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Netanyahu: Gaza equals Iran

PM Netanyahu’s Speech at the Knesset

Mr. Speaker, I have been sitting here for hours, listening and enjoying myself. It is just like the reception at Aipac. MK Wilf was there, as well as MK Dalia Itzik and Minister Yossi Peled. I missed this place, the praise, the compliments, the manners, and above all, Israeli understatement. In short, I missed you.

I am not being sarcastic when I say this. I appreciate the purpose for this meeting, hearing specific problems which allows me, at the very least, to try to address various problems bothering us in a practical manner. However, before I begin, I would like to thank the residents in the South and the heads of local authorities there, the IDF commanders and soldiers and the Israel Security Agency.

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Hizb-ut-Tahrir “Caliphate is the Answer”

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci, STONEGATE INSTITUTE

“What liberties are offered by the western secular system? The liberty of disintegrating the family? The liberty of being homosexual? ‘Oh Caliphate! Help!’”

Even though in Tunisia the Islamist party Hizb-ut-Tahrir — Party of Liberation — is officially banned, it was able to organize a large international conference, entitled “The Caliphate, Bright Example for the Rights and Political Role of Women.”

During the women-only conference — men apparently did not have the right to participate in this symposium — members of HuT stated that Democracy has failed and that it is now time to build an Islamic Caliphate. “We want the Caliphate system, which has been historically tested and which is the system that can give a better future to Muslim women,” said Nasrin Nawaaz, the British spokeswoman of the Islamist party, during the event.

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A strike on Iran is difficult, daring and doable

By the Editor of Israel Hayom

Tough decisions under uncertain conditions

Leadership is manifested in one’s ability to make difficult decisions in the midst of uncertain circumstances and ambiguity. Such decisions have been made in Israel in the past. In 1948, then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion decided to declare the establishment of the state despite many warnings of imminent Arab military invasions. In 1967, Israel’s leadership decided to go to war – which later became known as the Six-Day War – despite the stranglehold placed on the country courtesy of the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies. In 1981, then Prime Minister Menachem Begin decided to strike Iraq’s nuclear plant in Osirak, despite the fact that almost every expert and military commander advised him against doing so. Gambles? “Leadership is sometimes left with no choice but to take critical decisions which are essentially ‘fuzzy gambles’ for the whole pot, in that there may be no way of calculating the likelihood of success,” Professor Yehezkel Dror wrote this week. “If the number of those killed in a future war will be far greater than the number of those killed in a war today, it is imperative to act today.”

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Zev Jabotinsky and Sarah Palin

By Ted Belman

You are probably laughing out loud. Stop it and bear with me.

I am not for a moment suggesting they are equals. They are not but there are some similarities.

For those not familiar, Jabotinsky (1880 to 1940) was recognized as the greatest orator of his era who lead the fight for Jewish national liberation.

We often read that people either love Palin or hate her. Similarly, Shmuel Katz, in The Lone Wolf, his biography of Jabotinsky, said of him “he was both, the best beloved and the most maligned, Jewish leader of his time”. Palin who is constantly being maligned, can relate.

The common denominator for both of them is that they both took on the permanent political class, the establishment or the intellectual elite, however you refer to them. They took the battle of ideas to them in defiance of conventional wisdom or political correctness. In many ways, they were both “lone wolves”. In Palin’s case, perhaps a momma grizzly.

In both cases, this class stood for progressivism, universalism and collectivism. In opposition, they both stood for individualism, exceptionalism and nationalism.

Palin is a fierce defender of individual ingenuity and free market capitalism. Jabotinsky once gave a speech called “Individualism and Collectivism”. The similarities in their positions are striking.

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SNC in decline and SDC in ascendency in Syria

I have wrtten and posted articles to the effect that the SNC, the heir apparant designated by Obama and in league with Turkey, was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and shouldn’t be supported. This break up is good news.

Just yesterday the group I am supporting, the Syrian Democracy Coalition (SDC) headed by Sherkoh Abbas, advised that the Syrian Christians for Democracy are joing their coalition because Assad is killing Christians and the Catholic News Service covers up for him

Syria Opposition Group Is Routed and Divided

By ANNE BARNARD, NYT

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The main Syrian exile opposition group suffered a serious fracture on Wednesday as several prominent members resigned, calling the group autocratic, dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and powerless to help Syrian rebels as government forces, having flushed insurgent strongholds in the north, swept into the rebellious southern city of Dara’a.

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The 1903 Kishnev Pogrom Changed Jewish History

This post contains the English translation of the Hebrew poem “The City of Slaughter” by Nahman Bialik. Bialik was a national hero for his poetry writing. This poem is one of his most famous and moving poems. Ted Belman

Kishinev 1903: The Birth of a Century.

Reconsidering the 49 Deaths That Galvanized a Generation and Changed Jewish History.

by: J.J. Goldberg

The Forward, April 4, 2003

One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1903, the Jewish community of Kishinev in what was then czarist Russia suffered two days of mob violence that shocked the world and changed the course of Jewish history.

Provoked by a medieval blood libel, flashed around the globe by modern communications, Kishinev was the last pogrom of the Middle Ages and the first atrocity of the 20th century. The event, and the worldwide wave of Jewish outrage that it evoked, laid the foundations of modern Israel, gave birth to contemporary American-Jewish activism and helped bring about the downfall of the czarist regime.

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Ted Belman

Jerusalem, Israel