 REEKS WITH IRONY DOESN’T IT? GERMANY ASKED TO OVERSEE THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL BY AN ISRAELI…..RSK  ‘Merkel Should Get More Engaged in the Peace Process’ This week Guido Westerwelle makes his first visit as German foreign minister to Israel. Next week the Israeli and the German cabinets are meeting in Berlin. In an interview […]
Strange Days in Germany http://www.hurryupharry.org/ This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer I am an 81 year old survivor of the Holocaust to whom strange things happened last week in Germany. I was invited to give a lecture about racism and Antisemitism in Hungary in Bielefeld (November 19) by Antifa AG of the university […]
http://www.hurryupharry.org/ Why does Oliver Miles – ex-Ambassador and now Arab Lobbyist – think that the ethnicity of two Jews is relevant to their suitability as participants in an inquiry into the war in Iraq? Who knows. However, Judy at Adloyada has some interesting background on Oliver Miles: Oliver Miles is Chairman of MEC International, a […]
Where Has the Thrill Gone? By Victor Davis Hanson :The Harder They Fall? Who appointed over 40 ambassadors on the sole basis of campaign contributions, or has as many lobbyists in government as did any President in memory? And who releases touchy news—whether increased unemployment or trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civil courts—on Friday nights, […]
http://www.hurryupharry.org/ Harry’s Place recently noted the New Statesman “scoop†over supposed gaffe by easyJet’s in-flight magazine, which organised a fashion shoot at Berlin’s Holocaust Museum. This from a magazine which recently printed an interview with Khaled Meshal, leader of Hamas, an organisation which describes the Holocaust as a Zionist lie. There are arguments for publishing […]
Political Correctness and the Sunset of American Power  By David Solway Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refers to the U.S., and by extension the West per se, as an ofuli (sunset) power [1]. Nothing apparently new here. Ezra Pound’s 1920 poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [2]†had famously written off Western civilization, and by implication the U.S. […]
http://online.wsj.com/article /SB10001424052748704888404574549741582508178.html Elections scheduled for December 6 will mark the official end of the Bolivian democracy. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Â A dictatorship that fosters the production and distribution of cocaine is not apt to enjoy a positive international image. But when that same government cloaks itself in the language of social justice, with a […]
“The great Muslim reformers of the last 200 years have all been intellectually deeply intertwined with the West. The West has stimulated every single great modern Muslim conversation. The abolition of slavery, the study of science, public schools and widespread literacy, the widely felt and growing need for constitutional and representative government—and less meritorious subjects […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/23/tibet-thrown-under-the-bus//print/Â William C. Triplett II Buried in a very long joint statement by President Obama and President Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China is the following declaration by the American president: “We did note that while we recognize that Tibet is part of the People’s Republic of China, the United States supports the […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/23/green-stimulus-growing-few-jobs//print/ “Green energy” is proving to be no miracle solution to the nation’s monumental unemployment problems, and it is doing little to help the economy emerge from its deepest recession in decades, economists say. A large part of this year’s $786 billion stimulus bill was devoted to green or renewable energy projects, with President Obama, […]
