http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-educational-mess/?print=1 In Plato’s dialogue the Phaedrus [1], the sine qua non of the educational transaction is identified as “an acquired conviction which causes us to aim at excellence.” This conviction, and the double purpose of such excellence — knowledge of the subject to be learned and knowledge of the soul that digests the subject (thus […]
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/01/25/the-makes-all-the-difference/ The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today invalidated one of President Obama’s most despotic overreaches to date: his attempt to use the Constitution’s recess appointment power to make appointments despite the absence of a recess. Judge David Sentelle’s opinion for the three-judge panel makes a powerful case for an originalist interpretation of the relevant […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2013/01/morsi-minces-two-state-solution.html The latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. ‘Any hope of a negotiated two-state solution being achieved under the Oslo Accords and the Bush Road Map has been blown away following the publication of statements made by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in September 2010 – which have recently surfaced and […]
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Liberal Democrat MP David Ward has been said to have ‘breached common decency’ for his remarks about “the Jews”, conflating the Middle East Conflict with the Holocaust
REGRETS…HE HAS A FEW….AND HAS TAKEN DOWN THE OFFENDING STATEMENT FROM HIS WEBSITE…..RSK
British Member of Parliament David Ward has issued a statement to the ‘Asian Image’ magazine, juxtaposing the Middle East Conflict with the Holocaust.
As Holocaust Memorial Day is to be observed on Sunday, the Liberal Democrat MP, upon signing the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment in the House of Commons, stated:
“Having visited Auschwitz twice – once with my family and once with local schools – I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.”
Ward’s statements come at a particularly sensitive time, and many will argue that the comments indeed are in breach of the European Union Monitoring Centre’s definition on anti-Semitism, of which it is stated that, “Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust)” is a particular example of anti-Semitism.
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Ward’s comments may be said to fall foul of the definition, as they actively seek to contrast the Middle East conflict, which is indeed an ongoing conflict between various parties, with the oppression and mass slaughter of the Jews under Nazi Germany.
David Ward is the Member of Parliament for Bradford East, the constituency that neighbours George Galloway’s Bradford West. Campaigners have told The Commentator that Ward’s comments are ‘disgusting, deplorable and factually inaccurate, bordering on anti-Semitism and breaching all levels of common decency in the run up to Holocaust Memorial Day”.
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‘Israel to boycott UNHRC despite US protestations’
GENEVA – Israel is expected to boycott the UN Human Rights Council next week despite the United States urging its ally to show up for an examination of its record, the US ambassador said on Thursday.
The Jewish state is scheduled to be in the dock of the Geneva rights forum on Tuesday, Jan. 29 as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, the council’s regular scrutiny of all United Nations member states.
“They (Israeli officials) signalled that they want it postponed. It is very unlikely they will participate on the 29th,” US human rights ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe told reporters in Geneva.
“I’m fairly optimistic we will find a solution that does not undermine universality or cooperation. That is my hope.”
Israel’s last review was in December 2008, when it attended. A boycott would be unprecedented and diplomats fear other countries might follow suit to avoid scrutiny of their human rights records.
Israel suspended relations with the council last May because of what it called an inherent bias against it, and has informally told the council’s president, Poland’s ambassador, that it wants the session postponed, a UN spokesman said.
“A decision will be taken in the event Israel does not show up for its UPR, the council will decide on a course of action. States are working very hard behind the scenes to come up with a solution,” council spokesman Rolando Gomez told Reuters.
Islamic states, often led by Pakistan and Iran in the forum, would have to agree to any postponement of the examination of Israel’s record. The next UPR sessions are in April and October.
A team of UN investigators, set up by the council last year, is due to report soon on whether Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories violate international human rights law. Washington cast the only vote against the initiative brought by the Palestinian Authority.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL Colin Powell left the Republican Party on bad terms, twice, washing out of the Bush Administration, and then running to Obama out of spite at not being picked by McCain. Four years later he has nothing to show for it. The Republican Party hasn’t gotten into the White House, but […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ GOING FOR BROKE According to Hillary Clinton’s long-delayed Benghazigate testimony, the State Department just did not have enough money to provide security for a mission in one of the most dangerous places in the world.It did however have 16 million dollars to spend on 2,500 kindle book readers at the drastically inflated price of […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578264233733676680.html?mod=WSJ_article_LatestHeadlines Climate change is back on the agenda in Washington after President Barack Obama‘s call to action in his second inaugural address. And while polls suggest that public belief that manmade causes are behind warmer temperatures isn’t yet back to the levels seen in the middle of the last decade, concern about climate change is […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323539804578263793332301584.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop An appeals court says his recess appointments are unconstitutional. President Obama has shown increasing contempt for the constitutional limits on his power, and the courts are finally awakening to the news. A unanimous panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the President’s non-recess recess appointments are illegal and an […]
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By MELANIE TROTTMAN, JESS BRAVIN and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution in filling labor board vacancies, a decision that could reshape a long-standing practice by U.S. presidents to make recess appointments.
A federal appeals court ruled that President Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor panel. Aaron Zitner reports on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
Such appointments—which bypass Senate approval to install top administration personnel—have been used by presidents for at least 90 years. But in the past two decades, Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton ratcheted up use of the tactic to avert congressional obstacles. Friday’s decision, if it holds, would restrain that power.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the National Labor Relations Board for the past year has lacked the quorum required to conduct most business because three board members were named by Mr. Obama in recess appointments the court ruled invalid.
The decision strips the board of key powers and could void some of its actions over the past year.
The board made more than 200 case rulings last year, including a decision that protected workers from being fired for complaining about working conditions on sites like Facebook, FB +1.48% and a decision that gave greater rights to unions in employee-discipline cases.
