Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Monday, March 26, 2012

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The terrorists and their protectors (JERUSALEM POST OP-ED) By MICHAEL WIDLANSKI

Terror aims at the human mind.
   


The goal is seizing the mind, not territory. Terrorists want to get into our head, while we, to survive, need to get into theirs.

The average citizen does not have time to study Arabic or Farsi, and he or she must rely on the gatekeepers of our minds – our media, our academia and our government/intelligence agencies.
   
These elites are essentially our public intellectuals. They should be our best and our brightest, the guardians of Western democratic society. Instead they became our worst and our dimmest, purveyors of a politically correct and factually inaccurate ideology of idiocy, a doctrine of willful ignorance.

This is true in the United States, in Europe and in Israel.

Top anti-terror officials in the Obama administration give speeches at NYU or Georgetown describing the beauty of Islam and speaking of jihad as a spiritual journey. The New York Times wins prizes for disclosing the most sensitive counter-terror surveillance programs, a program to monitor phone communication and a program to monitor money transfers.
   
Meanwhile, the Associated Press launches a real jihad, a holy war, against the New York City Police for being too watchful of the same Muslim community that spawned the NY attacks of 1993 and 2001.

These same institutions did not launch serious investigations of the mosques in Brooklyn, Queens and Jersey City after the World trade Center attack of 1993 or the attack of 2001.

Nor have they probed the way Islamic terrorists are manufactured inside prison systems in America, Britain and Israel.
   
Inside Israel, many of our elites automatically support protests by Palestinian security prisoners inside Israeli jails, and they also protest when Israeli officials try to stem the tide of illegal immigration by thousands of Sudanese and others who swamp our borders.
   
Our media, many in academia and even officials in government prefer to claim they see a plague of what they call Islamophobia – an unreasoning fear of Islam, and a rise in hate crimes against Muslims. This is not true.
   
Actually, the terror attacks in France this week, and the earlier Iranian attacks in Thailand, India and Kazakhstan show increased attacks on Jews.
   
There is no wave of hate crimes against Muslims in America, in Europe or in Israel, and there is no phobia of Islam, no Islamophobia.

Actually, our elites exhibit Islamophilia – a reflexive love or protection of anything Islamic. I discuss the intellectual basis for these trends in my book – Battle for Our Minds: Western Elites and the Terror Threat. Here are some highlights of the intellectual perversion that infected our elites for the past two generations, causing America to be unready for 9/11 and Israel to be unable to admit the mistakes of the Oslo Process of 1993: Prof. Edward Said redefined Middle East studies for Western universities, but he knew almost no Arabic, and he used no Arabic sources in his work. Yet, Said became the gold standard for Middle East studies in the United States, and he was consulted on hiring decisions in this field, though he was himself a professor of English.

Edward Said became a virtual patron saint for MESA, the Middle East Studies Association. On September 11,2002, MESA presented its first annual Edward Said Award, on the first anniversary of 9/11. Said campaigned against anyone who said Ayatollah Khomeini was an extremist, and he lampooned and harpooned anyone who said Saddam Hussein was a vicious tyrant. Said’s views, not those of Bernard Lewis, were published in the New York Times.
   
Said’s popular teachings promoted the careers of Said “wannabes” like John Esposito at Georgetown, and Fred Halliday at the London School of Economics who spoke of the “myth” of Arab-Islamic terror before 9/11, while focusing, after 9/11, on the supposed persecution of Muslims rather than on growing Islamic terror.
   
Then there’s Michael Scheuer, the CIA’s “hunter” of Osama bin Laden, who never served as a field agent knew no Arabic, and misidentified Islamic holy sites. Scheuer admired bin Laden, blamed the US and Israel for vexing him, and called American Jews a dangerous minority that threatened America’s interests.
   
Scheuer even says that they have to be destroyed.

Paul Pillar, a top CIA Middle East analyst, showed a colossal off- base percentage for his predictions over a decade: claiming before 9/11 the US was not threatened by terror, then, that Iran was not seeking an atom bomb, and that the US should reach out to Iran and Syria, despite their terror roles and their bloody, repressive regimes.
   
Like Scheuer and Pillar, CIA director George Tenet never was a field agent, and he promoted their writings and their careers even as he censored talented field agents who said the CIA had become “too political” and was unprepared for terror.

CNN’s Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Peter Arnett, producer Robert Wiener and news director Eason Jordan played ball with Saddam Hussein’s government, ignoring some of his worst atrocities; CNN’s Wiener removed all the Jewish mezuzahs from the doorways of CNN’s rented offices in Jerusalem.
   
