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Ruth King

BEST COMMENT ON GILAD SHALIT FROM BAD RACHEL

http://badrachel.blogspot.com/2011/10/gilad.html
GILAD!!!
He’s freeand he’s home in the bosom of his family and his country.
Celebrate, Israel, with all the joyous gratitude that fills your hearts, as we all do along with you.

Then round up his captors, the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women—those who aren’t strapping bombs to their own devils’ spawn and sending them out to meet their seventy-two virgins by taking the lives of the school-bus-riding, heart-drawing, Transformer-doodling, homework-losing children of Others—and their offspring—those who haven’t already been pimped out by their mothers to the murder god—as shields, hiding behind their burkas and cradles like the unmanned animals they are, and throw them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they’re traded by the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the purpose.

ALONGSIDE ANTI-SEMITISM “OCCUPY JUDAISM” ARNOLD AHLERT

Alongside Anti-Semitism, ‘Occupy Judaism’ Posted By Arnold Ahlert URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/19/alongside-anti-semitism-occupy-judaism/   In a testament to the myopic quality of Jewish liberalism, a parallel movement known as Occupy Judaism (OJ) has sprung up amidst the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests in New York City and around the country. “We’re going global with this,” said Daniel Sieradski, a […]

RICHARD L. CRAVATTS: HATING ISRAEL AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Hating Israel at New York University Posted By Richard L. Cravatts URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/19/the-disingenuity-of-divestment/   The recent call by NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for TIAA-CREF to divest holdings in targeted companies doing business in Israel is part of a troubling trend that exposes dangerous radicalism on campuses disguised as […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: GILAD COMES HOME

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/19/gilad-comes-home/print/ Gilad Comes Home Posted By P. David Hornik Editor’s note: Today, Frontpage presents our “Gilad Shalit edition,” which gives a platform to the different perspectives on this most difficult issue. While the article below supports the deal that freed Shalit, Steven Plaut’s piece in today’s issue, The “Prisoner Exchange” Absurdity, opposes it. Jacob Laksin’s […]

DRIVEL AT NRO BASHING SPENCER AND HOROWITZ….BY MATT DUSS….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/280501

OH PULEEZ! SPENCER AND HOROWITZ HAVE DONE MORE TO “OUT” ISLAM’S DANGEROUS AGENDA IN THIS COUNTRY THAN ALL THE MSM PUT TOGETHER. AND THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS IS AN APOLOGIST’S CENTER FOR ISLAM AND OTHER POLICIES OF THE LEFT….. AND YES THE ADL SHOULD BE LUMPED WITH THE APOLOGISTS IF THEY DEFAME ROBERT SPENCER FOR TELLING THE TRUTH…..RSK
Horowitz and Spencer’s Islamophobia The authors’ latest piece reveals their true feelings about Islam.
To the editors:
In a recent article for National Review Online, David Horowitz and Robert Spencer criticized the Center for American Progress’s report “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.” Following a familiar formula, the authors play the victim, accusing CAP of peddling “conspiracy theories” about anti-Muslim activists like themselves.

PETRA MARQUARDT BIGMAN: THE ANTI-SEMITISM LOBBY

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/505/the_antisemitism_lobby
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/505/the_antisemitism_lobby

“Mearsheimer’s list of “righteous Jews” included Noam Chomsky, Roger Cohen, Richard Falk, Norman Finkelstein, Tony Judt, Tony Karon, Naomi Klein, MJ Rosenberg, Sara Roy, Philip Weiss and “many of the individuals associated with J Street and everyone associated with Jewish Voice for Peace, as well as distinguished international figures such as Judge Richard Goldstone.”

By contrast, Mearsheimer’s “new Afrikaners” list included “most of the individuals who head the Israel lobby’s major organizations”, among them “Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress, and Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America.”

When a self-described ‘self-hating’ Jew holds forth on what vexes him about ‘Jewish identity’, Professor Mearsheimer of ‘Israel Lobby’-fame thinks it should be recommended reading.

Did you know that the Jews declared war on Germany well before the Nazis adopted anti-Jewish policies?

I have to confess that despite my Ph.D. in contemporary history, I was completely ignorant of this “fact” – but that’s because this particular spin of the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott of late March 1933 is of course a favorite among people who think the Nazis were right about the Jews.

