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JOHN KERRY TO NORTH KOREA…’I’M WARNING YOU NOW…YOU ARE GOING TO GET THE MOTHER OF ALL WARNINGS…..” RSK

Secretary of State John Kerry visited Beijing on the weekend, with no discernible progress in persuading China to drop its support for its North Korean clients. That’s a familiar China bites U.S. story. The more important—and disquieting—news is the dispute over the North Korean threat among U.S. intelligence agencies.

The dispute broke into public view on Thursday when Congressman Doug Lamborn (R., Colo.) read an unclassified sentence from a new assessment by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency. The DIA has concluded with “moderate confidence” that North Korea may have a nuclear warhead small enough to be placed on a ballistic missile. This judgment arrives two months after North Korea tested a nuclear device—its third—and when another test missile launch is expected any day.

That news produced a scramble inside the Obama Administration, with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issuing a statement telling everyone not to worry. Mr. Clapper quoted a separate Pentagon statement that “it would be inaccurate to suggest that the North Korean regime has fully developed and tested the kinds of nuclear weapons referenced in the passage.” And in any case, Mr. Clapper added, “the statement read by the Member is not an Intelligence Community assessment” (his emphasis).

Neither of these not-to-worry statements is reassuring, especially given the U.S. intelligence track record on North Korea. Even if Pyongyang hasn’t so far “fully developed” a missile that can nuke Los Angeles, the point is that it is making major progress. It’s also important to understand that an “intelligence community assessment” is a lowest-common denominator bureaucratic consensus that is often wrong.

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They were towering stars of Bollywood, the century-old Mumbai-centered film industry that still cranks out 800 films a year, more than double the output of the U.S. And Danny Ben-Moshe, a research fellow at Deakin University in Australia, has spent six years piecing together their fascinating and largely forgotten stories for “Shalom Bollywood,” a documentary set for release later this year. The film “tells of the 2,000-year-old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in the Indian film industry,” according to its web site.

Peppering his presentation with rare film clips, Ben-Moshe will “tell the tale of how I stumbled on the story, how it unfolded, and the trials and tribulations of trying to make [the film].” He corresponded by email with The Arty Semite before boarding a plane for Toronto.

Michael Kaminer: How did you get into this subject, and what compelled you to make a movie about it?

Danny Ben-Moshe: An Indian student of mine gave me an obituary of Nadira, the last of the great Jewish Bollywood actors to pass away. I knew there were Indian Jews but had no idea there was such a prominent Jewish on screen star. I went to India to do some research to see if there was enough material to make a film about Nadira but I found out she was the tip of the iceberg.

The compelling factor was that it was such an intriguing different and eye-opening story. Given the subject matter, it offered the opportunity to make a vibrant, fun, slightly quirky film. How often do filmmakers get the opportunity to make all-singing, all-dancing documentaries?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3672/muslim-brotherhood-us-government Given the long history of Muslim Brotherhood activity in this country, its declared objective to “destroy the Western civilization from within,” and the extensive evidence of successful influence operations at the highest levels of the U.S. government, it is urgent that we recognize this clear and present danger that threatens not only our Republic […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0413/russian_human_rights_violators.php3 US bracing for more Russian blowback after taking action against 18 more human rights violators   The Obama administration, acting in accordance with a law passed by Congress last year that roiled US-Russia relations, named 18 Russian officials Friday who will face visa bans and a US assets freeze as a result of alleged […]

