Condemned for Defamation of Jamal al Dura
French Journalist and Israeli Surgeon
On April 29, 2011, a Parisian Tribunal found Israeli surgeon Dr. Yehuda David, French journalist Clément Weill-Raynal and French Jewish weekly magazine Actualité juive guilty of public defamation of Palestinian Jamal Al Dura.
Jamal Al Dura had charged the defendants with defaming his honour and his reputation by two articles authored by Clément Weill-Raynal and published on September 4 and 25, 2008, by Actualité juive.
Those articles, especially an interview of Dr.Yehuda David, asserted that Jamal Al Dura’s wounds dated back to a Palestinian attack on him with axes in 1992, and not to an Israeli gunfight in 2000 at the Netzarim junction (Gaza strip).
Dr. David told Weill-Raynal that he performed a tendon transfer surgery from Jamal Al Dura’s left foot to his paralyzed right hand in 1994, at the Tal ha Shomer hospital in Tel Aviv. Thus, Al Dura’s scars in that foot and in that hand resulted both from the axe wound and from...
Egypt: Situation Deteriorating Badly and Rapidly
[See also Muslims Attack Christians in Egypt, 12 Killed, 232 Injured]
By Barry Rubin, PAJAMAS MEDIA
In the wake of bloody Muslim attacks on Egyptian Christians the New York Times informs us:
“By lifting the heavy hand of the Mubarak police state, the revolution unleashed long-suppressed sectarian animosities that have burst out with increasing ferocity….”
No kidding! Did you think a single Egyptian Christian didn’t know this in February? Why didn’t the media report or the U.S. government understand that this was absolutely inevitable and predictabe. But the only mentions of Christians were to claim that they were really enthusiastic about the revolution.
The remaining Christians in most of the Arabic-speaking world may be on the edge of flight or extinction. All of the Christians have left the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip which is, in effect, an Islamist republic. They are leaving the West Bank. Half have departed from an increasingly...
‘A Mistake of Principle’
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld never had a chance against Tony Kushner.
So it now looks as if the City University of New York is going to overturn a decision by its own board of trustees to refuse to give an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner. The ironies of modern academic politics here are too rich to pass by without notice.
Start with the Friday announcement by CUNY “Chairperson”—that’s his official title—Benno Schmidt that he plans to convene a meeting today of the board’s seven-member executive committee to reconsider the decision the full board made against the Kushner degree only last week.
“I would not ordinarily ask for reconsideration of a decision so recently taken,” said Mr. Schmidt, who was once president of Yale. “But when the board has made a mistake of principle and not merely of policy, review is appropriate and, indeed, mandatory.”
As it happens, Chairperson Schmidt was on hand when this “mistake of...
Arguing standing before C of A
By Ted Belman
I watched the oral arguments before the C of A on the matter of standing in the matter of eligibility of Obama.
Here’s my impression.
1) The Judges gave the matter a fair hearing keeping in mind that they have full written briefs before them. The oral arguments is an opportunity to press their questions.
2) The plaintiffs in the cases under appeal include ordinary citizens, military men and a Presidential candidate in the last election.
3) The judges were concered about timing. What is the situation before the elections, between election and inauguration and after inauguration. Different issues apply to each.
4) Could the Congress handle this matter through impeachment after election. Yes Congress could impeach but only the Courts could interpret the law.
5) What is the injury to the plaintiffs? Lakin lost his pension. The Candidate was denied a level playing field. I thought why doesn’t a citizen have standing to question before the...
The Justices and Jerusalem
Editorial of The New York Sun | May 8, 2011
It looks like the decades-long standoff between the Congress and the President over the question of Jerusalem may finally be brought to a head, in a lawsuit brought against the Secretary of State of the United States by — only in America —a nine-year-old boy. The Supreme Court last week brushed aside the objections of Mrs. Clinton, who is worried that Congress may win a say in the Jerusalem question, and agreed to the appeal of the child, Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, who was born at Jerusalem in 2002 and wants the certificate of birth abroad issued by the American embassy to list his birthplace as Israel.
The State Department is required to accede to such a request, according to a law, part of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, passed by Congress in 2002. But when President George W. Bush affixed his signature to the law, he issued a so-called signing statement objecting to that requirement, saying it infringed on his...
Wilder’s problem with Islamism Islam
By Jonathan Kay, National Post
As an editor at the National Post, I often rely on three letters to protect my columnists from human-rights tribunals: I-S-M — these being the difference between spelling Islam and Islamism.
The former is a religion — like Christianity or Judaism. The latter is an ideology, which seeks to impose an intolerant fundamentalist version of Islam on all Muslims, and spread the faith throughout the world. Declaring Islamism a menace isn’t controversial. Declaring Islam a menace is considered hate speech.
Geert Wilders’ refusal to deploy those three letters is the reason that the 47-year-old Dutch politician travels with bodyguards, and cannot sleep in the same house two nights in a row. For Mr. Wilders, the problem plaguing Western societies is Islam, full stop. Terrorism, tyranny, the subjugation of women — these are not perversions of Islam, as he sees it, but rather its very essence.
“The word ‘Islamism’ suggests that there is a...
Obama’s past is being covered up by both Parties.
By Ted Belman
Obama used a Connecticut social security number for a number of year’s. His application to get it, apparently was fraudulent. Apparently this is a felony.
This is an interview of Susan Daniels, a licensed private investigator. Here’s what she said,
1) This number (042684425) was issued in 1977 to Obama. It was originally given to someone born in 1890. He used it as a US Senator.
2) the application for this number is a forgery.
3) Ayers in one of his books bragged about how he could construct an identity for anyone.
4) to get this number one had to have a Connecticut address. Obama never lived in Connecticut.
5) She gave this information to people in power on both sides of the aisle and no one wanted to run with it. Nor would any public prosecutor. Even Limbaugh and Beck didn’t follow up.
6) she has now given it to Donald Trump.
7) She also said his name was changed to Barry Soetoro and never changed back.
This...
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