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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/20/McCarthyism-by-the-Numbers#disqus_thread
The orchestrated attack on Diana West’s important book, American Betrayal, has been brutal and unseemly, but in one respect at least it has served a useful purpose.

This lone positive angle–counter-intuitive at first glance–is that her iconoclastic Cold War history has sparked a barrage of charges about “McCarthyism” and the senator from Wisconsin who gave his name to a decisive epoch in America’s long death struggle with the Kremlin.

As is well-known, “McCarthyism” was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: accusations of Communist taint, without any factual basis; bogus “lists” of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

Such is the standard image of “McCarthyism” set forth in all the usual histories and media treatments of the era. Such is the image relied on by the critics of Ms. West to discredit her book and dismiss her as a crackpot and “conspiracy theorist.” By arguing that pro-Red elements in our government exerted baleful influence on US policy to suit the aims of Moscow, it is said, she becomes “McCarthy’s heiress,” reprising the evils of the fifties.

All of which, from my standpoint, has one beneficial feature–though it doesn’t make things less unpleasant for Ms. West. It pushes the issue of McCarthy and McCarthyism to the forefront, where it ought to be, and where it is now possible to view his cases in ways not feasible years ago when the relevant data were not open to the public.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/51709 INTRODUCTION BY WOFF BACHNER Perhaps no recent incident illustrates the unrestrained bias towards the Jewish people better than last week’s shameful actions by UNESCO, when Director-General Irina Bokova cancelled a major exhibit about Jewish history in Israel; “People, Book, Land – The 3,500-year relationship of the Jewish People with the Holy Land.” After 22 […]

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.570071 Israel’s foreign ministry hopes to nix clause that might complicate renewal of scientific cooperation agreement.   The German government is conditioning continued grants to Israeli high-tech companies, as well as the renewal of a scientific cooperation agreement, on the inclusion of a territorial clause stating that Israeli entities located in West Bank […]

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/white-house-misstated-irans-position-we-wont-dismantle-anything/2014/01/23/ Iran’s Foreign minister insists that the White House has misrepresented a major issue in the agreement between the P5+1 and Iran. VIDEO In a televised interview on Wednesday, Jan. 22, Iran’s foreign minister said that a fact sheet distributed by the White House mischaracterized what Iran agreed to do in the Interim Nuclear Agreement. […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4139/european-jihadists-syria European security officials say that in recent weeks they have noticed an “alarming acceleration” in the number of European jihadists traveling to Syria to obtain combat experience with Islamist groups linked to al-Qaeda. “France, Germany and the U.K. may have the largest foreign fighter contingents in Syria, but Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Austria have […]

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Though chutzpah has successfully migrated into the English language intact, saichel, the Yiddish word for innate common sense has not fared as well. You can be an educated person, but without saichel, you’re bound to mess up. We need it badly – both the word and its extended connotations. Considers today’s story about the Hasidic storekeepers who were issued a fine for putting up notices regarding the dress code in their shops: “No shorts, no barefoot, no sleeveless, no low-cut neckline allowed.” Apparently, the NYC Human Rights Commissioner, a woman with not enough real violations to occupy her attention, considered this discriminatory against women and non-Jewish men. Though Williamsburg has become the newest neighborhood for trendy millenials, the stores involved in this sweep were a kosher butcher, grocer, baker and purveyor of clothes for Hasidic men. Despite the zero likelihood that these signs would offend any of their target demographic, the storekeepers were fined and predictably, they objected. The matter was scheduled for trial until a judge wisely settled it by eliminating the fines but insisting that the Hasidim add a postscript to their signs, reassuring the public that their dress code was not intended to be discriminatory. The Hasidic customers will undoubtedly be oblivious to seeing this spelled out in English and New Yorkers can scratch their heads as they ask how else the city can waste taxpayers’ money.

They won’t have to wonder for long because our mayor remains insistent that the only way to pay for pre-K education is not by a budget allotment as the governor has generously offered, but by taxing New Yorkers who earn a minimum of $500,000 annually. We know that his newly appointed chief of staff for his wife’s fiefdom will be earning a salary of $175,000 for a job whose specifications haven’t yet been spelled out. If she has a spouse or partner with a job equal to or better than hers, she might be in that 1% category, along with Carmen Farina, the new school chancellor who is currently double-dipping, getting paid both her salary and her pension simultaneously, coming to over $412,000 just for her. If Mr. Farina earns only $88,000 more, they’d be among the wealthy families that de Blasio is out to get. One out of five on the mayor’s staff earns more than $100,000 a year and these are civil servants who also get health benefits, pensions and other perks that haven’t been factored in to the real value of their annual income. New Yorkers reputedly get more govt aid per capita than residents of any other state; in 2010, NY spent close to $3,000/pp on Medicaid compared with Nevada which spent a frugal $666/pp. Current estimates claim that more than half of all Americans get govt assistance – has the mayor stopped to consider how much worse off the city will be when working families who pay their taxes head for NJ and Connecticut when they’re slapped with another punishing tax hike?

