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February 21, 2013

David Solway: The Birth Certificate and the Conspiracy of Suppression  

Below is an original essay by David Solway, but first an introduction.

by:Diana West

There are at least two basic ways to approach the signal, neutralizing event of American history.

Before I present examples of both by a singular guest-author, I realize I first have to specify what that signal event is. Our non-recognition is testament to many things, not least of which is the event’s almost anti-climactic nature. We might think of the event as only the most visible manifestation, like a sore or lesion, of an underlying sickness in American society that more intangibly has rejected morality, bankrupted the law, and devalued the Constitution. Maybe the shame of it all is why we pretend this manifestation isn’t there.

I refer to the president’s all-but-certainly forged online birth certificate. How could a healthy society with a free press and functioning political system permit this quite apparent fraud to go officially unaddressed and forensically unassessed by any responsible federal authority? It could not. It would be impossible for a healthy democratic society to behave so irresponsiblly, so undutifully, so cravenly. Thus, we are not a healthy, democratic society; nor have we been for some time leading up to this signal presidential fraud. (The new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, is a history of that transformation.)
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February 21, 2013 | 6:48 pm | 13 Comments »

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Egypt’s Military Signals Impatience With Morsi  

ABC NEWS

Egypt’s powerful military is showing signs of growing impatience with the country’s Islamist leaders, indirectly criticizing their policies and issuing thinly veiled threats that it might seize power again.

The tension is raising the specter of another military intervention much like the one in 2011, when generals replaced longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak after they sided with anti-regime protesters in their 18-day popular uprising.

The strains come at a time when many Egyptians are despairing of an imminent end to the crippling political impasse between President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood group on one side, and the mostly secular and liberal opposition on the other.
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February 21, 2013 | 9:21 am | 7 Comments »

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February 20, 2013

Tzipi Livni, never missing an opportunity to make the wrong decision  

She was the woman of principle who implored Labor and Yesh Atid to join her in blocking Netanyahu. Now she’s traded her integrity for two ministries and a meaningless promise to head peace talks

By RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI

Tzipi Livni’s decision to join Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is the first bombshell of the post-election, coalition-building season: In a reversal of her pre-Election Day stance, the woman who went on TV to implore the heads of the two leading center-left parties to join her and build an alliance to thwart the unsuitable Netanyahu’s return to the prime ministership is now the first to join the coalition, all but ensuring that Netanyahu will retain the post.
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February 20, 2013 | 8:33 pm | 12 Comments »

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Christianity and the Holocaust  

This site is very impressive.  Each one of the links takes you to a world in itself.  I refer you to Historical killings for Christianity.  Ted Belman

 

By Mark Humphries

The Holocaust did not come out of nowhere. It was not a random choice that the Jews were selected as the targets. The Holocaust was the climax of a thousand years of killing and persecution by the Christians. 

February 20, 2013 | 7:17 pm | 9 Comments »

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Israeli invention can detect lung cancer from breath  

Israeli professor’s revolutionary disease-detection device is on the road to changing how early, and how easily, lung cancer is diagnosed.

Israel 21C

An Israeli invention that can detect lung cancer from exhaled breath will be commercialized in a joint venture between the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Alpha Szenszor, a Boston-based manufacturer of carbon nanotube sensing equipment.

As ISRAEL21c reported in 2011, Technion Prof. Hossam Haick has been working on what he calls “Na-Nose” (the “na” is for “nanotechnology”) since 2007, and the device has been proven in numerous international clinical trials to differentiate between different types and classifications of cancer with up to 95 percent accuracy.
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February 20, 2013 | 5:35 pm | 3 Comments »

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Futile Israeli Efforts to Win Ankara Back  

by Daniel Pipes

The Government of Israel, we learned yesterday from a Turkish source, has delivered Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) equipment by ELTA, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries. that gives military aircraft protection from electronic attacks. Not only will the AWACS planes, in the wording of the Today’s Zaman article, “greatly increase [the Turkish air force’s] dominance over Turkey’s own airspace” but they will also be useful to it in the Syrian civil war and vis-à-vis “tensions with Israel and Greek Cyprus over the issue of gas drilling.”
What a Turkish air force AWACS looks like.

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February 20, 2013 | 5:09 pm | 6 Comments »

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Very Good News Israel  

What an Amazing Turnaround

On Sunday, Jews across the world celebrate the festival of Purim, which features arguably the most momentous reversal of fortune in the history of the Jewish people since the Exodus.  In the last two decades we have also been witnessing the most miraculous period of change in fortune of the Jewish State since Biblical times.  Here are just some of the head-spinning events of the past few weeks. Read more…
February 20, 2013 | 4:31 pm | 2 Comments »

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Getting down to the crunch in negotiations  

Through the back door
Op-ed: With only six Knesset seats, Livni had no choice but to join Netanyahu-led coalition

By Nahum Barnes, YNET

Netanyahu is letting people board his bus first through the back door: Tzipi Livni is the first one to board. The second will be Shaul Mofaz. Then the front door will open and Shas and United Torah Judaism will be invited in. Netanyahu hopes that by then Labor will be convinced to board as well. If it continues to refuse, he will have to invite Bennett and/or Lapid inside. Without one of these three lists he has no coalition.

As is customary in the business world, the person who is the first to purchase a certain item is offered a discount. After a week of tense negotiations, which included two difficult meetings at the Prime Minister’s Residence, Livni was able to get a relatively convenient agreement from Netanyahu. As justice minister and head of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation she will be able to thwart anti-democratic legislation and restrain the Right’s control over the Judicial Appointments Committee.
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February 20, 2013 | 2:18 pm | 1 Comment »

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Address by PM Netanyahu to the Jewish Agency Board of Governors  

18/02/2013

Thank you, Natan. Natan is the tallest chairman of the Jewish Agency. The second tallest. No, the tallest, the tallest, because he’s a giant, he’s a giant of the Jewish people, and he’s a battle-scarred veteran of the campaign to secure the Jewish future. We are of the same age, and when my generation earned its scars on the battlefields of Israel, we lost loved ones and some of us didn’t live to see the day, you earned your scars in a Soviet dungeon, totally fearless, absolutely courageous, totally dedicated to the Jewish state and the Jewish people, and I think that this quality first helped you obviously survive the Soviet jail, but it also prepared you for Israeli politics, and there the two of us have weathered the sweet slings of the genteel world of Israeli politics (nobody’s laughing).
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February 20, 2013 | 8:36 am | Comments »

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Syria: Sunni Arabs and Kurds Temporarily Align Against the Regime  

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Summary

Syrian rebels with the Kurdish flag (R) and the pre-Baath Syrian flag
Another alliance is forming against the Alawite troops still loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad. After several weeks of clashes, the Democratic Union Party, the dominant Kurdish faction in Syria, commonly referred to as the PYD, and the Syrian Sunni Arab rebels that lead the Free Syrian Army signed the agreement Feb. 19. Although numerous parties, including the Turkish government, Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, the Free Syrian Army and various Syrian Kurdish factions, have an interest in seeing the Democratic Union Party cooperate with the Free Syrian Army, the alliance will likely end up being a temporary alliance of convenience.
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February 20, 2013 | 8:11 am | Comments »

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Likud members: Livni will block rightist legislation  

THIS IS INFURIATING. BIBI IS GIVING AWAY THE FRUITS OF VICTORY TO THE LEFT. LIVNI CAMPAIGNED ON A PEACE DEAL WITH PALESTINIANS AND GOT ONLY 6 MANDATES. BIBI HAS NO RIGHT TO THWART THE WILL OF THE ELECTORATE AND HIS OWN PARTY.

I DO NOT ACCEPT THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR A BROAD COALITION.

BIBI IS TURNING HIS BACK ON BENNETT AND LAPID AND FORMING A GOVERNMENT WITH THE OTHER PARTIES. hE IS FORMING A LEFT WING GOVERNMENT AND PUSHING THE PEACE PROCESS.

Ruling party officials slam Netanyahu, say coalition agreement gives Hatnua leader too much power. Habayit Hayehudi: Putting negotiations in hands of woman who was responsible for Gaza disengagement plan make it hard for us to join coalition

Moran Azulay, Attila Somfalvi, YNET

The first coalition deal, which granted Hatnua Chairwoman the justice portfolio and put her in charge of the peace negotiations with the Palestinians, has irked many Likud members, who claim she was given excessive powers in exchange for her willingness to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘s new government.

