The projected million-women march turned out just 400 and they were harassed and in some cases attacked. Meanwhile, thousands of Muslims and Christians demonstrated and clashed in part due to the burning of a Christian church by Muslims. The new governmental team has been outspokenly anti-Israel–and that doesn’t mean criticism but real hostility. Crime has reportedly zoomed upward. including armed robberies, arson and street battles between rival criminal gangs over territory. One innovation has been for gangs to stop cars, partly by throwing eggs on the windshield so the driver can’t see, then demand that the driver sign a bill of sale to them for the automobile and hand it over, or else. by Mahim Maher, MY PAKISTAN BLOG Because they are the radicalization problem. – by Patrick Poole, PAJAMAS MEDIA The hysterics over Thursday’s hearings on Islamic radicalization by the House Homeland Security Committee has reached epic proportions. Islamic groups have likened the hearings to a new era of McCarthyism; James Zogby of the Arab American Institute wrote in an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper that the hearings were going to result in increased radicalization and that Islamophobia was a bigger threat than al-Qaeda; and at a rally against the hearings in New York City this past weekend Elaine Brower of the Movement for a Democratic Society claimed that Muslims would be murdered as a result of these hearings. So what has the self-appointed... I have long recognized that Israel, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan is better than the ’67 lines even it it means absorbing another 1.5 million Arabs as residents and ultimately citizens. But israelis prefer to give them autonomy.That’s why our government has been pushing autonomy. But rest assured that I and others have gone into annexation in great depth and concluded that we can do it and remain democratic and Jewish. Besides the Arabs, in their quest to destroy us will never accept autonomy. Once we convince Israelis we will have to convince the US and the EU. Ted Belman by Uri Elitzur. Editor Makor Rishon, IsraelNationalNews.com Not long ago, Shimon Peres was vehemently against a Palestinian state. Today, even Netanyahu supports the idea. A Palestinian state now is the worst possible scenario for Israel, and it will occur if we don’t have the courage to consider the following counter-proposal seriously: that is, a proposal that entails adding more than 1... Is there any reason to believe that the Obama administration will gamble precious political and diplomatic capital on a new Israeli initiative? My guess is that he won’t Netanyahu won’t offer enough to give confidence that the deal will lead to an agreement. So why push it. Instead I belive that Israel and the US are working on an interim agreement that has a better chance of succeeding. It is doubtful that such a proposal will deal with final status issues. There is talk of enlarging Area “A”. T. Belman By Bradley Burston, Haaretz British Shift on Muslims Is Ominous LONDON — When Maajid Nawaz is asked what message Britain’s Muslims are finding in Prime Minister David Cameron’s proclamation of the failure of state multiculturalism here, the answer isn’t upbeat. Mr. Nawaz is a British political scientist of Pakistani origin and former Islamist who founded the anti-extremist think tank Quilliam. His response comes with the authority of a man who changed his views on Islam as a political/religious imperative during four years in an Egyptian prison and who was a consultant in the preparation of Mr. Cameron’s statement. Mr. Nawaz says: “The Islamists are telling everyone what Cameron means is ‘change your religion.’ This is what Muslims are getting from the gatekeepers of their communities.”
Egypt and the Middle East: Romanticism Meets Reality
All revolutions produce some anarchy. But the divisions between Christians and Muslims, (massive numbers of) Islamists and (tiny numbers of) secularist, treatment of women, and other issues have a structural component that just isn’t going to go away...Pakistan’s Jewish roots
I always wanted to be Jewish, mostly because of the literature I discovered in my teenage years – The Diary of Anne Frank, the ten-part Meryl Streep series Holocaust, Isaac Babel’s ‘How it was done in Odessa’. Later, I came to love certain poets and writers such as Leonard Cohen, Mordechai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney’s Version). And then there were friends like Herky Halpert, a bagel-baking Grateful Dead fan in Montreal who introduced me to Steppenwolf. And then there was Yiddish, gelt, verklempt, mensches, spiels. Later, I discovered on the upper end of Montreal’s Ave. du Parc the Chassidic Jews. The women who all seemed to have the same brown bob cut, which later turned out to be wigs, their blue serge skirts, the blue prams, the long black coats. Schwartz’s sandwiches.
This branched off into a fascination with the genetics of the Indian sub-continent simply because I feel history and science can...Why Do Islamic Groups Fear Hearings on Islamic Radicalization?
They have even gone as far as attacking one Muslim leader who has agreed to appear, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, an authentic moderate and American patriot who was given the full Media Slanders treatment last week.New Peace Initiative: Annex and Survive
Netanyau won’t deal with final status issues in his new “plan”.
Nonetheless, work continues on a new, perhaps a final, Netanyahu peace initiative. Rumor has it, that it could be launched at a joint session of Congress in May. But is there any reason to believe that the Obama administration – whose past tunnel vision on the Mideast, coupled with Israel’s peripheral view, has blinded both sides to possible avenues of progress – will gamble precious political and...NYT calls end to multiculturalism, “ominous”
By JOHN VINOCUR, NYT
That’s a view suggesting Britain’s Islamists will press for ignoring the government if it really does try to dismantle the multicultural status quo that Mr. Cameron says...More Recent Articles
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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