The Still Lethal Obsession
No matter how many prizes Professor Robert Wistrich’s massive tome A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad garners the book still deserves more attention than it has received. Indeed no amount of attention would be sufficient.
Its packed 938 pages of text reflect neither authorial grandiosity nor editorial lassitude. The copious detail amassed is required in order that Wistrich’s central arguments not be dismissed as cherry-picked quotes used to exaggerate the seriousness of the phenomena under discussion. Random House, a commercial publisher, did not request him to cut a single sentence.
A Lethal Obsession stands as a refutation of three widespread misconceptions fostered in the West, partly out of ignorance and partly out of fear. The first is that radical Islam is a relatively minor phenomenon in the Muslim world. The second is that the Palestinian-Israeli dispute is primarily about borders, and amenable to solutions on...
‘WikiLeaks shows U.S. dismissed Israel’s warnings about Iran bomb’
BREAKING—Twitter “Bombshells” Cause WikiLeaks to Release “The Bad Stuff” Early
Sometimes even the “leakers” get leaked. Earlier today, a German Twitter user bought a copy of Der Spiegel (cover above)a German news magazine outlining the anticipated document dump from WikiLeak after it was placed on newsstands too early. Badische Bahnhof Basel!” wrote Freelancer_09. “We’ll see what it says…… 
” He and another user, sa7yr, have been tweeting excerpts since early this AM Read More
Classified cable quotes Ehud Barak as saying strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities was viable only until the end of 2010.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2009 claims that Iran was months away from achieving military nuclear capability were dismissed by the Americans, according to a German weekly, quoting classified U.S. documents set to be released by the WikiLeaks website on Sunday
Fatah Declares: No to Israel as Jewish State, No to Land Swaps
Deja Vu ? Yamit
by Chana Ya’ar
The faction that is led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and which leads the PA has officially declared its formal refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State. Its announcement recalled the three no’s of the Khartoum Arab League Conference of September 1967, following the Six Day War, which squelched all efforts to reach a peace agreement by declaring “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it”.
The Fatah Revolutionary Council over this weekend voted to “affirm its rejection of the so-called Jewish state or any other formula that could achieve this goal” at its fifth convention in Ramallah.
“The Council also renews its refusal for the establishment of any racist state based on religion in accordance with international law and human rights conventions,” the council said in a statement issued at the end of the convention.
In addition, the statement said Fatah was...
SARAH PALIN’S qualities recommend her for the Presidency
Holding Sarah Palin to Her Promise
By Robert Eugene Simmons Jr., AMERICAN THINKER
In a recent interview, Sarah Palin said to the interviewer that she will consider running for president if there is no one willing to do the job and take on the problems facing America. I think America is going to have to hold her to that promise.
I can’t think of a reason why Palin would want to be president and move to Washington. She clearly loves Alaska and has a wonderful family who also love Alaska as home. Palin clearly has a good thing going with the influence she has on national politics and election cycles. On a personal level, she has been able to amass a small fortune in being who she is. I don’t begrudge her the fortune, and I don’t blame her for her love of the wild beauty of Alaska.
I can’t think of a single reason she would want to move to an urban environment often...
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Lately a certain person has been using his computor to post comments under the name of Bill Narvey and Joseph Norland.
The monikers used from time to time on this computor includes Phat Fur, Malibou, bobby jo, doodiel, lognieu and Mandy. I believed that Hyman Peskin may be that person.
Recently he tried to fool the system by registering under the name of Laura. The first time he put a period in front of it and the second time, a period after it. That’s when I required all registrations to be approved by me.
I recently changed the system so that registration wasn’t required to comment but the first comment had to be moderated to give me some control.
I still have the ability to blacklist any name or IP address.
This same person had a practice of posting in my name on other sites like JPOST. His comments were the opposite of what mine would have been.
He also set up some email addresses that looked like mine or Honest Reporting and then send out emails to a list he had put...
Why Would a Woman Convert to Islam?
Very recently Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, journalist Lauren Booth, embraced the faith after what she described as a “holy experience” in Iran. Based on what Ayaan Hirsi Ali has described as the brutal, totalistic character of Islam, one is obliged to ask why any modern career woman would opt for conversion to the Muslim religion.
After all, as so many autobiographies of Muslim women note, the religion bans anything that is fun (“haram,” or forbidden). No chewing of gum, no bicycle riding, no make-up, no eating in public, no painting of nails, no pets, no questions, and of course, no answering back. For many Muslim women, there is an eagerness to assert independence as soon as adulthood is reached.
How then does one explain Lauren Booth? She notes that in the city of Qom “I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy.” What precisely was Ms. Booth seeking, and why did she find it in Islam? Although it is...
The Unholy US/Muslim Alliance
By Ted Belman
Dennis ”Avi” Lipkin, a Jew, in his book, Israel’s Bible Bloc, explained how he got over his hatred of Christians and came to embrace them as Israel’s best friend.
In 1991, as the IDF spokesperson, he was invited to speak to the Dallas Council on World Affairs. They were part of the famous or infamous Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He writes,
“These are the people who control the economy of the US and the World. These are faceless people who decide who the President of the United States will be as well as leaders of other countries. They control the banks corporations and oil companies that control the world.”
The CFR includes among its members the power elites in both the Democrat and Republican parties and they include most Presidential nominees. They support world government and globalization. They are building a modern day Tower of Babel which denies American sovereignty and the supremacy of God from which our inalienable rights come in...
Min Ayalon:”Palestinian lies and distortions,.. plucked from thin air”
Minister Danny Ayalon sets the record straight in Palestinian revisionism is the only obstacle to peace
He covers such issues as Rachel’s Tomb, the Kotel and the claimed Palestinian identity of Jesus. He ends by saying
Peace can only arrive after acceptance of the other, not just a laying down of arms and weapons. It needs to be enforced by mutual recognition. The current Palestinian revisionism doesn’t just distort history and deny our connection with our ancestral home; it denies the possibility of a peaceful resolution to the conflict and a better future for the people of the region.
This article comes at the right time as the Fatah Revolutionary Council came out against
- recognizing Israel as a Jewish state
- land swaps,
- a Palestinian state with temporary
- the Referendum Law
- negotiations without a full freeze
and in favour of the right of return.
Abbas gave the bottom line
The Palestinians want a just and comprehensive...
OU does not favour a Palestinian State, they say
The talk in the shul this week has been about the alledged change of position of the Orthodox Union on the uestion of a Palestinian state.
In responds to a letter to them, they clear the air.
Thank you for your e-mail. Please be advised that, contrary to what you may have read or heard, the Orthodox Union has not changed its policy, and has not come out in favor of a Palestinian State. The Orthodox Union’s policy remains as stated in the following resolution, adopted at our most recent Convention in November 2008:
“The Orthodox Union feels an historic obligation to preserve for the Jewish people the right to live and travel freely and safely in the land of our heritage, including the territories of Yehuda and Shomron …
Thus, while we strive for security and peace, we are skeptical of any policy that relinquishes part of Eretz Yisrael without obtaining both.”
Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Executive Vice President, Emeritus
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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