by Joseph Puder, FPM

The U.S., along with the European Union and Israel, considers the Palestinian Hamas regime ensconced in Gaza a terrorist organization primarily because of its use of suicide bombers and its covenant which vows to replace Israel with a Palestinian Islamist state by force of arms.  Hamas refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist, much less make peace with it. The Guardianreported on January 8, 2009 that:

The incoming Obama administration [was] prepared to abandon George Bush’s doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organization, according to a source close to the transition team.  In 2006 the U.S. Congress voted into law a ban on any U.S. financial aid to Hamas.  Most recently, despite Congressional objections, the Obama administration [as reported by Breitbart.com] on April 13, 2012, sent $147 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas-run Gaza for “humanitarian purposes.”

It has since been revealed, in a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), that Hamas is perpetrating gross human rights abuses against its own Palestinian people. Read more…

By Dana Gordon, TIMES OF ISRAEL

Iran is taking Syria and making fools of the US and its allies. Is the US afraid of Iran? The US is acting as though it is. And so is Iran. Iran is no doubt a serious threat to nearly everyone — and in many more alarming ways than with a potential A-bomb — and the US should not bow before it but stand up to it. Why doesn’t the US do so?

Iran is the sworn enemy of the United States and Israel, and a belligerent and aggressively expansionary one that supports terrorism all over the world — in its oft-stated aim to dominate the world with fundamentalist Islamism as well as to destroy Israel.
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Clarice Feldman, AMERICAN THINKER

Wednesday the public got to see the president as I have always seen him — a lazy, superficial thinker who is over his head as Chief Executive.

There were so many witty tweets and columns that our side of the aisle was kept laughing as the night wore on. “Mene mene tekel upharsin”, tweeted the great Iowahawk, reminding readers of the words written by a mysterious hand that to the Biblical Daniel correctly signified the end of a king (Belshazzar) and his reign.

I can’t say the online equivalent of graffiti I’m seeing was written by so mysterious a hand, but the signs are just as clear to me that the media and Democratic dream that in the upcoming debates Obama will do much better than he did in the first debate is going to be dashed. (I’m not even going into the next debate which is between the brilliant Paul Ryan and Joe “Yes, we will raise your taxes by a trillion dollars” Biden.  In my opinion, he was badly beaten in 2008 by Sarah Palin and I can’t imagine Ryan doing less well against him.)
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By Prof Steven Plaut

In recent weeks the very worst assault upon academic freedom in Israeli history has transpired in the form of a growing campaign of “solidarity” with the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University.

This “department” is nothing more than an anti-Israel far-leftist propaganda and indoctrination center, containing pseudo-academics, misrepresented and disguised as a university academic department. It is also a department in which freedom of speech and academic freedom are brutally suppressed.
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Anti-Semitism without Jews in Malaysia

By Robert Fulford, NATIONAL POST

In Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, politicians and civil servants devote a surprising amount of time to thinking about Israel, 7,612 km away. Sometimes they appear to be obsessed by it. Malaysia has never had a dispute with Israel, but the government encourages the citizens to hate Israel and also to hate Jews whether they are Israelis or not.

Few Malaysians have laid eyes on a Jew; the tiny Jewish community emigrated decades ago. Nevertheless, Malaysia has become an example of a phenomenon called “Anti-Semitism without Jews.” Last March, for instance, the Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department sent out an official sermon to be read in all mosques, stating that “Muslims must understand Jews are the main enemy to Muslims as proven by their egotistical behaviour and murders performed by them.” About 60% of Malaysians are Muslim.
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By Ted Belman

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER issues a A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE MUSLIMS

It is the most common feeling in the western Christian world that the Muslims are a grave threat to the supremacy and hegemony of the countries like US, Israel and India; so they must be crushed with an iron hand. Ridiculing the Muslims, victimizing the followers of Islam and targeting their holy places; all these actions are a part of an organized anti-Muslim campaign.

He has the problem backwards. For him, its all about the desire of the west to maintain its supremacy and hegemony rather than the dedication of Muslims, pursuant to the Koran, to establish Islam as supreme. The |West is in such disarray that it refrains from “Ridiculing the Muslims, victimizing the followers of Islam and targeting their holy places”. Unfortunately, there is no organized anti-Muslim campaign.
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[Greenfield puts the lie to the Reuters article below.]

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Islamists now control Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia and are contesting Syria. Jordan is fairly small by comparison, but it’s still part of the package as the Muslim Brotherhood would like to recreate a Greater Syria, combining Egypt and Syria, and adding Jordan to the package to crush Israel and then Lebanon, which has far too many Christians and Shiites in it for their liking.

But so far the Jordanian Arab Spring hasn’t taken off and the Muslim Brotherhood’s big show of force on Friday fizzled with a turnout of only 7,000 when the Brotherhood was predicting 50,000.

Thousands of members of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood have taken to the streets to reinforce the group’s boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
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THIS THE FIRST REPORT OUT OF JORDAN THEN EVEN MENTIONS THE JORDINIAN PALESTINIANS AS A FACTOR. BUT IT MISLEADS WHEN IT SUGGESTS THEY SUPPORT THE MB OR ISLAMISTS. TED BELMAN

In biggest protest, Jordan Islamists demand change

By REUTERS, JPOST

Islamists press ahead politically in largest demonstration since Arab Spring; authorities fear Palestinian empowerment.

AMMAN – Thousands of Jordanian Islamists marched on Friday in the largest demonstration since Arab Spring-inspired protests erupted last year, calling on King Abdullah to accelerate democratic reforms.

At least 15,000 protesters from across the country flocked to the main street leading to the Husseini mosque in downtown Amman after Friday prayers and chanted: “Listen Abdullah, our demands are legitimate” and “People want to reform the regime.”
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Op-ed: Iranian proxy could once again turn Lebanon into battleground for defense of foreign interests

Riccardo Dugulin, YNET

“Yes, Hezbollah is Iran’s army” is the bold title of one out of many opinion pieces and articles published on pro-March 14 Lebanese news portals. The growing sentiment of frustration expressed by Christian and Sunni opposition groups is gaining valuable momentum and support. Both the political branch and armed movement forming the Hezbollah terrorist organization are the de facto rulers of Lebanon since the fall of Saad Hariri’s government.

This situation is highly problematic as a militia is today the Lebanese major security actor, with enough military power to control the country in less than 48 hours.
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Ted Belman

Steven E. Rothke, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, posits in his paper, The Psychological Origin of the 1300-Year-Old Arab-Israeli War, that the Arab Israel conflict is fundamentally a religious conflict with a significant psychological component.

Many of us have long concluded the same thing. Nevertheless his paper expands our understanding and introduces the psychological component

Abstract

This psycho-historical analysis advances the hypothesis that the long-standing hostilities between Israel and her Arab neighbors is fundamentally a religious conflict with a significant psychological component. The origins of the war and standoff between the parties are traced back to the time of the founding of Islam and the encounter between Muhammad and the Jews of what is now Saudi Arabia. When the Jews rejected Muhammad as the Apostle of God, he experienced a severe psychological wound leading to a series of actions that would now be referred to as acts of narcissistic rage.
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Abbas’s UN Bid Carries Implications for Peace, U.S. Military
Giving ‘Palestine’ the UN recognition it needs to revive its ICC case against Israel over the Gaza war could pave the way for similar cases against America

By Evelyn Gordon, JINSA Fellow

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas plans to seek UN recognition as a nonmember observer state this fall. His formal request to the UN General Assembly probably won’t be submitted until after the U.S. elections. But given how many parties may need to be lobbied, Washington should start working to thwart his move soon – not only because such recognition would destroy any remaining prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace, but also because it substantially increases the risk that American military personnel could someday be indicted in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST

Without a credible threat of military force, the policy of sanctions against Iran lacks wisdom, efficacy and morality.

Lesley Stahl (on US sanctions against Iraq): We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima…. Is the price worth it?”

Madeleine Albright (then-UN ambassador, later secretary of state in the Clinton administration): “I think this is a very hard choice, but… we think the price is worth it. – 60 Minutes, May 12, 1996
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