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August 2011

ALLAN NADLER: THE TRAGIC SAGA OF 500 SOVIET YIDDISH ARTISTS STOLEN BY STALIN’S HENCHMAN IN THE LATE 1940s

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/25/main-feature/1/hidden-master Hidden Master By Allan Nadler The saddest saga in Jewish literary history involves some 500 Soviet Yiddish artists who were stolen away by Stalin’s henchmen in the late 1940’s.  Accused of a variety of heresies against the doctrine of “socialist realism” demanded by Soviet cultural commissars, they met a tragic fate after twenty years […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: POLITICAL MESSIAHS IN TAILORED SUITS

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Let’s not pretend that the right is any more immune to leader worship and cults of personality than the zombie hordes on the left. The cult of personality as a means of power predates political orientation, it dates back to the first men who understood that leadership is not about doing what the tribe […]

PERRY GAINS : FRONT RUNNER….DAVID ELDRIDGE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/24/perry-leapfrogs-rivals-in-polls/ Perry leapfrogs rivals in polls Texan is new front-runner among GOP presidential hopefuls Unsatisfied Republicans who have flitted from Donald Trump to Herman Cain to Rep. Michele Bachmann this presidential-nomination season may have found their man in Rick Perry: The Texas governor, in the race less than two weeks, holds double-digit leads in two […]

NIDRA POLLER: RETOOLED LIBEL

A Retooled Libel Un enfant est mort [A Child Is Dead]: Netzarim, 30 septembre 2000, by Charles Enderlin, Don Quichotte editions, 2010, 200 pp. [French] Reviewed by Nidra Poller 30 September 2000, Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip. State-owned France 2 TV airs footage of the allegedly fatal shooting, in real time, of a Palestinian […]

LESSONS FROM LIBYA: ROBERT HALFON M.P. SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/386/robert_halfon_mp_what_are_the_lessons_to_be_learned_from_libya_ HALFON IS SUCH A NICE CHAP…SO RIGHT ABOUT ISRAEL SO CLUELESS ABOUT ISLAM AND THE “ARAB SPRING”….RSK First: the free world must stop appeasing dictators. It may work in the short term but never in the long. “Fourth: this relates to the first lesson about appeasement. For months now the Syrian regime has been murdering […]

ROGER SIMON: RICK PERRY

Is Rick Perry a Dope? Posted By Roger L Simon URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/08/25/is-rick-perry-a-dope/ Despite being the longest serving governor of one of our most populous states, a state currently generating more jobs than the rest of the country combined (or close), Rick Perry is supposed to be a dummy. At least, that’s what some […]

SINCE 1948 AMOST 10 MILLION MUSLIMS HAVE DIED AT THE HANDS OF FELLOW MUSLIMS…..WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

Since 1948, almost 10 million Muslims have died at the hands of fellow Muslims http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/since-1948-almost-10-million-muslims-have-died-at-the-hands-of-fellow-muslims.html Where is the outrage over that? Double standards abound. As the Israeli envoy Dan Gillerman said in 2008: “When Christians kill Muslims, it’s the Crusades. When Jews kill Muslims it’s murder, and when Muslims kill Muslims, it’s like talking about […]

ISRAEL HITS BACK AS ROCKETS CONTINUE TO FLY FROM GAZA

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/israel-hits-back-as-rockets-continue-to-fly-from-gaza.html Israel hits back as rockets continue to fly from Gaza Ceasefires aren’t intended to last under Islamic law, but the Gaza jihadists seem to be trying for a new record for the briefest truce each time. More on this story. “IDF strikes targets in Gaza in response to rocket salvoes,” from the Jerusalem Post, […]

SOEREN KERN: MOROCCO BLOCKING INTEGRATION OF MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS IN SPAIN

Morocco Blocking Integration of Muslim Immigrants in Spain http://www.hudson-ny.org/2380/morocco-muslim-immigrants-spain The Moroccan government is aggressively implementing “a strategy of great magnitude” to exert control over the religious and cultural beliefs and practices of the nearly one million Moroccan immigrants who reside in Spain. The strategy involves establishing a parallel Muslim society in Spain by discouraging Moroccans […]

PROF. LOUIS RENE BERES: ISRAEL,EGYPT AND “PALESTINIAN DEMILITARIZATION”

Israel, Egypt And Palestinian ‘Demilitarization’: Some Unseen Perils Of Treaty Law http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=7112 I am a professor of international law. In my columns, therefore, I focus from time to time on distinctly legal aspects of Israel’s foreign relations. Nonetheless, I am always deeply attentive to examining these particular aspects within a genuinely realistic geopolitical or geostrategic […]