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More info:Saudis air corridor is open, US, Israelself-immobilized on Iranby NoahDavidSimon (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 9:12:00 PM

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis Saudi air corridor to Iran is unused.Israeli bombers are grounded The Saudi air corridor offered Israelfor an attack on Iran reported in theLondon Times of Saturday, June 12,was an old story rehashed by Riyadhin the hope of egging the US andIsrael on to break free of their self-imposed restraints and halt Iran’sdrive for a nuclear bomb before it istoo late. debkafile’s Middle Eastsources r epor t t he exp los ivedevelopments of the last two weeks,primarily the meteoric rise of athrusting partnership between the twonon-Arab powers, Turkey and Iran,have badly rattled Arab capitals,especially when they see the Obamaadminis t ra t ion and Netanyahugovernment immersed in tyingthemselves and each other in knotsover the format of an inquiry intoTurkish flotilla incident. The London Times reported thatSaudi Arabia had conducted tests tostand down its air defenses to enableIsraeli jets to make a bombing raid onIran’s nuclear facilities. Riyadh wassaid to have agreed to allow Israel touse a narrow corridor of its airspacein the north of the country to shortenthe distance for a bombing run onIran. To ensure the Israeli bomberspass unmolested, Riyadh has carriedout tests to make certain its own jetsare not scrambled and missile defensesystems not activated.“The Saudis have given theirpermission for the Israelis to passover and they will look the otherway,” said a US defense source in thearea. Sources in Saudi Arabia say, “Itis common knowledge within defensecircles in the kingdom that anarrangement is in place if Israeldecides to launch the raid. Despite thet e n s i o n b e t w e e n t h e t w o

governments, they share a mutualloathing of the regime in Tehran anda common fear of Iran’s nuclearambitions.” debkafile adds: Appearing in theweek UN sanctions were approvedagainst Iran, this report amounted to aSaudi no-confidence vote in its value. Low expectations of the sanctionsare no secret in Washington either.According to the New York Times,the Obama administrat ion hasprepared Plans A, B, C. and D, ifsanctions fail to stop Iran’s push for anuke. No details were published, butthe NYT quoted Barak Obama asnoting in April: “…once Iran passes acertain point, it may be impossible toknow when it has taken the last stepsto manufacture a (nuclear) weapon.” This did not stop defense secretaryRobert Gates speaking after a NATOmeeting in Brussels on June 11, fromwhipping out the rusty devicebeloved of the Bush administration:“I think everyone agrees we havesome more time, including theI s r a e l i s . … I w o u l d s a y t h eintelligence estimates range from oneto three years.” In the Middle East meanwhile,events are rushing forward withexplosive haste, impelled in the lastten days by the Turkish-led flotilla forbreaking the Gaza blockade and theIsraeli commando raid to intercept it. The rise of the Turkish-Iranianalliance has not only thrust Americaand Israel to the wings the MiddleEast stage, but is deeply alarmingCairo, Riyadh, the Gulf emirate andeven Syria. They suddenly see Primemin i s t e r Recep Erdogan andPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejaddictating the region’s agenda with noone there to stop them. Within days, the balance of power inthe region has been reshuffled toextend way beyond Tehran’s hand onHizballah’s levers in Beirut and thePalestinian Hamas in Gaza. Iran hasacquired an important member ofNATO as a proactive ally.

Gates’ only comment on thisd e v e l o p m e n t w a s : “ I w a sdisappointed by the Turkey vote onthe Iranian sanctions. That said,Turkey is a decades-long ally of theUS and a member of NATO. Turkeycontinues to play a critical part in thealliance.” Israel’s Prime Minister BinyaminNetanyahu and defense minster EhudBarak a re jus t as laggard inaddressing the formidable new axislooming over the region and theJewish state, in particular. They aretoo busy quibbling with Washingtonover the shape of the impartialcommission the UN has demandedfor probing Israel’s actions againstthe Turkish-led flotilla of May 31 –though certainly not, perish thethought, Turkey’s role or the Erdogangovernment’s close ties with the IHHterrorists aboard the Turkish ship. What Netanyahu and Barak have nottold the public is that the dickeringwith the Obama administration hasdragged out for five days because theUS wants the impartial commissionempowered to question the Israeliofficers and soldiers who raided theMavi Marmara in a clash which left 9Turks dead, and several woundedincluding six Israel commandos. If Obama has his way, Israelisoldiers will for the first time facequest ioning by American andEuropean investigators. Israeli leadersunderstand that compliance wouldadd fuel to the international campaignfor de-legitimizing the Jewish state asa sovereign state and respectablemember of the world community ofnations. The Israelli Defense Forceswould be further immobilized under asustained international campaign to

discredit them on the lines of theGoldstone report on the Gaza war –only this time Washington is takingthe lead in the de- legi t imacycampaign. With no one apparently available forkeeping Iran out of the nuclear club,Riyadh did what it could. Using theLondon Times platform, SaudiArabia’s princely rulers opened thedoor to positive action in order to liftmorale in the oil kingdom and itsarmy and remind Washington,Jerusalem and the other Middle Eastplayers that soft sanctions need not bethe last word; they are offering Israelibombers a corridor for striking Iran’snuclear facilities and chance toreshape the region’s declining reality. debkafile adds: The air corridor isnow clearly open but still unused.There appears to be no one inWashington or Jerusalem willing orable to order the bombers to take off.via docstalk.blogspot.com P o s t e d v i a w e b f r o mn o a h d a v i d s i m o n ’ s p o s t e r o u s Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael• April 11 Links April 11 LinksCast Lead Aftermath: Anti-Semitismon the Rise World-WideReport notesâ??rampant ignorance of political andhistorical facts among contemporaryyouth, for many of whom Israel,Zionism...• Part 3: Article “The Nation”, lesson3 L e c t u r e r : R a v M i c h a e lLaitmanDate: 2010-03-18Video:ENG 52.31MB Audio: ENG 9.36MB...• Artists of the Soul – Art andJudaism All of us experiencemoments of poetry. These may comefrom events in our personal lives — abirth, a death, the reuniting of long-lost family. Or these moments ofinspiration may spring from ou...

