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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Calls for Calm as Sierra Leone Braces for Poll Results
Hamas Aiming High in Aerial War
Iran and its secular ally, Syria, could not be happier with the conflict, as it diverts international attention away from Iran's atomic advance and Syria's massacre of civilians.
It would be a gross understatement to say that Israel is in a difficult position. Borderline impossible is more like it. But Israel and the Zionist movement that founded and built the State have historically specialized in the impossible. No Harvard MBA, no private equity emperor or Wall Street investment banker of the sort that nowadays dominates the financial sphere, could have ever predicted, would have ever financed or invested in, the Jewish State.
It will not fall. It will not fail. It will prevail--and thrive. For the people of Israel … and the Jewish people the world over … there is no alternative. Ein breira!
Related Report: Obama Supporting Israel's Right to Defend Itself While Pressing Bibi and Barak to Delay Gaza Ground Operation
Benghazi in a Nutshell
The United States, having learned nothing from decades of disastrous, covert assistance to rightwing political Islam--a policy that blew back most horrifically on 9/11--was clearly collaborating with Al Qaeda sympathizers in Libya and Syria, sending arms from the former country to the latter, among other actions.
Something went wrong--and four American citizens, including an American ambassador, were killed by the devil with which their government had been dancing.
The Obama administration, fearful that its Al Qaeda-has-been-decimated story was on the verge of being exposed as an obvious lie, deliberately misled the American people.
And, to be fair, the Republican establishment, having been complicit in the unnecessary intervention in Libya in the first place--the increasingly irrelevant John McCain continues to insist that the U.S. and its NATO allies intervened on the side of "freedom fighters"--was hopelessly conflicted and ineffective in its criticism.
POSTSCRIPT: Regarding the Petraeus affair, it is illogical to assume that some foreign intelligence services were not aware of the general's relationship with his biographer. Nobody is suggesting blackmail occurred or was attempted; but a CIA director should not be spending time and energy thinking about his need to hide his secret life.
B'nai Brith Canada Slams Hamas-Israel Media Moral Equivalency
Terrorism is a threat to democracy. The terrorist organization Hamas may have been elected in Gaza but that does not change the fact that it is a terrorist group.
Here are the facts:
1. Hamas was designated as a banned terrorist entity under Canadian law in 2002 by the Liberal Government.
2. Hamas seeks the destruction of Israel, not peace. The Hamas Covenant states, "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.'
There can be no equivalency drawn between Israel's right to defend its citizens on one hand and attacks carried out by terrorists on the other.
The executive director of B'nai Brith Canada, Dr. Frank Dimant, is one of the most capable and experienced professional leaders of the organized Jewish community. Every communication emanating from the organization that he heads is well worth reading--and publishing.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Iran Attempting to Islamize Conflict
The Iranian role cannot be overlooked. The Islamist regime will try to exploit the situation to the maximum possible degree; imagine the result should members of an Iranian delegation die in an air attack.
As previously noted, the fighting foreshadows the likely war to come--a war of missiles in which civilians in Israeli cities and towns will be on the front lines.
Related: Israel Shoots Down Iran-Made Tel Aviv-Bound Rocket
Also Related: Hitlerian Hezbollah Hails Rocket Attacks on Israel
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