Knesset members from the ruling party said that should Hatnua also head the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, the centrist party would thwart all ‘rightist’ initiatives.
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February 20, 2013 | 7:23 am | 6 Comments »

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February 19, 2013

‘Sharon was about to leave two-thirds of the West Bank’  

I remember reading about this at the time of disengagement. Gaza was only stage one of the disengagement. Sharon had been brutalized by the Roadmap which was forced upon him. He understood that Israel had to act unilaterally and not simply wait for the pressure. Thus he concocted the disengagement. Ted Belman

Prime minister was drafting plan for a unilateral pullout when he fell ill, says his former adviser Rafi Eitan, and Netanyahu should tell Obama he’s ready for similar ‘mosaic separation’

By ELHANAN MILLER, TOI

US President Barack Obama is due to arrive in Israel for his first presidential visit in March, and speculation abounds surrounding the true intent of his trip. Rafi Eitan, a former high-ranking Mossad official and government minister under Ehud Olmert — banned from the US since the capture of his most famous agent, Jonathan Pollard — says Netanyahu should await the president with a diplomatic proposal of his own: unilateral disengagement from the West Bank.
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February 19, 2013 | 11:02 pm | 21 Comments »

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Did Bibi ask UTJ to abandon isolated settlements?  

By Ted Belman

Apparently, according to TOI, Livni is ready to join the coalition in which she will be the Justice Minister and will be on the negotiating team for peace. Elsewhere I have read that Netanyahu intends keeping her on a short tether in this role. As Justice Minister it will be crucial whether she accepts the Levy report. Did Bibi put any constraints on her in this regard or other sensitive legal issues?

But of greater interest,

    Meanwhile, United Torah Judaism officials have begun compiling a document of principles outlining the political concessions the party is willing to make in coalition talks, Maariv reported Tuesday.
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February 19, 2013 | 1:52 pm | 40 Comments »

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Is territorial discontinuity a real obstacle?  

By GIONNI QUER, JPOST

On November 19, the UN Security Council voted on a resolution against Israel for the government’s decision to build in the settlements and east Jerusalem. The resolution was vetoed by the US, but European members of the Security Council, including France, the UK, Germany and Portugal, together with India and South Africa, adopted a joint declaration of condemnation for the building plan approved by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Catherine Ashton, head of EU diplomacy, also condemned the plan to build in the E1 zone, between northeast Jerusalem and west Ma’aleh Adumim.

These condemnations are based on two principles: settlements as an obstacle to peace per se, and the presence of settlements as an obstacle to the territorial contiguity of a potential Palestinian state. Regarding the first principle, the main counter argument focuses on the Palestinian will to negotiate borders.
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February 19, 2013 | 11:54 am | 17 Comments »

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February 18, 2013

Aide: Egypt flooded tunnels to cut Gaza arms flow  

YOU WILL RECALL THAT ONE OF THE EXPECTATIONS THAT WERE PART OF THE CEASEFIRE WAS THAT EGYPT WOULD STOP THE SMUGGLING INTO GAZA

YNET

‘We don’t want to see these tunnels used for illegal ways of smuggling either people or weapons that can really harm Egyptian security.’ National security adviser to Morsi says, adding that president will respect peace treaty with Israel

Egypt will not tolerate a two-way flow of smuggled arms with the Gaza Strip that is destabilizing its Sinai peninsula, a senior aide to its Islamist president said, explaining why Egyptian forces flooded sub-border tunnels last week.

The network of tunnels has been a lifeline for some 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza, bringing in an estimated 30% of all goods that reach the enclave and circumventing a blockade imposed by Israel for more than seven years.
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February 18, 2013 | 8:53 pm | 20 Comments »

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WJC ANALYSIS – Fatah enters the Syrian war theater  

By Pinhas Inbari, WJC

Zakariya al-Aga, the official in Fatah responsible for the Palestinian refugees, arrived in Damascus to conduct a series of meetings with officials of President Bashar al-Assad’s government on the plight of the Palestinian refugees caught in the crossfire between the regime and Salafist forces in various refugee camps and the Yarmuk refugee camp specifically, where al-Qaeda’s Nusra forces had taken over and turned the camp into an operations launching pad in the heart of Damascus.

