In the debate between right and left, there is room for both social activism and love of the Land of Israel, says Yesh Atid’s Shai Piron.

“There are those who believe that we must choose between borders and ensuring society’s welfare. But I say that only a full engagement with all parts of the culture – both borders and social welfare – will actualize the vision of a rooted, Jewish society, and a democratic society that retains our traditions, while embracing modern values and innovation,”

By Moshe Cohen, INN

Shai Piron speaking at Ariel University

Speaking Thursday, Education Minister Shai Piron said that Israel needed to retain its vision of the Complete Land of Israel. Piron, speaking to a large group at the University of Ariel, said that Israel “cannot continue to agree to limiting our great vision. For me, paradoxically, the vision of the Complete Land of Israel will strengthen the connection between our young people and the Land’s borders.”
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[Israel take note]

Review: Nothing Less Than Victory 

By Edward Cline

The last engaging book I read on the means and ends of warfare before John Lewis’s was a 2009 abridged version of Winston Churchill’s The River War, originally published in 1899. Its original, full title included An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan.

The term “reconquest” was misleading, because the Sudan had never before been “conquered” by the British, but was under the jurisdiction of Egypt, then a protectorate of Britain. Egypt was unable to deal militarily with the Dervish forces that meant to conquer it. It fell to Britain extinguish the Mahdist or Islamic threat, which, unchecked, could well have spread from Egypt to the rest of North Africa and the Middle East.

General Herbert Kitchener was tasked with that formidable project. Churchill describes the meticulous and determined campaign he waged, which was not just a matter of sending an army into the desert wastes to fight fanatical tribesmen. It meant reforming the corrupt and ineffectual Egyptian government, rebuilding the Egyptian army and its Sudanese levies, building a railroad into enemy territory, and mastering the stupendous logistics of supplies and men. The stated objective was to erase the Mahdist regime as a military and political threat in the whole region. The climax of the campaign was the Battle of Omdurman in September 1898, in which the Dervish army was utterly decimated and routed.  Read more…

Atlas Shrugs

Apparently, these Muslim groups in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Egypt, Israel, Russia, Thailand, Burma, Lebanon, China, UK, and across the world haven’t seen CAIR’s bus ads!

And al Qaeda didn’t get Obama’s talking points. They are on the run. They are vanquished! If Obama says it, it is so. Isn’t that right? Tell that to the headless.

That fact is that they are coming for us. it’s only a matter of time. Obama can lie, obfuscate and dance as fast as he can. But he has disarmed this nation.

The foreign agent in the White House is mulling moving American bases located across Europe and the Pacific (that are still there in order to secure the victory of World War II) not to combat the gravest threat to freedom — the global jihad — but to fight …climate change. Any gains made by previous pro-American administrations have been destroyed and dismantled by the islamophile in the White House.
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ISIS militants capture Tikrit, just two hours from capital Baghdad

FN leader: For an experienced politician “not to have foreseen how a phrase would be interpreted is a mistake the National Front is (now) paying for”.
By REUTERS

PARIS – Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN), rebuked her father and former party head on Sunday for remarks reviving long-standing allegations of anti-Semitism soon after a major poll victory.

Marine Le Pen, who took over the anti-immigrant and anti-EU party from Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011, said a controversial quip he made about a French Jewish singer that included an implied reference to concentration camp ovens had been misinterpreted.

But for an experienced politician like her father, she said, “not to have foreseen how this phrase would be interpreted is a political mistake the National Front is (now) paying for.”
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A black American clergyman points to the source of Obama’s anti-Israelism
E. W. Jackson Sr

Like Barack Hussein Obama II, I am a graduate of Harvard Law School. I too have Muslims in my family. I am black, and I was once a leftist Democrat. Since our backgrounds are somewhat similar, I perceive something in Obama’s policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization.

We heard it in Jesse Jackson’s “HYMIE town” remark years ago during his presidential campaign. We heard it most recently in Jeremiah Wright’s remark about “them Jews” not allowing Obama to speak with him. I hear it from my own Muslim family members who see the problem in the Middle East as a “Jew” problem.

Growing up in a small, predominantly black urban community in Pennsylvania , I heard the comments about Jewish shop owners. They were “greedy cheaters” who could not be trusted, according to my family and others in the neighborhood. I was too young to understand what it means to be Jewish, or know that I was hearing anti-Semitism. These people seemed nice enough to me, but others said they were “evil”. Sadly, this bigotry has yet to be eradicated from the black community.
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Director of Institute for Counter-Terrorism says Europe is about to feel what Israel did in the late 1980s.

By Shimon Cohen, Gil Ronen, INN

GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST

The prime minister sought to prevent Rivlin’s victory and unsuccessfully tried to persuade several public figures to run until moments before a midnight deadline for joining the race two weeks ago.

Too many wealthy American Jews would rather fund Holocaust museums to memorialize the Jewish past than schools to safeguard the Jewish future. Australia’s Jews know how to do it better.

By Peter Beinart, HAARETZ [I AM QUITE SURPRISED THAT BEINART WROTE THIS]

I’m sometimes called a self-hating Jew. But that’s not quite right. What I am, some of the time, is a self-hating American Jew.

I hate the fact that the largest, richest Diaspora community in the world has overwhelmingly failed to instill in its children knowledge of, commitment to, and fascination with Judaism. I hate the fact that American Jewish parents are forced to choose between once or twice a week Hebrew schools where many kids learn barely anything and full-time Jewish day schools that are often academically mediocre and cripplingly expensive. I hate the fact that, so often, American Christians know the Hebrew Bible far better than we do. (With the result that when a politician like George W. Bush makes allusions to the Hebrew Bible many American Jews consider it some kind of evangelical secret code).
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by Isi Leibler
June 10, 2014

The gloves are off. The White House has now unequivocally designated Israel as the scapegoat and is meting out punishment for the disastrous outcome of the peace negotiations it initiated. The process began in March when President Obama publicly lambasted Prime Minister Netanyahu in a brutal and offensive manner the day before their scheduled meeting in Washington. It climaxed last week when the White House reneged on its commitment to Israel, announcing that it would continue business as usual with the new PA government after the merger with the genocidal Hamas, the terrorist organization which remains utterly committed to the destruction of Israel.
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Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon slams ‘delusions’ about land for peace, negotiating with Hamas in Herzliya conference speech.

Telephone poll of Iranians: 62% Oppose recognizing Israel if Palestinians make peace agreement

Telephone poll of Iranians: 62% Oppose recognizing Israel if Palestinians
make peace agreement

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 2 January 2014

The following are the result of a telephone poll of Iranians carried out
from Israel under the supervision of Professor Alex Mintz, Head of the
Institute for Policy and Strategy, as reported in the 6 June 2014 edition of
Yediot Ahronot:
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Dayan’s Plan sounds like Bennett’s Plan without the annexation. But the proposed Plan is tantamount to annexation without the need to give citizenship.

Sam Berger a former National Security Adviser to the US Government gave a speech at Herzliya in which he said that the US and Israel should not loose sight of the long term goal of TSS. To this end, Israel shouldn’t build or annex as it would jeopardize the goal, he said. Nothing is wrong with the TSS (besides the fact its unworkable) other than the fact that it envisionages the border as the ’67 lines plus swaps. We should force the probably border to move eastward by building and annexing. So long as the expected border is ’67 lines plus swaps, we should reject the TSS. We must make this clear. Ted Belman

Dani Dayan, INN (The writer served as the Chairman of the Council of Judea and Samaria)

The collapse of the Kerry Plan presents Israel with a formidable challenge. It goes without saying that I myself never believed in nor subscribed to this type of policy, but one can’t deny the fact that it provided a horizon, albeit an illusionary one, for many Israelis and Palestinians, as well as for many in the international community.
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Speeches at Herzliya Conference suggest some no longer hold peace with Palestinians to be in Israel’s interest; former security advisor warns of Hezbollah threat.

