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Happy Birthday, Israel!

Wed, 7 May 2008 22:51:39 GMT

"Birthing pains"
ABRAHAM RABINOVICH , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 7, 2008

"Arieh Handler participated in Israel's birth on two separate occasions.
The lesser event, in his view, was on May 14, 1948, when he was among some
200 persons invited to the Tel Aviv hall where David Ben-Gurion proclaimed
the establishment of the state. Handler, 93 this month, is believed to be
the only one of those present still alive.

"The other occasion took place a month earlier in the auditorium of a
girls' school on Tel Aviv's Rehov Frug. The Va'ad Hapoel Hatzioni, the
parliament of the world Zionist movement, met there for six days to weigh
the imminent departure of the British and the prospect of all-out war.
Handler, a delegate of the religious Hapoel Hamizrahi movement, recalled
in a recent interview the electric atmosphere at that April meeting as the
participants took their places in the small hall, delegates grouped at
separate tables according to party. At the front, facing them, sat
Ben-Gurion and other leaders of the Labor movement, including Golda
Myerson (Meir) and Moshe Shertok (Sharett).

Fighting with Palestinian Arabs was already raging around the country,
Jerusalem was surrounded, and several Arab armies were preparing to invade
in a month on the heels of the departing British. Topping the meeting's
agenda, however, was a political issue - the startling shift in the
position of Washington toward Israel's establishment. President Harry
Truman's approval half a year before of the UN partition proposal, and
America's pressure on other countries to do likewise, had been major
landmarks in the march toward a Jewish state. However, strong objections
from the State Department and American defense officials had brought
second thoughts.
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Anti-Zionism at 60

Tue, 6 May 2008 17:09:30 GMT

Anti-Zionism at 60
By Caroline B. Glick

Israel's 60th Independence Day is an excuse for the international media
to weigh in on the state of the Jewish state. Given the anti-Israel bias
of most of the international media, not surprisingly, most of the
reports reveal less about Israel's status at 60 than they reveal about
how anti-Zionists perceive Israel at 60.

Here, the author deconstructs the thesis of two cover stories in
prominent publications: Anti-Zionism at 60

Geert Wilder's Fitna

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:38:43 GMT

Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilder put together a montage about the threat of radical Islam to Non-Muslims and those Muslimswherever they arewho aren't interested in subjugating Non-Muslims. Simple facts speak loudly. The cowardly powers that be at Network Solutions got frightened and denied Wilders a website for showing the film. Another site, LiveLeak was forced to stop showing it after the company received death threats. YouTube however has not given in to Islamo-fascist threats. Kudos to YouTube. Here's the film:

Islam for Kids

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:54:10 GMT

The Arab/Israeli Conflict Debate by Cinnamon Stillwell

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:20:00 GMT

[The following article by Cinnamon Stillwell summarizes the problem that lovers of Israel confront. The world has been breathing in an atmosphere of lies about the Jews for a very long time. Most Arab/Muslims don't seem to realize that they are harming themselves as well as the Jews they so hate. So-called 'progressives' have become the willing dupes of the most regressive doctrines and their promoters. The truth will triumph?---how long will it take? - B.I.K ]

The Arab/Israeli Conflict Debate
by Cinnamon Stillwell
FrontPageMagazine.com
March 10, 2008

A Santa Clara University course optimistically titled, "The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes," was the setting for a February 26 academic debate on one of the world's most intractable disputes: The Arab/Israeli conflict.
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Tom Lantos, R.I.P.

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:58:32 GMT

A decent, courageous member of the House of Representatives has died.

A Democrat that an ex-Democrat like me could respect and admire. We need more people like him in Congress.

Tom Lantos, R.I.P.

A Review of "Jihad and Jew Hatred"

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:39:44 GMT

The book by Matthias Kuentzel is subtitled "Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11"

Those 'progressives'
who want to get their heads out of the sand
and actually DO SOMETHING PROGRESSIVE
could begin by reading this Review of Jihad and Jew Hatred
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Condaleeza Rice and George Bush Enable Arab Racism

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:09:50 GMT

Just like the 'progressives' who abhor them. How ironic.

The best criticism of the Bush administration is now coming from 'conservatives':

See David Horowitz's Blog comments on
Condoleeza Rice's disgraceful, segregated conference

Also Richard Lande's discussion of Humiliation and Apartheid: On how NOT to make Peace

Both writers are commenting on an article by Caroline Glick on Rice's and Bush's acceptance and enabling of Arab racism against Jews.

No one can accuse me of Bush Derangement Syndrome. But I am truly feeling disgusted.

"We Will Survive"

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 05:39:10 GMT

Sixty years ago the U.N. General Assembly ratified a plan to partition what was left of Palestine and establish a Palestinian Jewish state and another Palestinian Arab state. (In 1922, the British had already given to Arabs 80% of the region of Palestine, the land mandated for a Jewish Homeland by the League of Nations after WW I. This is now the state of Jordan.) The Jews accepted the 1947 U.N. decision. The Arabs overwhelmingly rejected it. The Jews of Palestine have been battling for their existence ever since. (They had already been battling for some time.)

In honor of Jewish survival, here is Jordan Chaviv's song, "We Will Survive."

Enjoy!
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Mohammed's Radio

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 03:51:54 GMT

[Note to potentially pissed-off Muslims: Warren Zevon, who wrote this lovely song is already dead. So threatening him with a death fatwa will have even less effect on him than a death threat will have on me. Don't it make you want to rock and roll? B.I.K. ]

Everybody's restless and they've got no place to go
Someone's always trying to tell them
Something they already know
So their anger and resentment flow

But don't it make you want to rock and roll
All night long
Mohammed's Radio
I heard somebody singing sweet and soulful
On the radio, Mohammed's Radio....