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Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Ft. Hood Terror attack

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:51:33 AM
 
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New York Post writer Robert A. George comments:
 
"After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.
 
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?"
Read the entire essay at:
 
 
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U.N. Blasted by Barry Farber

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:50:54 AM
 
MUST READ OF THE DAY
 
Veteran talk show host Barry Farber blasts the UN and the Goldstone report writing:
 
"There's nothing cute about the U.N.'s ...Goldstone Report, due to be considered by the General Assembly this week. The Goldstone Report incredibly takes aim at (Israel )the one country that, above all others in history, takes the most self-sacrificing care to avoid harming enemy civilians. Goldstone then discolors that country's most recent act of self-defense until it resembles not an attempt to stop Hamas' rocket-rain coming in from Gaza, but rather the Rape of Nanking."
 
Barry further writes:
 
"In the U. S. Army, you get punished for calling a "rifle" a "gun." Likewise in the American Navy if you call a "ship" a "boat." In the Israeli military, it feels like the remains of the Second Temple are dumped upon you if, in training, you do anything which, translated into real combat, might endanger enemy civilians."
 
For the entire article go to:
 
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=114879
 
It is a pleasure to see Barry in the arena again!
 
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Muddled thinking at the National Constitution Center or Worse?

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Monday, November 02, 2009 9:19:28 AM
 
 
When I first saw billboards for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia’s new exhibit “Diana: A Celebration” about Diana, Princess of Wales. I was surprised. I did not see a connection between this deceased British Royal and the ideals of the Framers of the Constitution.

I must confess: I have never liked some of the people and things associated with the National Constitution Center. Starting with Peter Jennings. But, this topic seemed far from what I usually write about.

I decided to post on this and not write an essay on my own. The Philadelphia Bulletin had an op-ed about this the other week that I want to encourage you to read it:

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/10/18/commentary/op-eds/doc4adadda009816856249460.txt

The truth is that the National Constitution Center’s muddled idea of mission and the muddled U.S. foreign policy towards Israel are connected. Ideas matter. History matters. Morality matters. I don’t see how Diana’s life warrants our attention in this way, unless this is a deliberate attempt to further our attention from things that really matter or more sad evidence of how far this nation has drifted from the ideals of the Founding Fathers.
 
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Former Temple Prof Fired by FOX News

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:01:38 AM

 

AIM’s Kincaid Applauds FOX News Channel’s Firing of Marc Lamont Hill

Press Release  |  October 16, 2009

WASHINGTON, October 16, 2009--Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid today welcomed FOX News Channel's decision to fire cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill as a paid analyst. Kincaid learned of Hill's firing this morning at the annual meeting of News Corporation, the parent company of FOX News, in New York City. Accuracy in Media is a News Corp. shareholder.

Kincaid was in the middle of raising a question that he has asked in a series of recent columns - namely, while properly questioning how the Obama Administration could possibly have hired Van Jones, with his radical background, how did FOX News hire Marc Lamont Hill as an analyst, when Hill had an easily documentable record in support of cop-killers.

Before Kincaid completed the background for his question, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch interrupted Kincaid to say that he appreciated Cliff's work on this matter, and that Hill had been "fired" last week.

Kincaid announced that he will have more to say on this in the coming days.  His previous columns on Marc Lamont Hill are available on the AIM website.

For more information:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/scandal-fox-news-hires-apologist-for-cop-killer
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fox-news-has-a-van-jones-problem
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fox-news-analyst-labels-police-racist-terrorists
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-extreme-makeover-of-fox-news-analyst-marc-lamont-hill

Accuracy in Media is a citizens' media watchdog organization whose mission is to promote fairness, balance, and accuracy in news reporting.  Founded in 1969, AIM is the oldest non-profit press watchdog group in America.  For more information, please visit www.aim.org.
 
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What Do Muslims Want? - A White House adviser defends sharia.

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:50:29 PM
 
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The Weekly Standard exposes an Obama Administration official's defense of sharia:
 
Rather, Mogahed delivered a defense of sharia law, and, in particular, its application to women. She alleged that "the perception of sharia and portrayal of sharia has been oversimplified even among Muslims," and called for sharia to be viewed "holistically" (a meaningless cliché.) According to her, "the majority of women around the world associate sharia with 'gender justice.'"  
 
Read the entire article here:
 
 
 
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Israel's Secret War on Hezbollah

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:41:55 PM
 
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Well written and well researched Wall Street Journal article explains why the next war in teh Middle East might be in Lebanon - again...
 
Ronen Bergman writes: "The specter of renewed fighting between Israel and Hezbollah looms as large today as it has at any time since the end of the Lebanon war in August 2006. Yet senior military officers in Israel's Northern Command are confident that the embarrassing outcome of the last round will not be repeated."
 
Read the whole article at:
 
 
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NOBEL Prize, definitely not the NOBLE prize

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Monday, October 12, 2009 6:17:11 AM
 
Yes, Virginia: Nobel? Yes. Noble? Definitely Not.
By Ruth King
“Mirror, mirror on the wall…Who’s the fairest of them all?”
 
The Nobel Committee has answered: “Thou Obama, art the fairest of them all.”
 
The will of Alfred Nobel very clearly stated that the peace prize should be awarded to: "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
 
And, Obama does fraternize – Venezuela, Russia – and he has extended a very unclenched fist to all Muslim nations, and he is certainly for the reduction of standing armies (our own included) and he promotes the “peace congress” now known as the United Nations.
 
He deserves the prize – and he is in such august company. As the “Wickies” in Wikipedia admit: “The selection of Nobel Peace Prize winners sometimes causes controversy, as it has become greatly politicized and not related to issues of peace and the list of winners includes people who formerly used violence and terrorism,” but then they cheerfully add, “but then later made exceptional concessions to non-violence in the attempt to achieve peace.” See Yasser Arafat for that one and Anwar Sadat too. In fact, Anwar Sadat’s poster boy, Adolph Hitler, actually made the casting couch for a Nobel in 1939. Hey…so did Stalin and Benito Mussolini. It’s a big world after all.
 
Oops! I almost forgot Kofi Annan. Geez nobody ever looked spiffier in a tux, so who cares about his dipping his family fingers into the cookie jar of the Oil for Food scandal? Compared to him the laureate Jimmy Carter looks like an old toad in a tux. Even the hyper-inflated prevaricator Nobel winner Al Gore looked better – if a tad like a size 14 stuffed into a size 10.
 
And speaking of prevarication, remember Rigoberta Menchu? She was a Guatemalan peasant….oops again – peasant is not a very politically correct term now – so let’s call her a “wealth and education challenged” liar. It turned out that her “autobiography” was a total fabrication. Anyway, let’s let bygones be bygones. She did have a tough life.
 
And speaking of tough life, you know all those so called Arab “refugee camps” housing the fourth generation of Palestinian Arabs in squalid conditions and impairing all efforts, including Israel’s, to resettle them? Well the United Nations Agency that keeps them there while turning a blind eye to their terrorist activities got a Nobel “peace” too. Yup. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees walked away with that one in 1981.
 
And then there is Mohammed Al Baradei, who is so peaceful he covered up the Iranian nuke buildup to disarm the West. Now that is an exceptional concession to non-violence, wouldn’t you say? And by the way, he gushed when he heard of President Obama’s nomination: "I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honor."
 
Other Arab “leaders” were not so sanguine, Some were downright pithy.
 
"Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes."
 
Issam al-Khazraji, a day laborer in Baghdad, said: "He doesn't deserve this prize. All these problems -- Iraq, Afghanistan -- have not been solved...The man of 'change' hasn't changed anything yet."
 
Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party in Pakistan, called the award an embarrassing "joke."
 
So much for gratitude to the great outreacher to Islam.
 
What do you suppose Michelle Obama will wear to the ceremonies? And will she give a press conference to recall how she sat on her daddy’s lap and watched Dr. Ralph Bunche, the first African-American win the Nobel Prize in 1950? Oh! That was before she was born.
 
In Copenhagen, while strutting for the Olympics, she said she sat on her father’s lap watching Carl Lewis win the Olympics. She would have been 20 years old at the time – a tad, er, late for sitting on daddy’s lap. But time and dates are inconsequential to the First Lady, so I’ll stop the nit-picking.
 
What’s done is done. He won. A lot of good people have, in fact, won the peace prize but a lot of really noble people such as Irena Sendler and Corazon Aquino and Pope John did not.
 
Nobel is not a definition of noble.
 
Noble is defined as:
 
1. famous, illustrious, renowned, impressive in appearance, imposing, stately, distinguished, famous, showing magnanimity.
 
He passes those, although his magnanimity is selective and reserved for thugs.
 
On the other definitions:
 
2. Having an exalted moral or mental character, lofty, honorable, high minded, having elevated principles and constantly adhering to them, scorning pettiness.
 
Virginia: He isn’t even a contender.
 
When the brouhaha settles and the ego is stuffed into his shirt, the mirror may speak again:
 
“Oh King though Nobel you be, a noble man is fairer to see.”
 
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Ruth S. King is a freelance writer who writes a monthly column in OUTPOST, the publication of Americans for a Safe Israel.
 
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The New Nazis

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:07:22 PM
 
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"The touchstone for evil in history is clearly the Nazis. Today, there is a new touchstone:  Iran. While some fear making such a comparison, doing so today is not outlandish. It is simply common sense. The Mullahs in Iran are the new Nazis. " writes Gregg Rickman.
 
Read the rest of his article here:
 
 
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The UN: Where Tyrants Are Literally Never Stopped.

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:42:44 PM
 
MUST READ OF THE DAY
 
Phyllis Chesler blasts the UN writing:
 
"We live at a moment in history when tyrants hold forth with none to stop them. Ahmadinejad-the-Monster held forth in all his western-suited glory at the UN and so did the terrorist, Gaddafi. No one at the UN stopped the Libyan madman from speaking well beyond his allotted 15 minutes. If the UN can’t even do this, can you imagine them actually stopping a genocide or a terrorist plot in process?

If they can’t or won’t, why are we funding them? Why do they exist?"

 
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Let's pause to remember Irving Kristol

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:44:08 PM
 
Outrages at the UN, Islamic Terrorist arrests in the US and the Jewish High Holidays
There is so much going on:  Outrages at the UN, Islamic Terrorist arrests in the US and the Jewish High Holidays. But, I would still like to pause and remember Irving Kristol - a Conservative thinker who molded generations of intellectuals.
 
Here is Mona Charen’s article about him from the National Review Online:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2M4YWNjOTYzYThiYzkxNTU1ZGMzN2I0MGZhMzA4MzM=

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WSJ: U.N. Smears Israeli Self-Defense As 'War Crimes'

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:19:36 AM
 
MUST READ OF THE DAY
 
Professor Gerald Steinberg writes in the Wall Street Journal that:

"(T)he U.N.-authorized "fact finding mission" on Gaza spent five months collecting testimony, interviewing witnesses and writing a 575-page report, with 1,223 references. But they ended up where they and the U.N. Human Rights Council began an assumption of Israeli war crimes "proved" by a collection of NGO claims and Palestinian "testimony," both of which lack credibility."

Read the entire article here:
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574416810481957726.html

 
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A Prayer For Rosh HaShanah 2009

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:34:34 AM

MY PRAYER FOR ROSH HASHONAH - 5770
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
September 11, 2009

As I survey the fragile planet we call home, my mind makes note of the chaos, blood, and tears. The cries of a million lost souls shatter the night in a million corners of the earth. The sensitive, compassionate among them try to feed the hungry, heal the sick, clothe the naked. One by one their energies dissipate. They try to hold back the tide with a teaspoon and then see the impossibility of the task. The Jewish people are but a cosmic speck in this universe. To many Jews who feel deeply about their own people, that speck becomes the whole world. Other Jews are irrevocably tied to non-Jewish pursuits.

May we as a people open our eyes and begin to see the world as it really is. Without becoming depressed and morose, we must realize that there are powerful forces in the world that wish us ill. May we mobilize our strength to fight our enemies until they are defeated. May we not succumb to false prophets of peace. We all want peace. We pray for peace in our Sabbath services every Friday night. After thousands of years, being victims of persecution, expulsion, extermination, and discrimination, it is natural that we yearn for peace with every ounce of our bodies and souls. It is because our hunger for peace is so strong that we must be doubly cautious not to fall for a pseudo-peace. Today none of us believe Chamberlain really negotiated "peace in our time" with Hitler. Why did some Jews believe that Peres and Rabin really negotiated "peace" with Arafat, one of today's Hitlers?
Why do many still believe that it is possible to make peace with the barbarians who surround Israel and wish only to destroy it. (Santayana said and it is true today: "Those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it.") The Jewish people must learn from history and learn the value of unity in the face of so many enemies who wish them ill.

I pray that Israelis who have fought in countless wars will understand that there is no magic cure, though they crave to be free of constant conflict. As Jews we are all involved in this historic struggle to survive. It is not our fate or that of the Israelis that we should retire from this struggle.

I have a vision and a dream that I must reveal. In the name of G-d, the Almighty, Defender of His People, Israel, I say to my people's enemies: Beware of the thing that is coming, that will take what you would not give. That will free the people of Israel from your atrocities. I say to Israeli Prime Minister 'Bibi' Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Be aware of the Risen People who will sweep the Arab scourge into the dustbin of history. Know that the Jewish soul will be set free. The spectacular victories of the Israeli army and the return to Zion demonstrated that power. But it wasn't a miracle. It was just the soul of the Jew coming to its own. It was just the Jewish soul freed at last to be itself.

