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2011

LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS FOR Z-STREET: NEW ISRAEL FUND’S VISION FOR A MORE DEMOCRATIC ISRAEL….ARAB MAJORITY

New Israel Fund’s vision for a more democratic Israel: an Arab majority state! Lori Lowenthal Marcus president, Z STREET WWW.ZSTREET.ORG 09/04/11 A new batch of Wikileaks has been posted, and there’s quite an interesting entry about the background to the effort in the Israeli knesset to pass an NGO transparency law which would require NGOs […]

A GREAT SUGGESTION FOR 9/11 REMEMBRANCE

A MESSAGE FROM NRG….PUBLISHER OF THE CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER…BEST JEWISH INTEREST NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA On September 11th 2001 our country was attacked. On Sunday, September 11th, 2011, display our flag. This will Honor those who lost their lives on 9/11/2001. Remind your family and friends by forwarding this note.

THE ONE AND DONE: MAUREEN DOWD

One and Done? – NYTimes.com  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/dowd-one-and-done.html?_r=1 The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term. ONE day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing […]

JEFF JACOBY: A PONZI SCHEME….THAT’S NOT THE POINT

http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10235/a-ponzi-scheme-that-not-the-point CHARLES PONZI was a Boston swindler who in 1920 bilked thousands of people out of millions of dollars by selling them bonds that guaranteed a fabulous rate of return — 100 percent in just 90 days. The funds entrusted to Ponzi were never invested in legitimate enterprises. Instead, they were deployed in a classic […]

MARK DURIE: DO WE WORSHIP THE SAME GOD? A REVIEW OV MIROSLAV VOLF’S BOOK “ALLAH”

http://markdurie.blogspot.com/2011/09/do-we-worship-same-god-review-by-mark.html “Do we worship the same God?”  This has become a hotly contested and divisive question, posed in these troubled days by many Christians about Muslims and Islam.  Influential theologian Miroslav Volf, who is Henry B. Wright professor of Systematic Theology at Yale, offers an answer in his latest book, Allah: a Christian response (HarperOne 2010).  […]

BILL GERTZ: JIHADISTS SPRINGING UP IN LIBYA: US “ON ALERT”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/4/jihadists-plot-to-take-over-libya Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on […]

THE DUMBEST RABBI RACHEL KAHN TROSTER WRITES THE DUMBEST OP-ED OF ALL TIME:”THE LEGACY OF OF 9/11 SHOULD BE ENDING TORTURE”….SEE NOTE

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/09/01/3089213/op-ed-eradicating-torture-should-be-the-legacy-of-sept-12 IT IS PURE TORTURE TO READ THIS POSTURING, SELF RIGHTEOUS IDIOT OF THE CLOTH…..RSK (Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, of Teaneck, N.J., is director of North American programs for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. She is a member of the board of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.) TEANECK, N.J. (JTA) — What is the legacy […]

PEPE ESCOBAR: HOW AL QAEDA GOT TO RULE IN TRIPOLI

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/mh30ak01.html His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might have, but few in the West and across the world would have heard of him.  Time to catch up. Because the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli is bound to […]

PALARAB TV HOST SENDS “BEST WISHES” TO “OUR GLORIOUS” PRISONER FOR TRANSPORTING SUICIDE BOMBER IN 2001 SBARRO ATTACK THAT KILLED 15, INCLUDING 7 CHILDREN

PA TV host sends “best wishes” to “our glorious” prisoner who transported suicide bomber to attack that killed 15, including 7 children http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=5581 by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik  Palestinian Authority TV has chosen to honor two more terrorists serving multiple life sentences for murder in its continuous glorification of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. […]

THE NAZIS AND FASCISTS WHO FOUNDED THE EU (And Their Influence Today) by Julia Gorin

http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=2675 “The European Union is based on the Nazi plans published in Berlin in 1942.” In 2008, director of the Freenations site Rodney Atkinson — former British Ministerial Adviser, author, and lecturer at University of Mainz in Germany — sent out the following press release: 26th June 2008 – “THE NAZIS AND FASCISTS WHO FOUNDED […]