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State of the Union to come on Lincoln’s birthday

MAYBE DANIEL DAY LEWIS SHOULD DELIVER THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS?….RSK
The Washington Times
Friday, January 11, 2013
News
President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 12, House Speaker John Boehner said. Read more…

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Judge lets Taliban terrorist pray with prisonmates
Associated Press
Friday, January 11, 2013
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A federal judge has ruled that a convicted Taliban fighter should be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates at their high-security prison in Indiana. Read more…

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Iran threatens to kidnap Western diplomats
The Washington Free Beacon
Friday, January 11, 2013
News
The United States government is concerned about new threats of Iranian-backed terrorism against diplomats and high-profile religious leaders in the Middle East from operations by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Read more…

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Perry pokes Cuomo on state economies
Politico
Friday, January 11, 2013
News
Texas Gov. Rick Perry singled out New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday while arguing that other governors should be envious of the Lone Star State’s economic record. Read more…

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MARK STEYN ON HAGEL

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-383164-hagel-defense.html Obamacare at home leads inevitably to Obamacuts abroad. If you had buttonholed me in the Senate men’s room circa 2003 and told me that a decade hence Joe Biden would be America’s vice president, John Kerry Secretary of State, and Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, I’d have laughed and waited for the punch line: […]

DAVID SINGER: ABBAS, ATTITUDE AND ANNEXATION

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2013/01/david-singer-on-abbas-attitude.html The latest article by my e-pal Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer….rsk ‘Annexation of large areas of the West Bank by Israel has now become a distinct possibility with the unilateral decision this week to scrap any trace of the existence of the Palestinian Authority by its President Mahmoud Abbas. In a […]

Wahied Wahdat-Hagh : A Cartoon Festival in Iran as Response to Charlie Hebdo

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2422/made_in_iran_islamist_anti_semitism rench magazine Charlie Hebdo has never been one to shrink in the face of Islamist threats. Having had its offices firebombed in the past, the ‘provocative’ outfit has taken the decision to publish for a third time cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. In response, it has been reported by Farsnews that an anti-Semitic cartoon […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS PART TWO

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ DRONING ON It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the report is propaganda manufactured by FFR and Reprieve on behalf of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. And if there is really any doubt about that at all, the following should clear it up. “I know a lot of people, girls and boys, whose […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS PART ONE

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ CRIMINALS HATE GUNS Criminals hate guns. Whether it’s the street mugger, the corrupt CEO or the dirty politician, they hate the idea that any of their victims might be armed. Mugging an armed man is dangerous. Throwing an armed man out of his home is dangerous. Repressing an armed man is dangerous. If your […]

Past and Present: Some Reflections on American-Jewish Intellectuals: Edward Alexander

IN MEMORIAM: Norman Fruman, soldier, scholar, loyal friend “Shame and contrition, because we have not done enough,weigh even more heavily upon the Jews of the free countries [than on the Allied powers]. Not only do wehave the greater responsibility of kinsmen, but our own weakness may be one of the causes why so little has […]

LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS: BOTH ISRAELI MOVIES THAT GOT A NOD FROM THE OSCARS ARE HARSHLY CRITICAL….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/two-israeli-films-harshly-critical-of-israel-get-oscar-nod/2013/01/11/

IN ISRAEL FILM MAKERS ARE FREE TO CRITICIZE AND BASH ISRAEL…..IN ALL THE ARAB NATIONS SUCH MOVIE MAKING WOULD RESULT IN JAIL TIME FOR THE PRODUCERS AND A RIOT OR TWO IN THE ARAB GUTTER….RSK

The nominations for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards best movies of 2012 were announced yesterday, January 10, and two Israeli films are among those nominated.

Of course, both movies portray Israel in a negative light, so calm down before kvelling.

The movies, “5 Broken Cameras,” and “The Gatekeepers,” were both nominated in the category of Best Documentary film. Both films portray Israelis as primarily violent thugs who are intent on oppressing the Arab Palestinians.

“5 Broken Cameras” is produced and directed by an Arab Palestinian, Emad Burnat, and an Israeli Jew, Guy Davidi. It won the World Cinema Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Festival.

Emad Burnat, the storyteller in “5 Broken Cameras,” is from the village of Bil’in, which is the site of a weekly protest by the villagers and numerous activists hungry for fights with Israelis. The protests are ostensibly about the creation of Israel’s security fence – which opponents often refer to as an “Apartheid wall,” and the film documents these protests. The 5 broken cameras in the movie’s title refer, according to Burnat, to five different cameras of his which have been broken by the Israelis in “brutal” attempts to squash the Arabs’ “non-violent” protests.

EGYPT’S INTRACTABLE DILEMMA: ANDREW BOSTOM

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/egypts_intractable_dilemma.html Ibrahim Nawar, an outspoken advocate of press freedom in Araby, has just published (Thursday 1/10/13) a wistful lament in Al-Ahram about Egypt’s predicament since Mubarak was deposed, two years ago, till now. Although Nawar’s observations are overly (if understandably) sentimentalized, they contain critical, honest insights. Most importantly, Nawar accepts that Egypt has failed to […]

MARTIN SHERMAN: NETANYAHU….THE PATHOLOGY

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=299209 Into The Fray: The venomous ad hominem attacks on the PM by his political opponents have long exceeded the limits of rational criticism and reasoned dissent. Leah Rabin said yesterday that she preferred to shake the hand of PLO chief Yasser Arafat rather than that of Likud Party chairman Binyamin Netanyahu –The Jerusalem Post, […]