Why I Loathe The NY Slimes

Roger Cohen and the NY slimes are beyond vile. It is not the potential of a nuclear holocaust against the Jewish state that concerns them. What concerns them is the impact on Obama’s reelection prospects as the result of a potential preemptive strike by Israel.

Israpundit:

Obama, Netanyahu & the Iranian Bomb By: Yedidya Atlas, RightSideNews

Roger Cohen’s January 16th column in The New York Times, “Don’t Do It, Bibi” is only the latest in the Obama election campaign’s efforts to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to take a serious risk at Israel’s being nuked by a nuclear Iran rather than cause any ripples in President Obama campaign for re-election to a second term.

Mr. Cohen begins his rant by quoting the purported advice of an unnamed American ambassador in Europe declaring Mr. Netanyahu to be an ingrate for all that the Obama administration has done for Israel, and strongly suggests the Israeli Prime Minister should “above all stay out of our election-year politics.”

According to Mr. Cohen, President Obama’s is justifiably furious with the Mr. Netanyahu because he had the audacity to “go over his head” by speaking “to a Republican-dominated Congress” even though it was Congress that invited him; again “ingratitude for solid U.S. support”, including in the UN; and the Netanyahu government’s refusal to declare a second freeze on building houses for Jews over the 1949 armistice lines “for the sake of peace negotiations” even though the first unprecedented freeze failed to bring the Palestinians back to the negotiations table. But for Mr. Cohen, Obama can do no wrong, and Netanyahu can do no right.

Should anyone think the existential threat to Israel is more serious than Mr. Obama’s re-election next November, Roger Cohen disabuses of this notion. “I would add a further piece of advice to Netanyahu if he cares about his dysfunctional relationship with Obama — and he should because Israelis know the United States matters…,” opines Mr. Cohen. “That advice is: Do not attack Iran this spring or summer.”

Mr. Cohen writes of Netanyahu’s chutzpah for considering bombing Iran, and this “despite a call from Obama last Thursday and messages from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.”

But Mr. Cohen from atop his high horse in The New York Times cuts to the chase: “Then there is the American political calculus. An Israeli strike a few months before the U.S. election in November would stymie Obama. He would be in no position,” Mr. Cohen decries, “to express anger given the clout of the pro-Israel lobby, the important Jewish vote in Florida, and the fulsome support any Israeli bombing would get from the Republican contender.”

But Mr. Cohen is not alone in this barrage to block an Israeli pre-emptive strike against Iran. Aaron David Miller, former State Department Mideast advisor, brings the same message in his November 8, 2011, article in Foreign Policy wherein he brings five reasons that Israel “might want to think long and hard about preemptively striking Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

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Nazi Events Planned

A full schedule of events is being planned by the international leftist and jihadist annihilationist movements that oppose the existence of Israel and the right of the Jewish people to live in their homeland. Such monstrous evil is being tolerated in the free world and treated as though these are ordinary "activist" movements instead of the genocidal, nazi-like cause that this really is.

Israpundit:

The bastards are coming again to attacks us.
The Meir Amit, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center

The networks waging the campaign to delegitimize Israel are planning a series of propaganda displays for 2012, some of them in the upcoming months. They intend to hold marches (promoted by Hamas), a protest fly-in to Ben-Gurion International Airport, a flotilla and propaganda events for the “Israeli apartheid week.”

Overview

1. After the campaign to delegitimize Israel had been waged successfully for two years (e.g., the Goldstone Report in 2009 and the Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010), in 2011 Israel managed to contain it. Despite the intensive activities made by the networks involved in the campaign, their propaganda events (flotillas, a fly-in, the BDS1 campaign, lawfare, etc.) were either failures or did not meet their full expectations.

2. An examination of the websites and public statements of individuals connected to the networks participating in the campaign reveals that despite their failure, they are still planning to challenge Israel, and to that end hold meetings to analyze the situation, learn the lessons of past failures and coordinate their next moves. The networks are aware that the campaign cannot be won in one battle, and therefore, they plan to make propaganda capital with a series of tactical events with high potential for media coverage.


3. Thus a number of propaganda events are planned for the upcoming months, the most prominent of which are marches originating in the Arab states bordering on Israel, and possibly also from the Palestinian Authority, to be held on or around the Israeli Arab “Land Day” (March 30); a protest fly-in to Ben-Gurion International Airport (April 15, a week after Easter); and the “Israeli apartheid week” in various Western and other countries, especially on college campuses (February and March). There are also plans to reach the Gaza Strip by sea with a large flotilla (the idea is still being examined) or with lone boats (logistically and politically easier to send than a large flotilla).


4. Beyond the showcase events, the delegitimization campaign‘s routine anti-Israeli activities continue unabated, especially in the West (particularly Britain and the United States). They include the BDS campaign, which is gaining momentum and is waged in the Palestinian Authority as well; lawfare, manifested by the continuing attempts to bring senior Israeli figures to trial in Western countries and by possible appeals (lodged by both the delegitimization campaign and Palestinian Authority) to international legal forums such as the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

5. Of all the events, the most at this stage significant is the plan to hold marches from the Arab states to the borders of the State of Israel (mentioned were Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority). Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip and Britain are also involved in the media preparations, among them Ismail Haniya and Mahmoud al-Zahar, who made a public appeal for people to march to the borders of Israel on “Land Day” to “forcefully push the Palestinian cause back [to center stage]” (YouTube). Muhammad Sawalha and Zaher Birawi, two prominent Hamas activists in Britain who are participating in the campaign to delegitimize Israel, also appeared in a video posted on YouTube to promote the marches (see below). In addition, Zaher Birawi gave an interview in which he represented himself as the spokesman for the “global march to Jerusalem” (GMJ) (Al-Quds TV, January 27, 2012). Hamas’ public involvement in the marches is exceptional because so far its public attention has focused on the land and sea convoys to the Gaza Strip.

6. The following is initial information about the various events currently being organized:

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Liam Neeson Loves islam

Liam Neeson is the latest celebrity to reveal himself to be a total nitwit. What else does he find beautiful and spiritual? The subjugation, oppression and forced shrouding of women, female genital mutilations, honor murders, beheadings, the persecution and slaughter of Christians, the call to Jewish genocide, the executions of apostates and homosexuals etc.? You have to wonder what planet these hollywood people are living on. Are they completely oblivious to what is occuring around the world in the name of islam? Or the bloody history of islamic conquests? Perhaps Liam should ask the Coptic Christians in Egypt, Christians in Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Iraq et al, what they think of the islamic call to prayer and those "beautiful" mosques where blood curdling calls to murder infidels occur with regularity.

_Liam Neeson Considers Converting to Islam â€" “Al-Moron”_
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(http://www.debbieschlussel.com/46460/liam-neeson-considers-converting-to-islam-\
al-moron/)
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> By _Debbie Schlussel_ (http://www.debbieschlussel.com/)
> Over a year ago, I told you about Irish actor _Liam Neeson’s absurd claim
> that Aslan, the Christ-based Lion he voices in “The Chronicles of Narnia”
> movies is Mohammed_
>
(http://www.debbieschlussel.com/30298/liam-neeson-christlike-lion-of-narnia-is-m\
ohammed/) . Now, he says he’s considered converting
> to Islam, after hearing the Islamic call to prayer while in Turkey. Looks
> like that call to prayer turns some brains into mush, especially the ones
> already pre-disposed to Islam . . . and NOT critical thinking.
>
> Hollywood star Liam Neeson is considering giving up his Catholic belief
> and becoming a Muslim.
> The actor, 59, admitted Islamic prayer “got into his spirit” while filming
> in Turkish city Istanbul.
> He said: “The Call to Prayer happens five times a day and for the first
> week it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit and it’s
the
> most beautiful, beautiful thing.

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The Traitors of Peace Now

I have nothing but contempt for the traitorous scum of peace now. They are the worst of Israel’s and the Jewish people’s enemies. Do they imagine that aiding in the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria will spare themselves from the genocidal aims of hamas, fatah and the rest of the world’s jihadists and leftists? Do they think the annihilationists will stop at the green line? Do they and the elite members of Israeli society believe that they can run away from their Jewish identity and therefore not be targets of ethnic cleansing and genocide?

Israpundit:

“MIGRON in the spotlight”
Six months ago, Justice Beinisch ruled regarding other settlement disputes “all land not specifically designated as “state land” would henceforth be considered “private [Palestinian] land.”. This decision is now impacting many settlements. Ted Belman

By Arlene Kushner

My readers have heard from me about Mitzpe Avichai, and now it is time to turn our attention to Migron — which presents some very serious issues. You will learn things here that it is unlikely you’ve heard from your mainstream media sources.
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Migron is a Jewish community on a hilltop in the Binyamin Regional Council in Samaria, north of Jerusalem. With 49 families, it is the largest of the communities that are frequently referred to as ”unauthorized settlements.”

Source: Indynewsisrael
In order to properly understand the situation of this community, we will need a bit of background, which has been provided by a resident of Migron who serves as a spokesperson:

In 1960, the king of Jordan divided the area where Migron is now located into some 60 plots and gave them to individual families. It was, however, with the proviso that they begin farming within three years, or the land would revert back to the kingdom. No farming was done, not for three years and not for seven years — which is when the land came under Israeli control.
Land that reverted back to the kingdom should have become Israeli state land. This should have been the end of the story. (As I understand it, to ensure there would be no problem, the Jews who came to establish Migron purchased the land in any event.)

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Antisemitism in Germany

While bloodthirsty jihadists rampage around the globe and Iran comes ever closer to acquiring nuclear weapons, Germans view Israel as the biggest threat in the world.

German report: 20% of Germans are anti-Semitic By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
24/01/2012

Islamic-based anti-Semitism present among German Muslims.



BERLIN - The German government released on Monday the findings of a two year inquiry into modern anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic, showing that latent anti-Semitism affects one of every five Germans.

The 202 page study, entitled "Anti-Semitism in Germany," covered a wide spectrum of German anti-Semitism, including hatred of the Jewish state as a manifestations of anti-Semitism within the Left movement and Islamic-animated loathing of Israel and Jews, especially from Iran's regime and the Turkish media.


Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, a member of the ten member commission, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, that the "experts came to the conclusion that the ideology of the Iranian regime is anti-Semitic." According to the report, "The state anti-Semitism is, however, not only relevant on the propaganda level" in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The study notes that Iran's anti-Semitic ideology plays a role in Germany.

When asked what the report means by Iran's regime not limiting its anti-Semitism to its domestic agenda, Wahdat-Hagh said, Iran supports foreign anti-Semitic entities "militarily, financially and ideologically." He cited the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

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Did it really take a panel of experts to determine that the Iranian regime is antisemitic? And how does that explain the antisemitism of native Germans?

The Two State Solution

A two-state solution already exists and has for several decades, Israel and Jordan. This is the ideal solution. Anyone who opposes it and insists that “palestinian” statehood can only come about through Israeli territorial concessions, exposes themselves as having the destruction of Israel as their real goal, not the well-being of the “palestinians” which they have long claimed to be concerned about.

Via Israpundit:

The Path to Peace for Palestinians and the Hashemites By Alan Bergreen, AMERICAN THINKER

The only viable peace settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis which satisfies the legitimate national aspirations of both parties within geopolitically stable and rational boundaries requires inclusion of the territories, institutions, and resources of former eastern Palestine (presently Jordan) as part of the mix.

That added venue would greatly enhance prospects for a Palestinian state in a territory adequate to its needs, and it would be minimally threatening, strategically and demographically, to Israel. It would also provide the added advantage and example of an overwhelmingly Palestinian polity, already operating with vastly greater success than the dysfunctional, warring camps west of the Jordan River.

Moreover, such an arrangement would provide a requirement critical to Israel’s future security: namely, an outlet for Palestinian demographic pressures west of the Jordan River, while potentially relieving Israel of administrative responsibilities for the Arabs remaining there. This would result either from the migration of Palestinians eastward, attracted by the prospects of a newborn Palestinian state, or by arrangement with the government of future Jordan/Palestine to provide citizenship and local administration to Arab communities remaining in Judea and Samaria.

But what is crucial from the standpoint of selling this idea to the Jordanians is the fact that this approach also confers critically needed long-term legitimacy on the Hashemite regime, itself an alien oligarchy which has ruled the area since British authorities acquiesced in what was effectively the invasion of the territory in late 1920 by the Bedouin forces of Abdullah I.

Consideration of these benefits and their implications have been consistently overlooked or blithely dismissed by commentators on the region and, mysteriously, omitted from serious public policy discussions. It is imperative for Israel’s sake, and for that of the Palestinians as well, that they now be explored.

Truth be told, the Hashemites’ days may be numbered in any event. Historically, they are clearly interlopers in the region and heirs to the arbitrary legacies of British imperialism. Moreover, they rule a nation composed overwhelmingly of ethnic “Palestinians,” by whatever definition that may be assessed. In many instances they are blood relations of the residents of the territories west of the Jordan, who, in their own right, were Jordanian citizens prior to 1967.

And if the “shell game” of Jordanian/Palestinian national identities were any more confused, it might be noted that in 1948, the Second Arab-Palestinian conference proclaimed then-Transjordanian monarch Abdullah I “King of Palestine” and called for the unification of the territories west of the Jordan River, with the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan to the east.

For that matter, the present Jordanian queen, Rania Al Abdullah (née Al Yassin), was born to Palestinian parents formerly from Tulkarm, large portions of which were captured by Israel in the War of Independence and incorporated into the city of Netanya and a number of Arab villages today in Israel proper. Hence, the question “Where’s Palestine?” is not a frivolous one, and the relationship between Palestinians and Jordanians is not a foreign one. In fact, said relationship can be summed up thus:

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This Week's Haveil Havalim

Edition #344 of the Jewish blog carnival Haveil Havalim is up at Isramom.

Obama's Disasterous Decision on Keystone

President Obama would prefer for us to continue importing oil from the tyrants and terrorists of the OPEC cartel rather than our Canadian friends. He chose to pander to radical environmentalists at the expense of American jobs and energy independence by preventing the building of the Keystone pipeline.