http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ In his latest article (which is entitled “Palestine: Falk’s Failed Philosophy Guarantees Continuing Conflict”), Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer offers a searing criticism of Professor Falk’s attitude, and maintains that it is time for the professor to forsake his UN post. ‘Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1955/daily_telegraph_runs_shameful_anti_israel_propaganda_piece
The point about propaganda is that is has to be convincing. Nabeel Shaath’s piece is total rubbish from beginning to end
“Oh, and by the way. I forgot to mention that the Telegraph’s writer is a Palestinian “moderate”. God help Israel if they ever bump into any Palestinian extremists. Oh, wait…”
If I were to write a point by point refutation of former PLO foreign minister Nabeel Shaath’s screed in today’s Telegraph I’d be here all day.
Suffice it to say that it’s the standard Palestinian cocktail of falsehoods, half-truths and omissions; the Palestinian victim complex in all its shabby dishonesty. But let me just focus on two key elements which tell you everything you need to know about the real reason that, after all these decades, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians endures.
Shaath’s piece sets out to persuade Britain that it should back a forthcoming Palestinian bid to get some sort of recognition as a state at the United Nations. The whole exercise is a classic piece of Palestinian subterfuge so they can avoid direct talks with Israel. But Shaath’s aim in his piece is to give Britain a good telling off for trying to discourage the Palestinians from adopting such a course of action. On the contrary, we should be right behind them.
He says: “It is unacceptable that today, 65 years after the partition of Palestine, the UK has recognised the state of Israel but not the state of Palestine…. For a country with the historic responsibility that the UK carries towards Palestine, a victim of British colonialism, this should be the least we can expect in order to repair decades of occupation and exile.”
Who does this guy think he is in admonishing British foreign policy as “unacceptable”?
And, more importantly, when will the Palestinians ever start telling the truth about their own past? On November 29, 1947 they were offered a Palestinian state under the UN partition plan passed by the General Assembly. They rejected it and opted for war and violence, while the Jewish/Israeli side accepted it.
Typical of Shaath’s writing are sentences like this in which he refers to the, “Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, during which approximately two thirds of the Palestinian people, Christians and Muslims, were expelled to become refugees…”
http://pjmedia.com/blog/on-the-brink-50-year-anniversary-of-the-cuban-missile-crisis/ Fifty years ago this past week, the world watched transfixed as the United States and Soviet Union edged to the brink of war and what could have been a nuclear Armageddon. The cause was the U.S. discovery on October 16, 1962, of the installation of Soviet missiles in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Yet the two […]
http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/7348 The moment is fast approaching when you will be asked to cast your vote in the 2012 Presidential Election. And while most people don’t understand that the American electorate, in fact, elects “Electors” and not the President of the United States, the act of electing the Electors holds an equal weight and an equal […]
I’ve been fighting for women’s rights my whole career — in the United Nations and as Secretary of State — and in all those years, Deborah, I’ve never seen a Republican Party and Republican presidential ticket as extreme as this one.
Governor Romney is the standard-bearer of a party that doesn’t think women should have a voice in decisions affecting their bodies, their wages, or their rights.
And I am not willing to stand by and let the Republican leadership take the presidency — or Congress — and bring those beliefs with them. Today there are five days left until the election. We need to reach more voters with our message, and time’s running out for you to make a difference.
Please offer a donation of $5 or more to Democrats today.
Perhaps the Republican Party thinks that it’s better for women to have their decisions made for them.
I happen to think that women want to take care of themselves — and control their own bodies and personal health. Women deserve the ability to fight for a fair wage, and to speak out in support of legislation like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This shouldn’t be a lot to ask — aren’t we in the 21st century?
This year’s Republican Party doesn’t get that. If you listen to the Republicans, you might think our country’s most dangerous foe is Planned Parenthood.
I honestly can’t understand why any woman or, for that matter, any thoughtful man, would want to vote for Mitt Romney. Wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters would see their lives change for the worse if he’s elected president.
But the reality is that many women and men will vote for the Romney-Ryan ticket and Republicans.
So we need to get our message out there. We have five days to make sure President Obama and Democrats across the country can continue to make progress for all of us — and right now, they need our help more than ever.
Please — make a donation of $5 or more to help Democrats before time runs out:
https://my.democrats.org/Womens-Rights
Thank you,
Madeleine Albright
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100021082/dont-cry-for-me-francois/ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. He is now International Business Editor in London. French leader François Hollande is uncomfortably close to a collapse in […]
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Is he speaking for NASA?: Warmist Jim Hansen (identified as “NASA’s James Hansen”) goes on Al Gore’s TV network, claims we “have” to implement his wealth-redistribution policies to prevent bad weather
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-he-speaking-for-nasa-warmist-jim.html
James Hansen: ‘Neither Party Wants To Offend The Fossil Fuel Industry’ | ThinkProgressAnd these climate effects — $20 billion effect from this storm. Who’s gonna pay for that? You are, the taxpayer. Not the fossil fuel industry. So what we have to do is collect a fee from the fossil fuel company at the domestic mine or the port of entry and distribute that money to the public.Hey Jim: Let’s say we obediently implemented all of your bad-weather-preventing policies over the last three decades. Would the New York City storm surge in that scenario have been measurably different than the storm surge we actually saw? If so, how much different?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/why_a_typical_honest_russian_immigrant_hates_obama.html Why a Typical Honest Russian Immigrant Hates Obama By Alla Axelrod I spoke to many people — Russian immigrants like me — being curious what they think about the current situation in our new Motherland. In my 32 years here, I have never seen this country shaken by such political turmoil, now especially inflamed […]
Nuclear Posture And Israel’s Survival Nuclear weapons and nuclear war. This is not a new subject for my column in The Jewish Press. What is new is the urgent need to confront, head on, an expanding international movement to eviscerate Israel’s nuclear posture – and at precisely the precarious moment when this critical posture should […]
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/debt-ridden-ny-times-squeezing-writers-golden-parachuting-ceos/2012/11/01/
IMAGINE NEWS WITHOUT PAUL KRUGMAN, TOM FRIEDMAN, MAUREEN DOWD AND THE OTHER ASSORTED “CALUMNISTS”…..RSK
Debt Ridden NY Times Squeezing Writers, Golden Parachuting CEOs
Remember how the NYT lionized the Occupy Wall Street vigilantes? What a shock to learn about the barrels-full of money it has thrown at its own bigwigs.
Is it time to say kaddish for the New York Times?
Investors in the paper may already be doing so. The last time they received a dividend was in late 2008.
The NYT, considered by many to be the global paper of record, has incurred more than $300 million in net losses since 2005, and its advertising revenues have been declining for five consecutive years.
In fact, the paper’s own financial report made headlines when its third quarter revenues were so much worse than expected that the value of its shares plummeted 22 percent, its biggest one-day drop in at least thirty years. Investors were warned to expect dismal news for the next quarter, as well.
But while the newspaper industry as a whole has been in a funk for years – with Internet news, blogs, and other ’round the clock news sources available—many for free—there are elements of the NYT‘s precarious financial position that make it unique.
The most significant is the stench of hypocrisy hovering over the differences in the way the NYT handles its executives versus its writers.
