ISRAEL, ON THE OTHER HAND HAS A 2.9  FERTILITY RATE WHICH IS ALMOST DOUBLE THE RATE IN THE US, EUROPE, RUSSIA, IRAN ETC

by Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe

http://www.jeffjacoby.com/12678/the-baby-bust-generation

THE GUARDIAN:

The regime’s exit from Kurdish areas has sparked mistrust between the rebels and Syria’s second biggest ethnic group

Luke Harding in Qabbasin, Syria – The Guardian, 15 December 2012 – The violent clashes last month are indicative of the tensions that have surfaced in the wake of Syria’s uprising. The Kurds are the second biggest group in Syria’s delicate ethnic mosaic: 3 million in a country of 23 million. Long discriminated against by successive Arab regimes in Damascus, and often denied citizenship, they are now staking a claim to self-determination.

It’s unclear, however, whether their lot will be any better in a post-revolutionary Syria with President Bashar al-Assad gone. The Kurds live predominantly in the mountains of the north, next to the Turkish border.
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FREEDOM WATCH

Sets Dates For April 15-17, 2013 in DC Federal Court

(Washington, D.C., December 17, 2012). Today the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch (www.freedomwatchusa.org), Larry Klayman, announced that the Honorable Beryl Howell has set a trial date for his billion dollar case on behalf of the Mohammadi family for April 15-17, 2013, in Washington D.C.

Filed years ago on behalf of Akbar and Manouchehr Mohammadi, two famous student leaders who were instrumental in kick starting the freedom movement in Iran, and who were imprisoned, tortured and in the case of Akbar murdered by the Islamic regime in Iran, the case not only seeks compensation for these atrocities, but more importantly justice for these human rights crimes against humanity.
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CTV QP: Allies watching Syria closely

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says that Canada and its allies watching the issue of chemical weapons in Syria very seriously.

Canada will not join the United States and other governments in recognizing the opposition as Syria’s legitimate “government-in-waiting.”

In an interview with CTV’s Question Period Sunday, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said he had carefully considered the move, but has decided the conditions aren’t in place yet.
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By Daphne Anson

Daniel Mayer (1909-96) was a French Jew of socialist principles who played a distinguished part in the Resistance and from 1958-75 headed the Ligue des droits de l’homme.

A fortnight ago (19th-20th November), evidently in revenge for Operation Pillar of Cloud (Defence) by Israel, pupils at a Jewish lycée named after him in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, and run by the education charity ORT, were viciously attacked or otherwise threatened in three separate incidents.
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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”, “Israel Hayom”,

The assumption that the rising tide of the Islamist forces, on the Arab Street, is led by politically-pragmatic and moderate Islam, is divorced from reality.

The supposition that the surging Islamic forces, on the Arab Street, aim to eschew violence, moderate the Arab Street, focus on economic growth rather than the spread of Islam and engage the US strategically, sacrifices realism on the altar of wishful-thinking.

The presumption that the Arab Street is experiencing an “Arab Spring,” whereby democracy-seeking youth, independents and moderate Islamists collaborate in the effort to topple despotic regimes, has crashed against the rocks of Middle East chaotic reality.
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PLEASE DON’T IGNORE THIS VERY VIDEO. IT IS VERY POWERFUL. IN IT DANNY KAYE TAKES ON THE JUDENRAAT.

To Be Or Not To Be

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep,
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1) Only in America , could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.

2) Only in America , could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black while only 12% of the population is black.

3) Only in America , could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
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AWRAD Poll of Palestinians – 87.7%:10.3% Gaza conflict results prove armed struggle best way to achieve independence

The results of the recent Gaza conflict prove that armed struggle, as
adopted by Hamas, is the best means of achieving Palestinian independence
Strongly agree 55.6%
Agree 32.1%
Disagree 9.1%
Strongly disagree 1.2%
I don’t know 2.1%

Part One: The Public Mood
1- In general, would you say that things in Palestine are heading in the
right direction or the wrong direction?
Right direction 69.8%
Wrong direction 23.2%
Don’t know 7.0%
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By Arlene Kushner

In my last posting, I alluded to President Obama’s announcement that he would be recognizing the Syrian Opposition Coalition, because it was “now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the Syrian population, that we consider them the legitimate representative of the Syrian people in opposition to the Assad regime.”