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November 2012

RALPH AHREN: SIMPLE SHIMON PERES THANKS RUSSIA FOR A “THOUSAND YEARS OF HOSPITALITY”…SHARANSKY REPONDS

http://www.timesofisrael.com/sharansky-rails-against-peres-for-thanking-russia-for-thousand-years-of-hospitality/
Sharansky rails against Peres, who thanked Russia for ‘thousand years of hospitality’
Why did world Jewry have to struggle on behalf of Soviet brethren if the country was so friendly to Jews, USSR-born ex-prisoner of Zion asks By Raphael Ahren |
Jewish Agency chairman and former cabinet minister Natan Sharansky (photo credit: courtesy JAFI)

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky on Tuesday criticized President Shimon Peres for thanking the Russian people for “a thousand years of hospitality.” Centuries of discriminatory laws and pogroms clearly showed that the country was not always the most welcoming place for Jews, Sharansky noted.

“I really don’t understand what this means,” said Sharansky — who was born in the former USSR and spent years in a Soviet prison fighting for his right to immigrate to Israel — in response to Peres’s comments, which were made during a visit to Moscow last week. “For several hundred years, the Jews weren’t allowed to enter Russia, and after that there were 300 years during which a thousand anti-Jews laws were published. I have a book of a thousand laws against the Jews that were passed in Russia. And I am not even talking about pogroms,” he told Israel Radio.

“Why did world Jewry have to fight to liberate the Jews from the Soviet Union, if there was such great hospitality?” Sharansky added.

On Thursday, Peres attended the inauguration of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow and spoke very warmly about Russia’s treatment of the Jews.
Shimon Peres speaks at the opening of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, Russia. November 08, 2012. Photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

“I came here to say thank you. Thank you for a thousand years of hospitality,” he said. “A thousand years that the great country of Russia gave to my small nation. It is a historical thank you that remains fresh today.”

Many Jews tend to think of czarist Russia, and its successor state, the Soviet Union, as a place where Jews were systematically persecuted and at the best of times barely tolerated. But according to Hebrew University’s Jonathan Dekel-Chen, a leading expert on the history of Russian Jewry, the historical reality is too complex to be summed up in slogans.

RALPH BENKO: THE END OF THE KARL ROVE GRIP SIGNALS A REAGAN RENAISSANCE

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2012/11/12/the-end-of-the-karl-rove-death-grip-signals-a-reagan-renaissance/ Liberals do not grasp the distinction between Ronald Reagan and (either) George Bush. This blind spot creates a massive confusion and hazard to their ambitions. Obama defeated neither the Reagan Narrative nor Team Reagan. Team Bush appropriated, and then marginalized, both. Obama beat Team Bush, not Team Reagan. The implications are huge. There was […]

MY SAY: HE IS THE VERY MODEL OF A MAJOR U.S. GENERAL WITH APOLOGIES TO GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

He is the very model of a major U.S. General
With information vegetable, animal, and mineral
He know the royals of England, and can quote fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

He’s very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
And understands equations, both the simple and quadratical

On issues of religion he is really quite Canonical

With Predilections for the issues quite Koranical

For his military knowledge, though he’s plucky and adventury
Has only been around for the beginning of the century

In fact, he knows what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”

And he can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties and surprises he’s more wary at
But he knows precisely what is meant by “commissariat”

He knows what progress has been made in modern gunnery
And he knows more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
He has a smattering of elemental strategy and surge,

But couldn’t fight that elemental urge

They say in distant ports there’s nothing like a Broad, Well

That certain tumescence he couldn’t quell

But he is the very model of a patriotic general

He is a soldier at heart and will tell all

On Hillary’s sword he will not fall

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DOJ protocol let FBI remain silent on Petraeus
Roll Call
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
DOJ protocol let FBI remain silent on Petraeus
Lawmakers from both parties expressed frustration Monday that the FBI did not inform them that it was conducting an investigation that included former CIA Director David Petraeus. But it’s not at all clear that the agency violated protocol. Read more…

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2nd-term curse: Political irrelevance and scandals
Yahoo News
Monday, November 12, 2012
Commentary
2nd-term curse: Political irrelevance and scandals
The re-elected president should be worrying about the Second-Term Curse. Second presidential terms have almost always been disappointing and sad with thwarted ambitions, scandal and a slow slide towards political irrelevance. Read more…

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Petraeus’ other love affair was with media
CNN
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
David Petraeus had another love affair long before the one that cost him his job running the CIA. It was with the press. The retired general’s skillful courtship of journalists brought him a career’s worth of favorable headlines. Read more…

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FBI kept Petraeus probe private until election over
McClatchy Newspapers
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
FBI Director Robert Mueller’s top aide was told former CIA chief David Petraeus was having an extramarital affair that might have compromised national security a week before the Nov. 6 elections, a congressional official said Monday. Read more…

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THE SECOND TERM BOWING BEGINS:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/12/obamas-second-term-bowing-begins/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS The head of the Palestinian Authority verbally smacked down the president of the United States, and the White House responded with a conciliatory note. Welcome to President Obama’s more flexible second term. Shortly after his Nov. 6 victory, Mr. Obama telephoned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the Palestinians’ drive for U.N. recognition […]

WAS PETRAEUS SCARIFICED FOR OBAMA? MATTHEW VADUM

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/was-petraeus-sacrificed-for-obama/print/ As the scandal regarding the Obama administration’s deadly bungling in Benghazi, Libya, begins to heat up, suddenly CIA director David Petraeus is out, felled by his own sex scandal. Complicating matters further, Ronald Kessler reports at Newsmax that “Senior FBI officials suppressed disclosure of the highly sensitive case, apparently to avoid embarrassment to Obama […]

PUSHING BACK AGAINST STEALTH JIHAD CHARTER SCHOOLS: ARNOLD AHLERT

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/pushing-back-against-stealth-jihad-charter-schools/ Americans may not realize it yet, but Turkey’s regression from a secular democracy into an Islamic state may be based on an educational movement that has also taken root in America. Imam Fethullah Gülen and his Gülen Movement (GM) have had enormous influence in setting the increasingly Islamist agenda of Turkey’s ruling Justice and […]

A CONSERVATIVE SELL OUT IS NOT THE SOLUTION:DANIEL GREENFIELD

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/a-conservative-sellout-is-not-the-solution/print/ Many of you reading this probably felt a kick in the gut when the election results came in. Filled with optimism by Republican pollsters predicting a landslide victory, the outcome came as an even bigger shock. Losing is never fun or easy and can lead to a temporary state of shell shock in which […]

WSJ: SAUDI AMERICA?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578114591174453074.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Sometimes the revolution politicians seek isn’t the one they get. Consider the irony—and the opportunity—in Monday’s report that the U.S. is likely to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer as early as 2020. In its annual world energy outlook, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says the global energy map “is […]

GADI ADELMAN: RETALIATE YET AGAIN

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/retaliate-yet-again?f=must_reads For the most part Israel’s military responses can be summed up with one word; “Restraint.: I understand the reasoning, from politics to world view, I get it, I don’t always agree, but I do understand. But at what point does Israel stop worrying about world view, which we all know will always be against […]