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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.
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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."
 
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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."
 
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Ted Nugent says: Keep Gaddafi Out of NYC

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:05:03 PM
 
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Only Ted Nugent could write an essay criticizing President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Gaddafi, the UN, Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Gordon Brown and Chuck Schumer while honoring September 11th and other Islamic terrorist victims and their families, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, the Alamo and Michael Savage. And be very entertaining and in less than 800 words.

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The Middle East conflict is extraordinarily simple to understand

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:09:47 AM
 
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Professor Steven Plaut writes that:

We hear so often that the Middle East conflict is mind-numbingly complex. This is a false notion. Actually, the Middle East conflict is extraordinarily simple to understand. Its causes and issues have not changed at all in 60 years. That which produced the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 is exactly the same thing that stands in the way of any real peace settlement today.

There is one - and only one - cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict, even if that single cause is buried beneath an avalanche of media mud designed to obfuscate and confuse. That single cause is the refusal of the Arab world to come to terms with Israel's existence within any set of borders whatsoever.

The Middle East conflict is not about the right of self-determination of Palestinian Arabs, but rather about the total Arab rejection of self-determination for Israeli Jews.

The Arabs today control 22 countries and territory nearly twice the size of the United States (including Alaska), whereas Israel cannot even be seen on most globes or maps. Arabs as an ethnic group control more territory than any other ethnic group on earth. And they refuse to share even a fraction of one percent of the Middle East with the Jews, in a territory smaller than New Jersey.

Without the West Bank, Israel at its narrowest is not even 10 miles wide, about the length of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The main reason the Arab world demands that Israel relinquish the West Bank is so that it can be used to attack Israel.

The Arab world controls such vast amounts of territory and such vast amounts of wealth (thanks to petroleum) that it could have created a homeland for Palestinian Arabs anywhere within its territories at any time.

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