Foxman Defends Kissinger…
Kissinger urges gas chamber remark be taken in context
By RON KAMPEAS
The celebrated US statesman says statements were made in time when larger goal was to increase Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union.
It should have been ancient, if unsavory, news: A cavalier reference to gassing Jews, an aside in a conversation nearly 40 years old.
But the aside was pronounced by Henry Kissinger, a German-born Jew who fled Nazi horrors as a child and who has been honored by multiple Jewish organizations as one of Israel’s saviors during its darkest days, when he was secretary of state to former US president Richard Nixon.
“If they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern,” Kissinger is heard saying on the latest batch of Nixon-era Oval Office tapes released by the Nixon Library.
Following its publication Saturday — buried deep in a New York Times story that focused more on Nixon’s well-known bigotries — a shock shuddered...
Coverup of Arab Arson Offensive Exposed
Israel’s police, fire brigades and press intentionally hushed up an Arab arson offensive that took place while fires raged on the Carmel last week, a reporter for Ma’ariv Hebrew daily claimes.
According to Kalman Libeskind, sources in the Police and within the Fire Commission said – in briefings that were not for attribution – that they decided not to spread the information about the arson “so as not to wake into action more potential terrorists.” The press became “willing accompices” in this hush-up effort.
Libeskind lists the locations of about 25 arson attacks that the fire brigades fought in the course of last week:
* In Kiryat Shemona
* In southern Golan
* Twice near Tzfat (Safed)
* Several times in a grove that separates Abu Ghosh and Kiryat Anavim near Jerusalem
* Twice in a grove near Tzur Hadassah
* At the Sansan Ridge near Moshav Mata
* Twice in the forest next to Kaukab...
‘Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years’
Top German computer consultant tells ‘Post’ virus was as effective as military strike, a huge success; expert speculates IDF creator of virus.
The Stuxnet virus, which has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities and which Israel is suspected of creating, has set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program by two years, a top German computer consultant who was one of the first experts to analyze the program’s code told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
“It will take two years for Iran to get back on track,” Langer said in a telephone interview from his office in Hamburg, Germany. “This was nearly as effective as a military strike, but even better since there are no fatalities and no full-blown war. From a military perspective, this was a huge success.”
Langer spoke to the Post amid news reports that the virus was still infecting Iran’s computer systems at its main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and its reactor at Bushehr.
Michael Moore Bails Out Julian Assange, Despite Total Ignorance of His Actual Views
To the sound of the nation’s collective yawn, filmmaker Michael Moore announced Tuesday that he had given $20,000 to bail out Wikileaks proprietor Julian Assange from a British jail.
Moore cited his admiration for Assange’s quest for openness and transparency in government. But Assange has openly declared that his objective is precisely the opposite – he wants to make the American government so opaque that it cannot function.
Moore went on to laud the lives Assange has supposedly saved by preventing global conflict (well, not really global, since Moore only seems concerned with American misdeeds). But Wikileaks has actually made it more likely, not less, that nations will rely on military might instead of diplomacy. Read More:
NewsBusted 12/14/10 With Jodi Miller she’s quite good
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Palestinians push Obama, Clinton to “bully” Israelis
By Jim Kouri, CFP
The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas requested that the Obama Administration and the U.S. State Department lean on the Israeli government to get them to halt the eviction of a Hamas lawmaker from Jerusalem.
One of the top Palestinian negotiators, Saeb Erekat, who visited Washington, delivered a letter from President Abbas to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. According to Xinhua news service, Abbas’ letter urged the Obama administration to intervene on behalf of Hamas lawmaker Mohammed Abu Tair.
An Israeli court judge had ruled last Wednesday to evict Abu Tair from his Jerusalem home and return him to Ramallah in the Palestinian occupied West Bank. Israeli authorities had first detained Abu Tair in June for entering East Jerusalem after his residency permit was revoked following the 2006 parliament elections in which Hamas won a number of government positions.
In addition, an Israeli intelligence source said that two...
Jewish Ingratitude to Evangelicals
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
The Jewish Press, November 26, 2010
Every year Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews raises about $100 million dollars from mostly evangelical Christians in the United States for distribution to social welfare projects in Israel and the former Soviet Union. This is a staggering sum, making the fellowship arguably the largest foundation for Jews in need in the world.
One would think that we in the Jewish community would show immense gratitude to our Christian brothers and sisters for such love. I therefore found it extraordinary, not to mention embarrassing, to hear that there is a growing campaign among elements in the Israeli Rabbinate to discredit the organization and forbid Jewish organizations from benefiting from their funds.??The worst of all character traits in the Jewish religion is to be an ingrate. Denying the goodness that others perform on your behalf leads to a closing of the human heart.
We need more leaders like Wilders
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
There recently was the death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ‘ulterior motive’ .. She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews (being German). Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack (for larger kids). She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs and arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that...
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Quote for the Week
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
Winston Spencer Churchill. Prime Minister of England during WW 2. (The man did have a way with words.)
* In case you’re interested in the goings on down in Achad Ha’am Street, we’ll tell you that the indexes are working their way through the roof. The TA 25 rose 0.5% to a new record high of 1,299 points, while the Tel Aviv 100 was up 0.6% to reach 1,198.90. Not to be outdone the Tel-Tech Index moved up 0.26% to 241.56 points. Turnover was a healthy NIS 1.7 billion. So, another day, another record. No wonder then that Israeli investors are increasing their share portfolios by the month. We won’t bore you with the figures but we will mention that asset holdings by Israelis in October measured NIS 2.5 trillion [that’s 2 500 000 000 000] up 1.1% from September and a huge leap of an...
Z Street’s law suit for charitable status
‘Terrorism Special Policy’ Prevents Pro-Israel Group from Gaining IRS Tax Exempt Status
By DANIEL HALPER, WEEKLY STANDARD
Z Street, the pro-Israel group that alleges the IRS has prevented it from gaining tax exempt status because its policy toward Israel is antithetical to the administration’s, now says that the IRS is changing its tune. Instead, Z Street is being excluded because of a “a Terrorism Special Policy, and that Israel is included.” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, in a short press release, briefly explains what’s going on:
We now have the mind-numbing IRS defense for delaying (almost a year now!) Z STREET’s application for tax exempt status. In a signed affidavit, an IRS official explains that there is no “Israel Special Policy,” instead it is a Terrorism Special Policy, and that Israel is included. That’s right, Israel is a terrorist state because terrorism happens there. True, Israel is the victim, but why quibble...
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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