Thursday, 8 November 2012


IsraPundit


Off to War  

Congratulations are in order to President and Mrs. Obama. It is hard for your grizzled editors to remember an election night in which so many distinguished prognosticators have been proven so wrong in their estimates of what was likely to happen. Let us but redouble our efforts. Even before the results came in it was being said that the defeat of Governor Romney would precipitate a “war” within the Republican Party. To which we can only say it’s another example of how every cloud has a silver lining.
Governor Romney is man of inspiring decency and morals, too decent to return the ad hominem attacks to which he was subjected. Yet it can also be said that voters renounced the notion that what this country needs is a businessman as president. No doubt they learned their lesson with Herbert Hoover and James Carter. We, for one, would rather be in the wilderness pursuing the right ideas than in power pursuing the wrong ideas. So we tend to see the coming fray within the camp that lost today as an opportunity to sort some things out.
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Jordan’s King Abdullah “Playing With Fire”  

Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi thugs today feel secure enough to impose their will on any Jordanian. The king is encouraging his rivals to pursue their efforts to destabilize the kingdom and create an Islamic state which would one day participate in the “big jihad” to eliminate Israel.
Muslim thugs in Jordan last weekend attacked a large group of young men and women who had gathered at a coffee shop in Amman to celebrate Halloween.
The thugs were members of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and the Salafi group.
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#WAR MORE YEARS  

With Mitt Romney’s projected defeat in the presidential race tonight, Americans are very clearly divided into two camps.
The first camp is those who want a country of unending bailouts, of free giveaways, of government-provided goods and services – a camp of Americans who want to forfeit the future to guarantee ease and comfort in the present. The second camp is those who understand that that world is unsustainable, who recognize that freedom is the only guarantor of the present and the future.

The answer here isn’t to end the war against liberalism – a philosophy that will bankrupt the country in the long run and steal its constitutional soul in the short run. The answer is to fight back.
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Lapid: I won’t join gov’t without electoral reform  

Yesh Atid leader gives policy speech focused on returning stability to governance, slams Shas for selling out taxpaying soldiers. PHOTO: EFRAT SA’AR
“We won’t sit with a government that does not agree” to reform the governmental structure in ways which will stabilize governance, said Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid on Wednesday in another policy speech at the Citizens Empowerment Center of Israel in Tel Aviv.
In a speech following immediately after the reelection of US President Barack Obama, Lapid praised the American system of government in which the president is elected only once every four years and cannot be blackmailed by smaller parties who threaten to vote no confidence in the years in between.
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The Tea Party Got It Right, Mitt Got It Wrong  

In this election the Republican Party ran two wholly inoffensive blue state Republicans on a platform of jobs at a time when the economy was everyone’s chief concern and the incumbent had absolutely failed to fix the economy. And they lost.
The Monday — or Wednesday — morning quarterbacks will have a fine time debating what Mitt Romney should have done differently. The red Republicans will say that he should have been more aggressive and should have hit Obama on Benghazi. The blue Republicans will blame a lack of outreach to Latinos. Some will blame Sandy, others will blame Christie and many will point to voter fraud. And they will all have a point, but the makings of this defeat did not happen in the last two weeks; they happened in the last two years.
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Obama is going to work us over  

David Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM
I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama’s re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” — as Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom argued on Israel Radio this morning. But Shalom is putting a pretty face on a forboding situation.
Obama’s re-election means that Ehud Olmert is going to run against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Jan. 2013 Israeli election. It means that Obama is going to intervene aggressively in our election to boost Olmert. It means that a push for immediate Palestinian statehood is back on the international agenda. Most worrisome of all, it means that an American “grand bargain” with the Iranians, possibly at our expense, is on the table.
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The Enemy of my Enemy in Damascus  

A reminder to the administration, no matter who is running it: the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. The friend of my friend is not necessarily my friend. And the friend of my enemy is not necessarily my enemy, but he may be not by my friend, either.
Bashar Assad, for example, is Iran’s puppet, Hezb’allah’s patron, Israel’s nemesis, Hamas’s erstwhile landlord, and his people’s tyrant. He is the enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood — our (former?) enemy. And he has a mixed relationship with al-Qaeda, permitting it to infiltrate Iraq to kill Americans, Shiites, and non-compliant Sunnis, but now finding it joining the jihadis against him.
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OBAMA RE-ELECTED  

By Ted Belman
Romney should have won on the issues which included energy independence,job creation and cutting spending but he didn’t.
Obama had to overcome unhappiness with Obamacare and the wasted stimulus, high unemployment and greater poverty. He didn’t propose any new policies. He went negative on Romney and succeeded in undermining him. It was a brilliant campaign to overcome the negatives.
Ending the war in Iraq and winding down in Afghanistan played well with the electorate even if he forfeited any possible win. Lucky for him he was able to stone wall on Benghazigate with the aid of most media.
It seems to me that the issues are less important than one’s allegiance. People identify as liberal or conservative and vote accordingly. They also identify as Democrats or Republicans and vote accordingly.
70%of Jews voted for Obama.
Plus people like the smiling Obama. Romney seems too rich and remote.
Krauthammer suggested that the Republicans have a good young stable of up and commers and they will be more conservative than Romney. But many say that if the Republicans get more conservative in the next election they will lose by a bigger margin. On the other hand being more like the Democrats will not win for them either.
Brown America is in ascendency. White America is in decline. Republicans must attract more brown support. A tall order.
Woe is Israel.
 