When a self-described ‘self-hating’ Jew holds forth on what vexes him about ‘Jewish identity’, Professor Mearsheimer of ‘Israel Lobby’-fame thinks it should be recommended reading.

Did you know that the Jews declared war on Germany well before the Nazis adopted anti-Jewish policies?

I have to confess that despite my Ph.D. in contemporary history, I was completely ignorant of this “fact” – but that’s because this particular spin of the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott of late March 1933 is of course a favorite among people who think the Nazis were right about the Jews.

Just like how Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi Minister of “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda,” felt that there was “intrinsic” truth to the antisemitic forgery known as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” there are still people who see “prophetic qualities” in this forgery, which reads to them like an accurate description of “the political reality in which we live.”

Such views are not restricted to the far-right fringes and neo-Nazi groups, but are also held by supposedly leftist “anti-Zionists.”

Among the latter type is the Israeli-British jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, who apparently has a lot of spare time that he devotes to expressing his disdain and hatred for all things Israeli and Jewish.

ROBIN SHEPHERD: THE LESSON OF THE SHALIT DEAL IS THAT IT IS ISRAEL NOT GAZA THAT IS UNDER SIEGE

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/545/instant_view_the_lesson_of_the_shalit_deal_is_that_it_is_israel_not_gaza_that_remains_under_siege
The release of Gilad Shalit is a moment for celebration. But it is also a moment to ponder on the extraordinary circumstances of Israeli survival in a desperately hostile region

The release on Tuesday of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas five years ago, in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners is a poignant moment in the recent history of the Middle East.

Emotions are both high, and mixed.

The one thing that everyone, even the BBC, is talking about is the “asymmetry” of the deal.

Imagine if the American or British governments agreed to release such vast numbers of terrorists, child-killers and assorted violent fanatics into the arms of an enemy sworn to destroy them for the return of a single, solitary captured soldier.

“Imagine” is the operative word, because it never has happened and it is all but impossible to imagine that it ever would.

Our reasons are clear: however committed we are to the principle of “no soldier left behind” we know that such a deal would merely incentivise further such kidnappings in the future, thus encouraging a never ending cycle of similar such events in which the terrorists would always have the upper hand.

For many in the West, Israel’s actions are therefore perplexing. Surely, they say, Israel must know better. The Jewish state, among all states in the world, knows the dangers of making deals with terrorists. What is going on?

BRYAN PRESTON: DEBATE SCORE….PERRY FOR THE WIN

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/18/debate-score-perry-for-the-win/?singlepage=true Debate Score: Perry for the Win There were two Ricks on debate stage tonight, and both came in loaded up and ready to hunt. Rick Santorum threw a blizzard of punches at Mitt Romney early over his claim that as president, Romney, the author of RomneyCare, would repeal ObamaCare. The punches landed and the […]

PATRICK POOLE: TWO MORE TERRORIST ALUMS FROM “JIHAD U”

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/two-more-terrorists-traced-back-to-jihad-u/?print=1

Last week, underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty [1] for trying to murder 289 innocent civilians on Christmas Day 2009: he claimed he is guilty under U.S. law, but innocent under Islamic law. Earlier this month, North Carolina resident and al-Qaeda English-language propagandist Samir Khan met his end [2] in a drone strike targeting al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki, former imam at the Dar al-Hijrah terrorist factory [3] in Falls Church, Virginia.

Both Abdulmutallab and Khan had connections to Awlaki, but they also had one additional tie: they were both former members of the extremist AlMaghrib Institute. (I first wrote about [4] AlMaghrib’s extremist teaching back in February 2007.) With Khan’s death and Abdulmutallab’s guilty plea, the pair join a long line of terrorist operatives who have graduated from “Jihad U.”

MORE TROUBLE IN FRANCE: THE MAYOTTE RIOTS

More Trouble in France: Mayotte Riots Posted By Michel Gurfinkiel URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/more-trouble-in-france-mayotte-riots/ Mayotte — a tiny, overpopulated island (376 square kilometers, 186,452 inhabitants) in the Indian Ocean — is rioting. The youth are fighting a street war against the gendarmes. Most employees are striking, many shops have been looted. Some Caucasian residents have […]