Israel's Amb. Michael Oren delivers insight into American-Israel relations- over interference from Univ of Calif Irvine, Muslim Students Union agitators - 11 arrested
Ambassador Michael Oren addressed an overflow audience on US-Israel relationship and global affairs at the Univ of Calif Irvine. He discussed the Zionistic element (support for the return of the people of Israel to their ancestral homeland) within America's founding and maturing, from John Adams, through Abraham Lincoln, to Harry Truman. He discussed Americans' widespread spiritual and social support for democratic Israel, the only land where rule of law guarantees free-speech in the Middle East. He discussed the evolution of the multi-faceted ties between the US and Israel- which strategic relationship began towards the end of the 1967 Six-Day War.
Amb. Oren noted the U.S. and Israel's shared values - spiritual and democratic, and their shared interests- economic and political - from allying to resisting Communism, to resisting Islamic-extremism, today.
He discussed the state of the current relationship between Washington and Jerusalem, vis a vis the Obama's administration's pressure to force the creation of a state of Palestine. He discussed Israel's considerations regarding the conditions of Palestinian sovereignty and prioritizing it over stopping nuclear proliferation within the Islamic world - which would extort the West with threats to leak nuclear-weapons into Islamic-extremists' hands.
U.C. Irvine, with a large Muslim enrollment, has been criticized for fomenting a climate of aggressive anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism through its Muslim Students Union. The M.S.U. organized a stream of students disrupting through the speech, ignoring appeals from Chancellor Paul Drake and Political Science Dept Director Mark Petraca. Police Chief Paul Hensley chose not to position a uniformed police deterrence between the disrupting Muslims' seating sections and the Ambassador at the podium following repeated outbursts- and Muslim students continued to disregard faculty appeals- creating 10 disruptions. At least eleven agitators were arrested. Amb. Oren walked out briefly, but Rabbi David Eliezrie reports that he elected to return on his dedication to the attendees, his Jewish perseverance, and the promise of his hosts to suspend or expel further disruptors.
Shalom Elcott, President and CEO of Jewish Federation Orange County, said the highly-orchestrated disruptions by the President of the Muslim Student Union (MSU) - who was arrested, along with one MSU board member and 10 other student protesters - constituted an embarrassment to the University and an insult to the broader community. “While we had hoped the administration would have been better prepared to thwart groups or individuals trying to harass Ambassador Oren, we do commend the University police for making arrests and taking action to escort the perpetrators out of the room,” says Elcott. “And, we are proud of the Ambassador not letting the disruptions stop him from completing his address. We will intensely monitor what actions the University administration will take in response to this evening’s event and will report our findings to the community,” says Elcott.
Palestinian political refugee, Ghazi Brighith, in the accompanying deplored the Muslim agitators' behavior as un-Islamic.
'Islamo-nazism (which motivated the genocide in Darfur) also fuels potential Islamist genocide against Israel,' asserts Darfur liberation leader
The Wall Street Journal published this Op/Ed by Mr. Al-Nur in June 2008: Why We Won't Talk to Sudan's Islamofascists
Over 400,000 civilians, including women and children, have been slaughtered, raped or robbed. Millions of people were chased from their land to make space for Arab settlers. By using Arab militias, the Janjaweeds, to perpetrate most of the massacres, Khartoum hoped to be able to avoid international condemnation. It was a rather transparent ploy to misrepresent the conflict as some sort of civil war beyond the regime's control. ...Sudan opposition leader Mr. Al-Nour supports good relations with Israel, which has absorbed thousands of Darfurian refugees. He explains his support for Sudan establishing diplomatic relations with Israel in this interview on the Dubai-based, al-Arabiya TV. (Courtesy Memri TV via Amplifier)
Let's not forget that this Islamist regime came to power in a military coup after a disastrous election defeat. Given the horrendous crimes it has committed, Khartoum knows it would lose any free contest at the ballot box. It would therefore never allow fair elections. Despite all its goodwill, the international community is incapable of guaranteeing anything even resembling free elections in Sudan. We will not lend legitimacy to these sham elections. ...
It is inconceivable that the racist, Islamo-fascist regime in Khartoum can reform itself. It must disappear. Did the world ever attempt to "reform" the Nazi regime?
Shimon Peres, Netanyahu and Ehud Barak to headline 10th annual Herzliya Policy Conference begins in Israel
Commences: Sunday 16:30 - 21:00 Israel time, 06:30 am - 11 am Pacific time
Monday 8:30 am - 21:30 Israel time, 10:30pm Sunday - 11:30 am Pacific time
Tuesday 8:30 am - 21:30 Israel time, 10:30pm Monday - 11:30 am Pacific time
Wednesday 8:30 am - 20:45 Israel time, 10:30pm Tuesday - 10:45 am Pacific time
Watch Live Video from 2010 Herzliya Conference during session hours. Full archived sessions will be available a couple of days after they air. Highlights are available here.
Videos from 2009 Policy Conference
US WMD commission ranks Obama an "F" on preventing and coping with germ weapon attack against U.S.; Israel conducts drill training world experts on coping with calamity
Almost a decade after the 2001 anthrax attacks, a new report released Tuesday gives President Barack Obama a failing grade for not doing enough to prepare the U.S. for a biological terror attack.
The report, published by a bipartisan anti-terror task force, says America isn't ready to handle a biological threat.
It points to the government's poor preparation for the swine flu epidemic, noting the U.S. ran out of vaccine despite a six-month warning from health officials.
The report also says that no one in the Obama administration has the responsibility to protect against a bio-attack.
Former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., co-chaired the panel along with former Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo.
"Each of the last three administrations has been slow to recognize and respond to the bio-threat," Graham said. "But we no longer have the luxury of a slow learning curve when we know al-Qaeda is interested in bio-weapons," he said.
Fox News reports: Specifically, the commission concludes that the Obama administration, like the three administrations before it, has failed to pay consistent and urgent attention to increasing the nation's ability to respond quickly and effectively to a germ attack that would inflict massive casualties on the nation.
The commission repeated its warning that unless nations acted decisively and urgently, it was more likely than not that a WMD will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013, and that the terrorists' weapon of choice would be biological, rather than nuclear.
The administration's lack of urgency was also reflected in its lack of priority on producing and distributing enough vaccines and other medical countermeasures for Americans, its reluctance to insist that hospitals have enough surge capacity to treat people who would be infected in a bioterror attack, and the lack of a national plan to coordinate federal, state and local efforts following a bioterror strike, the document asserts.
Ultimately, the commission chairman and vice chairman say, the "lack of preparedness" and "consistent lack of action" reflect "a failure of the U.S. government to grasp the threat of biological weapons."
Unlike its effort to prevent a nuclear attack, the Obama administration has shown "no equal sense of urgency" about preventing or responding to germ warfare that might cause comparable death and suffering, the commission concludes.
The report assigns 17 grades that it says highlight the issues of greatest priority in protecting Americans from WMD. The commission gave the administration a "D+" for its efforts to tighten oversight of high-containment labs in which experiments involving the deadliest pathogens are conducted. There were still far too many Federal, state, and local agencies regulating germs in sometimes conflicting ways, it states.
The commission also gave Congress a failing grade for failing to consolidate the estimated 82 to 108 committees and subcommittees that oversee some part of the Department of Homeland Security.
"Virtually no progress has been made since consolidation was first recommended by the 9/11 Commission in 2004," the report asserts.
The Obama administration disputed the findings of the report Tuesday, arguing that the president has accomplished a "great deal" in his first year in office.
Concomitant to the release of the report, Israel prepared for a germ warfare attack by staging its largest ever drill on emergency preparedness - as hundreds of emergency response experts from around the world attend a simulated biological attack on Tel Aviv.
(Video courtesy The Media Line)
Phoolish phlyte-attendant labels phylactery-wearing Jew 'disruptive'; phorces full-crisis terrorist treatment landing in Phyladelphia
A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration said a flight attendant reported "a disruptive passenger" before the crew diverted the Louisville-bound flight to Philadelphia.
Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan explains in this AP Video how the Philly Police Department pulled-out all stops in pursuing this as a terrorist act. If this had happened to a Muslim passenger, you can be sure that C.A.I.R. would already have a lawsuit against the flight-attendant filed. What future effect would Jewish leadership's failure to denounce this abuse of power have?
This satire from Israel's Latma.TV:
ZAKA mission to Haiti 'proudly desecrating Shabbat'
YNet News reports: "Religious rescue team holds Shabbat prayer with members of international missions in Port au-Prince"
ZAKA, a rescue team made up of religious volunteers, has been working overtime in the quake-stricken Haitian capital of Port au-Prince. Late Friday night they found a few minutes to conduct Kabalat Shabbat.
"There was not really a Shabbat, but on Friday night we said Kiddush with delegations from Mexico, England, and Scotland," commander of the ZAKA mission to Haiti, Mati Goldstein, told Ynet.
"With all the hell going on outside, even when things get bad Judaism says we must take a deep breath and go on to save more people."
Goldstein added that his team had continued to work throughout Shabbat. "We did everything to save lives, despite Shabbat. People asked, 'Why are you here? There are no Jews here', but we are here because the Torah orders us to save lives… We are desecrating Shabbat with pride," he said.
"One of the mission members wanted to raise morale, and we started to sing. The search team was working, the families were standing on the side, and everyone was singing 'Heveinu Shalom Alechem' (Trans: We bring peace to you). I had tears in my eyes."
The ZAKA team is scheduled to remain for an additional two days in order to assist the US team, but they are adamant to make their Israeli identity clear. "The people here see it as very important that the State of Israel has come to help," Goldstein said.
"There was not really a Shabbat, but on Friday night we said Kiddush with delegations from Mexico, England, and Scotland," commander of the ZAKA mission to Haiti, Mati Goldstein, told Ynet.
"With all the hell going on outside, even when things get bad Judaism says we must take a deep breath and go on to save more people."
Goldstein added that his team had continued to work throughout Shabbat. "We did everything to save lives, despite Shabbat. People asked, 'Why are you here? There are no Jews here', but we are here because the Torah orders us to save lives… We are desecrating Shabbat with pride," he said.
"One of the mission members wanted to raise morale, and we started to sing. The search team was working, the families were standing on the side, and everyone was singing 'Heveinu Shalom Alechem' (Trans: We bring peace to you). I had tears in my eyes."
The ZAKA team is scheduled to remain for an additional two days in order to assist the US team, but they are adamant to make their Israeli identity clear. "The people here see it as very important that the State of Israel has come to help," Goldstein said.
Israeli rescuers and mobile field hospital saves lives of Hatian earthquake victims
Israel emergency rescuers locate trapped and wounded Haitian earthquake victims.
ABC News' Dr. Richard Besser on site in Haiti discusses with Diane Sawyer, America's ineffectual medical response, particularly in light of the effective field medical hospital established by the Israel Defense Forces.
ABC News' Dr. Richard Besser on site in Haiti discusses with Diane Sawyer, America's ineffectual medical response, particularly in light of the effective field medical hospital established by the Israel Defense Forces.
What we can national air-security learn from Israel's El Al
Isaac Yeffet, former director of El Al Airline's security, explains how profiling keeps El Al and passengers traveling through Israel safe
Are Jewish composers of classic Christmas songs resented by Christians?
Darlene Love fronts Saturday Night Live's, Rob Smigel's Phil Spector-esque, "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer-style music video," from Saturday TV Funhouse - "Christmas-time for the Jews"
Since Bing Crosby crooned Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in 1941, Jewish songwriters and singers have played an integral role in the creation of new Christmas music year in and year out.
Writer Nate Bloom has run down the roster of classic Christmas songs written or co-written by Jews for the Judaic website Interfaithfamily.com, and beyond "White Christmas," the list includes "Winter Wonderland," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," "I'll Be Home for Christmas," "Sleigh Ride," "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," Johnny Marks' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," and "A Holly Jolly Christmas," among dozens of others. Books have been written on the topic as well. (L.A. Times)
Nate Bloom addresses Christian-voiced dis-satisfaction with this news:
Since Bing Crosby crooned Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in 1941, Jewish songwriters and singers have played an integral role in the creation of new Christmas music year in and year out.
Writer Nate Bloom has run down the roster of classic Christmas songs written or co-written by Jews for the Judaic website Interfaithfamily.com, and beyond "White Christmas," the list includes "Winter Wonderland," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," "I'll Be Home for Christmas," "Sleigh Ride," "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," Johnny Marks' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," and "A Holly Jolly Christmas," among dozens of others. Books have been written on the topic as well. (L.A. Times)
Nate Bloom addresses Christian-voiced dis-satisfaction with this news:
"This year, two op-ed pieces have directed attention back to Jewish writers of Christmas songs. First, Michael Feinstein, a singer and pianist who works to keep the songs of the Great American Songbook alive, wrote "Whose Christmas Is It?" for the New York Times. At a recent Christmas concert, the board of the orchestra with whom he was singing complained that Feinstein's program was "too Jewish," because the singer had mentioned the Jewish background of some of the songwriters. His reflective article contains more information about which Jewish songwriters did not write Christmas songs, and why. ...
In a spasm of curmudgeonly upset over a revised version of "Silent Night" he encountered in a Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, Mass., Keilor took it on himself to insult Unitarian beliefs in a more comprehensive way, and while he was at it, to complain about:
...all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write "Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we'll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah"? No, we didn't. Christmas is a Christian holiday - if you're not in the club, then buzz off.
Not sure what this has to do with one church's rendition of "Silent Night," which, though rumors have floated around about it, was not written by a Jew. Perhaps the culture wars are not quite over. Happy holidays, Mr. Keillor. (IFF's editor is hoping for the loafers/shofar song to get wide airplay in September--though with that kind of slant rhyme, Keillor is clearly no Irving Berlin)."
Jewish Survival: Sderot yeshiva adapts kassam rockets into Chanukah Menorah
(By Aaron Klein) – Jewish residents of a rocket-battered city outside the Gaza Strip every day this week lit a Hanukkah menorah fashioned out of hollowed Palestinian Qassam rockets that had been shot at their town.
"This is a symbol to our enemies that despite thousands of rockets fired at Sderot, our spirit has not broken. We are here to stay," said Josh Hasten, spokesman for Yeshiva Hesder Sderot, a Jewish school that combines Torah study with army service.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon publishes Arabic letter to Arab world: "Israel extends its hand in peace"
Iran seeks to hold an entire region, including its own people, to ransom and keep it engaged in conflicts orchestrated and directed from Tehran. Whether it is in Morocco, Iraq or Yemen, Iran is constantly interfering with Arab sovereignty for their own nefarious gain. Israel and its Sunni neighbors alike are in the sights of Khameini, Ahmadinejad and their minions.
If Iran is able to attain nuclear weapons, the situation becomes inexplicably and inexorably worse. The Iranian regime has demonstrated that if feels unrestricted in its ability to dominate our region, a nuclear umbrella will only embolden its acolytes to act unrestrained to the detriment of us all. Only together can we face this threat and remove it. ...
Jewish news-website twice hijacked and desecrated by Turkish Muslim hackers
A self-identified Turkish Muslim returned for the second week in a row Saturday night to hack the popular Five Towns Jewish Times newspaper website. Readers of the site were met with a picture of the Statue of Liberty holding a Muslim holy book (likely the Koran) dressed in a burka, the Moslem robe that covers the body.Saturday evening on December 12th, readers attempting to access the site saw images of burning Israeli flags and a video demonizing former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
The hacker, calling himself Seyhul-isLam, posted the following message to the website. “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter [Al-Maida: 33] Allahu Akbar!!!”
