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More info:Saudis air corridor is open, US, Israel
self-immobilized on Iran
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 9:12:00 PM
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
Saudi air corridor to Iran is unused.
Israeli bombers are grounded
The Saudi air corridor offered Israel
for an attack on Iran reported in the
London Times of Saturday, June 12,
was an old story rehashed by Riyadh
in the hope of egging the US and
Israel on to break free of their self-
imposed restraints and halt Iran’s
drive for a nuclear bomb before it is
too late. debkafile’s Middle East
sources report the explosive
developments of the last two weeks,
primarily the meteoric rise of a
thrusting partnership between the two
non-Arab powers, Turkey and Iran,
have badly rattled Arab capitals,
especially when they see the Obama
administration and Netanyahu
government immersed in tying
themselves and each other in knots
over the format of an inquiry into
Turkish flotilla incident.
The London Times reported that
Saudi Arabia had conducted tests to
stand down its air defenses to enable
Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on
Iran’s nuclear facilities. Riyadh was
said to have agreed to allow Israel to
use a narrow corridor of its airspace
in the north of the country to shorten
the distance for a bombing run on
Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers
pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried
out tests to make certain its own jets
are not scrambled and missile defense
systems not activated.
“The Saudis have given their
permission for the Israelis to pass
over and they will look the other
way,” said a US defense source in the
area. Sources in Saudi Arabia say, “It
is common knowledge within defense
circles in the kingdom that an
arrangement is in place if Israel
decides to launch the raid. Despite the
tension between the two
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governments, they share a mutual discredit them on the lines of the
loathing of the regime in Tehran and Goldstone report on the Gaza war –
a common fear of Iran’s nuclear only this time Washington is taking
ambitions.” the lead in the de-legitimacy
debkafile adds: Appearing in the campaign.
week UN sanctions were approved With no one apparently available for
against Iran, this report amounted to a keeping Iran out of the nuclear club,
Saudi no-confidence vote in its value. Riyadh did what it could. Using the
Gates’ only comment on this
Low expectations of the sanctions London Times platform, Saudi
development was: “I was
are no secret in Washington either. Arabia’s princely rulers opened the
disappointed by the Turkey vote on
According to the New York Times, door to positive action in order to lift
the Iranian sanctions. That said,
the Obama administration has morale in the oil kingdom and its
Turkey is a decades-long ally of the
prepared Plans A, B, C. and D, if army and remind Washington,
US and a member of NATO. Turkey
sanctions fail to stop Iran’s push for a Jerusalem and the other Middle East
continues to play a critical part in the
nuke. No details were published, but players that soft sanctions need not be
alliance.”
the NYT quoted Barak Obama as the last word; they are offering Israeli
Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin
noting in April: “…once Iran passes a bombers a corridor for striking Iran’s
Netanyahu and defense minster Ehud
certain point, it may be impossible to nuclear facilities and chance to
Barak are just as laggard in
know when it has taken the last steps reshape the region’s declining reality.
addressing the formidable new axis
to manufacture a (nuclear) weapon.” debkafile adds: The air corridor is
looming over the region and the
This did not stop defense secretary now clearly open but still unused.
Jewish state, in particular. They are
Robert Gates speaking after a NATO There appears to be no one in
too busy quibbling with Washington
meeting in Brussels on June 11, from Washington or Jerusalem willing or
over the shape of the impartial
whipping out the rusty device able to order the bombers to take off.
commission the UN has demanded
beloved of the Bush administration: via docstalk.blogspot.com
for probing Israel’s actions against
“I think everyone agrees we have Posted via web from
the Turkish-led flotilla of May 31 –
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though certainly not, perish the
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terrorists aboard the Turkish ship.
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with the Obama administration has
ten days by the Turkish-led flotilla for historical facts among contemporary
dragged out for five days because the
breaking the Gaza blockade and the youth, for many of whom Israel,
US wants the impartial commission
Israeli commando raid to intercept it. Zionism...
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The rise of the Turkish-Iranian • Part 3: Article “The Nation”, lesson
officers and soldiers who raided the
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questioning by American and
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad moments of poetry. These may come
European investigators. Israeli leaders
dictating the region’s agenda with no from events in our personal lives — a
understand that compliance would
one there to stop them. birth, a death, the reuniting of long-
add fuel to the international campaign
Within days, the balance of power in lost family. Or these moments of
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extend way beyond Tehran’s hand on
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nations. The Israelli Defense Forces
Palestinian Hamas in Gaza. Iran has
would be further immobilized under a
acquired an important member of
sustained international campaign to
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When Rabbis Attack: Standing Up for Charles

Jacobs
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:33:00 PM

The name Charles Jacobs should be a

familiar one to readers of this blog.
Charles Jacobs, founder of The David
Project, co-founder of the Boston
branch of CAMERA and the
American Anti-Slavery Group, and
now Americans for Peace and
Tolerance. I would hazard to say,
without any exaggeration at all, that
Charles Jacobs has done as much or
more for the Jewish People (and
Western Values in general) off the
pulpit than any other single person in
New England.
Unfortunately for Charles, and more
importantly, for us all, Charles Jacobs
stepped on the toes of the
Massachusetts left-wing Rabbinical
establishment with his recent column:
What’s up with Deval Patrick? In the
column, Jacobs addresses the political
controversy stirred up by Governor
Deval Patrick’s recent visit to the
Islamic Society of Boston Mosque.
(More on that in the videos below.)
Along the way, Jacobs called out
some of the local religious leadership
which has credulously run toward the
cliff in allowing themselves to be
used as a whitewash for some of the
mosque’s radical connections, many
of whom should well know better.
Jacobs even had the temerity
(honesty) to call Rabbi Eric Gurvis by
name.
Read the linked column. What’s
written about Gurvis may sting for
the truth of it, but it can hardly be
called a substance-less personal
attack.
Not so the response it has garnered,
however.
