Thursday, December 22, 2011
Syrian Rebels Seek Foreign Intervention
Sinai Jihadist Group Announces Formation
N. Korean 'Stability' Endangers World Peace
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Power Elite Propagandists Pounce on Israel
Pyongyang's Unparalleled Propaganda
Sheer lunacy doesn't begin to describe North Korean state media coverage of the elder Kim's death. Click here for the story.Totalitarian Tradition: Tears for Mass Murderers
The Persian Roots of Christian Traditions
N. Korean Military Sharing Power With Kim Heir
REPORT SUPPORTS FOREIGN CONFIDENTIAL™Palestinian Mufti Predicts Caliphate Comeback
Bibi Adviser to NY Times: No Op-Ed for You
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Mad Scientists Created Killer Flu Virus
Iran 'Saddened' by Dear Leader's Death
Video: the Most Anti-Israel President
Mayan Region Counting Down to Doomsday
Hoekstra Agrees: N. Korea Implacable Foe
Egyptian Women Protest Army Brutality
FIERCE FIGHTING IN SYRIA
Palestinian Publication Praises Hitler
Will the Great Successor be a Puppet?
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Benny Avni's analysis is brilliant. Click here to read it. President Obama, Avni argues, should "go to the 38th parallel, pick up a megaphone and proclaim, 'Mr. Kim, tear down this Demilitarized Zone.'" LOL.
You Can Bet Obama (of 'the Muslim World') Will Never, Ever
Speechify About this Pre-Islamic Persian Celebration of Light
INSTANT ANALYSIS: 'THE MILITARY IS KEY'
Read the Reuters report here. Scroll down for Foreign Confidential analysis and forecasts of the rapidly changing--and extremely dangerous--North Korean situation.
The source for the Reuters piece reportedly predicted the first North Korean nuclear test.
Foreign Confidential™ is the only media outlet that predicted both North Korean nuclear tests--down to the actual days of the detonations.
But North Korea is an utter mystery. The role of the military is crucial and could play out in different ways. On the one hand, the military, which is closely tied to China (like lips and teeth) could exercise a moderating influence. On the other hand, the opposite could be true, given the military and intelligence links between North Korea and its partner in nuclear and missile crimes, Islamist Iran, which is willing, ready and able to pay for nuclear and missile tests (and other provocations) in order to both advance and divert attention from its nuclear program.
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By Uriel Heilman
Why did Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister, decline a chance to have an Op-Ed by Benjamin Netanyahu appear in The New York Times? Because he feels the paper isn't giving Israel a fair shake, with 19 of the last 20 Israel-related Op-Eds taking a negative view of Israel. Dermer explains in his letter to the Times declining the Op-Ed offer:
Dear Sasha:
I received your email requesting that Prime Minister Netanyahu submit an op-ed to the New York Times. Unfortunately, we must respectfully decline.
On matters relating to Israel, the op-ed page of the "paper of record" has failed to heed the late Senator Moynihan's admonition that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but that no one is entitled to their own facts.
A case in point was your decision last May to publish the following bit of historical revision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas:
"It is important to note that the last time the question of Palestinian statehood took center stage at the General Assembly, the question posed to the international community was whether our homeland should be partitioned into two states. In November 1947, the General Assembly made its recommendation and answered in the affirmative. Shortly thereafter, Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened. War and further expulsions ensued."
This paragraph effectively turns on its head an event within living memory in which the Palestinians rejected the UN partition plan accepted by the Jews and then joined five Arab states in launching a war to annihilate the embryonic Jewish state. It should not have made it past the most rudimentary fact-checking.
The opinions of some of your regular columnists regarding Israel are well known. They consistently distort the positions of our government and ignore the steps it has taken to advance peace. They cavalierly defame our country by suggesting that marginal phenomena condemned by Prime Minister Netanyahu and virtually every Israeli official somehow reflects government policy or Israeli society as a whole. Worse, one columnist even stooped to suggesting that the strong expressions of support for Prime Minister Netanyahu during his speech this year to Congress was "bought and paid for by the Israel lobby" rather than a reflection of the broad support for Israel among the American people.
Yet instead of trying to balance these views with a different opinion, it would seem as if the surest way to get an op-ed published in the New York Times these days, no matter how obscure the writer or the viewpoint, is to attack Israel. Even so, the recent piece on "Pinkwashing," in which Israel is vilified for having the temerity to champion its record on gay-rights, set a new bar that will be hard for you to lower in the future.
Not to be accused of cherry-picking to prove a point, I discovered that during the last three months (September through November) you published 20 op-eds about Israel in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune. After dividing the op-eds into two categories, "positive" and "negative," with "negative" meaning an attack against the State of Israel or the policies of its democratically elected government, I found that 19 out of 20 columns were "negative."
The only "positive" piece was penned by Richard Goldstone (of the infamous Goldstone Report), in which he defended Israel against the slanderous charge of Apartheid.
Yet your decision to publish that op-ed came a few months after your paper reportedly rejected Goldstone's previous submission. In that earlier piece, which was ultimately published in the Washington Post, the man who was quoted the world over for alleging that Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza, fundamentally changed his position. According to the New York Times op-ed page, that was apparently news unfit to print.
Your refusal to publish "positive" pieces about Israel apparently does not stem from a shortage of supply. It was brought to my attention that the Majority Leader and Minority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives jointly submitted an op-ed to your paper in September opposing the Palestinian action at the United Nations and supporting the call of both Israel and the Obama administration for direct negotiations without preconditions. In an age of intense partisanship, one would have thought that strong bipartisan support for Israel on such a timely issue would have made your cut.
So with all due respect to your prestigious paper, you will forgive us for declining your offer. We wouldn't want to be seen as "Bibiwashing" the op-ed page of the New York Times.
Sincerely,
Ron Dermer
Senior advisor to Prime Minister Netanyahu
This is way beyond disgusting: an article in a Palestinian youth magazine admires Hitler because he murdered Jews. Click here for the report.
Like Sopranos Meets Stalin
Will the younger Kim's uncle and aunt pull the Great Successor's strings? Will Dear Leader's secretary and live-in girlfriend seize power? Will the military kill them all?
Click here for the answers to these and other questions. A fascinating article that reads like a proposal for a dramatic TV series about an organized crime family.
Hello, HBO! Are you listening? We're pitching Born of Heaven … The Sopranos set in a fictional hell on earth modeled after nuclear-armed North Korea. Seriously. Sex, violence and … Stalin! And everyone is Asian! The uniforms, the music…. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Richard III--the movie. Not the 1955 version with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 version set in an alternative fascist England. Foreign Confidential™ is ready to consult! Let's see…. Do we open with the crazy, old dictator dying on a train, or kill him off after the first season? That's the key question. Hmmm…. Born of Heaven … chosen to rule hell on earth.
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