Will Islamist governments kill democracy or moderate in power?
McManus: Mosque and state
And that, in a nutshell, is the dilemma facing the U.S. and anyone else who worries that the Arab world’s Islamists could turn out to be like the Muslim revolutionaries who seized control in Iran 32 years ago — authoritarian, hostile and democratic only in name.
Does Obama prefer Stealth Jihad to violent Jihad
Atlas Shrugs
“The Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups have claimed are offensive.”
Banning religious motivation, Islam and jihad has been a cornerstone of this national security policy (i.e. Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document, April 2010) ?but Obama orders the executions of those proselytizing and advancing pure Islam, authentic Islam.
What is this policy? Perhaps he prefers...
Judge who Sentenced Tatiana Soskin Involved in Other Controversies
by Bill Levinson
We did a Google search on Zvi Segal, the judge who sentenced Tatiana Soskin to two years in prison for drawing an offensive caricature of Mohammad. Inquiry: Who Are You‚ Justice Zvi Segal? reports,
Eretz Yisroel Shelanu did some investigative work, and discovered that in the past Segal worked at the nuclear plant in Dimona,and was a teacher who is remembered by his students for expressing his personal political opinions in his lessons, and taught the ins and outs of the Israeli-Arab conflict at the Arad High School. Segal made a career switch to law, and got ahead by using aggression towards his buddies. Segal presided as judge in the Beer Sheva Regional Court, but was transferred to Yerushalayim after many confrontations with his colleagues.
Courtroom vitriol spurs inquiry of J’lem judge adds,
The 8,000 pages of court transcripts are replete with extraordinary exchanges between Segal and Kamar. On example is the following exchange, in November...
The “international community” is antisemetic
Beware the West
By Ted Belman
As readers of Israpundit know full well, I have been very critical of the West for its attack on Libya. I went so far as to suggest all the people and groups who are incessant in their attacks on Israel, are complicit or asleep when it comes to the war on Libya.
Today Robert E Kaplan called me to discuss certain happenings and he pointed out to me the writings of John Rosenthal who had written that
Actually, there are reasons to doubt Libyan responsibility for both the Berlin disco bombing and the Lockerbie bombing.
Canada stands, Israel folds
Today, Canada did something that Israeli media reported as follows: “It is quite doubtful if something like that would have happened in Israel.” Imagine the beginning of an article ascribing such little faith to Israel and attributing so much to CANADA.
The report continues: “Canada is expelling from its territory the Palestinian representative after she added to her Twitter account a link to a video in which a Palestinian girl is seen calling to a war in which the Jews be exterminated.
“According to the report, the Palestinian Representative Subach Ali was declared persona non-grata, was asked to leave the country and official elements were told to minimize any contact with her.
“In addition, Ali was called to be reprimanded, in addition to an official protest which was presented to the Palestinian Authority.
“In the referenced video linked from the Twitter account of the representative, a link that won the approval...
Key general calls Iraq pullout plan a ‘disaster’
President Obama’s decision to pull all U.S. forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31 is an “absolute disaster” that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian “strangling,” said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war.
Retired Army Gen. John M. Keane was at the forefront of persuading President George W. Bush to scuttle a static counterinsurgency strategy and replace it with 30,000 reinforcements and a more activist, street-by-street counter-terrorism tactic.
U.S. troops will be vacating Iraq at a time when neither Baghdad’s counter-terrorism skills nor its abilities to protect...
More trouble-making from Haaretz
By Ted Belman
What the hell is going on? IDF recommends freeing Fatah prisoners as gesture to Abbas. Fortunately
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisers vehemently oppose the idea, as do several members of his forum of eight senior ministers.
I saw no mention of this story in YNET, JPOST or INN. I wondered how much substance there was to it. I noticed that there was no reference to a written report authored by the IDF, I am not sure who recommended it. Perhaps it was only a few officers who made the case prior to the IDF making any representation at all.
It seems to me that Haaretz is pushing the...
Moscow’s Muslim Problem
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