Saturday, 24 March 2012

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TAKE ACTION NOW: Urge UN To Dismiss Official Whom Committed Libel Against Israel

A UN “media official,” one Khulood Badawi, paid by U.S. and European taxpayers, blatantly spread lies about Israel.

This “official” (liar and inciter of violence) tried to pawn off a photo on Twitter which showed a poor Palestinian girl allegedly injured in an Israeli airstrike, while in reality, the girl was hurt “by falling off a swing.” This picture, taken in 2006 by Reuters, had already been used to smear Israel, but Reuters retracted and apologized for this misinformation. The facts were uncovered by HonestReporting (here and here).

TAKE ACTION NOW: Write to the UN and urge it to summarily dismiss Badawi. You can use this sample text: “Ms. Khulood Badawi must be immediately dismissed from employment at the UN. She has acted in an unethical manner, possibly inciting violence, and committed libel against the nation of Israel. She falsely tweeted an image of a 2006 Reuters photo of a Palestinian girl who died in a playground or car accident,...

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EU Foreign Policy Chief Ashton: Enabler of Antisemitism and Radical Islam

By Andrew L. Jaffee,

netwmd.com

Question: What enabled the slaughter of Jewish children and soldiers in the French city of Toulouse by a Muslim steeped in radical, victim-centric, warped Islamist ideology? Answer: People like EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, an apologist for terrorist hate. She is the epitome of ignorant, bigoted, cowardly, politically correct, morally relativistic trash allowed by decadent, fearful Westerners to run amok at the top of their societies. This combination of a disconnected public and crazy political elite creates an atmosphere where lying bullies — Islamo-fascist-leftists — trample Western values, commithorrendous acts of ultra-violence, and shut down free speech. Meanwhile, people of conscience have to fight to even be heard, and sometimes fear for and lose their lives. This is the upside-down, Animal Farm-like world to which Westerners are acclimating. How could the depraved Ashton become EU Foreign Policy Chief? Just read about...

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Harvardstan?

By David Meir-Levi , In Daily Mailer,

Harvard has long been perceived as America’s premier university, the gold standard in the quest for truth in the market-place of ideas, where scholars of high academic integrity pursue cutting-edge research and assist eager students to develop the analytical skills and critical acumen needed for future leadership.

But that perception bears closer scrutiny, especially since Harvard graduates become a disproportionate percentage of our country’s leaders. Based on a Slate survey of 1,410 prominent Americans, Harvard grads make up 17% of college and university presidents, 12% of people in the executive branch of our federal government, 11% of our judiciary, 10% of our Senate, and 9% of our business leaders. Harvard grads shape the course of America’s future.

Unfortunately, such scrutiny reveals rather unpleasant realities. The present writer’s three previous analyses[1] of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies,...

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Priceless

History, Demographics, and Law Favor Israel’s Annexation of Judea and Samaria, Not a Two-State Solution

By Matthew M. Hausman (reposted from Aug 2011)

It has become an article of political faith in the West that the creation of an independent Palestinian state will resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. But the two-state paradigm is based on fictional assumptions – that an ancient Palestinian people occupied the land for thousands of years until its displacement by Israel, that the conflict is driven by this displacement, and that Israel usurped ancestral Arab soil. These false premises are used to obscure the true nature of the conflict, which is not really a dispute between Israelis and Palestinians over real estate, but rather is a war of annihilation being waged by the entire Arab-Muslim world. The establishment of an independent Palestine will not facilitate peace because the goal of this war is Israel’s demise. A more rational resolution, and one that makes historical,...

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Israel won’t cooperate with UN ‘fact-finding mission’ on settlements

Following U.N. Human Rights Council decision to investigate Israeli settlements in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem, Netanyahu says: “This is a hypocritical council with an automatic majority against Israel … it ought to be ashamed of itself.”

Eli Leon, Mati Tuchfeld, Yori Yalon, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

The United Nations Human Rights Council is disconnected from reality and has an “automatic” bias against Israel, Prime Minister Benjanmin Netanyahu said in a statement on Thursday in response to a resolution adopted by the 47-member council to launch a probe into Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem.

In a meeting earlier Thursday, the council condemned Israel’s planned construction of new housing units for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem neighborhoods, saying they undermined the peace process and posed a threat to the two-state solution and the creation of a contiguous and independent Palestinian...

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(Merah) Rinse, lather, repeat

By Mark Steyn

March 21, 2012 9:47 P.M.


The killer of French schoolchildren and soldiers turns out to be a man called
Mohammed Merah. The story can now proceed according to time-honored tradition:Stage One: The strange compulsion to assure us that the killer is a “right wing conservative extremist,” in the words of NRO commenter ExpatAsia, echoed by Chrisman and Galt’s Bain. Up north, this view was shared byCanada’s most prominent establishment Jew and the Liberal Party attack poodle Warren Kinsella (whom NR readers may recall from my free-speech cover story, which mentioned the groveling apology he was forced to make to “the Chinese community” after an unfortunately sinophobic cat joke). The insistence that the killer was emblematic of an epidemic of right-wing hate sweeping the planet is, regrettably, no longer operative. Instead, the killer isn’t representative of anything at all.

So on to Stage Two: Okay, he may be called Mohammed but he’s a...

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Long-Term Confidence in Israel’s Economy


Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #159, March 23, 2012

1. Israel’s economic growth during the last five years (21%) is higher than all OECD countries, other than Turkey. Israel’s economy grew 270% during the last 20 years, while Israel’s population grew 145%. Israel’s unemployment is the lowest ever – 5.4%. The strength of Israel’s exports is derived from its multitude of companies, diversified technologies and products, reaching diversified markets, cutting edge technologies, focusing on essential products (medical, telecommunications, Internet, water technologies, energy alternatives, homeland security, defense), preferring high tech over raw material, expanding joint ventures with global giants, bolstering research & development (world leader in percentage of GDP). Israel is expected to become a net-exporter of natural gas by2018. Israel’s economy receives...

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When Torah meets science

Whoever said that women are not leaders in the Charedi world has never heard about the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT). The college, founded in 1969 as a scientific institution for Torah-observant Jews, has 3,800 students, about a third of whom are Charedim.

“It was very important to us that we open our doors to that world,” professor Noah Dana-Picard, who is president of the college, said to me earlier this week on one of his periodic visits to Los Angeles to help raise JCT’s profile. “They have unique talents because of their talmudic background, and we believe they can make major contributions to Israel in the scientific area.”

But guess which Charedim were first to start enrolling at JCT about 10 years ago to study subjects like engineering and computer science? That’s right — the women.

There’s a good reason for that. In the Charedi world, most women are already working, usually as teachers and assistants in nursery and...

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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel