http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/05/15/3087664/state-iran-executed-jewish-woman-husband WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Israeli-born Jewish woman and her Armenian Christian husband reportedly executed in Iran have been identified. The Iranian human rights group, Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that Adiva Mirza Soleyman Kalimia and Varjan Petrosian were hanged on March 14 at Evin Prison, a facility for political prisoners in northwest Iran. […]
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/article_view.asp?articleID=204 Starting a civil war in 1947 after the Arabs rejected the United Nations Partition Plan, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the conflict. Rather than accept a Jewish state after five-and-a-half months of warfare, Palestinian Arabs called upon their brethren from seven surrounding countries to invade and crush the nascent Jewish state. The Arab League’s […]
http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/48771/why-south-koreans-are-love-judaism Sales of the Talmud are soaring in Seoul, and it is not to do with religion The South Korean ambassador to Israel, Ma Young-sam, raised eyebrows recently when he told reporters the Talmud was mandatory reading for Korean schoolchildren. South Korea is a country with a deep Buddhist history, but one which has embraced […]
The Geopolitics of Israel: Biblical and Modern http://app.response.stratfor.com/e/es.aspx?s=1483&e=290353&elq=199485b175cb4f05b386650ed66b4b51 LONG, A TAD BORING AND “LOOK MA NO ISLAM!”….HOW CAN ONE OMIT THIS CRITICAL ISSUE FROM A SOBER STUDY? The founding principle of geopolitics is that place — geography — plays a significant role in determining how nations will behave. If that theory is true, then there […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1797/Afghan-Local-Police-Good-Idea.aspx On March 15, 2011, Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee about an “important new addition to the overall campaign” in Afghanistan — the Afghan Local Police Initative. This week, Oxfam issued a report damning the program for gross abuses including child sexual abuse (including the pedophiliac pratice of “dancing boys”), torture […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1793/Congress-How-About-Some-Pentagon-Oversight-for-a-Change.aspx The poppy harvest in A-stan is in; is it time for Thanksgiving? Nah. It’s IED-increase-time. As USA Today reports: “Pentagon expexts IED hits to rise” From the story: “We’re at the front edge of the fighting season,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, who leads the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). “The poppy harvest has been […]
http://www.frumforum.com/anti-israel-critics-want-more-attention Anti-Israel Critics Want More Attention I’ll focus my concern on the millions of Jews whose very lives are daily threatened by people eager to accept in all its full literal horror the careless speculations of the Kushners and the Judts about the benefits of the erasure of the Jewish homeland. In a world full […]
http://bigpeace.com/rehrenfeld/2011/05/14/a-more-efficient-way-to-reveal-osama-and-al-qaedas-secrets/ A More Efficient Way To Reveal Osama And al Qaeda’s Secrets by Rachel Ehrenfeld Talking on the CBS show “60 Minutes,” President Obama noted: “It’s going to take some time for us to exploit the intelligence that we were able to gather on site” during the raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed. […]
Nakba Myths: Refugees … and Refugees … http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13508) http://www.ourjerusalem.com/opinion/story/opinion20030907.html David Ben-Gurion’s Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948 (to use the secular calendar) was of course followed by the Arabs’ determined but heroically thwarted attempt to wipe the fledgling state off the map, and in the course of hostilities – started of course by […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110515/ap_on_re_us/imf_head_assault NEW YORK – The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France was arrested Sunday in the violent sexual assault of a hotel maid after being yanked from an airplane moments before it was to depart for Paris, police said. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, was arrested on charges of […]