Not allowing any slight to go
unpunished, seventy of Gurvis’
colleagues — most of them on the
liberal left-wing of the Reform and
Reconstructionist movements — have
counterattacked with an open letter,
printed in the same local paper that
Jacobs’ column originally appeared
in. I have pasted the letter and the
complete list of signatories at the end
of this post. Please review the list to
see if your Rabbi is on it.
The Rabbis call the Jacobs column a
“vicious, personal attack,” when it
was anything but. In fact, it is these
Rabbis who are guilty of committing
a scurrilous personal attack on a man
who has put more on the line for this
community than most of them can
ever hope to do in their lifetimes.
Their letter is devoid of any response
whatsoever to the substantive matters
that Charles Jacobs has exposed.
Their letter is a reply the nature of
which ought to be beneath the dignity
of Jewish clergy. They didn’t respond
this way when it was brought to light
that patrons of this mosque were
preaching the worst kind of
despicable Jew hatred. No, these
“leaders” who have elevated
“dialogue” and “interfaith relations”
to the level of a fetish have reserved
their worst invective for a man who
dared simply to criticize one of their
guild. They have utterly abdicated
their responsibility to protect their
own community in favor of good
relations with the Muslim
Brotherhood and a few friendly photo
-ops, even stooping to the
commandeering of Torah verse as a
bludgeon, a blackjack employed in
the service of their personal vendetta.
Where have they been as the
Wahhabis have built the east coasts’
largest Mosque? Silent. Hiding.
Complicit. And they dare attack the
one man — more leader than any of
them — who was willing to put
himself and his own reputation on the
line when none of them would?
Shame on them. The fact is they
know they’ve lost authority, though
their own inaction, to this unordained
layman…and it galls them.
They have so badly forgotten that
their primary responsibility to the rest
of us is not comity at all costs, but to
speak the truth and stand for our
community, that they have cast their
sense of propriety to the wind and
shamed themselves.
Again I ask, is your Rabbi on the
list?
Here is everything you need to know.
First, watch this excellent video of
Charles discussing matters with Bill
Whittle of PJTV. Jacobs is eloquent
and measured throughout:
Second, here is that Americans for
Peace and Tolerance video about the
Patrick visit to the Mosque. This is
that painful substance the Rabbis
wish to ignore:
By the way, even the lefty Boston
Phoenix assails the Patrick visit to the
ISB in an excellent editorial entitled
Mickey Mouse Multiculturalism
Now, here is that “Rabbinical” letter:
Rabbis come to the defense of a
colleague under fire
We write in defense of our colleague
Rabbi Eric Gurvis. Rabbi Gurvis
leads Temple Shalom of Newton, is
the past president of the
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis,
Boston Area Reform Rabbis and
currently serves as the president of
the Newton Clergy Association. He is
a distinguished teacher and respected
community leader.
We were shocked and appalled by
the vicious, personal attack written by
Charles Jacobs and printed in
The Jewish A dvocate. We denounce
this attack and call upon Mr. Jacobs
to discontinue his destructive
campaign against Boston’s Muslim
community, which is based on
innuendo, half-truths and unproven
conspiracy theories. We call upon
members of our community to reject
the dangerous politics of division that
Mr. Jacobs fosters.
Rabbi Gurvis stood with a number of
us at a recent interfaith press
conference, denouncing the
inappropriate words of a
gubernatorial candidate who implied
that addressing a large group of
Muslims was “pandering to
terrorists.” Just as we rabbis would
expect Christians and Muslims to
stand with us Jews if we were
unjustly held accountable for the
actions of a handful of our people,
Rabbi Gurvis stood with our Muslim
neighbors. In fact, he pointed out that
when Temple Shalom was defaced by
a swastika, one of the first calls he
received was from Bilal Kaleem from
the Muslim American Society.
During these difficult times, Rabbi
Gurvis, along with other courageous
religious leaders, is attempting to
foster a different kind of politics. We
support his commitment to interfaith
dialogue and cooperation. We stand
together in our commitment to a
community in which neighbors seek
to know one another and join together
for the common good.
We write these words following the
week in which the Torah portion was
Shelach Lecha. It tells the stories of
the Israelite scouts who were
overcome by fear. As a result, they
“spread calumnies” among the entire
Israelite camp, who in turn broke out
into loud cries and weeping. Because
they succumbed to their fears, G-d
condemned this generation to die in
the wilderness. We refuse to allow
Mr. Jacobs to spread his calumnies
and paralyze our community in fear.
We the undersigned rabbis support
Rabbi Eric Gurvis and walk together
in faith. (Institutional affiliations are
listed for identification purposes
only.)
Rabbi Thomas Alpert
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld
(dean, Rabbinical School, Hebrew
College)
WHEN page 3
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WHEN
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Rabbi Stephen Arnold Emunah, Lexington) Brookline) Tolerance to get the facts about the
Rabbi Lev Baesh (B’nai Or, Newton) Rabbi Michele Lenke (Temple Beth Rabbi Moshe Waldoks (Temple Beth MAS’s Imam Faarooq.
Rabbi Alfred Benjamin Shalom, Zion, Brookline) You can read the rabbis’ letter,
(Rabbi, Temple Shalom, Milton) Needham) Rabbi Jeffrey Wildstein (Temple which will appear in today’s Jewish
Rabbi Joseph Berman Rabbi Allan Lehmann (vice Beth David, Advocate, below [ above -MS]. You
Rabbi Allison Berry (Temple Beth president, Westwood) might also want to review our video
David, Canton) Massachusetts Board of Rabbis) Rabbi David Wolfman (director, and my op-ed discussing the
Rabbi Herman Blumberg (Emeritus, Rabbi Greg Litcofsky (Temple Shir URJ National relationship between the Governor
Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland) Commission on Rabbinic- and the MAS, as well as criticizing
Tikva, Wayland) Rabbi Natan Margalit (Hebrew Congregational Relations) Rabbi Gurvis’s support for the MAS.
Rabbi Carey Brown (Temple Isaiah, College, Newton) Rabbi Julie Wolkoff As you know the Jewish community
Lexington) Rabbi Todd Markley (Temple Beth Rabbi Sara Zacharia (Hebrew is under siege, and it is unfortunate
Rabbi Sharon Clevenger (The Rashi Shalom, College, Newton) that we are so divided. I hope you
School, Needham) Rabbi Elaine Zecher (Temple Israel, will take the time to call or write the
Newton) Rabbi Daniel Medwin Boston) rabbis who signed the letter and urge
Rabbi Joe Eiduson (Congregation Rabbi Bernard Mehlman (Emeritus, Rabbi Henry Zoob (Emeritus, them to withdraw their names, to seek
B’nai Shalom, Temple Israel, Temple Beth David, out the truth about the Muslim
Westborough) Boston) Westwood) American Society and Imam Faarooq,
Rabbi Lisa Eiduson (Temple Beth Rabbi Rim Meirowitz (Temple Shir Hebrew College rabbinical students: and to join us in countering the
Avodah, Tikvah, Joel Baron, Rogerio Zingerevitz radicalization of the Boston Muslim
Newton Centre) Winchester) Cukierman, Tiffany Gordon, Margie community…
Rabbi John Franken (Temple Ohabei Rabbi Joseph Meszler (Temple Sinai, Klein, Lev Meirowitz, Nelson, Suzie Update: Another worthwhile
Shalom, Sharon) Schwartz, Lila Veissid and Judith response: To the Editor, on your
Brookline) Rabbi Laurence Milder Kates (professor) recent article, “Rabbis come to
Rabbi David Freelund (Cape Cod (Congregation B’nai Jacobs has issued his own response defense of a colleague under fire” (6/
Synagogue, Shalom, Westborough) through APT (far more measured 11 issue),
Hyannis) Rabbi James Morgan than mine, here): In response to our With all due respect, I invite the 70
Rabbi Ronne Friedman (Temple Rabbi Jeremy Morrison (Temple video sounding the alarm about a rabbis who signed the open letter,
Israel, Boston) Israel, Boston) Muslim American Society (MAS) “Rabbis come to defense of a
Rabbi Neal Gold (Temple Shir Rabbi Beth Naditch imam who told followers to “pick up colleague under fire,” (6/11 issue), to
Tikva, Wayland) Rabbi Michelle Pearlman (Temple the gun and the sword,” as well as to reexamine Charles Jacobs’ assertions
Rabbi Robert Goldstein (Temple Shalom, our criticism of Rabbi Eric Gurvis for in his article, “What’s up with
Emanuel Newton) embracing the MAS leadership, a Patrick?” Jacobs’ main point was not
Andover) Rabbi Barbara Penzner (Temple group of seventy New England rabbis to discredit Rabbi Gurvis’ past
Rabbi David Gordis (past president, Hillel B’nai Torah, published a letter denouncing me in service to the community or to wage
Hebrew West Roxbury) the Jewish Advocate. a “destructive campaign against
College) Rabbi Jay Perlman (Temple Beth The letter ignored every concern we Boston’s Muslim community.”
Rabbi Art Green (Hebrew College, Shalom, raised about the MAS – its Saudi Rather, Jacob’s main point was to
Newton) Needham) funders, its extremist leaders, its bring to light the danger of closing
Rabbi Neil Hirsch (Temple Shalom, Rabbi Jonah Pesner (Director, Union connections to terror and hate one’s eyes to these specific Roxbury
Newton) for Reform speakers. Instead, the rabbis who Mosque leaders’ documented
Rabbi Boaz Heilman (Congregation Judaism Just Congregations, wrote it, accused me falsely of association with, and support of,
B’nai Torah, Newton) waging a campaign to defame global radical Islamic terror groups
Sudbury) Rabbi Ellen Pildis (Jewish Studies Boston’s Muslim community. These and indicted and jailed terrorists, such
Rabbi Sandi Intraub (Chaplain Director, rabbis should have known, with as Aafia Siddiqui. Jacobs does not
Resident, Hebrew The Rashi School, Newton) minimal fact-checking, that I have base his assertions on innuendo or
SeniorLife ) Rabbi Elaine Pollack (Newton been consistent in my positions: I half-truths. Instead he has made
Rabbi Howard Jaffe (Temple Isaiah, Lower Falls) believe the radical leaders of MAS available numerous FBI and court
Lexington) Rabbi David Reiner Boston are first and foremost a threat documents, public information, and
Rabbi Shira Joseph (Congregation Rabbi Victor Reinstein (Nehar to Boston’s historically moderate videos, which everyone should read
Sha’aray Shalom Community Muslim community. The best way to before criticizing Jacobs (see his
Shalom, Hingham) Synagogue, Jamaica Plain) fight this threat is to support the true w e b s i t e ,
Rabbi Dan Judson (Hebrew College, Rabbi Rachel Saphire (Temple Beth moderates and reformers of Islam. www.peaceandtolerance.org).
Newton) Elohim, This is a major component of the America is under attack both from
Rabbi Randy Kafka (Temple Israel Wellesley) Americans for Peace and Tolerance within and without by radical Islamic
South Shore, Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem mission and activity. Yet the rabbis terrorists whose goal is to destroy our
North Easton) Rabbi Lawrence Silverman irresponsibly claimed that I am lives and our freedom. We mustn’t
Rabbi Daniel Klein (Congregation Beth defaming all Boston Muslims. This falsely accuse or limit freedoms of
Rabbi Margaret Frisch Klein Jacob, Plymouth) kind of slander can play right into the any Muslim citizen simply because
Rabbi David Kline Rabbi Jodi Seewald Smith (Temple hands of MAS radicals, who may use he/she is Muslim. But every political
Rabbi Stephanie Kolin (Temple Chayai this letter to incite Muslims against and community leader – indeed every
Israel, Boston) Shalom, Easton MA) Americans for Peace and Tolerance citizen – must be on the alert for
Rabbi Neil Kominsky (Emeritus, Rabbi Joel Sisenwine (Temple Beth and me. Their letter is untrue, those who are found to support acts
Temple Emanuel, Elohim, inappropriate, and unbecoming for of terror and anti-Semitism, and be
Lowell) Wellesley) Jewish leaders. careful not to embrace them as our co
Rabbi Jonathan Kraus (Beth El RabbI Toba Spitzer (Congregation The letter also contains a bizarre -laborer of peace. Nor should we
Temple Center, Dorshei Tzedek, interpretation of a Biblical story to accept them as speaking on behalf of
Belmont) West Newton) justify the rabbis’ misguided attack. It truly moderate Muslims who support
Rabbi Claudia Kreiman (Temple Rabbi Keith Stern (Temple Beth is hard for me to believe that the every citizen’s security and liberty
Beth Zion, Avodah, signers actually read their own letter under the US Constitution.
Brookline) Newton Centre) or thought through the weirdly Rev. Fumio Taku
Rabbi Judith Kummer Rabbi David Thomas (Congregation constructed Biblical analogy. I think President
Rabbi Stephen Landau Beth El of the most signed on to support their Christians and Jews United for Israel
(Congregation Tikvoh Sudbury River Valley, Sudbury, colleague, Rabbi Gurvis. Others may via solomonia.com Posted via web
Chadoshoh, West Hartford, Conn.) MA) have been motivated by progressive from noahdavidsimon’s posterous
Rabbi Karen Landy (Hebrew Senior Rabbi Van Lanckton, (Temple B’nai politics, political correctness, and the Hija del Zion para Israel Support
Life, Dedham; Shalom, desire to show their universalism. Israel
Havurat Shalom, Andover) Braintree) None of the signed leaders
Rabbi David Lerner (Temple Rabbi Andrew Vogel (Temple Sinai, approached Americans for Peace and WHEN page 9
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How the Road to Socialism is Paved
by Daniel Greenfield @ the
Sultan Knish blog (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 8:13:00 PM
One of the more insidious aspects of
the government takeover is how such
takeovers are pitched as reforms. Of
course reform traditionally applies to
institutions reforming themselves or
being reformed by their constituents
or shareholders. The idea of
government reforming the private
sector smacks of unlimited authority,
which is exactly what it is. And so a
government that cannot reform itself,
that cannot stop its out of control
spending, its constant legislative
corruption, its culture of pork and
kickbacks, its compulsive need to
appropriate power, sets out to instead
take over every aspect of life within
the country in the name of reform.
Can an alcoholic who can’t stop
drinking, teach others to be
teetotalers? Can a compulsive
gambler who drops 10 grand a week
in Vegas, regulate the gambling
habits of others? Only as an example
to others of how bad things can get.
But though the government cannot
regulate itself, it insists that it can
regulate everything outside itself. The
blind leading the blind is bad enough,
but what are we to make of the blind
leading those who can actually see.
That’s what government regulation is.
But the reform pitch is part of the
whole insidious premise that
government is protecting the people
from being exploited by acting as a
referee on their behalf. It’s so
insidious because it’s both deceptive
and appealing. Most people have felt
taken advantage of by corporations.
And indeed we do have a legal
system in order to avoid criminal
exploitation. But what government
refereeing does, is blur the line
between the criminal and the
unethical, and between the unethical
and the profiteering, thereby creating
a mandate to not only crackdown on
criminal actions, but on acts that are
unethical or just greedy.
For example, reformers may begin
by exposing an insurance company
forging documentation to avoid
paying claims, an illegal act, to
focusing on misleading claims made
by insurance representatives, an
unethical act, to campaigning for
lower insurance rates, an area that is
not illegal or unethical, but a question
simply of profit. By exploiting this
kind of slippery slope, entire
industries have been heavily
regulated, even in areas well outside
of the government’s purview.
The scandal generated by exposing
illegal activity is used by advocates
for a government takeover to regulate
unethical and profiteering behavior,
which they all class together as proof
of malfeasance. By doing so they
define both legal and illegal behavior
as illegal, because it is rooted in the
desire for profit– an essentially
socialist position. Going back to the
muckrakers, socialists discovered that
they could create an impetus for
socialism by delegitimizing the profit
motive, and the best way to do so was
to begin by building their case around
blatantly criminal activity and then
move down the ladder to attacking
the basic idea of capitalism itself.
The overall target was of course the
free market, promising the people that
government would act as their
guardian, protecting them with
regulation from the abuses of
capitalism. The genuinely deceptive
thing however, was that politicians
were making the same offer to
companies, promising to act as their
referee to protect them from their
rivals, their workers and their
customers. What was actually
happening was that government was
inserting itself as the “referee”,
promising to protect the different
segments of the free market from
each other.
So politicians “protect” consumers
from companies by price controls,
while protecting companies from
their competitors by creating de-facto
monopolies through legislative
loopholes, and then protect
companies from consumers by tightly
regulating what products consumers
can buy. ObamaCare, which both
imposes price controls and forces
consumers to buy health insurance, is
a typical example, in which the
government as referee screws over
both sides, while giving them both
some seeming advantage. In reality
both sides are worse off than before,
and only the politicians and their
camp followers gain from the
regulation.
And that is how it began. Retailers
were promised protection from
distributors. Distributors were
promised protection from
manufacturers. The public was
promised protection from all them. Of
course this called for reams and
reams of legislation. And that
legislation called for more legislation.
And the politicians and officials in
charge of the process naturally
welcomed lobbyists from various
trade and consumer groups to
“explain” their positions them, said
explanations usually accompanied by
donations and pledges of political
support.
By placing itself as the referee,
government had a court in which
cases went on forever, while
collecting “fees” from all the
litigants. In Dickens’ Bleak House,
there is the case of Jarndyce and
Jarndyce, a lawsuit involving an
inheritance that has dragged on for
generations, and eventually leaves
nothing to the descendants who have
been fighting for it, but is entirely
absorbed by the judges, the lawyers
and the assorted camp followers of
the legal system. So too the American
people are discovering that the
“inheritance” of their economy is
vanishing into the maw of the
government that promised to get
justice for them.
The fees are paid out in campaign
contributions, in taxes collected to
fund the expanding regulatory
mechanisms and in the invisible toll
added to all economic transactions by
the regulations themselves. That is
because any regulatory mechanism
also becomes part of the system. Each
regulation changes the way the free
market works and the way that
companies and consumers behave, as
both continue to strive to gain
maximum advantage for themselves.
Since each regulation also adds more
expenses to both sides and blocks
areas of commercial competition,
both sides become more creative and
thus also more deceptive. But rather
than making economic competition
better, more regulation actually
makes the competition worse. And
this provides grist for the reformer’s
mill, who pile on more regulations,
which only makes the matter worse.
The next step leads to the black
market, with the most regulated
economies, such as the USSR, also
featuring a thriving black market.
Because regulations don’t change
human behavior, they just change the
context in which it is expressed, and
the strategies it employs.
By position itself as the referee,
government has expanded well
beyond its constitutional boundaries
into socialism. And it has done so by
playing on the fears of both
customers and companies, promising
an orderly and tightly controlled
market, for the highest bidder of
course. The government promises
low prices and available products to
customers. And then raises their taxes
and gives multi-billion dollar grants
to corporations, or just bails them out
when those regulations help insure
their failure. The result is a
diminished availability of products,
much higher prices when accounting
for inflation, and a culture of
entitlement among both companies
and the public, in which both sides
feel entitled to use the government to
exploit the other. Which is exactly
what the “referee” wants, because
then it has them right where it wants
them.
Socialism requires simply that the
majority believe that they will be
better off having government
dispense the work of others to them,
rather than working for themselves.
And the “reformers” have convinced
large numbers of Americans of just
that. The results can be seen in an
endless assortment of consumer
groups that promise us the solution to
all problems is to have the
government regulate every single
thing that companies do, and they can
be seen in companies with CEO’s
whose main strategies are to hire
lobbyists, outsource the actual labor
to China and then leave with a golden
parachute on their least profitable
quarter. This is what happens when
people cease to believe in working for
a living, and come to believe that the
government is their best economic
solution.
This week in the news, Senator
Schumer has announced that he will
investigate an airline’s carry on bag
fee. While the first reaction of many
people may be that such a fee is
repugnant, have they considered how
much they’ll be paying for the
expanded government regulatory
mechanisms. Or how much they’ll
paying when that airline’s lobbyists
agree to get rid of the fee and instead
take home a bailout instead? Because
there is no such thing as a free lunch.
You can buy lunch or you can get it
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Prince Charles Muslim Who Believes in the
Gharquat Tree and Talking Stones
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 6:55:00 PM
Poor Princess Diana. She would have
been better off kissing a frog. His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
has been croaking again. This time,
he hopped up to Oxford University to
tell his audience, some of whom
seemed obviously bored, how the
world needs to follow the spiritual
path of Islam — for the sake of our
environment. Prince Charles, who has
been greener than Kermit the Frog for
several decades now, thinks Islam is
better than the rest of us in taking
care of the planet. Well, I suspect he
has not sold any stock in BP. But let’s
see if that record of Islam on the
environment holds water, so to speak.
We all remember what a serious
Muslim Saddam Hussein was. He
declared jihad against the West when
we moved in 1991 to kick him out of
Kuwait. To show his new-found zeal
for Islam, Saddam set fire to all the
oil wells in Kuwait. They burned out
of control for months, turning the
skies black, making the day night for
many of the invaders.
The Saudis lay claim to being
Custodians of the Holy Places of
Islam. Mecca and Medina are off-
limits to non-Muslims, so the rest of
us can’t actually go there and see if
they’re all re-cycling and limiting
their carbon footprints. The Saudis
also lay claim to vast petroleum
reserves.
Anyone visiting these will note that
flare-offs — burning unused gases —
are very common there.
Hmmm. Burning off these gases
yields what? Water vapor, perhaps?
I had a chance personally to witness
the tender regard shown for the
environment by His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales. Back in the `70s,
he came to visit San Francisco.
Because IRA radicals at Berkeley had
threatened to blow him up, our
government decided to bring him in
to the Coast Guard Air Station in San
Francisco rather than the municipal
airport. I was assigned to an Honor
Guard that was actually a body guard.
Why Hamas doesn’t allow new foods into Gaza
by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:23:00 PM
Firas Press reports that Hamas is
refusing to allow shipments into Gaza
of cheese, milk, juices, detergents,
soft drinks and biscuits – items that
up until now had been restricted.
The idea was to shield the precious
body of His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales — with ours.
We were trained for weeks by
detectives from Scotland Yard. Very
professional, very serious fellows. No
joking. No light touches at all. And
they never referred to their charge as
“Prince Charles” or even “The Prince
of Wales.” The invariable usage was
His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales. Poor Charles didn’t even get a
pronoun. They never used a “he” or
“him” when speaking of, er, you
know who.
The great day dawned. We Coast
Guardsmen were all spit and polish.
We watched, surprised, when the
chartered jet of His Royal Highness
The reason? According to the article,
factory owners are pressuring the de
facto Hamas government not to allow
these items in. because those imports
would compete with their factories,
hurting the Gaza economy and (they
say) forcing them to lay off workers.
My guess is that taxes going to prop
up the Hamas government has
something to do with this as well…
the Prince of Wales landed three
minutes early. It taxied out to the end
of our runway. Why, we thought? We
soon found out. It turned around and
now sported the Royal Standard of
His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales in addition to the Union Jack.
The flags were flying outside the jet
cockpit. It was all intended to impress
the natives. It did.
When he descended the stairway, he
moved briskly through our ranks.
Every step he took had been
choreographed for weeks in advance.
I was surprised to see, when he
looked me in the eye, that I was
somewhat taller than he. His pictures
suggest otherwise.
Off he went. Our brief encounter
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the Gaza Strip, Israel has been
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with history flashed before us. The
entire exercise was over in less than
twenty-three minutes, even as it
might have been clocked by the
Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
Are we to assume the Prince’s
chartered jet was powered by water
vapor? Can anyone even begin to
calculate the carbon footprint of the
man who wants us all to submit to
Islam’s way of cherishing the earth?
Charles is slated to become the Head
of the Church of England if he ever
ascends the throne. His title would
then be “Defender of the Faith.” He
doesn’t like that so much.
