http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323401904578154391983699994.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories KABUL—Taliban insurgents on Sunday launched a coordinated assault on a key coalition base in eastern Afghanistan, detonating a series of car bombs in an apparent attempt to break through the perimeter of the heavily fortified installation. The attack, which began shortly before 6 a.m. local time, started when insurgents set off three suicide car […]
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/12/01/Hillary-rips-Israel
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has never been a friend to Israel. Today, speaking at the 2012 Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, a liberal organization, she railed against Israel for supposed insensitivity, lack of empathy, and lack of generosity with regard to the Palestinians – even as the Palestinians unilaterally violated all agreements with Israel and attempted to declare statehood, and within days of Hamas firing rockets on Israeli population centers and bombing a bus.
Here’s what she said:
“So, look, I’m not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I think goes hand-in-hand with the suspicion. So, yes, there is more that the Israelis need to do to really demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds, and they want to figure out, within the bounds of security and a Jewish democratic state, what can be accomplished. ”
Israel has handed over broad swaths of territory to the “dispossessed” Palestinians (a huge percentage of whom are Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian, or the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who left Israel in 1948 and were purposefully not absorbed by the Arab world). Israel has legitimized terrorists like Yassar Arafat in a desperate attempt to broker peace. Israel has sacrificed its own security for twenty years attempting to come to some sort of solution. Israel has accepted the threat of rockets hitting its major cities. Israel has done the job of the anti-Semitic Palestinians by forcibly removing Jews from their homes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, making those territories Judenrein. There is no occupation of the Gaza Strip – and it is now the dominion of Hamas. Israel has propped up the Palestinian Authority with weapons and cash and supplies – only to see the Palestinian Authority continue to back terrorism and indoctrination of children in anti-Semitism.
Clinton’s language couldn’t be any more insulting. She endorses the cycle of violence nonsense that endangers the very existence of the Jewish State, and the only democratic and free state anywhere in the region.
What more is Israel supposed to “demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people”? Commit suicide? Voluntarily jump into the Mediterranean? Why doesn’t Clinton – or anyone in the Obama administration – ever call for more sympathy from the Arabs who continue to cram Palestinians into detention camps in Syria and Jordan more than sixty years after the establishment of the State of Israel?
She continued instead:
” And I think that, unfortunately, there are more and more Israelis and Palestinians who just reject that idea out of hand: Why bother? Why try? We’ll never be able to reach an agreement with the other. But in the last 20 years, I’ve seen Israeli leaders make an honest, good-faith effort and not be reciprocated in the way that was needed.”
But she added:
” I really believe this with all my heart: I think that even if you cannot reach a complete agreement that resolves all these incredibly hard issues, it is in Israel’s interest to be trying. It gives Israel a moral high ground that I want Israel to occupy. That’s what I want Israel to occupy — the moral high ground.”
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Interviewed on Fox News by Greta Van Susteren, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton maintains that the Obama administration could have prevented the vote that has resulted in Palestine’s admission to “non-member observer state” status with all that that potentially entails.
“Israel is making a big mistake in trying to downplay this [result]” he says, explaining that “This is not looking good for Israel,” that “Israel’s on the run,” and in a weaker position vis-à-vis Iran and its other regional enemies.
http://times247.com/
Clinton: Tear down those settlements
AFP
Saturday, December 1, 2012
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Israel’s decision to build 3,000 settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, calling it a setback for peace. Read more…
Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz2DtCkJ0EM
Clinton wants Kerry over Rice as replacement
The Blaze
Saturday, December 1, 2012
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Clinton wants Kerry over Rice as replacement
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reportedly taken sides in the question of President Obama’s choice to replace her. She wants Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., over embattled U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. Clinton gave her first words of support for Rice on Wednesday, yet hardly endorsed her for the job. Read more…
Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz2DtBzPX82
West Point’s all in with lesbian wedding
USA Today
Saturday, December 1, 2012
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West Point’s all in with lesbian wedding
The U.S. Military Academy’s Cadet Chapel at West Point hosted its first same-sex marriage Saturday. Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, exchanged vows in the regal church in a ceremony conducted by an Army chaplain. They are the first couple to wed at Cadet Chapel at the nation’s oldest military academy. Read more…
Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz2DtCCIE4N
Pakistan-born Floridians linked to terror plot
CBS/Associated Press
Friday, November 30, 2012
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Two South Florida brothers of Pakistani descent, Sheheryar and Raees Qazi, have been charged with plotting to support terrorists in a plan to use explosives in America, federal prosecutors said Friday. Read more…
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http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
“Elderly” Israelis save eight lives. In the past week, eight patients received organs from people aged 70 to 80. Israel Transplant reported that since January, eight elderly Israelis, some of whom are over 75 and nearing 80, were the source of life-saving organs. With improved lifestyles and hi-tech scanners, fewer organs are rejected.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=294057
Water lily extract combats inflammation. (Thanks to NoCamels) Ben Gurion University researchers have discovered that the leaves and roots of the yellow water-lily (nuphar lutea) have an inhibitory effect on a protein that causes inflammation. This could lead to Inflammatory Bowel Disease medication and cancer prevention.
