http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/03/we-are-coming-palestine.html “We are coming, Palestine” There’s a Facebook page in Arabic advertising a Third Palestinian Intifada. Here’s the English translation, by Palestine Media Watch: Attention The countries neighbouring Palestine will start to advance on Palestine on May 15, and a while after that all the Islamic countries will advance. Our time is near. Palestine will […]
How Netanyahu can out-maneuver Obama’s latest threat to Israel By Caroline B. Glick If Netanyahu is serious about surmounting his diplomatic and political challenges, his best bet is to abandon his present course altogether. The most effective way to defend Israel against Obama is to boldly assert, defend and implement a unilateral Israeli plan. Here […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Amnesty International’s Rose-Tinted View of Gaddafi’s Libya Now one of Israel’s predictably inveterate critics, Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by barrister Peter Benenson (né Solomon; 1921-2005), the Catholic convert son of two Anglo-Jewish communal figures, Flora and Harold Solomon; Benenson was the name of his maternal grandfather. On its website Amnesty UK declares: “We’re […]
Rain Man By Steve Plaut Well, a lot of people liked what I sent around yesterday on Israel’s Music Wars, and several encouraged me to post similar sorts of observations on life in Israel, I guess cause you are all getting tired of the political postings. In any case, here is another of my “Seinfeldian […]
The King’s Speech The unraveling of Peter King’s hearings on radical Islam.Tiffany Stanley http://www.jidaily.com/Inh/e Everyone was expecting the Pete King hearings on Muslim radicalization to be the second coming of Joseph McCarthy. This morning, an hour before they began, a line already snaked around the third floor of the Cannon Office Building, as reporters queued […]
http://www.jidaily.com/Inh/e Did Anne Frank Really Have An ‘Infinite Human Spirit’?The problem with universalism. Ruth Franklin Are human beings so fundamentally lacking in natural empathy that a Jewish catastrophe must be universalized in order to generate feeling? Do we really seek only ourselves in the books we read? “The concentration camps are a dangerous topic to […]
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/a-truly-conspiratorial-mind-1.348503 WHAT MUST DERSHOWITZ THINK ABOUT HIS CLIENT?…..RSK A truly conspiratorial mind Even if Assange had not compared Guantanamo to Auschwitz, his latent paranoia would have materialized. By James Kirchick That WikiLeaks impresario Julian Assange would feature as the latest contributor to the recent spate of anti-Semitic celebrity outbursts is hardly a bombshell. Last week, […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704758904576188740968759616.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_Top#printMod Coming to America As Hollywood producers scour the globe desperate for TV show ideas, it’s not just about Britain anymore. Why Israel is the new hot spot; POWs and henpecked husbands By AMY CHOZICK and JOSHUA MITNICK The Israeli TV series “Hatufim” traces what happens when two soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces return […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/10/king-hearing-not-un-american-or-radical/ King stands by hearing on Islamic radicals Testimony is emotional, at times heated By Seth McLaughlin “The division between Democrats and Republicans reflect one of the thorniest debates to emerge in the years since September 11: How to prevent homegrown terror.” Pushing back against a firestorm of criticism, the chairman of the House Homeland […]
Where Is The Outcry Against Arab Apartheid? by Khaled Abu Toameh http://www.hudson-ny.org/1953/arab-apartheid Mohammed Nabil Taha, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, died this week at the entrance to a Lebanese hospital after doctors refused to help him because his family could not afford to pay for medical treatment. The tragic case of Taha highlights the plight of […]
