ALAN DERSHOWITZ: NO “BUYERS’S REMORSE” FOR VOTING FOR OBAMA….SEE NOTE

DEAR DERSH: IT’S BEST TO BE PRESUMED A FOOL THAN TO WRITE THIS DRIVEL AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT…..RSK

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3216/obama-buyers-remorse

Republicans are trying to woo away Jews who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, hoping they have experienced “buyer’s remorse.” I, for one, have experienced no such remorse. I have gotten from President Obama pretty much what I expected when I voted for him: a pragmatic, centrist liberal who has managed—with some necessary compromises—to bring us the first important healthcare legislation in recent history, appointed excellent justices to the Supreme Court, supported women’s rights, eliminated the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, maintained the wall of separation between church and state, kept up an effective war against terrorism and generally made me proud to be an American who cast my vote for him.

Even with regard to his policy toward Israel, which has generated much of the impetus for this “buyer’s remorse” campaign, President Obama has kept his promises. During the last campaign, I and others urged candidate Obama to go to Israel and visit Sderot, which was being shelled by rockets from Hamas-controlled Gaza. He then went to Sderot and while standing in front of the lethal rockets that had inflicted so much damage—physical and psychological—to so many children and adults, this is what the candidate said:

“I don’t think any country would find it acceptable to have missiles raining down on the heads of their citizens. The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens…If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same.”

And when the Israeli Defense Forces finally had to respond to the rocket terror with Operation Cast Lead, President Obama supported Israel’s actions and his administration condemned the Goldstone Report as deeply flawed and biased against Israel.

DAVID SINGER: PALESTINE- JEWS AND ARABS- THE MANDATE AND THE LAW ****

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2012/07/david-singer-on-palestine-mandate-as.html
Here’s Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer’s latest article via the antipodean J-Wire service. It’s entitled “Palestine – Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the Law”.
The Levy Commission’s resurrection of the Mandate for Palestine as the legal title deed establishing Israel’s entitlement to claim sovereignty in the West Bank has come 48 years after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first tried to bury it.

A member of the Levy Commission – Alan Baker – stated this week that the three Commissioners were:

“legal experts examining a legal situation and making legally oriented recommendations.”

Two short statements made by the PLO in 1964 and 1968 had attempted to negate the unanimous decision of the League of Nations in 1922 to grant the Mandate for Palestine to Great Britain to enable the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in any part of former Palestine.

Those statements also became the opening shots in an ongoing and concerted Arab campaign of misinformation and disinformation to denigrate and vilify the Jewish People’s entitlement to its own state in its ancient and biblical homeland. They provide potent evidence to explain why the conflict between Arabs and Jews still remains unresolved in 2012.

The first statement – in 1964 – appeared in Article 18 of the Palestinian National Covenant :

“The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate system and all that have been based upon them are considered fraud”

The second – in 1968 – followed the loss of the West Bank by Jordan to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War.

AMAZING ISRAEL: GOOD NEWS IN MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now
The Jewish State in its true light.

In the 29th July edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

· Israeli researchers have discovered a protein, key to the prevention and treatment of cancer.
· Israeli scientists have refocused scattered light with major implications for laser surgery.
· The UN has appointed an Israeli to a senior counter-terrorism position.
· An Israeli company has developed an energy storage system using compressed air.
· Israel has increased its funding for Research & Development and for Alternative Energy projects.
· Israel Electric Company has signed a deal that removes Israel’s dependence on oil.
· Israel’s Olympic team tells the world that Israel’s capital city is Jerusalem.

· Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary
Click here for “Israel is fighting for all our lives”

Page Down for more details on these and other good news stories from Israel.

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Protein that stops cells dying. Prof. Assaf Friedler of the Hebrew University and Prof. Atan Gross of the Weizmann Institute have discovered a peptide tBID that is key to cell death. They have also been able to mimic tBID’s behaviour with another peptide MTCH2, which “could lead to new approaches to treating cancer.”
http://www.healthcanal.com/cancers/30724-Scientists-find-new-way-induce-programmed-cell-death-that-could-lead-potential-cancer-therapies.html
http://www.jbc.org/content/287/18/15016.abstract

“Guided missiles” for fighting cancer. (Thanks to Israel21c) Immune Pharmaceuticals is building an Israel-based Centre of Excellence for Monoclonal Antibody Drug Development. Israeli bio-techs and science institutes lead the way in developing medicines that contain toxic molecules but only target cancerous tissue.
http://israel21c.org/health/drugs-that-act-like-guided-missiles-in-cancer-treatment/

MICHAEL CURTIS: GINO BARTALI A HEROIC SPORTMAN

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3219/gino-bartali

Gino Bartali was a modest man who, during World War II, helped save 800 Jews from death.

Gino Bartali, the legendary Tuscan Italian cyclist who died in 2000 and is acclaimed in his home country of Italy, but less well known internationally, is a heroic figure, not only in his sport, but even more outside of it, as documented in a recent biography.

Bartali’s greatest sporting feats as a cyclist were to win the Tour de France twice, in 1938 at the age of 24, and in 1948, and the Giro d’Italia three times. His skill as a cyclist was widely admired, especially for his winning three consecutive mountain stages of the Tour in 1948, a feat that remained unequalled until Mario Cipollini’s four consecutive sprints in 1999.

