Phobias are IRRATIONAL fears. Islamophobia? Phobias are IRRATIONAL fears. Click for full size image. Palin is not running as a Republican per se. She is positioning herself behind certain policies that anyone, Republican or Democrat, union member or non-union member, can support. First she knows that Congress has only a 20% approval rating. So she is campaigning to get the vote of the 80% by laying the problems on Corporate Crony Capitalism. Read her speech to learn how she defines it. Secondly she knows how high the unemployment numbers are, so she is out to increase jobs. How? She wants zero corporate income tax.Once again, read her speech. Gov Sarah Palin lays out her platform and her presidency. Thank you, Iowa. Thank you so much. The sign that says, “Thank you, Sarah,” no, I thank you. You are what keeps me going, keeps so many of us going. Your love of country keeps us going. Thank you so much. Iowa, you are good people. You are all good people who are here. Thank you. It is an honor to be in the Heartland sharing this Labor Day weekend with you. And I thank you so much... By Ted Belman Last night I attended a panel discussion dealing with current issues in the conflict sponsored by AACI and HADAR. Avishay Braverman was one of the panelists. A former president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, he is currently a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. Between 2009 and 2011 he served as Minister of Minorities. I had never heard him speak before but knew he had challenged Barak for the leadership of the Labor Party last time around. I had never heard him speak before. He has a big booming voice and harangues the audience, at least this one. Very bombastic and condescending. He made a strong case for peace now but it was based on the assumption that all we have to do is give them what they want including a small family reunification (but no right of return he insisted). He wasn’t interested in demanding that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state. “I don’t need their recognition” he said as though it was all about... By Barry Rubin, PAJAMAS MEDIA Time is not against Israel, but against the Arabs. Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic, I periodically remind people why I’m an optimist, at least when it comes to Israel. Even today, Israel’s security situation is as good as or better than it has been since any time since the establishment of the state. The two main threats have always been either a potential attack by most or all Arab armies or a high level of successful cross-border terrorism. At present, though, by Israeli standards, these two threats are relatively low. The immediate problem is rocket, missile and mortar attacks from the Gaza Strip. The longer-term threat – that seems to be continually postponed – is an Iranian nuclear capability. On the level of threats from states, the problem is relatively minimal. The Saudis and Gulf Arabs, whose economic support would be vital in any confrontation, don’t want war with Israel. The same applies to... The Arab uprisings completely shuffled Turkey’s cards and showed the limitations of its neo-Ottoman ambitions. Israel’s decision not to abide by the Turkish ultimatum about the need to apologize for the May 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla incident brought the promised “Plan B” punishment: Turkey has decided to expel Israel’s ambassador to Ankara, downgrade its diplomatic ties to the lowest possible level, to hold on all military agreements and to halt trade between Turkey and Israel. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said his government would now provide full support to the families of those killed to pursue prosecution of any Israeli military or government members responsible for the deaths. Actually, it’s completely expected, not surprising at all. It’s like your spouse admitting to having an affair. You knew it all along but hearing from her own lips is … stunning. Last year, the US Embassy in Tel Aviv interviewed a number of people in connection with a law being considered by the Knesset to require transparency in non-governmental organization (NGO) funding. It had become common knowledge that huge amounts of money from such sources as European governments and the New Israel Fund (NIF) in the US were flowing to ‘Israeli’ NGOs — primarily left-wing organizations — which were acting against the interests of the State of Israel. A particularly egregious example was the way a group of these NGOs provided almost all of the anti-IDF material in the UN’s vicious blood libel, the Goldstone Report.Islamophobia?
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
Tuesday 6 September 2011
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