Sunday, 12 June 2011

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The Palestinian Brute: Adds Mutilation to Murder

by Bill Levinson

Noting that the Fogel family has granted permission to use the pictures of their murdered relatives to show exactly what kind of monsters infest Gaza and the West Bank, we have combined them with a picture that dehumanized Spaniards (who may in fact have been innocent of sinking the Maine) to such an extent that the U.S. went to war with them. We encourage distribution of this image in Israel and elsewhere to reinforce the perception of Palestinians as subhuman monsters, along with the recommended solution shown by the cross-hairs between the monster’s eyes. (We had to do something with the U.S. flag in the original so we mentioned Palestinian terrorist Sirhan Sirhan who murdered a U.S. Senator.) This is something the Government of Israel should be doing on its own, by the way.

The Palestinian Brute

IsraPundit Live New Feeds Working

For those of you who want instant access to the latest news from Israel… I’ve fixed the big red-stripe-ticker at the top of IsraPundit pages entitled, “Click here for Live News Feeds.” Up-to-date headlines from the Jerusalem Post and Arutz Sheva and now available on this “Live News Feeds” page. I’m sure more news sources can be added, but that’s up to your editor-in-chief, Ted. Enjoy.


If things are so good in the US why are they so bad.

By Ted Belman

I have been having a discussion with a leftist who is concerned with the poor and disadvanged. I argued that the Left wants to “feed” the poor and that the Right wants them to learn to feed themselves.

She replied,

    As for the US, the right doesn’t focus on how to get the poor on their feet, to the contrary they don’t focus on the poor at all. The poor do much better in Canada with healthcare for all and access to low-cost education than they do in the US where they haven’t a hope in hell of good schooling. According to numerous studies, is far easier for someone to get out of the cycle of poverty and move up the social order in Europe and Canada then in the US. In the US, if you are born poor, you stay poor.

She is blaming the US making no distinction between he Left and Right or the Republicans or the Democrats.

Is she right?

Report Shows Stagnant Upward Mobility in U.S.

    Add it to the other depressing economic news:...

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German groups recognize our legal rights to the land

European Coalition for Israel

Berlin, 9th June, 2011 – Over 16 000 people have already signed a petition in support of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to say no to a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state at the opening week of the UN General Assembly in New York in September. On Wednesday a first meeting was organised with the office of the Chancellor in Berlin, handing over 16,027 handwritten signatures. This marked the official launch of the grassroots campaign which will progress over the summer months and be presented to the Chancellor in September, in time for the opening week of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.

According to Harald Eckert, the initiator of the campaign and chairman of Christen an der seite Israels and European Coalition for Israel, the 16,000 names are just a beginning. The campaign is expected to gain momentum over the summer and spread to other European countries as an expression of support for Israel at the UN in...

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The settlements: dismantlement or deconstruction?

While I have great respect for David Matas, a fellow Canadian, and agree as a matter of law with what he articulates, he allows for a situation where Jews remain in an Arab state in Judea and Samaria to be created. Netanyahu also in his speech to AIPAC said some settlements will remain east of the agreed border. They both know this isn’t workable. Ultimately those settlements will be abandoned by the Jews.

I don’t understand what’s to be gained by his suggestions. Whatever we call them the Arabs will still want 100% of the land.

The gap that divides us cannot be bridged with semantics.

For me, the Jews have a better claim to these lands than do the Arabs. Area C has 300,000 Jews and only 10,000 Arabs. Why should we give this land away? Obama wants us to negotiate based on the ’67 lines rather than the Jordan River. Why? The ’67 lines lead to the Arabs attacking Israel both in ’67 and in 73. It is insane to expect us to go back to these...