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When Rabbis Attack: Standing Up for CharlesJacobsby NoahDavidSimon (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:33:00 PM

The name Charles Jacobs should be afamiliar one to readers of this blog.Charles Jacobs, founder of The DavidProject, co-founder of the Bostonbranch of CAMERA and theAmerican Anti-Slavery Group, andnow Americans for Peace andTolerance. I would hazard to say,without any exaggeration at all, thatCharles Jacobs has done as much ormore for the Jewish People (andWestern Values in general) off thepulpit than any other single person inNew England. Unfortunately for Charles, and moreimportantly, for us all, Charles Jacobss t e p p e d o n t h e t o e s o f t h eMassachusetts left-wing Rabbinicalestablishment with his recent column:What’s up with Deval Patrick? In thecolumn, Jacobs addresses the politicalcontroversy stirred up by GovernorDeval Patrick’s recent visit to theIslamic Society of Boston Mosque.(More on that in the videos below.)Along the way, Jacobs called outsome of the local religious leadershipwhich has credulously run toward thecliff in allowing themselves to beused as a whitewash for some of themosque’s radical connections, manyof whom should well know better.Jacobs even had the temeri ty(honesty) to call Rabbi Eric Gurvis byname. Read the linked column. What’swritten about Gurvis may sting forthe truth of it, but it can hardly becalled a substance-less personalattack. Not so the response it has garnered,however. Not allowing any slight to gounpunished, seventy of Gurvis’colleagues — most of them on theliberal left-wing of the Reform andReconstructionist movements — havecounterattacked with an open letter,printed in the same local paper thatJacobs’ column originally appearedin. I have pasted the letter and thecomplete list of signatories at the endof this post. Please review the list tosee if your Rabbi is on it. The Rabbis call the Jacobs column a“vicious, personal attack,” when itwas anything but. In fact, it is theseRabbis who are guilty of committinga scurrilous personal attack on a manwho has put more on the line for thiscommunity than most of them canever hope to do in their lifetimes.Their letter is devoid of any responsewhatsoever to the substantive mattersthat Charles Jacobs has exposed.Their letter is a reply the nature ofwhich ought to be beneath the dignityof Jewish clergy. They didn’t respondthis way when it was brought to lightthat patrons of this mosque were

preach ing the wors t k ind o fdespicable Jew hatred. No, these“ leaders” who have e leva ted“dialogue” and “interfaith relations”to the level of a fetish have reservedtheir worst invective for a man whodared simply to criticize one of theirguild. They have utterly abdicatedtheir responsibility to protect theirown community in favor of goodr e l a t i o n s w i t h t h e M u s l i mBrotherhood and a few friendly photo- o p s , e v e n s t o o p i n g t o t h ecommandeering of Torah verse as abludgeon, a blackjack employed inthe service of their personal vendetta. Where have they been as theWahhabis have built the east coasts’largest Mosque? Silent. Hiding.Complicit. And they dare attack theone man — more leader than any ofthem — who was willing to puthimself and his own reputation on theline when none of them would?Shame on them. The fact is theyknow they’ve lost authority, thoughtheir own inaction, to this unordainedlayman…and it galls them. They have so badly forgotten thattheir primary responsibility to the restof us is not comity at all costs, but tospeak the truth and stand for ourcommunity, that they have cast theirsense of propriety to the wind andshamed themselves. Again I ask, is your Rabbi on thelist? Here is everything you need to know.First, watch this excellent video ofCharles discussing matters with BillWhittle of PJTV. Jacobs is eloquentand measured throughout: Second, here is that Americans for

Peace and Tolerance video about thePatrick visit to the Mosque. This isthat painful substance the Rabbiswish to ignore: By the way, even the lefty BostonPhoenix assails the Patrick visit to theISB in an excellent editorial entitledMickey Mouse Multiculturalism Now, here is that “Rabbinical” letter: Rabbis come to the defense of acolleague under fire We write in defense of our colleagueRabbi Eric Gurvis. Rabbi Gurvisleads Temple Shalom of Newton, ist h e p a s t p r e s i d e n t o f t h eMassachusetts Board of Rabbis,Boston Area Reform Rabbis andcurrently serves as the president ofthe Newton Clergy Association. He isa distinguished teacher and respectedcommunity leader. We were shocked and appalled bythe vicious, personal attack written byCharles Jacobs and printed in The Jewish A dvocate. We denouncethis attack and call upon Mr. Jacobsto discont inue his destruct ivecampaign against Boston’s Muslimcommunity, which is based oninnuendo, half-truths and unprovenconspiracy theories. We call uponmembers of our community to rejectthe dangerous politics of division thatMr. Jacobs fosters. Rabbi Gurvis stood with a number ofus at a recent interfaith pressc o n f e r e n c e , d e n o u n c i n g t h ei n a p p r o p r i a t e w o r d s o f agubernatorial candidate who impliedthat addressing a large group ofM u s l i m s w a s “ p a n d e r i n g t oterrorists.” Just as we rabbis wouldexpect Christians and Muslims to

stand with us Jews if we wereunjustly held accountable for theactions of a handful of our people,Rabbi Gurvis stood with our Muslimneighbors. In fact, he pointed out thatwhen Temple Shalom was defaced bya swastika, one of the first calls hereceived was from Bilal Kaleem fromthe Muslim American Society. During these difficult times, RabbiGurvis, along with other courageousreligious leaders, is attempting tofoster a different kind of politics. Wesupport his commitment to interfaithdialogue and cooperation. We standtogether in our commitment to acommunity in which neighbors seekto know one another and join togetherfor the common good. We write these words following theweek in which the Torah portion wasShelach Lecha. It tells the stories ofthe Israel i te scouts who wereovercome by fear. As a result, they“spread calumnies” among the entireIsraelite camp, who in turn broke outinto loud cries and weeping. Becausethey succumbed to their fears, G-dcondemned this generation to die inthe wilderness. We refuse to allowMr. Jacobs to spread his calumniesand paralyze our community in fear. We the undersigned rabbis supportRabbi Eric Gurvis and walk togetherin faith. (Institutional affiliations arelisted for identification purposesonly.) Rabbi Thomas Alpert Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld(dean, Rabbinical School, HebrewCollege)

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Rabbi Stephen Arnold Rabbi Lev Baesh (B’nai Or, Newton) Rabbi Alfred Benjamin(Rabbi, Temple Shalom, Milton) Rabbi Joseph Berman Rabbi Allison Berry (Temple BethDavid, Canton) Rabbi Herman Blumberg (Emeritus,Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland) Rabbi Carey Brown (Temple Isaiah,Lexington) Rabbi Sharon Clevenger (The RashiSchool, Newton) Rabbi Joe Eiduson (CongregationB’nai Shalom, Westborough) Rabbi Lisa Eiduson (Temple BethAvodah, Newton Centre) Rabbi John Franken (Temple OhabeiShalom, Brookline) Rabbi David Freelund (Cape CodSynagogue, Hyannis) Rabbi Ronne Friedman (TempleIsrael, Boston) Rabbi Neal Gold (Temple ShirTikva, Wayland) Rabbi Robert Goldstein (TempleEmanuel Andover) Rabbi David Gordis (past president,Hebrew College) Rabbi Art Green (Hebrew College,Newton) Rabbi Neil Hirsch (Temple Shalom,Newton) Rabbi Boaz Heilman (CongregationB’nai Torah, Sudbury) Rabbi Sandi Intraub (ChaplainResident, Hebrew SeniorLife ) Rabbi Howard Jaffe (Temple Isaiah,Lexington) Rabbi Shira Joseph (CongregationSha’aray Shalom, Hingham) Rabbi Dan Judson (Hebrew College,Newton) Rabbi Randy Kafka (Temple IsraelSouth Shore, North Easton) Rabbi Daniel Klein Rabbi Margaret Frisch Klein Rabbi David Kline Rabbi Stephanie Kolin (TempleIsrael, Boston) Rabbi Neil Kominsky (Emeritus,Temple Emanuel, Lowell) Rabbi Jonathan Kraus (Beth ElTemple Center, Belmont) Rabbi Claudia Kreiman (TempleBeth Zion, Brookline) Rabbi Judith Kummer R a b b i S t e p h e n L a n d a u( C o n g r e g a t i o n T i k v o h Chadoshoh, West Hartford, Conn.) Rabbi Karen Landy (Hebrew SeniorLife, Dedham; Havurat Shalom, Andover) Rabbi David Lerner (Temple

Emunah, Lexington) Rabbi Michele Lenke (Temple BethShalom, Needham) Rabbi Al lan Lehmann (v icepres ident , Massachusetts Board of Rabbis) Rabbi Greg Litcofsky (Temple ShirTikva, Wayland) Rabbi Natan Margalit (HebrewCollege, Newton) Rabbi Todd Markley (Temple BethShalom, Needham) Rabbi Daniel Medwin Rabbi Bernard Mehlman (Emeritus,Temple Israel, Boston) Rabbi Rim Meirowitz (Temple ShirTikvah, Winchester) Rabbi Joseph Meszler (Temple Sinai,Sharon) R a b b i L a u r e n c e M i l d e r( C o n g r e g a t i o n B ’ n a i Shalom, Westborough) Rabbi James Morgan Rabbi Jeremy Morrison (TempleIsrael, Boston) Rabbi Beth Naditch Rabbi Michelle Pearlman (TempleShalom, Newton) Rabbi Barbara Penzner (TempleHillel B’nai Torah, West Roxbury) Rabbi Jay Perlman (Temple BethShalom, Needham) Rabbi Jonah Pesner (Director, Unionfor Reform Judaism Jus t Congregat ions ,Newton) Rabbi Ellen Pildis (Jewish StudiesDirector, The Rashi School, Newton) Rabbi Elaine Pollack (NewtonLower Falls) Rabbi David Reiner Rabbi Victor Reinstein (NeharShalom Community Synagogue, Jamaica Plain) Rabbi Rachel Saphire (Temple BethElohim, Wellesley) Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem R a b b i L a w r e n c e S i l v e r m a n( C o n g r e g a t i o n B e t h Jacob, Plymouth) Rabbi Jodi Seewald Smith (TempleChayai Shalom, Easton MA) Rabbi Joel Sisenwine (Temple BethElohim, Wellesley) RabbI Toba Spitzer (CongregationDorshei Tzedek, West Newton) Rabbi Keith Stern (Temple BethAvodah, Newton Centre) Rabbi David Thomas (CongregationBeth El of the Sudbury River Valley, Sudbury,MA) Rabbi Van Lanckton, (Temple B’naiShalom, Braintree) Rabbi Andrew Vogel (Temple Sinai,

Brookline) Rabbi Moshe Waldoks (Temple BethZion, Brookline) Rabbi Jeffrey Wildstein (TempleBeth David, Westwood) Rabbi David Wolfman (director,URJ National C o m m i s s i o n o n R a b b i n i c -C o n g r e g a t i o n a l R e l a t i o n s ) Rabbi Julie Wolkoff Rabbi Sara Zacharia (HebrewCollege, Newton) Rabbi Elaine Zecher (Temple Israel,Boston) Rabbi Henry Zoob (Emeritus,Temple Beth David, Westwood) Hebrew College rabbinical students:Joel Baron, Rogerio ZingerevitzCukierman, Tiffany Gordon, MargieKlein, Lev Meirowitz, Nelson, SuzieSchwartz, Lila Veissid and JudithKates (professor) Jacobs has issued his own responsethrough APT (far more measuredthan mine, here): In response to ourvideo sounding the alarm about aMuslim American Society (MAS)imam who told followers to “pick upthe gun and the sword,” as well as toour criticism of Rabbi Eric Gurvis forembracing the MAS leadership, agroup of seventy New England rabbispublished a letter denouncing me inthe Jewish Advocate. The letter ignored every concern weraised about the MAS – its Saudifunders, its extremist leaders, itsconnections to terror and hatespeakers. Instead, the rabbis whowrote it, accused me falsely ofwaging a campaign to defameBoston’s Muslim community. Theserabbis should have known, withminimal fact-checking, that I havebeen consistent in my positions: Ibelieve the radical leaders of MASBoston are first and foremost a threatto Boston’s historically moderateMuslim community. The best way tofight this threat is to support the truemoderates and reformers of Islam.This is a major component of theAmericans for Peace and Tolerancemission and activity. Yet the rabbisirresponsibly claimed that I amdefaming all Boston Muslims. Thiskind of slander can play right into thehands of MAS radicals, who may usethis letter to incite Muslims againstAmericans for Peace and Toleranceand me. Their letter is untrue,inappropriate, and unbecoming forJewish leaders. The letter also contains a bizarreinterpretation of a Biblical story tojustify the rabbis’ misguided attack. Itis hard for me to believe that thesigners actually read their own letteror thought through the weirdlyconstructed Biblical analogy. I thinkmost signed on to support theircolleague, Rabbi Gurvis. Others mayhave been motivated by progressivepolitics, political correctness, and thedesire to show their universalism.N o n e o f t h e s i g n e d l e a d e r sapproached Americans for Peace and

Tolerance to get the facts about theMAS’s Imam Faarooq. You can read the rabbis’ letter,which will appear in today’s JewishAdvocate, below [ above -MS]. Youmight also want to review our videoand my op-ed discussing therelationship between the Governorand the MAS, as well as criticizingRabbi Gurvis’s support for the MAS. As you know the Jewish communityis under siege, and it is unfortunatethat we are so divided. I hope youwill take the time to call or write therabbis who signed the letter and urgethem to withdraw their names, to seekout the truth about the MuslimAmerican Society and Imam Faarooq,and to join us in countering theradicalization of the Boston Muslimcommunity… Update : Another wor thwhi leresponse: To the Editor, on yourrecent article, “Rabbis come todefense of a colleague under fire” (6/11 issue), With all due respect, I invite the 70rabbis who signed the open letter,“Rabbis come to defense of acolleague under fire,” (6/11 issue), toreexamine Charles Jacobs’ assertionsin his article, “What’s up withPatrick?” Jacobs’ main point was notto discredit Rabbi Gurvis’ pastservice to the community or to wagea “destructive campaign againstBoston’s Muslim community.”Rather, Jacob’s main point was tobring to light the danger of closingone’s eyes to these specific RoxburyMosque l eaders ’ documentedassociation with, and support of,global radical Islamic terror groupsand indicted and jailed terrorists, suchas Aafia Siddiqui. Jacobs does notbase his assertions on innuendo orhalf-truths. Instead he has madeavailable numerous FBI and courtdocuments, public information, andvideos, which everyone should readbefore criticizing Jacobs (see hisw e b s i t e ,w w w . p e a c e a n d t o l e r a n c e . o r g ) .America is under attack both fromwithin and without by radical Islamicterrorists whose goal is to destroy ourlives and our freedom. We mustn’tfalsely accuse or limit freedoms ofany Muslim citizen simply becausehe/she is Muslim. But every politicaland community leader – indeed everycitizen – must be on the alert forthose who are found to support actsof terror and anti-Semitism, and becareful not to embrace them as our co-laborer of peace. Nor should weaccept them as speaking on behalf oftruly moderate Muslims who supportevery citizen’s security and libertyunder the US Constitution. Rev. Fumio Taku President Christians and Jews United for Israelvia solomonia.com Posted via webfrom noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael

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How the Road to Socialism is Pavedby Daniel Greenfield @ theSultan Knish blog (Hija del Zionpara Israel - Daughter of Zionfor Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 8:13:00 PM

One of the more insidious aspects ofthe government takeover is how suchtakeovers are pitched as reforms. Ofcourse reform traditionally applies toinstitutions reforming themselves orbeing reformed by their constituentsor shareholders . The idea ofgovernment reforming the privatesector smacks of unlimited authority,which is exactly what it is. And so agovernment that cannot reform itself,that cannot stop its out of controlspending, its constant legislativecorruption, its culture of pork andkickbacks, its compulsive need toappropriate power, sets out to insteadtake over every aspect of life withinthe country in the name of reform. Can an alcoholic who can’t stopdr ink ing , t each o the r s to beteetotalers? Can a compulsivegambler who drops 10 grand a weekin Vegas, regulate the gamblinghabits of others? Only as an exampleto others of how bad things can get.But though the government cannotregulate itself, it insists that it canregulate everything outside itself. Theblind leading the blind is bad enough,but what are we to make of the blindleading those who can actually see.That’s what government regulation is. But the reform pitch is part of thewhole ins id ious premise tha tgovernment is protecting the peoplefrom being exploited by acting as areferee on their behalf. It’s soinsidious because it’s both deceptiveand appealing. Most people have felttaken advantage of by corporations.And indeed we do have a legalsystem in order to avoid criminalexploitation. But what governmentrefereeing does, is blur the linebetween the cr iminal and theunethical, and between the unethicaland the profiteering, thereby creatinga mandate to not only crackdown oncriminal actions, but on acts that areunethical or just greedy. For example, reformers may beginby exposing an insurance companyforging documentation to avoidpaying claims, an illegal act, tofocusing on misleading claims madeby insurance representatives, anunethical act, to campaigning forlower insurance rates, an area that isnot illegal or unethical, but a questionsimply of profit. By exploiting thiskind of s l ippery s lope, ent i reindus t r i es have been heav i lyregulated, even in areas well outsideof the government’s purview. The scandal generated by exposingillegal activity is used by advocatesfor a government takeover to regulateunethical and profiteering behavior,which they all class together as proofof malfeasance. By doing so theydefine both legal and illegal behavioras illegal, because it is rooted in the

desire for profit– an essentiallysocialist position. Going back to themuckrakers, socialists discovered thatthey could create an impetus forsocialism by delegitimizing the profitmotive, and the best way to do so wasto begin by building their case aroundblatantly criminal activity and thenmove down the ladder to attackingthe basic idea of capitalism itself. The overall target was of course thefree market, promising the people thatgovernment would act as theirguardian, protecting them withregulat ion from the abuses ofcapitalism. The genuinely deceptivething however, was that politicianswere making the same offer tocompanies, promising to act as theirreferee to protect them from theirrivals, their workers and theircustomers. What was actual lyhappening was that government wasinserting itself as the “referee”,promising to protect the differentsegments of the free market fromeach other. So politicians “protect” consumersfrom companies by price controls,while protecting companies fromtheir competitors by creating de-factomonopolies through legislativel o o p h o l e s , a n d t h e n p r o t e c tcompanies from consumers by tightlyregulating what products consumerscan buy. ObamaCare, which bothimposes price controls and forcesconsumers to buy health insurance, isa typical example, in which thegovernment as referee screws overboth sides, while giving them bothsome seeming advantage. In realityboth sides are worse off than before,and only the politicians and theircamp followers gain from theregulat ion. And that is how it began. Retailerswere promised protection fromdistr ibutors. Distr ibutors werep r o m i s e d p r o t e c t i o n f r o m

manufacturers. The public waspromised protection from all them. Ofcourse this called for reams andreams of legislation. And thatlegislation called for more legislation.And the politicians and officials incharge of the process naturallywelcomed lobbyists from varioustrade and consumer groups to“explain” their positions them, saidexplanations usually accompanied bydonations and pledges of politicalsupport. By placing itself as the referee,government had a court in whichcases went on forever , whi lecollect ing “fees” from all thelitigants. In Dickens’ Bleak House,there is the case of Jarndyce andJarndyce, a lawsuit involving aninheritance that has dragged on forgenerations, and eventually leavesnothing to the descendants who havebeen fighting for it, but is entirelyabsorbed by the judges, the lawyersand the assorted camp followers ofthe legal system. So too the Americanpeople are discovering that the“inheritance” of their economy isvanishing into the maw of thegovernment that promised to getjustice for them. The fees are paid out in campaigncontributions, in taxes collected tofund the expanding regulatorymechanisms and in the invisible tolladded to all economic transactions bythe regulations themselves. That isbecause any regulatory mechanismalso becomes part of the system. Eachregulation changes the way the freemarket works and the way thatcompanies and consumers behave, asboth continue to strive to gainmaximum advantage for themselves.Since each regulation also adds moreexpenses to both sides and blocksareas of commercial competition,both sides become more creative andthus also more deceptive. But rather

than making economic competitionbetter, more regulation actuallymakes the competition worse. Andthis provides grist for the reformer’smill, who pile on more regulations,which only makes the matter worse.The next step leads to the blackmarket, with the most regulatedeconomies, such as the USSR, alsofeaturing a thriving black market.Because regulations don’t changehuman behavior, they just change thecontext in which it is expressed, andthe strategies it employs. By position itself as the referee,government has expanded wellbeyond its constitutional boundariesinto socialism. And it has done so byplaying on the fears of bothcustomers and companies, promisingan orderly and tightly controlledmarket, for the highest bidder ofcourse. The government promiseslow prices and available products tocustomers. And then raises their taxesand gives multi-billion dollar grantsto corporations, or just bails them outwhen those regulations help insurethe i r fa i lure . The resul t i s adiminished availability of products,much higher prices when accountingfor inflation, and a culture ofentitlement among both companiesand the public, in which both sidesfeel entitled to use the government toexploit the other. Which is exactlywhat the “referee” wants, becausethen it has them right where it wantsthem. Socialism requires simply that themajority believe that they will bebet ter off having governmentdispense the work of others to them,rather than working for themselves.And the “reformers” have convincedlarge numbers of Americans of justthat. The results can be seen in anendless assortment of consumergroups that promise us the solution toa l l p rob l ems i s t o have t hegovernment regulate every singlething that companies do, and they canbe seen in companies with CEO’swhose main strategies are to hirelobbyists, outsource the actual laborto China and then leave with a goldenparachute on their least profitablequarter. This is what happens whenpeople cease to believe in working fora living, and come to believe that thegovernment is their best economicsolution. This week in the news, SenatorSchumer has announced that he willinvestigate an airline’s carry on bagfee. While the first reaction of manypeople may be that such a fee isrepugnant, have they considered howmuch they’ll be paying for theexpanded government regulatorymechanisms. Or how much they’llpaying when that airline’s lobbyistsagree to get rid of the fee and insteadtake home a bailout instead? Becausethere is no such thing as a free lunch.You can buy lunch or you can get it

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Prince Charles Muslim Who Believes in theGharquat Tree and Talking Stonesby NoahDavidSimon (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 6:55:00 PM

Poor Princess Diana. She would havebeen better off kissing a frog. HisRoyal Highness the Prince of Waleshas been croaking again. This time,he hopped up to Oxford University totell his audience, some of whomseemed obviously bored, how theworld needs to follow the spiritualpath of Islam — for the sake of ourenvironment. Prince Charles, who hasbeen greener than Kermit the Frog forseveral decades now, thinks Islam isbetter than the rest of us in takingcare of the planet. Well, I suspect hehas not sold any stock in BP. But let’ssee if that record of Islam on theenvironment holds water, so to speak.We all remember what a seriousMuslim Saddam Hussein was. Hedeclared jihad against the West whenwe moved in 1991 to kick him out ofKuwait. To show his new-found zealfor Islam, Saddam set fire to all theoil wells in Kuwait. They burned outof control for months, turning theskies black, making the day night formany of the invaders. The Saudis lay claim to beingCustodians of the Holy Places ofIslam. Mecca and Medina are off-limits to non-Muslims, so the rest ofus can’t actually go there and see ifthey’re all re-cycling and limitingtheir carbon footprints. The Saudisalso lay claim to vast petroleumreserves. Anyone visiting these will note thatflare-offs — burning unused gases —are very common there. Hmmm. Burning off these gasesyields what? Water vapor, perhaps? I had a chance personally to witnessthe tender regard shown for theenvironment by His Royal Highnessthe Prince of Wales. Back in the `70s,he came to visit San Francisco.Because IRA radicals at Berkeley hadthreatened to blow him up, ourgovernment decided to bring him into the Coast Guard Air Station in SanFrancisco rather than the municipalairport. I was assigned to an HonorGuard that was actually a body guard.

The idea was to shield the preciousbody of His Royal Highness thePrince of Wales — with ours. We were trained for weeks bydetectives from Scotland Yard. Veryprofessional, very serious fellows. Nojoking. No light touches at all. Andthey never referred to their charge as“Prince Charles” or even “The Princeof Wales.” The invariable usage wasHis Royal Highness the Prince ofWales. Poor Charles didn’t even get apronoun. They never used a “he” or“him” when speaking of, er, youknow who. The great day dawned. We CoastGuardsmen were all spit and polish.We watched, surprised, when thechartered jet of His Royal Highness

the Prince of Wales landed threeminutes early. It taxied out to the endof our runway. Why, we thought? Wesoon found out. It turned around andnow sported the Royal Standard ofHis Royal Highness the Prince ofWales in addition to the Union Jack.The flags were flying outside the jetcockpit. It was all intended to impressthe natives. It did. When he descended the stairway, hemoved briskly through our ranks.Every s tep he took had beenchoreographed for weeks in advance.I was surprised to see, when helooked me in the eye, that I wassomewhat taller than he. His picturessuggest otherwise. Off he went. Our brief encounter

with history flashed before us. Theentire exercise was over in less thantwenty-three minutes, even as itmight have been clocked by theRoyal Observatory at Greenwich. Are we to assume the Prince’schartered jet was powered by watervapor? Can anyone even begin tocalculate the carbon footprint of theman who wants us all to submit toIslam’s way of cherishing the earth?Charles is slated to become the Headof the Church of England if he everascends the throne. His title wouldthen be “Defender of the Faith.” Hedoesn’t like that so much. He says he’d rather be known asDefender of the Faiths. That’s a bitlike being faithful to all wives. Prince Charles may be the leadingdhimmicrat in the world. That’s aperson, who may not himself be aMuslim, but who uses his power andinfluence to smooth the path toshariah–the law they have in SaudiArabia. Large swatches of Britishcities are even now falling undershariah. Hearing him, we Americans canthank God once again for ourFounding Fathers. What a blessing itis not having to take seriously thehypocritical croakings of His RoyalHighness the Prince of Wales. viaamericanthinker.com Posted via webfrom noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael• Prince Charles Muslim WhoBelieves in the Gharquat Tree andTalking Stones Poor Princess Diana.She would have been better offkissing a frog. His Royal Highnessthe Prince of Wales has beencroaking again. This time, he hoppedup to Oxford University to tell hisaudie...• YID With LID: Why is PrinceCharles Supporting Hamas? Nomember of the British royal familyhas yet visited Israel in an officialcapacity. Prince Philip was there in1994 to attend a Yad Vashemceremony to honour his late mother,and Prince Cha...

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Why Hamas doesn’t allow new foods into Gazaby Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zionpara Israel - Daughter of Zionfor Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:23:00 PM

Firas Press reports that Hamas isrefusing to allow shipments into Gazaof cheese, milk, juices, detergents,soft drinks and biscuits – items thatup until now had been restricted.

The reason? According to the article,factory owners are pressuring the defacto Hamas government not to allowthese items in. because those importswould compete with their factories,hurting the Gaza economy and (theysay) forcing them to lay off workers. My guess is that taxes going to propup the Hamas government hassomething to do with this as well…

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Prince Charles Muslim Who Believes in theGharquat Tree and Talking Stonesby NoahDavidSimon (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 6:55:00 PM

Poor Princess Diana. She would havebeen better off kissing a frog. HisRoyal Highness the Prince of Waleshas been croaking again. This time,he hopped up to Oxford University totell his audience, some of whomseemed obviously bored, how theworld needs to follow the spiritualpath of Islam — for the sake of ourenvironment. Prince Charles, who hasbeen greener than Kermit the Frog forseveral decades now, thinks Islam isbetter than the rest of us in takingcare of the planet. Well, I suspect hehas not sold any stock in BP. But let’ssee if that record of Islam on theenvironment holds water, so to speak.We all remember what a seriousMuslim Saddam Hussein was. Hedeclared jihad against the West whenwe moved in 1991 to kick him out ofKuwait. To show his new-found zealfor Islam, Saddam set fire to all theoil wells in Kuwait. They burned outof control for months, turning theskies black, making the day night formany of the invaders. The Saudis lay claim to beingCustodians of the Holy Places ofIslam. Mecca and Medina are off-limits to non-Muslims, so the rest ofus can’t actually go there and see ifthey’re all re-cycling and limitingtheir carbon footprints. The Saudisalso lay claim to vast petroleumreserves. Anyone visiting these will note thatflare-offs — burning unused gases —are very common there. Hmmm. Burning off these gasesyields what? Water vapor, perhaps? I had a chance personally to witnessthe tender regard shown for theenvironment by His Royal Highnessthe Prince of Wales. Back in the `70s,he came to visit San Francisco.Because IRA radicals at Berkeley hadthreatened to blow him up, ourgovernment decided to bring him into the Coast Guard Air Station in SanFrancisco rather than the municipalairport. I was assigned to an HonorGuard that was actually a body guard.

