Thursday, 6 June 2013


IsraPundit


Samantha Power, Obama’s pick as America’s Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in  

Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama’s criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open arms at the United Nations.
We at American Thinker have been warning about her influence with Barack Obama since 2008 (see Samantha Power and Obama’s Foreign Policy Team).
But her bit of nastiness seems to be tinged with a bit of anti-Semitism as well.
When concerns arose in 2008 regarding Barack Obama and his views towards Israel it generatedwrath from Ms.  Power, who was a key foreign policy adviser to candidate Obama. She let loose in a radio interview while in Europe, “So much of it is about: ‘Is he going to be good for the Jews?”  Her writings and sayings are laced with more of anti-Semitism. (Read more…)

My Response to Eric Yoffie’s attack on Pamela Geller  

This was also posted as a comment (currently in moderation) at Mr. Yoffie’s Web site, because I do not say behind a man’s back, or Yoffie’s back, what I will not say to his face.
by Bill Levinson
I stand behind Pamela Geller, and I personally advocate the deployment of military-grade hate propaganda against a clearly identifiable behavioral choice that operates under color of Islam. This behavioral choice is a menace to Jews, Christians, Hindus, and other infidels who include genuine Muslims who have no use whatsoever for a vicious Stone Age death cult that uses religion to foment violence.
Suppose it was 450 years ago, and somebody (perhaps in Protestant England or the Netherlands) wanted to deploy against the Inquisition the kind of material that Geller is deploying against militant “Islam.” E.g. “Burning people alive in the name of God. That’s my Inquisition; what’s yours?” An apologist like Yoffie would denounce such material as “anti-Catholic,” when a realist would recognize that many Catholics lived in terror of the Inquisition. Millions of genuine Muslims similarly live in terror of militant Islam, which is the declared (as in Dar-el-Harb) enemy of Civilization. (Read more…)

If you see something, say nothing  

Changes to the AP stylebook show that we’re blinding ourselves to the connections between Islamic extremism and terrorism.
By Andrew C McCarthy, THE NEW CRITERION
It was a report of the now numbingly familiar sort. Witnesses at the synagogue in Paris recounted that an Iranian immigrant had been screaming “Allahu Akbar!” while he chased the rabbi and his son. When he finally caught up, he slashed away at them with a box-cutter, causing severe lacerations. Nevertheless, the Associated Press assured readers that “n official investigation was underway to determine a possible motive.”
Quite a mystery, that.
It is necessary to search for some “possible” motive because to notice the actual and perfectly obvious motive is verboten in the judgment of both the legacy media and Western governments. The motive, of course, is adherence to Islamic supremacist ideology, a mainstream interpretation of Muslim doctrine commonly referred to by the shorthand “Islamist.”
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Geller has her stalwart supporters  

Here’s a great letter to the Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde, who refused Pamela the opportunity to reply to the libelous article by Rabbi Jaffee and shunted the reply to Sara Miller, Managing Editor ofJPost.comeditor of JPOST, who refused to publish it. Everyone should write a letter to him and her.
Dear Steve,
I’m writing to you in order to protest the Jerusalem Post’s really shoddy treatment of Pamela Geller.
Not allowing Ms. Geller to answer such libellous and slanderous allegations indicates, to me at least, that you agree with Rabbi Yofie and with J Street. They are doing everything within their capabilities to delegitimise Israel and boost the enemy. They’re the modern day kapos. And you’re not only giving them a voice, but helping them!
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Are We Tired of Fighting?  

The gradual betrayal of a once-robust conservative consensus.
In a June 9, 2005 speech in New York, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, praising what would turn out to be Israel’s disastrous unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, announced that “we are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies. … We want them to be our friends, our partners, our good neighbors.” This misguided gesture of reconciliation came back to haunt Israel in the form of thousands of rockets launched from Gaza upon Israeli population centers and a humiliating conflict with Hezbollah in the 2006 “Summer War.” Olmert is further on record as assuring us that “peace is achieved through concessions. We all know that.” Well no, we don’t. What we do know, or should know, is that the concessionary mentality without credible force to ensure reciprocity empowers tyrants and warlords. In such cases, peace now means war later. Or even sooner.
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Kerry and the Peace Idiots Ride Again  

Few figures in American political life have been as consistently wrong as often as John Kerry. The former Senator bet on every Communist leader and Middle Eastern tyrant he could find only to watch the wheels of history roll over his mistakes. And now as Secretary of State, Kerry is at it again.
In between peddling a Syrian peace process that no one but him believes in, he took a break to peddle the even more discredited peace process between Israel and the terrorists.
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Only 8% of Israelis support a TSS based on ’67 lines  

The question of who supports a two state solution is irrelevant. What matters is who supports a TSS based on Arab terms i.e., based on ’67 lines and the answer is very few (8%). Now if you ask them if they support the Israeli terms i.e., we keep an undivided Jerusalem and all the settlement blocs and our security concerns are met, the answer is still not a majority (40%). Another 19% support annexing Area C. Ted Belman
THE OLD CITY walls in east Jerusalem contrast against the modern buildings in west Jerusalem
THE OLD CITY walls in east Jerusalem contrast against the modern buildings in west Jerusalem Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post
Forty-six years after the Six Day War physically united Jerusalem under Jewish rule, 72 percent of Israeli Jews believe the city is functionally divided between Jews and Arabs, according to aJerusalem Post/Rafi Smith Inc. poll.
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Kerry wants major Israeli concessions for Palestinians, including sovereign northern Dead Sea coast  

Getting Abbas to the negotiating table is a ruse. It is the reason given for Israel to make major concessions. In fact such concessions would be gratuitous, because nothing of value would be received in return. Getting Abbas to the table is of absolutely no value when he isn’t prepared to compromise. We should be demanding that if he wants us at the table he should abandon the right of return and east Jerusalem. Fat chance. So long as Bibi is silent on these things, I don’t trust him.
When Abbas doesn’t like something he says so clearly. Bibi, on the other hand, is unprepared to reject such concession outright and publically. Bibi should state his position as clearly as Abbas does; no dividing Jerusalem, no unilateral concessions, no prisoner release. Reciprocity would be nice but there are no concessions that Abbas could make that would be nothing but promises. Ted Belman
US Secretary of State John Kerry put a package of proposals for reviving the moribund Israel-Palestinian peace process before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and peace negotiator Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and then returned to Amman Monday, May 27.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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