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Guest commentary by Moshe Phillips (Jewish Exponent Watch: November 10 issue)

The November 10th edition of the Philadelphia area’s Jewish Exponent features several articles which each give a profoundly one-sided view of Jewish leftists and their organizations. The Exponent continues to bolster the most hard-left elements of the community and alienate both moderates and those on the right.

The feature by Bryan Schwartzman about Rabbi Marcia Prager is perhaps most shocking. Prager is a leader of radical Arthur Waskow’s so-called Jewish Renewal movement. Waskow and Prager were among the headliners at Tikkun Magazine’s Network of Spiritual Progressives conference earlier this year. Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Shawn Zevit and Leonard Gordon are all interviewed for the article. None are identified as the radicals they are. All five had leadership roles in either J Street, the Jewish Fast for Gaza or the Rabbis for Human Rights or all three. Gordon was an originator of the J Street PAC and was listed as on its Advisory Council in its April 15, 2008 press release.

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/11/11/iran-on-nuclear-threshold “Obama will take no such actions. Which leaves it to Israel which must attack Iran if it is to survive. Israel is a one-bomb country: so small that any nuclear weapon exploded in a city will destroy the nation. They should attack Iran soon, and I believe they will. The Israelis should target the […]

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This week’s syndicated column:

We haven’t had a good, old-fashioned “feeding frenzy,” a la Herman Cain, for a long time – maybe not since the days of Dan Quayle. I’m talking about the kind of media wilding where someone is a whole person one day, and then, whoosh, the piranhas swim in and a gnawed carcass is all that remains. It’s especially hard to look at when the victim joins in to shoot himself in the foot, but that’s another story.

What interests me more is whether we can draw from the Cain case the conclusion that “women,” as a group defined exclusively by sex, are exhibiting a new or finally realized power in society. Judging by the attention and gravity with which the sexual harassment charges are being treated, and judging by the perils these charges pose to the presidential run of this newly popular figure on the political Right, a Martian might be forgiven for concluding that the role and stature of women in society is supreme.

But a Martian would be wrong. The political leverage against Cain – setting aside his own and his team’s erratic and unsatisfying responses – has nothing to do with the entrenchment or validation of manners and mores that protect against sexual harassment or predation of women. On the contrary, these are power struggles as usual, with the Left, including its women, seizing on sexual harassment as a crowbar to beat off a conservative. Their hypocrisy is no compensation for the fact that Cain has shown himself unable to meet or deflect the charges and, indeed, may be vulnerable to them.

Into the fray: A study in self-cannibalization

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Over a century ago, Churchill warned that Western civilization will face an existential challenge from the Muslim world. It is now upon us.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

– W. R. Inge, dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1915

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

– Karl Popper, On the Paradox of Tolerance, in The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945 …

Many Western Europeans, from the man on the street to the cop on the corner, from the politician in Parliament to the immigration official at the border, have long considered it their obligation… to tolerate intolerance.

– from “Tolerating Intolerance: The Challenge of Fundamentalist Islam in Western Europe,” Partisan Review, 2002.

Across the Western world today, political liberalism is undergoing a process of self-cannibalization. It is being devoured by the very values which made it into arguably the most successful and influential socio-political doctrine in modern history.

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/11/with-friends-like-these.php The slurs against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama after last week’s G20 summit were revealing as well as repugnant. Thinking no one other than Obama could hear him, Sarkozy attacked Netanyahu, saying, “I can’t stand to see him anymore, he’s a liar.” Obama responded […]

Meet Libya’s New Islamist Boss Posted By Daniel Greenfield URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/10/meet-libya%e2%80%99s-new-islamist-boss/   In this week’s issue of The Australian, Sheikh Hamza Abu Fas, Libya’s new Minister for Religious Affairs, gave Westerners a taste of the “free and democratic” that NATO had been fighting for. The law that allowed a first wife to veto […]

Islamophobia: A License to Kill Posted By Daniel Greenfield URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/11/islamophobia-a-license-to-kill/   Once upon a time when newspaper and magazine offices were torched for offending a powerful group, the rest of the press would rally behind them. But when Charlie Hedbo, a French satirical magazine decided to put out an issue dedicated to […]

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I don’t get this. Two US Senators, Claire McCaskill and Jim Webb, co-sponsor legislation in 2008 to create a commission to investigate wartime contracting. Commission investigates — finding between $31 and $60 billion in fraud and waste in contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan — and shuts down in September 2011. (Isn’t there still wartime contracting in progress in A-stan? Oh well.) Also in September, the commission transfers its no doubt voluminous records to the National Archive and suggests? asks? stipulates? that the records be under seal for twenty years.

Does a Senate-created, taxpayer-funded “commission” have the legal authority to do that?

Well, it did.

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/11/ron_paul_ignores_irans_treachery.html Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is demonstrating an appalling ignorance on the Iranian nuclear issue and the threat it poses to world security. In fact, several times during the recent GOP debates he blamed the animosity against the U.S. in the Middle East on America’s foreign policy. Paul recently argued on “Fox News Sunday” that […]

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“Those who live today remember those who do not. Those who know freedom remember today those who gave up life for freedom.

Today, in honor of the dead, we conduct ceremonies. We lay wreaths. We speak words of tribute. And in our memories, in our hearts, we hold them close to us still. Yet we also know, even as their families knew when they last looked upon them, that they can never be fully ours again, that they belong now to God and to that for which they so selflessly made a final and eternal act of devotion.

We could not forget them. Even if they were not our own, we could not forget them. For all time, they are what we can only aspire to be: giving, unselfish, the epitome of human love — to lay down one’s life so that others might live.

We think on their lives. We think on their final moments. In our mind’s eye, we see young Americans in a European forest or on an Asian island or at sea or in aerial combat.

And as life expired, we know that those who could had last thoughts of us and of their love for us. As they thought of us then, so, too, we think of them now, with love, with devotion, and with faith: the certainty that what they died for was worthy of their sacrifice — faith, too, in God and in the Nation that has pledged itself to His work and to the dream of human freedom, and a nation, too, that today and always pledges itself to their eternal memory.

Thank you. God bless you.

– Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), delivered at the Veterans Day National Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, November 11, 1988.