Tom Friedman, who got a Pulitzer Prize for directly blaming Israel and its ally, Sa’ad Haddad, for the Sabra-Shatila massacre of 1982, passed up countervailing evidence, including his own face-to-face interview with Sa’ad Haddad.
   
To battle terror efficiently, citizens must re-establish a cadre of Middle East specialists who are experts in history and language rather than politically correct nostrums that lead only to wishful thinking and strategic surprise.

The writer, an expert on Arab politics and communications, is the author of Battle for Our Minds: Western Elites and the Terror Threat, published in March by Threshold/Simon and Schuster. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 03/26/12)

The Nakba of Jews From Arab Lands

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JEWISH ''NAKBA''

Why do Palestinians demand that Jerusalem be divided?

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Why divide Jerusalem?

Monday, March 19, 2012

PA TV mimics Jewish tradition: Imitates Psalms 137:5 "If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem"

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PA TV mimics Jewish Psalms 137:5 "If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem" 

 


Since early 2011, the winds unleashed with the Arab Spring have cast a chill inside the middle East, departing Israel grappling getting a considerably transformed region where it thinks its options are restricted and poor. By november 2011, having its Cairo embassy ransacked, its ambassador to Chicken removed as well as the Palestinians seeking statehood recognition within the Not, Israel found itself progressively isolated.

And there is always Iran whith its nuclear program, which Iran has defended as peaceful whilst it's defiantly attacked uranium enrichment through years of worldwide pressure and sanctions. Israel’s progressively urgent alerts on the requirement to halt Iran’s nuclear progress, before it'll get much closer to getting a chance to create a blast, have motivated concerns that Israel might unilaterally mount a military strike - and possess put in the implacable enmity involving the two.

Within The month january 2012, attempting to lower a bad tone of nervous discourse because the united states . States and Eu enforced sanctions on Iran, Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, mentioned that any decision to battle Iran because of its nuclear program was “very remote.”

In mid-February, tensions between Israel and Iran elevated further, when Israeli government bodies blamed Iran by 50 percent separate attacks. On Feb. 13, Israeli Embassy personnel were specific by bombers inside the capitals of Georgia and India, harming the wife from the Israeli diplomat together with a person. The embassy blasts used techniques that have been similar to attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists lately, that Iran has blamed Israel. The very next day, numerous explosions rocked a residential neighborhood in Bangkok, wounding multiple people. Thai government physiques found a cache of tanks in the leased house and brought two males who moved Iranians.


An Essential Winding Up In Obama

On March 5, 2012, leader Obama was scheduled to meet with Israeli Pm Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington to talk about the best way to grapple with Iran. Speaking days just before the meeting, Mr. Obama rejected suggestions free airline will have a nuclear-armed Iran, and informed the united states . States usually takes military action to prevent it from acquiring a blast.

Nevertheless the leader also mentioned he'd make an effort to persuade Mr. Netanyahu the pre-emptive Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities might help Tehran by enabling it to portray itself just like a victim. Which he mentioned such military action would only delay, not prevent, Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Mr. Obama’s remarks, in the 45-minute interview while using Atlantic magazine, were designed to reassure Jerusalem of Washington’s resolve to guard its ally against an Iranian threat, while making the problem that Israel should not take matters into its hands.
 
Worried About a Military Strike

Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its aircraft aircraft pilots will have to fly greater than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in mid-air in route, safeguard against Iran’s air protection, attack multiple undercover sites at the same time - and rehearse no less than 100 planes.

That was the assessment of yank defense government bodies and military experts near the Government, who mentioned the Israeli attack made to challenge Iran’s nuclear programwould be described as a huge and highly complex operation. They known to it far totally different from Israel’s “surgical” strikes around the nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007 and Iraq’s Osirak reactor three decades ago.

Within an indication of rising American concern, Tom Donilon, the country's security agent, met with Pm Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Feb. 19, and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey informed on CNN the Israeli strike on Iran at this time around might be “destabilizing.” Similarly, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, told the BBC that attacking Iran would not be “the wise thing” for Israel to accomplish “at this moment.”

Keeping a Wary Eye on Syria

As Israelis watch the bloody confrontation involving the Syrian people as well as the government of Leader Bashar al-Assad, they are torn by two sentiments: The undoing of Mr. Assad would deal a substantial blow to Iran and therefore might be welcome. However with no central authority, Syria could descend into like a land of chaos and terrorist bases on Israel’s northeast border.

