Monday, 8 October 2012



Obama’s Weakness, Sudan’s Tragedy  

By Daniel Van Oudenaren, PJ MEDIA
When an empire falls, it’s not only Rome that burns: some of the worst shockwaves hit the peripheries, the former client states and once-loyal allies. Note the Yugoslav wars after the collapse of the Soviet Union, or the Indo-Pakistani wars that followed British withdrawal.
The three wars ongoing in Sudan and its borderlands — in Darfur, Blue Nile state, and the Nuba Mountains — are connected to a broad show of U.S. weakness in the Obama years. The evacuation of American embassy workers from Khartoum on September 15 came as a dramatic reminder of the decline of American standing in the country, and was all the more humiliating for the public snub that the Sudanese foreign minister sent Hillary Clinton in rejecting her request to deploy Marines at the embattled embassy.
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Iran’s Czechoslovakia, an opportunity for the West  

Iran is taking Syria and making fools of the US and its allies. Is the US afraid of Iran? The US is acting as though it is. And so is Iran. Iran is no doubt a serious threat to nearly everyone — and in many more alarming ways than with a potential A-bomb — and the US should not bow before it but stand up to it. Why doesn’t the US do so?
Iran is the sworn enemy of the United States and Israel, and a belligerent and aggressively expansionary one that supports terrorism all over the world — in its oft-stated aim to dominate the world with fundamentalist Islamism as well as to destroy Israel.
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Obama is toast  

Wednesday the public got to see the president as I have always seen him — a lazy, superficial thinker who is over his head as Chief Executive.
There were so many witty tweets and columns that our side of the aisle was kept laughing as the night wore on. “Mene mene tekel upharsin”, tweeted the great Iowahawk, reminding readers of the words written by a mysterious hand that to the Biblical Daniel correctly signified the end of a king (Belshazzar) and his reign.
I can’t say the online equivalent of graffiti I’m seeing was written by so mysterious a hand, but the signs are just as clear to me that the media and Democratic dream that in the upcoming debates Obama will do much better than he did in the first debate is going to be dashed. (I’m not even going into the next debate which is between the brilliant Paul Ryan and Joe “Yes, we will raise your taxes by a trillion dollars” Biden.  In my opinion, he was badly beaten in 2008 by Sarah Palin and I can’t imagine Ryan doing less well against him.)
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Very Good News Israel  

 
The Jewish State in its true light.
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In the 7th Oct 2012 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
 
·        Success announced in NaxVax’s trials for Hepatitis C treatment.
·        Gaza baby saved at Israeli hospital after siblings died at Egyptian hospitals.
·        UNICEF has bought Israeli water purification tablets for use in Syria.
·        Israeli schoolchildren won the 2012 junior equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
·        The massive production platform for Israel’s Tamar natural gas field has been launched.
·        A great song by the Ein Prat Fountainheads to celebrate the festival of Sukkot.
·        Thousands of Christian supporters of Israel paraded in Jerusalem.
 
·        Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary
 
 

The Campaign by the Totalitarian Left AGAINST Academic Freedom in Israel  

By Prof Steven Plaut
In recent weeks the very worst assault upon academic freedom in Israeli history has transpired in the form of a growing campaign of “solidarity” with the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University.
This “department” is nothing more than an anti-Israel far-leftist propaganda and indoctrination center, containing pseudo-academics, misrepresented and disguised as a university academic department. It is also a department in which freedom of speech and academic freedom are brutally suppressed.
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The wrong and the right thing to do  

Anti-Semitism without Jews in Malaysia
By Robert Fulford, NATIONAL POST
In Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, politicians and civil servants devote a surprising amount of time to thinking about Israel, 7,612 km away. Sometimes they appear to be obsessed by it. Malaysia has never had a dispute with Israel, but the government encourages the citizens to hate Israel and also to hate Jews whether they are Israelis or not.
Few Malaysians have laid eyes on a Jew; the tiny Jewish community emigrated decades ago. Nevertheless, Malaysia has become an example of a phenomenon called “Anti-Semitism without Jews.” Last March, for instance, the Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department sent out an official sermon to be read in all mosques, stating that “Muslims must understand Jews are the main enemy to Muslims as proven by their egotistical behaviour and murders performed by them.” About 60% of Malaysians are Muslim.
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Prof urges Muslims to end sectarian violence  

By Ted Belman
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER issues a A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE MUSLIMS
    It is the most common feeling in the western Christian world that the Muslims are a grave threat to the supremacy and hegemony of the countries like US, Israel and India; so they must be crushed with an iron hand. Ridiculing the Muslims, victimizing the followers of Islam and targeting their holy places; all these actions are a part of an organized anti-Muslim campaign.
He has the problem backwards. For him, its all about the desire of the west to maintain its supremacy and hegemony rather than the dedication of Muslims, pursuant to the Koran, to establish Islam as supreme. The |West is in such disarray that it refrains from “Ridiculing the Muslims, victimizing the followers of Islam and targeting their holy places”. Unfortunately, there is no organized anti-Muslim campaign.
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The rial’s fall  

Iran’s currency is nose-diving. There can be no disputing this fact. On Tuesday, the rial hit a record low of 36,100 for one US dollar (at unofficial street-trading rates). A week earlier a dollar cost 24,000 rials. In 2011, the figure was 10,000.
This has not only imposed extreme hardship on Iran’s already hard-pressed population but has also created opportunities for all players to hype their self-serving spins.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as expected, sought to bolster sagging morale by asserting that his country’s financial woes were all “due to psychological pressures.”
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Leading Anti-Nationalist: Settlements are Irreversible  

By Baruch Gordon, INN
A leading scholar who once was solidly against a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria now says a two-state solution is a falsehood. “Settlements are here to stay.”
For decades, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Meron Benvenisti was a leading scholar in Israel’s pro-Arab camp, working diligently to curtail development of Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.
He founded the West Bank Database Project in 1984 which documented social, economic, and political developments in the region, and reported on growth of the Jewish towns to Western powers which sought to halt the influx of Jews to their ancient towns.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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