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		<title>Intifada in Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why supporters of Palestinian terrorists have made common cause with the rioters in MO.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245174" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap" width="336" height="252" /></a>The same violent protesters in Ferguson, Missouri demonstrating against the killing of Michael Brown have also been taking it to the streets in Detroit and elsewhere to press for the release of a Palestinian terrorist who killed two Israelis.</p>
<p>Activists are blackmailing the grand jury that is now hearing evidence against Wilson. If the grand jurors refuse to indict Wilson, radical activists are promising even more mayhem. The message is unmistakable: indict the cop, and there will be peace; don&#8217;t, and Ferguson will burn.</p>
<p>Brown is the young, black, 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 292-pound man who was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. When media outlets describe Brown they usually omit the fact that he viciously assaulted Wilson and tried to seize his handgun, presumably in an effort to do the officer harm. Journalists also tend to downplay the fact that minutes before Brown attacked Wilson he robbed a convenience store.</p>
<p>The Palestinian terrorist is Rasmea (also spelled Rasmieh) Odeh who was convicted by a Detroit jury on Monday of immigration fraud. Prosecutors accused Odeh of killing Israelis in the Sixties and then lying about it in U.S. immigration papers.</p>
<p>Odeh <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/652"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was previously convicted</span></a> in Israel &#8220;for her role in the 1969 bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem, which were carried out on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization,&#8221; according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Prosecutors said one of the supermarket bombs killed two people and injured others. Odeh received a sentence of life imprisonment but was released after 10 years as part of a prisoner swap.</p>
<p>Odeh used to live in Michigan and resided in Chicago until her bail was revoked Monday. In Chicago she was employed as associate director of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6462"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Arab American Action Network</span></a> (AAAN), which was founded by terrorist promoter Rashid Khalidi and his wife, Mona. Khalidi, a Columbia University professor and former director of the PLO&#8217;s press agency, is a well-known friend of Barack Obama. AAAN, which is hostile to Israel, claims &#8220;to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights of the Arab American and Arab immigrant community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The seditious collaboration in Ferguson between anti-American left-wingers, some of whom are well-funded, and anti-American Islamofascists isn&#8217;t all that unusual in U.S. politics but it receives scant attention from the media.</p>
<p>Leftist and Islamist groups routinely work together in the U.S. Not many on the activist Left are wary of their comrades&#8217; working relationship with Muslim totalitarians who would joyfully slit their atheist, infidel throats upon coming to power. One such leftist, Meredith Tax, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/a-leftists-harsh-words-for-the-unholy-alliance/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">acknowledged</span></a> in a book last year that aligning with Islamic fundamentalists was a terrible idea.</p>
<p>But Tax is a very rare bird. Most leftists see America&#8217;s enemies as their natural allies, so when an opportunity for a working partnership arises they seize it with gusto. As they see things, whatever it takes to advance so-called social justice is justified.</p>
<p>As a Sixties radical once wrote, &#8220;The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, whatever the cause, whether inner city blacks or illegal aliens or women, it is merely a pretext for action. It is an opportunity to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of the power needed to foment and effectuate revolutionary change.</p>
<p>Rana Baker, a writer at Electronic Intifada, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rana-baker/palestinians-express-solidarity-people-ferguson-mike-brown-statement"><span style="color: #0433ff;">explained</span></a> the Marxist, identity politics-driven rationale for this cooperation between American leftists and Islamic supremacists in Ferguson. In an article filled with politically correct drivel she wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unsurprisingly, many of the police deployed to crush unarmed protesters demanding justice for the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old black American Mike Brown are Israel-trained. Despotic tactics Palestinians largely associate with Israel’s colonial military, such as teargassing protesters and harassing journalists, have all been implemented in Ferguson. Although Ferguson and Palestine are two different contexts, both places and their people are fighting against white supremacist regimes of oppression which continue to view them as &#8220;disposable others&#8221; and act accordingly &#8230; it is the moral responsibility of every Palestinian to support and foster relations with the struggles of the oppressed all over the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>No one who follows the Left should be shocked to learn that Ferguson has been dominated by rent-a-mobs in recent weeks, complete with leftist astroturfers determined to stir the pot.</p>
<p>Groups endorsing Ferguson October, last month&#8217;s festival of leftist looting and self-righteous posturing in the beleaguered St. Louis suburb, included a hodgepodge of activist organizations &#8211;many of them Saul Alinsky-inspired pressure groups &#8212; that have little or nothing to do with Ferguson, Michael Brown, or Darren Wilson. The only thing these labor movement and Occupy Wall Street activists had in common was that they were left-wing.</p>
