The Tsarnaev brothers were double agents who decoyed US into terror trap  

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis April 20, 2013,

The big questions buzzing over Boston Bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have a single answer: It emerged in the 102 tense hours between the twin Boston Marathon bombings Monday, April 15 – which left three dead, 180 injured and a police officer killed at MIT – and Dzohkhar’s capture Friday, April 19 in Watertown.

The conclusion reached by DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism and intelligence sources is that the brothers were double agents, hired by US and Saudi intelligence to penetrate the Wahhabi jihadist networks which, helped by Saudi financial institutions, had spread across the restive Russian Caucasian.
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April 21, 2013 | 7:10 pm | 12 Comments »

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The Deception Marathon of Benghazigate/Bostongate  

By James Horn

The Obama administration is demonstrably the least trustworthy and most corrupt and corrupted administration this country has ever experienced. There may be people who will disagree with this assessment. Cognitive skills escape some people.

Hillary Clinton, Barak [Hussein] Obama, Leon Panetta, and dozens more worked tirelessly not to solve the Benghazigate incident, but to cover it up, and now it is apparent that the same Obama crew (as in ‘gangsta’ crew) are busily covering up certain aspects or threads linking to the Boston jihadi (dare I use the forbidden term, Islamoterrorist) attack.

Four people were slaughtered by jihadis in Benghazi and Obama, Clinton, and dozens of others lied blaming the “Innocence of Muslims” video that had been posted on the internet for several months without notice. Clearly the lies of Obama, Clinton, and others remain an intentional attempt to blame innocent people for the terrorist attack committed by an al Qaeda affiliate.
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April 21, 2013 | 9:18 am | 12 Comments »

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Islamicized Sweden Has Declared War on the Jews  

By Giulio Meotti, INN

In 2003, Azzam Tamimi, a Hamas member from Hevron, delivered a sermon at the Great Mosque in Stockholm, expressing support for suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. Outside the mosque, militants distributed leaflets containing calls to “liquidate the Jews in Palestine in the name of Allah”.

Why did the Swedish authorities allow this Arab anti-Semite to deliver a homicidal sermon in their capital’s main mosque if not to help foment a new war against the Jewish people?

Ten years later, and Sweden, long famed as a shelter for U.S. draft resisters, Arab immigrants, political refugees and other exiles, has become one of the most anti-Semitic countries in the world.
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April 21, 2013 | 7:18 am | 7 Comments »

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No regrets for UK Jewish academic who lost landmark anti-Zionism case  

By Miriam Shaviv, TOI

LONDON – The UK is already known as a hub for the delegitimization of Israel, but the situation is about to worsen. According to Ronnie Fraser, there is likely to be an upturn in anti-Israel activity on university campuses and among trade union activists

The reason is a landmark legal case, launched by Fraser himself, which he just lost. A freelance mathematics lecturer, Fraser took the University and College Union (UCU) to an employment tribunal for harassment, alleging that its anti-Zionist activity – including several votes on an academic boycott – crossed the line into anti-Semitism to the extent that the academics’ trade union was “institutionally anti-Semitic.” In a mammoth case heard over 20 days in late 2012, 10,000 documents were presented and 29 witnesses testified on Fraser’s behalf, including two members of Parliament. Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson also submitted written evidence.

The stakes were clear: win, and anti-Israel activists would have to be much more careful about the language and tactics they used. Lose, and they would gain some legal protection.
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April 20, 2013 | 4:41 pm | 81 Comments »

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The coming canard: ‘Constructive unilateralism’  

Ted Belman says:

The Blue & White Future just did a poll of how Israelis look at Constructive Unilateralism. 972+ wrote it up.
    Survey finds that majority of Jewish Israelis think the country should unilaterally determine its borders along the route of the West Bank separation barrier. One-third support either annexing the West Bank without giving Palestinians civil rights, or perpetuating the status quo

This article refers to this as apartheid. Don’t you believe it.

In my article Better to be hung for a pound than a penny, I favoured Bennett’s plan to annex Area C rather than annex to the route of the fence.

    There is no need to unilaterally withdraw to the fence as Yadlin proposed. We should unilaterally annex Area C and negotiate from there. Part of this territory could be given to the Arabs later for a peace agreement. And if there is no peace agreement, so be it. Keep in mind that this is no panacea. We annexed east Jerusalem but the world doesn’t recognize the annexation and screams blue murder when we build there. The annexation will give them more to scream about.

    Whether Israel withdraws unilaterally to the fence or annexes Area C, she will be attacked. If Israel is going to make a move which upsets the world better to make it a worthwhile move.

Sherman posits that we should not withdraw from any territory but should financially induce Arabs to leave. In this article he was silent on annexation so I assume he intends to maintain the status quo. Where I differ is that I believe there is more good than harm resulting from annexing Area C and leaving A and B as presently covered by Oslo, as Sherman proposes. Thus we would not be changing the status quo of A and B as the B&WF proposes but we would be changing the status quo of C. And we would be free to still offer compensation to the Arabs to leave as Sherman proposes.

Into the Fray: Does Aussie philanthropist Frank Lowy realize he is helping promote a South Lebanon-like reality on the fringes of Greater Tel Aviv?

By Dr Martin Sherman, JPOST

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. – George Santayana

I realize some might find the tone of this article overly acerbic – even abrasive.

But I make little apology for this.

I was compelled to write it by a profound sense of exasperation.

It articulates a feeling of deep despair, and reflects a sentiment of disbelief, disillusionment and disappointment at the conduct of prominent public figures, which is difficult to characterize, without recourse to epithets such as “moronic” and “myopic” – while less charitable souls might venture the use of “maniacal” or “malevolent.”
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April 20, 2013 | 7:43 am | 66 Comments »

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Encouraging words from Kerry – two years left for Palestinian state  

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 18 April 2013

“I believe the window for a two-state solution is shutting…I think we have
some period of time, a year, a year-and-a-half, or two years or it’s over.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry to the US House of Representatives Foreign
Affairs Committee 17 April 2013

Hope he is right that the window for a two-state solution is shutting.

And the sooner the better.
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April 19, 2013 | 11:09 am | 24 Comments »

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Principled Dupedom: On the Moral Imperative to be Stupid  

By RICHARD LANDES, AUGEAN STABLES

One of the major weaknesses of Westerners in the current cognitive war with Islamic imperialism is a seemingly boundless commitment to being fooled. It’s almost as if, on principle, we need to accept lies from the other side as true, lest we be accused of being racist. There are two aspects to this, one, an honor-shame reflex that worries primarily about what others think of us (i.e., we’re not racist, but we’re worried others will think us so), and another, that spending our time suspecting others of deception strikes many of us (justifiably) as a huge waste of time. First let me go over some key examples here, and then come back to these two points.
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April 18, 2013 | 2:44 pm | 9 Comments »

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Turkey’s Regime Fails Abroad, wins at home  

By Barry Rubin, PJ Media

A Turkish friend just wrote me that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sold his soul to the Devil. That implies Erdogan is succeeding on every front, as if by magic. More accurately, however, the trick is that Erdogan’s foreign policy is failing on almost every front but he’s able to convince Turks that the situation is the exact opposite.Let’s examine the list of developments in objective terms:

    –He has made no progress on membership or integration in the European Union. Similarly, his diplomatic efforts to ease relations with neighboring Armenia have borne no fruit.

    –Erdogan has thrown away the virtual alliance with Israel without gaining anything materially in the Arabic-speaking world. Although few seem to understand this point, it was not Israel that groveled in accepting Erdogan’s terms but the exact opposite.

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April 18, 2013 | 2:27 pm | 3 Comments »

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Aliya – the revolution has just begun  

By SOFA LANDVER, JPOST

It is certainly no coincidence that among the first laws promulgated by the newly reestablished Jewish state was the “Law of Return” mandating that every Jew has a right to return to their ancestral homeland.

Former foreign minister Abba Eban once said: “Zionism is nothing more – but also nothing less – than the Jewish People’s sense of origin and destination in the land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.”

From biblical times to this very day, Zionism, the national liberation of the Jewish People, has been inexorably linked with aliya, the physical fulfillment of the movement. It is certainly no coincidence that among the first laws promulgated by the newly reestablished Jewish state was the “Law of Return” mandating that every Jew has a right to return to their ancestral homeland.
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April 18, 2013 | 9:54 am | Comments »

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Adelson, from caricature to life  

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Algemeiner

In the interests of full disclosure, let me first offer that Sheldon Adelson and members of his family donated to my campaign for Congress when I was ran last year (yes, I know I lost. But ‘Shmuley for President 2016’ is just three years away). Furthermore, as was widely reported, he and his wife Miriam donated to an independent Super Pac that backed my candidacy. In addition, on June 4th in Times Square the organization of which I am Executive Director, This World: The Values Network, together with Rambam hospital in Haifa — one of the Middle East’s largest and most respected medical campuses — will be hosting an International Champions of Jewish Values Awards Gala. The honorees are some of the world’s most distinguished individuals, with Nobel Laureate (and my personal hero and mentor) Prof. Elie Wiesel being given the ‘Champion of Jewish Spirit’ award, and my friend Dr. Mehmet Oz, the world’s most famous physician, being recognized as ‘Champion of Human life.’ The award for ‘Champions of Jewish Identity’ will go to Sheldon and Miriam Adelson who are being recognized for their vast contributions to Jewish identity worldwide.
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April 18, 2013 | 4:25 am | 6 Comments »

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When is “hate speech”, hate speech  

By Ted Belman

The Forward published a piece by Mitchell Plitnick, former Director of B’Tselem’s U.S. Office and former Co-Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, explaining, Why Pamela Geller’s Hate Speech Should Be Barred — But BDS Allowed. His thesis is predicated on this belief:

    Pamela Geller preaches venomous hatred of Muslims. She is one of the leading voices promoting the idea of “creeping Sharia” in the United States. Claiming that Islam, as a religion, is dedicated to eradicating Jews and eventually turning all others into Muslims by whatever means necessary is the very definition of hate speech.

As the video above points out, critics don’t attack Geller for what she says but makes false accusations about her and then attacks her for what they said she said.
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April 17, 2013 | 1:20 pm | 1 Comment »

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In reconciling with the Kurds, Erdogan takes a risky gamble  

By Sinan Ulgen, The Daily Star

Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting and tension, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub-states, in that way transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago.

Surveying the regional scene, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has conceived of an audacious plan to enhance Turkey’s regional standing and extend his own political dominance at home. Facing the end of a self-imposed three-term limit as prime minister, he is intent on changing the Turkish constitution to introduce a presidential system – with himself at the top as the first incumbent to wield much-enlarged power.
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April 17, 2013 | 1:19 pm | 5 Comments »

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Canadian Chuzpah – coffee in Jerusalem  

Canada Shows the Way on Jerusalem

Jonathan S. Tobin, COMMENTARY

The Palestinian Authority is up in arms over a cup of coffee consumed by Canada’s foreign affairs minister, John Baird. He was in the Middle East last week and made the requisite pilgrimage to Ramallah to give PA President Mahmoud Abbas a photo opportunity as well as a chance to beg yet another Western leader for more cash to keep his sinking ship afloat. But whatever success Abbas and company may have had in hitting up the Canadians for more money to squander is being overshadowed by their rage for Baird’s decision to meet with Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Since it was located over the green line in the part of the city that was illegally occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967 prior to Jerusalem’s unification, the Palestinians consider this a violation of international law. In consequence of this protest, Baird received a stern letter from the PA and a Canadian diplomat was summoned for another meeting in Ramallah where, after the scolding is finished, the Palestinians would, no doubt, have another chance to talk about more cash to spread around in no-show and no-work patronage jobs that enable the Fatah Party to maintain its hold on the area.
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April 17, 2013 | 7:57 am | 12 Comments »

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Senators Approve Resolution to Assist Israel in Iran Strike  

By Elad Benari, INN

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted on Tuesday a resolution which stipulates that the U.S. will assist Israel if it is forced to take action against Iran.

The resolution, Senate Resolution 65, was introduced last month by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and was co-sponsored by 15 Senators, including Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York).

It states that the United States has a vital national interest in and unbreakable commitment to, ensuring the existence, survival, and security of the State of Israel; reaffirms the United States support for Israel’s right to self-defense; and urges that if Israel is compelled to take military action in self-defense, the United States will stand with Israel and provide diplomatic, military, and economic support in its defense of its territory, people, and existence.
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April 17, 2013 | 7:44 am | 3 Comments »

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Leiberman: ‘Deal with Palestinians must include Israeli Arabs’  

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Liberman slams Arabs who take part in march mourning establishment of Israel, says they should be citizens of PA.

Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday harshly criticized Israeli Arabs who mourned the founding of Israel on Independence Day, saying that this provided further proof that they should be made citizens of the Palestinian Authority in any future peace agreement.

Liberman’s comments came after thousands of Israeli-Arabs took part in the annual “Right of Return” march near Umm al-Fahm in the Wadi Ara region of central Israel. The march mourns the founding of Israel on its Independence Day and calls for the right of return for Arabs who fled their homes or were expelled during the 1948 Independence War.
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April 17, 2013 | 7:31 am | 7 Comments »

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Saudi terror cell, possibly al Qaeda, behind Boston Marathon bombings  

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis April 16, 2013, 7:45 PM (GMT+02:00) Tags:

Police and agents search Saudi suspects apartment in Revere outside Boston.

FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers told reporters Tuesday, April 16, that the probe had no leads 18 hours after two explosions blew up at the annual Boston Marathon’s finishing line, killing three people and injuring 176 – 17 critically. DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism sources can disclose however that the investigation has in fact homed in on a suspected terror cell of three Saudi nationals, very possibly tied to Al Qaeda.
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April 17, 2013 | 7:22 am | 61 Comments »

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U.S. was warned of terror attacks by Iran  

Will the US be deterred from standing up to Iran or N Korea or in trying to bring on the fall of Assad, by a terror campaign at home. How many deaths will America sustain before it caves? On the other hand is America prepared to bring about regime change in Iran to stop the bombs going off in the US itself. Ted Belman

By Reza Kahlili, WND

Although it is not known yet who is responsible for Monday’s heinous bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 100 people, a source within Iranian intelligence services told WND the Islamic regime was behind them and to look for trails through Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The source said the bombs were planted near the end of the race so that the horrific images of the blasts would be captured by all the media there and be replayed over and over throughout the world.

A senior commander of the Islamic regime had warned less than two months ago that terrorism was coming to America.
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April 16, 2013 | 10:53 pm | 29 Comments »

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ADL downplays controversy over anti-Israel texts in curriculum of Newton, Mass.  

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) are at odds over the presence of anti-Israel materials in the public school system of Newton, Mass.

APT—a Boston-based nonprofit “dedicated to promoting peaceful coexistence in an ethnically diverse America by educating the American public about the need for a moderate political leadership that supports tolerance and core American values in communities across the nation”—is calling for reforms in Newton schools to prevent the reappearance of those materials, most notably the Arab World Studies Notebook, which claims that Israeli soldiers murdered hundreds of Palestinian nurses in Israeli prisons.
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April 16, 2013 | 2:29 pm | 10 Comments »

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Happy Birthday Israel  

Proclamation of Independence

 

 

Provisional Government of Israel

Official Gazette: Number 1; Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708, 14.5.1948 Page 1

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.
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April 15, 2013 | 8:35 pm | 8 Comments »

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Canada stands by Israel  

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the 65th anniversary of Israel’s Independence 

15 April 2013

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement to mark Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day: 

“I would like to extend my warmest greetings to everyone celebrating the 65th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. 

“Israel, like Canada, is a great nation, and like Canada, Israel serves as a beacon of hope in an uncertain world. That is because it has as its foundation the universal values that our two countries share; freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.  Read more…

April 15, 2013 | 8:31 pm | 5 Comments »

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