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Islamizing the Temple Mount

It’s the House of God. For centuries, Jews have remembered the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem by crushing a glass at weddings or leaving unpainted a patch of wall in their homes. The Temple Mount is the magnificent edifice that has served the faithful as a symbol of God’s glory for 4,000 years. It’s Mount Moriah mentioned in the Book of Genesis. It’s the site where humanity received the gift of monotheism. It’s where God’s “shechina,” or presence, dwelt. Even the secular imagination, Jewish or not, has been shaped by the “Holy of Holies,” the most sacred site of the Jewish people. It’s there that King David raised a sanctuary for the Ark of the Covenant and King Solomon and Herod built the Temples. The Roman emperor Hadrian covered those ruins with a pagan temple to Jupiter; the Crusaders used it as a garbage dump to defile its Jewish significance and turned the area into a stable for their horses; the Arabs later built their own Islamic holy sites on top of those of their defeated enemy.

Many devout Jews today don’t set foot on the Temple Mount, afraid that they may be stepping on the ground covering the ruins of the Holy of Holies, allowed only to the High Priest on Yom Kippur. That is enough to keep them away. But there are those who believe they have a right to pray on the grounds where the Temple stood, particularly on Tisha be’Av, the anniversary of its destruction (Maimonides too prayed there). Though many respected rabbis forbid praying on the Mount, other very important Jewish leaders permit it. And there is a growing and brave movement, led by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel and Professor Hillel Weiss, which is trying to build awareness among the Israeli public on the Temple Mount. They are leading a historic battle for the rights of the Jews in their most holy site.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/31/the-best-foreign-policy-saudi-money-can-buy/ Let’s say that there are three Muslim countries in the Middle East, which, facing a domestic insurgency, use ruthless tactics to suppress it. Which one gets a pass? The answer is easy. The Saudi ally gets the pass; the others get invaded. But “pass” is too mild a word, because after bombing Libya into […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-sleepers-we-choose-to-ignore The Sleepers We Choose To Ignore by HERBERT LONDONMay 31, 2012 There is no doubt the U.S. is facing an exogenous threat from al Qaida, the Iranian Guard and a variety of other Middle East grown radicals, but very often Americans down play or underestimate the endogenous, or internal, threat that is at our […]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1269/shut_up_and_play_your_guitar_the_multi_millionaire_celebrity_hypocrisy_of_idiotic_rock_stars

If a truly brilliant, privileged, charismatic, multi-talented, ideas-driven rock band can’t get it right? Who can?

Apart from the ‘hilarity’ of Saturday morning comedy on BBC R4, one of the few joys of the BBC these days is BBC4, and it excelled itself recently with a terrific documentary on the making of Pink Floyd’s album, Wish You Were Here.There’s been a fair bit of Floyd archive-driven stuff recently, but despite that, this was truly revealing. But maybe in a way the BBC didn’t intend.

I was alerted to its existence on a football forum thread which illustrated part of Floyd’s enduring appeal, nay brilliance – the band’s evident cross-class constituency, not to mention their appeal to women.

Barry White has little to fear from the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, but the Floyd remain the soundtrack for milf action across the land. Or so I’m told.

Aged 11, I was introduced to Dark Side of the Moon via ‘Money’. The use of the word “bullshit” in the lyric – four years before punk – was shocking indeed, especially so if you lived in Surbiton. I subsequently bought what was my second album, after Bowie’s Hunky Dory, A Nice Pair.

This was a Pink Floyd double album comprising Piper at The Gates Of Dawn and Saucerful Of Secrets. Two prog albums marketed with a very punk epithet. The cover itself featured a pair of breasts, and a hand holding a pear with a cross through it.

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Each century brings forth its own patriots. Once upon a time we had Patrick Henry, today we have Senator Patrick Leahy, who declared in the Senate that his opposition to an amendment that would distinguish how much of the UNRWA’s funding goes to actual refugees versus fake refugees was a patriotic act.

“I always look at what is in the United States’ interest first and foremost, and this would hurt the United States’ interests,” Senator Leahy stated firmly. It is of course difficult to find as compelling a national interest as the UNRWA, a refugee agency created exclusively for the benefit of five million Arabs, approximately 30,000 of whom are actual refugees, but all of whom hate the United States.

Senator Leahy, who could not discover a national interest in the Balanced Budget Amendment, drilling for oil in ANWR or detaining Muslim terrorists, all of which he voted against; finally discovered a binding national interest 5,500 miles away in Jordan, where “refugee camps” like Baqa’a (pop. 80,000), which are virtually indistinguishable from local towns and cities, complete with block after block of residential homes, stores and markets, multi-story office buildings, schools, hospitals and assorted infrastructure, must not be looked at too closely.

As a city which will soon celebrate its 50 year anniversary, Baqa’a is older than many modern Israeli cities and is as much a refugee camp as any of them. The only difference between Baqa’a and Ariel, is that no one in Baqa’a does anything for themselves because they are all eternal refugees with an entire UN agency dedicated to wiping their bottoms for them. A unique and singular honor in a world full of authentic refugees who have been driven out by rape squads and genocide, without getting their own minders in blue.

EDITORIAL: Obama’s chutzpah
The Washington Times
05/30/2012
EDITORIAL: Obama’s chutzpah
Barack Obama claims he knows more about Judaism than any other president. Despite this boast, Republican challenger Mitt Romney is on track to get the largest proportion of Jewish votes of any Republican since Ronald Reagan. Read more…

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Israel hands over remains of 91 Palestinian militants (“MILITANTS”….MEDIASPEAK FOR ARAB TERRORISTS…RSK)
Associated Press
Thursday, May 31, 2012
News
Israel hands over remains of 91 Palestinian militants
Israel on Thursday handed over the remains of 91 Palestinian militants, including suicide bombers, to the West Bank government in an effort to induce President Mahmoud Abbas to renew peace talks. Read more…

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Two Americans kidnapped in Sinai
CBS
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Breaking_news
Two Americans kidnapped in Sinai
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo tells CBS News two American tourists were kidnapped Wednesday while traveling in the Sinai Peninsula. Read more…

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http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2012/1/4/main-feature/1/goodnight-vienna The Jews of Vienna did not merely understand the world: they took Marx’s point and changed it, too. From Freud’s psychoanalysis to Wittgenstein’s philosophy, from Mahler’s music to Herzl’s Zionism, this community made a unique contribution to modernity. Yet our fascination with a handful of celebrities may blind us to the foundation on which […]

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THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I READ ALL YEAR….RSK

In 1857, when Emperor Franz-Joseph pulled down the ancient stone wall encompassing Vienna, the social and cultural traditions of the country seemed to tumble with it. Impoverished immigrants, many of them Jews, flooded in from the east, changing not only the countenance of the city but its economic, intellectual, and psychological currency. The Ringstrasse—the wide boulevard that replaced the wall—became a proving ground for newly minted industrialists who eagerly displayed their earned status by building palaces alongside those of the propertied aristocracy.

President Obama, Israel, and Voter Priorities:
In a democracy whether voting for president of a condominium or president of the United States voters cast their ballots based upon their priority of concerns. In a condo development issues such as assessments, security, landscape, what color to paint the houses and a superfluity of other issues occupy homeowners mind before voting for a board president.

In just under 6 months American voters will be electing the 45th President of the United States. Before choosing to reelect President Obama for a second term or Governor Romney, voters must likewise prioritize the individual issues which are relevant to them. And there are many.

Healthcare, the economy, unemployment, taxes, women’s issues, gay rights, class warfare, domestic terrorism; to name just a few. Internationally; Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and the Middle East conflict also rank high on people’s minds. Judging by the title of this essay it shouldn’t be difficult to see if not at the top, certainly right near it is where my priorities lie.

For Jewish advocates like myself concerned with the security of Israel going forward, President Obama, by his record, may possibly be in deep trouble. Unlike 2008 his policies and actions towards the Jewish state are no longer a matter of conjecture. As an incumbent he has a record to run on, one in which he himself recognizes a constant need to defend.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2889569/posts THANKS BRUCE KESLER! The following photo with comments was received from a French citizen. The American media would never show or explain to us what REALLY happened in France, but this does: This photo was taken at La Bastille Plaza in Paris, during the election celebration for the comrade socialist president Hollande. See any […]