<p>Among them were: Action for the Common Good; Advancement Project; Alliance for a Just Society; Amnesty International; CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence); ColorOfChange.org; Catholic Worker; Chinese Progressive Association; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Code Pink; Divestment Student Network; Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation; Fighting Against Natural Gas (FANG); Gamaliel Foundation; International Socialist Organization (ISO); Juvenile Urban Multicultural Program (at Syracuse University); Korean American Resource &amp; Cultural Center; LeftRoots; Million Hoodies Movement for Justice; National Domestic Workers Alliance; National Network for Arab American Communities; National Organization for Women (NOW); New Black Panther Party; New Economy Coalition; PICO National Network; Progressive Democrats of America; Sierra Student Coalition (a project of the Sierra Club); St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee; Universal African Peoples Organization; United for Peace and Justice; US Action; US Palestinian Community Network; Veterans for Peace; and Working Families Party.</p>
<p>Many of these groups <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have taken money</span></a> from radical billionaire George Soros. Those on his payroll include Advancement Project, Gamaliel Foundation, NOW, and US Action.</p>
<p>Lee Cary has also <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/behind_the_dont_shoot_coalition_in_ferguson_.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">painstakingly detailed</span></a> at American Thinker the 45 organizations that are now placing demands on police agencies in the St. Louis area. The groups, which are part of the Don&#8217;t Shoot Coalition, are <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/ferguson-protestors-deliver-rules-of-engagement-to-police/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attempting to define</span></a> the rules of engagement between law enforcement and activists to make it easier for radicals to set Ferguson on fire in the event Wilson is not indicted.</p>
<p>Remnants of the ACORN activist empire are involved in organizing unrest in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (<a href="http://organizemo.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">MORE</span></a>), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010. That ACORN state chapter reconstituted itself in December 2009 as MORE under orders from ACORN&#8217;s national headquarters. President Obama used to work for ACORN and he represented it in court as a lawyer.</p>
<p>MORE <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/is_acorn_behind_violent_unrest_in_ferguson.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has been active</span></a> in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the Left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest. MORE believes that protesters should be given a blank check to inflict whatever harm they wish on the community in pursuit of social justice.</p>
<p>MORE is also a recipient of taxpayer funding &#8212; and to no one&#8217;s surprise &#8212; it is not a good steward of those dollars. MORE received $21,000 for its &#8220;foreclosure prevention&#8221; efforts but &#8220;did not fully comply&#8221; with the rules, according to the St. Louis city comptroller&#8217;s &#8220;fiscal monitoring review&#8221; <a href="https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/comptroller/documents/audits/upload/3586_001.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> a few days before Brown was shot.</p>
<p>MORE&#8217;s executive director is longtime ACORN organizer <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-ordower/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jeff Ordower</span></a>. Ordower, an outspoken vote fraud apologist, previously ran Missouri ACORN and oversaw ACORN&#8217;s Midwest operations. He was also an SEIU organizer in Texas.</p>
<p>The Working Families Party, founded in New York State in the 1990s by ACORN members, is also involved in Ferguson. It endorsed Ferguson October but the extent of its on-the-ground involvement was unclear at time of writing.</p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">All these superficially distinct groups have come together in Ferguson to pay homage to violent criminals &#8211;a murderer of Israelis and a would-be murderer of a police officer&#8211; for two reasons.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">First, because Rasmea Odeh and Michael Brown are model citizens, according to the leftist worldview. Radical activists see them and their disruptive, antisocial behavior as representing the best that humanity has to offer.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Second, because banding together and pooling their power to disrupt society helps to create strife and chaos. The subsequent crises can be leveraged to promote the kinds of change that leftists would like to see.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">As the old radical said, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.</span></p>
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		<title>Statistics Show 4% of NY Times Reporters Are Serial Killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 04:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debunking the Left's claims that death row inmates are routinely wrongly convicted. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/save_troy_davis_poster.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226029" alt="save_troy_davis_poster" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/save_troy_davis_poster-356x350.png" width="249" height="245" /></a>The New York Times has been touting a study purporting to show that 4 percent of death row inmates have been &#8220;falsely convicted.&#8221; &#8220;Falsely convicted&#8221; is not &#8220;innocent.&#8221; But after being processed through the lawyer-to-journalist telephone game, &#8220;insignificant procedural errors&#8221; quickly becomes &#8220;27 guys didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221;</p>
<p>What the study actually shows is that those sentenced to death are more likely to have their convictions overturned than those sentenced to prison.</p>
<p>Yeah, we knew that. Anti-death penalty fanatics fight every execution tooth and claw. Sometimes they get lucky. What the statisticians have proved is that it&#8217;s very difficult to be executed in this country.</p>
<p>Most of the media cited this pointless study to proclaim that &#8220;statistical analysis&#8221; proves that 4 percent of people on death row are innocent. They just have to be! And if you disagree, you must hate science.</p>
<p>Whether innocent people have been executed is not a matter that lends itself to statistical analysis. We have the names of every person who has been executed &#8212; 1,373 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.</p>
<p>A few dozen lawyers could each take home a stack of case files for the weekend and find the innocent guy &#8212; if there were one. But despite years of searching by single-minded zealots, they still don&#8217;t have the name of one innocent person executed in at least the last half-century.</p>
