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NOT ONLY DOES THE WORLD IGNORE THIS, BUT THE DELUSIONS THAT ANY TERRITORIAL COMPROMISE WILL BRING PEACE KEEPS GETTING RECYCLED SO THAT A WITHDRAWAL FROM THE HEIGHTS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA (WEST BANK TO THOSE WHO STILL CALL BEIJING “PEKING) WILL RAIN ROCKETS INTO THE CENTER OF TEL AVIV….RSK

As the U.S. Presidential campaign races to the finish, the Middle East continues to boil. Not that the world seems to notice. Last week, Palestinian terrorists operating from the Gaza Strip fired 21 rockets and mortars into Israel. That followed a three-day, 77-shell barrage, in which two civilians were seriously injured and thousands of people were forced into bomb shelters. More than 800 rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel from the Strip in 2012.

If this incoming fire were landing in Texas from Mexico—or in southern Spain from North Africa—it would be a major story. Instead, the world has largely ignored the attacks while obsessing over a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran is a principal arms supplier to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which operates out of Gaza and is responsible for many of the recent attacks. Iran’s war against Israel, in other words, has long been underway.

Gaza has been governed for over five years by Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has done little to restrain the fire. In July, former Hamas leader Khaled Meshal met Egypt’s new President in Cairo. “We have entered a new era in Palestine’s relationship with Egypt,” Meshal said after the meeting. “We were happy with what we heard from President Mohamed Morsi and his vision to handle all these issues.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204712904578092670469140316.html When members of the Democratic Party booed the inclusion of God and Jerusalem in their party platform this year, I thought of my parents. They would have been astounded. The immigrant family in which I grew up was, in the matter of politics, typical of the Jews of Boston in the 1930s and ’40s. […]

Some of my fellow tribesmen, particularly those stuck like glue to the Democratic Party have short term memory loss when it comes to Barak Obama and his relationship to Israel. With the selective amnesia they have shown over the recent tragedy and coverup in Benghazi, they forget or wish not to remember the diplomatic hostility […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/11/politicians_promise_to_help_israel_will_it_be_too_little_too_late.htm “If Israel is attacked” is a phrase heard often by mostly well-meaning politicians from both American parties when they are out on the campaign trail, or even while holding office, to express their intent to come to the aid of the Jewish state. But as anyone who both follows current events and has any […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3433/benghazi-questions Another successful attack on Americans is a devastating blow to or standing and strength as perceived by foreign nations and nationals. Unlike 9/11/01 the clear story of what transpired in Benghazi has been slow to come out, with unclear, obfuscatory, contradictory and even false information “releases” from our government. With one incandescent exception, the […]

Obama and Terror: A Four-Year Scandal
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/obama-and-terror-a-four-year-scandal/

– Abstract

From the outset, the Obama administration’s handling of the most sensitive secrets of the war on terror has been worrisome. In April 2009, the Justice Department released previously classified memoranda that described the standards of the CIA’s interrogation program, thereby making known to our enemies the limits of what they might face if captured. The release also demoralized those within the intelligence agency who were told they could no longer rely on the memoranda—and would, therefore, be judged by a standard different from the one in place when they acted.

Two years later, following the killing of Osama bin Laden, revelations about the intelligence recovered in the raid on his Pakistan compound rendered much of that intelligence useless, because terrorists found out what we had learned. A few months after that, administration officials confirmed to the media that the United States had been involved along with Israel in implanting a computer virus in Iranian nuclear-enrichment centrifuges that caused physical damage, thereby justifying by our own professed standards any retaliation Iran might undertake. And, most recently, newspaper reports have disclosed planning for retaliatory operations against the terrorists who murdered our ambassador to Libya and military and other personnel present in our consulate in Benghazi.

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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Melanoma can be cured – in Israel. Patients in an advanced stage of metastatic melanoma are being given a new lease of life at the Ella Institute of Sheba Medical Centre in Tel Aviv. Sheba’s innovative Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) trials have patients from Europe coming to Israel to be rid of the deadly cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UTGONr0GY4&feature=youtu.be
http://ella.sheba.co.il/e/?url=e

Crohn’s medication works. Israel’s Teva Pharmaceuticals has reported success in the Phase IIa clinical trial of Laquinimod in moderate to severe Crohn’s disease. The announcement was made at the 20th United European Gastroenterology (UEG) conference in Amsterdam.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000792018

Ultrasound treatment for bone cancer patients. The US Food and Drug Administration has given pre-marketing approval for ExAblate targeted focused ultrasound treatment from Israel’s InSightec Image Guided Treatment Ltd.. The approval is initially for bone cancer patients who cannot undergo radiation therapy.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000791836&fid=1725

Israeli spinal surgery – in Vietnam. Mazor Robotics has received its first order in Vietnam for its Renaissance robotic navigation system for spinal surgery. The system will be installed at the Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi, the country’s largest surgical hospital, with 1,000 beds.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000792288&fid=1725

Genetic link for autism. New Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center research has found that Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) share a root cause with psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The research accessed anonymous records from over one million Israeli soldiers.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=289021

Natural medicines from Jerusalem. The Natural Medicine Research Unit for the Study of Complementary, Alternative and Integrated Medicine at Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem is exploring some ancient methods to cure modern day ailments. The centre even germinated a 2,000-year-old Judean date palm seed.
http://israel21c.org/environment/natural-healing-from-israels-land-and-sea/

http://hnn.us/articles/ninety-five-years-balfour-declaration A mere sixty-eight words helped alter the course of history. Ninety-five years ago (as of November 2), the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James, Lord Balfour, sent the following communication to Walter, Lord Rothschild, one of the most prominent Jews in England, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland: His Majesty’s […]

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A note to a stiff-necked people

To those Jews planning to vote for Obama: Are you prepared to explain to your children not the principles upon which your vote is cast, but its probable effects upon them?

Irrespective of your endorsement of liberal sentiments, of fairness and “more equal distribution,” will you explain to your children that top-down economic policies will increasingly limit their ability to find challenging and well-paid work, and that the diminution in employment and income will decrease their opportunity to marry and raise children?

Will you explain (as you have observed) that a large part of their incomes will be used to fund programs that they may find immoral, wasteful and/or indeed absurd? And that the bulk of their taxes go to no programs at all, but merely service the debt you entailed on them?

Will you tell your children that a liberal government will increasingly marginalize, dismiss and weaken the support for and the safety of the Jewish state?

Will you tell them that, in a state-run economy, hard work may still be applauded, but that it will no longer be rewarded?

Will you explain that whatever their personal beliefs, tax-funded institutions will require them to imbibe and repeat the slogans of the left, and that, should they differ, they cannot have a career in education, medicine or television unless they keep their mouths shut?

Will you explain to them that it is impossible to make a budget, and that the basic arithmetic we all use at the kitchen table is not practiced at the federal and state level, and to suggest that it should be is “selfishness?”

Most importantly, will you teach them never to question the pronouncements of those in power, for to do so is to risk ostracism?

Are you prepared to sit your children down and talk them through your vote on the future you are choosing for them?

Please remember that we have the secret ballot and, should you, on reflection, vote in secret for a candidate you would not endorse in public, you will not be alone.

=David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony- and Oscar-nominated playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. His latest book is “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture” (Sentinel).

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/our_long_obama_nightmare_is_almost_over.html If you’re reading this, you’ve almost made it through the Obama years. God knows it hasn’t been easy holding on this long. If you’re like me, there were days you felt as if you’d aged ten years, just trying to bitterly cling to your leaky life raft. Maybe you’re one of the 23 million […]