In his book The New Middle East, Shimon Peres wrote that “In Western Europe, particularist nationalism is fading and the idea of ‘citizen of the world’ is taking hold” (The New Middle East, Henry Holt, 1993, p. 98). It is sadly ironical that Peres wrote those lines at the height of a savage nationalistic war in the former Yugoslavia, and shortly after the replacement of Czechoslovakia by two separate nation-states. Today, ‘Western Europe’ is hardly a continent where people abandon their national identity to become ‘citizens of the world.’ The fact that Cyprus became an EU member in 2004 did not mend fences between Greeks and Turks –if anything it convinced Turkey that it could get away with its occupation of the island. As for Brussels, it might host the European Commission but it also happens to be the capital of a dysfunctional bi-national state that was left without an elected government for nearly two years (between June 2010 and December 2011)... The Associated Press is rigging polls again and is not disclosing the startling fact that its polling firm, GFK, has been granted federal government contracts since Obama has been in office. This is not a major surprise to our readers because we have come to expect very liberal bias from the so-called mainstream media, but this goes beyond business as usual and well into the area of inventing favorable news for Obama to help create the impression that his reelection is inevitable. On the contrary, Bibi should meet with them. We are not disinterested bystanders. Of course we should support the party that best supports us. Ted Belman OU to Netanyahu: Don’t meet GOP hopefuls on DC trip By HERB KEINON, JPOST Nathan Diament replies ‘yes and no’ when asked if he is concerned for Israel regarding second Obama term. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should not meet with Republican presidential candidates during his upcoming trip to Washington so as not to be perceived as taking sides in the campaign, Nathan Diament, director of public policy for the Orthodox Union (OU), said this week. Netanyahu will be addressing the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington a week from Monday, the same day Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich is scheduled to address the gathering. by Alan M. Dershowitz, STONEGATE INSTITUTE The Friends Seminary of New York, which invited the notorious anti-Semite, Gilad Atzmon, to one of its classes, and assigned its students to read his hate-filled writings, has now backed out of an agreement to invite me to the school to talk to the students about the evils of anti-Semitism. The Headmaster of the Friends Seminary, a school which is supposed to be committed to honesty and integrity, has broken his solemn promise to me, and to members of its own community, to allow its students to hear both sides of an issue which really has only one side: namely, the illegitimacy of bringing hate mongers into high school classrooms. By Ted Belman* But she differed from most such students on western campuses, in that she was fighting for such rights in Jordan, which doesn’t permit the exercise of free speech, if the target of your slings and arrows are aimed at the prevailing regime. Every time she did so she put her life on the line. She is fighting for her own people, the Palestinians living in Jordan. They are denied basic human rights, citizenship, equality, enfranchisement and freedom of speech. They are also discriminated against and harassed by the King Abdullah of Jordan. It takes courage to criticize the King or his regime. I described their... “Obama is anti-Western, anti-Christian and antisemitic” By Ted Belman Dr. Essam Abdallah, an Egyptian liberal intellectual, in an article published last October in the leading liberal pan Arab, Elaph, refers to certain reports coming out of Washington:
Israel’s Valmy Battle
AP Rigs Poll for Obama
This week the AP again reported that their polling firm had determined that Obama would beat any of the Republican candidates but we looked at the raw polling data and once again, the AP and GFK had cooked the numbers by sampling ten percent more Democrat/Democrat leaning than Republicans. Nearly all national polls have determined that there is an even split between Republicans and Democrats, and some pollsters give a slight edge to Republicans. For example, a Gallup poll...OU: “Israeli leaders needed to be careful not to play into partisan politics”
A source in the Prime Minister’s Office said that while no final decision had been made on whether Netanyahu would meet the Republican presidential candidates, it was not likely he would...Friends Seminary Plays Bait and Switch on Anti-Semitism
After I exposed the original invitations to Gilad Atzmon—who justifies the burning down of synagogues as “reasonable” response to Jewish efforts to “control the world”—the Headmaster of the school agreed to several things. First, he would speak at an assembly to the students about...Who is Enass Musallam and why does she matter?
Enass Musallam is or was, a typical college student one might find in any country, on any campus, studying to educate herself so that she could have a better life. But she is more, as many students are. She is idealistic, principled and brave. She fights for the cause of human rights, freedom, equality and human dignity. She also fights for social justice.Why is Obama in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood?
“These reports reveal the depth of the below-the-surface coordination between the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Jordan. This bloc of regimes and organizations is now becoming the greatest Islamist radical lobby ever to penetrate and infiltrate the White House, Congress, the State Department and the main decision making centers of the US government. All of this is happening at a time when the US government is going through its most strategically dangerous period in modern times because of its need to confront the Iranian Mullahs regime, which is expanding in the Middle East, as well as penetrating the...
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
Monday, 27 February 2012
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