A snapshot of Israel’s economy
Stanley Fisher, Bank of Israel Governor, Assesses Israel’s Economy
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #178, April 26, 2013, bit.ly/11KNmFG
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #178, April 26, 2013, bit.ly/11KNmFG
The following summary of the April 23, 2013 address by Stanley Fisher, Bank of Israel Governor, highlights economic indicators which reflect the relative strength of Israel’s economy during the global economic meltdown. These indicators have enhanced global confidence in the long-term viability of Israel’s economy. Far from being isolated, Israel has become an attractive partner for global trade, an exciting site for astute investors and giant high tech companies. Israel’s economic performance is praised by the three leading global rating companies and the International Monetary Fund.
Obama’s National-Security Fraud
So now, the next necessary deception in the campaign is to convince you that — all together now — “the system worked.” In reality, the civilian justice system did not work, and that is because it cannot work — not if the objective is the swift acquisition of vital national-defense information.
It could not be more obvious to an objective, rational person that if the aim is intelligence collection, it is far better to interrogate a terrorist without limitations on time and subject matter, without the interference of a defense lawyer, and without empowering the detainee by giving him plea-bargaining leverage to trade for information. The Obama administration, however, is telling you, with a straight face, that the imposition of civilian due process will produce intelligence just as effectively, if not better.
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‘Democracy May Have Had Its Day’
Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his “farewell lecture” here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired comparisons to Edward Gibbon’s Roman history—uncorked a biting critique of American higher education.
Universities, he proposed, are failing students and hurting American democracy. Curricula are “individualized, unfocused and scattered.” On campus, he said, “I find a kind of cultural void, an ignorance of the past, a sense of rootlessness and aimlessness.” Rare are “faculty with atypical views,” he charged. “Still rarer is an informed understanding of the traditions and institutions of our Western civilization and of our country and an appreciation of their special qualities and values.” He counseled schools to adopt “a common core of studies” in the history, literature and philosophy “of our culture.” By “our” he means Western.
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Producer of Fitna embraces Islam
From An Islamophobe To A Muslim: Arnoud Van Doorn, Ex- Leading Member In Far-Right Dutch Politician Geert Wilders’ Party, Accepts Islam
Arnoud Van Doorn , who was one of the Dutch producers behind Fitna, an anti-Islam film that caused worldwide outrage from Muslims, has accepted Islam.The former leading member in far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ party has embraced the very religion he once contemptuously criticized.
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Violence in Islam: The heart of the matter
The often apologetic propagandists who discreetly adhere to various shades of Islamism tend to defend their cause by suggesting an unimpressively limited number of arguments which they (sometimes rightly) think would appeal to the Western audience. Their sole purpose is to convince the politically and militarily more powerful West that Islam is not evil but that a few terrorists who think they are Islamists can be. They think this is smart warfare for the advancement of Islam not necessarily as a religion but as a political ideology: the physical and intellectual supremacy of Islam across the world. The apologists think that the terrorists are wrong because they opt for the wrong methodology to achieve the same goal.
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‘There is No More Negev – the Bedouins Took It’
Bedouin settlement
Israel news photo: Flash 90
Radio and personality Avri Gilad visited the Negev on Thursday with the Regavim movement, and came back shocked and appalled.
“There is no more Negev,” he wrote on Facebook. “The Bedouins took it all.”
“It’s unbelievable,” he continued. “They’re killing the Jewish farmers. The Bedouins are allowed, by turning ablind eye, to take whatever land they want, to steal whatever they want, to set fire to the property of whoever they don’t like, to threaten to murder whatever moves, to throw grenades, carry weapons, attack vehicles, whatever.”
Gilad noted that the government has agreed to give Bedouin clans in the Negev over 60 percent of the land they have illegally settled on. “After all this, along comes BennyBegin… and offers them 63% of the territory that they are claiming – with no proof – belongs to them,” he wrote.
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Ted Belman
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