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Posted in: Bork aims to Bork Barack's Kagan with Barak
Regarding retired Justice Barak - this discussion is nonsense and evades a real issue that Dean Kagan should be forced to address. DEAN KAGAN owes us an explanation of why she rejected ROTC on Harvard's campus because of the Clinton Administration's "don't-ask-don't-tell" policy for the military, while she stood by silently as Harvard accepted a multi-million dollar gift from Saudi Arabia to endow a chair for Saudi and Sharia studies. Saudi style Sharia mandates death for convicted homosexuals! Re Retired Chief Justice Barak - Bork is off base. Kagan is off base. Scalia - i'm not sure. Barak headed Israel's Supreme Court which has NO constitution to consult - only common law. Which to choose? the Talmud and it's 2,000 years of questions and responses? - as Justice Menachem Elon did; Turkish Common law and its 500 years of Q & As?; British common law? and its 29 years of rule. Other country's common law? So Barack chose everything in sight - except Jewish common law! Shame on him!
Posted in: Live blogging the State of the Union
He sounded like a Chicago mafioso when he went after the Supreme Court Justices - thuggery! Moreover rude as he attacked and insulted and lied about the Justices who were sitting there as guests of the Congress. But the Democrats stood and applauded. S H A M E ! ! And this is the constitutional law professor - no wonder that he refused to release his school transcripts and other pertanent info about his education, financial supporters and experience - while the media ((who had no problem sending 200 hundred reporters to Alaska to investigate Palin)) stood by and like a choir hummed\\ing hosanas while the Reverend Obama preached. SB Potomac MD
Posted in: Alice Walker's Yom Kippur sermon
To Michael Lerner, Alice Walker, David - what are you smoking? - it may be just the thing to help me be oblivious to the next 3.25 years of that other friend of Israel, Obama! :) Real insightful Alice Walker - the answer to the Palestinian-Israel struggle is "one state"? Just what the world needs - another Lebanon. You think your solution will bring peace to the world? I guess in your travels you never came across the scorpion and the frog. As for who-hit-who-1st - Thomas Roberts said it all. Good job Tom!
Posted in: Op-Ed: GOP must repudiate Limbaugh or be defined by him
At the end of the day, Limbaugh is an entertainer. Meanwhile elected Democrats demonize U.S. citizens with impunity - Pelosi calls citizens who don't like her bills "nazis"; Obama calls cops who arrest his friend for disorderly conduct "stupid"; elected Democrats have honed to a fine art their practice of avoiding debating issues with their political opponents and instead demonize Republicans as threats to Social Security - as racists - as "fat cats" who hate the little guy - and then these same demonizing-Dems are utterly shocked when the elderly spot them as being wolves under sheep's clothing and attack the Dems' health care porposals. Mr. Rosensaft protestith too much.
Posted in: Netanyahu's proposed ban on NGO funding raises questions for U.S. groups
Perhaps Netanyahu is still smarting from the money that poured in from Bill Clinton's cohorts in the US in the late 1990'2 that enabled Barak to defeat Bibi for reelection so Clinton could deal with a left of center government. Perhaps the Israeli public is smarting from the results of the dynamic duo - Clinton and Barak - giving Arafat the best deal the P.A. ever got and in return Israel's citizens suffered Intifada II - proportionally equivalent to 6+ 911's in the US. Transparency is the answer - well understood by Foxman - but not by the anonymous dissenter from Bibi's proposal to ban or at least identify outside money as such.
Posted in: Mitchell is optimistic, the El(l)iot(t)s are not
Before making moral equivalents re E Abrams comments about the parade of Obama officals trooping to Israel, perhaps "Capital J" writer Ron Kampeas might explain how Obama sending in the same week 2 cabinet level officals + 2 White House Middle East Czars is any where equivalent to any trip that Asst Secy Elliot Abrams or other Bush sub-cabinet officials ever made to Israel.
Posted in: U.S. vigils remember slain gay Israelis
While the article does not identify the gunman's level of religiousity, the author and R Herzfeld seem to leave no dougt that Israel's orthodox community is responsible for this crime. Is it too much to expect that we not submit our own to profiling of the kind that we hate when applied to others?
Posted in: Does Obama still have the 'kishkes' problem?
Jeffrey Blankfort is right IF you turn history on its head and deny the Brits their internationally recognized right as a mandate governor to declare a Jewish State in the area east of the Jordon (1918), which the U.N. incorporated in its declaration of an independent State of Israel (1947) - (i was around for the later but not for the former - perhaps Mr. Blankfort, claiming the wisdom of old age, was present for both.) It would also be a twist of history to force a peace on the victor of a defensive war - including requiring resettlement of folks kept in "refugee" status by their Arab brothers for 62 years (when on the average, historically, folks have moved from refugee status to resettling somewhere in an average of 7 years.) But giving Mr. Blankfort the benefit of the doubt, it must be long past due for most of us "Americans", descendents of non-North Americans, to end our intransience and settle accounts with Native Americans. Finally, giving Mr. Blankfort the benefit of the doubt, what say he about the status of almost 1 million Jews chased from Arab lands in the late 1940's leaving behind real estate 7+ times the size of Israel and wealth worth in excess of $50 billion.
Posted in: Bibi rebuffs U.S. on halting Jerusalem project
Mr. Hicks i looked at the video with an open mind and heart. I feel for Palestinians who have been kept in refugee status by their own leaders, the leaders of Arab states, and even by the acquiescence of the U.N. and thereby indirectly by the U.S.A. The average tenure as "refugee" in recorded history is 7 years. I feel for those whose leaders have given them the distinction of remaining enslaved in refugee camps almost 9 times longer than the world-wide average - Palestinian refugee camps have been maintained for 61 years and counting, not by Israel, but by Palestinians and their brothers and sisters. I truly feel for the refugees. Meanwhile the refugee camp maintainers have refused a two state solution many times since 1947, and at the same time condemn Palestinians, who depend on them, to rot in the refugee camps. Now, on a completely different topic, tell me exactly why an Israeli government should acquiesce to the feelings of empathy that you and others have for the sad state of affairs of 61 years of Palestinians as refugees, and declare disputed land Yuden-rein (no Jews allowed)? And tell me exactly how it will come about that a land free of Jews will hasten the day when all parties respect each others' borders and really live in peace.
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Updated 02/09/12 @ 05:54PM EST
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- A truck driving calves from Eilat to the Golan Heights was hijacked into the West Bank.
- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
Posted in: Bibi and Barack the Morning After
07/07/10 07:31 PM
It's history - but many seem to have forgotten - particularly the Bibi haters - that the last time there was a P.M. Netanyahu, he, Bibi, implemented all Oslo Process arrangements that the prior Israeli Govt (Labor) had agreed to, including withdrawing from Hebron. What will he do now? Dunno - but one can be pretty sure that Bibi will not settle for nice words from the Palestinians - he will make his move when he sees real action on the Palestinian side to promote security and peaceful relations between two neighboring people - including an abrupt end to the demonization of Israel and of the Jewish people. Meanwhile he will likely continue to take concrete steps, invisable to the American media eye, to support P. A.'s efforts to build infrastructure and the economy in the territory they currently govern.