Prof. Eidelberg is a political scientist, author and lecturer; co-founder and president of The Foundation For Constitutional Democracy and is the President of the Yamin Israel movement. Part I. Analysis The best analysis I have read of America’s foreign policy failings since the unfinished Persian Gulf War of 1991 will be found in the writings of Ralph Peters, a retired American army Intelligence officer who worked and studied in dozens of countries as well as in the U.S. Executive office. If there is a single power the U.S. underestimates it is the power of collective hatred, meaning the hatred that animates the Arab-Islamic world. This failing applies to Israel. Like their American counterparts, Israel’s ruling elites do not “understand the delicious appeal of hatred.” They will not face the fact that man is a killer. They have learned nothing from the genocidal wars and wholesale massacres of the twentieth century, not merely in Nazi Germany,... Leftists Shocked: The Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted Sunday to support a bill limiting the funding that political non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may receive from foreign governments and international bodies to 20,000 shekels per year. The bill was authored by MK Ofir Akunis (Likud). The Committee also voted in favor of a bill submitted by MK Faina Kirshenbaum (Yisrael Beitenu) that would deprive NGOs that rely on foreign funding of tax exempt status and levy a 45% tax on foreign donations. The ministers supporting the bills included Limor Livnat, Gilad Erdan, Yossi Peled, Gidon Sa’ar and Moshe Cachlon (Likud), Yitzchak Aharonovich, Sofa Landver, Yuli Edlestein and Stes Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beitenu) and Daniel Hershkovitz (Jewish Home). Ministers Benny Begin, Michael Eitan, Dan Meridor (Likud) opposed the bills, as... This is a serious threat for two reasons. 1) Free speech is to be protected beyond all else. 2)Islam is a thread because of its dedication to imposing Sharia all of the world. We must be free to criticize Islam’s harmful parts. We must be able to warn the people about the dangers of Islamism. We must be able to damn the religion if we think its damnable. Ted Belman Free Speech Concerns Ahead of Meeting With Muslim Nations on Religious Tolerance A looming meeting with Islamic leaders hosted by the State Department has religious scholars and advocacy groups warning that the United States may “play into” the push by some Islamic nations to create new laws to stifle religious criticism and debate. The meeting on religious tolerance, which is scheduled for mid-December, would involve representatives of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — a coalition of 56 nations which more or less represents the Muslim world. TELL THESE BASTARDS WHERE TO GET OFF. U.S., EU pressure Netanyahu to scrap proposed bill against Israeli NGOs HAARETZ The European Union and the United States, as well as other countries, have begun applying pressure on the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging that proposed legislation limiting funding by foreign governments of Israeli nonprofit organizations be scrapped. The EU’s ambassador to Israel, Andrew Standley, contacted the prime minister’s national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, on Thursday and warned him that passage of the legislation could harm Israel’s standing in the West as a democratic country. An explanation in support of the bill... Brave New Transnational Progressive World It’s coming — if only Americans will submit to “global authorities” who will produce “global governance” with “global justice” under “global rule of law.” PRES OBAMA IS THE LEADING TRANSNATIONAL PROGRESSIVE The attacks of 9/11/01 awoke Americans — by no means all — to the threat posed by totalitarian interpretations of Islam. John Fonte, a scholar at the Hudson Institute, has long been concerned about another ideology that is perhaps no less dangerous to free peoples. It goes by names that sound either vaguely utopian, like “global governance,” or too wonky to worry about, like “transnational progressivism.” Glick points the finger at Britain but Britain is not alone in this subversion. Sweden and Norway do likewise as do many others. Ted Belman With Friends like these Last month Makor Rishon published a British government document titled, “NGOs in the Middle East Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.” The document showed that in 2010, outside of Iraq, the British government gave a total of 100,000 pounds to pro-democracy NGOs throughout the Arab world. In contrast to Britain’s miserly attitude towards Arab civil society organizations, Her Majesty’s Government gave more than 600,000 pounds to far-leftist Israeli NGOs. These Israeli groups included the Economic Cooperation Foundation, Yesh Din, Peace Now, Ir Amim, and Gisha. All of these groups are far beyond Israeli mainstream opinion. All seek to use international pressure on Israel to force the government to adopt policies rejected by the vast majority of the public.Kill For Peace, Part I
Gov’t Votes 11 to 5 to Limit Foreign Funding of NGOs
By Gil Ronen, INN
Bills that receive the Committee’s approval are considered to be relatively certain of passing in the Knesset.Our right to cricize Islam should not be curtailed
By Judson Berger, FPM
Critics describe the...Subversion, plain and simple
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will consider Likud’s version of the proposed law, sponsored by MK Ofir Akunis, on Sunday. It would bar political nonprofit organizations from receiving more than NIS 20,000 from foreign governments or international agencies such as the UN or the EU.Caption this photo
Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?
But in a new book, Sovereignty or Submission, Fonte makes clear how this ideology — widely embraced in Europe and, increasingly, among elites in the U.S. as well — is stealthily undermining liberal democracy,...Funding the far- left NGO’s in Israel is undemocratic
Caroline Glick, JWR
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