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2011

TO STAND UP AND SERVE: THE PASTOR BONHOEFFER STORY

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0511/lopez051611.php3?printer_friendly “I heard someone say yesterday that the last years had been completely wasted as far as he was concerned. I’m very glad that I have never yet had that feeling, even for a moment,” Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in April of 1944. Horrified by the Nazi treatment of Jews, the German Lutheran pastor would join […]

DOUBLE HONOR KILLINGS COMMITTED BY WOMEN IN INDIA….APPALLING

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/double-honor-killing-in-india-muslim-mothers-murder-daughters-for-marrying-hindus.html Double honor killing in India: Muslim mothers murder daughters for marrying Hindus Islamic law forbids Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men. As far as these mothers are concerned, to have allowed such marriages would have been worse than murdering their own daughters. “We killed them because they had brought shame to our community. How […]

PALARAB JIHADISTS CONFRONT ISRAELI TROOPS AT FOUR BORDERS

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/palestinian-jihadist-protesters-confront-israeli-troops-at-four-borders.html “Palestinian” jihadist protesters confront Israeli troops at four borders “The leaders of these violent demonstrations, their struggle is not over the 1967 borders but over the very existence of Israel which they describe as a catastrophe that must be resolved,” said Netanyahu. “It is important that we look with open eyes at the reality […]

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: SCHOLARS FOR PEACE CALL ON CUNY TO REVERSE DECISION ON KUSHNER

For Immediate Release Contact: Sam Edelman, PhD  spmeexecdir@gmail.com Awi Federgruen, DSc  af7@columbia.edu BOARD OF SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, REPRESENTING 55,000 SCHOLARS, CALLS ON CUNY BOARD TO REVERSE “DEEPLY UNINFORMED DECISION” TO HONOR TONY KUSHNER New York, May 15, 2011 — The Board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a […]

RABBI AVI GOLDWASSER: THE HYPOCRISY IN DEBATING FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS

http://www.jrtelegraph.com/2011/05/ralph-avi-goldwasser-jewish-establishment-is-debating-free-speech-while-jewish-students-suffer.html Whenever pro-Israel Jewish students on campus complain that they are being harassed, or intimidated, they are accused of attacking free speech. No matter how harsh, cruel or mendacious the “criticism” of Israel, students who try to respond to distortions and lies are scolded for trying to suppress criticism of the Jewish state and limit […]

IRAN: EXECUTIONS IN EVIN PRISON IN IRAN INCLUDE ISRAELI BORN WOMAN….

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/05/15/3087664/state-iran-executed-jewish-woman-husband WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Israeli-born Jewish woman and her Armenian Christian husband reportedly executed in Iran have been identified. The Iranian human rights group, Human Rights Activists News Agency reported  that Adiva Mirza Soleyman Kalimia and Varjan Petrosian were hanged on March 14 at Evin Prison, a facility for political prisoners in northwest Iran. […]

ELI HERTZ: HAD THERE BEEN NO WAR THERE WOULD BE NO NAKBA

http://www.mythsandfacts.org/article_view.asp?articleID=204 Starting a civil war in 1947 after the Arabs rejected the United Nations Partition Plan, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the conflict. Rather than accept a Jewish state after five-and-a-half months of warfare, Palestinian Arabs called upon their brethren from seven surrounding countries to invade and crush the nascent Jewish state. The Arab League’s […]

WHY SOUTH KOREANS ARE IN LOVE WITH JUDAISM: TIM ALPERT

http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/48771/why-south-koreans-are-love-judaism Sales of the Talmud are soaring in Seoul, and it is not to do with religion The South Korean ambassador to Israel, Ma Young-sam, raised eyebrows recently when he told reporters the Talmud was mandatory reading for Korean schoolchildren. South Korea is a country with a deep Buddhist history, but one which has embraced […]

THE GEOPOLITICS OF ISRAEL: BIBLICAL AND MODERN….SEE NOTE

The Geopolitics of Israel: Biblical and Modern http://app.response.stratfor.com/e/es.aspx?s=1483&e=290353&elq=199485b175cb4f05b386650ed66b4b51 LONG, A TAD BORING AND “LOOK MA NO ISLAM!”….HOW CAN ONE OMIT THIS CRITICAL ISSUE FROM A SOBER STUDY? The founding principle of geopolitics is that place — geography — plays a significant role in determining how nations will behave. If that theory is true, then there […]

DIANA WEST: AFGHAN LOCAL POLICE…GOOD IDEA

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1797/Afghan-Local-Police-Good-Idea.aspx On March 15, 2011, Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee about an “important new addition to the overall campaign” in Afghanistan — the Afghan Local Police Initative. This week, Oxfam issued a report damning the program for gross abuses including child sexual abuse (including the pedophiliac pratice of “dancing boys”), torture […]