Newspaper staff were still reposting content damaged in last week’s attack when the when the website was taken down for the second time, according to its Israeli correspondent Samuel Sokol. He noted, “The internet has increasingly become a battleground in both the Arab-Israeli conflict and the war against terror. In 2008, a Muslim hacker posted an anti-Semitic message on the website of the Bank of Israel, stating ‘Listen to me Jews - you are a nation whose fate has been decreed… we will kick you out. Millions of young Muslims are ready to die for the sake of Al-Quds [Jerusalem]...’
“In 2006, a Moroccan group calling itself ‘Team Evil’ hacked over 750 Israeli websites over a period of several hours in response to IDF operations in the Gaza Strip following the kidnapping of IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit.” (from Israel National News' Tzvi ben Gedalyahu)
Arab Muslim columnist abu Toameh chides Hamas' double-standards on desecrations
mosque in Yasuf as "pay-back" for Jewish
construction concessions to the P.A.,
Palestinian Khaled abu Toameh wonders,
"Where were the Palestinians when ..." in Hudson Institute.
"Condemnations for the (West Bank) Yasuf arson have come from across the political spectrum in Israel. The Israeli president, prime minister, defense minister, religious and secular leaders and even some settler figures were among those who publicly condemned the desecration of the mosque.
Ironically, the Israeli media seemed to be much more interested in the incident than the Palestinian media. At one point, it appeared as if the number of statements of condemnation coming out of the Jewish state exceeded the number of denunciations issued by Arab and Islamic governments and parties.
While Fatah and Hamas have been complaining and crying over the past week about the torching of a mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf -- an act allegedly carried out by extremist Jewish settlers – where were Hamas and Fatah when Palestinians set fire to and damaged synagogues in Gush Katif following the IDF pullout from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005? Where were Hamas and Fatah when Palestinians repeatedly set fire to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus over the past decade?
Of course arson is a despicable and abhorrent assault on a holy site that requires all those who care about coexistence, peace and tolerance in the Middle East to strongly condemn it, and there should be no justification for any attack on any holy site, be it a mosque, church or synagogue.
But those who remain silent or condone attacks on other people’s holy sites and religious symbols should be the last to raise their voices when a mosque is vandalized.
Similarly, those who have denied other people’s religious and historic ties to holy sites and lands should also keep their mouths shut.
Why hasn’t any Palestinian party of leader ever condemned acts of vandalism against Jewish cemeteries? Where were they each time a Jewish worshipper was stabbed or killed while on his way to a yeshiva, the Wailing Wall or the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron? How come we didn’t hear the voices of Hamas and Fatah when Palestinians hurled stones at Jewish worshippers visiting Joshua’s Tomb in a village in the northern West Bank?
And where were Hamas and Fatah when Palestinian demonstrators repeatedly hurled firebombs and stones at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem [a site which even Muslims consider to be holy, referring to it as the Bila bin Rabah Mosque]?"
Anti-Defamation League fundraiser honors Stephen Spielberg, attracting Hollywood elite
Beverly Hills (myFOXla.com) - Director-producer Steven Spielberg received the Anti-Defamation League's highest honor Wednesday night at a star-studded gala where he was presented with the Democratic Legacy Award.
The event was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry, according to the organization's Web site.
Tony Valdez has more in this video report.
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Kirk Douglas were among the Hollywood dignitaries in attendance at the presentation of ADL's America Democratic Legacy Award to Stephen Spielberg.
The event was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry, according to the organization's Web site.
Tony Valdez has more in this video report.
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Kirk Douglas were among the Hollywood dignitaries in attendance at the presentation of ADL's America Democratic Legacy Award to Stephen Spielberg.
Events from Stand With Us unite experts with community to enlighten pro-Israel advocates
"Stand with Us," a grassroots, pro-Israel advocacy group headquartered in Los Angeles, is hosting the second of two, major advocacy community events within 3-weeks of each other.
On the weekend of Nov 13-15, the group organized an "Israel in Focus" seminar. College students attended a Friday through Sunday seminar in the Pico-Robertson area of L.A. On Sunday, the same lecturers gave a one-day, concentrated Community Conference.
Elliot Chodoff spoke on "Israel's Strategic Threats." Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch showed incitement on Palestinian government TV channels. Activist Mrs. Roberta Seid presented a lecture entitled "Israel 101." British emigrant to Israel, Neil Lazarus, taught effective argument techniques against Israel-detractors. Marketing consultant David Suissa lectured on how to bring an "Israeli Voice to Your Community." Stand with Us' publicist, Jennifer Kutner, shuttled Muslim Arab journalist, Khaled abu Toameh, who writes for the Jerusalem Post, between the academic and community conferences.
Mr. Abu Toameh, challenged the intentions of Muslim and leftist protestors who consider themselves pro-Palestinian - contending that they are more accurately, anti-Israel. David Suissa characterizes his positions in the Jewish Journal:
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz will give the keynote address at this year's Stand with Us "Festival of Lights" event being held Sunday, December 6th.
Most important pro-Israel events in L.A. have Joo-Tube cover them. Last year, outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Dan Gillerman gave the Festival attendees optimistic perspectives looking back and looking forward on the evolving situation - covered in this Joo-Tube article:
On the weekend of Nov 13-15, the group organized an "Israel in Focus" seminar. College students attended a Friday through Sunday seminar in the Pico-Robertson area of L.A. On Sunday, the same lecturers gave a one-day, concentrated Community Conference.
Elliot Chodoff spoke on "Israel's Strategic Threats." Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch showed incitement on Palestinian government TV channels. Activist Mrs. Roberta Seid presented a lecture entitled "Israel 101." British emigrant to Israel, Neil Lazarus, taught effective argument techniques against Israel-detractors. Marketing consultant David Suissa lectured on how to bring an "Israeli Voice to Your Community." Stand with Us' publicist, Jennifer Kutner, shuttled Muslim Arab journalist, Khaled abu Toameh, who writes for the Jerusalem Post, between the academic and community conferences. Mr. Abu Toameh, challenged the intentions of Muslim and leftist protestors who consider themselves pro-Palestinian - contending that they are more accurately, anti-Israel. David Suissa characterizes his positions in the Jewish Journal:
Toameh thinks it is in the interest of the Palestinians to stop incitement, and he shared an Arab perspective on the subject.
“Look at the language that is now flying back and forth between Hamas and Fatah,” he said. “It’s the same poison you hear about the Jews: sons of pigs, infidels, etc. Incitement has spread and backfired on the Palestinians.”
This incitement has also hurt the Palestinians’ ability to make peace: “How do you tell people to make peace with the people you’ve called monsters and sons of pigs?”
Toameh sees no hope in the “top down” approach to peace. The soil is too rotten, he says. The Arab moderates have been undermined. “If I go to Ramallah and talk about Palestinian concessions on the right of return, I’ll get shot in five minutes.”
He says the Palestinians “already got their two-state solution — Gaza and the West Bank,” and if it weren’t for the Israeli presence in the West Bank, “Hamas would take over and Mahmoud Abbas would be lynched.”
Most important pro-Israel events in L.A. have Joo-Tube cover them. Last year, outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Dan Gillerman gave the Festival attendees optimistic perspectives looking back and looking forward on the evolving situation - covered in this Joo-Tube article: Stand With Us' Festival of Lights - Israel U.N. Amb Dan Gillerman offers insights from 6-years inside the U.N.
"Ambassador Dan Gillerman professes optimism that the threats from imperialist Iran might motivate the Arab world to unite with Israel. He declares that Islamic militantism is as great a threat to moderate Muslims as it is to the general public - yet the Muslim world is not adequately routing-out militantism from its midst - to everyone's peril."