He says he’d rather be known as
Defender of the Faiths. That’s a bit
like being faithful to all wives.
Prince Charles may be the leading
dhimmicrat in the world. That’s a
person, who may not himself be a
Muslim, but who uses his power and
influence to smooth the path to
shariah–the law they have in Saudi
Arabia. Large swatches of British
cities are even now falling under
shariah.
Hearing him, we Americans can
thank God once again for our
Founding Fathers. What a blessing it
is not having to take seriously the
hypocritical croakings of His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales. via
americanthinker.com Posted via web
from noahdavidsimon’s posterous
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up to Oxford University to tell his
audie...
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and Prince Cha...
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Prince Charles Muslim Who Believes in the
Gharquat Tree and Talking Stones
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 6:55:00 PM
Poor Princess Diana. She would have
been better off kissing a frog. His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
has been croaking again. This time,
he hopped up to Oxford University to
tell his audience, some of whom
seemed obviously bored, how the
world needs to follow the spiritual
path of Islam — for the sake of our
environment. Prince Charles, who has
been greener than Kermit the Frog for
several decades now, thinks Islam is
better than the rest of us in taking
care of the planet. Well, I suspect he
has not sold any stock in BP. But let’s
see if that record of Islam on the
environment holds water, so to speak.
We all remember what a serious
Muslim Saddam Hussein was. He
declared jihad against the West when
we moved in 1991 to kick him out of
Kuwait. To show his new-found zeal
for Islam, Saddam set fire to all the
oil wells in Kuwait. They burned out
of control for months, turning the
skies black, making the day night for
many of the invaders.
The Saudis lay claim to being
Custodians of the Holy Places of
Islam. Mecca and Medina are off-
limits to non-Muslims, so the rest of
us can’t actually go there and see if
they’re all re-cycling and limiting
their carbon footprints. The Saudis
also lay claim to vast petroleum
reserves.
Anyone visiting these will note that
flare-offs — burning unused gases —
are very common there.
Hmmm. Burning off these gases
yields what? Water vapor, perhaps?
I had a chance personally to witness
the tender regard shown for the
environment by His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales. Back in the `70s,
he came to visit San Francisco.
Because IRA radicals at Berkeley had
threatened to blow him up, our
government decided to bring him in
to the Coast Guard Air Station in San
Francisco rather than the municipal
airport. I was assigned to an Honor
Guard that was actually a body guard.
Free Speech and Free Society Under Attack
by SheikhYermami (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 6:15:30 PM
More hostile action – this time
against a parody that went viral on
the Internet after branding the Mavi
Marmara the Islamist stunt that it
was:
The idea was to shield the precious
body of His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales — with ours.
We were trained for weeks by
detectives from Scotland Yard. Very
professional, very serious fellows. No
joking. No light touches at all. And
they never referred to their charge as
“Prince Charles” or even “The Prince
of Wales.” The invariable usage was
His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales. Poor Charles didn’t even get a
pronoun. They never used a “he” or
“him” when speaking of, er, you
know who.
The great day dawned. We Coast
Guardsmen were all spit and polish.
We watched, surprised, when the
chartered jet of His Royal Highness
As Israel went offline for the
Jewish…
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the Prince of Wales landed three
minutes early. It taxied out to the end
of our runway. Why, we thought? We
soon found out. It turned around and
now sported the Royal Standard of
His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales in addition to the Union Jack.
The flags were flying outside the jet
cockpit. It was all intended to impress
the natives. It did.
When he descended the stairway, he
moved briskly through our ranks.
Every step he took had been
choreographed for weeks in advance.
I was surprised to see, when he
looked me in the eye, that I was
somewhat taller than he. His pictures
suggest otherwise.
Off he went. Our brief encounter
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with history flashed before us. The
entire exercise was over in less than
twenty-three minutes, even as it
might have been clocked by the
Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
Are we to assume the Prince’s
chartered jet was powered by water
vapor? Can anyone even begin to
calculate the carbon footprint of the
man who wants us all to submit to
Islam’s way of cherishing the earth?
Charles is slated to become the Head
of the Church of England if he ever
ascends the throne. His title would
then be “Defender of the Faith.” He
doesn’t like that so much.
He says he’d rather be known as
Defender of the Faiths. That’s a bit
like being faithful to all wives.
Prince Charles may be the leading
dhimmicrat in the world. That’s a
person, who may not himself be a
Muslim, but who uses his power and
influence to smooth the path to
shariah–the law they have in Saudi
Arabia. Large swatches of British
cities are even now falling under
shariah.
Hearing him, we Americans can
thank God once again for our
Founding Fathers. What a blessing it
is not having to take seriously the
hypocritical croakings of His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales. via
americanthinker.com Posted via web
from noahdavidsimon’s posterous
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• Prince Charles Muslim Who
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Talking Stones Poor Princess Diana.
She would have been better off
kissing a frog. His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales has been
croaking again. This time, he hopped
up to Oxford University to tell his
audie...
• YID With LID: Why is Prince
Charles Supporting Hamas? No
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has yet visited Israel in an official
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and Prince Cha...
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Ignoring the elephant in the room
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:38:00 PM
Ignoring the elephant in the room
Laura Rozen has an account of Abu
Mazen’s meeting with ‘American
Jewish leaders’ this past week. It’s
pretty much stuff we’ve all heard
(and I’ve blogged) earlier this week,
until this little bit at the end.
Aaron Miller writes in response that
Abbas was “playing to his strengths
and trying to cultivate the image of a
wise and beneficent Palestinian leader
reaching out, in contrast to the
brashness and defensiveness [of] the
Israeli Prime Minister.”
But, Miller continued, “none of this
will make a bit of difference. What
counts is Abbas’s capacity to make
decisions (and Bibi’s of course).”
That would be Aaron David Miller,
former peace processor. And that got
me thinking about this piece of
analysis by Herb Keinon that
appeared in the weekend JPost.
