http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/california-prison-early-release_n_3698348.html?1375485959&icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D353168 SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 California inmates by year’s end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they’re forced to open the prison gates. A majority of justices refused an […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Into-the-Fray-Resign-just-resign-321828 Recent developments reveal a dramatic erosion in Netanyahu’s strategic perspectives that makes it impossible to justify his continued incumbency. Prisoner releases only embolden terrorists…they encourage precisely the terrorist blackmail they are supposed to defuse. – Binyamin Netanyahu, Fighting Terrorism (1995) What sort of people and government would agree to free the […]
Fort Hood Terrorist Renounces U.S Citizenship, Denounces Democracy Fort Hood Terrorist Renounces U.S Citizenship, Denounces Democracy: Days before he’s set to go on trial, the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage released more of his writings about America and Islam. Media on Thursday posted documents in which Maj. Nidal Hasan renounced his […]
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” “Israel Hayom”, August 2, 2013, http://bit.ly/15jJuzA The Head of Israel’s Security Services, Yoram Cohen, stated that 60% of released Palestinian terrorists revert to operational terrorism. Most of the 1,150 terrorists, released via the May 21, 1985 “Jibril Exchange” played a key role during the First Intifada (wave […]
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/08/01/self-respect-the-unrealized-vision-for-the-jewish-state/
WHY DOES THE AUTHOR NOT MENTION VLADIMIR ZEEV JABOTINSKY, WHO, BETTER THAN ALL THE ZIONIST FOUNDING FATHERS EXEMPLIFIED THE ZIONIST DREAMS AND GOALS/ OTHERWISE THIS IS A FINE COLUMN…..RSK
In the nineteenth century, Theodor Herzl and other political Zionists shared a vision for a Jewish state that would allow the Jewish People to regain their self-respect after almost two millennia of national homelessness. Would Zionists like Alkalai, Kalischer, Mohilever, Hess, Pinsker, Pines, Nordau, Reines, Bar-Ilan, Ahad Ha’am, and Bialik see in modern Israel the dignity they craved for their people? After 65 years of Jewish political independence, unfortunately, it remains rather doubtful.
What, then, would a self-respecting Jewish state look like?
To be sure, it would not look like a nation that does not exert sovereignty over its heartland; that during wartime engages in repetitive rounds of combat instead of decisive victories; that releases busloads of bloodstained murderers for a single soldier or as a “gesture” of peace; or that engages in negotiations of any kind at any time with wolves in wolves’ clothing, envoys of a culture of hatred.
Leo Pinsker wanted Jews to “rise manfully to our full height.” And, indeed, for the most part the individual Jew no longer needs to stoop like a weary ghost wandering between shtetls and ghettos, or plead like a beggar on his knees. But is the State of Israel not routinely stooping before its international adversaries, not perennially begging for foreign aid, UN votes, and recognition of its rightful capital from its apparent allies?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/us-to-close-embassies-sun_n_3690701.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D352800 U.S. To Close Embassies Sunday Over Security Fears WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) – U.S. embassies that would normally be open this Sunday – including those in Abu Dhabi, Baghdad and Cairo – will be closed that day because of unspecified security concerns, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. CBS News reported that the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/five-lessons-from-egypt-and-the-arab-spring/ 1. Don’t Believe Anything You Hear Egyptian liberals allied with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow Mubarak and challenge the military. In those heady Tahrir Square days, they ridiculed the idea that Mubarak’s overthrow would benefit the Muslim Brotherhood. Now those same liberals have teamed up with the military to take down a Muslim Brotherhood […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/print/ A former American NSA and CIA security contractor-turned-whistleblower leaks to the international press highly classified government documents revealing that his beloved U.S.A. is spying on its citizens. “I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things [conducts surveillance on its citizens],” he told Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian after […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/an-heroic-stand-against-overwhelming-odds Maj. William P. “Bill” Collier’s 54-hour pitched battle against massed wave-attacks from a determined, numerically superior enemy force may yet to have inspired a book or screenplay (“yet” mind you). But a growing number of military officers, various veterans’ organizations, congressmen, senators, and at least one South Carolina governor believe the Columbia, S.C. man’s […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-great-defunding-obamacare-debate?f=puball Congress is going on vacation in August and the President will be taking another one in Martha’s Vineyard where the very rich and the extremely rich pass a summer’s day. When both return they will have until September 30 to pass a continuing resolution; the way the government has been funded for many years. […]