And I see it coming, the Jewish soul released to be itself. I see a new proud Jewish government coming to power in Israel. (May Bibi [Netanyahu] be the one I prayed for or is he another weak leader??) A government that reclaims the Jewish Holy Places and restores Jewish sovereignty in all of Eretz Yisrael.
 
I see Moslem control and Islamic sites removed from the Temple Mount to make it ready for Moshiach. I see the enemies of Israel, who raise up their hands to murder or injure Jews, driven from our Holy Land. I see the secular Jews of Israel and the world becoming more observant and returning to the Torah. I see religious Jews becoming more tolerant of diversity in Jewish practice.

I see a new Israeli foreign policy that grovels before no nation, no matter how powerful. I see Israel's Foreign Minister informing every nation that their embassies must be in Jerusalem. If they don't respect Israel's capital, then they will be given permission to have a consulate in Tel Aviv. I see the government demanding that the Vatican return all the property it has stolen from the Jewish people during the last 2000 years. Maybe they will refuse and we could always hold their property in Israel as a down payment. The Vatican has been used to dealing with obsequious groveling Jews, but now they would see proud fearless Jews. I see an Israeli government that would change its relationship with America from one of subservience to one of equal alliance.

Yes, I have a dream (apologies to MLK) that Jews will no longer debate the obvious: like whether to hold onto what is theirs or trade it away; whether to struggle for survival or to give up from fatigue. I have a dream that the Jews of the kibbutz and the Jews of YESHA will be reborn as brothers and patriots. From the Galilee to Eilat, all the people of Israel will share the same dream of a powerful independent Zionist nation. I have a dream that this strong, proud independent Israel will win the respect of all the nations of the world, including the Arabs. Instead of the contempt it has earned in recent years, Israel will again be a light unto the nations. And finally, I have a dream that this new Israel will find the peace it so dearly deserves. A peace with strength and self-respect. As I look back at 4,000 years of Jewish history, I have but one urgent hope and prayer: We must make this dream a reality. There is no alternative.

May the L-rd, bless the leaders of Israel with the courage to pursue peace, and the wisdom to know when it is not attainable. May the L-rd bless the Jews who return to Zion and give them jobs and new friends to ease their transition into Israeli life. May the Lord bless the war-weary Israeli people with the stamina to bear up under the strain, as peace is not just around the corner.

May they understand that their fate may be that of endless struggle to survive in a hostile world and may they have the strength to understand that there is still no alternative (ein brera). May the people of Israel prosper and go from success to success never forgetting that their destiny lies in their might, their righteousness and their faith in HaShem.
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Bernard J. Shapiro is the Chairman of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies www.freeman.org and Editor of its Publications.


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What is the FBI doing to prevent another 9/11?

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:31:47 PM
 
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As we mourn the victims of the Islamic terrorists who died on 9/11, questions must be asked regarding the interaction of U.S. government agencies and pro-Jihad groups today.  In a new article in Human Events, Rowan Scarborough accuses the FBI of partnering with Islamic allies of the terrorist group known as the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
Here's the start of the article:
 
"The FBI since the September 11 attacks has forged ties with a number of Muslim groups linked to a secretive organization that calls for the methodical takeover of the United States."
 
Read the rest of the article here:
 
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Jimmy Carter is wrong on the Middle East

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:07:59 PM
 
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Elliott Abrams responds to Jimmy Carter:
 
"Most inaccurate of all, and most bizarre, is Carter's claim that "a total freeze of settlement expansion is the key" to a peace agreement. Not a halt to terrorism, not the building of Palestinian institutions, not the rule of law in the West Bank, not the end of Hamas rule in Gaza -- no, the sole "key" is Israeli settlements."
 
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The Arabs & Israel: It's not the settlements, stupid

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:18:49 AM
 
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The Arabs reject any Jewish ownership of land in the Holy Land writes Sarah Honig in the Jerusalem Post. Here is an excerpt:
 
"US President Barack Obama's fixation on (Israeli) settlements, whether they be a collection of squatters' makeshift lean-tos on a stony hill in the middle of a barren nowhere or entire populous urban quarters of Jerusalem.

The real issue is a layer deep beneath surface palaver. It's a layer which Arabs implicitly understand, which Jews pretend (or prefer) not to understand, and which Obama righteously denies. To paraphrase what Bill Clinton hectored during his first presidential campaign: "It's not the settlements, stupid."

 
Settlements are mere transitory pretexts, alleged irritants which in fact conceal a far darker but basic truth."
 
Read the entire article here:
 
 
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