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		<title>Martyrs, Murderers and a Mother’s Love, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside the depravity of the Hamas death cult. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-132454 alignleft" title="ham" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ham.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="391" />An often unrecognized problem that Westerners face in dealing with the Muslim world is the yawning chasm between Western and Muslim concepts of good vs. evil or honor vs. shame; where the same words mean very different things in the two cultures.</p>
<p>For example, there is no situation in Western culture wherein murdering one’s daughter could be a deed that brings honor to the family. In many Arab and some non-Arab Muslim countries, murder is what is expected of the father if his daughter is accused (merely accused) of pre-marital sex.  The Arab family’s honor is restored by what in the West is a heinous crime. Such murders are far more widespread in the Muslim world than many are willing to acknowledge.  They are known as honor-killings<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=137533a5319ef22c&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[i]</a>.</p>
<p>Similarly, martyrdom-via-suicide boggles the Western mind.  Islamic law prohibits suicide; but recent judgments by leading Muslim clerics, although contested by some, state unequivocally that suicide bombings are a legitimate and laudable form of martyrdom in Jihad.  They bring honor to family and community, and are seen as a courageous deed for which the deceased perpetrator will be rewarded with the Muslim jihadist warrior’s seventy-two dark-eyed virgin women when united with Allah.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=137533a5319ef22c&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn2">[ii]</a></p>
<p>Despite these examples of cultural chasms, it is still a surprise to the Western mind that motherly love, at least among some in the Gaza Strip, acquires a valence far different from that in the West.</p>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1536576">Umm Nidal</a> (her <em>nom de guerre</em>, lit. “mother of struggle,” her real name is Mariam Farahat), the Gaza mother of six sons, did not lament that three of them had died as suicide bombers.  Rather she publicly rejoiced in their “martyrdom” and fervently prayed that the other three would follow the same path; after all, what greater joy can a Muslim mother know than living to see her sons blow themselves up while in the prime of their lives, taking with them as many Jews and other non-believers as possible?</p>
<p>To acknowledge her roll in raising sons with such a meritorious sense of duty to Allah and Islam, the voters in the Gaza Strip elected Umm Nidal to Hamas’ parliament, even though she has no prerequisites for public service.</p>
<p>To the present writer’s knowledge, there is no other culture in the world, or across all of world history, that so honors suicide and mass murder, and so thoroughly vitiates the most basic human instinct of a mother’s love for her children.</p>
<p>But honoring suicidal mass murderers is not new in Palestinian society.  For decades prior to the creation of the Palestinian Authority (1993), <a href="http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_current_yassir_arafat.php">Arafat honored</a> suicide bombers with <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/pa-names-ramallah-street-after-hamas-terror-mastermind-1.891">stirring eulogies and generous bequests</a> to surviving families, as did other Arab countries and Iran.</p>
<p>Once the Palestinian Authority was legislated into existence by the Oslo Accords, Arafat, and after his death Mahmoud Abbas, <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/arafats-fatah-names-summer-camp-after-teen-suicide-bomber">named public places,</a> schools, soccer fields, <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=458&amp;fld_id=458&amp;doc_id=1707">and summer camps</a> in memory of suicide bombers in order to enhance the degree to which their “martyrdom” could inspire others to end their lives in a similar fashion.</p>
<p>There have been hundreds of suicide bombings since the Oslo Accords, most perpetrated by Hamas.  Happily the majority have been thwarted by the IDF, but the worst and most infamous include the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphinarium_discotheque_suicide_bombing">Dolphinarium</a> massacre, killing dozens of young teens; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_massacre">Park Hotel</a> massacre with scores killed and hundreds wounded during a Passover Seder; and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bombing">Sbarro pizza</a> restaurant massacre.  Each became a source of rejoicing among Palestinians.</p>
<p>Most such attacks have been perpetrated by men, but women have come to play a surprisingly significant role as well. Arafat’s PLO, Hamas, and other terrorist groups lured young women in the prime of their lives into the strangely twisted psyche of the suicide bomber by offering them the opportunity, despite the fact that <a href="http://www.inss.org.il/upload/(FILE)1188302013.pdf">they are merely women</a> and cannot fight as can men, to strike a blow for their people, their country, their future state, their religion, and for Allah.  Arafat called Palestinian female suicide bombers his “<a href="http://vsthepomegranate.blogspot.com/2009/05/army-of-roses-inside-secret-world-of_19.html">army of roses</a>,” and praised them and their families for their dedication and courage.</p>
<p>Chechen and Sri Lankan women were the first female suicide bombers, but the first Palestinian one was <a href="http://travel2.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/terrorism/index.html?query=IDRIS,%20WAFA&amp;field=per&amp;match=exact">Wafa Idris</a>, a West Bank woman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafa_Idris">who disguised herself as a doctor</a> and <a href="http://www.inss.org.il/upload/(FILE)1188302013.pdf">used an ambulance</a> to enter Israel from the West Bank and blow herself up in downtown Jerusalem, killing one and wounding scores. Arafat crowned her a hero and throughout the Arab world she was used as a poster-child to recruit others.</p>
<p><a href="http://vsthepomegranate.blogspot.com/2009/05/army-of-roses-inside-secret-world-of_19.html">In-depth analyses</a> of the phenomenon of the <a href="http://www.inss.org.il/upload/(FILE)1188302013.pdf">Palestinian female suicide bomber</a> reveal the cruel and cynical strategies developed by Fatah and Hamas for identifying, approaching, isolating, and brain-washing young, depressed, self-described hopeless Muslim women, so they could be trained to carry out “martyrdom missions.”</p>
<p>Hamas and Fatah recruiters scout towns, villages and mosques, looking for women who show signs of depression.  Such signs include a history of attempted suicide, confidential conversations with friends that reach Hamas or Fatah, a personal religious revival where a previously un-religious woman suddenly begins to frequent her local mosque, or confidential conversations with an imam who passes them on to the recruiter.</p>
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		<title>Russia Wants Obama Re-Elected</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 04:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If they want him, do we?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/putin1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131418" title="putin" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/putin1.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="394" /></a>Well, now we know what the “hot mic” incident was all about. The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303877604577382211875199348.html">Wall Street Journal’s</a> “Moscow Raises Alarm over Missile-Defense Plan for Europe” (Friday, May 4, 2012), makes the connection.</p>
<p>At an international conference on Thursday, May 3, organized at Russia’s initiative, the Russian delegates showed computer-generated images of a hypothetical Russian pre-emptive missile attack on segments of a missile defense shield and early warning system that the US and NATO want to put in place in Turkey, Rumania and Poland.  Quite a scary threat from the former USSR’s 900-pound gorilla and one-time global nuclear super-power.</p>
<p>NATO says that the missile defense system is meant to counter Iran’s threats of a WMD Shi’ite Armageddon.  However, the Russians are not comforted, because they fear that the NATO anti-missile missiles could also be used to shoot down Russian nuclear-armed missiles aimed at the West; and such a potential threat from the west could “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303877604577382211875199348.html">undermine their country’s nuclear deterrent</a>[.]”</p>
<p>The Russians organized the Thursday conference in order to place their threat on the table, loud and clear, and make public their demand that they get a written agreement that the West will never use its missiles against Russia.  Currently, the USA and NATO have refused to put such a promise in writing, although Russia-NATO agreements on missile defense cooperation date back to 2010.  The timing of this meeting is important. It comes shortly before a NATO conference due to take place in Chicago later this month at which NATO will publicize its success in getting its missile-defense system up and running.  Russia’s pre-emptive threat of a missile war against the West if the West does not agree to its demands puts a big kink in the Chicago conference.</p>
<p>But according to the Wall Street Journal article, Russia’s alarming saber-rattling is really a façade to hide a “tacit agreement to put off serious talks until next year,” by which time Obama, if re-elected, could &#8220;clear the way for a deal” and work on Russia’s behalf against NATO to find ways to accommodate the Russian demands.  The Russian presenter on Thursday was direct and unambiguous that Russia prefers to work with Obama as a second-term president, and to cooperate with his vision of a “reset” in the USA- Russia relationship, rather than to joust with Romney whose election they feel will make things “surely &#8230; more difficult.”</p>
<p>So what the Russians have actually said is: if you want to keep the Russian bear from getting aggressive, elect Obama, not Romney.  This is an unusually overt attempt by a foreign power to influence American elections, but it is not surprising since <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/03/27/149476004/romney-gop-pounce-on-obamas-russia-comment">Romney has been harshly critical</a> of Obama’s “reset” vision.</p>
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		<title>Yoo Ruling Upholds Definition of &#8216;Enemy Combatant&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the 9th Circuit Court reversed misguided Obama administration policies on the war on terror. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/yoo.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131423" title="yoo" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/yoo.jpg" alt="" width="289" height="217" /></a>The story told <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304746604577381841940350560.html">by</a> and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304743704577380262141049178.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">about</a> Professor <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/04/john-yoo-vindicated/print/">John Yoo</a> reveals an unexplainable irrationality on the part of those who should be leading our country to victory against the Islamofascist assault upon Western civilization that some call World War 4 (World War 3 was the Cold War).</p>
<p>To understand this irrationality and the importance of Professor Yoo, we must go back to the 1990s when Osama first began attacking US persons and property, and to al-Qaeda’s attack on the USS Cole (12 October 2000). President Clinton’s response was that <a href="http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/hearings/hearing1/witness_sofaer.htm">these were criminal acts</a> and the US would prosecute the criminals, working in partnership with nations having access to the perpetrators, in order to hunt them down and bring them to justice.</p>
<p>Such an approach to terrorist attacks and asymmetrical warfare stood in sharp contradistinction to the <a href="http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/hearings/hearing1/witness_sofaer.htm">doctrine of “active defense</a>” developed in the Reagan era by George Schultz, which included “active prevention, preemption, retaliation, and deterrence.”</p>
<p>With Clinton’s less aggressive approach, the FBI was dispatched to Yemen and Arabia to hunt down and bring to justice the perpetrators of the USS Cole bombing. Needless to say there was much consternation in the FBI, the State Department and White House when, much to their surprise, Saudi Arabia and Yemen were unwilling to cooperate.  Such was the Clinton Doctrine.</p>
<p>After 9/11, President Bush formulated a different doctrine, relating back to Schultz and Reagan, but going farther:</p>
<blockquote><p>The <a href="http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/hearings/hearing1/witness_sofaer.htm">President adopted a set of principles</a> to guide US policy: first, that serious terrorist attacks should be treated as acts of war, not merely as crimes; second, that states are responsible for terrorism emanating from within their borders; and third, that we must preempt attacks where possible, because of their potentially devastating consequences.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama has taken us back to Clinton, and beyond.  He has not actually verbalized a doctrine.  Rather he has a general style of foreign policy that eschews America’s uniqueness and status as a world power and relies on engagement, negotiation and collaboration.   None the less, it seems clear that he has revived Clinton’s doctrine by dismantling the Bush Doctrine. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Doctrine">When he proposed the closing</a> of the American detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and the use of American civil courts (instead of military courts) to try Guantanamo detainees, ordered discontinuing the use of the term &#8220;Global War on Terror,&#8221; prohibited  government publications from associating Muslim terrorist attacks with Islam, and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/01/pandering-to-the-persians/">delayed substantive response to Iran’s WMD progress</a> by pressing instead for engagement, Obama was reversing the Bush Doctrine and, <em>de facto</em>, giving terrorist prisoners the status of American civilian criminals whose rights and person are protected by our constitution and centuries of social and criminal legislation.</p>