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The Musloid (formerly Spanish) Brute

by Bill Levinson

We have often discussed the need to use effective propaganda and psychological warfare to defeat the enemies of Civilization. Israel’s biggest problem is that it stands with its hands down at its side while Musloids (we introduce this term for all jihadists and Muslims who are unwilling to assimilate with Euro-American societies) demonize Zionists and Jews as blood drinking monsters and so on. The IDF’s soldiers may be comparable to those of the United States but Israel has the world’s worst psychological warfare practitioners, and that is why the IDF soldiers (and Israeli civilians) die a lot more frequently than they ought to.

Images like the following, and please feel free to circulate it–the original is from 1898 and is therefore in the public domain–are in fact capable of whipping up enough hatred to start a war. Grant Hamilton’s “The Spanish Brute” DID play a major role in starting the Spanish-American War, and the...

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Yale, Jews, and Double Standards

By Caroline B. Glick, JPOST

Last week Yale University announced its decision to close down its institute for the study of anti-Semitism. The move has been widely criticized as politically motivated. For its part, the university claims that the move was the result of purely academic considerations.

While not clear-cut, an analysis of the story lends to the conclusion that politics were in all likelihood the decisive factor in the decision. And the implications of Yale’s move for the scholarly inquiry into anti-Semitism are deeply troubling.

The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) was founded in 2006. Its purpose was to provide a scholarly approach to the study of contemporary and historical anti- Semitism. It was attached to Yale’s Institution of Social and Policy Studies. It was fully funded from private contributions. Yale did not in any way subsidize its activities from the university’s budget.

Since its inception, under...

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Michele Bachmann is coming on strong

This article presents Bachmann’s potential run in a very favourable light. And so it should Bachmann was the strongest voice against the stimulus and bailouts during the crises. Recently she started a campaign to challange Obama for betraying Israel. Be sure to go to this link. It is short but important. She is a very strong friend of Israel. Ted Belman

‘On the Beach, I Bring von Mises’
By STEPHEN MOORE, WSJ ONLINE

“If I’m in, I’ll be all in,” says Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, artfully dodging my question of whether she’s running for president. Given that she just hired campaign strategist Ed Rollins, whose past clients include Ross Perot and Mike Huckabee, rumors abound. “We’re getting close,” she says, “and if I do run, like all my races, I will work like a maniac.”

That’s pretty much how she does everything, and it helps explain how the relatively junior congresswoman has become a tea party...

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Israel seeks Kosovo-type EU split on Palestine

BY ANDREW RETTMAN, EUOBSERVER

The Israeli foreign ministry is targeting Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia in an attempt to split the EU on giving full UN recognition to Palestine in September.

The diplomatic game plan was put forward in a set of internal cables from senior foreign ministry officials, including director general Rafael Barak, the head of the Western Europe department, Naor Gilon, and the head of the Eurasia section, Pinhas Avivi, to embassies across the EU. The dispatches were sent out last week and seen by Israeli daily Haaretz.

The cables divide EU countries into three groups: countries already opposed to the UN step, undecided countries and resolutely pro-Palestinian countries.

The second group – containing the six former Communist EU countries – is to be the top priority, with the Israeli PM and FM to make visits to their capitals in June.

The anti-UN-move countries are listed as Germany and Italy. The pro-...

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What to do about Islam

Bt Ted Belman

Four years ago I wrote America’s Limited Options. In it, I duscussed what I thought the US should do regarding moderate Muslims.

US Options

Bush has taken the first step by dropping the use of the phrase “war on terror” and now refers to the battle “as a global war of ideology against a network of terrorists”. He remains unwilling to finger the Saudi support for the Wahhabist ideology which leads to terrorism. To talk about root causes of terror, that has to rank way up there.

The Rand Corporation issued a major report,
Building Moderate Muslim Networks in which they advocated that

    “the United States must do more to develop and support networks of moderate Muslims who are too often silenced by violent radical Islamists.”“Instead of focusing on the Middle East, where most of the radical Islamic thought originates and is firmly entrenched, the report recommends reaching out to activists, leaders and intellectuals in Turkey, Southeast...

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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel