The situation on campus continues to change for Israel’s supporters: abuse is now almost everyplace. There have been important successes, like upholding the recent veto of a “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) proposal at the University of California at Berkeley’s student council, and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s recent definition of anti-Semitism on campus as a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But there have also been notable failures, such as the continuing unwillingness of the administration of the University of California at Irvine to take harassment of Jewish and Israeli students and speakers seriously. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was heckled and silenced there by a group of students from the Muslim Student Association before university security stepped in and removed them. These students later accused the university administration of denying them their First Amendment rights. At Evergreen... by Jerrold L. Sobel Well, she’s at it again. Last week, possibly the greatest disingenuous “friend” the Jewish people have known since Franklin Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, delivered a speech on the Middle East at the: Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy last Friday. Not wasting a moment following her initial platitudes, she immediately began pontificating on her vision of what a Middle East settlement between Israel and the Palestinians should look like. With total disregard for the facts and history of this conflict; the futile “land for peace” gestures made by successive Israeli governments; and the rejectionist posture taken by the Arab world pre-dating even the creation of the Jewish State, Clinton went on and on praising the efforts of the “reformed terrorist” Abbas and “Prime Minister Fayyad;” What he’s Prime Minister of, only she knows. In no way did this fact prevent the lemons in the audience from standing up and giving him a... At Commentary, Rick Richman sums up quickly and succinctly why the negotiations with the Palestinian Arab Muslim terrorist group Fatah are unworkable. First, the Palestinians refused to negotiate unless Netanyahu endorsed a two-state solution and froze settlement construction; Netanyahu did both, and the Palestinians refused to negotiate. They had to be dragged into “proximity talks” and then dragged into “direct negotiations” and then left. Second, the Palestinian Authority canceled local elections in the West Bank, unwilling to risk them even in the part of the putative state it nominally controls. The PA is now headed by a “president” currently in the 72nd month of his 48-month term, with a “prime minister” appointed by the holdover “president” rather than by the Palestinian parliament (which, unfortunately, is controlled by the terrorist group the Palestinians elected five years ago). These days, the PA turns for approval not to its... Israel never had till recently any major problem with Shia Muslims, it’s always been Sunni Whabbis that have been our mortal enemy. Jews and Jerusalem are traditionally unimportant to Shia Muslims. Israel has never fought a war against Shia Muslims but 6-7 wars against Sunni Muslim Arab entities. We had very good relations with Iran under the Shaw. If Israel can get past the nuclear threat by Iran then our real enemy is the Saudis and Egypt. They have waged in the past 63 years five major and 3 minor wars against us not including two intifadas. The Persians are smart the Turks are really stupid. Yamit * Iran and today’s Turkish government are engaged in a battle for the hearts and minds of the Arab street. Iran represents the Shiites and Turkey represents the Sunnis. The Arab world is largely Sunni, with the exception of many of the Persian Gulf Arab countries and The United States has given Lebanon approximately $400 million over the past year to purchase arms, despite Israel’s objections. France has also sent a great deal of weaponry to Lebanon, including advanced anti-tank missiles. To my mind, when the next war starts, Israel will not rely on air power alone to stop the rockets. It will massively invade Lebanon to occupy the country as soon as possible and thus stop the rockets. These anti-tank missiles are an added concern. The Washington Budget Train Wreck Has Nothing On the U.N. by Anne Bayefsky appears today on FoxNews.com. The good folks at the U.N., the people with their hands on the money spigot and the never-ending demand for more U.S. tax dollars are hard at work in the hours leading up to the Christmas recess. Budget gurus at Turtle Bay could take on Washington money managers any day. Particularly since they are busy spending your hard-earned cash on such events as a New York City bash known as “Durban III” next September. And guess what, this includes inviting Iranian President Ahmadinejad to lecture Americans about ending racism and intolerance. Atlas Shrugs reports on the verdict in the Ilan Halimi murder trial. Go there for pictures and links. The 2009 verdict was such a gross miscarriage of justice, Justice Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie instructed the prosecutor to appeal the verdict in the Gang of Barbarians case. A new trial was scheduled. Ilan Halimi was targeted, tortured for weeks and murdered because he was Jewish. The murder of Ilan Halimi can only be described as an unspeakable horror, and yet typical of the rising Islamic Jew-hatred and violence against the Jews. A group calling itself the Muslim Barbarians targeted Jewish men for torture and murder. Their first attempts to kidnap a Jew were unsuccessful, despite the... Melanie Phillips Address to Honest Reporting conference, Jerusalem, 14 December 2010 We are living through a global campaign of demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel in which the western media are playing a key role. The British media are the global leaders of this campaign in their frenzied and obsessional attacks on Israel. In the BBC in particular, such virulence attains unparalleled power and influence since it is stamped with the BBC’s global kitemark of objectivity and trustworthiness.
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Hillary Clinton at the Brookings Institute
PA is dysfunctional yet builds an army.
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What must France be thinking
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Israel has the answer for airport security
No punishment is enough punishment
Tonight, Friday evening (shabbat) the verdict was read, a repeat of July 2009, when the verdict was also read “in a show of disrespect for the family of Ilan Halimi, victim of the most atrocious anti-Semitic crime committed in France since World War II,’ on a Friday night—the Sabbath.Useful Idiots and Fifth Columnists: The Media Role in the War Against the West
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And now Haarez reports France to send Lebanon 100 anti-tank missiles
A French official tells AFP news agency that France will transfer the arms to Lebanon by the end of February, without preconditions.
The U.N. budget process goes like this. First, the U.N. majority dreams up new ways to spend U.S. taxpayer dollars on conferences which are antithetical to American values. Durban III is a perfect example.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) invented the idea of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the anti-semitic...
It used to be that intelligent young people would ask simple uestions of travellors while looking them in the eye. This was effective but time consuming. Now the questions are being asked by inanimate uestioners and observations are recorded by computors. Just as effective, if not moreso, but much faster.
h/t Sarah Sue
Israel’s every action is reported malevolently, ascribing to it the worst possible motives and denying its own victimisation. Instead of the truth, which is that every military action by Israel is taken solely to protect itself from attack, it is portrayed falsely as instigating the violent oppression of the Palestinians.
Tyranny around the world — such as the 20-year genocide in southern Sudan, or the persecution of Christians in Africa or Asia — goes almost unreported, as...
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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