<p>And the status of terrorist prisoners is what <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/04/john-yoo-vindicated/print/">Professor Yoo’s story</a> entails.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, May 2, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted unanimously to reject the Obama doctrine and return to the Bush doctrine.  The court <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202551071249">dismissed</a> the case against former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo, filed by convicted terrorist Jose Padilla.  The case focused on Yoo’s immunity from the lawsuit and the definition of torture, since <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-torture-20120503,0,6944364.story">Padilla claimed that he was tortured</a> while in military detention; and it was Yoo who had argued to the Bush administration that the interrogation techniques used on Padilla did not qualify as torture.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304743704577380262141049178.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">ruling vindicates the principle</a> that government officials are immune from private litigation for their national-security decisions. The ruling is also a watershed for repudiating sham tort claims whose goal is to intimidate government personnel who deal with terrorists as enemy combatants rather than as common criminals.  But even more important, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/04/john-yoo-vindicated/print/">the court’s ruling</a> reinforces the legal definition of enemy combatant as it applies to terrorists; and it is in this legal arena that the ruling reverses Obama.</p>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Courtrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 04:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are the New York Post and the NY Times covering the same Guantanamo Bay trial?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/court.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131444" title="court" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/court.jpg" alt="" width="347" height="214" /></a>The US military tribunal in Guantanamo began a milestone procedure on May 5.  Under arraignment are five Muslim terrorists captured several years ago.  The most notorious is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, who proudly proclaimed that he personally decapitated Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl with his <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/how_we_broke_ksm_MHehNYZZqbFjjQ2CFs2DjL#ixzz1uBwQ33Y8">“blessed right hand.”  </a> The others are co-conspirators.  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/nyregion/families-watch-9-11-case-at-guantanamo-via-video.html">Some family members of 9/11 victims</a>, and a select group of journalists, watched the proceedings in the courtroom or via live video feed.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/07/excruciating-beginning-to-trial-of-911-plotters/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=3eccaa4a7b-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">earlier FrontPageMag.com article</a>, Rick Moran discussed the subversive tactics of the defendants’ lawyers, filing hundreds of motions to delay process and undermine the legitimacy of the entire procedure.  The present writer examines another aspect of the arraignment, the difference between two newspapers’ coverage and the significance of that difference.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/us/9-11-defendants-face-arraignment-in-military-court.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;pagewanted=print">New York Times </a> describes the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/nyregion/families-watch-9-11-case-at-guantanamo-via-video.html">detainees’ behavior</a> as defiant but mostly quiet: passively ignoring the tribunal’s president,  Col. James Pohl, refusing to wear headphones (for simultaneous Arabic translation), or kneeling to pray in the courtroom.  The article notes that the five terrorists did display some aggressive disruptions during the pre-trial motions,  but neglects to describe them as other than “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/us/9-11-defendants-face-arraignment-in-military-court.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;pagewanted=print">frequent outbursts</a>.”  One terrorist was in the courtroom in a restraining wheel chair for reasons unknown. The Times reporter failed to note that by removing their headphones, the detainees effectively brought the proceedings to a halt because <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qP2PQkhDVbcC&amp;pg=PA33&amp;lpg=PA33&amp;dq=legal+need+simultaneous+translations+defendants+to+understand+what+is+happening+in+their+trial&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=5k5wgvhi_N&amp;sig=wB3-5DhI4eKnr5JD864FlD0G4V8&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=YOGnT-fxDcry0gHB5YyWBQ&amp;v">international legal custom</a> since the Nuremberg trials (1946)  requires simultaneous translation. <a title="" href="#_edn1">[i]</a></p>
<p>Their action, therefore, was obviously intended to torpedo, or at least delay, the court proceedings. To circumvent this sabotage, Col. Pohl intrepidly used a translator with a loudspeaker.  The defendants’ lawyers complained, but neither the lawyers nor the reporter seemed to notice that the inconvenience was the result of the detainees’ own actions.</p>
<p>Another attempt at sabotaging the proceedings, mentioned but not explained in the Times account, was the refusal of one terrorist to leave his cell and come to the courtroom.  His lawyer sought a court order to prevent prison guards from forcibly extracting him from his cell, but Col. Pohl refused, noting that no detainee had the right to not appear before the court.  This same lawyer, Cheryl Borman, appeared before the court wearing Muslim garb covering everything but her face.  She also admonished women on the prosecuting team to “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/us/9-11-defendants-face-arraignment-in-military-court.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;pagewanted=print">consider dressing more modestly</a> so that the defendants would not have to avoid looking at them ‘for fear of committing a sin against their faith.’”   The reporter, and apparently Ms. Borman as well, failed to note the striking irony that while looking at an immodestly clad woman would be a sin against their faith, mass murder of almost 3,000 innocent civilians apparently was not.</p>
<p>The article also mentions the terrorists’ claims of torture at the hands of their captors in Guantanamo, but neglects to point out that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qaeda_Handbook">captured el-Qaeda manuals instruct terrorists t</a>o always complain of torture  and accuse the captors of mistreating them.  It also fails to note that the American forces involved in the capture and detainment of these terrorists strenuously deny having tortured them.</p>
<p>The Times also ran a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/nyregion/families-watch-9-11-case-at-guantanamo-via-video.html">short article on the victims’ families</a> present in the courtroom or watching via live video feed.  This report was as muted as the one described above, except for one note that  “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/nyregion/families-watch-9-11-case-at-guantanamo-via-video.html">defendants repeatedly and persistently</a> disrupted the courtroom…”  In a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/us/lawyers-say-hearing-for-9-11-defendants-was-rigged.html">follow-up article</a> in the NY Times of May 7, 2012,  we learn that the defendants’ lawyers claim that the terrorists’ non-cooperation was really a justified protest against an “unjust system;” although there is no indication of what exactly is unjust about a military tribunal for terrorists who proudly proclaim their guilt.</p>
<p>In sum, all three NY Times articles describe the behavior of the defendants at the tribunal as, for the most part, passively non-cooperative with occasional passive resistance, and a few understandable noisy outbursts.</p>
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		<title>Winds of War?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 04:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could Israel face a nine-front conflict? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_Chief_of_Staff_Visits_Joint_Infantry-Armored_Forces_Exercise_Dec_2010.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131329" title="Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_Chief_of_Staff_Visits_Joint_Infantry-Armored_Forces_Exercise,_Dec_2010" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_Chief_of_Staff_Visits_Joint_Infantry-Armored_Forces_Exercise_Dec_2010.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>On <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-approves-call-up-of-22-idf-battalions/#.T6I41QCSLRQ.email">Thursday, May 3, Israel mobilized six reserve battalions</a> and received the government’s permission to mobilize 16 more, a security measure due to potential problems in the Sinai desert and the volatile situation in Syria, or so we are told.  But the mobilization of 22 battalions means that there is more to this situation than meets the eye.</p>
<p>Eight months ago the present writer discussed the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/07/nine-fronts-in-the-next-war/">probability of a nine-front war</a>.  Despite the low-key tone of “a security measure,” Israel now seems to be close to that situation.</p>
<p>Almost-nuclear Iran; Hezbollah; <a href="http://blogs.cfr.org/cook/2012/05/03/the-wages-of-the-sinai/">the Sinai</a>, with its entrenched al-Qaeda bases and other terror groups; Egypt, if the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has its way; Syria; and the two internal fronts of <a href="http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2012/05/02/hamas-and-the-arab-spring/">Hamas</a> and the PA if they can get their acts together, comprise seven of the nine fronts.</p>
<p>Let’s look first at Iran.</p>
<p>Iran is in deep trouble economically, as its <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120502-711203.html">oil production is the lowest in 20 years</a> and its <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/why-this-round-of-iran-nuclear-talks-is-different-1.428167">mullocracy is losing popularity</a> with its rank and file.  The nuclear option for which it has been in hot pursuit for 10 years has now turned into a political liability with voters as sanctions slowly impair the economy. The decline is &#8220;the result of the country&#8217;s growing isolation due to its nuclear program,&#8221; <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/they-re-scared-in-tehran-1.428167">so the mullahs are scared</a> because <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/10/israel-alone-against-the-islamic-republic/">the time may be ripe for another round of internal unrest</a> and open demonstrations for regime change.</p>
<p>The mullahs&#8217; popularity has not been enhanced by<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/10/israel-alone-against-the-islamic-republic/"> Israel’s ten years of successful covert operations</a> against Iran’s WMDs; and <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-gets-fourth-dolphin-class-submarine-from-germany-1.428039">Israel’s newly purchased nuclear submarine</a>, with nuclear-armed cruise missiles giving Israel expanded &#8220;second-strike&#8221; capabilities in case of an Iranian nuclear attack, will soon be added to its Persian Gulf fleet, and offer Iranian leaders the opportunity to reconsider their disdainful attitude toward MAD.</p>
<p>The mullahs desperately need a distraction for their unhappy voters.</p>
<p>Hezbollah is better armed now than it was before the 2<sup>nd</sup> Lebanon War, and has successfully cowed the UN “peace keepers.”  But it has suffered a <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136709/mona-yacoubian/hezbollah-after-assad">loss of popularity due to its support for Assad</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/world/middleeast/hezbollahs-syria-policy-puts-it-at-risk.html?pagewanted=all">growing isolation</a>.  That can be remedied most easily by opening a northern front with renewed missile and other terror attacks against Israel. Such an action would justify more Iranian efforts to achieve nuclear capacity.</p>
<p>And as is the case with Hezbollah, if Iran gave Syria the order, it would be a boon and a blessing for Syria to join in.  Assad could turn attention from the slaughter of its innocents and call for Syrian unity in the great jihad against Israel.</p>
<p>Egypt and the Sinai are a bit more complicated.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.cfr.org/cook/2011/08/17/the-eagle-has-landed%E2%80%A6in-sinai/">The Sinai is a haven for drug smuggling</a>, human trafficking, gun running, and terrorist groups including al-Qaeda; but the <a href="http://blogs.cfr.org/cook/2012/05/03/the-wages-of-the-sinai/">Egyptian armed forces have not been able</a> to clean up the mess.  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle">Operation Eagle</a>, almost a year old, is a total failure, for which, true to form, the <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/19747/Egypt/Politics-/In-Sinai-everything-is-possible-Egyptian-armys-Ope.aspx">Egyptian government blames Israel</a>.</p>
<p>And compounding this problem is the uncertainty about Egyptian politics.  MB leaders have made clear that they want to renew the state of war with Israel. Currently the Egyptian army is still in control, but with a significant Islamofascist majority in the Egyptian Parliament and an MB candidate the front runner for presidential elections, Egypt could turn into an active military enemy overnight.</p>
<p>The other two fronts are internal.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2012/05/02/hamas-and-the-arab-spring/">Hamas is the loser in the Arab Spring</a>: losing popularity, losing Iranian and Syrian support due to its backing of the MB’s revolt in Syria, facing competition from other more aggressive terror groups, and facing the impatience of its own rank and file due to its <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/wp-admin/gazans-blame-hamas-for-economy-lack-of-terrorism-against-israel">not killing enough Jews</a>.  <a href="http://www.pcpsr.org/survey/polls/2012/p43epressrelease.html">Polls</a> taken earlier this year found “a significant decline in the popularity of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and a decrease in the positive evaluation of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.”</p>
<p>Hamas may also be losing some control over its terror cohorts who have continued rocket attacks on Israel despite Hamas-mandated cease-fires. When <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/15/hamas-battle-gaza-islamists-al-qaida">Hamas has exercised its authority</a>, the results have backfired.  <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/17/world/la-fg-palestinian-delay-20110717">When Hamas forces wiped out one al-Qaeda unit supported by Iran</a>, for instance, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/31/al-qaeda-grows-in-gaza/">a serious crisis developed</a> with Tehran.</p>
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		<title>The Orwellian Atrocities Prevention Board, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 04:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Obama really created the genocide monitoring committee. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/power-47011.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131133" title="power-4701" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/power-47011.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>As <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/04/the-orwellian-atrocities-prevention-board-part-i/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=55924e7cc3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">discussed in Part I</a> of this article, Russia flies planeloads of weapons to Damascus. Iran supplies Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad with money, trainers, agents, and more weapons. With that kind of backing, Assad can flip the finger at the UN’s Obama-endorsed cease-fire plan and continue the carnage, with more than 10,000 dead at last count.  And what does Obama do?  After months of ignoring or dithering, he forms a committee to look in to the Syrian atrocities.  But not just any committee: no, a committee with multi-agency participation!</p>
<p>If Obama really wanted to bring Assad down, a major defeat for the USA’s regional enemy, Iran, then why not set about organizing, training and arming the Syrian rebels in their sanctuaries in Turkey?  <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/ct-oped-0430-krauthammer-20120430-15,0,2369519.column">He would have Turkey’s blessing</a> and Saudi Arabia’s cooperation.  But instead, a committee:  the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/04/fact-sheet-president-obama-directs-new-steps-prevent-mass-atrocities-and">Atrocities Prevention Board</a> (APB).</p>
<p>Obama’s political motivations for forming this committee prior to his re-election campaign, to diffuse criticism regarding his inactivity in the face of Iran’s nuclear threat and Syria’s mass murder of unarmed protesters, have <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/04/the-orwellian-atrocities-prevention-board-part-i/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=55924e7cc3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">been discussed in Part I<strong>.</strong></a>  Now a look at the APB’s future is in order, and its future is defined by its leaders.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.betterhighschools.org/docs/nhsc_approachestodropoutprevention.pdf">The statistically most accurate predictor</a> of 11<sup>th</sup> grade behavior in high school students is their 10<sup>th</sup> grade behavior.  The same is often true of adults.  A review of the two most prominent APB leaders’ recent past is likely to offer insight as to the direction in which they may take the APB in the future.</p>