<p>Identifying the innocent has lead to embarrassments in the past. In this week&#8217;s and next week&#8217;s columns, we&#8217;ll review the left&#8217;s last few poster boys for &#8220;innocence.&#8221;</p>
<p>First: Troy Davis.</p>
<p>The day of Troy Davis&#8217; execution, MSNBC and CNN went live until midnight to cover it, much like the 9/11 terrorist attack. Rachel Maddow posted an article claiming there was &#8220;persistent doubt that the death-row inmate is guilty of the crime of which he was convicted,&#8221; under the headline, &#8220;Georgia plans to kill Troy Davis tomorrow.&#8221;</p>
<p>(This was a delightful change from Rachel&#8217;s usual nightly smirk-fest.)</p>
<p>A reporter for the British Guardian claimed Davis was &#8220;very possibly innocent.&#8221; Amnesty International issued a statement after the execution, announcing that Georgia had &#8220;executed a person who may well be innocent.&#8221; (In the same sense that I &#8220;may well be&#8221; an astronaut named Smitty.)</p>
<p>The New York Times editorialized about &#8220;A Grievous Wrong&#8221; being done to Troy Davis, citing &#8220;reports about police misconduct, the recantation of testimony by a string of eyewitnesses and reports from other witnesses that another person had confessed to the crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>In all criminal appeals, defense lawyers roll out claims of &#8220;police misconduct,&#8221; preposterously unbelievable &#8220;new&#8221; witnesses and a surprise &#8220;confession&#8221; by someone else.</p>
<p>In fact, that&#8217;s a single typewriter key at the Times, used for all reports on criminal convictions. I have my own typewriter key to describe Times&#8217; editorials on executions: &#8220;reports about extreme self-righteousness, excessive moral preening, obliviousness to the facts, and lies from a string of journalists.&#8221;</p>
<p>Always check to see if the person suddenly confessing to a crime will face any penalty for doing so. You will find that surprise confessions invariably come from those already serving the maximum sentence or that the statute of limitations has run.</p>
<p>(The Times editorial didn&#8217;t mention the police officer murdered by Davis. A few days later, an article on the execution did mention the victim in the fifth paragraph &#8212; and then spelled his name wrong.)</p>
<p>Those of you who follow my work assiduously know that Davis shot and killed an off-duty cop, Mark MacPhail, in a busy Burger King parking lot in front of dozens of witnesses, including people who knew him, as well as a van full of Air Force airmen. (He didn&#8217;t recant.)</p>
<p>After shooting the cop once, Davis sauntered up to the cop&#8217;s body and shot him again, directly in the head. As one of the airmen told the jury in identifying Davis: &#8220;You don&#8217;t forget someone that stands over and shoots someone.&#8221;</p>
<p>The much-ballyhooed &#8220;recantations&#8221; in Davis&#8217; case were typical, which is to say: nothing of the sort. Years after the trial, defense lawyers trick witnesses into making small, inconsequential alterations to their testimony. Then the lawyers rush to the press claiming the witness has &#8220;recanted.&#8221;</p>
<p>For example, Davis&#8217; lawyer prepared an affidavit for the girlfriend of the homeless man Davis was beating when MacPhail intervened and got shot. The affidavit was consistent with her trial testimony in all respects &#8212; including identifying Davis as the killer &#8212; except that the lawyer altered her description of events to say that Davis had been &#8220;arguing&#8221; with her boyfriend before shooting the cop.</p>
<p>The girlfriend would have had no way to know &#8212; years later &#8212; that this was any different from her original trial testimony. She signed the lawyer-drafted affidavit, but didn&#8217;t consider it important enough to get notarized. Then she died.</p>
<p>Out of 34 witnesses for the prosecution, that was one of the five purported &#8220;recantations.&#8221; Normal people hear that and say, &#8220;ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THAT&#8217;S WHAT YOU&#8217;RE CALLING A &#8216;RECANTATION&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p>One begins to see why the criminal lobby has turned to statistics, rather than specific cases, to claim that America executes the innocent.</p>
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		<title>What the Media Won&#8217;t Tell You About the &#8216;Central Park Five&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City poised to deliver millions of dollars to men of dubious innocence. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-central-park-five.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224071" alt="the-central-park-five" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-central-park-five-450x316.jpg" width="360" height="253" /></a>New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding a quick settlement of the lawsuit brought by the five men convicted of one of the most sickening crimes in the city&#8217;s history: the attack on the Central Park jogger in 1989. The plaintiffs are demanding $50 million apiece &#8212; for going to prison for a rape that they committed, as detailed in Chapter 13 of &#8220;Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Destroying America.&#8221; Abner Louima got $5.8 million for a shockingly brutal police assault on him, and he was just an innocent bystander.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Central Park Five,&#8221; as PBS documentarian Ken Burns has dubbed them, aren&#8217;t exactly Emmett Till (as Burns would have you believe). Even if they were innocent of the Central Park rape, which they aren&#8217;t, the reason they were originally arrested was that they were rampaging through the park, assaulting people.</p>
<p>Even after they began denying the rape, the defendants continued to admit committing these other attacks. How&#8217;d you like to be one of the people badly beaten in the park that night watching your tax dollars go to pay your assailants millions of dollars?</p>
<p>All those convictions &#8212; on the rape as well as the assaults &#8212; have been vacated because an aging district attorney wanted a glowing obituary in The New York Times.</p>
<p>In 2002, the ancient Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney, issued a report recommending that the convictions in the Central Park rape case be vacated. Justice Charles Tejada (Fordham Law 2009 Hispanic Heritage Award winner!) granted his request.</p>
<p>Liberals are opposed to rape in the abstract, but when it comes to actual rapists, they&#8217;re all for them.</p>
<p>The D.A.&#8217;s report was based solely on the confession of Matias Reyes, career criminal, serial rapist and murderer. Reyes had absolutely nothing to lose by confessing to the rape &#8212; the statute of limitations had run &#8212; and much to gain by claiming he acted alone: He got a favorable prison transfer and the admiration of his fellow inmates for smearing the police.</p>
<p>While dumping on the police for screwing up the investigation, Morgenthau wouldn&#8217;t let the cops interview Reyes themselves, even though his &#8220;confession&#8221; was the sole evidence that he raped and brutalized the jogger by himself.</p>
<p>Not only were the police prohibited from interviewing Reyes or giving him a polygraph, but Morgenthau ordered other inmates not to talk to any police investigators about their conversations with Reyes. First the D.A. slimed the cops, then he ran interference for a rapist-murderer.</p>
<p>New York journalist Nicholas Stix reports that <a href="http://vdare.com/articles/it-was-fun-robert-k-tanenbaum-vs-the-central-park-five-25-years-later">one inmate says Reyes</a> told him he heard the jogger&#8217;s screams and raped her only after the &#8220;Central Park Five&#8221; had finished with her.</p>
<p>The media proclaim those five rapists innocent based on their own over-excited reports that the DNA found on the jogger matched that of Reyes, but none of the others!</p>
<p>Yeah, we knew that. It was always known that semen on the jogger did not match any of the defendants. (&#8220;DNA Expert: No Semen Links to Defendants,&#8221; The Associated Press, July 14, 1990.)</p>
<p>Hallmark should have a greeting card: &#8220;Guess whose semen wasn&#8217;t found anywhere on the rape victim?&#8221; (Open card) &#8220;I&#8217;m so proud of you, son!&#8221;</p>
<p>Prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer expressly reminded the jurors of the missing rapist in her summation to the jury: &#8220;Others who were not caught raped her and got away.&#8221; Now we know who &#8220;got away.&#8221;</p>
<p>DNA wasn&#8217;t the evidence that convicted the &#8220;Central Park Five.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to believe now, but in 1989 DNA was rarely used to convict anyone, so it wouldn&#8217;t have been carefully collected by police investigators. DNA identifications had only been invented a few years earlier and were not even permitted in New York courts until six months before the Central Park wilding.</p>
<p>This case was solved with old-fashioned police work. After the first 911 calls came in, the police arrested some of the thugs in the park that very night. Then they arrested those named as part of the wolf pack by the first detainees.</p>
<p>For example, one boy picked up in the park told the cops &#8212; without prompting &#8212; &#8220;I know who did the murder. I know who did the murder. I know where he lives and I&#8217;ll tell you his name.&#8221; He named one of the five convicted of the attack on the jogger, Antron McCray. (The night of the attack, no one expected the jogger to live.)</p>
<p>Of more than three dozen hoodlums brought in for questioning, only 10 were charged with any crimes, and only five of those were charged with raping the jogger. All those charged with the jogger&#8217;s rape gave detailed, corroborated, videotaped confessions, after full Miranda warnings, four of the five in the presence of an adult relative.</p>
<p>Recall that none of them &#8212; including the police &#8212; could have known whether the jogger would emerge from her coma and be able to identify her attackers. (She emerged, but blocked all memory of the attack.) All five confessed to assisting the attack on the jogger, but none to raping her themselves. That&#8217;s enough for a rape conviction.</p>
<p>In Antron McCray&#8217;s 34-minute videotaped statement, for example, he said:</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody started hitting her and stuff. She was on the ground, everybody stompin&#8217; and everything. &#8230; I grabbed one arm, some other kid grabbed one arm and we grabbed her legs and stuff. Then we all took turns getting on her, getting on top of her. &#8230; I just like, my penis wasn&#8217;t in her. I didn&#8217;t do nothing to her &#8230; I was just doing it so everybody &#8230; Everybody would just like, would know I did it.&#8221;</p>
<p>There was other incriminating evidence, all of which is currently being ignored by the media and PBS documentarians.</p>
<p>Melody Jackson, whose brother was friends with defendant Kharey Wise, testified &#8212; reluctantly &#8212; that she talked to Wise by phone when he was at Rikers Island and that he told her that he didn&#8217;t rape the jogger, he &#8220;only held her legs down while Kevin (Richardson) f&#8211;ked her.&#8221; She originally volunteered this information to the police thinking it would be helpful to Wise.</p>
<p>(The District Attorney&#8217;s report that recommended vacating the sentences described the above exchange as: &#8220;Wise replied that he had not had sex with her, but had only held and fondled the victim&#8217;s leg.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Other witnesses provided various corroborating details to the police, such as one who said Kevin Richardson told him, &#8220;We just raped somebody,&#8221; and another who heard Raymond Santana and another boy laughing about how &#8220;we made a woman bleed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Two witnesses independently told police they saw several of the defendants walking from the 102nd Street traverse area where the jogger was raped. One said he realized the significance of that fact only when he saw where the memorial to the jogger in the park was.</p>
<p>When Raymond Santana was being driven to the precinct the night of the wilding, he blurted out: &#8220;I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel the woman&#8217;s tits.&#8221; Wait! Who said anything about rape? The cops had not asked him about any rape.</p>
<p>Two of the defendants, Santana and Richardson, independently brought investigators to the precise location of the attack on the jogger, something only the perpetrators could have done.</p>
<p>The evidence against Richardson also included his vivid description of the attack &#8212; given on videotape, in the presence of his father &#8212; and a deep scratch wound on his cheek that he admitted was from the jogger. Oh, also &#8212; the crotch of the underwear from the night of the attack was stained with semen, grass, dirt and debris.</p>
<p>Contrary to media reports, there was hair, blood or semen on all five of the defendants.</p>
<p>In the opposite of a rush to judgment, two multi-ethnic juries deliberated for 10 days and 11 days, respectively, before convicting the five defendants of rape or sexual abuse &#8212; as well as the other assaults that night, mysteriously vacated by Justice Tejada &#8212; and acquitting all but one on the most serious charge, attempted murder.</p>
<p>But now de Blasio wants to hold down our legs while the &#8220;Central Park Five&#8221; rape us, again.</p>
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		<title>A Chance to Move On</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Israeli+Prime+Minister+Weekly+Cabinet+Meeting+SOGLfBb73J6l.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222758" alt="Israeli+Prime+Minister+Weekly+Cabinet+Meeting+SOGLfBb73J6l" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Israeli+Prime+Minister+Weekly+Cabinet+Meeting+SOGLfBb73J6l-450x300.jpg" width="270" height="180" /></a>On Monday, former prime minister Ehud Olmert’s career ended.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Gabi Ashkenazi’s career ended.</p>
<p>And on Tuesday, the phony peace process ended.</p>
<p>In the lead-up to last year’s elections, the media and key political figures were yearning for Olmert’s return to politics.</p>
<p>In July 2008, Olmert was forced to cede leadership of the Kadima party, and so opt out of running for reelection, when then-attorney-general Menahem Mazuz announced he was indicting the premier on corruption charges.</p>
<p>Olmert left office in March 2009 when his government was replaced by Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition government.</p>
<p>The public abandoned its support for Olmert in the summer of 2006 as a result of his incompetent leadership of the Second Lebanon War. By the end of the summer, Olmert’s approval rating stood at 3 percent. But with the able assistance of the media, and of Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman who saved Olmert’s government by joining it, Olmert was able to weather the storm and keep going despite the public’s lack of faith in his leadership and ardent desire to force him from office.</p>
<p>The media’s romance with Olmert began formally in late 2003, when he followed then-premier Ariel Sharon from the center-right to the far Left. Indeed, as Sharon abandoned his pledges to voters and adopted the platform of the defeated Labor Party of unilaterally withdrawing from Gaza, Olmert outflanked him from the Left.</p>
<p>Always a political pugilist, Olmert was eager to attack everyone who opposed Sharon’s withdrawal plan. He had no qualms about using rank demonization to attack his former political allies in the Likud.</p>
<p>It was Olmert’s newfound devotion to the platform of the far Left that won him the support of media heavies like Yediot Aharonot’s Nahum Barnea, Ma’ariv’s Ben Caspit and Channel 2’s Amnon Abramovich. They were more than happy to attack as delusional independent investigative reporter Yoav Yitzhak who broke nearly every corruption story regarding Olmert, beginning in 2005.</p>
<p>After four years of desultory, at best, probes between 2009 and 2012, Olmert was indicted in four separate cases on corruption charges. After he was acquitted of most of the charges in his first two trials, his media allies began a campaign to return him to politics. Only Olmert, they said, had a chance to defeat Netanyahu. None of the other leftist party heads had a shot.</p>
<p>But alas, Olmert was otherwise engaged, in his criminal defense. And now that he is a convicted felon, Olmert will never be able to return to politics.</p>
<p>Even his media friends have to cut their losses and find a new leader.</p>
<p>Several years ago, they were certain that they had their man. Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi was promoted to the helm of the IDF following his predecessor Dan Halutz’s forced resignation due to his incompetent leadership of the army in the Second Lebanon War.</p>
<p>Ashkenazi was everything the media and the Left love in a leader. He was a general. He was handsome. And he was going to save the IDF from its demoralization. He was going to introduce new training regimens and operational procedures to ensure that the next time the IDF went to war, its victory would be inarguable.</p>
<p>Oh, and he was a leftist. Which meant that even if he failed, no one would ever find out.</p>
<p>And indeed, Ashkenazi’s leadership of the IDF during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009 was a failure. As one senior commander put it shortly after the operation ended, “Gabi Ashkenazi marched the army into Gaza, and marched it out again, leaving Hamas in charge and Gilad Schalit behind.”</p>
<p>Officers who wished to take a more constructive approach to fighting, like OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant and Gaza Division commander Brig.-Gen. Moshe Tamir, were immediately placed on Ashkenazi’s enemies list.</p>
<p>Allegations of wrongdoing against Ashkenazi first surfaced three-and-a-half years ago. In August 2010, Abramovich exposed a document on Channel 2 which purported to show that Galant was waging a negative campaign against Ashkenazi and then-Maj.-Gen. Benny Gantz to replace Ashkenazi as chief of the General Staff.</p>
<p>Within a week the document was shown to be a forgery. It was concocted by an associate of Ashkenazi’s named Boaz Harpaz. It was leaked to Channel 2 by a senior Defense Ministry official, Gabi Shimoni, a close friend of Ashkenazi.</p>
<p>Rather than pursue the story, which stank to high heaven, the media ignored it. Attorney- General Yehuda Weinstein refused to order the police to investigate it. And to the extent that the police had information that indicated illegal behavior by Ashkenazi’s associates beyond the leak and the forgery specifically, they were ordered not to pursue them.</p>
<p>The only reason that the story of the forged document didn’t disappear is because state comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss investigated it, and Channel 1’s Ayala Hasson pursued it. And due to their efforts, the police were shamed into investigating.</p>
<p>Now it is apparent that the story of the forged document was part of a much larger abuse of power by Ashkenazi and his loyal foot soldiers.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Ashkenazi’s closest aides Col. (res.) Erez Winer and former IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. (res.) Avi Benayahu were arrested in connection to rising allegations of mass abuse of power. Since then, a parade of Ashkenazi’s close associates including current Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkott and deputy director-general of the Defense Ministry Betzalel Tribor have been called in for questioning.</p>
