http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/11/13/in_sc_debate_perry_breaks_new_ground_on_foreign_aid _112054.html SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Rick Perry forcefully reasserted himself in the GOP presidential contest Saturday night during a foreign policy debate here, an event that came on the heels of a string of sloppy — and even embarrassing — debate performances by the onetime front-runner. The eight candidates on stage for the 90-minute CBS/National […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/no_one_is_stealing_palestinian_land.html
In response to a recent essay I had written, the following letter was sent to me by one of my readers. This is a common theme amongst two sets of people supporting the Palestinian cause: those with unmistakable animus toward Israel and Jews and others just misinformed by consistent, unremitting propaganda (a category I place this writer in).
“I am 100 percent in favor of freezing settlements. What settlers are doing there is the same as what my European ancestors did to my Native American ancestors. Stealing land. It should stop. My inclination is to want Israel to go back to the 1967 borders, but I admit that I do not have the historical knowledge to understand the wars that increased the boundaries. So I’m not firm on that. But the further expansion of borders is very wrong, in my opinion.
So you might want to stop e-mailing me. Or tell me what right settlers have to take Palestinians’ land. ‘Cause I just don’t get it?”
My reply:
Hi — thanks for giving me the opportunity to explain to you why this is not Palestinian land and never was. If you approach what I will reveal with an open mind, you’ll recognize that the Palestinian argument is at best disingenuous and at worst an outright lie.
From an historical standpoint, Jews have lived in the land of Israel for nearly 4,000 years, going back to the period of the biblical patriarchs (c. 1900 BCE). The story of the Jewish people; Israel; its capital, Jerusalem; and the Jewish Temple has been one of exile, destruction, and rebirth. In its 3,000 years of history, Jerusalem has been destroyed seventeen times and eighteen times reborn. During these periods of disbursement, there has always remained a constant Jewish presence in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem. For those Jews forced into exile throughout the world, one theme has remained constant: the dream of returning to their homeland, Eretz Yisrael, to rebuild and restore her to the glory of old. Throughout the millennia, Diaspora Jews to this day face towards Jerusalem during prayers.
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/11/anti-defamation_league_has_strayed_from_its_charter.html
THE ADL HAS STRAYED FOR A LONG TIME….ATTACKING EVANGELICALS WHO REPRESENT THE STRONGEST SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AND JEWS OF ANY LARGE VOTING BLOC IN AMERICA….THEIR OCCASIONAL BURPS OF INDIGNATION ABOUT ANTI-JEWISH GRAFFITI ON BATHROOM DOORS ARE A JOKE WHEN COMPARED TO THE HARM THEY CONTINUE TO DO…..RSK
The Anti-Defamation League’s original charter is simple, straightforward, and honorable:
The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens.
Nowhere does this call for the ADL to shield Barack Obama from the consequences of his policies toward Israel and other allies of the United States. The “National Pledge for Unity on Israel,” which the ADL cosponsored with the American Jewish Committee, is but the most recent example of how this organization has lost touch with the very reason for its existence.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_case_for_banning_sharia_law_in_america.html
The incompatibility of Islamic sharia law with secular courts stems from the underpinning of Islamism — the unyielding union of the laws and punishments of the Qu’ran and Hadiths with the country’s legal and political system. Sharia law is the legislation of these religious and criminal rules, which rejects America’s constitutional secularism and legal penalties.
The Qu’ran commands Muslims to change secular laws to conform to sharia, eventually establishing Islamic law worldwide. Islamic courts want their fatwas to supersede the civil and criminal laws, untying Muslims from civil secular courts.
The facts reveal that in 2008, when the first sharia court was recognized in the U.K., within one year, over 85 recognized sharia courts were established within the U.K.’s Tribunal Court system. The problem with this rapidly spreading dogma is that several of these courts have issued some fatwas that are completely incompatible with British and European law.