<p>Dr. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2379">Samantha Power</a>, the new chairperson of the APB, <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/08/samantha_power_obamas_anti-gen.html">announced its formation</a> last year.  She is the academic and political power-house who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book A<em> Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,</em> and now advises the Obama administration on the subject of international atrocities.  She <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/04/samantha_power_to_chair_obamas.html">convened the first meeting</a> of the APB Board of Directors on Monday, April 23, as <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/04/the-orwellian-atrocities-prevention-board-part-i/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=55924e7cc3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">Obama delivered his speech</a> about American support for human rights at the Holocaust Memorial Museum<strong>.</strong></p>
<p>While Dr. Power is clearly well versed in issues relating to mass murder, war crimes, and genocide, her ability or willingness to deal objectively with global or regional issues relating to such atrocities must be called in to question, given her past statements and recommendations.  She has <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34205">a long record of antipathy toward Israel</a> and has argued that America’s relationship with Israel “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2379">has often led foreign policy decision-makers</a> to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics.”</p>
<p>During a 2002 interview with Harry Kreisler, director of the Institute for International Studies at <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6640">UC Berkeley</a>, Power <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1A1B3723-95A3-4393-97D2-66575019AA3E">said</a> that even if it meant “alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import” (i.e., American Jews), the United States should stop investing “billions of dollars” in “servicing Israel’s military” and invest the money instead “in the new state of Palestine.” Moreover, she <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29126&amp;only&amp;rss">accused</a> Israel of perpetrating &#8220;major human-rights abuses” and suggested that the United States had brought terrorist attacks upon itself by aping Israel’s violations of human rights.</p>
<p>“What we need is a willingness to actually put something on the line…and putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import. It may more crucially mean…investing literally billions of dollars not in servicing Israeli military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine…”</p>
<p>She went on to suggest a rather revolutionary solution<a title="" href="#_edn1">[i]</a> to the Arab-Israel conflict, US “external intervention” using American military force against Israel:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…<a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29126&amp;only&amp;rss">in investing (the) billions of dollars</a> it would probably take also to support, I think, what would to be (sic!), I think, a mammoth protection force…a meaningful military presence because it seems to me at this stage — and this is true of actual genocides as well and not just major human rights abuses which we’re seeing there — but is that you have to go in as if you’re serious. You have to put something on the line and unfortunately the position of a solution on unwilling parties is dreadful, it’s a terrible thing to do, it’s fundamentally undemocratic.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So the chair of President Obama’s new Atrocities Prevention Board once called publicly for the <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/04/24/obama-atrocity-board-chair-backed-invading-israeli-territory/">United States to impose by means of military force</a> an essentially anti-Israel resolution to end the conflict by sending a meaningful military presence, a mammoth force of American troops, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-appoints-responsibility-to-protect-champion-samantha-power-to-chair-genocide-panel/">to invade Israel</a> in order to end the putative abuses that she said were being committed there by Israel against Palestinians!</p>
<p>Let’s recall that she made this pronouncement at a time when the 2<sup>nd</sup> intifada was at its height, with Israeli buses being blown up by suicide bombers almost daily and Arafat screaming “Jihad, jihad, jihad” into PA television.</p>
<p>In March 2011, Glenn Beck covered Dr. Power on his radio show, and in <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/03/30/the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/" target="_blank">a subsequent article</a>  he concluded that Samantha Power<strong> </strong>is probably the most dangerous woman in America, and a real threat to Israel<strong>.  </strong>He also noted that<strong> “</strong>[UN official Richard Falk] has been pushing for the right to protect or the Responsibility to Protect to be used against Israel and they’ve been trying this now for the last couple of years, and that’s what this is really all about, period. This is about going after Israel.”  Beck concluded by <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/03/29/beck-i-stand-with-israel/">reiterated his pro-Israel stance</a> and said that there are many forces that are making moves against Israel. <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/03/30/the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/">Samantha Power, who is clearly a force within the Obama administration, stands among them.</a></p>
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		<title>The Orwellian Atrocities Prevention Board, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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<p>On Monday, April 23, President Obama officially announced the creation of the <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/04/atrocities_prevention_board_re.html">“Atrocities Prevention Board”</a> (APB): a comprehensive strategy to prevent and respond to atrocities.  On the same day, the APB Board of Directors held its first meeting, chaired by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2379">Samantha Power</a>, who declared that the APB would “<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/whole-world-watching_642037.html?page=2">coordinate action across the entire government on stopping genocide and liaise with the NGO community</a>.”  And on that same day, President <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/04/23/elie_wiesel_why_is_assad_still_in_power">Obama appeared at a ceremony at the Washington Holocaust Museum</a>, a most fitting place to announce the inauguration of the APB, in respond to criticism about Obama’s having not done enough to stop the atrocities in Syria, and against earlier administrations that sat idly by during the war crimes and genocide in Rwanda and Darfur.</p>
<p>Obama spoke in forceful language there, promising:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Syrian people have not given up, which is why we cannot give up. So with partners and allies we will keep increasing the pressure so that those who stick with Assad know that they are making a losing bet.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;In short, we need to do everything we can to prevent these kinds of atrocities, because national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your own people,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;<a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/04/23/elie_wiesel_why_is_assad_still_in_power">Remembrance without resolve is a hollow gesture. Awareness without action changes nothing.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Inspiring words, superficially.  But before we celebrate a new “never again” broadcast from Washington, it is important to look at some of the details of this new government initiative.</p>
<p>The first problem is Syria<a href="https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13709ff43b7dc97e&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw&amp;saduie=AG9B_P9TijVFtqY0LhzHew5Cqtih&amp;sadet=1336114605616&amp;sads=TygXlh1XrXmEChFHARuxlCQ3LwA#0.1__edn1">[i]</a> (we will examine the second problem, APB leadership, in part II of this article).</p>
<p>Numerous critics have asked why innocent blood spilt by Qaddafi in Libya warranted military intervention but many thousands more innocents dead and dying in Syria do not.  Thus Wiesel asked poignantly, in his introductory words to Obama, &#8220;So in this place we may ask: Have we learned anything from it [the Holocaust]? If so, how is it that Assad is still in power? How is it that the Number 1 Holocaust denier Ahmadinejad is still a president? He who threatens to use nuclear weapons to destroy the Jewish state.&#8221;</p>
<p>And Obama answered as he has in the past, with a non-answer: “The United States would continue increasing diplomatic, political, and economic pressure on the Assad regime, but said the U.S. commitment to end atrocities &#8220;<a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/04/23/elie_wiesel_why_is_assad_still_in_power">does not mean we intervene militarily every time there is an injustice in the world.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Obama’s lame assertion that the US does not need to intervene does not really answer the question.  We did not need to intervene in Libya either, but we did.</p>
<p>But perhaps the President had purposely chosen a lame and almost risible response (we do not need to so we won’t, and instead we’ll do things that we know will not work, like tighten sanctions even though they are not working) precisely in order to avoid an honest answer.  Perhaps the President does not want the honest answer made public…at least not until after his victory in the coming election.</p>
<p>The honest answer may be more akin to something like this.  <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields042712.php3">Libya was an easy mark, little risk, good PR. Syria, however, is different</a>.  Its army is more formidable than Qaddafi’s. It is known to be heavily armed with shoulder-fired missiles obtained from Russia and China.  And perhaps most important, it is closely allied with Russia and Iran.   Obama does not want to alienate either.  It is likely that he is preparing for some post-election agreements with Russia concerning nuclear disarmament and elimination of our missile defense systems (remember <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/us-nuclear-summit-obama-medvedev-idUSBRE82P0JI20120326">that &#8220;hot mic&#8221; incident with Russian president Medvedev</a>?), so he does not want friction with this future partner now.</p>
<p>And regarding Iran, Syria is closely allied with Iran too, and serves as Iran’s proxy in the non-Shiite part of the Fertile Crescent.  Obama does not want to precipitate another major armed conflict, especially not with Iran, prior to the elections. If the U.S. were to strike Syria, Iran would probably be forced to take some sort of action, not only to support its proxy and ally, but also to protect its base of operations in Syria and Lebanon, a base which it has been building for more than 30 years.  Moreover, Assad’s enemies include the Muslim Brotherhood whose ultimate goal is the creation of a Sunni Caliphate  &#8211;  obviously in competition with Iran for global Muslim domination.  So Iran could not stand idly by as the USA intervenes on behalf of Iran’s enemies to bring about the demise of Iran’s ally, and thus an Iranian counter-response would be almost assured.  It is also important to recall that Obama has been venting jeremiads against Israel for the very thought of a military strike against Iran.  Obama would then be in the untenable position of striking Iran to protect Syrian Arab Muslim civilians from Assad’s massacre, but not striking Iran to protect Israeli Jewish (and Muslim and Christian) civilians from Iran’s nuclear massacre<a href="https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13709ff43b7dc97e&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw&amp;saduie=AG9B_P9TijVFtqY0LhzHew5Cqtih&amp;sadet=1336114605616&amp;sads=TygXlh1XrXmEChFHARuxlCQ3LwA#0.1__edn2">[ii]</a>.</p>
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		<title>New Round of Palestinian Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Netanyahu take the bait? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ab_2037044c.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-129727" title="ab_2037044c" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ab_2037044c.gif" alt="" width="375" height="257" /></a>On April 17, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), delivered to Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian-delegation-delivers-peace-talks-demands-to-netanyahu-1.424905">letter listing the PA’s demands in anticipation of peace negotiations,</a> demands with which Israel must comply or Abbas will eschew further negotiations and instead “<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/text-of-abbass-letter-to-netanyahu/">seek the full and complete implementation of international law</a> as it pertains to the powers and responsibilities of Israel as occupying power in all of the occupied Palestinian territory.” In other words, Abbas will go back to the UN and the International Criminal Court to seek redress against Israel’s putative criminal activities.  Much like an obstreperous child on the playground, Abbas tells Netanyahu that either he play the game according to Abbas’ rules or Abbas will tell the teacher what a bad boy Israel has been.  It would be a comical farce were not so many lives at stake.</p>
<p>Abbas goes on to threaten, albeit obliquely, that because Israel has not played the game according to Abbas’ demands, he might just go ahead and dissolve the PA, throwing back upon Israel all of the responsibilities for administration in the West Bank: “For the Palestinian Authority—now stripped of all meaningful authority—cannot continue to honor agreements while Israel refuses to even acknowledge its commitments. The P.A. is no longer as was agreed and this situation cannot continue.”  So in addition to tattling to the teacher, he will also take his ball and go home.</p>
<p>Hopefully, Netanyahu will not be moved by such puerile posturing.</p>
<p>None of this is new.  <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/un-194-%E2%80%93-not/">After being rebuffed at the UN last year</a>, Abbas floated informal threats about dismantling the PA,<a href="http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&amp;id=27138"> and even took the idea to the Fatah Central Committee (FCC). </a>The FCC supported the idea but no decision was taken. When questioned while in Japan about <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/04/dear_abu_mazen_end_this_farce">Yossi Beilin’s open letter in Foreign Policy</a> magazine on April 4, in which Beilin urged Abbas to carry out his threat to dissolve the PA as a way to express his exasperation with Netanyahu’s “intransigence,” Abbas quickly back-tracked and told journalists that <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-answers-beilin-we-shall-not-dissolve-the-pa/">“The PA is an achievement and we must not dissolve it but strengthen it.” </a>But if that were true, why would the FCC support the idea? Perhaps because they know that Abbas has no intention of dissolving the PA.</p>
<p>In order to understand what is going on here, we must recognize the perils to Israel that are implied in both of Abbas’ threats.</p>
<p>Abbas knows that unlike former U.S. Presidents, Obama has already threatened to withhold a US veto in the UN if a Security Council resolution could create an existential threat to Israel.  Abbas’ second try at the UN might work, especially if this timethe PA demand is pared down to recognition with the status of a non-member state (a big step above the “observer status” that the PA now has, but below full membership), and especially if Obama wins a second term and no longer needs to worry about losing some of his Jewish vote.  Moreover, although the PA’s attempt to bring war-crime accusations against Israel at the International Criminal Court ended in failure with the decision that <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/10/jewish-victory-in-lawfare/">the court had no jurisdiction, as the present writer noted earlier,</a> the chief prosecutor outlined for the PA the directions it could take if it wanted to appeal at a later date.  By requesting that the UN petition the court to hear the PA case, or by convincing state members of the court to agree to bring the case to the docket, Abbas could do an end-run around the jurisdiction issue.  If the PA’s attorneys have the brains that God gave a napkin, they are working on both of these issues now.</p>
<p>So the peril to Israel in Abbas’ first threat is that Israel may be pilloried in the ICC with a re-run of the Goldstone report, especially if Obama wins a second term.</p>
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		<title>Our Naked Emperor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's key role in the Unholy Alliance.]]></description>
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<p>When the vain and delusional emperor <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/stories/fairytale/emperorsnewclothes/story/">walked naked through the streets</a> of his capital to show off his new clothes, so light and so finely woven that they could not be seen or felt, it was only an innocent little child, ingénue, who told the world that the emperor was naked.  The rest went along with the charade, and collaborated with the emperor and his dishonest clothiers in order to avoid imperial ire.</p>
<p>Recent events and disclosures at the highest levels of our government demonstrate that our own rulers, like the naked emperor, have through folly and dishonesty exposed themselves as “useful idiots” or worse, liars and functionaries whose loyalties may well be to other than the United States.</p>
<p>On April 10, Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, stated that “religion is not driving extremist violence” in Nigeria.  This pronouncement was made one day after <a href="../2011/07/21/nigeria-falling/">Boko Haram,</a>  the <em>uber</em>-violent Muslim jihadist Nigerian terrorists, <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/religion-not-driving-extremist-violence-nigeria-says-obama-official-after-church">bombed a church killing 39 Christians</a>.</p>
<p>Carson told us an unconscionable and transparent lie.  In addition to stating an obvious falsehood, given the Boko Haram’s overt and unabashed self-definition as a brutally violent Muslim terrorist organization which condemns all things non-Muslim as “Haram” (prohibited), Carson also contradicted earlier State Department assessments, <a title="" href="#_edn1">[i]</a>  all of which argue that Nigeria’s Islamic religious terrorist violence was so much a concern that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom <a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/government-relations/other-advocacy-materials/3398-nigeria-.html">(USCIRF) recommended</a> back in 2002 that Nigeria be placed on the United States watch list.</p>
<p>What impelled Mr. Carson to lie such that anyone anywhere who does not live under a rock can see that he is lying?  Joel Mowbray’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Diplomacy-Department-Threatens-Americas/dp/0895261103">Dangerous Diplomacy  </a></em>provides a clue.  Mowbray documents how the Saudi royal family has over the past decades insinuated itself into our State Department by promising State Department officials serving in the Arab world generous sinecures when they have retired from their official duties, as long as they represent Saudi interests to the US government while serving in the State Department.  These Saudi long-range bribes render our officials servants of the Saudi government, representing Saudi interests to our government instead of the other way around.<a title="" href="#_edn2">[ii]</a></p>
<p>But the problem runs deeper than one State Department functionary whose integrity may have been compromised by Muslim forces that want him to lie on behalf of Islamic jihadist terrorists.  His boss is Madame Secretary Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State.  She has been silent regarding his transparent lie.  Is Saudi penetration so deep that even the Secretary of State cannot publicly correct the errors of a State Department employee; and is it only the Saudis?</p>
<p>Very distressingly, it may be more than the State Department alone that is in question here.  President Obama and the State Department have been <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/exclusive-state-department-wont-rule-out-aid-to-a-fatah-hamas-government/2011/03/29/AFhvld8E_blog.html">unwilling to rule out </a> aid to Hamas despite the fact that that very same State Department has classified Hamas as a terrorist organization, and American law prohibits US financial aid to terrorist organizations.  As Trudy Rubin observed last year in a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/exclusive-state-department-wont-rule-out-aid-to-a-fatah-hamas-government/2011/03/29/AFhvld8E_blog.html">Washington Post article</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The most ominous interpretation of the mush coming from the State Department (regarding aid to Hamas) is that the administration is so rudderless, unprincipled and desperate to avoid a clear defeat in its efforts to foist a “peace agreement” on the parties that it would go so far as to continue to do business with the PA, despite (the PA’s) taking on a partner that has killed Americans, seeks Israel’s destruction and, from behind the skirts of women and the cribs of children, has conducted a missile bombardment of Israel.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The State Department’s rudderless, unprincipled pronouncements <a href="http://www.meforum.org/582/hamas-from-cradle-to-grave">contradict its own policy</a> denying aid to any terrorist organization. <strong></strong></p>
<p>And in case one might think that Hamas’ terrorist history is a function only of its violent and psychotic leaders, while the downtrodden rank-and-file of Gazan Arabs are just tagging along for the charitable gifts they receive from Hamas leadership, one need only note the <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/20/palestinians-punish-hamas-not-shooting-rockets-israel/">recent Commentary Magazine article</a> on the Palestinian Shikaki organization’s poll of Gazan and West Bank Arabs.  This poll shows that Hamas has lost considerable support of its followers in the Gaza Strip due in part to its not being aggressive enough in its terrorism against Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pcpsr.org/survey/polls/2012/p43epressrelease.html">The poll’s findings</a> indicate a significant decline in the popularity of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and a decrease in its constituency’s positive evaluation of its government compared to previous polls.  Shikaki suggests that this may be due to Hamas&#8217; behavior, standing on the sideline, during Gaza&#8217;s rocket war with Israel (while other Gazan terror groups carried out numerous rocket attacks).  Ironically, several Hamas leaders, especially Isma’il Haniyeh, enjoy in the West Bank a popularity that rivals President Abbas.  Apparently it is not just the Gazan Arabs who want to see Jews murdered.</p>
<p>Significant percentages of Gazan Arabs, not the leaders, nor even the leaders’ acolytes, just the plain old day-to-day Arabs on the street, really want Hamas and other terror groups to just keep on bombing Israel, just keep on killing Jews.  Yet the State Department and our President are unclear as to whether or not it is a good idea for the USA to continue to provide Hamas with hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars, many of which will be rerouted to support Hamas’ terrorist efforts.</p>
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		<title>Thomas Friedman Praises Palestinian Jew Murderer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boundless ignorance and deceptive arguments of the New York Times' "Middle East expert." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/xlarge_0921_friedman.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-128421" title="xlarge_0921_friedman" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/xlarge_0921_friedman.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a>When it comes to Thomas Friedman’s all-too-often <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/19/tom-friedman-spokesman-of-anti-israel-propaganda/">misguided and misleading commentary</a> on the Middle East, and especially on the Arab-Israel conflict, one must keep in mind that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.  In his New York Times article of April 4 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/opinion/a-middle-east-twofer.html?pagewanted=print">(“A Middle East Twofer”),</a> Friedman does offer one accurate insight into the psyche of Israel’s population:  Israel can accommodate a Palestinian state on its border only when Israelis can feel strategically secure. Everything else in his article is so inaccurate that it borders on mendacity.</p>
<p>He starts off with praise for Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian terrorist leader serving five consecutive life sentences for the murder of many Israelis in terror attacks.  Friedman considers Barghouti to be “the most authentic leader Fatah has produced.”  He is right. Barghouti is one of the most, if not the most, authentic of all Palestinian leaders living today. But Friedman fails to note, or fails to mention, that Barghouti’s authenticity, and his popularity with the Palestinian rank-and-file, arise from his success at killing Israelis and his ability to plan and execute lethal terror attacks.</p>
<p>Yet this “authenticity,” festooned as it is with the blood and gore of hundreds of Israelis shot or stabbed or blown up or burned alive, inspires Friedman to place great confidence in Barghouti’s call, from his jail cell, for non-violent civil disobedience; even though, as Friedman envisions it, this “non-violence” can include throwing rocks and waging economic and political war and lawfare against Israel.</p>
<p>He neglects to ask if Israelis share his confidence in such an “authentic” leader.  He fails to note the real purpose of Arab economic and political warfare against Israel, the goal of lawfare, and the life-threatening potential of stone-throwing. For Palestinian leadership, and for much leadership of Arab countries, the end-game goals of all of these endeavors do not include peace with Israel. Rather they are part of the 65-year war waged for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with “Palestine.”  How did Friedman miss these critical points?</p>
<p>He misses a similar critical point when he urges the Palestinians to offer Israel a peace plan in the form of a “map delineating how, for peace, they would accept getting back 95 percent of the West Bank and all Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, and would swap the other 5 percent for land inside pre-1967 Israel.”  What he fails to note, or neglects to mention, is that the Palestinian leadership from Arafat to Abbas to Hamas have already done that.  As <a href="http://www.netreach.net/~zoa/newsLinks/shockers/m96.htm">Arafat so quaintly put it decades ago</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Since we cannot defeat Israel in war we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.</p></blockquote>
<p>And it is not just Arafat.  Numerous Hamas and PA leaders have said the same thing.</p>
<ul>
<li>“<a href="http://www.islamicawakening.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=1129">Palestine is a Muslim land</a> &#8230;we do not recognise the sovereignty of Jews on a hand-span of our country.”</li>
<li>“<a href="http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/jerusalem/jerusalem82.html">Our fate from Allah is to be the vanguard in the war against the Jews until the resurrection of the dead.”</a></li>
<li>“The Jews are the Jews…<a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=427&amp;all=1">therefore it is necessary to slaughter them</a> and murder them…..kill them….have no mercy on the Jews, murder them everywhere”</li>
<li>“The day of resurrection will not come until the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=p-NBqOkvfoEC&amp;pg=PA136&amp;lpg=PA136&amp;dq=muhammed+abd+al+hadi+la%27afi+the+day+of+resurrection+will+not+come&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=K70TbvW_zr&amp;sig=Hymek4m5xAXELcq3PM3EzUXrwxs&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=OzqDT-f4LKXm0QHG6bTWBw&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=on">victory of the believers over the descendents of monkeys and pigs, with their annihilation</a>.”</li>
</ul>
<p>But enough about the Jews.  What about plans for the future of peace with Israel?</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;<a href="http://math.ucsd.edu/~revans/boycott.html">The Zionist entity will be destroyed within the first quarter of this century</a>.”</li>
<li><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/02/content_4373348.htm">“[T]here is no place for the state of Israel on this land.&#8221;</a></li>
<li>“When we speak of Jerusalem it does not mean that we have forgotten about … Jaffa or Acre (<em>Israeli cities</em>)….from a religious point of view <a href="http://www.peaceforourtime.org.uk/page153.html">Palestine from the sea to the river is Islamic</a>.”  Any room for Israel in that vision?</li>
<li>“Even if agreements were signed regarding Gaza and the West Bank, we will not forget (<em>the Israeli cities and regions of</em>) Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, the Galilee Triangle, and the Negev.  <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/6585">It is only a question of time</a>.”  Time for what; congenial cooperation?</li>
<li>“<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/6585#.T4M9Ctl6qSo">All of the agreements….are temporary</a>.” Good to know this in advance.</li>
<li>“We exaggerate when we say ‘peace’…<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/6585#.T4M9Ctl6qSo">what we are speaking about is ‘hudna,’ a temporary ceasefire</a>.”  Temporary till when?</li>
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<p>Such rhetoric of annihilation accompanies hate-teach from kindergarten up in PA schools.  And their deeds match their words.</p>
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		<title>Jewish Victory Against Lawfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But other opportunities to delegitimize Israel in the international arena remain.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/The-International-_2166929b.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-128349" title="The-International-_2166929b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/The-International-_2166929b.gif" alt="" width="375" height="241" /></a>Like television’s energizer bunny, they just keep on going.  There is simply no end to the Arab attempts to utilize venues for political or legal warfare (now referred to as &#8220;lawfare”) to undermine Israeli sovereignty and demonize the Jewish state.  Happily the most recent attempt ended in failure for the Palestinian Authority and a victory for Israel and for Jews world-wide.</p>
<p>Recently, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/world/middleeast/international-criminal-court-rejects-palestinian-bid-for-tribunal.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=print">the International Criminal Court (ICC) turned down</a> a three-year old request by the Palestinian Authority to investigate PA accusations that Israel committed war crimes during its invasion of Gaza in December 2008-January 2009.  <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/">This lawfare farce began in 2009</a> when, shortly after Israel’s retaliatory invasion of the Gaza Strip (Operation Cast Lead), the PA requested the intervention if the ICC regarding putative Israeli war crimes during that military operation.  The response then from ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo was that the ICC held no legal jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories because the ICC holds such jurisdiction only over sovereign states that have recognized the court and accepted its jurisdiction.  These legal limitations mean that the ICC does not have universal jurisdiction.  Since the Palestinian territories are not a state, and since neither Israel nor the PA had at that time recognized the ICC’s authority, the ICC lacked legal basis to examine the PA allegations.</p>
<p>But that did not stop the PA.  Palestinian leaders quickly offered their unilateral recognition of the ICC’s jurisdiction and <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3811">“upped the ante”</a> by changing the request by demanding an ICC investigation of Israeli war crimes committed on the territory of “Palestine” dating back to 2002.  Suddenly (perhaps after a little arm-twisting and nudging) 400 written requests flooded the ICC prosecutor’s office demanding that the ICC take the case; and the PA proudly pointed out to the ICC that more than 130 sovereign states and a variety of international organizations had already recognized “Palestine” as a state and had commenced bilateral relations with it.</p>
<p>After almost three years of deliberation, the ICC concluded that it had no authority to decide the sovereign status of a non-statepolitical entity, and that it could launch investigations <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/03/international/i074602D73.DTL">only if petitioned by the U.N. Security Council or an involved state</a> that has recognized the court.  Because <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=264638">the PA held only observer status at the UN, and not the status of a state or a non-member state</a>, Moreno-Ocampo had no choice but to refer the issue to the either the <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3811">“relevant bodies at the United Nations”</a> or to the group of nations that constitute the court.</p>