November 6, 2012

It’s Time for an Independent Kurdistan  Edit Link

By Stanley Weiss – The Huffington Post – Chairman of Business Executives for National Security Washington
WASHINGTON, 4.11.2012 – Had the course of history taken a modest swerve, the United States and Kurdistan might have celebrated their independence on the very same day. It was July 4, 1187 — 825 years ago — that Saladin, Islam’s greatest ruler, defeated 20,000 outmatched Crusaders at the bloody Battle of Hattin. The victory ultimately delivered Jerusalem into the hands of Saladin, the crown jewel of an Islamic caliphate stretching from the shores of Tunis through Cairo, Baghdad and Damascus.
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How 150 Czech Jewish teens escaped the Holocaust and found each other again  

In the Czech ‘Sophie’s Choice,’ some families were only able to choose one child for what proved to be a lifesaving journey
In the fall of 1939, a group of 150 Czech Jewish teenagers said goodbye to their families and friends, and boarded a train to Denmark. For many, it was the last time they’d see or hug their parents — because their families, the ones who stayed behind in then-Czechoslovakia, for the most part, perished.
At the ages of 14 to 16, the youngsters had started a new life. Their escape was planned by the youth division of the Jewish Agency (Aliyat Hanoar, or Jugend Aliyah) in affiliation with Zionist youth groups like Maccabi Hatzair as well as a Danish peace league and several Jewish communities.
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Responsibility for Mavi Marmara  

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner (Times of Israel)
It is the Turkish government which needs to be tried for the deaths of the Islamic terrorists on the Mavi Marmara and not IDF officials.
The Turkish leader Erdogan was the one who allowed these extremists from al-Qaeda, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to launch a naval expedition against Israel, a country that Turkey was not at war with.
The UN has investigated the Israeli coastal blockade of Gaza and has determined that it was in full compliance with international law.
Erdogan must be tried for his liability over the deaths of the terrorists and the serious injuries to Israeli servicemen. (Read more…)
 

Pallywood: Crying Blond Arab Girl Resurfaces – UPDATED  

Arabs in Judea and Samaria have brought soldier-baiting for propaganda to the degree of art, video shows.
Who’s abusing whom?
A video that has been uploaded to Youtube shows how Arabs in Judea and Samaria abuse their own children and manipulate unwitting Israeli soldiers in order to manufacture photographs that can be used for propaganda purposes.
The case in point is a situation that appears to have been masterfully directed by an unknown propagandist, starring a girl who was successfully used for the same purpose three months earlier. (Read more…)
 

Sheldon G. Adelson: I Didn’t Leave the Democrats. They Left Me  

When members of the Democratic Party booed the inclusion of God and Jerusalem in their party platform this year, I thought of my parents.
They would have been astounded.
The immigrant family in which I grew up was, in the matter of politics, typical of the Jews of Boston in the 1930s and ’40s. Of the two major parties, the Democrats were in those days the more supportive of Jewish causes.
Indeed, only liberal politicians campaigned in our underprivileged neighborhood. Boston’s Republicans, insofar as we knew them, were remote, wealthy elites (“Boston Brahmins”), some of whose fancy country clubs didn’t accept Jews.
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November 5, 2012

Barack Obama and America’s decline  

America is in incipient decline, and this week’s presidential election might be the last chance to reverse it. We are becoming a different sort of country, with a different people and different beliefs. Another four years of Barack Obama well might take us past the point of no return, although no-one, to be sure, knows quite where that lies. There is still time to change course. There might not be time by 2016.
Nearly a third of Americans now depend on food stamps, welfare, disability payments, or some other form of government support, compared with one out of five when George W Bush left office. This enormous shift has occurred before the detonation of a demographic time bomb that will explode towards the end of the present decade, and which will push America towards even greater dependency. This time bomb has four facets:
Spengler is channeled by David P Goldman. His book How Civilizations Die (and why Islam is Dying, Too) was published by Regnery Press in September 2011. A volume of his essays on culture, religion and economics, It’s Not the End of the World – It’s Just the End of You, also appeared last fall, from Van Praag Press.
 

Turkey between Europe and the Levant  

WJC ANALYSIS –
By Pinhas Inbari
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an declared last week in Berlin that Turkey has not given up its aspiration to join the EU. He went even further and called on Muslims in Europe to integrate into their European communities. It is unclear whether the Turkish leader has actually reconsidered the decision to abandon the European project or if his remarks were delivered as a courtesy to please his German host.
While Turkey’s motives are uncertain, it is clear that Erdo?an’s strategic decision to get involved in Middle Eastern politics has put Turkey in grave danger. The decision of a NATO member state to engage in Syria has exposed the international alliance to unwanted conflict as it is bound to stand by Turkey in its Eastern adventure.
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Israeli warplanes fly over Golan as Hizballah fighters pour into Syria  

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 4, 2012,
Israeli warplanes flew over the divided Golan Sunday, Nov. 4, in a show of strength and as a deterrent against the Syrian civil war seeping across the border, DEBKAfile’s military and Western intelligence sources report. In Paris, President Francois Hollande vowed Sunday that “France would oppose with all its strength any bid to destabilize Lebanon. Lebanon must be protected.”
He spoke regardless of the 5,000 Lebanese Shiite Hizballah fighters who have poured into Syria from their Beqaa Valley stronghold of al-Harmel to fight Bashar Assad’s war. Our sources reveal that these Lebanese fighters have now advanced 50-60 kilometers deep into southwestern Syria, up to the outskirts of the embattled town of Homs.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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