By Ted Belman There seems to be great interest in the OWS and the corruption in the doling out the stimulus money, so I thought I would publish Sarah Palin’s memorable Speech in Iowa on Sept3/11 when she nailed Corporate Crony Capitalism and defined real capitalism. Go to the link if you want to hear her deliver this barn burner. As I read the speech or watched her deliver it, I couldn’t help but be heart broken that she declined to run. 57% of Israelis favour retaking Gaza and wiping out Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But the matter is complicated. It is increasingly likely that Israel will attacks Iran’s nuclear plants. In all probability such attack will result in Israel being attacked by Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. This is not a guaranteed happening. Israel must decide if it prefers to first take back Gaza if that’s what the government wants, then deal with Hezbollah and then Iran, one by one or all at the same time. Ted Belman Israelis following the escalation of rocket launches against southern Israel this past week probably noticed all the reports that the Palestinian organization behind the attacks was Islamic Jihad. There were approximately 40 rockets and mortars that were fired by the organization over a two day period. The current round of attacks began with the launch of a Grad rocket that hit near Gedera, on Wednesday, Oct. 26, which also happened to be the... The Night of Broken Glass that began the Nazi reign of terror. By Karol Jonca * Reprinted with permission from The Holocaust Encyclopedia (Yale University Press). There is a lesson here. Israel hasbara should always present the issue as one in which there are 350 million Arabs vs 6 million Jews or 13.5 million sq km of Arab and vs 22,700 sq km of Jewish land and that’s without counting the Turks and the Iranians who are not Arabs. And not to mention the 1.3 billion Muslims the vast majority of whom are lined up against Israel. At a minimum we should add Jordan’s 77,000 sqkm to Judea and Samaria’s 6,000 to get a total of 83,000 sqkm of Palestinian Arab land vs 6,000 of Jewish land. We must present Israel as the underdog at every opportunity. Ted Belman As both Ayn Rand and Steve Jobs would remind them, the economic inequality that the OWS protestors oppose is not something to be condemned, but to be celebrated. For several weeks now, the Occupy Wall Street protestors in New York City and around the country have been demanding “economic justice,” which includes a mishmash of leftist goals including universal health care, forgiveness of student loan debt, and higher taxes on the wealthy. To the extent the OWS protestors have a unifying theme, it’s that capitalism is bad and that redistributing wealth to reduce “inequality” is good. The Irish socialist playwright George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” The Occupy Wall Street protestors demanding government redistribution of wealth from the richest Americans (“the 1%”) to themselves (“the 99%”) would certainly agree. But as some of them are starting to learn, if... I give added credence to this report because of all the reports I have read today that Israel refused to advise the US in advance. The US obviously wants to plead surprise rather than complicity. Ted Belman DEBKAfile Special Report November 6, 2011, 8:28 AM ( By Janet Levy, AMERICAN THINKER Currently an estimated 2.6 million observant Muslims reside in the United States. Many live their lives according to sharia law, the moral and religious code of the Islamic faith. When Muslims bring legal disputes into U.S. courts, a legal dilemma often arises, pitting individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and laws against Islamic sharia law. By Jerold S. Auerbach, AMERICAN THINKER Identity theft, in most jurisdictions, is a punishable offense. But in the United Nations, Palestinians are free — indeed, encouraged — to rob Israel of its history, heritage, and homeland. By ELLIOTT ABRAMS, Weekly Standard This weekend marks another milestone in the history of intellectual dishonesty, for the so-called “Russell Tribunal on Palestine” meets in Cape Town, South Africa on November 5th and 6th. Barak and Netanyahu did not commit to U.S. request for coordination on Iran In a recent conversation with U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta, the prime minister and defense minister would not discount the possibility of independent Israeli action on Iran, say American officials. No-fly zone over Iraq set to expire, opening shortest route from Israel to IranPalin: Corporate Crony Capitalism
Iran and Israel’s southern front
Kristallnacht remembered
Palestinians are perceived as the underdog.
In Praise of Capitalist Inequality
US IS NOT OPPOSING AN ISRAEL ATTACK ON IRAN
Sharia’s Encroachment into American Courts
Palestinian Identity Theft
The Russel Tribunal, Another Effort to Destroy Israel
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Monday, 7 November 2011
No, they don’t feel the same urgency that we do. But why should they? For them business is good; business is very good. Seven of the ten wealthiest counties are suburbs of Washington, D.C. Polls there actually – and usually I say polls, eh, they’re for strippers and cross country skiers – but polls in those parts show that some people there believe that the economy has actually improved. See, there may not be a recession in Georgetown, but there is in the rest of America.
Yeah, the permanent political...
The November pogrom, carried out with the help of the most up-to-date communications technology, was the most modern pogrom in the history of anti-Jewish persecution and an overture to the step-by-step extirpation of the Jewish people in Europe.
Jews Leaving Germany
American sources told Fox television early Sunday, Nov. 6 that all the senior Israeli ministers who were formerly against attacking Iran’s nuclear sites are now for it, having been updated on Iran’s clandestine progress toward building a nuclear weapon. This information is due to be borne out when the IAEA publishes its next Iran report Tuesday, Nov. 8. The ministers are said to have changed their minds in the belief that the next round of sanctions will not be tough enough and point to the precedent of Israel’s 1981 attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor which was never rebuilt.
According to debkafile’s Washington sources, the Obama administration attributes the change of heart by those ministers...
Increasingly, U.S. courts have yielded to sharia. In effect, our judicial system is failing to adhere to the very beliefs on which this country was founded. Sharia advocates are overturning our long-held legal traditions to follow precepts laid down by a faith that represents less than one percent of our population and whose beliefs are at odds with U.S. legal and spiritual history.
American law reflects Judeo-Christian values and traditions. These have always operated under the precept, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto G-d the things that are...
At times the United Nations seems to exist for no reason other than to stoke Palestinian fantasies. UNRWA, its benevolent Relief and Works Agency created solely for Palestinian refugees,” was established after the 1948 war when Israel secured its independence and Palestinians proclaimed their eternal dependence.
During the fighting instigated by five Arab nations, 700,000 Palestinians abandoned their homes, some in fear of the Israeli army and others in obedience to the instructions of their own leaders. (A similar number of Jews, expelled from Arab countries, found safe refuge in Israel.) By now, the number of Palestinian “refugee” claimants is nearly 5 million, all of whom receive UNRWA funding and none of whom seem...
What is the Russell Tribunal? It is the heir to the “International War Crimes Tribunal” to which Bertrand Russell lent his name in 1966. The stated purpose then was “to investigate crimes committed in Vietnam,” or in other words to attack the United States. In those days, the doddering Russell was already in the hands of Ralph Schoenman, the anti-American activist with whom he finally broke in 1969 and who was the driving force behind the “Tribunal.”
The only difference today is that the guns have turned toward Israel. Well, perhaps “guns” is not the right term. What has been turned on Israel is the same torrent of clerical nonsense, virulent bias, and Hollywood-style self-aggrandizement that marked the “Tribunal” in the old days. The...
Egyptian official says escalation and rocket fire toward Israeli cities could prompt wide military offensive in the Strip; says Cairo’s ability to thwart operation limited
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