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The Beginning of the End for Great Britain and Western Europe

2012-04-20T11:56:00.002-04:00

Hamas Minister Admits Palestinians Are Invented People

2012-04-07T09:13:00.001-04:00

In the course of blasting Egypt for not providing fuel for Gaza, Hamas interior minister admits that half of Gazans are Egyptians and the other half Saudis. Thank you MEMRI for providing the translation.

An Israeli Arab Defends her Country in South Africa

2012-03-07T07:40:00.000-05:00

Israel has sent a delegation of 100 students to represent it in the annual Apartheid Week in South Africa, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.

The report in Maariv noted one unusual participant in this year's delegation -- a 25-year-old Muslim Bushra Khalilieh, a member of Israel's Arab minority in the Galilee.

The newspaper said Khalilieh was attending university in one of South Africa’s university campuses. Khalilieh, who wears a hijab, came to Israel's defense during activities on campus.

"We toured Johannesburg and Cape Town’s campuses and met local students," she said.

"We spoke with them about Israel and I told them about my personal issue as an Arab girl living in Israel. I feel Israel to be my hometown where there’s equality and I have all my rights.”

"When students hear us, they are surprised as there are some who do not even know there are Arabs living in Israel. I, as an Arab Israeli girl, love my country and believe that it seeks peace and respects all its citizens.”

Khalilieh, a masters student at Tel Aviv University, stressed that she represents herself and not the position of the Israeli government.
“I represent myself as a Muslim Arab who lives in Israel as a liberal and free girl unlike other Arab girls who live in Arab countries and do not have the human rights I have like freedom of expression and dignity.”

She added: "There are people who are calling to boycott us and say that there is apartheid in Israel, but I try to show Israel as a country that’s different from what they think."

Several pro-Palestinian websites have published this article highlighting the fact that Ms. Khalilieh identifies herself as an Israeli Arab and not a Palestinian.

An Apology To The Afghan Mob

2012-02-26T10:32:00.001-05:00

After listening to our president and leaders kowtow and apologize to Hamid Karzai and the Afghan rabble, here we have an apology I can fully agree with.

Why Being a Conservative Sucks!

2012-02-13T18:56:00.000-05:00

Bill Whittle on the shortfalls of being a conservative.

Douglas Murray at The Cambridge Union

2012-02-03T16:14:00.000-05:00

The following video is of the British writer Douglas Murray debating at the Cambridge Union.

Useful Idiots for Palestine

2011-11-06T09:33:00.002-05:00

Pat Condell does it again:

Occupy Wall Street: Protester Wants College Paid For Because That's What He Wants

2011-10-13T07:03:00.000-04:00

Here is an interesting video of one of the occupiers of Wall Street. I know that one can be accused of selective postings, but the fact is that this protester and his demands are similar to the many others posted on YouTube.

In this particular example, the incoherent protestor wants his tuition paid because...well, thats what he wants. Based on his responses he must be a political science, ethnic studies or anthropology major.

As a Conservative, I hope that OWS continues till November 2012. They are the best thing to happen to the Republican Party.

The agony of inflation, made simple enough for economists to understand

2011-10-10T12:27:00.000-04:00

Behind the scenes of photojournalism in the Middle East

2011-09-30T09:56:00.001-04:00

Here we have a video posted by a young Italian journalist who took it upon himself to provide us with the images behind the cameras in the "spontaneous" demonstrations that take place in the Palestinian territories and throughout the Middle East. Many of these photographers are Arabs, Palestinians and religious Muslims who work as free lancers for major news services. Expecting fair reporting from them is unrealistic. Many of the international press are just as unfair, although for political or professional reasons.

The Great Social Security Debate

2011-09-18T08:28:00.000-04:00

By Charles Krauthammer

Of course it's a Ponzi scheme

Proposition 1: In a Ponzi scheme, the people who invest early get their money out with dividends. But these dividends don’t come from any profitable or productive activity — they consist entirely of money paid in by later participants.

This cannot go on forever because at some point there just aren’t enough new investors to support the earlier entrants. Word gets around that there are no profits, just money transferred from new to old. The merry-go-round stops, the scheme collapses, and the remaining investors lose everything.

Now, Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program. A current beneficiary isn’t receiving the money she paid in years ago. That money is gone. It went to her parents’ Social Security check. The money in her check is coming from her son’s FICA tax today — i.e., her “investment” was paid out years ago to earlier entrants in the system and her current benefits are coming from the “investment” of the new entrants into the system. Pay-as-you-go is the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

So what’s the difference? Ponzi schemes are illegal, suggested one of my colleagues on Inside Washington.

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Malmö police to learn 'polite' Arabic

2011-09-06T11:35:00.000-04:00

Those of us who follow the Islamization of Europe. are not surprised to read this news report about the Malmö police getting ready to learn polite Arabic to help them better understand and communicate with local residents in the predominantly immigrant area.

