July 2012
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Second Temple-era mikveh discovered under Al-Aqsa... →
In 1927, an earthquake struck Jerusalem, killing 130 people, wounding 450 and destroying or heavily damaging about 300 buildings, including Al-Aqsa mosque. The Muslim waqf, led by Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, began restoring the mosque. Robert Hamilton, the director of the antiquities department during the Mandatory period in pre-state Israel, spotted an opportunity in the midst...
June 2012
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The Cold War’s Arab Spring - Stolen Kremlin... →
The dominant narrative of modern Middle East history emphasizes the depredations visited upon the region by European colonization and accepts as a truism that the former colonial powers prioritized the protection of their material interests—in oil, above all—above the dignity and self-determination of the region’s inhabitants. Thus did botched decolonization result in endless instability. The most...
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In A Few Years China Will LIkely Be the... →
Shanghai, China
There is a remarkable amount of interest in China about Israel and Jews, as I discovered during a trip to China sponsored by SIGNAL, the Sino-Israel Global Network and Academic Leadership.
The most obvious reason is that the Chinese—one important official called it the “little superpower—perceive that Israel in particular and the...
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Arab Apartheid Against Palestinians, by Khaled Abu... →
Like many Arab countries, Lebanon has always been treating Palestinians as third-class citizens. Nearly half a million Palestinians live in Lebanon’s 12 camps. Though born and raised in the country, they are denied political, economic and social rights.
Palestinians cannot attend Lebanese public schools or own property. They do not have access to national health services or the social...
Anonymous asked: fuck you zionist scum
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If You Don’t Stand Up for Western Civilization It... →
In some ways, that’s what Islamism is, a radical interpretation of Islam as a revolutionary political movement which in 2012 must seize state power wherever possible. Can the Islamists cite holy texts and great theologians to justify their actions? Yes. But why should Western democratic states accept this interpretation as valid for their own laws and societies? Why should they have the slightest...
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Obama just doesn’t get it Op-ed: Islamists taking... →
Yet Friedman is no more than an example of an allegory for the way many in the West, including its leaders and journalists (led by Obama) formulate their doctrine in line with the ideological color of their worldview, and as result of an overdose of wishful thinking. For them, reality is no more than a burdensome nuisance.
According to this mechanism, the Egyptian people’s deep desire for...
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The Brotherhood's useful idiots, by Caroline B.... →
When you know what you want, you use all the tools at your disposal to achieve your goals. When you don’t know what you want, no matter what tools you hold, you will fail to achieve your goals.
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MORE DISHONESTY FROM ANTI-ISRAEL DIVESTMENT... →
Well-meaning people who want to make socially responsible investments should beware of exaggerations made by anti-Israel activists. The activists’ dishonesty about their own success is paralleled by their dishonesty and bias about the history and events of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They support anti-Israel extremists. Their goal is to punish and ultimately dismantle the one Jewish...
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U.N. rights chief blasts U.S. & Canada in opening... →
Pillay’s disproportionate censure of Canada was immediately exploited by anti-democratic regimes to divert attention from their crimes. Syria, facing world condemnation over its mass killings, took the floor to gloat about how “the High Commissioner said in her report that there is repression in Canada.” Then Sri Lanka, on the defensive for refusing to investigate its 2009...
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Life of Luxury in “World’s Largest Concentration... →
Monaco or Gaza? The Economist notes this slice of life from“the world’s largest concentration camp.”
In the meantime, Hamas leaders seem increasingly content to enjoy the fruits of splendid isolation. The parliamentary car park, full of rickety bangers when Hamas first took office, now gleams with flash new models hauled through the tunnels under the Egyptian border. Two Hummer H3s and a golden...
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Iranians ♥ America, But ... by Daniel Pipes →
Not for the first time, a journalist proves an adept reporter but lousy analyst. Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times today recounts in “Hugs from Iran” some of his experiences during a recent road trip in Iran. Excerpts:
My 1,700-mile road trip across Iran began with a giddy paean to America, reinforcing my view that at the grass-roots level, this may be the most pro-American...
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The Rhetoric of Nonsense Fabricating Palestinian... →
For most journalists engaged with the moralistic narrative, fantastic stories about Palestinians having existed 9,000 years ago do not even rise to the level of cognitive dissonance; it is, for now, nonsense discourse and anti-realism. But another factor for the lack of Western attention to such statements is found in Frankfurt’s discourse on nonsensical rhetoric; the sincerity of the user...
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How media condition people to be anti-Israel, by... →
In April 2011, a bomb in a telephone booth went off by Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station. Reporting it, Reuters found it necessary to explain terminology. Although Israelis might see it as an act of terrorism, explained Reuters, others might not see it the same way.
Police described the explosion as a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian strike.
A unique and grotesque way, you...
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Norwegian student in Oslo burns Jewish pupil, By... →
A schoolboy burned a Jewish pupil with a red-hot coin at an Oslo secondary school on Monday, triggering the Simon Wiesenthal Center to issue a strongly-worded letter to Norwegian Justice Minister Grete Faremo.
According to the letter, “this child has been the subject of anti-Semitic bullying and violence for the past two years, reportedly, because his father is Israeli.” In addition,...
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Allah Is a Zionist - The Quranic argument for... →
One can easily verify that Jewish and Muslim traditional sources are confirming each other: The Temple was built by Solomon and destroyed by a Babylonian king. A Persian king later defeated the Babylonians and ransomed the Jews, permitting them to return to the Land of Israel. The Temple was rebuilt but afterward was destroyed by the Romans. This Temple stood in the area referred to as Beth...
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Neo-Nazis praise German mayor for Israel boycott,... →
BERLIN – The local branch of the neo-Nazi party (NPD) expressed solidarity for the campaign calling for a boycott of Israeli products that is supported by the German city of Jena’s Social Democratic Mayor Albrecht Schröter and the left-wing NGO Pax Christi.
The NPD branch in the state of Thuringia, where Jena is located, quickly issued accolades on Monday to Schröter on its website. The neo-Nazis...
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“I learned that, in short, sensitivity sucks. It’s a trap. Think about it -...”
– Neil Boortz
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“To imply that one person is homeless, destitute, dirty, drunk, spaced out on...”
– Neil Boortz
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What to Say When You’re Handed the... →
One of his worst actions has been to come close to worshipping Turkey’s Islamist regime despite its tremendous hostility toward Israel. Obama’s passivity has helped turn the Turkey-Israel alliance into something verging on cold war. Since the Turkish regime continues to be rewarded by Obama despite doing things like getting Israel barred from the NATO meeting and indicting Israeli officers over...
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'Meaningful Work' By Thomas Sowell →
People who lack the skills to take on more prestigious jobs can either remain idle and live as parasites on others or take the jobs for which they are currently qualified, and then move up the ladder as they acquire more experience. People who are flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s on New Year’s Day are seldom flipping hamburgers there when Christmas time comes.
Those relatively few...
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Questions Facing the Muslim World, by Harold Rhode →
In some parts of the Muslim world, females are pressured to undergo various forms of “female circumcision,” a cutting of their genitals presumably intended to prevent women from having sexual pleasure — a practice that often takes place in unsanitary conditions that can cause significant health problems, if not death. This practice, however, has nothing to do with Islam; it is...
