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GIULIO MEOTTI: BARENBOIM…. NO MAN OF PEACE….SEE NOTE

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4065676,00.html Barenboim no man of peaceOp-ed: Famed musician bashes Israel but says nothing in face of anti-Israeli violence hate Giulio Meotti  WHO SAYS MUSICIANS ARE SMART? PLEASE READ MUSICAL MORONS PUBLISHED IN 2008 ON LORIN MAAZEL AND DANIEL BARENBOIM http://www.fsmarchives.org/article.php?id=1386817 It is difficult for those who enjoy Daniel Barenboim’s music to criticize an artist like […]

Europe: The Burka, Islam, and What Lies at the Heart of Jihadism by A. Millar

Europe: The Burka, Islam, and What Lies at the Heart of Jihadism by A. Millar http://www.hudson-ny.org/2105/europe-burka-islam-jihadism Europe, apparently concerned by the growth of radical Islam, is increasingly looking for ways to contain it. In England, for example, Islamists were reported to be openly targeting women and homosexuals in London in an attempt to impose sharia […]

“Mastermind, direct supervisor and planner” of jihad attack on Baghdad church that murdered 70 grabs gun in prison, 17 more killed

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/mastermind-direct-supervisor-and-planner-of-jihad-attack-on-baghdad-church-that-murdered-70-grabs-gu.html “Mastermind, direct supervisor and planner” of jihad attack on Baghdad church that murdered 70 grabs gun in prison, 17 more killed “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” — Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah “Officials: Iraqi prisoner grabs gun; firefight leaves 17 dead,” by Mohammed Tawfeeq for CNN, May 8 (thanks to Harry): Baghdad (CNN) […]

SHEEPSHEAD BAY, BROOKLYN: RESIDENTS OPPOSE MEGA MOSQUE

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/save-voorheis-avenue.html Kudos to the good neighbors of Voorhies Avenue, who are fighting the Muslim Brotherhood (MAS) multi-storied mosque on the quiet residential street, Voorhies Avenue, in Sheepshead Bay. A leader of the group behind this mosque,  the Muslim American Society (MAS), said this week that there “was nothing wrong with” Osama bin Laden’s dream of […]

ISRAEL AT 63: A SUCCESS STORY

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=219793 For all that we are threatened in our narrow strip of land, we are also unprecedentedly strong. Celebrating the 63rd anniversary of Israel, one cannot help but be struck by the incongruity of conflating an ancient people, perhaps the world’s oldest still extant, with a birthday age befitting a baby boomer. Indeed, many of […]

“SPRING” FIRE IN CAIRO….MOSLEM RIOTS LEAVE 12 DEAD

http://topics.breitbart.com/Muslims+and+Christians/ CAIRO (AP) – Relations between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians degenerated to a new low Sunday with riots that left 12 people dead and a church burned, adding to the disorder of the country’s post-revolution transition to democracy. The attack on the church was the latest sign of assertiveness by an extreme, ultraconservative movement of […]

A MISTAKE OF PRINCIPLE…JEFFREY WIESENFELD NEVER HAD A CHANCE AGAINST KUSHNER

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576311400921841560.html ‘A Mistake of Principle’Jeffrey Wiesenfeld never had a chance against Tony Kushner. “Mr. Wiesenfeld’s “mistake” was not appreciating that hostility to Israel has become such a deeply embedded principle of the modern academy that objecting to it earns you denunciation as a censor and philistine. The only greater uproar might have come if CUNY’s […]

ISRAEL: SILENCE, SOLDIERS AND SWITICHING GEARS

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=219647 By STEWART WEISS Israelis have to be adept at moving quickly from sorrow to celebration, from despair to iron resolve. Shortly after our eldest son, Ari, fell in battle in Nablus almost nine years ago, I went shopping for a car. The salesman was quite surprised when I told him I wanted a manual […]

ELI HERTZ: ISRAEL’S MAJOR WARS

Israel’s Major WarsThe Legal Aspects of Coming into Possession of the Territories Eli E. Hertz http://www.mythsandfacts.com/ International law makes a clear distinction between defensive wars and wars of aggression. All of Israel’s wars with its Arab neighbors were in self-defence. About six months before the War of Independence in 1948, Palestinian Arabs launched a series […]

THE KING OF I:THE SULTAN

The King of I http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Obama’s predilection for turning his speeches into ‘I’ flavored confections s is his unconscious and unselfconscious communion at that holiest of postmodern institutions, the cult of the self. It is a religion without faith, stripping away the deity and theology, leaving behind only the crisis of self-esteem. The great existential […]