Nearly yearly to the Syrian uprising, the predominant view in Israel today might be the previous, that Mr. Assad must go, not only as they has destroyed thousands of regular people, but as they can be a linchpin inside the anti-Israel Iranian energy network including Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Israeli government and intelligence experts say they think most likely probably the most likely outcomes of the current struggle in Syria is chaos. They base that on watching four parameters: the loyalty of Mr. Assad’s security forces, the cost-effective situation, the participation in protests inside the primary urban centers of Damascus and Aleppo and the potential for worldwide intervention.

Their conclusions are the huge the majority of the Syrian security forces remain faithful to Mr. Assad, which will not change soon that Iranian economic assistance to Syria is generous and vital and keeps the equipment going the participation within Damascus and Aleppo in antigovernment activity remains low which the chance of American or European military intervention in Syria is near zero.

Israeli government bodies and intelligence experts say furthermore they concern yourself with a heightened presence by Al Qaeda in Syria and also the chance that Syria’s large storehouse of arms could finish off within reach of Hezbollah together with other anti-Israel groups.

Relations While using Palestinians

Relations while using Palestinians made an appearance being postponed. Israel undoubtedly opposed your time and energy begun in September by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority leader, for full recognition with the Not Security Council. Soon after, Mr. Netanyahu’s government formally recognized an worldwide proposal revisit peace discussions, nevertheless the Israelis and Palestinians differed significantly inside the letter and spirit in the proposal.

In November, to protest the Palestinians’ membership efforts within the Not and mission for energy-talking about with Hamas, Israel completed a menace to suspend the modification within $100 million in tax obligations for the Palestinian Authority. On November. 30, under strong American and worldwide pressure, Israel made the decision to transfer the money.

Noisy . The month of the month of january 2012, Israeli and Palestinian arbitrators met the first time in a minimum of annually in Jordan, to be able to revive moribund peace talks, although no sides involved suggested any reason to determine the meeting being an expression of great progress. Palestinian government bodies reported minimum progress inside the conferences and, on Jan. 25, Mr. Abbas mentioned that discussions had ended.

Relieve Gilad Shalit

Israel and Hamas showed up in a contract in October 2011 to change greater than 1,000 Palestinian crooks with an Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza for five years, Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit, in the deal brokered by Egypt. Sergeant Shalit was released on March. 18, concurrently that 100s of Palestinian crooks were freed inside the first phase in the agreement.

It absolutely was unclear what drove the two to just accept a deal which were available for any very long time. But both ended up being to profit politically combined with top reasons to draw attention away attention within the globe-trotting efforts of Mr. Abbas within the U.N. bid.

Sergeant Shalit &mdash he'd recently been promoted from staff sergeant to sergeant top quality &mdash was the initial taken Israeli soldier being returned home alive in 26 years.

In Israel, there has been elaborate formulations for his return, a modified combination of relieved celebration and acknowledgment - each one of the discomfort and dying the released Palestinians triggered many families along with the danger their release may pose.

Housing Protests

Israel has furthermore been rocked having a social movement that began in mid-This summer time 2011 when several youthful Israelis pitched tents in the middle of Tel Aviv to protest inflated housing prices.

In October, the Israeli cabinet endorsed the findings from the special government committee that recommended building almost 200,000 houses over the following five years, producing houses available as rental costs and growing housing subsidies for your desperate.

The panel also recommended raising taxes round the wealthy and also on companies, building more childcare centers and delivering free pre-kindergarten for children 3 to 5 years old.

Settler Violence

In December 2011, after a couple of days of settler violence in the Israeli military and police, Mr. Netanyahu introduced that some radical Israelis might be treated much the same way as suspected Palestinian militants - detained for extended periods free of charge and attempted in military courts.

Mr. Netanyahu declined to go to up to now regarding formally label violent settlers “terrorists.” Carrying this out may have allowed security forces to take advantage of specific sanctions and courts to impose harsher punitive measures. Which he made certain to underscore he does not believe funds will be the problem, just the violent outliers.

The ''Concentration Camps'' in ''Palestine'' and Auschwitz, can YOU tell the difference?

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SOME PEOPLE ARE SO FULL OF HATRED THAT THEY CAN´T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS SO- CALLED PALESTINIAN ''CONCENTRATION CAMP'' :










                 
                     AND THIS, THE REAL HOLOCAUST:

            AUSCHWITZH CONCENTRATION CAMP

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