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NEW BOOK: Culture of Terror: the Collapse of America

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Sunday, May 31, 2009 11:29:43 PM
 
Eugene Narrett's new book, Culture of Terror: the Collapse of America now is available at www.authorhouse.com:

http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=62139
 
The book describes the development of the modern West, especially in America from the scientific utopianism of the Enlightenment to post-Modernism which it carefully describes using examples from pop culture and politics as well as great literature. Throughout, the counter-example of Israel and its simple, joyous and sane code is used to help explain the self-destructive imperial pride of the West.
 
Below are comments by disintguished authors on Dr. Narrett's new work:

“This is a work of first rate scholarship and splendid artistry. Employing the wisdom of the ages in a sparkling variety of writings to trace the decline of America and the West, Eugene Narrett sets a “lamp before our feet to illuminate our path.” This is a hard-hitting message but Narrett’s writing is so crisp that what we have before us is a page-turner. This is a book that we all must read -- and heed. A brilliant performance; Bravo!” -- Jack Engelhard, author: Indecent Proposal; the Bathsheba Deadline; Escape from Mt.Moriah

“Eugene Narrett is no ordinary professor of English literature. He is a thinker, a rare and brilliant thinker. Although others—not many—have seen that the decline of America is largely the result of the combined influence of feminism and multiculturalism, Narrett correlates this decline to changes in Anglo-American literature… Narrett’s deep understanding of literature endows his profound understanding of America with a vividness rarely achieved in academia. His book on the American Collapse will enlighten and astonish his readers.” --- Dr. Paul Eidelberg, President, Foundation for Constitutional Democracy; author Discourse on Statesmanship; Judaic Man

Professor Narrett employs a breath-taking overview of literature, history and politics in this bold examination of America's descent into desperate shallowness, moral apathy and political fantasy. Narrett details this headlong rush to destruction with clarity and thoughtful eloquence. No one can brandish so compelling a phrase…” – Jim Long, filmmaker, author: the Riddle of the Exodus

visit http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=62139

In Culture of Terror Eugene Narrett brilliantly identifies postmodernism in its startling development from the Enlightenment’s revolution in values and scientific utopianism, the subsequent Gothic terrors and Romanticism, to Modernism’s shocks to the postmodern ‘state that follows history.’ This is a thrilling, fascinating ride from the confessional mode of the Romantics, to Modern psychology and introspective expressionism to the exhibitionism of media spectaculars and pop culture. Applying a broad palette of great writings from many disciplines Professor Narrett traces America’s collapse back to the formation of “the West,” a culture whose dynamism, productivity, unease and visions of imperial power are embedded in its hybrid roots. A remarkable achievement of cultural history and a must read to understand our times and cult, the media ‘distraction machine.’ 
 
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Peacemakers Will Bring National Suicide For Israel

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:06:18 AM
 
MUST READ OF THE DAY
 
Herb Denenberg writes in "Peacemakers Will Bring National Suicide For Israel" that "The two-state solution is in fact a no-state solution for Israel. When you consider the facts ... you have to conclude that a two-state solution now would be nothing but a suicide pact for Israel."
 
"...the Obama administration and the Arab nations are giving Israel two alternative paths, both of which lead to Israel committing suicide. It can agree to a two-state solution and assure its own destruction, as its borders will be indefensible and as it will be giving citizenship to a demographic group now dedicated to its destruction. Or it can reject suicide via the two-state solution, and instead elect suicide by Iran — with the apparent approval of the U.S. and the Arab nations — and Iran’s development of nuclear weapons of mass destruction … which it has repeatedly announced it will use on Israel. Iran and its genocidal madness should be the top U.S. and world priority, as it is a threat to world safety. It should not be used as a bargaining chip or an appeasement attempt to sell a totally unreasonable Arab peace plan.

The U.S., the Arab states and the “international community” are trying to shove the suicidal two-state solution down Israel’s throat, as if it is the only way to go."
 
Read the entire article from The (Philadelphia) Bulletin at:
 
 
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Hypocrisy At United Nations

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:51:16 PM

Hypocrisy At United Nations


By Darryl May, For The Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Genocide in Darfur.  Ethnic warfare in the Congo.  Repression of Tibetans by China.  Atrocities of all kinds in North Korea.  Denial of even the most basic womens’ rights in Saudi Arabia. Jailing of dissenters in Cuba. 

