January 2012
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Solutionsbecomeproblems, I do doubt the Egyptian ambassador’s wife simply because I’ve read and heard enough false complaints from Israel-haters (and because of the situation between the two countries, I’m betting that she was raised on Israel-hatred and possibly Jew-hatred) to give me doubt. I would like to hear of your experiences, not because I doubt you, prejudice exists...
December 2011
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Israel's top 45 greatest inventions of all time,... →
A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera.
Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum
“Inventors for a Day” tap into their creative side at the Inventions, Inc. exhibition at Jerusalem’s Bloomfield Science Museum.
One of Israel’s sources of pride is the enormous number of inventions and innovations that...
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Middle East Craziness: Some Personal Anecdotes, by... →
I think if you haven’t had much contact with the Middle East it is hard to comprehend how loony a region this is and the magnitude of the lies told about it. I had to deal today with something relating to the presence of Egypt’s embassy in Israel and it made me think about some past experiences.
A few years ago I was giving a lecture at the Australian National University. It was a pretty...
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Repo Men, by Kevin D. Williamson →
If you’re making money on the Wall Street scale — which is nothing like your boring, middle-management in the Fortune 500, Hamptons-and-Mercedes, barely–a–1 percenter type money — then you can buy basically anything. When real-estate investor Robert Rosania put part of his storied champagne collection up for sale in 2008, the auction was predicted to fetch $5 million — couch-cushion change...
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Hi-tech execs helping young Arab-Israelis By JUDY... →
Some 140 Israeli Arabs have been trained as hi-tech engineers and are working at Galil Software, a company in Nazareth – providing the country with urgently needed sophisticated manpower, instead of outsourcing engineers in India and Eastern Europe. The company was set up three years ago by Yitzhak Danziger to integrate Arabs in the industry, where networking with people from the Israel...
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New Theme: Israel is Collapsing; Losing Its... →
It is truly amazing how anti-Israel forces generate so many false stories every day. At a time when revolutionary Islamists are taking over most Middle Eastern countries and the democracy dream in the region is collapsing, one would think that the main threat and evil force in the region is Israel. After all, we live in a time when Thomas Friedman, court jester for Middle East issues, can...
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Israel's top 20 greatest inventions of all time,... →
1. Netafim is a worldwide pioneer in smart drip and micro-irrigation, starting from the idea of Israeli engineer Simcha Blass for releasing water in controlled, slow drips to provide precise crop irrigation. The kibbutz-owned company operates in 112 countries with 13 factories throughout the world.
1 1 . TA C o u n t r e a l – t i m e microbiology enables the detection and counting of...
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Tracing the Roots of Jewishness, by Michael Balter →
Who are the Jews? For more than a century, historians and linguists have debated whether the Jewish people are a racial group, a cultural and religious entity, or something else. More recently, scientists have been weighing in on the question with genetic data. The latest such study, published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics, shows a genetic connection among all Jews,...
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Curious George and the Nazis, by Jewniverse →
When the Nazi party was gaining popularity in Germany, Hans Augusto Rey, a Jewish salesman, knew it was a good time to get out. He moved to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. There, he met and married an old flame, Margret, who’d also come to escape the Nazis. Together, the couple moved to Paris in 1935. When World War II broke out, the Reys realized they needed to make other plans. They left...
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Avrech: Europe's Judenrein Universities. →
Recently, Europe’s largest student union, the University Of London Union, joined the worldwide boycott of all Israeli products. It’s just one of the many students’ unionswhich embraced the anti-Israel campaign. The Cambridge University Students Union voted to call on the University to cut ties with Veolia, a company involved in “infrastructure projects in Israeli...
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Muslim Persecution of Christians: November 2011,... →
The so-called “Arab Spring” continues to transition into a “Christian Winter,” including in those nations undergoing democratic change, such as Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis dominated the elections—unsurprisingly so, considering the Obama administration has actually been training Islamists for elections.
Arab regimes not overthrown by the...
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WatchMuslim Brotherhood Leader and Al Azhar Professor Call for Jew Annihilation at Cairo Vatican* of Sunni Islam
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Egypt: As Grim Islamists March Toward Power, The... →
Beautiful dreams often engender horrific realities: the Weimar Republic in Germany, the glorious dawn of the French revolution, and the idealism of the Russian Revolution gave way to something else entirely.
Ironically, a Coptic refugee—in a sinister echo of Big Pharoah’s Brotherhood doctors treating Christians anecdote—recounts how a Muslim physician treating her daughter at a hospital...
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2011 was a busy year. Here are some less-reported... →
October
Israeli actress Hannah Maron set a world record for the longest continuous acting career. She began acting in 1931 at age four in her native Germany. She lost a leg when Palestinian terrorists attacked an El Al flight she was on, but she continued her acting career. As she marked 80 years on stage and screen, Maron was preparing for her upcoming role at Tel Aviv’s Carmai Theatre.
