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Into the Fray: Abu who?  

By Martin Sherman, JPOST

It is difficult to conceive of anything more imbecilic than the debate raging over whether Mahmoud Abbas’s recent declarations are sincere.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties nations. It is the rule.


At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844- 1900)

These excerpts convey much of the dysfunctional and directionless condition into which Israel’s political system has descended. This was vividly underscored by the maelstrom of mindless chatter from a gamut of politicians and pundits across the spectrum of political opinion in Israel, which last Friday’s Channel 2 interview with the nominal head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen), unleashed.
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Glick: Saying it like it is  

A time for courage, and action

By Caroline B. Glick. JWR

Mitt Romney wasn’t a bad candidate. He ran a fairly strong race. He made a few errors. And he made many good moves. Certainly he was adequate. And he was probably the strongest Republican candidate among the primary field of contenders. That is, he was the best man available to run against Barack Obama. And he did a pretty good job.

Obama on the other hand, was a horrible candidate. He was mean and vindictive. He was contemptuous and superficial. He ran on irrelevancies like abortion and a fictitious Republican war against women. He didn’t give his supporters any reason to feel good about themselves. Instead, he used class warfare to stir them to hatred of their countrymen.

Yet Obama won. And Romney lost.
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Palestinian Arabs Set To Test Obama II With Demarche at United Nations  

By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun

“We hope that there will be a positive way of looking at this effort by the US administration,” the Palestinian Arab observer at the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told me, expressing a wish that America will favor a new Arab proposal for a General Assembly resolution extending recognition to a Palestinian Arab state.

He may be disappointed. Washington is widely expected to maintain its opposition to the move and to vote against the proposed resolution that the Arab group at the U.N. circulated today among the 193 Assembly members. Nevertheless, the Assembly is likely to adopt the proposal at the end of this month.
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They the People  

By Nidra Poller. AMERICAN THINKER

The gap is enormous; it’s an abyss, and its name is Benghazi. They the people have re-elected Barack Hussein Obama, and we have been talking to ourselves. If the disastrous consequences could be clearly perceived, they might lead to a national awakening, but I fear they will be as muddled and confused as the public mind, and the public mind will adjust as it goes along, for the same reasons why it chose to intoxicate itself with the Obama illusion. The hope may well be a crucible of empty promises, but the change is implacable. The United States has slipped out on its history.

It seems that the economic factor was, as expected, decisive for the vast majority of voters. And that’s why they chose Obama over Romney? When European voters dissatisfied with the state of their economies systematically reject incumbents, Americans, of all people, reward economic failure?
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November 8, 2012

We’re Screwed  

Laura: America has rewarded failure, treason, incompetence, corruption and betrayal. America has chosen statism over freedom and individual rights.

I am so disgusted with Americans. After every horrible thing Obama has done from destroying the economy and free market capitalism to bringing about the ascension of jihadists in the Middle East, they have rewarded him a second term.

This is not the same country and never will be again. The changing  demographics due to immigration means this will never be a great nation, an exceptional nation again.

To add insult to injury, the great Lt. Col. Allen West lost. Stupid fools in Florida.

No doubt the muslim brotherhood and Tehran are celebrating this victory for their side

 

Too funny to be true  

Military Absentee Ballots Delivered One Day Late, Would Have Swung Election For Romney

BY DREW ON  NOVEMBER 7, 2012  ·

Officials say the ballots were delivered late due to problems within the military mail system. Tracking invoices show the ballots sat in a warehouse for a month, then they were accidentally labeled as ammunition and shipped to Afghanistan. At Camp Dwyer, Marine Sergeant John Davis signed for them and was surprised at the contents. (Read more…)

 

Jewish support for Obama not mystifying  

Fresno Zionism

Somewhere between 68 and 70% of American Jewish voters went for Obama, depending on whose exit poll you believe. Israelis that I talk to are mystified. “Are they crazy? What were they thinking?” they ask.

It’s not really mystifying. Here are some general facts about non-Orthodox and secular (the large majority) American Jews:

Although they will say that they support Israel, they do not know the history of the Middle East and the 100-year old conflict over Jewish sovereignty. They are well-educated, which means that they went to universities where, if they studied the conflict, they are likely to have been assigned books and articles by the revisionist (read: anti-Zionist) historians. They will certainly have been exposed to numerous lectures and films presented by Palestinian advocates and student groups. If they are left-of-center and engaged in antiwar or other ‘progressive’ causes, they will certainly be bombarded with extreme anti-Israel propaganda as well.
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College campus for haredim draws 1,000 applicants  

This is great news.A few months ago I suggested that “equality of service” should not be the guiding principle but that benefit to Israel should be. With this in mind I suggested that the Hareidi but given the option of studying for a vocation or profession and it should be considered as national service. It seems like the Hareidi would be very receptive. Ted Belman

By DANIELLE ZIRI, JPOST

Hadassah College’s Strauss Campus will offer ultra-Orthodox students an academic environment tailored to their lifestyle. PHOTO: MELANIE LIDMAN
Close to half of those who applied to study at Hadassah College’s new Jerusalem campus designed for haredi students applied to study biotechnology, an unusually high demand for a scientific field from the haredi community.

Hadassah College’s Strauss Campus, which opens next month, will offer ultra-Orthodox students an academic environment tailored to their lifestyle. This includes separation between men and women in the classes, which are mostly during the evening, as well as separation from the college’s main campus, located across the street, which is attended by secular students.
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Mid East faces nuclear Iran, Brotherhood grip  

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis November 7, 2012,

The prospect of another four years of Obama in the White House fills some Middle East nations, including the Persian Gulf and Israel, with trepidation.

They envisage a foreign policy that continues to focus on hitching US influence in the Muslim world – Sunni and Shiite alike – on to a wagon led by Iran as the first Islamic Shite Muslim nuclear power and the sponsorship of Muslim Brotherhood rule of Sunni Arab nations.

For Israel, this policy translates bleakly into American backing for the two most forbidding ideological foes it has faced in all its 63 years: Iran, whose leaders call openly for Israel’s extinction – even from the UN platform – although this is achievable only by nuclear aggression; and the hostile Muslim Brotherhood.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel