Why Israel can’t go back to 1967 lines
by The Right Scoop:
This is a great video explaining why Israel says that going back to the 1967 military lines that existed before the six day war is completely out of the question.
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An Anti-Israel President
By BRET STEPHENS:
Say what you will about President Obama’s approach to Israel—or of his relationship with American Jews—he sure has mastered the concept of chutzpah.
On Thursday at the State Department, the president gave his big speech on the Middle East, in which he invoked the claims of friendship to tell Israelis “the truth,” which to his mind was that “the status quo is unsustainable, and Israel too must act boldly to advance a lasting peace.” On Friday in the Oval Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his version of the truth, which was that the 1967 border proposed by Mr. Obama as a basis for negotiating the outlines of a Palestinian state was a nonstarter.
Administration reaction to this reciprocal act of friendly truth-telling? “That was Bibi over the top,” the New York Times quoted one senior U.S. official, using the prime minister’s nickname. “That’s not how you address the president of the United States.”
Maybe so. Then again, it isn’t often that this or any other U.S. president welcomes a foreign leader by sandbagging him with an adversarial policy speech a day before the visit.
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The future under Big Gov.
“All the English people here are shaking their heads in disbelief and say that it is insane. I agree but it is the law. It’s becoming impossible to run a business in this country. We are not allowed to do anything anymore. It is the way Denmark is going.”
Eagle Nabs Poodle, Delivers it to Retirement Home
NewsCore:
Her name is May, and she may well be the feel-good story of the month. May is an 18lb (8kg) toy poodle found in the grounds of a nursing home in Sechelt, British Columbia (BC).
While no one saw her arrive, deep talon marks in her back and sides strongly suggest she was the unwilling passenger of a hungry eagle for some time until being dropped from the sky, the Vancouver Sun reported Monday.
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Must have been May’s Day.
Obama Falls Short
by Adam Daifallah:
Unfortunately Obama’s approach to the peace process in Middle East at the State Department last week will only lead to a repeat of past mistakes, as well as making it harder for Israel to negotiate — especially if its partner is run by Hamas, a terrorist group committed by its charter to Israel’s destruction.
Obama’s speech, by focusing on attention on the minutiae of where future borders will be drawn, rather than more pressing issues – the development of Palestinian civil society, its economy and internal political reform, for example – fails to take into account what sort of failed state he is asking a democracy to negotiate with.. Until these bigger issues are dealt with first, squabbling over borders is futile, all the more as the central argument Israel has with other countries in the region has nothing to do with borders at all, but about their inability to tolerate Israel’s existence as a Jewish state at all – within any borders. Agreeing to Israel’s existence as a Jewish state within any borders is concept to which the Palestinians and the Arabs cannot possibly agree without being regarded as heretics and traitors by their own people.
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Obama’s diversionary tactics
By CAROLINE B. GLICK:
As the Washington Post pointed out on Friday, US President Barack Obama purposely provoked the current fight with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He knew full well that Netanyahu does not back the Palestinian formulation that negotiations with Israel must be based on the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, or what are wrongly referred to as the 1967 lines. In the days leading up to Obama’s speech last Thursday, Israel registered explicit, repeated requests that he not adopt the Palestinian position that negotiations should be based on those lines.
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Obama’s Bow to the Muslim World, Round II
by Bruce Thornton:
In September 1938 English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, explaining why he was flying to Germany a third time in order to make peace with Germany, recited the old nursery rhyme: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.” Cynical wags in the Foreign Office, who knew Chamberlain was in fact appeasing Hitler by surrendering Czechoslovakia to him, quickly began circulating another version of the saying: “If at first you don’t concede, fly, fly, fly again.”
President Obama’s new “outreach” to the Muslim world reminds me of Chamberlain’s serial efforts to appease a Germany bent on aggression and conquest. First there was the Cairo speech in June 2009, which was supposed to be a “new beginning” for U.S. relations with Muslims, but in fact simply indulged the same old bad habits of Western self-doubt and historical guilt. Thus Obama attributed the “tension” between the West and Islam to a “colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold war in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.” Next came the videotaped New Year’s greetings to Iran, and the multiple letters to the Iranian “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei requesting “co-operation in regional and bilateral relations.” These outreaches were followed by Khameini’s announcement that “the path of Iran’s nuclear progress could not be blocked,” and by the brutal crackdown that summer on the demonstrators protesting the tyranny of the mullahcracy. Meanwhile Iran continues its support of terrorists murdering our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Obama’s Malignant Obsession with Jews and Israel
Joan Swirsky:
Jew hatred comes in many forms, all of them irrational and unsupported by empirical fact, but all of them powerful and largely effective in deflecting personal and political failures onto a tiny people which by their mere existence highlight the glaring deficiencies that exist in their adversaries. Like a deadly systemic infection, be it viral or bacterial, Jew hatred comes in many strains.
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Niall Ferguson: Eurozone headed for massive collapse
by The Right Scoop:
Niall Ferguson says there is a lack of political will in the EU to deal with the debt crises of its countries and that this complacency will likely lead to a crash later this year, similar to the one that occurred in 2008 in the US.
Note: When you hear Ferguson refer to the acronym PIGS, it stands for Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain. The acronym PIIGS includes the addition of Ireland.
The Myth of the Palestinian ‘Refugee Camps’
By Peter Wilson:
Controlling the vocabulary is a crucial part of any political debate, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, specifically the 1948 exodus — or one should really say, the 1948 departure — of Palestinians from Israel, is no exception. A typical formulation, chock-full of code words, appeared in a recent letter to the Boston Globe: “Generations of families living in squalor in refugee camps still await their right to return under international law to their homeland Palestine.”
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Keep in mind also that the tent cities in the desert from 1948 are long gone. Over the past sixty-three years the United Nations and the United States have poured billions into the camps to upgrade living conditions. What Palestinian advocates like to call “camp shelters” or “CS’s” are typically 4-5 story concrete apartment buildings with electricity, kitchens, satellite television tuned to al-Jazeera, and municipal garbage collection. According to the UN, 99.8% of camp shelters are “connected to water networks” and 87% are “connected to sewerage networks.” In other words, Palestinian camps are modern cities. Yes, they are overcrowded, with high unemployment, and I wouldn’t want to live there. The infrastructure in these so-called refugee camps is however far superior to the shantytowns in Dhaka, Calcutta, Soweto, Kinshasa, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Jakarta, and many other cities where hundreds of millions live without running water, in shacks cobbled together from scraps of tin and cardboard, with open sewers running through the streets.
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The Samson Option: ‘Palestine’ and Israel’s Nuclear Strategy
By Louis René Beres:
Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.” Barack Obama is now creating conditions on the ground in which designated IDF units, in any post-Palestinian independence Middle East, would have to fight desperately against Fatah elements trained by the United States. With this incomprehensible program, therefore, we are arming and preparing the next generation of anti-Israel and anti-U.S. terrorists.
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At AIPAC, Netanyahu is clear: No return to ’67 lines
The Jerusalem Post:
In a speech short on substance but long on applause lines, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated Monday night to more than 10,000 AIPAC supporters that Israel would never return to the 1967 lines.
Saying that he would spell out in his speech to Congress Tuesday how Israel saw a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Netanyahu did say — to a loud round of applause — that any agreement “must leave Israel with security, and therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 lines.”
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Living With the “Unpredictable Limitations of Free Speech”
PAM GELLER:
It seems the whole of mankind is super-speeding back to the Dark Ages. Western civilization is collapsing on itself. The idea that we would destroy our most treasured and glorious freedom (that which took centuries of blood and toil to achieve) for the most radical and extreme ideology on the planet is nothing short of monstrous.
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UK: Coalition builds new national identity system
By Christopher Williams:
The Coalition has quietly begun work on a new national identity system, less than a year after it scrapped Labour’s derided ID cards.
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Fascists.
And now, those who are on the side of civilisation
Melanie Phillips:
In these terrible times when western elites are dominated by the fellow-travellers of Islamo-fascism and genocidal Judeophobia, it is very important to realise that there are also some outstandingly decent, courageous and rational individuals who are putting their heads above the parapet and speaking up for Israel, truth and justice.
One such is Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Within a few hours of Obama’s call for Israel to return to the ‘Auschwitz borders’ with land swaps (as if the Arabs really do own all the territory beyond the Green Line, which legally, historically and morally they most emphatically do not) Harper was saying ‘not in our name’:
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Obama’s Trusted Adviser May Cause Betrayal of Israel
By Newsmax:
President Barack Obama’s stunning endorsement of a peace process embracing Israel’s pre-1967 borders – a situation that Israeli leaders declare would leave the Jewish State “defenseless” – is prompting closer scrutiny of a small coterie of left-leaning advisers long antagonistic of America’s close ally.
One of them, former journalist and professor Samantha Power, once declared that the United States might one day invade Israel to disarm it and support a Palestinian state along the very controversial lines Obama now embraces.
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Alligators, Moats and Other Such Nonsense
by Victor Davis Hanson:
President Obama gave what was billed as an important speech on immigration last week near the border in El Paso, Texas. Unfortunately, it was one of the most demagogic moments in recent presidential history. Nearly everything Obama said was either factually incorrect or deliberately misleading.
Why, 28 months into the Obama presidency, is there now a sudden push to pass “comprehensive” immigration reform? After all, from 2009 to early 2011, Obama had large Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate. Why hasn’t Obama already rammed through his own immigration bill, as he did with health care?
The answer, of course, is that about 70 percent of the American people consistently poll against the president’s initiatives on illegal immigration. Obama simply did not want to sign an easily passable bill that would earn him further unpopularity.
But now he has lost the House. A close re-election bid looms. The president is enjoying a sudden bounce in popularity after the capture of Osama bin Laden. He needs to firm up his base of Latino supporters. Presto: time to blame Republicans for his own past unwillingness to get a bill through his Democratic Congress.
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Jan Schakowsky Vs. The Progressive Jihad
by Andrew Marcus:
Call it “The Schakowsky Conundrum.”
Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky finds herself in the unfortunate position of battling the very Progressive movement she has done so much to help shape. You see, she is a Progressive Zionist, and that puts her in direct conflict with her most radical Progressive colleagues, many of whom equate Zionism with colonialism and racism.
Representative Schakosky’s predicament is symptomatic of two ideological battles, both involving the Jewish community in America.
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Obama’s Neville Chamberlain Speech
by Kenneth Levin:
In his May 19 speech on the Middle East, President Obama, in a matter of minutes, abandoned Security Council Resolution 242, which for more than four decades had been the cornerstone of diplomacy in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace; likewise abandoned the Roadmap, adopted in 2003 by the so-called Quartet (the U.S., UN, EU and Russia) as a blueprint for resolving, more specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; committed his Administration to pushing Israel back to indefensible borders; and essentially adopted as Administration policy Mahmoud Abbas’s variation on Arafat’s “Plan of Phases” for Israel’s destruction.
The cumulative impact of Obama’s declarations is to chart a course for Israel comparable to that charted for Czechoslovakia in 1938 when Neville Chamberlain endorsed Hitler’s demands of that country.
“We believe,” declared the President, in just one of his statements undermining Israel, “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines.”
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Dutch court rejects bid to drop hate speech trial
Deutsche Welle:
Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has failed in his bid to have a hate speech trial against him dismissed. Judges in the Netherlands have rejected the Dutch Freedom Party leader’s claim that the court was not impartial.
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Swift Teens Speak Now
Kathryn Jean Lopez:
‘Chances are, if you’re naming your blog after a Taylor Swift album, your judgment’s already suspect.”
That’s how two teen girls were dismissed by a Salon magazine piece on the Girl Scouts’ liberal-feminist tendencies. And, as it happens, the gratuitous line itself actually speaks to the heart of the problem.
Fully aware that there is an army of glossy magazines pining for the day Taylor goes wild on camera — stomping on all pretense of and desire for preserving innocence — I mean that what many of her songs embody is something Salon doesn’t understand: a rooted goodness, and higher expectations than instant gratification, both for herself and for those she loves.
The girls Salon dismissed, sisters Sydney and Tess Volanski — a soon-to-be high-school sophomore and freshman, respectively — left the Girl Scouts after eight years because the organization’s current values — signaled by its ties to Planned Parenthood — clash with their own. And, yes, they set up a website about the Girl Scouts that is a little hat tip to their favorite singer: Its name, “Speak Now,” is the title of one of Swift’s songs.
The beginning of the rude awakening for Sydney and Tess was a graphic pamphlet produced by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Healthy, Happy and Hot, which was reportedly distributed at the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts meeting last year.
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CBC attempt to portray Canada as laggard to U.K. missed the story
Terence Corcoran:
While cruising home the other night down Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway, grappling with a decision to fill the car with either Katy Perry or Adele, I decided instead to tune in to CBC Radio’s As It Happens. As luck would have it, I was just in time to catch the introduction to host Carol Off’s next guest, a Mr. Bob Ward, policy director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at the London School of Economics. Mr. Ward’s session was short, six or seven minutes, but he easily achieved the program’s predetermined objective.
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The Islamists’ Enablers: The Western Sellout to Sharia Law
by Wafa Sultan:
There is no doubt that free speech, the bedrock of democracy and civilization, is under dangerous assault in many Western countries, by a variety of leading organizations and individuals who align themselves with Muslim institutions.
They all promote the fantasy of Muslim victimhood, and force the West to overprotect Muslims, to ignore their atrocities, and to surrender to their escalating demands.
Around the world, Muslims enforce non Muslims compliance and deliberate air-brushing of the extent and magnitude of the Islamic threat — from holy war, or Jihad, to the treatment of women under Islam. As approved by Sharia dictates, Muslims also try to forbid non-Muslims from speaking critically about Islam.
How do they accomplish this? They name anyone who engages in an honest examination of Islamic texts as a bigot, or full of hate, or call him an “Islamophobe.”
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Allen West weighs in on 2012 GOP field and Obama’s 1967 borders
by The Right Scoop:
Allen West says that in order to win a presidential election the GOP needs a candidate with a very strong image and a charismatic persona. Right now he doesn’t see anyone that emerging as that candidate but says it’s still early.
He also criticized Obama’s horrible statement suggesting that Israel should go back to the 1967 borders and said we need to stop with this Pavlovian style of reward for an Islamic terrorist organization (HAMAS) who continues to lead terrorist attacks against Israel.
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Cantor blames Arab ‘hatred,’ not ’67 border dispute, for peace-talk impasse
Cantor blames Arab ‘hatred,’ not ’67 border dispute, for peace-talk impasse
The Coming Deflationary Contraction
By Peter Raymond:
Determining when the next great liquidation will occur is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty; nevertheless it is fair to say the sooner the better. Economic liquidation is a restorative process that corrects the harm done by inflationary policies. If accepting of this premise, then liquidations or deflationary depressions cannot be considered the disease in need of cure which unfortunately has been the position of economic interventionists since the early 1920′s.
Instead, they are a necessary and unavoidable adjustment after years of excessive credit expansions have destabilized the economy. Efforts to further delay these self-corrections by instituting a series of escalating inflationary policies only needlessly extends and deepens economic woes and increases the size and scope of the inevitable adjustment. With the increasingly aggressive actions of the world’s central banks and governments over the last decade to inflate the monetary supply, it seems a safe bet the next liquidation phase, when it does finally take place, will be a very large and abrupt correction.
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