headline online, citing “a serious editing error.” (“Corrections and Clarifications,” The Guardian, December 22, 2009.)

Such headlines and reporting should never have appeared in the first place.”

The Guardian’s critics are hitting home in their charges of anti-Semitism at the paper. But acknowledging the problem is not the same as eradicating it.

The Guardian made an unusual admission this week. In a piece titled “On averting accusations of anti-Semitism,” the paper’s Readers’ Editor, Chris Elliott, acknowledged (or at least partly acknowledged) that The Guardian had a problem with anti-Semitism.

The paper likes to think of itself as a bastion of liberalism, fairness and anti-racism, and most Guardian staff would probably acknowledge that anti-Semitism is one of, if not the, most deadly forms of racism in history.

“Guardian reporters, writers and editors must be more vigilant about the language they use when writing about Jews or Israel,” wrote Elliott.

He added that Guardian writers should have avoided “references [this year] to Israel/US ‘global domination’ and the term ‘slavish’ to describe the US relationship with Israel; and, in an article on a lost tribe of Mallorcan Jews, what I regarded as a gratuitous reference to ‘the island’s wealthier families’.”

However, Elliot added, “I don’t believe their appearance in The Guardian was the result of deliberate acts of anti-Semitism: they were inadvertent.”

http://biggovernment.com/jcadams/2011/11/04/eric-holders-continuing-favors-to-criminal-new-black-panthers-2/ Americans are familiar with the favors that Eric Holder’s Justice Department extended to Jerry Jackson and the New Black Panther Party.  The voter intimidation case against Jackson and two other defendants was dismissed and the inside story is the subject of two chapters of my book Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama […]

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7e80c5813c9ebd7469f19ac0b&id=cbf2b52834&e=e33afb75d5 Update on Canadian ‘Honor’ Killing Trial: Father Says Daughters were Liars  http://vinienco.com/2011/11/10/update-on-canadian-%E2%80%98honor%E2%80%99-killing-trial-father-says-daughters-were-liars/ Update on TexasTerrorism Trial: FBI Informant Takes the Stand http://vinienco.com/2011/11/10/update-on-texas-terrorism-trial-fbi-informant-takes-the-stand/ Islamic Justice: Criminal Abducted from House and Hacked to Death http://vinienco.com/2011/11/10/islamic-justice-criminal-abducted-from-house-and-hacked-to-death/ Report: Israel Preparing ‘Christmas Surprise’ for Iran http://vinienco.com/2011/11/10/report-israel-preparing-christmas-surprise-for-iran/ Islam, the Religion of Slavery, by Daniel Greenfield http://vinienco.com/2011/11/10/islam-the-religion-of-slavery-by-daniel-greenfield/ CAIR Fundraiser Aids Florida […]

http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2011/11/exactly-what-is-occupied.html
Exactly What is “Occupied”?What is going around the blogosphere is this:
Professor – Associate – Gil Anidjar teaches a class* at Columbia University at its Middle East Institute called “Theories of Culture in the Middle East”.
In one of his recent lectures, he was reputed to have said (or maybe he didn’t but the point still needs to be dealt with):
“The so-called Occupied Territories…I say so-called because the other areas are also occupied but they are just not called that…”
I can only presume that he – and his students – thought they were referring to Judea and Samaria in the first instance (“occupied Territories”), and the rest of Israel, between the greenn Line west to the Mediterranean Sea in the second (“the other areas”).

However, there is another interpretation:

Joe Paterno Fired: Penn State Students Riot in Protest
By KEVIN DOLAK, COLLEEN CURRY and DAN HARRIS | Good Morning America – 12 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/joe-paterno-fired-penn-state-students-riot-protest-082630177.html

STOP THEIR STUDENT LOANS IMMEDIATELY….THEY ARE NOTHING BUT SPOILED BRATS……RSK

* Thousands of enraged Penn State students tore through the streets of State College, Pa., overnight to protest the firing of Joe Paternoafter the longtime head football coach was removed from his position effective immediately.

Amid chants of “We want JoePa,” “One more game” and “F*** the media!,” rioting students flipped over a television van, knocked a lamppost onto a car, threw toilet tissue and rocks at police and set off fireworks.

Police met the rioting crowds with tear gas as it became clear that the army of officers, who were out in riot gear, were far outnumbered by students. Every local police department in the county contributed officers to the effort to control the crowd, along with state police and the county sheriff’s department.

Several students directed their rage at the media by overturning over a satellite van belonging to a local CBS affiliate, breaking its windows and threatening to burn it amid chants.

At least two students were arrested and at least one injury was reported after a girl who was hit in the head with a rock was taken to the hospital.

By 3 a.m. the crowd had mostly dissipated as the cold, rainy conditions in State College likely encouraged many students to return home. A small group of students gathered at the Paterno statue at Beaver Stadium to sing the school’s alma mater after the mob disbanded.

Blaming the victim Melanie Phillips

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/blaming-the-victim.html

One of the most egregious signs of western irrationality and bigotry over the issue of Israel is the way in which its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is routinely scapegoated for causing the breakdown of the so-called peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

This charge is based on the widespread fallacy that the ‘peace process’ has stalled because Israel keeps building more Jewish ‘settlements’ on ‘Palestinian land’. This reasoning is not only totally wrong but utterly perverse on the following grounds:

1) The actual reason for the collapse of the ‘peace process’ is that Mahmoud Abbas repeatedly maintains that he will never accept that Israel is entitled to be a Jewish state, hails Palestinian terrorists as heroes for murdering Israelis and does nothing to end the incitement to murder Jews disseminated in schools, mosques and media under his control. In other words, Abbas is not a legitimate interlocutor in any civilised ‘peace process’ since he remains committed to the eradication of Israel. Yet Netanyahu is blamed for the impasse.

2) It is only Israel that has made concessions in this ‘peace process’ (as noted here). The Palestinians not only failed to deliver what was expected of them under the Road Map but now, with their UN gambit, have unilaterally reneged on their previous treaty obligations. Yet Abbas is given a free pass while Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

3) The claim that the ‘settlements’ are the key to resolving the dispute is ridiculous. First, they take up no more than one or two per cent of West Bank territory. Second, even when Netanyahu froze such new building for ten months as a sign of good will, Abbas still refused to negotiate. Yet this is all ignored, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

4) The claim that the establishment of a Palestine state would end the dispute is also ridiculous. Such a state was on offer in 1948; Israel offered to give up more than 90 per cent of the West Bank for such a state in 2000; and an even more generous offer was subsequently made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The Palestinian response was in every case war and terror. Yet all this is ignored, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

5) Whatever land Israel may choose to give up in its own interests, under international law Jews are entitled to settle anywhere in the West Bank. There is no such thing as Palestinian land and never was. The West Bank and Gaza never belonged to any sovereign ruler after the British withdrew from Mandatory Palestine; before that it was part of the Ottoman empire. Israel’s ‘borders’ are in fact merely the cease-fire lines from its victory in 1948 against the Arab armies that tried unsuccessfully to exterminate it at birth. It is therefore more correct to call the West Bank and Gaza disputed territory. Yet this history and law are denied and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

6) The Jews alone have the legal – as well as the moral and historical — right to settle within the West Bank and Gaza, a right given to them by the Great Powers after the First World War on account of the unique historical claim by the Jews to the land then called Palestine. This Jewish right to settle anywhere in that land was entrusted to Britain to deliver under the terms of the Mandate for Palestine – an obligation which it proceeded to break. Yet this history and law are denied, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.