Requesting entry for a "medical purpose," Muslim Arab woman, 25, uses 2nd knife to stab young Israeli security guard at checkpoint
A 25 year old Palestinian woman was sent to stab an Israeli soldier in a border check point. The woman was sent by a terrorist organization called Hamas, who are infamous for using woman and children as human shields, and as tools for terrorist attacks.
In other cases, children as young as 10 years old were sent to the border with bombs attached under their shirts. This woman asked to enter Israel to seek medical attention. After a knife was found in her bag, the security officer went inside to check the bag. The woman then pulled out a second knife and stabbed a second security officer in the ribs.
(Video courtesy sNimrod)
In other cases, children as young as 10 years old were sent to the border with bombs attached under their shirts. This woman asked to enter Israel to seek medical attention. After a knife was found in her bag, the security officer went inside to check the bag. The woman then pulled out a second knife and stabbed a second security officer in the ribs.
(Video courtesy sNimrod)
What do you think of CNN's Paula Hancocks' rationale of press' selectively negative reporting about Israel - as not constituting anti-Semitism?
(Courtesy Spydat3k)
Kristallnacht: Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein retells his mother's experience of the night that organized hostility against Jewish symbols began
The Simon Wiesenthal Center commemorated the 71's anniversary of
Germany's "Night of Breaking Glass" or Kristallnacht with an event at
the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles featuring author of
"Hitler's Willing Executioners," Harvard Prof. Daniel Goldhagen.
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, the son of a Holocaust survivor
(and the Wiesenthal Center's Director of Interfaith Affairs)
began the evening by retelling his mother's testimonial of the events
of the night of 9 November 1938. He then offered a prayer, in Hebrew,
to the souls murdered by the Nazi culture, brainwashed against
the Jews vilified by their society.
Germany's "Night of Breaking Glass" or Kristallnacht with an event at
the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles featuring author of
"Hitler's Willing Executioners," Harvard Prof. Daniel Goldhagen.
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, the son of a Holocaust survivor
(and the Wiesenthal Center's Director of Interfaith Affairs)
began the evening by retelling his mother's testimonial of the events
of the night of 9 November 1938. He then offered a prayer, in Hebrew,
to the souls murdered by the Nazi culture, brainwashed against
the Jews vilified by their society.
Perpetual, political anti-Semitism on Kristallnacht anniversary
"Throughout the Jewish world, during this period of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, which took place exactly 71 years ago. The murderous violence and destruction of that night, in which 100 Jews were killed, over 250 synagogues were destroyed, and tens of thousands of Jewish businesses vandalized, marked the beginning of the Holocaust." - See Walter Bingham, Israel National Radio show-host's article on Arutz 7
Daniel Goldhagen will speak at Museum of Tolerance on Kristallnacht
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:00pm Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance
Daniel Goldhagen will speak at Museum of Tolerance on Kristallnacht
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:00pm Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance
Kristallnacht Commemoration - Night of Broken Glass
With keynote speaker Daniel Jonah Goldhagen author of the new book "Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity."
Special screening of excerpts from the new PBS documentary, based on his book.
Goldhagen is also the author of the #1 international bestseller, Hitler’s Willing Executioners. A former Associate Professor of Political Science and Social Studies at Harvard University, he is the son of Holocaust Survivor and retired Harvard Professor Erich Goldhagen.
Former U.S. Attorney, John Loftus, author of "The War against the Jews," will be speaking at Daytona Beach-area's Temple Beth-El in Ormond Beach on Tuesday 10 November at 7:30pm. It is free and open to the public.
Journalist Ray Weiss writes in the News-Journal:
Mr. Loftus worked for U.S. Justice Department and began prosecuting and deporting Nazi war criminals.
Ultimately, he discovered that many former Nazis living in the United States were on the CIA payroll and it was being covered up by the American government -- something he revealed in a "60 Minutes" interview with Mike Wallace in 1982.
