The anti-Israel agenda prevails: by Anne Bayefsky, The Jerusalem Post. Dear Ted, From Ditsana Darshan-Lietner I am happy to report that we have achieved some important victories in the struggle to block the anti-Israel Flotilla from smuggling contraband to the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip. Last week, we were informed that after sending warning letters to a French insurance company cautioning them not to insure a boat that was to be launched from Marseilles, the company decided not to provide the French boat with insurance. As such, the ship will not be allowed to sail out to join the Flotilla from a French port. Then on Thursday, we learned that the main Turkish boat, the Mavi Marmara was pulling out of the Flotilla as well. According to the NY Times, the ships inability to obtain maritime insurance to operate was thwarting its ability to lead the Flotilla: “ Voices were raised and war threats exchanged on both sides of the conversation Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan held with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s special emissary, former Syrian Defense Minister Hassan Turkmani (until 2009), in Ankara Erdogan’s main concern is with an old thorn in Turkey’ side, the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party), which has set up an... DEBKA French-UK- Italian Shock and Awe Plan Stalled by Empty Arsenals NATO has run into a major glitch which is typical of the plunging course followed by its three-month old operation against Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi. DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources disclose that Britain, France and Italy were secretly in the middle of hectic preparations for a “Shock and Awe” (technically known as “rapid dominance”) coup de grace against the Libyan ruler, when they discovered their air forces had run out of missiles and smart bombs. Their arsenals were empty. Laura: It is very frustrating to me that Chris Christie is becoming very popular amongst conservatives around the country. They aren’t getting the full story on him. They think he is gutsy because he confronts the unions, yet where is his courage in taking a stand against the ground zero mosque and in standing up to muslim pressure groups? Not only did he appoint a lawyer who defended terrorists, to a judgeship, he also intervened on behalf of imam Qatanani who was facing deportation. Unfortunately most of the conservative media outlets are sweeping this aspect of him under the carpet. It seems more important to them to find a candidate they think could beat Obama than it is to protect the country. It is possible we can have a true conservative and also win the election. He claims to not be running and I hope he means it but I fear this groundswell of support will convince him to run and I’m also afraid he would become the nominee. In fact I’m quite certain that he... by William A. Levinson “Islamophobia” suggests a paranoid and irrational fear of Muslims and Islam. The last ideology that proclaimed openly its right and destiny to rule the world, however, caused the deaths of more than 40 million people (including 7 million of its own) before it was finally stopped in 1945. Statements like “Today Germany, tomorrow the world” and “Islam will rule the world by the grace of Allah” must therefore be taken seriously. Islam 2.0: Coexistence at American Thinker.
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011
On Friday at 6 p.m., the Obama administration’s promises to fix the disreputable UN Human Rights Council by becoming a member died a predictable death at the General Assembly. Knowing they were headed for certain defeat, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer gave a speech at a Washington institute last Wednesday touting President Barack Obama’s “reform” accomplishments from inside the UN’s top human rights body. And her whitewash was supplemented at the end of the week by a barrage of statements and press releases from the State Department. It didn’t even pass House Speaker John Boehner’s “straight-face test” for the president’s foreign policy.
While the GA was nailing the coffin shut on council reform in New York, the council itself was wrapping up its latest session in Geneva with its usual systematic efforts to demonize the State of...
Those who deny Jews or Israel their freedom will lose, or fail to gain, their own.
For the Jews of Europe, these are the best of times and the worst of times. Take British Jewry as an example.
In the past 20 years we have built more Jewish day schools than ever before in our 355-year history. Culturally, a community deemed moribund a generation ago boasts a cultural center, a community center in the making, Jewish Book Weeks, arts, music and film festivals, and an adult-education event – Limmud – that has inspired offshoots in 50 other centers throughout the Jewish world.
Jews have achieved prominence in every field. Both parliamentary speakers, in the Commons and the Lords, are Jewish. We have had, in recent years, two Jewish lord chief justices, Jewish heads of Oxford and Cambridge, a Jewish editor of The Times and Jewish leaders of both the Conservative and Labour parties. Not only are Jews respected, but so is Judaism. The Jewish moral...
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To Send Troops into Syria with US Backing? Or Not
Wednesday, June 15.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military and intelligence sources report exclusively that Erdogan first pinned his Syrian visitor down with four tough questions:
1. When will Assad halt military actions in the vicinity of the Turkish border? (See also next article on the turning point in the Syrian uprising.)
2. Can Damascus be trusted to stick to its commitment to Ankara to refrain from sending troops against rebels in the big Syrian Kurdish cities of Amoda, Ifrin, Azez, Tall Afar, Qamishli and Kubani in the Al Haksa region?
NATO air strikes against Qaddafi’s forces in Tripoli and elsewhere ground to a halt for several days for efforts to replenish stocks.
And Tuesday, June 14, the top British and French commanders tried to warn their governments of the real situation.
“How long can we go on as we are in Libya?” Britain’s First Sea Lord, Adm. Mark Stanhope, asked. “Certainly in terms of...
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