Monday, 24 September 2012




Fouad Ajami: Muslim Rage and the Obama Retreat  

Ajami doesn’t bother to mention that Obama practically begged the Arab countries and the PA to make minor good will gestures to Israel when he was asking that Israel advance the peace process and they slammed the door in his face. Ted Belman
We can’t declare a unilateral end to our troubles, or avert our gaze from the disorder that afflicts the societies of the Greater Middle East. “It is always about the man at the helm.”
This is not a Jimmy Carter moment—a U.S. Embassy and its staff seized and held hostage for 444 days, America’s enemies taking stock of its weakness, its allies running for cover. But the anti-American protests that broke upon 20 nations this past week must be reckoned a grand personal failure for Barack Obama, and a case of hubris undone. No American president before this one had proclaimed such intimacy with a world that stretches from Morocco to Indonesia.
From the start of his administration, Mr. Obama put forth his own biography as a bridge to those aggrieved nations. He would be a “different president,” he promised, and the years he lived among Muslims would acquit him—and thus America itself. He was the un-Bush.
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Geller stands her ground  

This interview is torrid.
Pamela Geller knows her stuff and expresses herself well.  The interviewer was bent on smearing her, and defending Muslims. Jihad and CAIR.  CNN cut out half the interview starting with Geller’s attack on CAIR.

 
 

Very Good News Israel  

In the 23rd Sept edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
 
·        Four brain-related stories, including new treatments for ADD/ADHT and Alzheimer’s disease.
·        Haifa surgeons cure a Palestinian-Arab suffering from severe Alzheimer’s symptoms.
·        Israeli miniature cameras will help refuel the International Space Station.
·        Israel’s economy is growing more than expected and Internet start-ups have doubled.
·        Israel has won through to the World Group of the Davis (tennis) Cup.
 
·        Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary
Click here for “A New Year of Creation”
 
Page Down for more details on these and other good news stories from Israel. (Read more…)
 

Muslim Multiculturalism and Western Post-Nationalism  

Responding to the Sydney Mohammed riots featuring bloodied police officers and Muslim children holding beheading signs, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said, “What we saw in Sydney on the weekend wasn’t multiculturalism but extremism.”
Muslim extremism is multicultural. It is the essence of their approach to multiculturalism. Only through, what Gillard calls extremism, do an Egyptian, a Pakistani and a Malay have anything at all in common with one another.
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Newt Gingrich on the Islamist Challenge  

Newt Gingrich has and excellent analysis on what we face from his book Winning the Future published in 2006:
    “We have two immediate opponents, the irreconcilable wing of Islam and the rogue dictatorships that empower the radical Islamists. The irreconcilable wing of Islam considers America the great Satan. The Islamists cannot reconcile with a secular system of laws. They cannot tolerate a West that maintains a presence in the Arabian Gulf or that would defend Israel’s right to survive as a country. They cannot tolerate freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or freedom for women. In short, their demands are irreconcilable with the modern world.
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Iranian, Israeli war preparations  

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis September 22, 2012, 11:01 AM

DEBKAfile’s military sources point out that Syrian President Bashar Assad is using the same strategy as Iran for his chemical and biological arsenal. Half has been distributed and placed in the care of an estimated 20 Syrian army units; the other half reposes at fixed storage sites – a device indicating to Washington and Moscow that he is open to negotiating an end to the war before deciding to loose his weapons of mass destruction against Syrian rebels.
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Morsi does not demand full withdrawal or sovereignty  

NYT reports on Morsi interview:
    But he also argued that Americans “have a special responsibility” for the Palestinians because the United States had signed the 1978 Camp David accord. The agreement called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank and Gaza to make way for full Palestinian self-rule.
The Camp David Accord provided that
    “In order to provide full autonomy to the inhabitants, under these arrangements the Israeli military government and its civilian administration will be withdrawn as soon as a self-governing authority has been freely elected by the inhabitants of these areas to replace the existing military government.”
It also upheld Res 242 which did not require full withdrawal.
Israel decided to replace these Accords with the Oslo Accords which followed the same principles. Nowhere in either accord was that a demand for full withdrawal or for sovereignty. Israel has withdrawn from Area A pursuant to the Oslo Accords.
Morsi did not demand sovereignty. He demanded “full autonomy” which is not the same thing. Nor did he demand full withdrawal.
Neither Accord provided for what would happen if the parties couldn’t agree on boundaries and other final status issues. Israel has no obligation to accept the demands of the PA. Thus it is up to the PA to accept Israel demands if they will to change the status quo. Ted Belman
CAIRO — On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt’s new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi said the United States needed to fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect for its values and helping build a Palestinian state, if it hoped to overcome decades of pent-up anger.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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