Muslim thugs attack the police in Malmo

Malmo, which used to be a typical Swedish town, has become a third world outpost in the heart of Sweden. Most of the Jewish population left because of the many violent antisemitic attacks.

The police department program of teaching Arabic conveys the message that the criminal behavior of the population of Malmo is simply the result of cultural misunderstandings between them and the Arab population.

What will be the next steps when the honor killings, rapes and attacks on the few Jews left continue? Teach policemen to cook shish kebab?

Nabil Shaat: "We Will Never Accept a Two State Solution"

2011-08-10T15:47:00.000-04:00

Nabil Shaath, Fatah's Head of Foreign Relations: We Will Never Accept the "Two-States for Two Peoples" Solution to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.

The interesting thing is that Nabil Shaat is portrayed by the mainstream media as a moderate. As soon as Arab leaders talk to the Arab mob in Arabic, one can hear their true feelings.

Thanks MEMRI for the Translation

Understanding UN Bias Against Israel -- Invite to Durban 3 Protest, NYC, Sept 21

2011-07-19T09:17:00.002-04:00

Images the Media Fails to Report

2011-07-16T18:20:00.001-04:00

While reports from Israel seem more and more designed to vilify Israel, images such as the ones in this video are rarely shown by the mainstream media.

Last month, a group of sick Palestinian children from the West Bank along with their parents traveled to the Jerusalem Zoo for a day. Their trip was organized by the Civil Administration and Hadassah where the children are receiving medical treatment.

Talking Points, Talking Points, Talking Points...

2011-07-06T07:57:00.001-04:00

The following video represents a clear example of what politicians have become today. Zombies manipulated by political consultants, with calculated talking points and unable to answer a simple question.

The person interviewed is Ed Miliband, leader of the Labor Party in Great Britain, discussing the strikes taking place in his country.

Obama's Pastor: All Whites are Liars

2011-07-03T09:11:00.002-04:00

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUTS ISRAEL ON LIST OF COUNTRIES THAT SUPPORT OR PROMOTE TERRORISM

2011-07-01T09:38:00.000-04:00

The Obama administration has added Israel to a list of 36 ‘specially designated’ countries that have ‘shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members.

The ‘specially designated country’ list is used by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to screen detained foreigners with an extra step, called a “Third Agency Check.” Overall, the countries on the list are unsurprising, with two exceptions this year. Israel was not on the list in 2008, but now in 2011, it has been added. North Korea, on the other hand, was dropped from the list this year but was on it in 2008.

The Department of Homeland Security published the list of “specially designated countries” as an appendix to a publicly released report on May 11 report entitled “Supervision of Aliens Commensurate With Risk.”

As reported by CNS News, ICE Spokeswoman Gillian Christensen claims the creation of the list began at least seven years ago during the Bush administration, and ICE was not responsible for creating it. According to a written statement by Christensen:

“The U.S. does not and never has considered Israel to have links to terrorism, but rather they are a partner in our efforts to combat global terrorism. Countries may have been included on the list because of the backgrounds of arrestees, not because of the country’s government itself.”

There are only five countries on the list that do not have majority Muslim populations, and those countries have had serious internal problems with radical Muslim terrorist groups or insurgencies.

Here is the list posted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE):

Afghanistan

West Bank

Algeria

Bahrain

Oman

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Philippines

Egypt

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Indonesia

Somalia

Iran

Sudan

Iraq

Syria

Israel

The Obama Plan v. The Ryan Plan

2011-06-19T08:08:00.000-04:00

Andrew Klavan's One State Solution

2011-06-05T17:19:00.000-04:00

Words Have Meanings

2011-06-03T14:51:00.001-04:00

An item caught my eye while reading about the affaire Schwarzenegger and the child he fathered with a maid at his employ. The article euphemistically refers to the fruit of this sexual encounter between a narcissistic bodybuilder and an ugly maid as the “love child.” How does the infant terminator qualify for this sweet title that implies a loving couple dreaming of a life together with their progeny?

If we call the outcome of a quickie with a maid a love child” shouldn’t we call Weiner’s picture of bulging underwear a “love message?”

Words have meanings and manipulating and changing these meanings is paving the road to an Orwellian world where manipulation, propaganda and lies are used to transform reality. In this world we suddenly have sanitation engineers, little people, undocumented immigrants and revenue enhancement. Thus, we confer on a guy who picks up garbage the title of engineer, implying that he spent long hours in a lab at MIT calculating the impact of gravitational pull on a garbage can, when the reality is that this garbage collector probably finished high school as a result of grade inflation and principals pushing for higher percentages of graduates.

Hey, little people are midgets. You can call them whatever you want. Their height is still measured in inches.

