Sunday, 15 May 2011

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May 15th And The Case Of The Missing Nakba…

by Gerald A. Honigman

It’s that time of the year again…May 15th.

Arabs and their stooges get to prance around and curse the Jews over the catastrophe (nakba)–Israel’s rebirth. A resurrection which occurred, by the way, on about 12% of the original April 25,1920 Mandate of Palestine after what is now Jordan made off with the lions’ share (about 80%) upon its own creation in 1922…a gift of British imperialist shanigans.

In 1947, Arabs were offered about half of the 20% that was left but refused that second partition. In their eyes, almost 90% of Palestine was not enough. By the way, the name “Palestine” was bestowed upon Judea by the Roman emperor, Hadrian, after the Jews’ second revolt for freedom in an attempt to squash their hopes forever. To pour salt on the wound, Rome renamed land for the Jews’ historic, non-Semitic enemies, the Philistines–the invading “Sea People” of ancient Egyptian records, David...

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Abbas vs. Obama

by Steven J. Rosen, Middle East Quarterly
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Having sidelined Barack Obama’s peace initiative by refusing to return to the negotiations table without apriori Israeli concessions, the Palestinian leadership seeks to secure an international declaration of statehood at the next U.N. General Assembly session in September 2011. This “date certain” strategy, whereby its entitlement to a state will be fulfilled by the world powers, has long been preferred by the Palestinian leadership to any arduous, bilateral negotiation with Israel, which would require painful concessions. The Palestinians enjoy wide support in many European capitals, and they know that the Obama administration is close to their positions on many of the core issues. So forcing the statehood demand into a multilateral forum can entice governments into satisfying the Palestinian aspirations by a fixed date.

European Support

Since the start of the Obama administration, PA president...

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GEERT WILDERS’ SPEECH IN NASHVILLE

Dear friends from Tennessee. I am very happy to be in your midst today. I am happy and proud to be in this impressive church.

My friends, I am here to speak words of truth and freedom.

Do you know why America is in a better state than Europe? Because you enjoy more freedom than Europeans.

And do you know why Americans enjoy more freedom than Europeans? Because you are still allowed to tell the truth.

In Europe and Canada people are dragged to court for telling the truth about islam.

I, too, have been dragged to court. I am an elected member of the house of representatives in the Netherlands. I am currently standing in court like a common criminal for saying that islam is a dangerous totalitarian ideology rather than a religion.

The court case is still pending, but I risk a jail sentence of 16 months.

Last week, my friend Lars Hedegaard, a journalist from Denmark, was fined because in a private conservation, which was recorded without his knowing, he had criticised the way women...

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The Arab spring unleashes Islamists on Egyptian Christians.

By Andrew C McCarthy, NRO

Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend. They torched the Coptic Christian house of worship, burned the nearby homes of two Copt families to the ground, attacked a residential complex, killed a dozen people, and wounded more than 200: just another day in this spontaneous democratic uprising by Muslim hearts yearning for freedom.

In the delusional vocabulary of the “Arab Spring,” this particular episode is known as a sectarian “clash.” That was the Washington Post’s take. Its headline[1] reads “12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash” — in the same way, one supposes, that a mugger’s fist can be said to “clash” with his victim’s face. The story goes on, in nauseating “cycle of violence” style, to describe “clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians” that “left” 12 dead, dozens more wounded, “and a church...

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