<p>The real issue, only vaguely alluded to or omitted completely by mainstream media, is that this is nothing more than <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=264638">another attempt by the PA</a> and its Arab and NGO allies to achieve legal statehood status for “Palestine” by exploiting and abusing international legal or political venues.</p>
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		<title>Arabs Uniting Again Against Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Israels-alarm-about-new-Egypt-deepens.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-127672" title="Israels-alarm-about-new-Egypt-deepens" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Israels-alarm-about-new-Egypt-deepens.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>Last month the present writer <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/08/an-anti-israel-activists-epiphany/">reported briefly on the Qatar Conference</a> that took place in Doha, capital of Qatar, at the end of February, discussing one aspect of the conference as an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate-fest.  In light of the March 30<sup>th</sup> <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/28/the-global-march-to-jerusalem/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=5701a467f2-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">“Global March to Jerusalem,”</a> it is time to re-visit the Qatar Conference and examine its probable long-term impact.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.qatarconferences.org/jerusalem/participants.php">participants</a> and <a href="http://www.qatarconferences.org/jerusalem/agenda.php">agenda</a> of the “International Conference for the Defense of occupied Jerusalem” displayed an <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=5821">unprecedented broad spectrum</a> of the Arab and Muslim nations and organizations, uniting in Qatar for the sole purpose of strategizing new ways to destroy Israel. Unusual, but not surprising, was the official presence of representatives from the UN and Iran, the American and UK Muslim Brotherhood organizations, an Israeli Hamas leader, and Neturei Karta rabbis, who, despite their much ballyhooed sympathies for the Palestinian cause, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/neturei-karta-rabbis-beaten-and-verbally-abused-at-jordanian-land-day-rally/">were brutally beaten</a> by Arab marchers. Unofficial attendees included EU leaders and U.S. and European academics.</p>
<p>One of Israel’s greatest advantages in its fight for survival against the 64-year long Arab war to destroy the Jewish state has been Arab disunity.  For that reason alone, the Doha Conference deserves special notice by virtue of the event’s successfully hosting Sunni and Shi’ite, Arab and Iranian, participants for whom the old Arab proverb, “my enemy’s enemy is my friend,” took on new meaning.</p>
<p>The conference featured four themes: the legal status of Jerusalem and its holy places under “Israeli occupation,” the Arab identity of the city, Israeli crimes against the Muslim world by its efforts to “judaize” Jerusalem and how to combat these efforts, and appropriate measures to engage civil society in the struggle to maintain the Arab character of the city.  In addition to vilification of Zionism and demonization of Israel, most of the conference focused on strategies to “rescue Jerusalem” from Israel. This new “rescue Jerusalem” theme may be the result of recent statements by <a href="http://globalmbreport.com/?p=5806">some Hamas leaders</a> and Abu-Youssef el-Qaradawi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, in which Israel’s “tampering with el-Aqsa” becomes a new <em>casus belli</em> for the Muslim world.</p>
<p>Over the past six years, the Muslim Brotherhood has sponsored a series of such conferences to develop strategies to delegitimize and vilify Israel, <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/text/Turkey_Muslim_Brotherhood.pdf">many of them in Turkey</a> and with the cooperation of the Turkish government: apparently part of the new Turkish government’s interest in becoming<a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=5821"> a new nexus for the Muslim world</a>, a nexus whose first priority is the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>According to its <a href="http://gm2j.com/main/">website</a>, the concept of a “Global March to Jerusalem” (GM2J) has been discussed for decades; but the eventof Friday, March 30, <a href="http://www.gmj-na.org/about.html">was born a year earlier</a> in discussions among the organizers of the <a href="http://www.asiatogaza.org/">Asian Caravan to Gaza</a>, which will useTurkey as its port of departure for its as yet unrealized blockade-busting voyage to Gaza.</p>
<p>The Asian Caravan to Gaza has <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11643/pub_detail.asp">close connections with the Muslim Brotherhood</a>, as <a href="http://globalmbreport.com/?p=5779">do the Global March organizers</a><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=136799c849130628&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[i]</a>; and the Muslim Brotherhood leaders were key players in the Qatar conference.  It is probably no coincidence, therefore, that a year after the Asian Caravan folks began discussing it, and only a month after the Qatar conference focused on “rescuing Jerusalem,” we witnessed close to 20,000 people massing on Israel’s borders on Friday, March 30, to rescue Jerusalem from Israel’s “judaization” of the future capitol of “Palestine.”</p>
<p>There was ample news coverage and analysis in the weeks leading up to the march,<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=136799c849130628&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn2">[ii]</a> with speculation about how Israel would handle this massive civilian, yet hostile, breach of its borders.  There was somewhat more limited coverage of the event itself in mainstream media, perhaps because it drew nowhere near the two million participants of which organizers boasted in the days leading up to the event.  There was some violence and one fatality, but the Israeli security forces effectively used non-lethal riot-control techniques and <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/global-march-to-jerusalem-website-blocked-in-israel-decoy-site-directs-to-hasbara-video.html">hi-tech interference</a> to dampen mob enthusiasm; and Jordanian, Lebanese and Egyptian forces prevented marchers’ access to the Israeli borders.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Knife in Israel&#8217;s Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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<p>In his March 28<sup>th</sup> article, <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/28/israel_s_secret_staging_ground?page=full">“Israel’s Secret Staging Ground,” in <em>Foreign Policy</em></a>, Mark Perry revealed previously secret information about Israel’s dealings with Azerbaijan;  and many are now of the opinion that his article was in reality <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2012/0329/Attacking-Iran-Did-US-just-torpedo-Israeli-deal-for-a-base-in-Azerbaijan">Obama’s knife in Israel’s back</a>.  According to Perry, four unnamed senior diplomats and military intelligence officers leaked information indicating that Israel has purchased air force bases in Azerbaijan for use in preparation for an attack on Iran.</p>
<p>The likelihood that it is mere coincidence that four senior diplomatic and military intelligence sources separately leaked the same information at the same time is very small.  So <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/29/bolton-accuses-administration-leaking-story-on-israeli-planning-along-iran/">John Bolton holds Obama responsible</a>.  <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294856/bolton-blames-obama-leaking-israeli-azerbaijan-relationship-patrick-brennan">Bolton suggests</a> that because Obama’s private efforts to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran have failed, he decided to ratchet up the pressure on Israel by revealing sensitive, secret information that, once available to Iran, will make an Israeli offensive less likely to succeed, and thus be a deterrent to such an offensive.<a title="" href="#_edn1">[1]</a>  This is surely not the sort of thing that a head of state does to an ally; but it might be the sort of thing that an unconscionably Machiavellian President running for re-election might do if he perceives that an Israeli strike on Iran might be a political liability for him.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.trend.az/news/politics/2008059.html">Azerbaijani Defense Ministry denies</a> any collusion with Israel, and, indeed, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/mar/29/israel-azerbaijan-unlikely-allies">Azerbaijan is a rather unlikely ally</a> for the Jewish state; but <a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/01/09BAKU20.html">Wikileaks gives a solid basis</a> for such collusion, the motivation for which may be Azerbaijan’s perception of Iran as an existential enemy.</p>
<p>Some <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/perry-tales-in-foreign-policy/">Israeli analysts deride the very idea</a> that Israel could be in league with Azerbaijan for a variety of strategic and tactical, military, logistical and political reasons, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/analysts-shrug-off-claims-that-israel-plans-to-fly-via-azerbaijan-to-strike-iran/">including the fact that an Iranian revenge attack</a> on Azerbaijan’s oil production facilities could easily destroy the country’s entire economy.</p>
<p>But these commentators all miss the point.  It does not matter whether or not the information is correct.  Those who leaked it presumably thought that it was.  It does not matter that the <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2c7340%2cL-4210439%2c00.htm">President says that he did not</a> knife Israel in the back and has &#8220;no interest&#8221; in leaks of this kind, or that “…<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2c7340%2cL-4210439%2c00.htm">the US is crawling with thousands of intelligence</a> and former intelligence officials.”  The buck stops at Obama’s desk.  He is the Commander-in-Chief of those thousands.  Yet his response is dismissive, nonchalant, and insouciant:  hardly the appropriate attitude when an ally’s secret defensive plans have been compromised, with potentially existential consequences.</p>
<p>In the context of a broader perspective this incident takes on rather dire dimensions, as it is the latest in a long line of anti-Israel statements and actions originating with Obama or with those working close to him.</p>
<p>This past February Secretary of Defense Leon <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/us-nuclear-iran-usa-israel-idUSTRE81202Z20120203">Panetta told Iran that he thinks Israel will strike as early as April</a>.  So Israel’s ally tells Israel’s enemy when Israel will strike.  Surely, for Iran, this is “news you can use.”  Was this just a gaff, or was it an intentional leak meant to undermine Israel’s military options?  Panetta answers to Obama, but Obama seems to be insouciant, saying nothing.</p>
<p>Another problem regarding Obama’s silence is the recent flap about <a href="http://www.onejerusalem.org/2012/03/video-state-department-spokesw.php">a State Department official’s refusal to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the official capital of Israel</a>.  This official is not to blame.  She was merely conforming to the directives of her employer, the U.S. Department of State, which, despite Congress’ <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/104/s1322">Jerusalem embassy act of 1995</a>, and the <a href="http://www.onejerusalem.org/2012/03/supreme-court-sets-back-obama.php">recent Supreme Court decision recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital</a>, continues to ignore U.S. law.   The State Department answers to the President, and the President is silent, insouciant, on this issue.</p>
<p>But he did have something to say about the <a href="http://www.therightscoop.com/the-white-house-removed-references-to-jerusalem-israel-from-its-website/">status of Jerusalem on the White House website</a>. Not too long ago <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/white-house-cleanses-israel-website_588127.html">Obama himself ordered the removal</a> of all references to “Jerusalem, Israel” from the White House website, <a href="http://israel-commentary.org/?p=1284">replacing them with “Jerusalem.”</a>  What could be Obama’s motive for divesting Israel of its capital, and Jerusalem of its Jewish state?  Connecting some recent dots will offer an answer to that question.</p>
<p>To a mostly Jewish AIPAC audience on June 4, 2008, front-running Presidential candidate Obama announced that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.”     But only a few days later, after being assailed by Arab-American and Palestinian spokespersons, he told a mostly Arab audience that “…it’s going to be up to the parties to negotiate.” <a title="" href="#_edn2">[2]</a>  To which audience did he lie?</p>
<p>But as the world had already learned a few months earlier, he was willing to divide not only Jerusalem, but all of Israel. In January, 2008, Obama said he supported the division of Israel into two parts by a Palestinian state.<a title="" href="#_edn3">[3]</a> This stunning comment came as Obama, struggling to articulate his stance on key Mideast issues, asserted that &#8220;The Palestinians have a legitimate concern that a state have a contiguous coherent mass that would allow the state to function effectively.&#8221; Was Obama not aware that a land corridor between Gaza and the West Bank would effectively cut Israel in half, making it incoherent and non-contiguous, divided into northern and southern portions? Was this merely the gaff of an inexperienced, flustered and geographically challenged presidential candidate trying to accommodate Arab-American voters, or was Obama stating a priority that presaged a series of later presidential anti-Israel words and deeds?</p>
<p>Looking back a bit further into Obama’s not-too-distant past, one may be able to find the likely answer to these questions.</p>
<p>During his presidential campaign (2007-08) he revealed to the press the names of those to whom he would look for guidance on Middle East issues,  his “brain trust” as it were:<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133515"> Zbigniew Brzezinski</a>, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obama_and_israel.html">Anthony Lake</a>, <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/topic/susan-rice/">Susan Rice</a>, <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/3356/exclusive-obamas-nation-of-islam-staffers-edward-said-inflexible-jews-causing-mid-east-conflict-an-obama-insider-reveals-the-real-barack/">Bettylu Saltzman</a>, <a href="http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=1510">Robert Malley</a>,<a title="" href="#_edn4">[4]</a>  and <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=472_1304247925">Samantha Power</a>, among others  &#8211;  a dream team for the anti-Israel crowd at home and abroad.  Given his choice of advisors, it was not difficult to predict that he would be no friend of Israel.</p>
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		<title>Jihadist Infiltration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How terrorists continue to enter our country via Mexico as illegal immigrants. ]]></description>
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<p>Judging from the progress that anti-Israel “Lawfare” and pro-Shari’a movements have made in advancing the “Palestinian Cause” and Shari’a compliant programs in a distressingly vast array of our society’s institutions over the past decade, one must conclude that the Muslim jihadist forces working to infiltrate our society are winning.</p>
<p>The most obvious peril arises from terrorist infiltration. Terrorists identified as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian agents continue to enter our country via Mexico as illegal immigrants.  Yet, almost a decade ago the present writer and <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11889">others published analyses of the danger</a> posed to our country’s security by such infiltration.  If these agents were not bent on doing us harm, they could easily enter our country via normal ports of entry.  The fact that they disguise themselves as Mexicans and try to sneak past our border guards is a very good indication that they are here on jihadist missions and know that if they were to try to enter the USA via normal channels, they would be identified as wanted terrorists.  Once in the USA, they easily disappear into the American Muslim community, undocumented, untraceable, invisible and unstoppable.</p>
