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IN ISRAEL FILM MAKERS ARE FREE TO CRITICIZE AND BASH ISRAEL…..IN ALL THE ARAB NATIONS SUCH MOVIE MAKING WOULD RESULT IN JAIL TIME FOR THE PRODUCERS AND A RIOT OR TWO IN THE ARAB GUTTER….RSK

The nominations for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards best movies of 2012 were announced yesterday, January 10, and two Israeli films are among those nominated.

Of course, both movies portray Israel in a negative light, so calm down before kvelling.

The movies, “5 Broken Cameras,” and “The Gatekeepers,” were both nominated in the category of Best Documentary film. Both films portray Israelis as primarily violent thugs who are intent on oppressing the Arab Palestinians.

“5 Broken Cameras” is produced and directed by an Arab Palestinian, Emad Burnat, and an Israeli Jew, Guy Davidi. It won the World Cinema Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Festival.

Emad Burnat, the storyteller in “5 Broken Cameras,” is from the village of Bil’in, which is the site of a weekly protest by the villagers and numerous activists hungry for fights with Israelis. The protests are ostensibly about the creation of Israel’s security fence – which opponents often refer to as an “Apartheid wall,” and the film documents these protests. The 5 broken cameras in the movie’s title refer, according to Burnat, to five different cameras of his which have been broken by the Israelis in “brutal” attempts to squash the Arabs’ “non-violent” protests.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/egypts_intractable_dilemma.html Ibrahim Nawar, an outspoken advocate of press freedom in Araby, has just published (Thursday 1/10/13) a wistful lament in Al-Ahram about Egypt’s predicament since Mubarak was deposed, two years ago, till now. Although Nawar’s observations are overly (if understandably) sentimentalized, they contain critical, honest insights. Most importantly, Nawar accepts that Egypt has failed to […]

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=299209 Into The Fray: The venomous ad hominem attacks on the PM by his political opponents have long exceeded the limits of rational criticism and reasoned dissent. Leah Rabin said yesterday that she preferred to shake the hand of PLO chief Yasser Arafat rather than that of Likud Party chairman Binyamin Netanyahu –The Jerusalem Post, […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323482504578229412912307992.html?mod=opinion_newsreel Our ‘Hottest Year’ and Al Gore’s Epic Failure When the president says “my dog has no nose,” trust the media to fashion an accurate restatement of his statement, something along the lines of “the president said today his dog has no nose.” When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says 2012 was the hottest […]

I visited my home and friends in Newtown, Connecticut last weekend-a town grappling for a return to normalcy after the unspeakable tragedy. It appears that this coming weekend teams of “grief counselors” are on their way to help victims’ friends and families.

I mentioned this to several women who are residents and teachers in the town. Their reaction was so interesting. To the person they all rejected the so called counseling, and unanimously voiced a preference for shooting lessons instead of psychobabble.

One of them just sent me this reminder:

“Know guns, know peace, know safety.
No guns, no peace, no safety.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3216 Al Jazeera buys its American audience Al Gore is one of the world’s greatest hypocrites. The man who shared the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on alerting nations to the climate threat resulting from increased greenhouse gas emissions, has just helped to sell his Current TV network to the Al-Jazeera network for $500 […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/welcome-illegal-aliens-youre-safe-here?f=puball The Obama administration loves to pass unpopular legislation-Obamacare-and release news of unpopular policies on Christmas Eve. The assumption is that people are too distracted to pay attention and, anyway, there’s nothing they can do about it. Illegal aliens received a Christmas gift when the chief of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, […]

 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamas-engagement-with-mullahs-has-only-bought-them-time?f=must_reads Almost four years after President Obama tried to engage the radical leaders of Iran, it is too late to stop the Islamic regime from acquiring nuclear weapons. Now we have a more immediate crisis to worry about: a biological attack on the United States, which Iran is preparing. A highly credible source within the […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/hagel_why_him_why_now.html

I SAY WHY NOT? HE IS THE ABSOLUTE PARAGON OF OBAMATHINK…..AND IT IS OBAMA WHO WILL MAKE POLICY REGARDLESS OF WHO IS THE PICK FOR DEFENSE. BRENNAN FOR CIA IS FAR MORE SINISTER…TO HAVE A KNOWN ISLAMOPHILE AT THE CENTER OF INTEL IS WORSE……THE AGENCY OPERATES WITH A MODICUM OF INDEPENDENCE THAT THE DEPT. OF DEFENSE DOES NOT HAVE…..RSK

Love him or hate him, one thing for sure, this president loves a good fight even when it’s not necessary. Take this latest nomination of former Nebraskan Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.

As most people know by now, this controversial pick has stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy not only amongst friends of Israel on both sides of the aisle but also within the gay and lesbian community as well.

Prior to his nomination, President Obama made reference to remarks Hagel made in 1998 about President Clinton’s nomination for ambassador to Luxembourg, James Hormel. Hagel characterized Hormel as being “openly aggressively gay” and claimed it would inhibit him from doing an “effective” job. He has recently apologized for these offensive remarks but for those born earlier than the day before yesterday, including Hormel, the sting is still there.

In a recent interview, the ambassador had this to say:

“I have not received an apology,” Hormel, who is a major figure in Democratic politics, told me. “I thought this so-called apology, which I haven’t received, but which was made public, had the air of being a defensive move on his part.” Hormel added that the apology appeared to have been given “only in service of his attempt to get the nomination.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/shed_no_tears_for_the_rhode_island_professor.html In the society gossip hub known as the Chronicle of Higher Education, which some academics still view as the gold-standard paper for college professors, there is a blog cluster known as “The Edge of the American West: History Can Save Your Ass.” Very classy, I know. Sometimes my fellow doctors of higher learning make […]