Said Mayor Michael Bloomberg to New Yorkers. Last Tuesday, standing in front of the Statue of Liberty, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke on the subject of the proposed mosque at Ground Zero. His remarks will be read with curiosity by future generations of Americans, who will look back in astonishment at the self-deluding pieties and self-destructive dogmas that are held onto, at once smugly and desperately, by today’s liberal elites. Our liberation from those dogmas, and from those elites, is underway across the nation. But it’s worth taking a look at Bloomberg’s speech, if only to remind us of what we need to ascend from so our descendants can look back with curiosity at the ethos to which we did not succumb. I have stated many times that it is Judaism that is the real target. The Israel Arab conflict is contrived to serve the ends of both Islam and Christianity. I would take every church identified with this group in Israel and turn them into synagogues or tear them down for needed parking lots. Jews need to defend themselves but need to defend against attacks on Judaism no less, maybe even more. This dwarfs the ground zero mosque in every way Yamit Click here to view the embedded video. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, headed by controversial Bishop Edir Macedo, has announced plans to build a giant replica of the First Temple in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is expected to cost $200 million, stand 55 meters (18 stories) high, and seat 10,000 people. Its plans also call for a parking lot for... Palin can’t be ignored. She has great power. She is forever shining her light on one issue or another and in all cases she is the first to do so or the first to make a difference. In every case the public agrees with her. Here’s what comes to mind; Palin prefers issues to labels. Because of this her appeal will make inroads with like minded Democrats and... Netanyahu is proving to be our worst nightmare come true. The sooner he is ousted the better. Yamit MESS Report / Does Israel have any power of deterrence left? Israel needs to rethink its Lebanon policy The border incidents this week – in the north, and to a lesser degree in Eilat and the area around Gaza – called into question Israel’s operating assumptions during the past four years, since the end of the Second Lebanon War. The relatively low number of casualties, as well as intelligence information indicating the Lebanese Army was responsible for the gunfire in the north, enables the... Peter Berkowitz in his The Goldstone Report and International Law argues that the larger issue is the undermining of international law in favour of politics. But another and more far-reaching issue, which should be of great significance to those who take seriously the claims of international law to govern the conduct of war, has scarcely been noticed. And that pertains to the disregarding of fundamental norms and principles of international law by the United Nations Human Rights Council (hrc), which authorized the Goldstone Mission; by the Mission members, who produced the Goldstone Report; and by the hrc and the United Nations General Assembly (of which the hrc is a subsidiary organ), which endorsed the report’s recommendations. Their conduct combines an exaltation of, and disrespect for, international law. It is driven by an ambition to shift authority over critical judgments about the conduct of war from states to international institutions. Among the most serious political... Laura: Not suprisingly, members of journolist support the anti-Israel agenda of J Street and shilled for the group. J Street and its supporters think somehow they are providing a counterbalance to AIPAC which they perceive as being too right wing and hawkish. I find it amusing that these people consider AIPAC to be a right wing group despite the fact that it advocates Israel to surrender land to the “palestinians” to create their own islamic terror state. True Zionist groups like ZOA or Z Street, which oppose a two-state solution, have no power in Washington. Was J-list in the service of J-Street? Lenny Ben David, The Daily Caller Even in Israel, the Daily Caller’s “Journolist” exposé has received its share of attention. The Jeremiah Wright and Sarah Palin email threads were less interesting to Israelis than the Journolist discussion of whether to report on the Islamist background of the Ft. Hood Texas shooter. The Israeli press didn’t get... By George Jonas, National Post ‘We have to let them build their mosque. But we don’t have to buy the project’s phony rationale’ The much-disputed mosque near Ground Zero has been described as a test of our commitment to liberty. With great respect to pundits on both sides of the issue, I think it is a test of our commitment to the wrong question. The question isn’t whether people should be able to build whatever they like on their private properties. To this, the answer is a simple yes in a free society, subject only to the appropriate municipal zoning laws and building codes. Anyone who denies others this right because of religious or political sympathies needs a refresher course in the basics. Described in news reports as a non-profit organization whose stated goal is to promote cross-cultural understanding between Islam and the West, Cordoba Initiative spent US$4-million to purchase property two...
“Shut Up, He Explained”
BY William Kristol, WEEKLY STANDARD
As is the way of contemporary liberals, Bloomberg spoke at a very high level of abstraction. He appealed to the principle of...Christians at it again! Giant Brazilian Temple Replica Panned as ‘Mockery’
Palin Power
Ted Belman. I first published the following article in Jan ’10. I stumbled upon it today I liked it so much, I thought I would post it again with an update.
“death panels”; “coddling our enemies and alienating our friends”;
focus on the Gulf not golf; on immigration, “Mr President, do your job”;
on preventing the coming tax increase, “where’s the plan, man”; the mosque “is a stab in the heart”; on the deficit, “stop digging the hole”;”Cap and Tax not Cap and Trade”;(I’ll keep adding as I think of more).Israel almost was defeated in 1973 because of defective conceptions, are we doing it again?
The border incidents this week called into question Israel’s operating assumptions during the past four years, since the end of the Second Lebanon War.
In the wake of this week’s flare-ups of hostilities in Lebanon and in the south, Israel would do well to reconsider its assumptions about the IDF’s power of deterrence.
By Amos Harel and Avi IssacharoffThe march of politics under the banner of law
Journolist and J Street
A strange way to promote ‘understanding’
Except this isn’t the question to ask about the Cordoba Initiative.More Recent Articles
Ted Belman
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