<p>The problem on our southern border has grown only worse since then, with continued jihadist entry via Mexico and <a href="../2012/01/24/the-venezuelan-missile-crisis/">the new alliance between Iran and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.</a>  The Iran-Venezuela connection and Iran’s quest for deployable WMDs create the threat of a nuclear armed Venezuela under Iranian influence holding the USA hostage with nuclear-armed missiles having in their cross-hairs all of the southern USA from San Diego to Sarasota.</p>
<p>Expert witnesses reporting to congress have indicated <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/LevittTestimony20120321.pdf">that Iran has active agents, both Hezbollah and Iranian government operatives, in the USA</a>:  sleeper cells <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nypd-says-iran-conducted-surveillance-nyc-172721155.html">awaiting orders while conducting surveillance</a> in preparation for future attacks.  While <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/opinion/sunday/kristof-the-false-debate-about-attacking-iran.html?ref=columnists&amp;pagewanted=print">some pundits are convinced</a> that Iran does not plan to attack the USA on its home front, the <a href="http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/how-about-not-bombing-iran/?pagemode=print">operative word that they ignore</a> is “yet.” Iran has successfully laid the groundwork for future terrorism inside the USA with <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/21/peter-king-thousands-hezbollah-donors-agents-in-us/">Hezbollah and other Iranian terrorist agents</a> primed, ready and invisible.</p>
<p>Less obvious, but no less perilous, is the quiet, gradual and peaceful infiltration of Muslim operatives and their supporters into our social, legal, educational and political systems under the guise of legitimate democratic activism in the form of the Divestment movement, the  BDS movement, the “One-State Solution” proponents, lawyers implementing “Lawfare,”  those who seek to legitimize Sharia law, and a host of socio-political organizations including “Jewish Voice for Peace” and other “Peace and Justice for Palestine” groups.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7964">Divestment movement</a>, which sought to pressure institutions (mostly churches and universities) to divest their retirement funds from companies doing business with or in Israel, began more than twenty years ago and soon became a nation-wide phenomenon gaining support and followers in <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9303">churches</a>, on <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9246">campuses, and in a variety of other institutions</a> holding substantial retirement funds.  While few assets were actually divested, the <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5571">real purpose of the movement was achieved</a>: create a new podium from which to demonize Israel and by means of which to grab public attention and mainstream media coverage.  Over time interest in divestment waned, and presenters found themselves preaching to the choir.  So the movement morphed into” BDS,” boycotts, divestment, sanctions.  By including calls for boycott and sanctions, the proponents of this movement created a wider panoply of audiences, since boycotts and sanctions do not need investment funds that can be divested.  And as was the case with the divestment movement, the BDS movement cut a swath through college campuses enjoying large audiences on accommodating campuses with little opposition.  Later, as audience interest diminished and presenters found themselves again preaching to the choir, the forces waging the campus war against Israel re-organized to create <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9246">the newest front</a>, the “One-State Solution” movement.  Starting at the top, “One-State Solution” conferences were recently held at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard University, schools of international repute whose status lent credence and legitimacy to this new venue for Israel-bashing.   None of this could have happened were there not already on campuses a cadre of willing enablers, student and faculty activists and complicit or complacent administrative leadership, who energetically support these anti-Israel and anti-Jewish efforts.</p>
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		<title>Blazing Qur&#8217;ans and the Deception of Muslim Contrived Indignation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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<p>In February of this year, American troops burned copies of the Qur’an at an army base in Afghanistan.  Western media were immediately abuzz with the Muslim response: massive riots causing the deaths of dozens of local Afghans, a <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-unrest/">Taliban revenge suicide attack</a> on US troops, car bombs, an Afghan policeman enraged by Qur’an burnings murders two US officers, Afghan soldiers turn on US troops and shoot two, Taliban suspends talks with the USA, and  in an incendiary anti-American speech Afghan president Karzai calls America “a demon” comparable to the Taliban. At least 40 die and hundreds are injured.</p>
<p>The event spawned three (count’em, three!) parallel and separate <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/world/asia/koran-burning-in-afghanistan-prompts-3-parallel-inquiries.html?pagewanted=all">legal inquiries</a>. The soldiers <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/looking-luke/2012/mar/6/burning-koran-changing-bible-politics-religion/">may be disciplined</a>;  but according to Congressman Allan West’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/congressman-allen-west/when-tolerance-becomes-a-one-way-street-it-leads-to-cultural-suicide/306311656088535" target="_blank">interpretation of the events</a>,  prisoners were writing extremist messages to one another in the pages of the Qur&#8217;ans, thus effectively <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-unrest/">desecrating them according to Muslim practice.</a> And the incident provides <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-quran-burning-in-afghanistan-is-indication-that-now-is-time-for-us-to-transition-out/2012/03/06/gIQAEFO4uR_story.html">support for Obama’s call for a pre-election pull-out</a> from Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Last year’s <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-03-21-quran-burning-florida_N.htm">Qur&#8217;an burning incident in Florida</a> had similar effects. A publicity hungry <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/florida-pastor-terry-joness-koran-burning-has-far-reaching-effect/2011/04/02/AFpiFoQC_story.html">pastor threatens to burn Qur&#8217;ans</a> and riots break out across the Middle East; followed by <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576244782887423062.html">murder and mayhem and destruction and endless anti-American propaganda</a>.  But we respond with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nigel-barber/burning-the-quran-put-peo_b_844174.html"> cringing misplaced deference</a>, as General Petraeus <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263790/no-more-dhimmitude-andrew-c-mccarthy">ignores the murderous Muslim mobs</a> and instead condemns the Florida preacher.</p>
<p>Similarly, in 2005 massive riots and destruction of property erupted in much of the Arab world <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Quran_desecration_controversy">when the provocation was the mere accusation</a>, unsupported by objective evidence, of desecration of a Quran by American personnel at Guantanamo.</p>
<p>The explosion of the <a href="http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/%7Eregier/papers/arab-street-published.pdf">“Arab Street”</a> when a Quran somewhere in the world may have been desecrated is not a new phenomenon.  It recurs with suspicious frequency and nearly cookie-cutter responses.  This phenomenon raises three questions:</p>
<p>Is it effective for ou<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/03/newt-gingrich-barack-obama-quran-burning-apology/1">r Commander-in-Chief to burst into paeans of groveling apology</a>, hand wringing, and self-deprecating <em>mea culpas</em>, and press for <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/23/us-afghanistan-korans-obama-idUSTRE81M13W20120223">changes in American military strategy</a> and foreign policy?</p>
<p>Why is there not a word from anyone in the west about the galactic hypocrisy of Muslim furor for an inadvertent error, when <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/looking-luke/2012/mar/6/burning-koran-changing-bible-politics-religion/">1,400 years of Muslim history are characterized by Muslim assaults</a> on Christians and the Christian Scriptures, not to mention desecrations of Jewish sacred sites and scriptures and the mass murder of Jews?</p>
<p>Why does no one raise the issue of the mass hypocrisy of Muslims world-wide who are silent as adherents desecrate Islam with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%27a%E2%80%93Sunni_relations">endless reciprocal violence of Sunni and Shiite,</a> Iranian and Azeri, Alawite and Syrian, blowing up entire mosques, killing thousands of innocent Muslims, and burning thousands of copies of the Qur&#8217;an &#8212; not to mention killings at weddings, funerals, and other religious events.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy">Danish “Cartoon Intifada”</a> of 2005-6 may provide answers to these questions.<strong></strong></p>
<p>Cartoons using Muslim imagery were published first by Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper in September, 2005.<a title="" href="#_edn1">[1]</a>  A few Muslim Imams in Denmark were upset. Then the cartoons were republished on October 17 on<a href="http://i1.tinypic.com/nfik52.jpg"> the front page of El-Farg</a>, a major Egyptian newspaper, with provocative headlines about the west deprecating the Prophet Mohammed; but still no outrage. <a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eemcd/Israel_RentARiotABCS.htm">Only after a summit meeting in Mecca in December</a> did the Muslim world go ballistic about the cartoons.  What happened <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy">at that meeting?</a></p>
<p>First a Palestinian Muslim Arab Imam living in Copenhagen, Ahmad Abu Laban, and some friends took copies of the cartoons to Muslim leaders in the Middle East.  <a href="http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/1030-Rent-A-Riot-ABCs.html">Knowing that the original cartoons were not really very derogatory,</a> they created a few really repulsive ones and told their Arab interlocutors at Mecca that all had been published in the Danish press.</p>
<p>The result was an astonishing uproar in the Muslim world.  Three months after the fact came the riots and mob attacks, vandalism, murders, arson, boycotts of European goods, thousands of Muslim demonstrators in London waved posters proclaiming “<a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eemcd/Israel_RentARiotABCS.htm">EXTERMINATE THOSE WHO MOCK ISLAM” and “BE PREPARED FOR THE REAL HOLOCAUST</a>”, and the editor of France-Soir was fired for reprinting the drawings.  Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the publication, and protesters set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1156609,00.html">The Egyptian Ambassador to Denmark</a> proclaimed: “The government of Denmark has to do something to appease the Muslim world!&#8221;   You have sinned! You must repent and show contrition, or else!</p>
<p>In a later publication, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2006/02/34737/">El-Farg editors explained the whole farce</a> to the world. In <a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eemcd/Israel_RentARiotABCS.htm">opportunistic hindsight they wrote</a> that &#8220;…It would have been better that this [current] holy war against Denmark (i.e., the cartoon intifada) been launched during the holy month of Ramadan (October, 2005) …This irrelevant….timing is but a sign that this violent response to the cartoons is politically motivated by Muslim extremists in Europe and the so-called secular governments of the Middle East.”</p>
<p>Obviously, the Mecca conference had recognized the real value of the cartoons: the spark to ignite a new and more global intifada in order to draw the West’s attention away from other embarrassing Middle East issues, and to teach the West a lesson about the price of offending Muslim delicate sensibilities. By February, 2006, 100,000 Muslims were prepared to “Vent Anger in London at Cartoon Protest.”<a title="" href="#_edn2">[2]</a></p>
<p>Now, why would they want to do that?<a title="" href="#_edn3">[3]</a>  There are several reasons.</p>
<p>The Arabs of the Palestinian Authority (PA) had just voted Hamas into power, but the European Union would not subsidize the PA if the money would go to Hamas. The cartoon intifada put the EU on the defensive, made all Muslims appear the victims of European racism, and make the EU too embarrassed and guilty to withhold its contributions.</p>
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		<title>Harvardstan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prestigious university shapes the course of America's future -- but where is it leading us? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-126354" title="harvard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard.gif" alt="" width="375" height="243" /></a>Harvard has long been perceived as America’s premier university, the gold standard in the quest for truth in the market-place of ideas, where scholars of high academic integrity pursue cutting-edge research and assist eager students to develop the analytical skills and critical acumen needed for future leadership.</p>
<p>But that perception bears closer scrutiny, especially since Harvard graduates become a disproportionate percentage of our country&#8217;s leaders.  Based on a <a href="http://labs.slate.com/articles/where-do-leaders-come-from/">Slate survey</a> of 1,410 prominent Americans, Harvard grads make up 17% of college and university presidents, 12% of people in the executive branch of our federal government, 11% of our judiciary, 10% of our Senate, and 9% of our business leaders.  Harvard grads shape the course of America’s future.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, such scrutiny reveals rather unpleasant realities.  The present writer’s three previous analyses<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[1]</a> of Harvard’s <a href="http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/">Center for Middle Eastern Studies</a>, its <a href="http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/outreach">Middle East outreach center</a> and its <a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/">John F. Kennedy School of Government</a> document a decade-long drift from academic integrity to the institutionalization of anti-Israel counter-factual and often deeply mendacious pro-Muslim indoctrination, characterized by egregious distortions of history and risible lies about Israel and Jews.  But perhaps most astonishing is the <a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/index.html">Harvard Law School’s</a> promotion of Sharia law as a system of jurisprudence that can, and according to some faculty should,<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn2">[2]</a>  operate alongside of our secular legal system.</p>
<p>The problems and perils of such an endeavor have been discussed in detail.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn3">[3]</a> To summarize briefly: Shariah is based upon a Muslim religious ideology that embraces the suppression of women (gender apartheid), the oppression of other religions (religious apartheid), cruel and unusual punishment, the denial of basic western freedoms (speech, thought, conscience, religion, and choice of life partner), and the maintenance of an eternal religious war against non-Muslims until Islam is the only, or at least the supreme, religion on earth.  As such, Sharia is incompatible with the social and political values of Western civilization, and radically contrary to its jurisprudence.</p>
<p>None the less, Justice Elena Kagan, then Dean of Harvard Law School, successfully promoted Sharia finance there.  Today Harvard boasts three separate programs, all funded by Saudi largesse, devoted to the study and application of Sharia law.  Professor Kagan is now a Supreme Court justice<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn4">[4]</a>.</p>