The question that worries the PLO most about the Palestinian refugees in Syria is the preservation of their right of return. The camps are slated to preserve the refugee status of Palestinians in Syria and concentrate them in one place until the day of return arrives. The events in Syria are achieving the exact opposite result. The civil war in Syria has led to the Palestinians’ dispersal around the country.
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February 18, 2013 | 8:20 pm | 9 Comments »

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The legal case for Israel  

By Eugene Kontorovich at the National Jewish Retreat

My lecture “The Legal Case for Israel” is, for what it is worth, now the
most popular lecture ever on Chabad’s TorahCafe website, which features
something like 3000 videos by wonderful speakers. Over 70K views.


Watch on TorahCafé.com!
February 18, 2013 | 5:39 pm | 6 Comments »

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Likud Warns: New Elections are Possible  

Likud is feeling the pressure of Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid’s united negotiating posture. Analysis.

By Gil Ronen, INN

A pact between Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid is causing serious consternation in Likud, and a senior source in the ruling party warns that new elections are a possibility. The improbable warning is a sign that Likud is feeling the pressure of the united front presented by Bayit Yehudi head Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, each of whom is saying he will not enter the coalition without the other.

“Bennett should not pull the rope too much,” the senior source told Maariv. “In the end it will snap.”

“Netanyahu is ready to head for elections,” the source said. “The main thing is not to surrender to the pact between Bennett and Lapid. Netanyahu is unwilling to consider the possibility of leaving the hareidi parties out of the coalition.”
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February 18, 2013 | 12:35 pm | 15 Comments »

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Senate testimony: Obama uninvolved as Americans were killed  

By Diana West: Below is my write-up from Dispatch International of jaw-dropping Senate testimony from both SecDef Panetta and JCC Gen. Dempsey that, following an initial briefing at 5pm on 9/11/12, neither President Obama nor anyone from his White House staff ever once checked in with either Panetta or Dempsey during the night and early morning of 9/11/12 and 9/12/12 while US personnel and interests were under attack in Benghazi.

I have informally polled some experts and reporters (sometimes one and the same) as I have come across them since Panetta and Dempsey testified and they are roughly divided as to whether Panetta and Dempsey are telling the truth.

WASHINGTON, D.C. As President Obama builds a cabinet for his second term, his nominees for the top spots are coming before the U.S. Senate for confirmation. Some – such as the new Secretary of State John Kerry – are sailing through. Others – such as former Sen. Chuck Hagel (Nebraska Republican) are foundering.
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February 18, 2013 | 11:39 am | 21 Comments »

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‘PM livid at Lapid-Bennett anti-haredi conspiracy’  

Clearly Bibi is stymied. He has returned to bashing Bennett. Bennett owes nothing to Bibi. He is within his rights to negotiate as he sees fit. To my mind, Shas and UTJ should be castigated for being unwilling to compromise. I believe the majority in the country want this. As for a new election strengthening the Left, I don’t think so. I think Lapid and Bennett will be strengthened. Bibi may lose his right to form the government. I don’t think he will take the chance. Why does Bibi want the Hareidim in the government? Is it because they can be bought off with money? If he really wants them in the government, it is incumbent on him to get them to compromise with Bennett on power sharing and sharing the burden. That’s how to untie the Gordian Knot. Ted Belman

By GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST

Netanyahu tells ministers Lapid and Bennett are advancing themselves at the country’s expense, according to Likud sources.

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Bayit Yehudi head Naftali Bennett at Knesset swear in, Feb 5, 2013.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious at what he believes is a conspiracy by Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett to try to prevent Shas and United Torah Judaism from joining the coalition, Likud sources said on Sunday.

Sources who attended Netanyahu’s meeting with Likud ministers said he spoke of Lapid and Bennett with contempt, complaining that “their strategy is not to reach solutions on key issues, only to push out the haredi parties.”
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February 18, 2013 | 7:07 am | 16 Comments »

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