Thursday, 4 October 2012



Students and Professors Dine With ahmadinejad  

Laura: This is the morally depraved state of America’s higher education. Students and professors give this would-be hitler a standing ovation and address him as “your excellency”. I could throw up. Instead of this Jew-Hating savage being ostracized and internationally isolated, he is treated as a legitimate head of state. This is the normalizing of genocidal Jew-hatred.
Dinner with Ahmadinejad
By Josh Lipowsky
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the U.N. General Assemblyâ??s high level meeting on the rule of law during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Sept. 24, 2012.  (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)
NEW YORK (JTA) – We could have been in Tehran.
Men in dark suits and earpieces stood outside the doors of the hotel, keeping watch for protesters and anybody else who didn’t belong. Inside, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepared to meet a group of university students.
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Palestinians ditched; Egypt next?  

“No one cares about the Palestinians,” I wrote in this space two years ago [1], and since then the world has stopped funding them. As a result, the Palestine Authority is collapsing, comments Khalid Elgindy, a former PA adviser, on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations, about “the wave of Palestinian protests that swept through the Israeli-occupied West Bank this month … virtually paralyzed life in Palestinian cities, with scenes reminiscent of the first intifada”.
The PA can’t pay salaries because international donors, including the Gulf States, haven’t sent promised aid:
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The Jewish Gene?  

I have long wondered what it is about the Jewish sensibility that is so internally divisive it will often jeopardize the very survival of the Jewish people in a perennially hostile world. What is the psychological factor that generates what often looks like a deeply harbored suicidal impulse, an irremediable tendency to set itself against itself, to consort with anti-Semites and even to collaborate with feral enemies who wish for nothing more than the suppression, ostracism or annihilation of every trace of Judaism in the world?
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel