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June 2012

NORMAN SIMMS: BACK TO THE THREE RING CIRCUS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/back-to-the-three-ring-circus?f=puball

It had to happen, didn’t it? In fact, it was mooted within a week after Mohammed Merah was shot in Toulouse following his carnival of blood-the shooting, first, of two French soldiers, and then the murder of children and a teacher at a Jewish school. The young murderer went out in a blaze of glory, having set up the situation by holing himself up in his apartment, toying with the police for hours, waiting for there to be sufficient media coverage-and then leaping out the window where he expected to be shot by one or more marksmen on the scene. And now, his father wants to sue the French state for unlawful killing of his son. This is more than self-serving hypocrisy.

In the weeks after the Toulouse spectacle, the media were diverted to the first of the French elections, the vote for a new president, so that attention turned from law-and-order and anti-terrorism back to the economy and especially the downgrading of France’s credit rating.

This week round one of the voting for the National Assembly has been taking place, to be followed by round two when candidates with more than 12.5% of the votes and less than 50% will battle it out. The French public must be in a state of exhaustion as the percentage of registered electors who actually turned out has dipped to an almost all time low. Such electoral fatigue has not stopped the anti-Semites from doing their thing, however. The more spectacular attacks make it to the international news, the rest stay hidden in the local press of this or that town.

PETER HUESSEY: THERE IS NO GOOD REASON NOT TO BUILD MISSILE DEFENSES

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/there-is-no-good-reason-not-to-build-missile-defenses Russia is demanding the US stop building missile defenses in Europe, just as it simultaneously helps Iran build the very rockets that hold NATO at risk. In language reminiscent of the Cold War, President Putin is once again urging Washington “better not to do this”. Warns the Russian Chief of the General Staff Nikolai […]

VICTOR SHARPE: NEVER AGAIN? OR AGAIN AND AGAIN

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/never-again-or-again-and-again After the world’s descent into the 20th century abyss of staggering crimes against humanity consisting of two world wars, the Holocaust, scores of regional wars, massacres, pogroms, mass starvation, genocides in Ruanda, Nigeria, Cambodia and the Sudan, we now are into the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century and are faced […]

ALICE WALKER’S BIGOTRY: ALAN DERSHOWITZ SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3125/alice-walker-bigotry ALICE WALKER SHOULD BE INDICTED BY AN INTERNATIONAL LITERARY TRIBUNAL FOR CRIMES AGAINST SYNTAX, POETRY, PROSE AND LITERATURE…..RSK Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Alice Walker, who has a long history of supporting terrorism against Israel, has now resorted to bigotry and censorship against Hebrew speaking readers of her writings. She has refused to allow The […]

ANOTHER STELLAR DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR THE U.S. SENATE

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/18826157/candidate-for-us-senate-faces-sex-charge?clienttype=printable
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate is charged with solicitation of a minor and his case has been bound over to a grand jury.
Authorities said the alleged incident occurred in May 2011, when a 7-year-old girl riding her bike in front of the Johnson City apartment of Thomas K. Owens was invited inside.
The 36-year-old then allegedly hugged the girl, unzipped his pants, and asked her to perform a sex act. The girl ran home and told her mother, who notified police.
Owens told investigators the girl had been in his apartment. As for the allegation, he stated: “I have a problem with that,” but did not elaborate.
Owens’ attorney told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had just gotten the case was still reviewing it. The case went to the grand jury last month.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

HEALTHCARE ADVANCES IN ISRAEL….BDS MOVEMENT SHOULD BE DENIED THIS CARE

http://israel21c.org/health/time-to-rethink-chemotherapy-treatment New cell research from Israel suggests the need for a radically different approach to chemotherapy. Leukemia cells dividing. Photo courtesy of Public Library of Science For cancer patients undergoing treatment, the ups and downs can feel like living through one of those B-level movies where the zombies just never seem to die: Victories of […]

JAN MEL POLLER: ON OBAMA, JEWS AND ISRAEL

The article Warshal: President Obama and the defense of Israel brings to focus the question of how Jews can have opposing views of President Obama’s support for Israel. Is he pro-Israel or anti-Israel? But the question is not just a Jewish question. Is President Obama pro or anti-Christian? Is he pro-freedom or pro-Muslim Brotherhood? Is he for Iran getting nukes or not getting nukes? Why do these questions even exist? How can he appear to be opposite things to different people with the same interests? Here is a quote from Rep. Gary Ackerman of (D) New York:

“Enough is enough. The president is far from perfect and criticizing him is legitimate. But the lies and smears and spit-flecked hostility that have emerged in some parts of our community’s debate are a disgrace to a people that regularly asks in prayer for divine assistance to ‘guard my tongue from evil speech and my lips from speaking lies.'”

Poller responds:

Rabbi Warshal talks about lashon hara (evil tongue). He does not address another Yom Kippur lesson: Sins of Omission and Sins of Commission. This applies to all of us including the Rabbi and President Obama.

This begins to explain why my immediate family thinks Obama is anti-Israel while my still-liberal relatives think he is pro-Israel. (Liberal and Conservative are really inadequate and incorrect terms but convey an accepted message.)

It starts with Obama himself: Mr. Obama is an introspective candidate, and perhaps the best analyst of his own political style. “I serve as a blank screen,” he wrote in “The Audacity of Hope,” “on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”

We project our views onto President Obama and believe he thinks as we do. We omit the things he does that are contrary to our ideology.

Indicators of President Obama’s ideology are his friends. Here, again, we have contradictions. He numbers amongst his friends Jews like David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. But far more numerous are his anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic friends:

ANNE BAYEFSKY: THE UN’S TWISTED HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/06/20/anne-bayefsky-the-uns-twisted-human-rights-agenda/

http://www.eyeontheun.org/

The UN’s top human rights body, the UN Human Rights Council, opened its current session in Geneva this week with some Canada-bashing. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, ran down a list of human rights issues around the world that in her view were particularly pressing: Syria for crimes against humanity, a military coup in Mali, torture and summary executions in Eritrea, political prison camps and public executions in North Korea – and human rights in Quebec.

The only human rights issue Pillay described as “alarming” were “moves to restrict freedom of assembly,” and the only alarming instance she could summon up were restrictions in Quebec. The only issue about which she said she was “disappointed” was the law in Quebec. And the only specific concern she had with the violation of “freedom of association” anywhere the world over was in Quebec.

What’s behind her preposterous move?

IN ISRAEL: PUSHING BACK THE DESERT WITH ANCIENT MODES AND WISDOM

http://israel21c.org/environment/pushing-back-the-desert-with-ancient-wisdom Israel’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research shows farmers in many countries how to use a 2,000-year-old water retention method. Prof. Pedro Berliner at Wadi Mashash, one of the areas in the Negev Desert using the updated ancient system for conserving floodwater. Ancient Jewish prayers still recited today include special mention of dew in […]

MUSLIM COUPLE ACCUSED OF PLANNED ATTACKS AGAINST JEWS IN THE U.K.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/20/muslims-accused-planned-jews-attack

A Muslim couple were assembling components of a home-made bomb to attack Jewish neighbourhoods after becoming radicalised by al-Qaida propaganda on the internet, a court heard on Wednesday.Mohammed Sajid Khan, 33, and his wife, Shasta, 38, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, bought substances and equipment from supermarkets to assemble an improvised explosive device to launch a terrorist attack after carrying out visits to potential Jewish targets in Manchester, the city’s crown court heard.

Bobbie Cheema, the prosecutor, at Manchester crown court, said: “Perhaps it can be summarised this way: it was jihad at home. Between them they acquired substances, common or garden, that can be purchased in supermarkets, equipment and information of use that would help them to make explosives, and began the process of assembling an improvised explosive device.”

The couple also carried out “multiple reconnaissance” trips to Jewish areas of Salford or Manchester, it was alleged.

Behind their “apparent normality of daily life”, Khan, an unemployed car valeter, and his wife, a hairdresser, planned to carry out “jihad at home”, Cheema told the court.

The couple were only stopped by chance after a minor domestic row led to police being called to their home in Oldham.

Shasta decided to inform the police after her brother told officers went to the house: “I think he’s a home-grown terrorist.”