As Islam is a male-dominated ideology, the laws of the Qu’ran make half of its devotees, its female population, second-class citizens. This inequality has drawn recent attention to the need for additional British legislation to rein in these courts so they abide by British law.
It appears that once any legal system opens its doors to Islamic law, that door will be hard to close…and eventually, the only thing missing will be a parallel Islamic government.
But even with this reality in front of Americans, there are still many who insist that our laws will prevent such circumstances from ever occurring in the U.S. And because of this nonchalant attitude, there are numbers of people, both Muslim and non-Muslim, who believe that sharia law is not a threat to non-Muslim Americans or to the Western liberal democratic rule of law.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/631/the_europe_debate_is_finally_moving_in_the_right_direction_it_s_the_democracy_stupid The Europe debate is finally moving in the right direction: It’s the democracy stupid The British press is growing up from the sterile debate about sceptics and enthusiasts and waking up to what the discussion on the European Union should really be about. You can usually tell that something seismic is happening in politics […]
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/11/12/scoring-the-cbsnjdebate/?print=1 CBS wins the epic fail of the week award for first choosing to broadcast only an hour of the debate nationally, and then botching the live video feed of the CBS/National Journal debate on the Internet. Most viewers, myself included, only got to see the first 60 minutes of a 90 minute debate. We […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/somalia-palestine-and-france-ghost-countries-for-ghost-countries/ Ex-state Somalia gets to vote for non-state Palestine at UNESCO. So does declining state France. On October 31, Somalia supported Palestine’s accession to full member of UNESCO. In other words, a state that vanished from the map twenty years ago and survives only as a diplomatic fiction was allowed to cast a vote for […]
Failing to Deal, Dealing to FailUS Response to Iran Aggression Fumbling, Tepid Co-authored by K.D.M. Jensen http://bigpeace.com/rehrenfeld/2011/11/12/failing-to-deal-dealing-to-fail-us-response-to-iran-aggression-fumbling-tepid/#more-177008 The past few days have seen yet another round in the “last straw” dithering about Iran. This time the huffing seems heavier. The IAEA has suddenly woken up and finds that Stuxnet wasn’t much of a setback to […]
A True World War II Spy Adventure on this Veterans Day URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/blog/a-true-world-war-ii-spy-adventure-on-this-veterans-day/ Most of us think we know all about soldiers and spies because we follow the actors who play such roles on television and in the movies. Thus, we see actors engaging in a lot of “action,” and we—at least those of […]
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/11/naomi-kleins-crippling-problem-with-numbers/
“Reading Klein is like visiting a parallel universe — her religious devotion to her ideology means nearly every sentence is the exact opposite of the truth. More’s the pity that The Nation has no editors who recognise innumerate drivel and an ideological rant based on a logical black hole.Bad mannered bluster, blind assumptions, and religious rationalization have always been the tool of witchdoctors and con artists.Naomi Klein: Nice writing, shame she can’t think.”
Naomi Klein was the wrong person to send to a heavy-weight science conference — in “Capitalism vs Climate” she notices hundreds of details, but they’re all the wrong ones.
Naomi can tell you the colour of the speakers hair, what row they sat in, and the expression on their face — it adds such an authentic flavor to the words, but she’s blind to the details that count. She can explain the atmosphere of the room, but not the atmosphere of the Earth. One of these things matters, and Klein has picked the wrong one.
Her long attack on the Heartland ICCC conference this year, is all color and style, and nothing of consequence — the lights are on and no brain is home. Unpack the loquacious pen-craft and we wallow in innumerate arguments that confuse cause and effect, peppered with petulant name-calling. She can throw stones, but she can’t count past “one”.
Her aversion to numbers is crippling
Consider how she reduces planetary dynamics to a Yes or No answer. She thinks each skeptical scientist contradicts the next: “Is there no warming, or is there warming but it’s not a problem? And if there is no warming, then what’s all this talk about sunspots causing temperatures to rise?” But oops, Naomi, the numbers matter, numbers like how much warming, and how many years are we talking about.
