Compliments of Anglo Saxon Ra’anana Quote for the Week “If an expert says it can´t be done, get another expert” David Ben Gurion, Israel´s first Prime Minister. Sound advice we would say. According to a report measuring competitiveness just issued, Israel’s main strengths remain its world-class capacity for innovation (6th in the world ), which rests on businesses that are continually inventing new ways and means of doing things by employing research institutions that are the best in the world and that are geared toward the needs of the business sector. This outstanding capacity is reflected in the country’s high number of patents (#4 worldwide). Its favorable financial environment (coming in at no10), particularly the solid availability of venture capital (2nd), has further contributed to making Israel an innovation powerhouse; these elements have all improved in the course of the past year. Is there no end to the GN about our energy... by Bill Levinson James P. Hoffa’s résumé suggests that he knows little or nothing about genuine blue-collar labor, either as a practitioner or a facilitator such as an engineer or technician. Hisdepiction of Tea Party members as “son of a bitches ” shows that he knows nothing about public relations either. As stated in Paul Linebarger’s Psychological Warfare (1954, emphasis added): Sending the Japanese cartoons of themselves, mocking the German language, calling Italians by familiar but inelegant names — such communications cropped up during the war. The senders got a lot of fun out of the message but the purpose was unintelligently considered. The actual effect was to annoy the enemy, stiffening his will to resist. (Continued at American Thinker) This is what I have been saying. Sarah Palin is not polarizing. She appeals to Reps and Dems alike and to Union and non-Union workers alike.. Ted Belman Some of Sarah Palin’s Ideas Cross the Political Divide By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, NYT That is not how we’re primed to see Ms. Palin. A pugnacious Tea Partyer? Sure. A woman of the people? Yup. A Mama Grizzly? You betcha. But something curious happened when Ms. Palin strode onto the stage last weekend at a Tea Party event in Indianola, Iowa. Along with her familiar and predictable swipes at President Barack Obama and the “far left,” she delivered a devastating indictment of the entire U.S. political establishment — left, right and center — and pointed toward a way of transcending the presently unbridgeable political... Time isn’t right for statehood bid MONTREAL – Any negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – as part of wider Arab-Israeli peace and reconciliation – should be based on the principle of two states for two peoples living side by side in peace and security. Accordingly, a premature, unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood would undermine rather than resolve the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and would constitute a standing affront to the integrity of the United Nations, international agreements and international law. It is not surprising, therefore, that U.S. President Barack Obama, in a speech May 19, warned that a just and lasting peace is possible only through a negotiated approach that involves mutual concessions. “Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won’t create an independent state,” stated the president, a position reaffirmed in a communiqué by the G8 on... Sordid ties of architect who specializes in crisis TEL AVIV – The Democrat strategist identified as an architect of the social protests currently rocking Israel previously ran the campaign of Bolivia’s former president, who was ushered into office amid escalating social protests in that country. After Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada took power in Bolivia in 1985, he quickly implemented an economic “shock therapy” crafted by Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who sits on the board of an organization literally seeking to reorganize the entire global economic system. That group is the Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET. Find out here what Americans need to accomplish to restore their nation to greatness. Last weekend saw the largest protests in... Jonathan Tobin writes in Contentions, Turks Turned Their Backs on America Before Dumping Israel By Ted Belman Prior to the Islamic takeover of Iran in 1979, Iran was a great friend of Israel and nobody much mentioned Turkey which was quite secular at the time. Now it appears that Iran is our worst enemy and Turkey is competing with them for that honour. Turkey is no longer secular. It has witnessed an Islamic evolution and is now challenging and threatening Israel. It seems that in the Arab/Islamic world whoever challenges IsraeL the most, is viewed most favourably. Israel Hayom has an article, A Different World by Dror Eydar in which he writes Bernard Lewis, [arguable the world's foremost expert on Islam] “posed a possible future scenario in which both Iran and Turkey replace each other. Iran would change, with its opposition taking over, and would once again be a modern secular republic friendly to Israel. And Turkey would take Iran’s current place.” ... Barack Obama has his own stable of Enrons, companies benefiting from close ties to the president, seemingly able to leverage campaign donations, receiving taxpayer dollars to boost their prospects. They may be unviable on their own (as Solyndra was) or just get an added boost from us to help them against competitors whose investors and executives do not play the game. The Washington Post have been superb in their coverage of Solyndra; a few months ago they tipped readers to yet another company apparently benefiting from donations to Obama’s campaign. The company is publicly-held Polypore. They own another company called Celgrad that makes a key component of batteries used in the electric cars that Obama touts and spends our taxpayer dollars on developing and producing (for example, grants made to Fisker Automotive, a company that has Al Gore as a major investor). John C. Wohlstetter, AmericanSpectator Much was made of President Obama’s dismissal of the idea of American exceptionalism, when he noted that the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism, etc. No doubt Achilles believed in the latter, as Hector believed in Trojan exceptionalism. But in many ways there truly is no more exceptional a nation than modern Israel. Exiled for nearly two thousand years by Roman imperialism, survivors of countless persecutions over the centuries — including those of an Islam far less tolerant that “Religion of Peace” partisans would have us believe — the Jews were awakened to the promise of return to the Holy Land by Napoleon. The man Winston Churchill called “the greatest man of action to take the world stage since Julius Caesar” invaded Egypt in 1798 and, more even than the atrocities of September 11, 2001, that invasion “changed everything.” Bonaparte promised the Jews that they could return to the Holy... Does anyone think an apology would have forestalled this? Clearly Erdogan has been trying to bully and intimidate Israel prior to this gambit which is more of the same. Israel has no choice but to maintain the boycott which has now been declared legal. And the US is permitting this? The Law Forum (Nitsana Dershan-Leitner) wrote to the Israeli government advising that the consent of Knesset is needed to amend the Treaty with Egypt. This prevented them from consenting to more Egyptian troops in the Sinai. Now Egypt is joining Turkey in the challenge to Israel in her territorial waters. Ted Belman Erdogan drives toward armed clash with Israel. Oil and gas at stake Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel – not just over the Palestinian issue, but because he covets the gas and oil resources of the eastern Mediterranean opposite Israel’s...Good News Israel
Hoffa Does Not Speak for Working Americans
(originally posted in The American Thinker)NYT praises Sarah Palin. What!!??
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Let us begin by confessing that, if Sarah Palin surfaced to say something intelligent and wise and fresh about the present American condition, many of us would fail to hear it.Cotler: UDI “would undermine all accepted international frameworks for peace”
By Irwin Cotler, Montreal GazetteSyria on the boil
Syrian forces backed by tanks killed at least 20 civilians in the city of Homs on Wednesday in one of the fiercest military assaults on urban centers to crush six months of pro-democracy protests, activists and residents said. “Military helicopters are flying overhead and snipers are shooting from rooftops at anything. Tank machinegun fire is coming at us like rain,” a resident of the Bab Sbaaa district said. (Reuters-Los Angeles Times)
Syrian President Bashar Assad declared a state of war on Wednesday and issued a general mobilization of troops, Al-Quds newspaper reported Thursday. A “major military operation” required full mobilization of military forces in Syria for concentrated offensives on cities...Soros fingerprints all over protests here, too
By Aaron Klein, © 2011 WND
Philanthropist George Soros is INET’s founding sponsor, with the billionaire having provided a reported $25 million over five years to support INET activities.Could Turkey and Iran be trading places
Obama’s Crony Capitalism
The Washington Post’s reporters...Israeli Exceptionalism
Turkey is testing Israel with threats of force
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 9, 2011,
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
Saturday, 10 September 2011
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