However Bartali is even more worthy of admiration for his heroic wartime activity. More deadly than the Italian cycling rivalry between Bartali and Fausto Coppini — with the country divided into “bartalini” and “coppini” adherents — was the wartime division between fascists and partisans. Bartoli, an active member of Catholic Action and a Tertiary of the Carmelites, kept his distance from Fascist authorities and refused to dedicate his cycling triumphs to Mussolini as the Duce expected.

GERMANY TACKLES ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION: SOEREN KERN…SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3218/germany-islamic-radicalization SALAFISTS, WAHHABIS, SHIITES…..ALL SHARE A COMMON DESIRE FOR CALIPHATE IN EUROPE…..RSK “The long-term strategic objective of these Islamist organizations is to destabilize and democratically and liberally elected states and to influence political decision-making.” — Report, German State of Lower Saxony The German state of Lower Saxony has published a practical guide to extremist Islam […]

MARK DURIE: THE RAMADAN OLYMPICS AND ISLAM’S “LAW OF NECESSITY”

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3220/olympics-ramadan Because Islam’s “Law of Necessity” fully permits Muslims to find creative ways to adapt when Sharia Law conflicts with practical life, the argument that societies are obliged to make concessions to privilege all the demands of strict Sharia Law is considerably weakened. Islam Is a flexible religion: religious obligations allow exceptions, subject to circumstances. […]

CLIMATE DEPOT: ANTHONY WATTS DELIVERS A DEVASTATING BLOW TO PHONY CLIMATE CLAIMS

For latest go to www.ClimateDepot.com

Anthony Watts delivers devastating scientific blow to Muller’s claims: ‘New analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S. temp trends are spuriously doubled’

Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. on Watts’ ‘Game Changer New Paper’: ‘Muller’s conclusion regarding the robustness of the BEST analysis is refuted in the same day as his op-ed appeared’ — ‘Anthony Watt’s new paper shows that a major correction is needed Muller’s BEST study. Anthony also has shown what dedicated scientists can do with even limited financial support. Despite the large quantities of funds spent on the BEST study, it is Anthony Watts and his team who have actually significantly advanced our understanding of this aspect of the climate system’

Watts new study: ‘Half of the warming trend has gone. 92% of artificial rise was due to ‘erroneous adjustments of well sited stations’ — ‘Muller et al used an older siting classification system. The new classification system shows that siting does have a major impact on the data’

Warmist David Appell: Where BEST Should Have Stopped: ‘Attributing climate is more like figuring out the structure of DNA than it is like figuring out the laws of quantum mechanics simple curve-fitting doesn’t cut it. In fact, it makes you look kind of foolish’

FULL TEXT OF ROMNEY’S REMARKABLE SPEECH IN ISRAEL****

http://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-mitt-romneys-address-in-jerusalem/

Full text of Mitt Romney’s address in Jerusalem

Republican presidential candidate delivers speech to prominent Israelis and donors under the auspices of The Jerusalem Foundation
Thank you for that kind introduction, Mayor Barkat, and thank you all for that warm welcome. It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be in Israel again.

To step foot into Israel is to step foot into a nation that began with an ancient promise made in this land. The Jewish people persisted through one of the most monstrous crimes in human history, and now this nation has come to take its place among the most impressive democracies on earth. Israel’s achievements are a wonder of the modern world.

These achievements are a tribute to the resilience of the Israeli people. You have managed, against all odds, time and again throughout your history, to persevere, to rise up, and to emerge stronger.

The historian Paul Johnson, writing on the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Jewish state, said that over the course of Israel’s life, 100 completely new independent states had come into existence. “Israel is the only one whose creation can fairly be called a miracle,” Johnson wrote.

It is a deeply moving experience to be in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

Our two nations are separated by more than 5,000 miles. But for an American abroad, you can’t get much closer to the ideals and convictions of my own country than you do in Israel. We’re part of the great fellowship of democracies. We speak the same language of freedom and justice, and the right of every person to live in peace. We serve the same cause and provoke the same hatreds in the same enemies of civilization.

It is my firm conviction that the security of Israel is in the vital national security interest of the United States. And ours is an alliance based not only on shared interests but also on enduring shared values.

In those shared values, one of the strongest voices is that of your prime minister, my friend Benjamin Netanyahu. I met with him earlier this morning and I look forward to my family joining his this evening as they observe the close of this fast day of Tisha B’Av.

A RAT QUITS A SINKING SHIP…DENNIS ROSS LEAVES POLITICS WHEN OBAMA NEEDS HIM MOST: ELI LAKE….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/28/exclusive-key-pro-israel-obama-ally-splits.html

Dennis Ross was launched by James Baker in the first Bush White House (father) and stayed on during the Clinton years happily pummeling Israel into accepting any terms the Arabs presented. He also squired terrorists to Congress in 2003. He is despicable. Read:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=15783

“During his eight-year tenure as the special Middle East coordinator during the Clinton administration, from 1993 to 2001, Ross acted as the salesman of Clinton’s Middle East “peace package” to the world. It would seem that Ross continues to do so, as he spent the better part of Monday and Tuesday escorting his “guests” to meet leading congressmen and congressional aides and Middle East policy makers. The height of Ross’s visit was the meeting that Ross organized for the leaders of the Fatah Tanzim with David Satterfield, the Deputy Asst. Secretary of State.”

How Islam Ruined My Life — on The Glazov Gang

by Frontpagemag.com
Amani Mustafa, Anni Cyrus and Nonie Darwish share the horrors they endured under Islam.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/how-islam-ruined-my-life-on-the-glazov-gang-1/