<p>Still left un-explored is the motivation for Harvard’s unconscionable compromises of its commitment to “veritas.&#8221;  As the old adage has it: when things don’t make sense, look for the money.</p>
<p>In 2000, the Sheikh Zayed Foundation offered Harvard $2.5 million to create an endowed professorship in Islamic studies at the Harvard Divinity School.</p>
<p>Due to the noxious anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-American nature of the Zayed foundation’s speakers, events, and the extremist causes that it supports, there arose much objection to the gift and to the Divinity School’s creating such a program with Zayed money:  but no Harvard administrator or professor publicly criticized the gift. The endowed professorship was withdrawn only because one courageous student, <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/harvard-never-learns/2012/03/07/">Rachel Lea Fish, mobilized public support</a> against it with an article in the <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/5/23/losing-veritas-i-recently-learned-that/">Harvard Crimson</a>.</p>
<p>Ms. Fish alerted the presumably snoozing Harvard community that sheikh Zayed is responsible for his nation’s abysmal human rights record (including, corporal punishment of dissidents, amputations for theft, lack of democracy, and child slave labor in the camel racing industry).  She also drew attention to the travesty of an American institution lending credibility to the Zayed Centre, which sponsors events and publications that spew such obscenities as “<a href="http://www.adl.org/anti_semitism/arab/saudi_blood_l.asp">The Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare for holiday pastries</a>,” and “<a href="http://larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2002/020602_zayed_speech.html">The United States was involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001,</a>” and “<a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/867.htm">the truth is that the Jews are the enemies of all nations</a>.&#8221;  Zayed Centre speakers have also expressed support and encouragement for suicide bombings and other terrorism against Israel, and denied the Holocaust.</p>
<p>When her letter in the Crimson drew no response, she <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/zayedno/petition.html">circulated a petition</a> on line which quickly garnered c. 10,000 signatures. Students’ outrage and petition failed to move Harvard administrators, but so <a href="http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/232/metro/Arab_nation_seen_halting_center_aidP.shtml">deeply embarrassed the Zayed foundation leaders</a> that they decided to rescind the offer.</p>
<p>Then in 2005, during Larry Summers’ presidency, <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/12/13/islamic-studies-gets-20m-gift-the/">Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal donated $20,000,000</a> to Harvard to establish the Prince al-Waleed bin Talal Islamic Studies program. Officially bin Talal gave the gift with <a href="http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=35721">no strings attached</a>; but some observers worried about indirect influence, especially regarding how Islam and Arab history are taught in U.S. schools.</p>
<p>Their worries may have been well founded.</p>
<p>On September 10, 2006, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, employer of Stephen Walt of Walt-Mearsheimer infamy, marked the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by hosting Mohammed Khatami, a former president of Iran<a href="http://www.nysun.com/editorials/khatemi-at-harvard/38903/">.  His topic: &#8220;Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>His hosts at the Kennedy School surely knew that Khatami presided over the July 9, 1999, crackdown on Tehran University, where hundreds of students were arrested and tortured.   Shortly before his invitation to Harvard, he described <a href="http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/guest/06/policz/veritas.html">Hezbollah as “<em>a shining sun</em></a><em> which warms up all oppressed Muslims, especially those in Palestine and Lebanon.&#8221;</em>  His predecessor, the Ayatollah Ruhola Khoumeini, founded Hezbollah in 1983, and Khatami continued to fund and support it.  They must have known as well that his country is run in accordance with Sharia law, women’s rights have been curtailed, homosexuals are hanged, and other human rights violations abound.</p>
<p>Then in 2008 <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-islamic-republic-harvard">Harvard banned men</a> from its three major gyms for six hours every week so that modest Muslim women could use these facilities without male scrutiny.  Critics, including Muslim students, condemned this decision as <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/03/sharia-at-harvard/219230/">capitulation to radical Islam</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did Saudi funding for the university have anything to do with its decision to host an anti-Israel hate-fest? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HARVARD.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125924" title="HARVARD" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HARVARD.gif" alt="" width="375" height="260" /></a>The official seal of Harvard University bears the four Latin words “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” (&#8220;the truth of Christ and the church&#8221;). Today, most reproductions of Harvard’s seal omit the last three words.  But it seems that all too many of Harvard’s faculty and governance have decided to ignore the first one as well.</p>
<p>The present writer’s assessment of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/12/new-front-in-israel-campus-wars/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=df02c9dba9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">Harvard’s hosting extreme anti-Israel hate-fest</a> events, and of its <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/15/academic-integrity-dying-on-harvard's-ivy-league-vine/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=29676318ba-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">programs that provide almost exclusively anti-Israel</a> and pro-Palestinian propaganda of a deeply misleading and often mendacious nature masquerading as educational outreach for high school and college students, demonstrated Harvard’s official institutionalization and legitimization of Islamic anti-Israel, anti-Jewish and anti-American ideologies, and its promotion of these ideologies to its students and others.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most egregious example of this figurative erasure of “veritas” from Harvard’s vision of its august educational mission is <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/dickmorrisandeileenmcgann/2010/07/21/kagan_promoted_shariah_law_at_harvard">Justice Elena Kagan’s energetic efforts to promote the advancement of Islamic Sharia law</a> in the form of Sharia finance studies during her tenure as Dean of the Harvard Law School.</p>
<p>But to understand the dangerous, perhaps even treasonous, nature of Kagan’s actions, one must first review why Sharia finance and Sharia law are problematic for any Western institution.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2010/07/19/elena-kagan-will-she-tolerate-shariah-she-did-at-harvard/">Sharia finance includes the Islamic legal requirement</a> that 2.5% of the principal of any investment be donated annually to charitable institutions, that recipients of their investment are fined 7% for transgressions of Shariah law (and the 7%  is donated to charity), and that the principal be invested only in projects compliant with the rules of Shariah.</p>
<p>The decisions as to which projects are compliant, which recipients have transgressed, and which charities receive the fines and the 2.5% contributions, are made by Shariah Compliance Boards appointed by the financial institution.  Such Boards may include radical Muslim extremists who routinely designate terrorist-linked entities to receive their charitable donations.  So Sharia finance regulations have the potential to <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/muslims-harvard-shill-for-islam-celebrate-sharia-law-its-desirable-chilling-effect-in-us/">create a new and lucrative channel for funding terrorism</a> against Israel, against the USA, and against any country targeted by Muslim terrorists.</p>
<p>But there is another and even more threatening aspect of Sharia finance.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=136177718ee1b909&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[1]</a> Shariah (lit. a path, a way) law is the product of Muslim jurists who use the Qur’an, the extra-Qur’anic accounts of Mohammed’s teachings, analogical reasoning, and consensus to create Muslim law.  Unfortunately, this 1,400 year-old process has created a body of jurisprudence that is fundamentally opposed to the concepts of human equality and personal freedom that are the foundations of Western civilization.</p>
<p>Requirements of Shariah law that are most antithetical to Western society include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Condoning the murder, preferably by stoning, of women for sexual transgressions or even for the accusation of sexual transgressions;</li>
<li>Condoning forced marriages and marriage of under-aged girls;</li>
<li>Condoning wife beating and marital rape;</li>
<li>Establishing women’s legal status in courts to be literally half of a man’s (it takes two female witnesses to counter one male witness in court);</li>
<li>Requiring that female heirs receive only half of what males receive;</li>
<li>Requiring women to <a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/ask-about-islam/faith-and-worship/aspects-of-worship/166970.html">cover all of their body</a> except <a href="http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&amp;ID=4912&amp;CATE=137">hands and face</a>;</li>
<li>Encouraging polygamy;</li>
<li>Prohibiting Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men;</li>
<li>Prohibiting homosexuality, with punishment of flogging or execution;</li>
<li>Prohibiting alcoholic beverages, gambling, music, much Western art;</li>
<li>Use of <em>lex talionis</em> (literally an eye for eye, tooth for tooth) as legal punishment;</li>
<li>Amputation, flogging, crucifixion, stoning and decapitation for a variety of crimes, many of which would be considered non-capital offenses or even torts by Western standards;</li>
<li>Death for insulting or criticizing Islam, Muslims, Mohammed, the Qur’an, Sharia, or Allah;</li>
<li>Requiring execution or assassination of <a href="http://www.cfr.org/malaysia/religious-conversion-sharia-law/p13552#p3">Muslims who convert out of Islam</a>;</li>
<li>Creating the <em>dhimm</em>i status for non-Muslims: a sub-class non-citizen denied civil and human rights;</li>
<li>Establishing the worth of a non-Muslim’s life as less than a Muslim’s;</li>
<li>Prohibiting the execution of a Muslim for the murder of a non-Muslim;</li>
<li>Requiring eternal jihad and exhorting Muslim leaders to abrogate treaties with non-Muslim countries if doing so will advance Jihad;</li>
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<p>So Shariah is based upon a religious ideology that embraces the suppression of women, gender apartheid, religious apartheid, cruel and unusual punishment, the denial of basic Western freedoms of speech, thought, conscience, religion, and choice of life partner, and the maintenance of an eternal supremacist religious war against non-Muslims until Islam is the only, or at least the supreme, religion in the world.</p>
<p>Add to that the Global Sharia Movement,<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=136177718ee1b909&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn2">[2]</a> with its own <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalSharia">YouTube channel </a>and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Sharia-Movement/131766086898930">Facebook pages</a>, whose goal is the <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5565.htm">total islamization of the world</a>, implementation of Shariah and abolition of democracy.  Unreal as this may sound, nearly 300 people attended a 2009 <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson072109.php3?printer_friendly">conference in Boston</a> to participate in the <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson071409.php3">Khalifah Conference on “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam”</a> organized by <a href="http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/index.php/EN/">Hizb ut-Tahrir</a> (HT), whose alumni include 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the late Iraqi terrorist leader Abu Musab az-Zarqawi and some would-be Hamas <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/354.pdf#page=5">suicide bombers</a>.  HT <a href="http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=65264&amp;start=0&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;highlight">declared a new Caliphate</a>, with its capital in Gaza City, in 2006; and it now seeks to establish that Caliphate and Shariah over the entire world.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to extreme anti-Israel bias. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-14.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125634" title="Picture-14" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-14.gif" alt="" width="375" height="240" /></a>On this past March 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup>, Harvard University hosted the now infamous “One-State Solution” conference, recently <a href="../2012/03/12/new-front-in-israel-campus-wars/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=df02c9dba9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">analyzed and critiqued by the present writer</a>.  The character and content of the conference, described as an anti-Israel hate fest by Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, generated considerable controversy, to which the Harvard <a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/message">Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood responded</a> with a limp and lackadaisical cookie-cutter disclaimer:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Let me emphasize that Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School in no way endorse or support the apparent position of the student organizers or any participants. We would never take a position on specific policy solutions to achieving peace in this region, and certainly would not endorse any policy that some argue could lead to the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But wait! “…not endorse any policy that some argue could lead to the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel?”  How can Dean Ellwood make such a statement?  Is he not aware of <a href="http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/outreach">Harvard’s Middle East Outreach Center</a>?</p>
<p>The center’s stated mission is to promote “a critical understanding of the diversity of the Middle East region;” but its activities and its director display a <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=257997">dogmatic adherence to the polemical, often counter-factual Palestinian version</a> of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Its director, Paul Beran, is an activist in the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement; and its reading list favors anti-Zionist writings of such polemicists as Edward Said and Ilan Pappe. It promotes the anti-Israel propaganda film “Occupation 101,” which features the one-sided and often mendacious rants of well known anti-Israel personalities such as Dr. Noam Chomsky and Richard Falk.  Moreover, <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">Center speakers on the Arab‑Israeli conflict have been accused of focusing singularly on a Palestinian perspective</a> while dismissing or ignoring the Israeli position.</p>
<p>Beran promotes the BDS movement when he lectures, and has forged bonds   between his outreach center and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an activist group <a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/top_ten_anti_israel_groups.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_2">designated by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as one of the ten most anti-Israel organizations</a> in the USA.</p>
<p>He has promoted the anti-Semitic lie of Jewish or Israeli control of the American Government, urged Harvard to consider former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz a war criminal, and when <a href="http://www.clarendonhillchurch.org/podcasts/our_image_001.html">speaking to a Presbyterian audience compared Israel’s sovereignty over the West Bank to the Roman occupation</a> of Judea at the turn of the millennium, asking his Christian audience: “How would Joseph and Mary get to Bethlehem with the now 25-foot high Separation Wall in their way?”</p>
<p>The Center’s activities<a title="" href="#_edn1">[i]</a> include educational outreach to local Boston high schools, and one of the texts used by the Center in high school outreach programs is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arab-World-Studies-Notebook/dp/1889993034">The Arab World Studies Notebook</a>, a seriously outdated text (last revised in 1998) which according to numerous studies<a title="" href="#_edn2">[ii]</a> is replete with factual errors and misrepresentations about Middle East history.  It  &#8220;….frequently steps over the line from teaching about (the Muslim) religion to….proselytizing for it,&#8221; and it uses <a href="http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&amp;b=849241&amp;ct=873537">polemical, one-sided language and even outright lies</a> (such as falsely accusing Israeli soldiers of murdering Arab women and children in cold blood) to condemn Israel and depict it as a genocidal aggressor state, in order to generate anti-Israel sentiment in its high school audiences.</p>
<p><a href="http://web.williams.edu/go/native/arabtextbook.htm">When challenged about the book’s egregious claim</a> that indigenous North American Algonquins were converted to Islam by Muslim trans-oceanic voyagers to the New World five centuries before Columbus, the authors offered no defense or rebuttal.  They quietly removed the passages from the textbook.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/221607/saudi-classroom/stanley-kurtz">Massachusetts education officials were shocked by the Center’s program</a> and by its textbook, and denounced it as an attempt to foist a &#8220;manipulative&#8221; and &#8220;distorted&#8221; political agenda on unsuspecting teachers.</p>
<p>And “manipulative and distorted” don’t even begin to describe the Center’s programs on the Israel-Arab conflict.  Director Beran’s <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">anti-Israel animus is well documented</a>, <a href="http://www.nysun.com/editorials/belfer-declaration/29648/">as is his wife’s</a>, Hilary Rantisi, a Palestinian-American who serves as director of the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.  She has been <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">active with the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center</a>, a Palestinian Christian Arab group operating in the West Bank that preaches the demonization of Israel to Christian audiences world-wide and compares Israel’s defensive actions against Arab terrorism to Nazi Germany’s oppression and slaughter of Jews.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the anti-Israel Left achieved a strategic victory with Harvard's one-state solution conference. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard-kennedy-school.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125045" title="harvard-kennedy-school" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard-kennedy-school.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>Harvard University has been excoriated for allowing a student-organized conference, the <a href="http://onestateconference.org/about_us.html">“One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the one-State solution,”</a> to take place on its campus (March 2 &amp; 3, 2012), financed in part by university resources (Harvard&#8217;s Provost and the Weatherhead Institute), located at the prestigious Kennedy School Forum, posted on the Harvard Kennedy School of Government website, and advertised as a Harvard Kennedy School Student Conference.  The Kennedy School website includes a disclaimer: “The One-State Conference is run solely by the student organizers, and students alone are responsible for all aspects of the program, including content and speakers, as with all student-run events.  It does not represent the views of the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, or any Harvard school or center.”  But it still had all the trappings of a Harvard event.</p>
<p>The organizers promised a conference that would explore “the possible contours of a one-state solution and the challenges that stand in the way of its realization.”    But a variety of critics defined the conference as an anti-Israel hate-fest on the basis of its <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/06/3092023/one-state-conference-at-harvard-signifies-possible-new-front-in-campus-israel-wars">presenters</a>, its sponsors (including notoriously anti-Israel groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Justice for Palestine, the Palestine Caucus, the Arab Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, and the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East), and <a href="http://www.onestateconference.org/speakers.html">its content</a>.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, <a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/withdraw-financial-support-of-and-affiliation-with-one-state-conference">controversy erupted</a> well in advance of the conference itself. Alan Dershowitz, a tenured professor at Harvard Law School<a href="http://israelcampusbeat.org/home/news/12-03-02/Dershowitz_We_Are_Winning.aspx">, condemned the conference as a genuine hate-fest</a> because &#8220;virtually all of the speakers oppose Israel’s existence.” He <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/should-harvard-sponsor-a-_b_1304798.html">described the call for a single-state solution</a> as “a euphemism for ending the existence of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people…. The “one-state” solution is not ‘the alternative for Israel. It is the alternative to Israel.’&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scottbrown.com/2012/03/brown-calls-on-harvard-university-to-cancel-conference-promoting-one-state-solution-in-israel/">Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) called on Harvard</a> to cancel the forum: “I want to condemn in the strongest possible terms Harvard’s sponsorship of a conference exploring a ‘one-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. This is dangerous thinking that gives comfort to Israel’s enemies who view the ‘one-state solution’ as a euphemism for eliminating Israel as a Jewish state. Harvard may have a right to do this, but that doesn’t make it right to do it. The University should cancel this conference.”</p>
<p>Professor Richard Cravatts, president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/trying-to-give-respectability-to-the-one-state-solution-at-harvard/">summed it up</a> best:</p>
<blockquote><p>A conference whose goal is to demonize and delegitimize Israel is not an academic enterprise. It is propaganda parading as scholarship, and violates not only one of the basic precepts of scholarship but also the spirit of the Kennedy School, which was conceived as a place where students could debate, with academic integrity, reason, and insight, the important issues facing decision makers.</p>
<p>The one-state solution, far from a rational plan for Palestinian statehood, actually proposes to do with votes and demography the same thing that Arab armies have themselves failed to do for the past 64 years.</p></blockquote>
<p>It is thus no surprise that the participants at this conference were <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/22/harvard%E2%80%99s-academic-pogrom/">the usual suspects</a> of the hate-Israel crowd.</p>
<p>Ilan Pappé, a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/22/harvard%e2%80%99s-academic-pogrom/">notorious anti-Israel Israeli faux-historian</a>, was one of the keynote speakers; despite the fact that he has been exposed as inventing history and distorting facts to fit his personal anti-Zionist ideology. As he himself has said, <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30161">“I care less about veracity because I have an agenda to advance.”</a></p>
<p>The other keynote speaker, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Abunimah">Ali Abunimah</a>, co-founder of <em>Electronic Intifada</em> and author of the 2006 book “One Country, a Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse,” has made a career of Israel bashing.</p>
<p>Another participant for whom facts are irrelevant is Eve Spangler, who routinely accuses Israel of “genocide, apartheid, and sociocide.”  Elsewhere she has declared that “<a href="http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/sociology/pdf/2012F/SC367Spangler.pdf">there is no ‘real’ history, only competing narratives</a>.” So much for objective scholarship.</p>
<p>Another, Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the PLO, <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&amp;x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=1584">simply makes stuff up to demonize Israel</a> and minimize the heinousness of terrorism.  She has repeatedly claimed, in stark contradiction to the oft video-taped explosions and destruction caused by qassams, <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/29/cnr.07.html">that none of the almost 12,000 rockets and mortars that Hamas has rained down on Israeli towns “actually [had] an explosive head</a> on them.” According to her, Hamas is just pretending to kill Israelis.</p>
<p>Among Harvard faculty and affiliate staff presenting at the conference were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stephen Walt: author of the ferociously anti-Israel and factually shoddy<em> The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, </em>which many consider an anti-Semitic tract. Ironically, he was the only speaker at the conference to acknowledge the possibility of a two-state solution.</li>
<li>Duncan Kennedy: Harvard  professor of law who has leveled extreme, <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/2/2/a-context-for-gaza-when-i/">factually inaccurate</a> charges against Israel and calls for boycott and divestment.</li>
<li>Timothy McCarthy: lecturer at the Carr Center at the Kennedy School and a member of the board of advisors of <a href="http://freedomforward.org/">Freedom Forward</a>, a pro-Palestinian, activist group.</li>
<li>Naor Ben-Yahoyada: a visiting lecturer at Harvard.  In 2007 he was part of a<a href="http://harvardwarcriminals.blogspot.com/2007/05/ajme-on-front-page-of-maariv.html"> campaign </a>that distributed <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n9jSiHjm4Dg/Rj6bjIcyolI/AAAAAAAAABs/B2ktppj-N84/s1600-h/flat.jpg">wanted posters </a>for Israel&#8217;s chief of staff, Dan Halutz, calling him a war criminal, and in 2009 he spoke at an <a href="http://providence.apartheidweek.org/en/boston2009">Israel Apartheid Week</a> event in Rhode Island.</li>
</ul>
<p>In response to the criticism, the Weatherhead Center and the Carr Center for Human Right removed their sponsorships; but the Kennedy School logo remained. This should come as no surprise. The Kennedy School of Government, with its sharply skewed Middle East Initiative program; the university&#8217;s virulently anti-Israel <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=257997">Center for Middle Eastern Studies </a>and affiliated <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">Outreach Center</a><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=135f3ac8f9e43a62&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[1]</a>; the various anti-Israel programs and personalities at the Weatherhead Center, at the Carr Center for Human Rights and in other departments — all have in recent years promoted bigoted attacks against the Jewish state.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And what it means for the propaganda war against the Jewish State.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/peace-now-ap1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-124729" title="peace-now-ap" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/peace-now-ap1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="251" /></a>Dozens of leaders from the Arab and Muslim world, UN representatives, representatives from NGOs, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153175">Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas</a>, a Neturei Karta rabbi, a representative of the US Department of State, and even two Israeli Arab MKs (Members of Knesset) converged on Doha, capital of Qatar, for a two-day anti-Israel hate-fest, given the auspicious title: “The <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153167">International  Conference on Jerusalem</a>” ( 26-27 February 2012).</p>
<p>The conundrum of an <a href="http://www.qatarconferences.org/jerusalem/agenda.php">orthodox rabbi </a>and <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153167">Israeli MKs</a> at the Doha hate-fest is a topic for another essay, as is the thoroughly anti-Israel speech of an <a href="http://www.qatarconferences.org/jerusalem/doc1/doc8.pdf">American self-proclaimed State Department representative. </a>For now it is illuminating to focus on the broader content and outcomes of the conference itself.</p>
<p>The fundamental <a href="http://www.qatarconferences.org/jerusalem/index.php">goal of the conference</a>, <a href="http://www.qatarconferences.org/jerusalem/documents.php">as described on its website</a>, was to legitimize the establishment of Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, sovereign Arab state of “Palestine” within Israel&#8217;s current borders.  To accomplish this goal the conference sought to legitimize, by the political and moral stature of its attendees and participants, its demand at the UN Security Council for a UN resolution to form an international commission to investigate the actions taken by Israel since 1967 to erase Jerusalem’s Islamic and Arab identity.</p>
<p>To that end, all <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/152079/">but one participant</a> was focused on delegitimizing Israel, denouncing its existence within any borders and denying thousands of years of Jewish history.  The <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/28/peace-now-shocked-arab-league-jerusalem/">speakers talked about Jerusalem as if</a> Jewish history did not exist or was a fraud — as if all Jewish claims in the city were just a tactic to dispossess Palestinians.  The conference, then, sought to lend credibility to the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/upload/pamphlets/stolen-history.pdf">latest strategy in the Arab political and propaganda war against Israel</a>: the delegitimization of Israel’s history and the creation of a fictitious “Palestinian” history to replace it, thus eviscerating any Jewish claims to an historical and religious attachment to the Land of Israel.</p>
<p>There were two entities that emerged victorious from the conference.  Not surprisingly, one was the Palestinian Authority &#8212; but the other was Israel.</p>
<p>The Palestinian victory was the “<a href="http://www.qatarconferences.org/jerusalem/news_website_details.php?id=13">Doha Declaration</a> on the International Conference for Defense of Jerusalem” at the conclusion of the conference.  The declaration called upon the UN to create the commission described above; and upon all Muslim states to contribute to a “historic global mobilization for the expression of international solidarity with the Palestinian people in Jerusalem” and for support of their legitimate rights and to identify and confront illegal Israeli efforts to &#8220;judaize&#8221; (sic) the city; and upon “the international powers who remain silent” towards Israeli violations to assume their responsibility and compel Israel to implement all UN resolutions relevant to Jerusalem; and upon the UN and other international entities to stop Israeli illegal excavations and archaeological explorations which distort the “true history” of the site; and upon UNESCO to force Israel to stop its unilateral policies for imposing a fait accompli in Jerusalem, including the immediate cessation of all settlement activities, the removal of the “apartheid wall,” the preservation of Islamic and Christian sanctities, and to halt Judaization (sic) schemes.</p>
<p>In short, the Doha Declaration demands that the Muslim world compel the UN to impose upon Israel the demands that the Muslim world maintains on behalf of the Palestinians but has not itself been able to impose despite 65 years of war, terrorism, black propaganda, hate education for its youth, rejectionism, and an endless, relentless diatribe of genocide and rhetoric of annihilation by nuclear or political means.  Given the Arab oil sheikhdoms’ influence at the UN, such a commission as envisioned in the Doha Declaration is likely to be forthcoming in the near future.</p>
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