<p>The widening probe paints a revolting picture of a mass abuse of power by Ashkenazi, facilitated by senior IDF officers and officials at the Defense Ministry and then covered up by senior officials at the Justice Ministry and the police, with the active collusion of the media.</p>
<p>Ashkenazi, it appears, was positioning himself to become the next prime minister. To this end, he allegedly decided to end the careers of IDF officers who criticized his leadership. And far more egregiously, he actively undermined then-defense minister Ehud Barak, and subverted Barak’s authority and that of the elected government in a bid to force Netanyahu and Barak to toe his timid line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.</p>
<p>Although the police probe is only at its early stages, and it is far too early to know who if anyone will be indicted for what, as a result of the investigation Ashkenazi’s political aspirations have been destroyed. More important, the permanent bureaucracy, which enabled Ashkenazi to run roughshod over democratic norms in his quest to position himself as the prime minister in waiting, has been weakened.</p>
<p>Ashkenazi’s foot soldiers are all in trouble. And their troubles will likely deter other officers and senior officials from abusing their power in similar ways in the future.</p>
<p>Each new revelation of wrongdoing in the ongoing probe also discredits Ashkenazi’s protectors in the permanent law enforcement bureaucracy.</p>
<p>Olmert’s fall and Ashkenazi’s fall coincide with the implosion of the so-called peace process. For the past generation, allegiance to the phony peace process with the PLO has been the glue that has held the Left together. No matter how opposed to concessions the public became, the leftist establishment maintained its faith and total commitment to continued appeasement of the PLO. In large part they did so because allegiance to the peace process earned them the support and legitimization of the US.</p>
<p>In the absence of any capacity to win the public’s support for continued concessions to the PLO, the Left has used its close ties to the US as a shield from criticism and as valuable leverage against the government. Only the Left, it was said, could protect Israel’s alliance with the US.</p>
<p>Back in January, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon let the truth be known about the nature of Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace process.</p>
<p>In private remarks reported by Yediot, Ya’alon said, “There are no actual negotiations with the Palestinians. The Americans are holding negotiations with us and in parallel with the Palestinians.</p>
<p>So far, we are the only side to have given anything – the release of murderers – and the Palestinians have given nothing.”</p>
<p>This week, Kerry proved that Ya’alon’s statement was a gross understatement. The US is not acting as a go-between between the sides. It is acting as the PLO’s proxy.</p>
<p>By offering Israel to trade imprisoned Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard for Palestinian terrorist murderers, Kerry transformed the US from the leader in the war against terrorism, into the champion of terrorists. Moreover, he indicated that he views Pollard as a hostage that the US is free to use to extort concessions to terrorists from Israel.</p>
<p>As a result of Kerry’s scandalous behavior, the US media, which for 20 years have enthusiastically supported every US effort to force Israel to make concessions to the PLO, lost their stomach for the show. Everyone from The New York Times to The Washington Post to The Wall Street Journal and network news attacked Kerry for his actions.</p>
<p>To a degree, the US media’s castigation of Kerry was unfair. He only followed the two-state model to its logical conclusion. Since the Palestinians refuse to abandon their goal of destroying Israel, they will never agree to a peace deal with Israel that will require them to live at peace with the Jewish state. As a result, they will never make any concessions to Israel.</p>
<p>The only way to keep this fraudulent negotiating process going is for the US to both coerce Israel into making more and more one-sided concessions to the PLO, such as freeing terrorist murderers form prison, and providing Israel with US payoffs to make the government continue to abide by a fiction. In other words, Kerry had no option other than to offer up Pollard as a hostage to be swapped in exchange for freedom to Palestinian terrorists.</p>
<p>Transforming the US into the proxy of a terrorist organization was just the beginning of Kerry’s failure.</p>
<p>His desperate behavior showed PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas that there are no depths Kerry will not plumb to prolong the fictional peace process.</p>
<p>And so on Tuesday, in an open act of contempt for Kerry, Abbas applied for membership in international bodies, in breach of the foundational requirement of the peace process: that a Palestinian state only be formed as a consequence of a peace agreement with Israel to prevent such a state from gaining independence while in a state of war with Israel.</p>
<p>Until now, it was US pressure on Israel for concessions to the Palestinians that kept the Israeli Left going. Now, without any leadership, with its power base in the permanent bureaucracy weakened, and the US role as mediator wholly discredited not only among the Israeli public, but in the US media, the Left has nothing to latch on to.</p>
<p>If the government uses the opportunity to abandon the two-state paradigm, it stands its best chance in 20 years of succeeding.</p>
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		<title>Normalizing the Kingston Honor Killings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Last month, after the <em>Costa Concordia</em> fiasco in Livorno, Gregoria De Falco – the port official who ordered the cartoonishly cowardly captain, Francesco Schettino, to get back on his ship and aid in the rescue effort – became an instant hero.  But De Falco&#8217;s wife <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/18/costa-concordia-coastguard-rejects-hero">dissented</a>, saying it was “ridiculous” to call her husband a hero.  “The worrying thing,” she said, “is that people like my husband who simply do their duty every day, immediately become idols, personalities, heroes in this country. That is not normal.”</p>
<p>Wise lady.  But it&#8217;s not only in Italy, these days, that some people are awed when others simply do their duty.  Take last Sunday&#8217;s guilty verdicts in the Kingston, Ontario, honor-killing case.  On June 30, 2009, as Stephen Brown <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/31/justice-served-in-ontario-honor-murder/">recounted</a> here the other day, three teenage sisters and their father&#8217;s first wife were found dead in a car in the Rideau Canal.  Three weeks later, police arrested the girls&#8217; father, Afghani-born real-estate tycoon Mohammad Shafia, their mother, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their brother, Hamed.  All three have now been handed 25-year prison sentences for first-degree murder.</p>
<p>You didn&#8217;t have to be Sherlock Holmes to crack this case.  Far from it.  The perpetrators&#8217; alibis were monumentally feeble, the motives transparent, the evidence ludicrously incriminating.  On the family computer, someone had Googled “where to commit a murder” and “Can a prisoner have control over his real estate.” On wiretaps recorded after the murders, the father was heard boasting of his sense of honor, calling his dead daughters “filthy and rotten children” and saying “may the devil shit on their graves.”</p>
<p>Yet after the verdict, commentaries hailed the judge and jurors as courageous.  How depressing that it should be considered courageous to send such people to prison!  “Experts in so-called honour killings,” <a href="http://www2.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=6070074">wrote</a> Monique Muise in the <em>Montreal Gazette</em>, “heralded the verdict as a step forward; a clear message that neither Canada’s courts nor its people will tolerate this type of crime.” How depressing that a free country needs to send a message that it&#8217;s unacceptable to kill your children!</p>
<p>There are other depressing aspects to the case.  Even to breathe the words “honor killing” in connection with such a crime nowadays is to invite a lecture by multiculturalists to the effect that the very term is racist.  “Murder is murder,” they&#8217;ll insist; “non-Muslims kill their loved ones, too.” Readers of an article on the CBC website about the Shafia case felt compelled to protest that “we [Canadians are not] superior to any culture when it comes to how we treat children” and that “we shouldn&#8217;t make negative comments about immigrant&#8217;s [sic] practices when domestic violence is rampant amongst those who are Canadian born.”</p>
<p>This was basically the line Alia Hogben, executive director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, fed to Muise.  “I’m frustrated and fed up with the kind of emphasis and time that’s been spent calling it an honour killing,” Hogben said.  “The media attention in particular has been very much on this being something exotic, something foreign, as opposed to the fact that this was the murder of four women in Canada,” she said. “I think it was because that separated us from them. People want to believe it’s other people doing this. Canadians don’t do this.”</p>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a free speech activist who was charged last year in Austria with “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion” for asserting that “Mohammed had a thing for little girls.” In February of this year she was convicted, and will have to pay a fine of up to €480. Just recently, on December 20, 2011, her conviction was upheld by the higher court. If she refuses to pay the fine, she may spend a maximum of two months in jail. She grew up and lived in Muslim countries and experienced Islam first-hand.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ms. Sabaditsch-Wolff, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about your trial and where it stands now. But let us begin with a bit of background about yourself.</p>
<p><strong>Sabaditsch-Wolff:</strong> Thank you Jamie.</p>
<p>My father was posted at the Austrian Embassy in Tehran before the Iranian Revolution. I was also there, a child of seven, and I experienced the pre-revolutionary Iran, a beautiful country with friendly people, great food and even greater skiing. I attended the German school and generally enjoyed myself.</p>
<p>Then came the revolution and everything changed. There was religious fervor in the air, chanting, demonstrations featuring black-clad women. And one day in late 1978 my mother, my sister and I were forced to leave Tehran, and we joined the thousands of desperate men and women scrambling to get out of the country, the only difference being that we had a country to return to. I still remember all this as if it were yesterday.</p>
<p>I knew that this had to do with religion, with Islam. I knew what “Allahu akhbar” meant, just as I knew that our Iranian housemaid set fire to our house because she no longer seemed to like our Western ways much. (Although I was in the house at the time with my mother and sister, we survived the fire.)</p>
<p>My father returned to Austria just shortly before the war between Iran and Iraq broke out.</p>
<p>In the coming years my life would touch the Islamic world, sometimes more, sometimes less. My father was posted to Baghdad in late 1982, so we joined him for Christmas and New Year. I experienced life on the other side of the war, Saddam’s side. What I don’t remember is Islam, strange as it sounds. The Iraq of the early 1980s was a secular country, albeit a war-torn one. My mother had to “pack” food and other staples in her luggage so we could celebrate Christmas properly. I also remember attending Christmas mass in Baghdad.</p>
<p>After a few years of high school in Chicago, we returned to Vienna, where I graduated and became a ski instructor. In the summer of 1990 I spent three months at the Austrian Embassy in Kuwait, thereby returning to the Middle East for the first time since 1982/3. Memories flooded my brain, everything seemed so familiar. But then Saddam returned to my life: I was in Kuwait on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait. I was unable to return to Austria until August 26, 1990, but that is another story.</p>
<p>In February 1997, I once again traveled to Kuwait, this time as a visa officer at the Austrian Embassy. During my nearly four years in Kuwait, I was able to experience the true Islam for the first time. Because I was older — in my mid-twenties — I reflected more strongly on what I saw and heard. I saw and heard a lot, and I also experienced a lot first-hand.</p>
<p>Two examples: First, Ramadan. The first one was sort of fun, a different experience, something new. The second one was a nuisance, especially after I heard reports of harassment, especially of the one against the Coptic husband of my colleague, who was chided for licking the stamps for the Christmas cards. Ramadan coincided with Christmas back in the late 1990s. And the third Ramadan forced me to rebel: I started eating salami sandwiches in the visa section, in plain sight of the fasting applicants. I got away with it because the Austrian Embassy is legally Austrian soil.</p>
<p>I started asking myself: what was the point of Ramadan? Our Jordanian translator, a devout Muslim and heavy smoker, suffered greatly during Ramadan, but he was unable, maybe even unwilling to quit during that month of abstention. I did not understand the purpose of his fasting and abstaining if nothing good came of it. This sentiment was furthered by newspaper articles about Ramadan and a Q&amp;A. One question remains with me forever: “I accidentally swallowed a fly while riding my bicycle. Is my fast still acceptable or do I have make it up?” Unbelievable.</p>
<p>The second example concerns the relationship between Mohammed and Aisha, a relationship that earned me the conviction in court. Part of my job was to read the two English-language newspapers. I don’t remember what the article was about, but it must have been something about Mohammed’s marriage to Aisha and the subsequent consummation of the marriage. I clearly remember my shock. I got up from my desk and went to our translator, who was also my friend and confidant. “Hussein,” I said, “Is it true what I just read about Mohammed and Aisha? Did he really have sex with her when she was nine? But that, that, that’s…” Hussein looked at me sternly, “Do not ever talk about this again. Do not mention this again.” Now, he did not deny it. He just ordered me never to speak about this. Though I did not know about it at the time, he was actually enforcing Sharia law.</p>
<p>Slowly, but surely I started to educate myself. I opened my eyes. I saw the suffering of homosexual men in Kuwait, not just the expats, but also the Kuwaitis. I experienced the indifference of Kuwaiti women towards women’s rights.</p>
<p>But the time had not yet come.</p>
<p>I got married and moved to Tripoli, Libya, where I spent a long and hard year. A year of Sharia law in action, from the embassy driver’s fondling of my breast to my landlord’s blaming the Jews for the September 11 attacks. And then I had enough and moved back to Vienna.</p>
<p>After I became a mother, I had more time at my hands. A book entered my life, a book in German, but one that has since been translated into English. It is called “Gabriel’s Whisperings” (in German) and recounts the history of Islam and Mohammed as told by Islamic sources, nothing else. The content of this book is devastating. I was shocked, dismayed and very scared.</p>
<p>By chance I was invited to a small district gathering here in Vienna, a podium discussion about Islam. I felt very alone going in, but I was no longer alone when I left. My knowledge about Islam — very limited in comparison to what I have today — had earned me the respect of the already organized but tiny group of Austrian critics of Islam. From that day on I was no longer on my own, but embedded in a group of staunch supporters and defenders of democracy, universal human rights and freedom, all of which, as you know, are completely contradicted by the teachings of Islam.</p>
<p>In May 2007, I was a guest on the Gathering Storm blog radio show. What I said must have resonated in the United States because in late September I was invited to represent Austria at the Counterjihad conference in Brussels, the one that took place in the belly of the beast. My speech shocked the delegates and other speakers. And thus my work was cut out for me. Of course, my English skills are helpful in this context.</p>
<p>At home, the Austrian Freedom Party approached me regarding seminars about Islam to be held at the party’s educational institute. [Note: every political party has one of these institutions, funded by taxpayers’ money, which is the main reason for the government’s rage about my seminars.]</p>
<p>My seminars began in early 2008, before a group of no more than six or seven people, most of them party members and sympathizers. The seminars were set up to consist of three parts: “Introduction to the basics of Islam”, “The Islamization of Europe”, and finally “The impact of Islam” (Sharia Law, Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, OIC, Eurabia).</p>
<p>Over time these seminars drew the interest of even more people, and in October 2009 there were more than 30 men and women from all walks of life who listened to what I had to say. The reactions of these people were nearly always shock and dismay: for the first time they had answers to their questions; they finally understood what was and is happening around them; but they were also distressed because they saw just how the doctrine of multiculturalism and Eurabia were so firmly entrenched in Austrian society. I was not of much help. I am not a politician and thus unable to provide any solutions. It is my job and duty to inform citizens about the doctrine of Islamic supremacism and its disastrous effects on our free societies.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and sentence of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Enthusiasts of the law-enforcement approach to terrorism will undoubtedly claim this development as more evidence that their strategy works. To the contrary, I have argued several times see, e.g., here and here that we dodged a bullet with Moussaoui — i.e., if he had not surprised everyone by pleading guilty, if he had instead insisted on proceeding with his trial not just the penalty phase but the guilt phase, the case might well have ended disastrously.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2UxNzE4YjJjODJhYmIyZDFjZmU2NTdmMzk5YTQyZTc=">Moussaoui Conviction Upheld &#8211; Andy McCarthy &#8211; The Corner on National Review Online</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is. Decades of argument about the issue have obscured the complex nature of the specific legal question about which a supposedly overwhelming verdict of guilty [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is. Decades of argument about the issue have obscured the complex nature of the specific legal question about which a supposedly overwhelming verdict of guilty has been rendered against settlement policy. There can be no doubt that this avalanche of negative opinion has been deeply influenced by the settlements’ unpopularity around the world and even within Israel itself. Yet, while one may debate the wisdom of Israeli settlements, the idea that they are imprudent is quite different from branding them as illegal. Indeed, the analysis underlying the conclusion that the settlements violate international law depends entirely on an acceptance of the Palestinian narrative that the West Bank is “Arab” land. Followed to its logical conclusion—as some have done—this narrative precludes the legitimacy of Israel itself.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-illegal-settlements-myth-15295">The Illegal-Settlements Myth</a>.</p>
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