By Ted Belman Michelle Malkin has full up to date coverage here. The following article was published in ’06 in the Jewish Tucson Israel needs U.S. to push the peace process My grandfather, Akiba Hornstein, was the son of a Lithuanian rabbi. My grandfather changed his name to Giff Giffords for reasons of anti-Semitism and moved to Southern Arizona from New York more than a half century ago. In the 1940s, he founded my family’s tire and automotive business, El Campo Tire, which grew into a successful and thriving business for 50 years, which I ran for several years before serving in the Arizona Legislature. Growing up, my family’s Jewish roots and tradition played an important role in shaping my values. The women in my... DEBKAfile Special Report January 8, 2011, Since Friday night, Jan. 7 – when Israeli paratrooper, Sgt. Nadav Rutenberg, 20, from Moshav Ramot Hashavim, died and four others were injured during an ambush from the Gaza Strip – Palestinian terrorists have been on the offensive – both in Gaza and the West Bank, debkafile’s military sources report. Saturday, a would-be suicide bomber from Jenin armed with two pipe bombs shouting Allah is Great! jumped out of a taxi at the Israeli checkpoint at Beqaot in the northern Jordanian Valley and tried to rush the soldiers. They called him to stop and shot him when he kept going. The other passengers fled. It was the first attack by a Jenin inhabitant in the four years of relative peace prevailing on the West Bank since Israel beat back the Palestinian uprising. Thursday, Palestinian... Compliments of Anglo Saxon Ra’anana Real Estate Quote for the Week “Money can´t buy happiness but it can make you happier” * The country’s people count now stands at 7,695,000, according to figures released last week by the CBS, to herald the start of the new civil year. The Jewish segment of the population numbers some 5,802,000 or 75.4 percent of the total. The remaining 1,893,000 people are comprised of Muslims, Christians, Druse and Circasians. As in past years the numbers show a steady growth rate of 1.9%, or a net increase of 143,000 people, over the previous year – a rise that has been consistent since 2003. With a population of just over 7.5 million living in a country about the size of New Jersey and with due modesty it’s amazing that we achieve what we do. Now read on for the successes of the past week or two. [This a fascinating report. Jean-Marie Le Pen's daughter is taking over his party. While she is steadfasly against Islamization and says she and her party are no longer antisemitic, she doesn't appear to have a love of Israel. T. Belman] In the context of the “de-demonization” effort that she is leading, Marine decided to cleanse the party of her father’s anti-Semitic provocations. She wants to lead the Front out of its racist ghetto and turn it into a legitimate mass party. The surveys give her between 17 and 27 percent support of... Steven J. Rosen: … This month, Abbas is taking his campaign to the UN Security Council, where the Palestinians are circulating a draft resolution that would declare Israeli “settlements” in Jerusalem to be “illegal.” The draft demands a halt to all construction in the eastern half of Israel’s capital city. It’s openly a maneuver to hoist Obama on his own petard. “We drafted it using the same words that Secretary Clinton is using and so we don’t see why the U.S. would veto it,” Abbas said. …
Shooting rampage in Arizona. Gabrielle Giffords (D- Az) in critical condition. Five others dead
News Flash. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) gravely wounded and five others were killed by a lone gunman in Tucson earlier today. Giffords is the first Jew to be elected to Congress from Arizona and had just been reelected for her third term..Palestinian violence surges on W. Bank, Gaza. Israeli soldier killed
Friday, another Palestinian was shot on the West Bank; he was running at an Israeli roadblock with what looked like a bottle bomb.Good News, Israel
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* Diamonds are a girl’s best friend they say. Well, we don’t know about that but we do know that these...EU anti-immigration parties are on the rise
Since joining her father’s (Jean-Marie Le Pen) presidential campaign over eight years ago, Marine LePen, today 42, has become almost the exclusive face of the party. In a week from now, according to the surveys, she will easily defeat her father’s veteran deputy, Bruno Gollnisch, and take over the leadership of the Front, after almost 40 years of the founding father’s one-man show.Obama’s Moment of Truth at the UN
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
Sunday, 9 January 2011
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