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December 2013

RICK RICHMAN: JABOTINSKY’S LAST BATTLE**** PLEASE READ

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Just weeks before he died, one of Zionism’s early prophets was starting to get real traction in his plan to create a Jewish army in the heart of the Holocaust.
In June 1940—at the darkest military moment of World War II—three speeches were given in two days: one by a prime minister; another by a general; the third by a Zionist leader. Everyone knows the first; some have heard of the second; few are aware of the third. But the three are of a piece, and the third still resonates today, nearly 75 years later.

On June 18, Winston Churchill—who became prime minister only five weeks before—delivered a lengthy address to a subdued Parliament, dealing primarily with the catastrophic Dunkirk evacuation he had ordered. In May, Nazi Germany had overwhelmed the low countries of Western Europe in a massive new blitzkrieg; Hitler was days away from defeating France, and Britain was unprepared for the invasion it knew would be coming next. Today everyone remembers Churchill’s speech by its final sentence: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’”

The same day, a little-known general, who had escaped the day before from France and would one day be heralded as the greatest French leader of the twentieth century, delivered a radio address in a London BBC studio. He called on French officers and men who were in Britain, or might be in the future, to get in touch with him, with or without their arms, to form a resistance. The next day he broadcast another call: “Faced by the bewilderment of my countrymen … by the fact that the institutions of my country are incapable, at the moment, of functioning, I, General de Gaulle, a French soldier and military leader, realize that I now speak for France.” In France, June 18 is now a national commemorative event, celebrated each year in memory of De Gaulle’s radio addresses.

On June 18, Vladimir Jabotinsky, head of the New Zionist Organization, was in New York City, preparing to deliver an address the next evening at the 4,500-seat Manhattan Center. He had spoken there in March to an overflow crowd of 5,000 people; now he held a press conference to preview the second address: he would call for a Jewish Army to fight “the giant rattlesnake.” On June 19 another overflow crowd showed up at the Manhattan Center, despite an extraordinary public effort by American Jewish leaders to thwart the event.

OBAMA’S COIN TOSS ON IRAN: JED BABBIN

http://spectator.org/articles/57023/obama%E2%80%99s-coin-toss Speaking to a forum on Middle East policy on Saturday, President Obama showed how cavalierly he regards his nuclear deal with Iran. Obama said, “We have to be vigilant about maintaining our security postures, not be naive about the dangers that an Iranian regime poses, fight them wherever they’re engaging in terrorism or actions that […]

MARILYN PENN: SHIFTING THE BLAME

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2013/12/09/shifting-the-blame/?print=1 Almost everything that is wrong with the Times’ sensationalized front page story, “Girl in the Shadows,”   (12/9/13) is foretold by the explanatory caption in the passive voice:  “As New York has been reborn, children like Dasani have been left behind.”  The implication is that we New Yorkers,  under the spell of our old imperial mayor, have […]

Liberals Follow the Pied Piper to a Nuclear Iran By Karin McQuillan

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/liberals_follow_the_pied_piper_to_a_nuclear_iran.html#ixzz2n48wCOU3   Democrats march docilely behind their president toward a nuclear Iran.  They are loyal beyond good sense and morality.  The enormity of nuclear armed terrorists, or war between Iran and Israel, is too terrible to believe, so it becomes easy for Democrats to dance behind their Pied Piper President, pretending that his fare is beautiful music. […]

FROM NORWAY WITH LOVE:DECLARATION FROM PASTORS AND CHURCH LEADERS IN NORWAY ****

About 40 Norwegian Christian leaders and clerics held a special ceremony in the Knesset Wednesday to formally apologize on Norway’s behalf for their role during the Holocaust and the 1993 Oslo Accords. The delegation featured representatives from 21 different organizations, who were greeted by Knesset Christian Caucus members MKs Rabbi Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid) and Gila Gamliel (Likud). The representatives then delivered a speech expressing support for Israel, as well as reservations about the Oslo Accords, which they claimed “rips apart the Land of Israel.” Here is the text of the declaration, given to every Knesset member.

DECLARATION FROM PASTORS AND CHURCH LEADERS IN NORWAY

WE SPEAK AS CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN NORWAY. WE SPEAK AS LEADERS OF CHURCHES, MINISTRIES, MISSIONS, CHRISTIAN TV AND NEWSPAPERS IN NORWAY. WE REPRESENT THE DIFFERENT REGIONS IN NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. WE REPRESENT THE TWO ORIGINAL ETHNIC GROUPS OF NORWAY: THE NORWEGIAN AND THE SAMI.

AS CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN NORWAY, WE REPENT AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FOR NORWAY’S ATTITUDE BOTH IN CHURCH AFFILIATIONS AND ELSEWHERE IN OTHER SPHERES OF THE NORWEGIAN SOCIETY.

WE AS LEADERS FROM THE NORWEGIAN PEOPLE AND THE CHURCH IN NORWAY, AS WE REPENT WE ALSO PROCLAIM THAT WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO LEAD OUR NATION INTO CHANGE. IN GRATITUDE TO GOD AND TO THE ISRAELI NATION WE WANT TO SEE A CHANGE IN NORWAY.

Forgive us Israel, as a Nation:

FOR THE OSLO AGREEMENT, DIVIDING UP ERETZ ISRAEL.

FOR THE MONEY FROM NORWAY ENDING UP SUPPORTING TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.

LEE SMITH:Obama at Saban: No Military Strike on Iranian Nuke Facilities

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-saban-no-military-strike-iranian-nuke-facilities_769733.html The military option against the Iranian nuclear weapons program is still on the table: That’s the message President Obama wanted to leave listeners with Saturday at the annual Saban Forum, hosted by the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Sure, Obama explained in his live interview conducted by Democratic fundraiser Haim Saban, his […]

IPT EXCLUSIVE: Al-Arian Resurfaces in New American Brotherhood Campaign

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4234/ipt-exclusive-al-arian-resurfaces-in-new-american A new group advocating for the restoration of Muslim Brotherhood power in Egypt held a briefing on Capitol Hill Thursday. It is part of a series of events calling for “restoring democracy to Egypt.” But like similar efforts before it, the push by the newly-established Egypt Freedom Foundation involves people with ties to Muslim […]

CAROLINE GLICK: OBAMA’S FOUR STATE SOLUTION

Obama’s four-state solution Inadvertently, President Barack Obama just made an important contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Since Hamas ousted all PLO forces from the Gaza Strip in 2007, Gaza has operated as a separate political entity from Judea and Samaria. Indeed, it has been a de facto independent Palestinian state, […]

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MUST READ: ROOSTER OF THE APOCALYPSE

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“Roosters of the Apocalypse” describes predictions of looming catastrophe from global warming as an apocalyptic prophecy with a scientific gloss, making it palatable to the modern mind. The book’s title comes from Richard Landes’s study of millennial movements: Landes calls those who crow an exciting new message demanding urgent action “roosters.” In this case, the action is to sacrifice fossil fuels, the lifeblood of our economy. Dire consequences do indeed loom as a result of “climate change” but they are economic and the book describes them: billions wasted on uneconomic “green energy,” millions forced into “fuel poverty” by green levies, jobs lost as industries are destroyed or forced abroad. The damage thus far is greatest in Europe, but the United States under President Obama, a committed climate rooster, is heading down the same path. Distinguished climatologist Richard Lindzen (professor of atmospheric science at MIT) has written the foreword: he notes that the book, appropriately in his view, places the current concern over climate in the realm of social anthropology rather than science.
Roosters of the Apocalypse: How the Junk Science of Global Warming is Bankrupting the Western World (New, Revised and Expanded Edition) Paperback