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The fifth horseman of the apocalypse By Spengler →
Population decline is the elephant in the world’s living room. As a matter of arithmetic, we know that the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations. Two out of three Italians and three of four Japanese will be elderly dependents by 2050. [1] If present fertility rates hold, the...
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Gaza Christians long for days before Hamas... →
Christians in Gaza say they face intimidation and arrest over Christmas celebrations since Hamas took charge in 2007. Photograph: APAimages/Rex Features
When the Latin patriarch came to Gaza’s Holy Family church to celebrate Christmas mass last week, he instructed a full house of Catholic and Orthodox families to pray for reconciliation. As the archbishop, Fouad Twal, stood at the...
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Touching A Nerve -- Palestinian Origins, by... →
The uproar over Gingrich’s treading where polite commentators are expected never to go did not prompt most journalists and pundits to follow up with any real exploration of the factual content of the former Speaker’s observations. The focus remained on Palestinian outrage. Interesting questions weren’t explored. Why the striking Palestinian sensitivity to an obvious truth? Why not...
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Identical Twins Saved After Separation Inside... →
Identical twins were separated in their mother’s womb through an innovative treatment in Israel. The twins were dying when their 25-year-old mother arrived at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem and were saved through a procedure that penetrated the uterus and separated the twins’ shared blood vessels.
“We are talking about identical twins sharing the same placenta, and in fact sharing the same...
The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine, by Daniel... →
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Judging from news reports, one might think that Palestinian nationalism has been active as long as Jews and Arabs have been living at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. And as Yasir ‘Arafat rides high since his declaration of a Palestinian state, there is an understandable tendency in the West to accept at face value...
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Finding Fault in the Palestinian Messages That... →
A new book by an Israeli watchdog group catalogs dozens of examples of messages broadcast by the Palestinian Authority for its domestic audience that would seem at odds with the pursuit of peace and a two-state solution.
Instead, the authors say, their findings show a pattern of non-recognition of Israel’s right to exist, demonization of Israel and promotion of violence.
Of course, this is...
The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine, by Daniel... →
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Judging from news reports, one might think that Palestinian nationalism has been active as long as Jews and Arabs have been living at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. And as Yasir ‘Arafat rides high since his declaration of a Palestinian state, there is an understandable tendency in the West to accept at face value his insistence that the Palestinians...
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The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine, by Daniel... →
Judging from news reports, one might think that Palestinian nationalism has been active as long as Jews and Arabs have been living at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. And as Yasir ‘Arafat rides high since his declaration of a Palestinian state, there is an understandable tendency in the West to accept at face value his insistence that the Palestinians have always sought an...
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Are Jews better off in Israel? By Spengler →
Israelis grow up with sense of urgency for excellence; in their neighborhood, First Prize is the chance to compete for First Prize once again, and Second Prize is, you’re dead. American Jews live under no threat whatever; having made good in America, they have all the room in the world for indolence and self-deception....
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest...”
– Richard P. Feynman
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Europe: Hands off! by FresnoZionism.org →
The European Union, as well as EU countries independently, provide millions of dollars annually to finance left-wing Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which could not survive on what they would get from the small number of Israelis that support them.
These organizations use their resources to try to influence Israeli policies, laws, actions and even elections. They sponsor...
grammaraintmything asked: Did you miss Friedman's point. His main point was that Israel is shifting away from democratic principles that American Jews value. The current coalition govt is putting forth some measures that do not protect civil liberties and free speech or even equal rights for women. He is being self-critical of Israel, which isn't a bad thing. It would be great if pro-Palestinian people...
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Thomas Friedman and the Higher Education Bubble,... →
That Thomas Friedman would spout stupidity and anti-Semitism surprises me no more than the appearance of a gumball after I put a quarter into the machine and turn the knob. But one line in the New York Times’ calumnist’s (sic) Dec. 13 tantrum against Israel was worth a double-take:
I sure hope that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in...
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Palestinian Leadership: It Is Forbidden to... →
Israeli and Palestinian peace activists who planned to hold a conference in Jerusalem and Bethlehem this week were forced to cancel the event after receiving threats from Palestinians.
The conference was organized by the Israeli Palestinian Confederation, a group that seeks to promote peace and coexistence between the two peoples.
The organizers of the conference were hoping to hold...
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Child terrorists in training at Hamas rally today,... →
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Answer to solutionsbecomeproblems
Solutionsbecomeproblems, I've never given much thought to the ethnicity of Israelis. Whether the Ashkenazim, the Sephardi, or other group "seems" to run the country, I don't know, nor do I care. I do know that there are Jews and Israelis of all races, ethnicities, and colors of the rainbows. Israel went to a lot of trouble to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in the 1980s and 90s.
The point of the article however, is that there is no historical Palestinian people that the current "Palestinians" claim to be the descendents of.
I'm not sure I answered your question, but if you want to try rephrasing it, maybe I can come with a better answer. And maybe I can figure out how to answer on the post you're questioning, instead of double posting.
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Why Newt Gingrich Is Right on Palestine, by... →
An Israeli magazine recently profiled a Jerusalem Arab chef, Sufian Mustafa, who is bent on demonstrating that there is a uniquely “Palestinian” cuisine. But after much blustering about his ”exclusively Palestinian” creations (“real Palestinians would never cook with such a bland ingredient as cream,” he insisted) Mustafa grudgingly acknowledged that “the Palestinian kitchen is definitely a...
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Israel, Isaac and the Return of Human Sacrifice... →
As Iran races toward the bomb, many observers seem to think the greater threat is the possibility that Israel might act against its nuclear program. Which raises the question: What should it mean if, God forbid, militant Islam through force of arms, and with the supine permission of the West, succeeds in the destruction of the Jewish State?
1) That the Jewish People would no longer have...
Ketzele: Why I Am Proud To Be A Jew →
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by Bruce from New York 2006 (Still relevant)
With war raging in the Middle East, with global terror reaching new heights, with global anti-Semitism on the rise, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on why I’m proud, more than ever, to be a Jew.
I’m proud to be a Jew because Jews don’t…
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The invented people in the 18th century, by Elder... →
Other more recent scholars concurred - the tribes of Palestine were transplanted splinter tribes from various parts of Arabia and kept their names. A later work called Syrian Stone-lore, or The Monumental History of Palestine also written for the Palestine Exploration Fund seems to have heavily borrowed from the above quote, but added:
In 1881 I heard related in Taiyibeh (see...
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“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is...”
– Zuheir Mohsen - leader of a pro-Syria faction of the PLO between 1971 and 1979 - quoted in 1977
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Palestinian Arabs are Jebusites? ROFL! by Elder of... →
From CNN:
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich stands by his support for a Palestinian state, his spokesman said Saturday, despite his comment about an “invented Palestinian people” that has drawn fire from leaders in the West Bank. Gingrich made the comments in an interview that aired Friday with The Jewish Channel, a U.S. cable channel. “I believe that the...
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Journalism The Arab World Is Not Used To, by... →
Israel is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab journalists can still practice some form of real journalism without having to worry about their safety.
Over the past few years, several Arab media outlets have popped up in Israel, offering a type of journalism that the Arab world is not used to.
In Israel, they know, government “thugs” do not break the hands of ...
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When it comes to Israel, why is the world silent?... →
The intolerance all too common in the Middle East finds its way around the world, even entering the halls of the U.N. Today the U.N. is home to a triple standard: one standard for democracies, a different standard for dictatorships and a special, unobtainable standard for Israel. So I pose this ethical question, not from a philosophy course at a great university but based very much in the...
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In the Face of Evil, by Daniel Greenfield →
“I want these Jews to get out,” Naveed Haq could be heard saying on the 911 call. But it still took two trials to find him guilty, the first one ended in a hung jury. Recorded phone conversations were played for the jury where he described Pamela Waechter as an “Israeli collaborator” using language reminiscent of the BDS movement. “I did a very good thing. I did it for a good reason,” he told...
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The medical war on Israel Special: World's... →
Israel was excluded from the International Red Cross for half a century because of the Star of David. Questioned for having denied entry to the Jewish state, Cornelio Sommaruga, then-head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, declared: “If we’re going to have the Star of David, why would we not have to accept the Swastika?”
The historical injustice has been rectified only in 2006....
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Did Israel Train American Interrogators in... →
A couple of Goldblog readers alerted me to a Max Blumenthal story in which Karen Greenberg, the director of the Fordham School of Law’s Center on National Security, is quoted accusing Israel of teaching American interrogators the dark art of torture:
“After 9/11 we reached out to the Israelis on many fronts and one of those fronts was torture,” Greenberg told me. “The...
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Obama: I’ve Done More for Israel’s Security Than... →
When you’re the most anti-Israel president in the history of America’s relationship with that staunch Middle Eastern ally, self-delusion would seem to be a useful defense mechanism. Speaking recently to prominent Jewish supporters at a New York City fundraiser, President Obama said:
I try not to pat myself too much on the back, but this administration has done more for the security of the...
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The Media's Anti-Semitic Hate Machine, by Daniel... →
By linking Islamic terrorism to some form of Israeli provocation, and from there to the support for Israel by American Jews— the same media which would commit seppuku rather than blame Muslims for Islamic terrorism, instead blames Jews for Islamic terrorism. The steady drumbeat of such rhetoric, which exonerates Muslims but indicts Jews, for the actions of Muslims, is brilliantly...