The idea was to shield the preciousbody of His Royal Highness thePrince of Wales — with ours. We were trained for weeks bydetectives from Scotland Yard. Veryprofessional, very serious fellows. Nojoking. No light touches at all. Andthey never referred to their charge as“Prince Charles” or even “The Princeof Wales.” The invariable usage wasHis Royal Highness the Prince ofWales. Poor Charles didn’t even get apronoun. They never used a “he” or“him” when speaking of, er, youknow who. The great day dawned. We CoastGuardsmen were all spit and polish.We watched, surprised, when thechartered jet of His Royal Highness

the Prince of Wales landed threeminutes early. It taxied out to the endof our runway. Why, we thought? Wesoon found out. It turned around andnow sported the Royal Standard ofHis Royal Highness the Prince ofWales in addition to the Union Jack.The flags were flying outside the jetcockpit. It was all intended to impressthe natives. It did. When he descended the stairway, hemoved briskly through our ranks.Every s tep he took had beenchoreographed for weeks in advance.I was surprised to see, when helooked me in the eye, that I wassomewhat taller than he. His picturessuggest otherwise. Off he went. Our brief encounter

with history flashed before us. Theentire exercise was over in less thantwenty-three minutes, even as itmight have been clocked by theRoyal Observatory at Greenwich. Are we to assume the Prince’schartered jet was powered by watervapor? Can anyone even begin tocalculate the carbon footprint of theman who wants us all to submit toIslam’s way of cherishing the earth?Charles is slated to become the Headof the Church of England if he everascends the throne. His title wouldthen be “Defender of the Faith.” Hedoesn’t like that so much. He says he’d rather be known asDefender of the Faiths. That’s a bitlike being faithful to all wives. Prince Charles may be the leadingdhimmicrat in the world. That’s aperson, who may not himself be aMuslim, but who uses his power andinfluence to smooth the path toshariah–the law they have in SaudiArabia. Large swatches of Britishcities are even now falling undershariah. Hearing him, we Americans canthank God once again for ourFounding Fathers. What a blessing itis not having to take seriously thehypocritical croakings of His RoyalHighness the Prince of Wales. viaamericanthinker.com Posted via webfrom noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael• Prince Charles Muslim WhoBelieves in the Gharquat Tree andTalking Stones Poor Princess Diana.She would have been better offkissing a frog. His Royal Highnessthe Prince of Wales has beencroaking again. This time, he hoppedup to Oxford University to tell hisaudie...• YID With LID: Why is PrinceCharles Supporting Hamas? Nomember of the British royal familyhas yet visited Israel in an officialcapacity. Prince Philip was there in1994 to attend a Yad Vashemceremony to honour his late mother,and Prince Cha...

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Free Speech and Free Society Under Attackby SheikhYermami (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 6:15:30 PM

More hostile action – this timeagainst a parody that went viral onthe Internet after branding the MaviMarmara the Islamist stunt that itwas:

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Ignoring the elephant in the roomby Carl in Jerusalem (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:38:00 PM

Ignoring the elephant in the roomLaura Rozen has an account of AbuMazen’s meeting with ‘AmericanJewish leaders’ this past week. It’spretty much stuff we’ve all heard(and I’ve blogged) earlier this week,until this little bit at the end. Aaron Miller writes in response thatAbbas was “playing to his strengthsand trying to cultivate the image of awise and beneficent Palestinian leaderreaching out, in contrast to thebrashness and defensiveness [of] theIsraeli Prime Minister.” But, Miller continued, “none of thiswill make a bit of difference. Whatcounts is Abbas’s capacity to makedecisions (and Bibi’s of course).” That would be Aaron David Miller,former peace processor. And that gotme thinking about this piece ofanalysis by Herb Keinon thatappeared in the weekend JPost. For all the damage the flotillaincident has caused Israel, and thedamage is not inconsiderable, onepositive side effect may be theplacing of Gaza on the internationalagenda, and not only the Gaza thatthe Turks and the Palestinians wantthe world to see: the Gaza ofdeprivat ion, the Gaza withoutcoriander seeds or soda pop. The incident has also brought intofocus the Gaza ruled not by thegrandfatherly Abbas, or the Westerntechnocrat PA Prime Minister SalamFayyad, but ra ther by Hamasterror is ts . One of the inexplicable dimensions

of the diplomatic efforts since theAnnapolis conference in late 2007has been the degree to which theinternational community continues totalk about a two-state solution, and apeace process, without taking intoconsideration that there are twoPalestinian authorities: One in theWest Bank and the other in the GazaStrip, and that these two groups loatheach other, don’t recognize theother’s authority and – after monthsand even years of trying – have notbeen ab le t o r econc i l e t he i rd i f f e rences . Everyone talks about two states, onefo r J ews , and t he o the r fo rPalestinians. But what about Gaza?Who rules there? How do you wrestcontrol of Gaza from Hamas? Thoseare crucial questions representing ahuge elephant in the negotiatingroom, and a re ques t ions thein t e rna t i ona l communi ty ha s

consistently ignored.“The flotilla presents a clear imageproblem for Is rae l ,” sa id theEuropean diplomat quoted above.“We in the West were looking awayfrom Gaza and the blockade, as longas there were not hiccups in theimplementation of the blockade. Butbecause of the flotilla we cannotignore it anymore, because there isgrowing pressure from our publicopinion.” But by the same token, if theEuropeans can’t ignore the blockadeanymore, they – and the US – canalso no longer ignore the place ofGaza, or the problem it presents, inthe diplomatic process. Or , a s a h igh l eve l I s r ae l igovernment official pointed out thisweek, the issue now is much broaderthan the flotilla, it is on Gaza andhow that impacts on the diplomaticprocess.

“If there is going to be an easing ofthe blockade,” he asked rhetorically,“how will that change Gaza, how willthat strengthen Hamas, how will thatimpact on the Palestinian Authority?This all touches on the Palestiniantalks. Everything is connected.” Miller is right. The truth is that AbuMazen has no mandate to negotiate.His term in office expired more thana year ago. He doesn’t control Gazaand he only controls Judea andSamaria because the IDF is there. It’sall connected. With whom are wenegotiating? And why? posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:38AM Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael• Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to kickhimself in the testicles at Obama’srequest Prime Minister Netanyahu'sspokesman said on Friday morningthat the government had reached ana g r e e m e n t w i t h t h e O b a m aadministration that would allowJewish cons t ruc t ion in ' e a s t 'J e rusa l em to p roce . . .• The Listening Post – Israelsettlements in East Jerusalem, Libelreform in UK Media coverage ofgrowing Israeli settlements in EastJerusalem and the chilling effect ofBritish libel laws on press freedom...• Announcement: JGS of PalmBeach The next meeting of the JewishGenealogical Society of Palm BeachC o u n t y w i l l t a k e p l a c e o nWednesday, April 14, 2010.The costis free for members and $5.00 for non-members (this fee may be applied t...

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German TV exposes IHH for what it isby Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zionpara Israel - Daughter of Zionfor Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:52:00 PM

Barry Rubin summarizes: The three German leftist activistsinterviewed claimed all participantsw e r e f r o m h u m a n i t a r i a norganizations and talked about all thefun they’d had. They had no interestin knowing that they were being used. The show then contrasts this withmaterial about the extremism of theIHH, which organized the trip. Thoseabout to depart on the ship—whoshortly thereafter would be attackingthe arriving Israeli soldiers—chanted,“Oh, you Jews.…the army of theprophet Muhamad will return–justlike in Kaibar [where Jewish menwere massacred and women andchildren forcibly converted and soldin to s l avery]….In t i f ada un t i lv ic to ry!” For the mili tants, this was arevolutionary act, a raid, not ahumanitarian mission. Of course, the

vast majority of those on the shipswere just trying to do a good deed,but they were not the ones whodetermined that the outcome wouldbe a violent confrontation. Mete Cubukcu, editor-in-chief ofNTV, one of Turkey’s largesttelevision networks, explains how theIHH, which organized and led theflotilla, is linked to radical groups andJihad fighters, including those whomurdered a beloved Armenianjournalist . Then there’s the interview with IHHand flotilla leader Yildrim on boardthe Mavi Marmara (3:40). He saysthey know Israel will stop the shipand that when this happens, there willbe huge demonstrations throughoutthe world. The show then interviews MichaelKiefer, a left-wing expert on Islamfrom Erfurt University. He says thatthe Turks on board were not peaceactivists as this term is understood inthe West, but people advocatingviolence and revolutionary activity. What’s most ironic is that many of

the Turks on the ship were from theIHH and an extremist nationalistgroup, the BBP. Three years ago, theleft-wing party to which the threeGerman participants belonged appliedto the German government to labelthese groups as “racist” with a“propens i ty for v io lence andtotalitarian structures based on theführer principle” equivalent to aGerman neo-Nazi movement. When asked by a German televisionreporter: “You seem not to havebothered from the outset about whowould travel with you,” AnnetteGroth, the left-wing member ofparliament who was on the shipangrily ended the conversation. Sheand her colleagues didn’t want toknow how they’d served as humanshields for violent groups acting insupport of a terrorist, racist group,Hamas. Those in the media who continue tocover up or ignore these facts shouldbe asked why, to paraphrase theGerman reporter’s question to Groth,“You seem not to have bothered by

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Some encouraging news aboutIsraelby NoahDavidSimon (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 5:27:00 PM

Clarice Feldman This past week was full of the usual:Double standards being applied tocast Israel as a vicious, law-breakingstate and more threats from Iran to analready besieged country. Yesterday, there were two bits ofencouraging news. First, at almost thevery place where the flotilla of thugsand useful idiots were engaged by theIsraelis (well within its territorialwaters) there has been a major gasfind which should meet its criticalenergy needs.… a gigantic deposit ofnatural gas called Leviathan, 6.5times the size of Tel Aviv, was found,roughly 100 nautical miles fromwhere the flotilla fiasco took placeand well within Israel’s extendedterritorial waters. This discovery mayprovide Israel with security in termsof its supply of electricity, turn it intoan important natural gas exporter andprovide a shot in the arm of some$300 billion over the life of the field– one-and-a-half times the nationalGDP – to the Israeli economy,already one of the most resilient inthe world. More importantly, this discovery isnothing short of a geopolitical gamec h a n g e r . T o u n d e r s t a n d i t smagnitude, consider this: The world’sbiggest gas discovery in 2009, 238billion cubic meters, was made by aU.S.-Israel consortium at a site calledTamar, 60 miles off the coast ofHaifa. The nearby Leviathan field isestimated to be twice that size.Altogether the basin in the eastern

Mediterranean to which those fieldsbelong could contain an amount ofgas equivalent to one-fifth of U.S.natural gas reserves. For a smallcountry like Israel, such a bonanzacould not have come at a better time.Secondly, there is evidence that thecertain but secret cooperat ionbetween Israel and the Arab stateswhich see Iran as a threat has notbeen damaged by the Turkishconn ive r s . Saud i Arab ia hasconducted tests to stand down its airdefences to enable Israeli jets to makea bombing raid on Iran’s nuclearfacilities, The Times can reveal. Inthe week that the UN SecurityCouncil imposed a new round ofsanctions on Tehran, defence sourcesin the Gulf say that Riyadh hasagreed to allow Israel to use a narrowcorridor of its airspace in the north ofthe country to shorten the distance fora bombing run on Iran. Looks likeHanukah in June to me . v iaamericanthinker.com Posted via web

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Democrat and Republican LeadersOppose UN Investigationby Allen (Hija del Zion paraIsrael - Daughter of Zion forIsrael)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 5:20:31 PM

The Republican and Democratleaders of the United States Senateh a v e c a l l e d o n t h e O b a m aadministration to veto an internationalinvestigation of Israel. They arecirculating a letter among theircolleagues that is addressed toSecretary of State Hillary Clinton. Today, at the State Department’spress briefing, State’s spokesman saidhe was not aware of any resolution toinvestigate Israel. If State is trulyunfamiliar with efforts to investigateIsrael then he is clearly uniformed.All indications are that the UnitedStates is prepared to dismiss an Israeli

investigation and to support a UNinvestigation that will serve theinterest of Israel’s enemies. Bill Kristol broke the story of theUni ted S ta tes suppor t for aninternational investigation in theWeekly Standard. It forced the WhiteHouse to address the issue. This linkincludes the White House non-commital response and criticism of Israel’sinvestigation. Let Secretary Clinton know that youdemand that the United States openlyoppose an international investigationand support Israel. Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael• You Tube Silences Anti-HamasVideo Last week, One Jerusalemposted a very creative video whichmocks Hamas. We Con The World

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Can IsraelLearn How toMake Its Case?by paraisrael (Hija del Zionpara Israel - Daughter of Zionfor Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 5:15:13 PM

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France ordered toshut down Hamas’ al

by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del

France ordered to shut down Hamas’al-Aqsa TV broadcasts France hasbeen ordered by the EuropeanCommission to remove Hamas’ al-

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Aqsa television from its satellitebroadcast lineup. The Coalition Against TerroristMedia (CATM) praised the EuropeanCommission for warning the Frenchbroadcasting authority to shut downbroadcasts of Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TVon Eutelsat. The French-ownedEutelsat is the world’s third largestsatellite company. CATM monitorsterrorist-owned media and hasprovided the European Commissionand the French government withfindings indicating that Al-Aqsa TVviolates European audiovisual laws. The Commission’s warning comesafter France’s broadcasting authority,the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel(CSA), i tself formally warnedEutelsat on 3 November 2009 — andon prior occasions — that Al-AqsaTV broadcasts violate European laws,as noted in the Commission’s letter tothe CSA. [Note: The law is Article 15of the 30 September 1986] The station shows programs which“incite hatred or violence for reasonsof religion or nationality,” saidFrench Foreign Ministry spokesman,Bernard Valero, responding to thenew development. He said French

authorities were confident the CSAwould take rapid action to ensurecontent broadcast via satellites ownedby French-based firms respectedFrench and EU law.“CATM calls on the CSA to takeimmediate act ion,” said MarkDubowitz, Executive Director of theF o u n d a t i o n f o r D e f e n s e o fDemocracies, which founded thecoalition in 2004. “Taking Al-AqsaTV off the air would demonstrate thatincitement to violence and support ofterrorism will not be tolerated inEurope. The Commission’s warningand the presumed CSA action wouldbe a critical blow to Hamas’s effort tocreate institutions that masquerade aslegitimate but in actuality provideoperational support for its attacks andspread radical, jihadist messages.” Dubowitz continued, “Europe haswitnessed the impact radicalizedgroups can have on its population. Toits credit, the European Commissionhas said, ‘enough is enough.’ Hamasshould no longer be able to act withimpunity by exporting its hate andinc i tement f rom Gaza to theEuropean con t inen t . ” But does this mean al-Aqsa will

actually be taken off the air in France– a country where a Jew who wastortured to death by Muslims fouryears ago showed up on a Muslimdating site last year? Read the wholething. I have my doubts. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:19AM Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael• Erdogan threatens Israel Erdoganthreatens Israel TurkishPrime Minis ter Recep TayyipErdogan ( le f t in the p ic ture)threatened Israel on Tuesday,warning i t not to ' tes t . . .• Tu’bishvat 2010...• PRÉ SEDER DE TU BISHVATPRÉ SEDER DE TU BISHVAT doCurso Básico de Judaísmo III doDepartamento de Ensino Judaico daCIL...

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London School of Economics: Pakistan’s ISI "isproviding funding, training and sanctuary to theTaliban on scale much larger than previously thought"by Marisol (Hija del Zion paraIsrael - Daughter of Zion forIsrael)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:52:58 PM

London School of Economics:Pakistan’s ISI “is providing funding,training and sanctuary to the Talibanon scale much larger than previouslythought” Pakistan, for its part,“rejected the claims as part of amalicious campaign against thecountry.” In other words, it’s businessas usual. The only thing that changesis that the Taliban get stronger.“Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency’supports’ Taliban,” by QuentinSomerville for BBC News, June 12: A new report claims to provide themost concrete evidence yet of directl inks be tween Pak is tan’s ISIintelligence agency and the Taliban inAfghanistan. The report says the ISI is providingfunding, training and sanctuary to theTaliban on scale much larger thanpreviously thought. The document was prepared by theLondon School of Economics (LSE). A spokesman for Pakistan’s militaryrejected the claims as part of a

malicious campaign against thecountry.‘Rubbish’ The report’s author spoke to nineTal iban f ie ld commanders inAfghanis tan ear l ier th is year . He concludes that Pakistan’srelationship with the insturgents [sic]runs far deeper than previouslyrealised. Some of those interviewed suggestedthat the ISI even attends meetings ofthe Taliban’s supreme council. Theyclaim that by backing the insurgentsPakistan’s security service is trying toundermine Indian influence inAfghanistan. The report concludes that without asignificant change in approach byP a k i s t a n , b o t h t h e A f g h a ngovernment and in te rna t iona lcommunity will find it impossible toend the insurgency in Afghanistan. The spokesman for Pakistan’smil i tary said the claims were“rubbish” and part of a maliciouscampaign against the country’smilitary and security agencies. Posted by Marisol on June 12, 20107:52 PM| No Comments

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Overnightmusicvideoby Carl in Jerusalem (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 5:13:00 PM

Overnight music video Here’sAvraham Fried singing Neshama at aconce r t ce l eb ra t ing the 30 thanniversary (wow do I feel old) of hisperforming career. Let’s go to the videotape. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:13AM Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael• Another OECD payoff AnotherOECD payoff And youthought that business is business andthat there were no political payoffsinvolved in being admitted to theOECD. Y...• Decapitated bishop canceled trip toCyprus for fear that the jihadist whoended up killing him would murderthe Pope Decapitated bishop canceledtrip to Cyprus for fear that the jihadistwho ended up killing him wouldm u r d e r t h e P o p e. . .• After three stirring fights, IsraelVazquez and Rafael Marquez are …The latest bout in a rivalry that beganin 2007 and has created an increasingamount of buzz since wil l beSaturday at Staples Center. RafaelMarquez lands a ri... ...

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Erdogan’shypocrisyby Carl in Jerusalem (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

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Erdogan’s hypocrisy While Turkey’sTayyip Recip Erdogan criticizesIsrael’s treatment of Hamas, the WallStreet Journal reports that his owntreatment of the PKK is no better (fullarticle here for those who don’t haveJournal access). The Middle Eas t ’ s reg iona lsuperpower has again deployed its airforce to bomb a rebel groupconsidered by some to be terroristsand by others to be freedom fighters.Another Israeli air strike on Gaza?Not quite. The attacker is the Turkish air force,which on Monday bombed PKKpositions in northern Iraq for thesecond time in a month. The PKK, or“Kurdistan Workers’ Party,” has beenfighting Ankara for more than 25years to carve out an independentKurdistan. Its ideology is a mishmashof Maoism, nationalism and, morerecently, Islamism. Its methods areguerrilla warfare, hostage taking,drug trafficking and terrorism. Tensof thousands of Turks have beenkilled in the fighting. So it is with good reason that Turkey

will neither recognize nor negotiatewith the PKK, much less accept thelegitimacy of its cause. And whilesome European governments havegone wobbly over the PKK, the U.S.has been stalwart in siding withAnkara. So has Israel, which over theyears has provided Turkey withmi l i t a ry and coun te r t e r ro r i s ta s s i s t ance .… T u r k i s h g o v e r n m e n t s o n c eunderstood this, as they understoodthe benefits of siding with the Westand Israel against regional radicals.Not so current Prime Minister RecepTayyip Erdogan, who has taken upthe anti-Israel banner with a relishbefitting his new friends in Tehranand Damascus. The Israeli raid on theGaza-bound Turkish flotilla last weekhas given Mr. Erdogan anotherchance to vent against the Jewishstate and champion Hamas. Howeverwell Mr. Erdogan’s dalliance withIslamic extremists plays at home, theworld can plainly see his doublestandard. The world may be able to see it but

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Oklahoma State Senator AimsTo Stop ‘Liberal Judges’From Imposing Sharia Lawby SheikhYermami (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 6:55:27 PM

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Obama pleads for $50billion in state, local aidby NoahDavidSimon (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:10:00 PM

President Obama urged reluctantlawmakers Saturday to quicklyapprove nearly $50 bi l l ion inemergency aid to state and localgovernments, saying the money isneeded to avoid “massive layoffs ofteachers, police and firefighters” andto support the still-fragile economicrecovery. via washingtonpost.comP o s t e d v i a w e b f r o mn o a h d a v i d s i m o n ’ s p o s t e r o u s Hija del Zion para Israel SupportIsrael

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“I am a Muslim,”Obama Tells EgyptianForeign Minister Gheitby SheikhYermami (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:13:02 PM

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Perhaps Germanyshould shut down itssecret service too..?by SheikhYermami (Hija delZion para Israel - Daughter ofZion for Israel)

Submitted at 6/12/2010 7:47:24 PM

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