AN INSPIRING AMERICAN: STEVE JOBS’ COMMENCEMENT SPEECH IN 2005

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576520690515394766.html Steve Jobs, who stepped down as CEO of Apple Wednesday after having been on medical leave, reflected on his life, career and mortality in a well-known commencement address at Stanford University in 2005. Here, read the text of of that address: I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one […]

YOEL MELTZER: GLENN BECK AND LARRY DERFNER TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN

Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/glenn_beck_and_larry_derfner_turn_the_world_upside_down.html Yesterday I joined a large crowd at Safra Square, Jerusalem’s civic center, for the public viewing of Glen Beck’s live broadcast in the nearby Old City of Jerusalem. Although I know very little about either the personal or professional background of Glenn Beck, his recent involvement with Israel has brought him […]

DAN GILGOFF: SUPINE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR MICHAEL OREN HOSTS A RAMADAN DINNER….

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/25/israeli-ambassador-to-u-s-hosts-ramadan-dinner/ FIRST TIME EVER…HALAL NOW AND BITTER HERBS LATER…THE FOOL!!! (CNN) – The Israeli ambassador to the United States is hosting a dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday, marking the first time an ambassador from the Jewish state has hosted such a dinner in the United States, the embassy said. Israeli […]

ELAD BENARI:EL SALVADOR PREEMPTS RECOGNITION OF A PALARAB STATE IN US….SEE NOTE

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147226 THIS IS PARTICULARLY PAINFUL SINCE THE CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS WERE SWIFT TO RECOGNIZE AND SUPPORT ISRAEL IN 1948….EL SALAVADOR GAVE OFFICIAL RECOGNITION IN SEPTEMBER 1948 AND EXCHANGED DIPLOMATS FORMALLY….RSK As the Palestinian Authority prepares its statehood bid to the UN, El Salvador announces it recognizes Palestine. El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes was quoted by […]

GAVRIEL QUEENAN: IT DID NOT TAKE LONG: UN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR “RESTRAINT” FROM ISRAEL

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147212 UN Official: ‘Maximum Restraint by Israel Required’ “The UN official did not call the attacks on Israel ‘terrorism’ and instead lumped them in with Israel’s retaliatory strikes as ‘violence,’ thereby insinuating there is moral equivalence between unprovoked terror attacks and Israel’s attempts to defend innocents.” Robert Serry, UN special coordinator for the Middle East […]

PROFESSOR LOUIS RENE BERES: CONTINUING TURMOIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/49495   Continuing turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa signals important and potentially catastrophic transformations. For Israel, the greatest danger stems from the interpenetrating and largely unpredictable effects of war, terrorism and revolution in the region. In essence, these plainly destabilizing effects could spawn an unprecedented and historically unique kind of chaos.             […]

HERB KEINON :REP. ALLEN WEST INTERVIEWED: A PASSIONATE ADVOCATE FOR ISRAEL

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=235491   Allen West doesn’t move through the lobby of Jerusalem’s David Citadel like most of the other 20 or so freshmen congressmen in his delegation visiting Israel – anonymously, with no one really knowing the difference between them and the regular tourists. No, West walks through the lobby almost like a rock star – […]

CAROLINE GLICK: GLENN BECK’S REVEALING VISIT…..NO GREATER FRIEND

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0811/glick082611.php3?printer_friendly http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | American media superstar Glenn Beck’s visit to Israel this week was a revealing and remarkable event. It revealed what it takes to be a friend of Israel. And it revealed the causes of Israel’s difficulty in telling its enemies from its friends. Many world leaders, opinion shapers and other notables profess enduring […]

FOLLOW UP TO “IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEASTS”: ERNEST “PUTZI” HANFSTAENGL, HARVARD AND MOCK TRIALS: RUTH KING

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/ernest-putzi-hanfstaengl-the-nazis-mock-trials-and-harvard-by-ruth-king.html In this issue, historian Rita Kramer reviews Eric Larson’s Garden of the Beasts–a narrative of the experiences of the American ambassador to Germany during the years 1933-1938.                 In the book Ambassador Dodd records how the Nazis–from lower communications agency bureaucrats up to Goebbels and Hitler himself–were deeply unsettled by the American State Department’s  […]

HOT PICKS AND VIDEOS FROM FSM

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769/pub_detail.asp   1. VIDEO: Heart-Wrenching Image: Dog Keeps Watch Over Fallen SEAL’s Casket During Funeral 2. VIDEO: Sen. Marco Rubio (R) spoke at the Reagan Library – Wows them in Reagan country – “I was born and raised in Reagan’s America” 3. VIDEO: Letterman jokes about jihadist website death threat 4. VIDEO: An hour after […]