For all the damage the flotilla
incident has caused Israel, and the
damage is not inconsiderable, one
positive side effect may be the
placing of Gaza on the international
agenda, and not only the Gaza that
the Turks and the Palestinians want
the world to see: the Gaza of
deprivation, the Gaza without
coriander seeds or soda pop.
The incident has also brought into
focus the Gaza ruled not by the
grandfatherly Abbas, or the Western
technocrat PA Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad, but rather by Hamas
terrorists.
One of the inexplicable dimensions
German TV exposes IHH for what it is
by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:52:00 PM
Barry Rubin summarizes:
The three German leftist activists
interviewed claimed all participants
were from humanitarian
organizations and talked about all the
fun they’d had. They had no interest
in knowing that they were being used.
The show then contrasts this with
material about the extremism of the
IHH, which organized the trip. Those
about to depart on the ship—who
shortly thereafter would be attacking
the arriving Israeli soldiers—chanted,
“Oh, you Jews.…the army of the
prophet Muhamad will return–just
like in Kaibar [where Jewish men
were massacred and women and
children forcibly converted and sold
into slavery]….Intifada until
victory!”
For the militants, this was a
revolutionary act, a raid, not a
humanitarian mission. Of course, the
of the diplomatic efforts since the
Annapolis conference in late 2007
has been the degree to which the
international community continues to
talk about a two-state solution, and a
peace process, without taking into
consideration that there are two
Palestinian authorities: One in the
West Bank and the other in the Gaza
Strip, and that these two groups loath
each other, don’t recognize the
other’s authority and – after months
and even years of trying – have not
been able to reconcile their
differences.
Everyone talks about two states, one
for Jews, and the other for
Palestinians. But what about Gaza?
Who rules there? How do you wrest
control of Gaza from Hamas? Those
are crucial questions representing a
huge elephant in the negotiating
room, and are questions the
international community has
vast majority of those on the ships
were just trying to do a good deed,
but they were not the ones who
determined that the outcome would
be a violent confrontation.
Mete Cubukcu, editor-in-chief of
NTV, one of Turkey’s largest
television networks, explains how the
IHH, which organized and led the
flotilla, is linked to radical groups and
Jihad fighters, including those who
murdered a beloved Armenian
journalist.
Then there’s the interview with IHH
and flotilla leader Yildrim on board
the Mavi Marmara (3:40). He says
they know Israel will stop the ship
and that when this happens, there will
be huge demonstrations throughout
the world.
The show then interviews Michael
Kiefer, a left-wing expert on Islam
from Erfurt University. He says that
the Turks on board were not peace
activists as this term is understood in
the West, but people advocating
violence and revolutionary activity.
What’s most ironic is that many of
consistently ignored.
“The flotilla presents a clear image
problem for Israel,” said the
European diplomat quoted above.
“We in the West were looking away
from Gaza and the blockade, as long
as there were not hiccups in the
implementation of the blockade. But
because of the flotilla we cannot
ignore it anymore, because there is
growing pressure from our public
opinion.”
But by the same token, if the
Europeans can’t ignore the blockade
anymore, they – and the US – can
also no longer ignore the place of
Gaza, or the problem it presents, in
the diplomatic process.
Or, as a high level Israeli
government official pointed out this
week, the issue now is much broader
than the flotilla, it is on Gaza and
how that impacts on the diplomatic
process.
the Turks on the ship were from the
IHH and an extremist nationalist
group, the BBP. Three years ago, the
left-wing party to which the three
German participants belonged applied
to the German government to label
these groups as “racist” with a
“propensity for violence and
totalitarian structures based on the
führer principle” equivalent to a
German neo-Nazi movement.
When asked by a German television
reporter: “You seem not to have
bothered from the outset about who
would travel with you,” Annette
Groth, the left-wing member of
parliament who was on the ship
angrily ended the conversation. She
and her colleagues didn’t want to
know how they’d served as human
shields for violent groups acting in
support of a terrorist, racist group,
Hamas.
Those in the media who continue to
cover up or ignore these facts should
be asked why, to paraphrase the
German reporter’s question to Groth,
“You seem not to have bothered by
7
“If there is going to be an easing of
the blockade,” he asked rhetorically,
“how will that change Gaza, how will
that strengthen Hamas, how will that
impact on the Palestinian Authority?
This all touches on the Palestinian
talks. Everything is connected.”
Miller is right. The truth is that Abu
Mazen has no mandate to negotiate.
His term in office expired more than
a year ago. He doesn’t control Gaza
and he only controls Judea and
Samaria because the IDF is there. It’s
all connected. With whom are we
negotiating? And why?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:38
AM
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Some encouraging news about
Israel
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 5:27:00 PM
Clarice Feldman
This past week was full of the usual:
Double standards being applied to
cast Israel as a vicious, law-breaking
state and more threats from Iran to an
already besieged country.
Yesterday, there were two bits of
encouraging news. First, at almost the
very place where the flotilla of thugs
and useful idiots were engaged by the
Israelis (well within its territorial
waters) there has been a major gas
find which should meet its critical
energy needs.… a gigantic deposit of
natural gas called Leviathan, 6.5
times the size of Tel Aviv, was found,
roughly 100 nautical miles from
where the flotilla fiasco took place
and well within Israel’s extended
territorial waters. This discovery may
provide Israel with security in terms
of its supply of electricity, turn it into
an important natural gas exporter and
provide a shot in the arm of some
$300 billion over the life of the field
– one-and-a-half times the national
GDP – to the Israeli economy,
already one of the most resilient in
the world.
More importantly, this discovery is
nothing short of a geopolitical game
changer. To understand its
magnitude, consider this: The world’s
biggest gas discovery in 2009, 238
billion cubic meters, was made by a
U.S.-Israel consortium at a site called
Tamar, 60 miles off the coast of
Haifa. The nearby Leviathan field is
estimated to be twice that size.