"The CIA didn't have a clue," he said in a telephone interview. "They were dumped here by the British, passed off as not really Nazis, but anti-Communist freedom fighters."
He said Kristallnacht really was a "fundraising scheme" created by the SS leadership in the Nazi party, many of whom were lawyers. All insurance money to repair the Jewish businesses was immediately seized by the Nazis.
"They blamed the Jews for starting it," Loftus said of Kristallnacht. "It was a huge windfall for the early Nazis. They were that calculating."
In his speech, Loftus said he will discuss Kristallnacht and the future of the western world, one that he sees as vulnerable as in the 1930s. He says that most Middle Eastern terrorists have roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded in 1928 that admired and supported Adolph Hitler.
"To this day, Hamas still gives the Nazi salute," he said.
Mollified by Islamophobia guilt-mongers, Americans suffer another painful lesson on anniversary of Kahane and Rabin assassinations
To those who belittle Muslim hostility towards Jews as being anything less than a challenge to homeland security ...
19 years (to the day) of America ignoring Muslim assassination of a Jewish leader as a threat to humanity - an American-Muslim soldier massacres gentile Americans - wounding 30, murdering 12.
In this shocking excerpt from "Inside 9/11," broadcast on National Geographic Channel about the rise of bin Laden and the al Qaeda global terror organization, the first victim of al Qaeda on U.S. soil was Jewish Defense League founder, Rabbi Meir Kahane.
This clip shows how his assassination in November 1990 is traced to bin Laden/al Qaeda's Muslim double-agent inside the U.S. military, allegedly protected by the CIA. The investigative prejudice against a vigilant Jew's murder precluded discoveries that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993, and possibly averted the work of al-Qaeda to kill about 3,000 Americans on 9/11/2001
The history of anti-Semitic persecution around the world justifies the need for a sovereign Jewish refuge - and despite the establishment of Israel, the threat endures.
Watch "An open letter to the world" by Rabbi Meir Kahane from Israel:
19 years (to the day) of America ignoring Muslim assassination of a Jewish leader as a threat to humanity - an American-Muslim soldier massacres gentile Americans - wounding 30, murdering 12.
In this shocking excerpt from "Inside 9/11," broadcast on National Geographic Channel about the rise of bin Laden and the al Qaeda global terror organization, the first victim of al Qaeda on U.S. soil was Jewish Defense League founder, Rabbi Meir Kahane.
This clip shows how his assassination in November 1990 is traced to bin Laden/al Qaeda's Muslim double-agent inside the U.S. military, allegedly protected by the CIA. The investigative prejudice against a vigilant Jew's murder precluded discoveries that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993, and possibly averted the work of al-Qaeda to kill about 3,000 Americans on 9/11/2001
The history of anti-Semitic persecution around the world justifies the need for a sovereign Jewish refuge - and despite the establishment of Israel, the threat endures.
Watch "An open letter to the world" by Rabbi Meir Kahane from Israel:
Documentary- "Conflict: the Power of Propaganda," explores Arab media campaign to de-legitimize Israel
The fast-paced documentary exposes rampant Palestinian propaganda and challenges viewers to recognize the calculated deception - and its ties to both extremism and terrorism on a global scale. Executive producer Joe Amaral and his filmmakers go inside the world of the Palestinian media, documenting how Palestinian propaganda seeks to rob the Jewish people of their rich history in the Land of Israel. Alarming video evidence shows how school children are taught and encouraged to aspire to kill Jews and to become suicide bombers.
(Courtesy Joe Israel Productions)
Watch Oriana Fallaci videos about European anti-Semitism
As we approach the 18th anniversary of the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane - the first act of Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil - we present the voice of Italian journalist and author, the late Oriana Falacci that anti-Zionism is a manifestation of anti-Semitism.
(Courtesy Anoleable Readers of Italian will find a special treat on that channel).
(Courtesy Anoleable Readers of Italian will find a special treat on that channel).
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