http://nocamels.com/2012/11/israeli-flower-may-hold-key-for-cancer-treatment/
Another Israeli wonder treatment? During trials by Israel’s Can-Fite BioPharma of its anti-inflammatory CF101 medication, the company discovered that the active ingredient is suitable for treating impotence. Can-Fite only found this out when they saw that patients were not returning all the medication at the end of the trial.
http://israel21c.org/news/can-fite-begins-trials-of-new-impotence-treatment/
US funds Israeli research into Juvenile Diabetes. The US Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is funding five Israeli researchers up to $130,000 per year each for up to three years toward investigations into Type 1 diabetes (T1D), which affects an estimated three million individuals in the United States alone.
http://israel21c.org/health/juvenile-diabetes-research-gets-shot-in-the-arm/
Revealing the cell replication process. Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have isolated rare replicating cells from the livers of mice. This may eventually help develop treatments to increase the cells that produce insulin for diabetics and reduce cell proliferation in cancerous tumours.
http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge135418445505872560
The Pluristem story. (Thanks to NoCamels) Here again are the details of the stem cell transplants performed by Israeli doctors using PLX stem cells from Israeli biotech Pluristem. Two of the patients were cured completely and one survived for four months until she contracted an infection in her Romanian home.
http://nocamels.com/2012/11/new-israeli-treatment-offers-hope-for-cancer-patients/
Vecoy’s Decoy method to fight viruses. An excellent article explaining the unique technology that Israel’s Vecoy Nanomedic employs to trick viruses to self-destruct. Vecoy’s anti-viral system mimics human cells to entice the virus and then kill it. If the virus mutates, it can no longer infect humans.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/InnovativeIsrael/Vecoy-Nanomedicines-27-Nov-2012.htm
The Power of Prager — on The Glazov Gang: With Paul Crowshaw, Dwight Schultz and Michael Finch.
A discussion of Paul Crowshaw’s new film: “Baseball, Dennis and the French.”
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzFNDkbE3TE&feature=youtu.be
2. http://youtu.be/eDAgRSYUiBs
WASHINGTON — The success cited by Israel for its Iron Dome antimissile system in its confrontation withHamas has re-energized American missile defense advocates and generated new interest in the global arms bazaar from nations like South Korea that face short-range rocket threats from hostile neighbors. But even ardent supporters of a continent-size missile shield to […]
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nj-ag-visits-mosque-listed-secret-nypd-report-17850606#.ULowp47rNVg NJ AG Visits Mosque Listed in Secret NYPD Report Samantha Henry, abcnews.go.com NEWARK, N.J. December 1, 2012 (AP) New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa quietly visited a Newark mosque Friday that had been listed in a secret report by the New York Police Department, and he reassured worshippers that New Jersey officials do not […]
Legal implication of the United Nations Resolution on Palestine
by Alan M. Dershowitz
“All in all, the United Nations vote will make it harder to achieve a peaceful two state solution, acceptable to both sides.”
The General Assembly vote declaring that Palestine, within the pre-1967 borders, is a “state”, at least for some purposes, would have nasty legal implications if it were ever to be taken seriously by the international community. It would mean that Israel, which captured some Jordanian territory after Jordan attacked West Jerusalem in 1967, is illegally occupying the Western Wall (Judaism’s holiest site), the Jewish Quarter of old Jerusalem (where Jews have lived for thousands of years), the access road to the Hebrew University (which was established well before Israel even became a state) and other areas necessary to the security of its citizens. It would also mean that Security Council Resolution 242, whose purpose it was to allow Israel to hold onto some of the territories captured during its defensive 1967 war, would be overruled by a General Assembly vote—something the United Nations Charter explicitly forbids. It would be the first time in history that a nation was required to return all land lawfully captured in a defensive war.
If all the territory captured by Israel in its defensive war is being illegally occupied then it might be open to the newly recognized “Palestinian State” to try to bring a case before the International Criminal Court against Israeli political and military leaders who are involved in the occupation. This would mean that virtually every Israeli leader could be placed on trial. What this would entail realistically is that they could not travel to countries which might extradite them for trial in the Hague.
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/12/02/sharia-is-morsis-totalitarian-mandate/ Al-Ahram [2] headline: Huge pro-Morsi rally challenges opponents to ballot-box test Theodore Roosevelt penned these remarkably prescient words [3] in a 1911 letter to his longtime correspondent and friend, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, reflecting upon Roosevelt’s post-presidency visit to Cairo, Egypt, the previous year. The real strength of the Nationalist movement in Egypt…lay not […]