2013.04.13 (Matani, Pakistan) – Women are among nine killed when Mujahideen bomb a passenger bus.
2013.04.12 (Karachi, Pakistan) – A Shia religious scholar is murdered by Sunni rivals from the Ahl-e-Sunnat wal Jamaat terror group.
2013.04.12 (Kidal, Mali) – At least three people are killed by a suicide bomber.
2013.04.12 (Kanaan, Iraq) – Mujahideen detonate two bombs at a Sunni mosque, leaving a dozen worshippers dead.
2013.04.11 (Homs, Syria) – Six children, including a baby, are among twenty people executed by Hezbollah.
2013.04.11 (Sindh, Pakistan) – The Tehreek-e-Taliban assassinate a secular politician.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/04/13/gosnellgate/?print=1 Conor Friedersdorf has written an excellent article in the Atlantic on the extraordinary case of 72-year-old abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell titled, “Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story [1].” For those who have missed it — and given Friedersdorf’s title apparently many have — Gosnell is a doctor who regularly performed late-term […]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/11/editorial-chamber-horrors/ By his own lawyer’s count, Kermit Gosnell, a 72-year-old doctor in West Philadelphia, Pa., performed more than 16,000 abortions over the course of 31 years. Dr. Gosnell has an attorney explaining his work because he is busy being tried for murder over seven of those abortions and the death of one prospective mother. Karnamaya […]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/12/another-dim-bulb-for-energy/ President Obama’s nomination of Ernest Moniz for secretary of energy seemed at first to offer some promise for the hapless department. In the wake of Steven “Solyndra” Chu’s departure, Mr. Moniz’s nomination caused immediate worry among the radical green crowd for his support of nuclear power and the game-changing energy development of hydraulic fracturing, […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Somewhere toward the end of “A Few Good Men” comes the only scene from the movie that anyone actually remembers. It’s the one where Jack Nicholson in a uniform begins chewing the scenery and turns a dreary Aaron Sorkin adaptation of an Aaron Sorkin play into a memorable movie while inflicting Sorkin on the […]

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JORDAN HAD A GO AT “ADMINISTERING HOLY SITES IN JERUSALEM”….AFTER THE 1949 HUDNA (ARABIC FOR TEMPORARY AND STRATEGIC CEASE FIRE) THE JEWISH HOLY SITES WERE TRASHED, DESTROYED AND DESECRATED. JEWS FROM ALL COUNTRIES WERE BARRED AND CHRISTIAN TOURISTS HAD TO PRESENT BAPTISMAL CERTIFICATES TO ENTER THE AREA….THE JEWISH QUARTER, ANCIENT SYNAGOGUES WERE DESTROYED, GRAVESTONES WERE USED TO BUILD LATRINES FOR THE JORDANIAN ARMY…..UNTIL ISRAEL LIBERATED AND UNIFIED AND RESTORED JERUSALEM IN 1967…..READ ABOUT THE PA’S TREATMENT OF JERICHO AND JOSEPH’S TOMB SO CRAVENLY SURRENDERED TO THE ARABS FOR A GLIMPSE AT HOW ARAB “ADMINISTRATION” OF JEWISH HOLY SITES WORKS…..RSK

The decades of failed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations aren’t due merely to the conflicts over borders, blockades, settlements, outposts, land resources or the construction in East Jerusalem. The failure can only be attributed to three widely-ignored “elephants in the room” that have prevented the Palestinian and Israeli leadership from signing any final peace treaty.

The first elephant is that the Palestinian leadership, as with most Arab leaders, does not want a Jewish state to even exist; the second is the 1so-called Right of Return clause that is the peaceful solution to eliminate the Jewish State; and the third is quietly hiding in the corner of the room pretending that he has no reason to be there…that elephant is King Abdullah II of Jordan.

With this in mind, President Obama’s recent trip to Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman may be viewed as an effort to bring King Abdullah II into future negotiations with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas. Therefore, an agreement that was signed by Abbas and Abdullah shortly after Obama’s visit may well be a symbol of a tacit alliance by which each boasts the other’s status before going into any future peace talks.

It’s also important to note that both these leaders have lost considerable political power with their respective peoples and the void is being filled by clan leadership.

Their agreement, signed on March 31, affirms King Abdullah II as the “Custodian of the holy sites in Jerusalem” and that “he has the right to exert all legal efforts to preserve them, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque.” It is obvious that this alliance coordinates their efforts to defend Jerusalem against the Judaization of the city.

Looking back in history, this agreement can be seen as the conclusion of a verbal agreement made in 1924 that had given the Hashemite Monarchy custodianship over Jerusalem’s holy sites, but the signing was timed as a symbol right after President Obama’s trip.

Oraib Rintawi, head of the Al-Quds Centre for Political Studies, said the deal also supports the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli treaty whereby Jordan became administrator of the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem through its Ministry of Awaqf and Religious Affairs.