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December 2013

Soeren Kern: OIC Blames Free Speech for “Islamophobia” in West

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4088/islamophobia-oic-free-speech The common thread that binds the entire document together is the OIC’s repeated insistence that the main culprit responsible for “the institutionalization of Islamophobia” in Western countries is freedom of speech. “The Istanbul Process started with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton…. […]

ALAIN FINKIELKRAUT: A TALE OF TWO FRANCES-“A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-french-philosopher-finkielkraut-on-muslims-and-integration-a-937404.html Interview Conducted by Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick French society is under threat, argues philosopher Alain Finkielkraut in a controversial new book. The conservative spoke to SPIEGEL about what he sees as the failure of multiculturalism and the need for better integration of Muslim immigrants. Alain Finkielkraut is one of France’s most controversial […]

RUTHIE BLUM: FUNERAL REARRANGEMENTS

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6613 Funeral rearrangements On Thursday evening, Channel 10’s Or Heller, reporting from Johannesburg, expressed disappointment “as an Israeli” that neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor President Shimon Peres would be attending Tuesday’s memorial service for Nelson Mandela or Sunday’s funeral. He also stressed that the South African Jewish community was angry and ashamed that only […]

MY SAY: FIFTY YEARS AGO- THE ARMISTICE THAT ENDED THE KOREAN WAR

On July 27, 1953, the United states, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea and South Korea ended the Korean War with an Armistice, leaving the nation divided with brutal Marxist tyrants in control of the north. That was America’s first experiment with “limited war” and a day that lives in apathy.

Please read the following column on North Korea.

THE “PALESTINIANS” WHO CAME INTO EXISTENCE 50 YEARS AGO PLAN A MURAL OF THEIR 3500 YEAR HISTORY :DANIEL GREENFIELD

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/palestinian-people-who-came-into-existence-50-years-ago-plan-mural-of-their-3500-year-history/print/

Except all the Jewish stuff. Though Palestinian Arab spokespeople have a history of claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian. (His mother and grandmother presumably were another story.)

So far I’m just seeing an Arafat mural. And that makes sense because the project is probably another glorification bid by Arafat’s unelected band of militias who insist on calling themselves a government even though their president refuses to stand for an actual election.

And because Palestinian history began with Arafat.

As many as 25 Palestinian artists are working on what could be the crowning artistic achievement of their lives – and the Arab world’s largest-ever mural.

But for the artists working on the unfinished project, the 1,000-square-meter mural, dubbed “Huna Canaan” (“Here is Canaan”), isn’t just a painting. Rather, it’s an illustration of more than 3,500 years of Palestinian history.

In a tediously predictable bait and switch, local Arabs are claiming to be Palestinians… and Canaanites. Considering that the latter are long extinct and the former were never a people.

Some Zionists did flirt with a regional Canaanite identity that would unite them and the Arabs together. It was a rather stupid idea considering that neither Jews nor Arabs are Canaanites and that the history of Israel began with a long struggle with the Canaanites, interrupted by Egyptian slavery, that concluded with their eventual expulsion.

HUMBERTO FONTOVA: A CAVEAT ON NELSON MANDELA ****

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/humberto-fontova/caveat-on-nelson-mandela/ A Martian visiting earth this week, coasting TV channels and perusing papers, would have to conclude that among the items that most interest this planet’s news bureaus is the plight of former political prisoners, especially black ones. Well, many Cubans (many of them black) suffered longer and more horrible incarceration in Castro’s KGB-designed dungeons […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE UK CONFRONTS ISLAM

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-uk-confronts-islamism/print/ A century ago the murder of a British soldier in broad daylight in London would have been an act of war. In this post-imperial and post-everything age, an atrocity leads to a task force which produces a report which is then filed in a desk drawer by the undersecretary for something or other. Like […]

NOAH WIENER: ISRAEL’S LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE IN JUDEA

http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2013/12/little-house-on-the-prairie/?utm_source=Mosaic+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=21e9f1f9ae-Mosaic_2013_12_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b0517b2ab-21e9f1f9ae-41165129
Eshtaol Excavations Reveal the Oldest House in the Shephelah

Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavations at Eshtaol recently uncovered the remains of a 10,000-year-old house in the Judean Shephelah, the lowland west of Jerusalem, as well as a later cult site, stone axes and other Neolithic remains. The excavations, which were conducted before a proposed Israeli highway expansion, revealed several stages of the millennia-long narrative of early cultural development at Eshtaol, a site associated with the birth and burial of Samson in the Biblical period (Judges 13:25; 16:31).

In an IAA press statement, archaeologists Amir Golani, Ya‘akov Vardi, Benyamin Storchan and Ron Be’eri describe the significance of the 10,000-year-old domestic building (pictured to the right), which dates to the transitional Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. “It should be emphasized that whoever built the house did something that was totally innovative because up until this period man migrated from place to place in search of food. Here we have evidence of man’s transition to permanent dwellings and that in fact is the beginning of the domestication of animals and plants; instead of searching out wild sheep, ancient man started raising them near the house.”

Egypt’s Women: Covered-up or Locked-up by Michael Armanious

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4081/egypt-women “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street…and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat? If she was in her room, in her home in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.” — Sheikh Taj Din Al-Hilali, Grand Mufti, Australia, […]

DAVID SOLWAY: A Great Reckoning In A Little Room: Obama’s Deal With Iran Is Only One Action In a Concerted Campaign to Fatally Weaken Israel.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/great-reckoning/?print=1 Back in July of 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Sderot, the southern Israeli city battered by rocket fire from Gaza, and delivered a speech emphasizing Israel’s right to defend itself and stressing that “peace should not undermine its security.” He vowed that he would not, as president, force Israel to make dangerous concessions […]