The list goes on and on.  There can be no doubt by any fair-minded person that the variety and number of human rights abuses, and abusers, is almost limitless, and a great scourge to the human spirit.

But not at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council.  There, an alternative reality exists:  99.9 percent of the world’s human rights abuses are committed by Israelis.

The Human Rights Council is in the news again because, after years of its being shunned as illegitimate by the Bush administration, on March 30, it was announced that  President Barack Obama has decided to rejoin the Council. 
 
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Say No To A Palestinian State - Forbes.com

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Monday, May 18, 2009 11:22:04 PM


MUST READ

Daniel Doron writes: 
 
Solving this conflict has been so difficult because it has always been misconstrued. As a result of confusion about the conflict's nature, the solutions that were nevertheless tried, such as the Oslo agreement establishing the Palestinian Authority, or Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, resulted in costly failures...
 
Although Doron writes much that I disagree with, his article is thought provoking and much of his analysis is spot on. Read the aentire article here:
 
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Obama Signals Israel to Submit

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Saturday, May 16, 2009 11:39:43 PM
 
MUST READ:
 
Obama’s Signal to Israel: Submit
By Mona Charen
 
In early April, Vice President Biden was asked if the administration was concerned that Israel might strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities. “I don’t believe Prime Minister Netanyahu would do that,” Mr. Biden replied. “I think he would be ill-advised to do that.”

A few weeks later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained the administration’s solution to the threat of an Iranian bomb: “For Israel to get the kind of strong support it’s looking for vis-à-vis Iran it can’t stay on the sideline with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts . . . they go hand-in-hand.”

And on May 10, National Security Advisor James Jones spelled it out further. “We understand Israel’s preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat. We agree with that. . . . By the same token, there are a lot of things that you can do to diminish that existential threat by working hard towards achieving a two-state solution.”
 
By what reasoning has the administration decided that pushing Israel to permit a new Palestinian state would — in any way — diminish the threat from Iran?...
 
 
 
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Israelis wonder if the Americans have quietly resigned themselves to a nuclear Iran

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Sunday, May 03, 2009 11:24:47 AM
 
A MUST READ:

Daniel Gordis writes: 

There’s a certain look to a widow who’s in her mid-twenties, whose husband was killed in Gaza in January.  Eyes swollen with tears, yet with steely determination at the same time.  A certain vulnerability on her still very young face, and a face that seems too old for her age, all at the same time.  An image of pain and of unspeakable sadness, but not asking for pity.  Was it just me, or was it clear that even in the midst of her unbearable burden, she knew full well that she - like the young husband who was taken from her far too early - is part of something much larger than she is?  Is that why, looking at her, I had a sense of - more than anything else - strength? 

I would have liked many more people to see her.  President Obama, for example, as he prepares for another stab at Middle East peace-making.  Hillary Clinton, who’s now telling us to make peace lest we lose American support in the looming confrontation with Iran. 

Read the rest here:
 
 
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A Defining Moment in History: Civilians Unite Against Radical Islam

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Friday, May 01, 2009 6:59:56 PM
 
From Phyllis Chesler's Chesler Chronicles

On Sunday, May 3rd, at noon, in Times Square, in New York City, a gathering of eagles and of angels will take place. Come rain or come shine, the Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam is holding a rally. Please join us. The coalition is composed of Muslim, ex-Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, atheist, and human rights leaders who are "calling for the defeat of radical Islam."

Note: I have not written that the coalition opposes "Islam" (although some may-they view it as a totalitarian, imperialistic, and apartheid political force, not as a "religion of peace"). Nor have I written that the coalition opposes "Muslims" (no one does-although, increasingly, the profound silence of "moderate" Muslims in response to radical Islamist crimes weighs heavily upon all human rights activists).

The groups who are sponsoring this rally include, but are not limited to: Hindu Human Rights Watch, Indian American Intellectual Forum, 911 Families for A Secure America, American Coptic Union, Americans for a Safe Israel, Damanga (Darfur Muslim Council), R.E.A.L. (Responsible for Equality and Liberty), AMCHA, Chinese Community Relations Council, Muslims Against Sharia, Namdhari Sikh Foundation, Women United, Sudan Freedom Walk, Center for Security Policy, International Foundation of Bangladeshi Hindus, ACT for America, Foundation of Nepalese, Alliance for Interfaith Resistance, Stand With Us, etc. There will be many speakers, myself included.

 
 
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