Omer Benjakob and John-Michael Kibrick, YNET

“There is no basis to the perception that the status quo is a bad thing,” said Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar, echoing a stance on relations with the Palestinians that seems to be gaining traction among Israeli politicians, if to judge from speeches made at the 14th annual Herzliya Conference which opened Sunday at the IDC.

Sa’ar wasn’t the only official at the conference to voice a favorable opinion of allowing the two state solution to depart from modern day policy, with a reserve IDF general even going as far as saying that peace with the Palestinians is no longer in Israel’s interest. Read more…

By Mat Hausman

Anti-Israel propaganda is pervasive on college campuses these days, particularly now that Israel Apartheid Week (“IAW”) is in its tenth year.  Many pro-Israel alumni are unaware of what goes on at their alma maters, while others know but are at a loss regarding whether or how to respond.  As the anti-Semitism in campus agitation has become ever more apparent, some graduate boosters have taken to cancelling their annual pledges in protest.  The withdrawal of a single donation is unlikely to change institutional policy, but it provides an opportunity to educate those who are supposed to be in the business of education, and occasionally stimulates constructive dialogue.  This is no small task considering the loathing for Israel expressed by so many in academia and their complicity in suppressing contrary viewpoints.

In a recent letter to the administration of Clark University, I cancelled my annual pledge after learning of an “apartheid wall” sponsored on campus by Students for Justice in Palestine (“SJP”) during Israel Apartheid Week.  The purpose of the letter was not simply to vent, but to expose the revisionist message of IAW.  The body of the letter (with some changes for the sake of brevity and civility) appears below.
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ISRAEL HAYOM

Foreign minister says no cohesion in cabinet, each minister going in his or her own direction.

“The economy minister spoke of annexing settlement blocks and the finance minister threatened to disband the coalition if such a plan is approved. They both know they are talking about something that will never happen.”

Why does Lieberman say it will never happen. Is this the reality? Ted Belman

Attila Somfalvi, YNET NEWS

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized Monday the lack of coherence in the government’s proposed policies on the Palestinians, attacking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not leading his cabinet and demanding that he formulate a plan that would represent the entire coalition.

“What happened yesterday, when four senior ministers gave public addresses one after the other with each proposing a different political solution, was a grotesque performance,” said Lieberman at an Institute of Certified Public Accountants conference in Eilat.
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Western citizens who go to Syria to join jihadist militias and return after being indoctrinated in fanatical Islam constitute a danger to Jews wherever they go.

By Moshe Arens, HAARETZ

On July 18, 1994, a van loaded with 275 kilograms of explosives was detonated in front of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It caused the complete collapse of the building, killing 85 people and injuring more than 300. The Lebanese Shi’ite militia, backed by Iran, which for years had been fighting Israel on the state’s northern border, had opened a second front, this time against the Jewish people. The attack was masterminded by Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s chief of operations, who was assassinated in Syria in 2008.

Palestinian terrorists had already attacked Jewish targets abroad, back in 1982: Six people were killed and 22 injured in August of that year, in an attack on the Jewish restaurant Chez Jo Goldenberg in Paris. In a similar attack on worshipers at Rome’s Great Synagogue two months later, a 2-year-old boy was killed and 34 people were wounded. Now Hezbollah let it be known that it too was targeting the Jewish people.
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MONICA CROWLEY: This is a holy war. This is a holy war. Whether we want to see it that way or not, whether it’s politically correct to say it or not, this is the truth. And the enemy gets a veto, they get a vote as to whether or not we’re still in this war. So this commander-in-chief can come out publicly and say, repeatedly, the war is ending, it’s over, we’re bringing home our guys.

The enemy has a vote on this and this Jihad will be perpetual until the infidel is done, gone, killed, or in submission. That is the truth of the other side. We’re in this holy war not because I’m saying it but because the enemy is saying it. We have a U.S. soldier who by all accounts now looks like he has turned and has now fighting that holy war on the other side. He better be held to account. (via The Right Scoop)