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Posted in: Worst. Defense. Ever.
It should come as no surprise that "progressives" and such internationalists as George Soros will do anything to demonize Glenn Beck for exposing both their agenda and their penetration into government and policy circles. I received my Economics Ph.D. from the same "Fabian Socialist" school Soros attended and could not be more opposed to his ideology.
Posted in: Obama at AIPAC: Should Bibi stay or should he go?
When Senator Obama addressed AIPAC during his Presidential campaign, he said Jerusalem was the single, undivided capital of Israel, only to take it back the next morning when the Arabs didn't like it. Since then he has refused to move the US embassy, insulted and demeaned the Israeli Prime Minister, and bowed to Arab kings. Anyone who believes anything he says to AIPAC this time in an attempt to keep the Jewish vote would have to be pretty gullible.\ Deeds, not words.
Posted in: Ignoring Jewish special needs kids
It depends on what mean by "orthodox Jews". Chabad's national Friendship Circle, for example, provides mentors for special needs children and visits them in their homes regularly as well. Chabad of California's Gan Israel preschool on Pico Blvd in Los Angeles is an "inclusive" school in which special needs children are integrated with other students and all facilities and playground equipment is special needs friendly. It has been supported and singled out by the Los Angeles Universal Preschool Program, which uses cigarette tax money to provide free preschool for students throughout the region, as a part of state-wide California First Five.
Posted in: Turkey and the Holocaust
How soon shushan dennis forgets. Putin was a high official in the KGB, whose crimes make the CIA look like a humanitarian public service organization.
Posted in: Helen Thomas quits
I once sat with Helen Thomas after dinner at her favorite Calvert St. Lebanese restaurant in Northwest Washington. I found her to be friendly and gracious until the Middle East came up. At that point I put her in my "Crazy Aunt" file, though she is no relative. Her virulent anti-semitism (at least with respect to Israeli Jews) is well known to Washington insiders. Yet she has been tolerated for her high entertainment value at White House press conferences except when Israel comes up. She made the Mel Gibson error--revealing her true anti-semitism in a way that would become quoted, and in her case, recorded. Gibson is still suffering the consequences, and she will, too. Add Fred Malek to the list based on current developments. In Malek's case his friends say he has apologized and "paid the price". However antisemitism is a fundamental character defect, as is prejudice against any group on grounds of religion, ethnicity or national origin. Because of its fundamental nature, it cannot be rectified with a simple apology. Instead it requires what Jews call Teshuvah--return to the straight path by actions. That concept is behind, for example, the notion of community service for certain transgressions. If Miss Thomas wishes to rehabilitate herself, she could do much worse than contribute a significant portion of her time to, for example, service to residents of a Jewish home for the aged. At her full years I am sure she has much to share about adapting to the aging experience.
Posted in: Sandra Bullock's big news
It's not a "bris", it's a circumcision if the child isn't Jewish. That it's performed by a Mohel is irrelevant.
Posted in: Life for Rubashkin?
Mr. Karp appears to believe that a criminal defendant should be sentenced not for crimes of which he has been convicted, but of alleged crimes for which he has not been charged. Maybe in a totalitarian state such as Germany and Russia of not too many years ago, but not in a country where the legal presumption is "innocent until PROVEN guilty."
Posted in: Change or die
Congregant: "What does 'Kosher Style' mean? Rabbi: Tref
Posted in: Reporting on Michael Oren: Scooped or duped?
Although I don't wish to speculate on Ravid's journalistic integrity, since my mind-reading abilities are no better than the next man's, I can see a logical answer for the extreme behavior of Secretary Clinton. The President is clearly trying to look for his lost keys where the light is better, not where the keys are lost. Since the Palestinians have been repeatedly intransigent, he is, and has been trying to pressure Israel to sacrifice its national interest in hopes the Palestinians will accept yet more concessions and come to the table. That failed strategy has been tried by many US Presidents, and reflects a fundamental lack of understanding of the basic problem separating the sides: the Palestinians don't want peace, they want the destruction of Israel. And they continue to say so in their charters despite repeated (let's be frank) lies about the impending removal of such terms. Moreover, they continue incitement, which creates a climate allowing them to claim they can't go against their people; a climate of the leadership's own making. It's time the President got off his attempt to throw Israel under the bus in aid of his kowtowing to Arab princes. Since a recent poll shows that Americans side 8:1 with Israel against the Palestinians, the current Administration's strategy is simply unAmerican and violates the will of the people, despite massive attempts to change that national will by ex-President Carter, Stephen Walt and his "realist" friends, and Saudi funding of US universities and think tanks. As for Secretary Clinton herself, her recent statements on the matter have, in my opinion, shot her political future in the foot.
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Updated 02/10/12 @ 02:44PM EST
- Cat Power canceled an Israeli show that was to have taken place Sunday, citing fans' concerns about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Three Jewish groups that favor insurance coverage of contraceptives praised President Obama's comrpromise allowing religious institutions to direct staff to alternative health care plans funding such services.
- An Obama administration official said the United States urged Israel not to free Palestinian terrorists in the Gilad Shalit exchange deal who killed Americans.
- Turkey will never endorse a military strike on Iran, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a Washington audience.
- Israel's test of a missile defense system was declared a "major milestone" in its efforts to establish viable barriers to a missile strike.
- Citing Palestinian conflict, rocker Cat Power cancels Tel Aviv show
- Reform, Hadassah, JWI praise Obama contraceptives compromise
- Holder: U.S. urged Israel not to release killers of Americans
- Turkish FM: We will never endorse striking Iran
- Israeli missile defense test a ‘milestone’
- Sarkozy: Iran solution should be non-military
- Marines’ SS photo condemned by Jewish groups
- Grandson of Auschwitz survivor takes the ice for Germany
Posted in: Opposing Beck isn't Jewish
07/28/11 12:54 PM
Kalman Panicki seems to think his mind-reading abilities are greater than those vouchsafed to ordinary mortals. Imputing motives is one of the last refuges of the scoundrel.