And if you entered the country without a visa, or with a tourist visa that you allowed to expire you are an illegal alien. And yes, you broke the law. And if caught you will be deported.

And when politician don’t raise my taxes but implement revenue enhancement measures, I still end up writing a check on April 15.

Addicts and alcoholics are taught the first step in the way to recovery is to recognize the problem. Imagine an alcoholic standing up during his first AA meeting and stating his name and instead of declaring that he is an alcoholic, he declares that he is a wine connoisseur. It sure sounds better and is a lot less stigmatizing. But the character is still a drunken bum.

The child that is born as a a result of a horny and powerful man mating with an ugly maid will grow up knowing that he is as much a love child as the children produced by white planters with black slaves.

Let’s stop this game of changing words to make them more palatable.

Can anyone tell me now the term used for the progeny of two pigs?

GM Admits that Dealerships are Taking Chevy Volt Tax Credits

2011-06-01T07:34:00.000-04:00

Here is another fascinating story that I have not seen reported by the mainstream media. Car dealerships are buying Chevy Volt cars, pocketing the $7,500 in tax credits for electric cars and turning around and reselling the Volts as used cars.

Read the complete story and see another example of governmental inefficiency in writing tax policy.

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An Anti-Israel President, by Bret Stephens

2011-05-25T09:01:00.000-04:00

Say what you will about President Obama's approach to Israel—or of his relationship with American Jews—he sure has mastered the concept of chutzpah.

On Thursday at the State Department, the president gave his big speech on the Middle East, in which he invoked the claims of friendship to tell Israelis "the truth," which to his mind was that "the status quo is unsustainable, and Israel too must act boldly to advance a lasting peace." On Friday in the Oval Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his version of the truth, which was that the 1967 border proposed by Mr. Obama as a basis for negotiating the outlines of a Palestinian state was a nonstarter.

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Must Read! May 23, 2011

2011-05-23T07:52:00.001-04:00

I don’t know what strategic purpose Obama had in mind for addressing the Middle East impasse when last Thursday he made the first of a series of speeches on the subject. Whatever this may have been, that speech produced one satisfactory result. The Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, for once started to tell the west a few home truths about what it was doing.

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Imagine if every year on the 7th of May, Germans held an annual commemoration of the defeat of the Nazi state, complete with Swastikas, anti-Jewish chants and slogans, and a historical narrative claiming that the Volksdeutsche expelled from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary were the real victims of WW2. That disgusting spectacle is exactly what takes place on May 15th as Arab Muslims chant and riot to protest their unsuccessful genocide of a regional minority.

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Must Read!

2011-05-22T09:17:00.002-04:00

Mark Steyn: The unzippered princeling and the serving wench

Back when he was still the officially designated Next President of France and not an accused rapist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was glimpsed at the annual IMF soccer tournament wearing a T-shirt emblazoned "YES, WE KAHN!" (Monsieur le directeur was not participating in the game: The field he likes to play requires more horizontal exertions, as even the deferential and protective French media have begun belatedly to acknowledge.) In consciously mimicking the slogan of another and very successful presidential candidate, the IMF boss and Socialist Party candidate improved upon it – or, at any rate, made it more accurate. "Yes, We Can"? Er, no, actually, you can't. But yes, he Kahn!

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Thomas Friedman is one of journalism’s greatest celebrities, the single most famous US interpreter of the Middle East and the liberal columnist who has the most influence on the way Americans understand Israel. His 1989 book “From Beirut to Jerusalem” has been a best-seller, as was “The world is flat.”

Friedman also plays a major role in shaping Obama’s rhetoric about Israel’s return to the pre-1967 armistice line, which the late Abba Eban dubbed the “Auschwitz borders.”

For the first time now, the four digits (1967) have become formal American policy. It was also a Friedman victory. It was he, after all, who invented the so-called “Saudi plan for peace in the Middle East.” And it was Friedman who wrote that the White House is “disgusted” with Israeli interlocutors.

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A Tale of Two Betrayals, by Steve McCann in The American Thinker

The President of the United States has willingly and with forethought placed our long term ally, Israel, whose existence America has guaranteed since 1948, in an untenable situation by his attempt to impose a course of action that, if not followed by Israel, will further inflame the Muslim world and cause international sentiment to turn against Israel.

President Obama is attempting to force a settlement on terms dictated by the Arabs in the Middle East. By setting as a pre-condition the surrender of territory commensurate with the pre-1967 boundaries in any negotiations with the Palestinians, he has instead guaranteed further conflict.

Mr. Obama, the smartest and ablest person to ever occupy the Oval Office (as confirmed by his demeanor and sycophants in the media), either is naive and overweening (synonymous with the Left) or unaware of the failures throughout history caused by intimidating one's ally into giving up land in exchange for peace with someone bent on their destruction.

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