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New Pro-Israel Group Launched In Australia
Mazal Tov to Australians For A Secure Israel (AFASI), which has just been launched in Sydney. I’m delighted to see that, in addition to a certain lady for whom my admiration is boundless, one of my favourite international affairs analysts, David Singer, is on the steering committee of this laudable new initiative.

To quote J-Wire (where further details and photographs of the inaugural occasion can be found):

‘In his opening speech, AFASI’s president Danny Ginges said:

“Our group was formed out of concern about the growing attempts to delegitimise the State of Israel. Not just by the extremist fringes, but by elements of the political party that currently holds the balance of power in this country. Not just by radical followers of Islam and the church, but by members of our own faith….

http://bigpeace.com/abostom/2011/10/02/will-mainstream-american-islam-condemn-pastor-nadarkhanis-apostasy-death-sentence/Almost 90 years ago, in his 1924 The Law of Apostasy in Islam, Samuel Zwemer made these observations, regarding the post World War I “Arab Spring” of that era: The story is told that Damocles, at the court of Dionysius of Sicily, pronounced the latter the happiest man on earth. When, however, Damocles was permitted […]

http://bigpeace.com/jpollak/2011/10/02/clueless-joe-biden-reassures-jewish-voters-i-told-obama-hell-release-pollard-over-my-dead-body/
Clueless Joe Biden ‘Reassures’ Jewish Voters: I Told Obama He’ll Release Pollard ‘Over My Dead Body’

Yesterday’s New York Times reported that President Barack Obama has dispatched Vice-President Joe Biden to reassure wavering Jewish voters about the administration’s foreign policy towards Israel.

During a meeting with rabbis in Florida, Biden was asked about commuting the sentence of Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of spying for Israel in 1986, and who is serving a life sentence that many Jews feel is disproportionately harsh.

Biden’s answer:

“President Obama was considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going to let him out before his time,’ ” Mr. Biden said. “If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life.”

Whether you agree or disagree with Pollard’s punishment, Biden’s undiplomatic language was a colossal blunder, and suggests the following possibilities:

(Biden? That’s when you know they’re in trouble.)

Turkey playing with fire in ramping up anti-Israel rhetoric

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/495/turkey_playing_with_fire_in_ramping_up_anti_israel_rhetoric

It is hard to remain unmoved by acts of blatant cynicism. Not those small, petty gestures of crass stupidity that seek to advance a particular vested interest, but grand acts of faux-statecraft that leave the observer unsure whether to laugh or cry.

The recent antics of Turkey’s “mildly Islamist” Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, offer a textbook example.

After expelling Israel’s ambassador to Ankara, severing military ties and ending its strategic co-operation with Jerusalem, Turkey’s (non-Arab) Prime Minister flew to a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo. There he presented himself, shiny new credentials intact, as the “cheerleader-in-chief” of the Palestinians.

“We must work hand-in-hand with our Palestinian brothers,” Erdogan lectured his fellow Middle East leaders. “It is time to raise the Palestinian flag at the United Nations.” International recognition of a Palestinian state was, he declared, an obligation, not an option.

http://news.yahoo.com/ahmadinejad-offers-simple-solution-palestinians-193036775.html THE USUAL DHIMMIS WILL DENOUNCE THIS BUT ACCEPTING THE TWO STATE DISSOLUTION IS WORSE THAN THE RANTINGS OF A LUNATIC……RSK Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday proposed a “simple solution” to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict under which “everyone should go home.” “If the backers of the Zionist regime want to solve the issue… the solution […]

http://news.yahoo.com/immune-system-discoveries-earn-nobel-medicine-100705598.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries about the immune system that opened new avenues for the treatment and prevention of infectious illnesses and cancer. American Bruce Beutler and French scientist Jules Hoffmann shared the 10 million-kronor ($1.5 million) award with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, the Nobel […]

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-under-white-house-control/ For months, congressional investigators have battled a recalcitrant White House and Department of Justice over Operation Fast and Furious, a conspiracy that had the apparent goal of sending thousands of guns from American gun stores into Mexico. Recovery of the guns could be used as evidence to support the Obama administration’s 90-percent lie [1] […]

By Robin Abcarianhttp://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-perry-israel-20111001,0,204726.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher Reporting from Atkinson, N.H.— Saturday in New Hampshire, Texas Gov. Rick Perry got a question he wasn’t expecting. Well, it wasn’t the question that was surprising so much as the person who asked it. During a morning meet-and-greet in the banquet room of the Atkinson Resort & Country Club, a public golf […]

Gertrude Stein’s “Missing” Vichy Years http://www.truth-out.org/gertrude-steins-missing-vichy-years/1317135716 If you want to discover the real Gertrude Stein, two art exhibitions now making their way to Washington DC and Paris gloss over some shocking historic evidence. Gertrude Stein was a complex, iconic, artistic figure: an experimental writer, an intellectual salon hostess, a collector and nurturer of modern artists, […]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148414 While the PA speaks of the indefensible 1967 “borders” at the UN, its maps tell a different story – one in which Israel no longer exists. When addressing the United Nations, Palestinian Authority (PA) representatives speak of the 1967 “borders” – a reference not to borders recognized internationally in 1967, but to their hope […]