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It was the fall of ’38 and the motion was submitted to approve “the policy of His Majesty’s Government by which war was averted in the recent crisis and supports their efforts to secure a lasting peace.”

The policy being referred to was the Munich Agreement which carved up Czechoslovakia and the war being averted was World War II which would come shortly anyway. Of the hope that war would be averted through appeasement, Winston Churchill said, “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.”

Echoing that old Munich motion, the pro-Iran left is calling the nuclear deal that lets Iran keep its nukes and its targets their Geiger counters, Obama’s “achievement”. Any Democrat who challenges it is accused of obstructing the only foreign affairs achievement their figurehead can claim.

“Cory Booker wants to torpedo a major Obama achievement,” the New Republic shrieked. On MSNBC, Chris Hayes accused sixteen Democratic senators who wanted tougher measures on Iran of seeking a war to sabotage “Obama’s greatest foreign policy achievement” out of “fear” of the Israeli lobby.

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/01/20/who-were-the-hecklers-at-harpers-knesset-speech/
WOULD JEWISH PARLIAMENTARIANS HECKLE AND WALK OUT OF A SPEECH IN JORDAN, SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN, IRAQ, EGYPT….ETC. WELL NO BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A SINGLE JEWISH PARLIAMENTARIAN IN ANY MOSLEM/ARAB STATE…..RSK

In the first-ever address by a Canadian leader to the Israeli Knesset Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was heckled by two Arabic-speaking Israeli politicians.

The hecklers were Ahmad Tibi and Talab Abu Arar, members of the the Ra’am-Ta’al-Mada, a small coalition party in Israel. Yelling in Arabic, Tibi and Arar also interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Speaker of the Knesset Yuli-Yoel Edlstein and Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog during their introductory speeches for Harper at Israel’s national legislature Monday.

While it is unclear what Tibi and Arar yelled at their fellow Knesset members, the pair started up again during Harper’s address to the legislature. Their anger appeared to be frustrated by Harper’s criticism of anti-Semitic attitudes towards Israel.

“Most disgracefully of all, some openly call Israel an apartheid state. Think about that. Think about the twisted logic and outright malice behind that,” said Harper.

Harper’s comments triggered Tibi and Arar, who sat beside each other during the speech. The pair started yelling and waving their hands at the Canadian prime minister from their seats. Television cameras then cut to a shot of a clearly-annoyed Netanyahu. Harper continued with his speech, as people in the legislature hushed Tibi and Arar, who then stormed out of the Knesset together.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/PA-incitement-is-entrenched-and-getting-worse-338823 That incitement is rampant throughout PA media is nothing new; it has been there from the very beginning of what is called “Palestinian nationalism,” indoctrinating generation after generation in Jew-hatred. The Palestinian Authority’s campaign of Jew-hatred and anti-Israel venom is getting worse. A powerful presentation by Israel’s Office of Strategic Affairs, led by Minister […]

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7085

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the Knesset on Monday and delivered a speech that should be required reading for all Israelis, particularly those in positions of power.

“Support today for the Jewish state of Israel is more than a moral imperative,” he said. “It is also of strategic importance, also a matter of [Canada’s] own, long-term interests. … Indeed, Israel is the only country in the Middle East which has long anchored itself in the ideals of freedom, democracy and the rule of law.”

Harper then went on to expose the people who threaten the societies that uphold such ideals, as “those who scorn modernity, who loathe the liberty of others, and who hold the differences of peoples and cultures in contempt. Those who often begin by hating the Jews, but, history shows us, end up hating anyone who is not them. Those forces, which have threatened the State of Israel every single day of its existence, and which, today, as 9/11 graphically showed us, threaten us all.”

Arab members of Knesset were not pleased. After heckling their esteemed guest, they stormed out of the hall. As radical Muslims in Western countries always do, these particular parliamentarians manipulate the tools of democracy to undermine it.

Harper, however, was undeterred; he’s used to getting flak for his unflinching support of Israel and tough stance against the enemies of freedom. If anything, the little Arab walk-out served to illustrate his overall argument.