Altogether the basin in the eastern
Democrat and Republican Leaders
Oppose UN Investigation
by Allen (Hija del Zion para
Israel - Daughter of Zion for
Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 5:20:31 PM
The Republican and Democrat
leaders of the United States Senate
have called on the Obama
administration to veto an international
investigation of Israel. They are
circulating a letter among their
colleagues that is addressed to
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Today, at the State Department’s
press briefing, State’s spokesman said
he was not aware of any resolution to
investigate Israel. If State is truly
unfamiliar with efforts to investigate
Israel then he is clearly uniformed.
All indications are that the United
States is prepared to dismiss an Israeli
Mediterranean to which those fields
belong could contain an amount of
gas equivalent to one-fifth of U.S.
natural gas reserves. For a small
country like Israel, such a bonanza
could not have come at a better time.
Secondly, there is evidence that the
certain but secret cooperation
between Israel and the Arab states
which see Iran as a threat has not
been damaged by the Turkish
connivers. Saudi Arabia has
conducted tests to stand down its air
defences to enable Israeli jets to make
a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear
facilities, The Times can reveal. In
the week that the UN Security
Council imposed a new round of
sanctions on Tehran, defence sources
in the Gulf say that Riyadh has
agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow
corridor of its airspace in the north of
the country to shorten the distance for
a bombing run on Iran. Looks like
Hanukah in June to me. via
americanthinker.com Posted via web
investigation and to support a UN
investigation that will serve the
interest of Israel’s enemies.
Bill Kristol broke the story of the
United States support for an
international investigation in the
Weekly Standard. It forced the White
House to address the issue. This link
includes the White House non-comm
ital response and criticism of Israel’s
investigation.
Let Secretary Clinton know that you
demand that the United States openly
oppose an international investigation
and support Israel.
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Can Israel
Learn How to
Make Its Case?
by paraisrael (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 6/12/2010 5:15:13 PM
by Werner Kunz (werkunz1)
Can Israel Learn How to Make Its
Case?
With the incident of the Mavi
Marmara flotilla, the armed forces
blundered their way into yet another
international fiasco
Read more on Time Magazine
Israel nears accord on flotilla probe
Israel plans to form an international
committee to investigate a raid on a
Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Read more on BigPond News
Israel plans investigation committee
Israel plans to form a committee
including US and European observers
to investigate a raid on a Gaza-bound
aid flotilla, according to media
reports.
Read more on Sky News Australia
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France ordered to
shut down
France ordered
FRANCE
Hamas’
to shut down
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al-Aqsa TV broadcasts France has
by Carl
been in Jerusalem
ordered by the (Hija del
European
Commission to remove Hamas’ al-
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continued from page 8
Aqsa television from its satellite
broadcast lineup.
The Coalition Against Terrorist
Media (CATM) praised the European
Commission for warning the French
broadcasting authority to shut down
broadcasts of Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV
on Eutelsat. The French-owned
Eutelsat is the world’s third largest
satellite company. CATM monitors
terrorist-owned media and has
provided the European Commission
and the French government with
findings indicating that Al-Aqsa TV
violates European audiovisual laws.
The Commission’s warning comes
after France’s broadcasting authority,
the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel
(CSA), itself formally warned
Eutelsat on 3 November 2009 — and
on prior occasions — that Al-Aqsa
TV broadcasts violate European laws,
as noted in the Commission’s letter to
the CSA. [Note: The law is Article 15
of the 30 September 1986]
The station shows programs which
“incite hatred or violence for reasons
of religion or nationality,” said
French Foreign Ministry spokesman,
Bernard Valero, responding to the
new development. He said French
London School of Economics: Pakistan’s ISI "is
providing funding, training and sanctuary to the
authorities were confident the CSA
would take rapid action to ensure
content broadcast via satellites owned
by French-based firms respected
French and EU law.
“CATM calls on the CSA to take
immediate action,” said Mark
Dubowitz, Executive Director of the
Foundation for Defense of
Democracies, which founded the
coalition in 2004. “Taking Al-Aqsa
TV off the air would demonstrate that
incitement to violence and support of
terrorism will not be tolerated in
Europe. The Commission’s warning
and the presumed CSA action would
be a critical blow to Hamas’s effort to
create institutions that masquerade as
legitimate but in actuality provide
operational support for its attacks and
spread radical, jihadist messages.”
Dubowitz continued, “Europe has
witnessed the impact radicalized
groups can have on its population. To
its credit, the European Commission
has said, ‘enough is enough.’ Hamas
should no longer be able to act with
impunity by exporting its hate and
incitement from Gaza to the
European continent.”
But does this mean al-Aqsa will
actually be taken off the air in France
– a country where a Jew who was
tortured to death by Muslims four
years ago showed up on a Muslim
dating site last year? Read the whole
thing. I have my doubts.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:19
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Overnight music video Here’s
Avraham Fried singing Neshama at a
concert celebrating the 30th
anniversary (wow do I feel old) of his
performing career.
Let’s go to the videotape.
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Taliban on scale much larger than previously thought"
by Marisol (Hija del Zion para
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Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:52:58 PM
London School of Economics:
Pakistan’s ISI “is providing funding,
training and sanctuary to the Taliban
on scale much larger than previously
thought” Pakistan, for its part,
“rejected the claims as part of a
malicious campaign against the
country.” In other words, it’s business
as usual. The only thing that changes
is that the Taliban get stronger.
“Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency
’supports’ Taliban,” by Quentin
Somerville for BBC News, June 12:
A new report claims to provide the
most concrete evidence yet of direct
links between Pakistan’s ISI
intelligence agency and the Taliban in
Afghanistan.
The report says the ISI is providing
funding, training and sanctuary to the
Taliban on scale much larger than
previously thought.
The document was prepared by the
London School of Economics (LSE).
A spokesman for Pakistan’s military
rejected the claims as part of a
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malicious campaign against the
country.
‘Rubbish’
The report’s author spoke to nine
Taliban field commanders in
Afghanistan earlier this year.
He concludes that Pakistan’s
relationship with the insturgents [sic]
runs far deeper than previously
realised.
Some of those interviewed suggested
that the ISI even attends meetings of
the Taliban’s supreme council. They
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campaign against the country’s
military and security agencies.
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they don’t seem to care about it very
much, do they?
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