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		<title>Andrew Klavan: Europe Is For Real</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">In this special episode, our whimsical host, Andrew Klavan, takes a look at the faith-based story of a young man who dies and goes to the promised land, only to find that it&#8217;s a giant lie propped up by the American taxpayer and military. See the video and transcript below. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Today, in a special religious edition of the Revolting Truth, we’d like to take a look at the new faith-based bestseller, “Europe Is For Real.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">“Europe is for Real” tells the inspiring story of the adorable 5-year-old Iowa boy Derpy Lipschitz.  One fateful day, in April of 2005, little Derpy complained to his mother of stomach pains and was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered he had accidentally swallowed a copy of the New York Times while trying to bite the head off his pet canary.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Derpy was taken into surgery but the emergency worsened when the doctors tried to remove the Times’ op-ed page from the child’s colon and couldn’t determine which was which.  In the confusion, a column by Paul Krugman traveled through the boy’s bloodstream to his head causing instantaneous brain death.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It was then that a miracle happened.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As 5-year-old Derpy later told his parents, he felt his soul leave his body.  It traveled down the hall to a broom closet where he saw Mommy praying to Jesus, although she pronounced it Hay-soos.  Then, in a spiral of light, Derpy felt himself lifted up to a wondrous place beyond his wildest imagination.  It was a place where there was never any war, health care was free, and energy was green.  Yes, Derpy was in Europe.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, the surgery was a success.  The doctors were able to remove the New York Times from Derpy’s brain and colon in a revolutionary procedure called pulling the head out of the ass.  When Derpy woke up in the hospital room, he saw his parents standing over him smiling, and he said, “Daddy, I’ve been to Europe!”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And Derpy’s Daddy said to him, “Derpy, Europe is not for real.  Europe is an expensive socialist fantasy which was paid for by American capitalism for 65 years and is now going broke anyway.  They financed their so-called free health care with money they would have had to spend on defense if our military didn’t keep them safe.  Oh, and by the way, the pharmaceutical companies can give them their meds at cheap rates because we pay inflated prices that pick up the slack and fund research and development.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As for European energy being green, ten years ago Germany trumpeted a transition to renewable resources that was supposed to create jobs, provide cheap electricity and save the planet.  It failed on every front and all across the European Union, green energy initiatives are being quietly abandoned.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s true there’s no war in Europe because they’re protected from outside attack by America.  But as Socialism drains the money and the life out of their societies, and their populations quickly dwindle, the European nations are being conquered from within by Islamist monsters who rape and vandalize almost at will.  No one’s allowed to criticize these animals because that would violate a pious leftist nonsense called multiculturalism&#8230;  and since leftism has destroyed every vestige of patriotism on the continent, no one has the conviction or the guts to stand up to this alien evil anyway.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So you see, Derpy, Europe is just the myth of a false religion called leftism.  But don’t worry:  Heaven is for real.  Although Mommy can’t go there because of what she did with Haysoos.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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		<title>The Fate of the West</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either it will become Christian again or it will become Muslim.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239258" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa-450x281.jpg" alt="burqa" width="264" height="165" /></a>It&#8217;s all very simple. We can&#8217;t fight Islam in the West without fighting the enablers of Islam in the West, namely the Leftists.</p>
<p>And, since the Left has many different and separate aspects, we have to fight against each one of them. Secularism, environmentalism, global warming alarmism, homosexualism, militant feminism, sexual relativism, multiculturalism, anti-Christianity, Islamophilia, post-nationalism, and internationalism are just as important targets to attack as Marxist economics, the expropriation of the capitalist class (or, in its modern reincarnation, redistribution of wealth), and the dictatorship of the proletariat.</p>
<p>Neglecting any of these fronts is like fighting a war leaving a battleground to the enemy, like fighting on the western front and leaving totally undefended the eastern one.</p>
<p>Secularism and atheism are certainly the first lines of important wars.</p>
<p>A secularist West will always lose to Islam, because it will have enough compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence that are the remnants of its Christian heritage, but it will have lost the ideals, the passion and certainty of fighting for a just cause that were once part of Christianity and have disappeared with its erosion.</p>
<p>Two quotes here serve as epigrams. Robert Spencer wrote in his great work &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985151/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1596985151&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=VIUQ2BVVVC5BLDYE">Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn&#8217;t</a>&#8220;: “People who are ashamed of their own culture will not defend it.” And Dennis Prager said during one of his radio broadcasts, “Only good religion can counter bad religion.”</p>
<p>Some people claim that there won&#8217;t be a religious revival in Europe because we are past believing in God. That this is not true can be seen by the high &#8211; and increasing – number of Westerners who convert to Islam. Many of them give as a reason for their <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/uk-converts-to-islam-on-rise.html">conversion</a> the need for absolutes, boundaries and well-defined status.</p>
<p>A journalist writing for <em>The Spectator</em> on this subject explained why she is Catholic:</p>
<blockquote><p>But above all, I like the moral certainties. I don’t mind the dogma one bit. I would rather dogma and impossible ideals than confusion and compromise. In that sense, I do identify with those who choose Islam over the way of no faith, or a seemingly uncertain faith, like the woolly old C of E.</p></blockquote>
<p>William Kilpatrick, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158617696X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=158617696X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=IPTTMC4C6AVOIXI3">Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</a> – a book I thoroughly recommend reading &#8211; writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Brian Young&#8217;s friends said he was troubled by the decadence of Western society. David Courtrailler&#8217;s lawyer said, “For David, Islam ordered his life.” These are the sorts of reasons ordinary converts to Islam give. A common refrain from converts is that Islam provides a complete plan for life in contrast to the ruleless and clueless life offered by secular society. As Mary Fallot, a young French convert, explains, “Islam demands a closeness to God. Islam is simpler, more rigorous, and it&#8217;s easier because it is explicit. I was looking for a framework; man needs rules and behavior to follow. Christianity did not give me the same reference points.” If you look at the convert testimonials on Muslim websites, they echo this refrain: Islam brings “peace”, “order”, “discipline”, and a way of life that Christianity and other religions fail to offer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Human beings will never be past the need for believing in something bigger than themselves, because that need is part of the human mind.</p>
<p>Today the Christian religion is being replaced by the worship of the Goddess earth, New Age beliefs, the cult of celebrities (not coincidentally sometimes called &#8220;idols&#8221;), a blind faith in science, in chance as the creator and motor of the universe and in the absence of God.</p>
<p>And, last but not least, by Islam, which is increasingly filling the vacuum left by Christianity.</p>
<p>It is not surprising that Western people who feel a spiritual need may embrace Islam more easily than Christianity, when the latter has been the butt of constant attacks, denigrations and ridicule for a very long time, increasing since the 1960s, while the former is continually &#8212; albeit seriously mistakenly &#8212; praised as a religion of peace, tolerance and great wisdom.</p>
<p>Christian clergy is often criticized, sometimes rightly and sometimes not. But we tend to forget that clergymen are human beings, with all their imperfections. They too have been subjected to many decades of Leftist indoctrination and brainwashing. Even they, by the mere fact of living in this society, have been influenced by its insanity.</p>
<p>We can expect guidance from our leaders, yes, but rather than castigating them we should make the first steps.</p>
<p>A clear direction was given by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy.</p>
<p>As early as 30 September 2000, before 9/11, when very few in the West even thought of worrying about Islam, he delivered a very <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/enza-ferreri-either-europe-will-become-christian-again-or-it-will-become-muslim">forward-looking speech</a>, which included this premonition:</p>
<blockquote><p>In an interview ten years ago, I was asked with great candor and with enviable optimism: “Are You among those who believe that Europe will either be Christian or cease to exist?” I think my answer then may well serve to conclude my speech today.</p>
<p>I think – I said – that either Europe will become Christian again or it will become Muslim. What I see without future is the “culture of nothing”, of freedom without limits and without content, of skepticism boasted as intellectual achievement, which seems to be the attitude largely dominant among European peoples, all more or less rich of means and poor of truths. This “culture of nothingness” (sustained by hedonism and libertarian insatiability) will not be able to withstand the ideological onslaught of Islam, which will not be missing: only the rediscovery of the Christian event as the only salvation for man – and therefore only a strong resurrection of the ancient soul of Europe – will offer a different outcome to this inevitable confrontation.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, neither “secularists” nor “Catholics” seem to have so far realized the tragedy that is looming. “Secularists”, opposing the Church in every way, do not realize that they are fighting against the strongest inspiration and the most effective defense of Western civilization and its values of rationality and freedom: they might realize it too late.</p></blockquote>
<p>An effect of the decline of Christian faith in Europe has been the strong decrease in birth rates, that are now below the population replacement level (the replacing – and then some &#8212; is done by Muslims). Why have babies when you feel that you don’t have anything valuable to pass on to them?</p>
<p>I remember a time when my friends and contemporaries of child-bearing age (but childless) were saying to me things to the effect that there was no point – indeed it was a crime to engage &#8212; in bringing people into this terrible world. This is the talk of faithless despair, no hope in this or another world, lack of belief.</p>
<p>Militant atheists à la Richard Dawkins have not really given enough thought to the long-term consequences of their ideas, which we are beginning to see.</p>
<p>And of which we are reminded whenever, for example, we read in the news of doctors and missionaries who die of Ebola while assisting affected patients for Christian charities. Not many atheist charities are involved in that work.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Semitism and Its Limitations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why it's vital that Israel reassess its relationship with Western countries. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/france-protest.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238658" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/france-protest-450x313.jpg" alt="france-protest" width="293" height="204" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Anti-Semitism-and-its-limitations-371172">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Outside the US, throughout the Western world, anti-Semitism is becoming a powerful social and political force. And its power is beginning to have a significant impact on Israel’s relations with other democracies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider South Africa. Following a lopsided vote by the University of Cape Town’s Student Union to boycott Israel, Jewish students fear that their own student union will be barred from operating on campus. Carla Frumer from the South African Jewish Student Union told The Times of Israel, “If they prove we are a Zionist organization and support Israel, they can have us banned and seek to de-register us.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Sydney, Australia, Jewish families received a triple blow last week when Jewish children on a chartered school bus were assaulted by eight anti-Semitic drunken teenagers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The first shock was that their children, some as young as five, were terrorized on their school bus.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The second shock was that the bus driver made an unscheduled stop to allow the anti-Semites to board the bus and harass the children.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The third shock was that after catching six of the eight assailants, the police let them out of jail the same evening.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Taken together, the incident revealed an obscene comfort level among Australian authorities with the terrorization of Jewish children. Jewish families cannot assume that their children will be protected by non-Jews, whether they are school bus drivers or the police.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unfortunately, these stories do not begin to scratch the surface of the rising tide of anti-Semitism in the developed world. From Paris to San Paulo, from Berlin to Boston the public space Jews can enjoy without fear is becoming more and more limited.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The same is the case in leftist political circles.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, Paul Estrin, the president of Canada’s Green Party, was forced to resign for his pro-Israel views. On July 25, Estrin posted a pro-Israel essay on the party’s website. His post caused a furor among the party faithful. The Green Party’s leader, MP Elizabeth May, distanced herself from Estrin. And almost the entire party leadership denounced him and demanded his resignation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In an essay published this week in the </span><em style="color: #000000;">Canadian Jewish News</em><span style="color: #000000;">, Estrin explained that he joined the party because he wanted to make a difference in the spheres of the environmental protection and human rights. He did not believe that working to achieve these goals in the Green Party would require him to disavow his support for Israel. His recent experience showed him that he was wrong.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “I am now convinced that one simply can’t [support Israel] within the confines of Canada’s Green Party.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Similar sentiments have been expressed in recent weeks by pro-Israel members of Britain’s Labor Party. After party leader Ed Miliband sided with the majority of the party membership and against Israel in Operation Protective Edge, Kate Bearman, the former director of Labor Friends for Israel, published an article in the </span><em style="color: #000000;">Jewish Chronicle</em><span style="color: #000000;"> announcing that she was quitting the Labor Party.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Bearman wrote, “I feel Ed Miliband’s rush to a condemnation of Israel’s ground incursion into Gaza gave me no choice but to say goodbye to the party I have always voted and campaigned for.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A survey of Britons taken at the end of last month by YouGov showed that 62 percent believed that Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza. This includes 72% of Labor supporters and 57% of Conservatives.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, nearly two-thirds of Britons believe that Israel has no right to defend itself. And since Israel is surrounded by forces that seek its destruction, we can extrapolate that nearly two-thirds of Britons would, at a minimum, have no problem with Israel being wiped off the map.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This rising political force of anti-Semitism is already impacting previously supportive governments’ policies toward the Jewish state. Bowing to the anti-Israel positions of his Liberal-Democrat coalition partners, British Prime Minister David Cameron decided that arms exports to Israel will be suspended if Hamas continues its current round of war with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The primary engine propelling Western nation after Western nation to abandon their support for Israel and deny the protection of law to Jewish communities is the rising power of Muslim minority communities in these countries. As Douglas Murray explained in an essay published by the Gatestone Institute this week, when it comes to Israel and Jews, otherwise integrated, moderate Muslims in Europe are quick to join jihadists in denouncing Israel and rallying behind anti-Semitic curses and threats.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The unanimity of anti-Semitic prejudice among Muslim communities in the West, and its impact on the politics of Western nations, indicates that in the future, Western nations’ polities toward Israel may have more in common with the positions of Sunni Arab states than with those of the US.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since the dawn of modern Zionism more than a century ago, Arab societies have united around the cause of destroying Zionism as a political force and Israel as a physical entity. As a result, the default position of Arab governments has been to support Israel’s destruction. They have advanced this goal through various means, including going to war against the Jewish state, supporting proxies and other irregular forces in their efforts to kill Jews and harm Israel, and using international organizations – first and foremost the United Nations – to institutionalize international anti-Semitism directed against the Jewish state and to criminalize Israel with the aim of expelling it from the international community.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In recent years, we have seen a gradual, quiet disassociation of various Sunni Arab regimes from the war against Israel as they viewed their interests as more aligned with Israel than with its battlefield foes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The first time this occurred was during Hezbollah’s war with Israel in 2006. In the opening weeks of the war, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were demonstrably excited at the prospect of an Israeli rout of Iran’s proxy army in Lebanon. As they saw it, an Israeli victory over Hezbollah would deal a powerful blow to Iran’s hegemonic designs over the Persian Gulf and Egypt. It would end the Muslim Brotherhood’s romance with the mullahs in Tehran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This Sunni Arab support for Israel only abated when then prime minister Ehud Olmert’s serial blundering in his leadership of the war convinced Sunni leaders that Israel would not score a strategic victory.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Over the past six weeks of Operation Protective Edge, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have been even more open about their preference for an Israeli victory, which they view as a blow to the Muslim Brotherhood. Today these regimes feel far more threatened by the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran than they did eight years ago. Indeed, so great is their desire for an Israeli victory over the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza that they are willing to publicly express their position for the first time.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It is not that “the Arab street” in Mecca and Cairo has stopped hating Jews. It is simply that the regimes are willing to neutralize the political influence of Jew-hatred in order to ensure their survival.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the future, such a commonality of interests may be the only way for Israel to cultivate strategic cooperation with Western nations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">All of this is greatly disturbing. But at least today, it is not Israel’s most pressing concern. The political salience of anti-Semitism in the West will have no impact on how the fighting ends.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only players in the game today are Israel, Egypt and the Obama administration. And Israel’s problem today is not the anti-Semitism of Western societies. It is the hostility of the Obama administration.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unlike the situation in Europe, anti-Semitism is not a significant force in the US. Due in large part to Obama administration actions, there is a growing acceptance in Washington of the false, anti-Semitic charge that Israel dictates US foreign policy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the US public views Israel as an ally and a fellow democracy. And as a consequence, the majority of Americans consistently support Israel and expect the US government to support Israel in its wars against Islamic terrorists and its desire to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. This general view is in turn reflected in the predominant pro-Israel positions taken by the vast majority of members of both houses of Congress.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to the fact that his position is out of step with the US public, Barack Obama has not been able to break openly with Israel. But behind the scenes, since the outset of Operation Protective Edge he has used his administrative powers to help Hamas and its Islamist sponsors in Turkey, Qatar and Iran to the detriment of Israel and the Sunni Arab regimes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, whereas David Cameron felt compelled by domestic political realities to turn on Israel, Obama feels compelled by domestic political realities to hide the fact that he has turned on Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As </span><em style="color: #000000;">The Wall Street Journal</em><span style="color: #000000;"> reported Thursday, Obama’s latest anti-Israel action was the institution last week of an unofficial arms embargo against Israel. Ignoring standard procedures adopted over the years in accordance with the US’s strategic cooperation accords with Israel, Obama has chosen to deny the US military the power to automatically approve Israeli requests for resupply of ammunition and spare parts. All such requests must now receive specific approval from the White House.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To hide the hostile nature of his action, Obama has sought to present it as a simple reassertion of presidential control over US foreign policy – and so resonate the anti-Semitic undertones of allegations of Israeli control over US foreign policy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In fact, Obama’s actions constitute a presidential decision to abandon his own official policy of upholding the US’s alliance with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama took a similar path last month with the highly discriminatory FAA flight ban on Ben-Gurion Airport. The FAA has not instituted such bans on countries like Ukraine and Pakistan where civilian passenger flights have actually been shot down. Yet, citing “an abundance of caution,” the FAA instituted a flight ban on Israel where no civilian passenger jet was endangered.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As the administration presented it, the FAA decision to directly threaten Israel’s economic viability did not derive from hostility to Israel, but from a concern for the welfare of airline passengers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a similar fashion, last month US Secretary of State John Kerry sought to misrepresent the administration’s adoption of Hamas’s cease-fire terms as the US’s official position. Kerry claimed that he was merely amplifying the Egyptian cease-fire agreement that the administration claimed it supported, when he was actually abandoning it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The massive destabilization of the Arab world in the wake of the Arab Spring has led many Israelis to reevaluate our region and the opportunities and threats it presents us.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With the rise of anti-Semitism as a political force in the Western world, and with the radical shift in US foreign policy under Obama, it is vital that Israel conduct a similar reevaluation of its relations with Western democracies.</span></p>
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		<title>The Incoherent Excuses for Hating Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debunking the European Left's lies against the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-20-at-10.48.18-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236732" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-20-at-10.48.18-PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-07-20 at 10.48.18 PM" width="290" height="231" /></a>Israel’s military operation to degrade Hamas’ ability to rain rockets down on Israeli cities has stirred up the usual noisy and nasty protests in Europe. We need not dwell on demonstrations by Muslim immigrants, whose genocidal Jew-hatred has been an Islamic tradition for 14 centuries. More revealing is the hatred of Israel by so many Europeans, ranging from leftover leftists and idealizers of the dark-skinned “other,” to far-right xenophobes and morally addled Christians. Whatever its origins, one thing their bitter hatred of Israel does not have is any foundation in coherent principle.</p>
<p>Take the displeasure aroused by the continually publicized disparity in deaths between Gazans and Israelis in the current ground operation to stop the rockets. Many critics seem affronted that Israel has taken great pains to protect its citizens by building bomb shelters and developing the Iron Dome anti-missile defenses, and so have suffered only 2 civilian deaths. They see the videos of dead Palestinian Arab children and blame those deaths on Israel’s “disproportionate response” instead of Hamas’ indifference to their own people’s safety. They ignore Hamas’s tactic of using their own women and children as human shields, ordering them not to flee the fighting, and storing explosives and munitions in tunnels under mosques, hospitals, apartment buildings, and schools, subterranean space that could be used to protect their people. They wink at Hamas’ conscious aim to engineer such casualties in order to create the “propaganda of the deed,” the purpose of which is to elicit precisely the uncritical condemnations of Israel that European useful idiots reflexively provide. They disregard Israel’s unprecedented <a href="http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/07/20/shujaiya-hamas-terror-fortress-gaza/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">efforts</span></a> to warn civilians that bombs are headed their way––phoning them on cell phones and land-lines, sending text messages, scattering leaflets, and dropping warning duds on the roofs of targets. And of course, the Israel-haters don’t care that Israel’s actions are always a defensive response to terrorist aggression.</p>
<p>So what’s the underlying principle behind criticisms of “disproportionate” actions and casualties? That tactical and matériel advantages in war are unfair? A war is not a game like golf, where an inferior player is given a handicap when he plays a better opponent. The objective is to stop the aggression and save lives, using all the resources at your disposal. Do you think during WWII that anyone gave a damn about “disproportionate” casualties? Japanese bombs killed 74 U.S. civilians during WWII, 68 at Pearl Harbor and an Oregon family of 6 killed by a booby-trapped balloon. The U.S. bombing of Japan killed 500,000. Those are the tragic wages of aggression, what Aeschylus meant when he said, “The doer suffers.”</p>
<p>But the obsession with Palestinian Arab casualties, nearly all of them the consequence of Arab aggression and callous disregard for even their own families, is just another expression of the irrational hatred of Israel. If one calculated, just based on the global media’s intense coverage, how many Arabs have died because of Israel’s defense of its people, you’d think the conflict has taken the lives of millions. In fact, since WWII, 41 million people have <a href="http://www.cissm.umd.edu/papers/files/deathswarsconflictsjune52006.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">died</span></a> in violent conflicts all over the world––but about 40,000 Arabs have <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/4990/arab-israeli-fatalities-rank-49th"><span style="color: #0433ff;">died</span></a> at the hands of Israel, most the result of 3 wars of aggression waged against the Jewish state. Meanwhile, 11 million Muslims have died in other conflicts, 90% of them killed by fellow Muslims. Indeed, even as international critics are devoting hours of coverage to the casualties in Gaza, tens of thousands of Muslims are dying in Syria and Iraq at the hands of other Muslims. Nor is Israel the premier non-Muslim killer of Muslims. If killing Muslims is an excuse for homicidal hatred, there are much grosser offenders than Israel. Russia killed 100,000 Muslims during the 1979-89 Afghan war, and more recently slaughtered about 150,000 Chechnyans, most of them Muslims. But Russia doesn’t receive a fraction of the global hatred and opprobrium Israel suffers when it defends itself against terrorists like Hamas and Fatah.</p>
<p>Then there are the Israel-hater’s complaints about the “illegal occupation.” This phrase is meaningless, of course, since there has never been a modern nation in Judea and Samaria to occupy according international law, and the territory historically was the Jewish homeland for centuries. But those facts aside, how can anyone take seriously complaints about “occupation” coming from Muslims, one of history’s all-time conquerors and occupiers? Muslims occupied Christian Spain, Sicily, the Balkans, and Greece for centuries. And North Africa, Egypt, and the coast of the eastern Mediterranean are still being “occupied,” the original possessors of those lands, if they managed to survive, still subjugated by the descendants of occupiers and colonists. Nor do decriers of “occupation” say anything about Tibet, occupied by China since 1950, or northern Cyprus, illegally occupied by Turkey since 1974. If a principle exists that “occupation” of another people’s land is a legitimate reason to hound and demonize a country, then why the silence about Turkey and China?</p>
<p>So too with the usual harping on the “Palestinian refugees” who were allegedly ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948, and whose “right of return” has been the perennial deal-breaker preventing peace with Israel. Forget that most willingly fled the conflict, egged on by their so-called “leaders” who promised that they could return to loot Israel once Allah’s armies had prevailed. Forget that, unlike every other refugee group, their ethnic and religious brothers have left them to rot in squalid slums, and refused to integrate them into their own countries. Forget that they are the only group of refugees out of millions to have their very own U.N. agency. If creating refugees is such a heinous crime justifying inveterate hatred, what about the 800,000 Jewish refugees kicked out of lands their ancestors had inhabited for thousands of years before Islam even existed? Or how about the ethnic cleansing of 180,000 Greek Cypriots from northern Cyprus, their land taken by 150,000 Turkish “settlers”? Does anyone even remember the 10 million Germans forcibly removed from Eastern Europe after WWII, at the cost of a million dead? What makes the Palestinian Arabs, who were turned into refugees because of the aggression of their Arab brothers, so special that they have become the permanent wards of the U.N. and international charity, their existence the pretext for international Jew-hatred and terrorist violence?</p>
<p>On count after count, the reasons for hating Israel collapse. In fact, even if every slander and lie about Israel were true, it would still be way down on the list of global offenders, and the hatred directed against it vastly disproportionate. Ideology, not principle or fact, explains this hatred. As a liberal democracy with an economy more capitalist than socialist, Israel is necessarily the enemy of the left, its success like America’s a humiliating reproach to a failed ideology. Those same leftists, still addled by old Leninist obsessions over “imperialism” and “colonialism,” have turned Israel into a neo-imperial outpost of the West appropriating the resources and oppressing the lives of the “indigenous” peoples. A sentimental Third-Worldism that idealizes the dark-skinned “other” victimized by the racist West also finds in the Palestinian Arabs yet another exotic mascot that signifies these Westerners’ superior sensitivity and cosmopolitan sophistication. And the juvenile romanticizing of revolutionary violence and guerilla “resistance” attracts the same people who hang Che Guevara posters over their beds, and name streets after the vicious cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.</p>
<p>Finally, there is no question that hatred of Israel reflects the continuing existence of anti-Semitism in Europe, intensified by millions of Muslim immigrants for whom hating Israel is theologically justified. As the generation responsible for the Holocaust dies off, as the current generation grows increasingly tired of guilt for atrocities they had nothing to do with, and as the Holocaust becomes just another distant historical attraction in the museum circuit, a space is created for a return of anti-Semitism, one disguised as “anti-Zionism” and “compassion” for the suffering of “Palestinians.” The “Jew of nations,” Israel is burdened with all the old slanders and bigoted stereotypes, now given a patina of leftist ideology and sentimental Third-Worldism. But it is still the same old ancient evil.</p>
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		<title>Bloodguilt Over Jews Leads to Blood Libels Against Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way to relieve national guilt for the Holocaust than turning Jews into the villains? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zionazi2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236375" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zionazi2-450x331.jpg" alt="zionazi2" width="256" height="188" /></a>If there&#8217;s one place on Earth that should understand the danger of Jew hatred, it is Frankfurt, Germany. In 1933, boycotts targeted Jews; by 1938, Germans were burning synagogues down. Between 1933 and 1945, the Jewish population of the city was decimated, dropping from 30,000 to 602. Few Jews, most of them Soviet expatriates, live in the city now.</p>
<p>So Frankfurt seems an odd place for a new blood libel against the Jews. Nonetheless, this week, 2,500 protesters, including Muslims and neo-Nazis — allied once again — showed up downtown to scream about Israel&#8217;s defensive action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Police reportedly helped out the protesters, allowing them to utilize a loudspeaker and a vehicle to shout anti-Israel diatribes. &#8220;You Jews Are Beasts,&#8221; read one sign.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in Paris, Muslims attacked two Jewish synagogues, including one in which 150 Jews had gathered to mourn the deaths of three Jewish boys, who were murdered by Hamas operatives. Those Muslims, brandishing bats and chairs, attempted to break into the synagogue and ended up injuring several Jews. In recent years, thousands of Jews from France have emigrated to Israel, amid shocking reports of beatings, stabbings and an ax attack.</p>
<p>The Europeans, it seems, are becoming increasingly comfortable with old-fashioned Jew hatred in their midst, whether homegrown or imported.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a reason for that. In much of Europe, bloodguilt over the Holocaust still hangs over the heads of the population. According to a 2012 Anti-Defamation League survey of European countries, 45 percent of Austrians, 35 percent of French, 43 percent of Germans, 63 percent of Hungarians and 53 percent of Polish citizens felt that it was &#8220;probably true&#8221; that &#8220;Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.&#8221; Many of those who wish to move beyond the Holocaust, therefore, look for a rationale to relieve national guilt — and what better way to relieve national guilt than to label the Jewish State an aggressor? After all, if the Jews have become the villains, then why spend too much time thinking about their victimization?</p>
<p>Of course, the labeling of Jews as bloodthirsty villains led to the Holocaust in the first place.</p>
<p>Adolf Hitler saw the Jews as bloodsuckers driven by greed and dual loyalty. So did much of the rest of Europe. In the minds of those who murdered Jews en masse, Jews had it coming, because, in the words of Hitler: &#8220;The struggle for world domination will be fought entirely between us — between Germans and Jews. All else is facade and illusion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those who today label Israel the font of all evil use Hitler&#8217;s rationale to relieve guilt over Hitler. That&#8217;s why the same protesters in Frankfurt threatening Jews carried posters comparing Israel to the Nazis: If Jews are the new Nazis, fighting the Jews becomes an obligation.</p>
<p>Every Passover, Jews recite a paragraph: &#8220;in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand!&#8221; The names change, but the rationale does not. And the God of Israel is always watching, even if those who attack the Jews have convinced themselves that He will turn a blind eye.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe suffers horrific turn in its cultural landscape.]]></description>
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<p>A major pedophilia scandal is currently rocking British society, in which as many as 20 prominent politicians, judges and other members of the British establishment are suspected of having abused children in the 1980s and 1990s as part of a pedophile ring. The victims were among society’s most vulnerable, being mostly boys from state children’s homes. And such abuse, it is suspected, may have been going on for decades.</p>
<p>“We are looking at the Lords, the Commons, the judiciary- all institutions where there will be a small percentage of pedophiles, and a slightly larger percentage of people who have known about it,” former child protection manager Peter McKelvie told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), calling the predators “an extremely powerful elite” who have been abusing children “for as long as I have been alive.”</p>
<p>This latest episode involving sexual exploitation of children comes on the heels of other, jarring, pedophilia scandals to stun Britain this year. One involved the BBC itself.</p>
<p>BBC star entertainer Jimmy Savile, now deceased, was one of several BBC employees suspected of having molested literally hundreds of children and teenagers, some on BBC premises. Perhaps most shockingly, 28 British hospitals reported Savile may have molested patients on their wards, to which he was allowed access, sometimes even possessing hospital keys.</p>
<p>Another scandal saw artist and “iconic” children’s entertainer Rolf Harris, who once painted Queen Elizabeth’s portrait, found guilty this month of 12 counts of indecent assault on children and teenagers. Harris was described as a “part of millions of British childhoods” and was viewed as “a national treasure.”</p>
<p>One can correctly say pedophilia was not invented in Western countries in our times. But what differentiates the current climate concerning this once very taboo practice from earlier decades is the equally reprehensible movement underway in the West involving some academics, among others, to minimize its devastating effects on children, garner sympathy for the perpetrators and make the practice acceptable to the public. All of which is allowing pedophilia to creep into the cultural debate.</p>
<p>Journalist Andrew Gilligan recently pointed out in England’s <i>Daily</i> <i>Telegraph</i> an example of this gradual, ongoing promotion of pedophilia in mainstream society. Gilligan writes that only last year in July at a conference at the University of Cambridge, one of Britain’s most famous institutions of higher learning, pro-pedophilia positions were put forward. The conference was about classifying sexuality in “a standard international psychiatric manual used by the police and courts” that is produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).</p>
<p>One attendee was Ken Plummer, an emeritus professor of sociology at Britain’s Essex University. Plummer had previously stated he was once a member of the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a British pro-pedophilia group, which advocated lowering the age of consent to ten. But Plummer said he had joined the now defunct PIE only for research purposes.</p>
<p>The results of Plummer’s &#8220;research,&#8221; however, was to produce such disturbing statements as: “The isolation, secrecy, guilt and anguish of many pedophiles are not intrinsic to the phenomenon but are derived from the extreme social pressure placed on minorities.” And another gem: “Many adult pedophiles say that boys actively seek out sex partners …&#8217;childhood’ itself is not a biological given but an historically produced social object.”</p>
<p>Former PIE chief Tom O’Carroll was also in attendance at the Cambridge conference. O’Carroll was once convicted for distributing 50,000 images of child abuse. BBC news stated: “Children, mainly boys and some as young as six, had been filmed and photographed being raped and tortured.”</p>
<p>But the most &#8220;interesting&#8221; academic at the Cambridge conference was Philip Tromovitch, a professor at Japan’s Doshisha University. In his presentation, Trofomich stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Pedophilic interest is natural and normal for males. At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children…Normal males are aroused by children.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It is not surprising that, according to Gilligan, Tromovitch and O’Carroll went together for drinks afterwards.</p>
<p>But what is surprising, though, is that persons of O’Carroll’s and Tromovitch’s ilk are even present at such a prestigious international conference alongside such reputable organizations as the APA, discussing important topics like psychiatric classifications &#8212; and at Cambridge University at that. The fact alone that Tromovitch and Plummer have positions at universities is viewed by many as a sign of serious civilizational decline.</p>
<p>There were other, similar enlightening presentations at the Cambridge function, such as “Liberating the pedophile: a discursive analysis” and “Danger and difference: the stakes of hebephilia.”</p>
<p>The APA representatives at the conference tried to have hebephilia (attraction to early pubertal children) listed as a disorder in the manual’s new edition but failed. Gilligan wrote that one American academic attending the conference believed such a listing would be abused in the United States, as convicted sex offenders would not be released after completing their sentences and be detained as “mentally ill” under “US sexually violent predator laws.”</p>
<p>The possibility of these offenders, once released, harming more children appears not to have merited the slightest consideration.</p>
<p>One APA attendee stated, however, that a way had to be found to include hebephilia as a disorder in the manual or that was “tantamount to stating that the APA’s official position is that sexual preference for early pubertal children is normal.” Which is probably what some at the conference want and why the APA proposal was voted down.</p>
<p>The attempt to normalise adult-child sex is not only limited to certain academics and paedophile groups in the West but has had its political supporters as well.</p>
<p>Germany’s Green Party more than outdid the Cambridge conference last year in notoriety for having once pushed for pedophilia’s acceptance. In 2013, shortly before Germany’s federal election, it was revealed the party had, at least in one German state, officially adopted in 1985 a position calling for the abolishment of the German law that criminalised adult-child sex. The party’s tolerance for pedophilia was such that it had a “Queer and Pederast” working group inside the party, promoting this position.</p>
<p>Even the Green candidate for chancellor in last year’s German federal election, Juergen Trittin, a city politician for the Greens in Goettingen in the 1980s, had signed a party platform statement calling for the decriminalization of child-adult sex acts “that occur without the use or threat of force.”</p>
<p>“This formulation makes a mistake. It is simply false. There are no consenting forms of sexual relationships between adults and children,” said Trittin, when forced to address the issue during the election campaign.</p>
<p>Trittin also regretted that it took his party so long to disown its pedophile past. But if it had not been for the revelations, one wonders whether the Greens would ever have recanted their previous child-adult sex position.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the Green Party, despite the revelations’ shock to the German public, still received eight percent of the national vote. In the past, despite its small size, it has played an important part in German politics, having been the junior partner in a federal coalition government with Gerhard Schroeder’s Socialist Party between 1998 and 2005 as well as serving as a coalition partner in several state governments.</p>
<p>And some Greens not only supported their party’s outrageous position, but acted on it. An openly pedophile member of the Green Party’s executive committee for Germany’s most populous state, North Rhineland-Westphalia, formed a commune in the 1980s, visited by prominent Greens, where he and others molested minors living or visiting there. He justified his abuse of the children by saying the Greek philosophers also had their “lust-boys” and sexual contact with their pupils.</p>
<p>“These were sentences that, for me, were quite unusual, facts, as it were, since no one contradicted them,” remembered one former abuse victim last year in a newspaper interview. Now an adult, he was 12 when living at the commune and said he never realized the abuse, which occurred daily, was wrong.</p>
<p>Other Greens attended party conferences where members of invited anarchist communes, called “City Indians,” were openly affectionate with their boy lovers.</p>
<p>“There were also 30-year-olds there; they played with the children,” remembered one Green Party member in an interview with <i>Die Welt</i> last year. “Sometimes I felt rotten there.”</p>
<p>Interestingly, none of these “progressive” politicians at these Green party conferences, whose stated mission is to save the world from capitalist oppression, especially American, ever thought to call the police or a children’s protection service. Ironically, it was also the Greens who, years later, were to scream the loudest and the longest in Germany against the Catholic Church’s child sex scandals. Like many leftists, the Greens are used to pointing out, in paroxysms of outrage, the moral failings of others while ignoring their own. One can only be thankful the Greens never controlled any schools back then.</p>
<p>The unstated end game of those involved in making pedophilia acceptable for public consumption is to eventually have this immoral practice legalized, as in pagan Rome and Greece of antiquity (pedophile groups’ favourite reference point). But rather than from the past, it is from the present, in the form of sympathetic academics and modern “Greens,” that the pedophile movement currently gets its intellectual support, its ideological armor and tools to promote and justify its anti-child cruelty.</p>
<p>It has been pointed out, by Gilligan among others, that professors who sympathise with this deviant behaviour pose more of a threat than pedophile groups themselves, since academics are on the forefront of making child-adult sex at least presentable, if not acceptable to the public, and, perhaps, even eventually fit for polite society. And it is this eroding of moral barriers that could ultimately lead to pedophilia’s legalization.</p>
<p>But what stands out the most in the statements and research of academic sympathisers of pedophilia, like those at the Cambridge conference, is not just the immorality of their positions but also the inhuman lightheartedness with which they trample on children’s souls. There is no realization of the damage their pedophilia madness will do to “these frail beings,” as Victor Hugo once so compassionately called children.</p>
<p>Even in Juergen Trittin’s statement, like those of other Greens, there was never any admission of immorality on his part or on the party’s. They had simply taken a false position.  All of which shows, without a doubt, that the emerging pagan heart of Europe is definitely a heartless one.</p>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blog_deflated_soccer_ball.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234915" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blog_deflated_soccer_ball.jpg" alt="blog_deflated_soccer_ball" width="288" height="202" /></a>I&#8217;ve held off on writing about soccer for a decade &#8212; or about the length of the average soccer game &#8212; so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation&#8217;s moral decay.</p>
<p>(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls &#8212; all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they&#8217;re standing alone at the plate. But there&#8217;s also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.</p>
<p>In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child&#8217;s fragile self-esteem is bruised. There&#8217;s a reason perpetually alarmed women are called &#8220;soccer moms,&#8221; not &#8220;football moms.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That&#8217;s when we&#8217;re supposed to go wild. I&#8217;m already asleep.</p>
<p>(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it&#8217;s a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.</p>
<p>(3) No other &#8220;sport&#8221; ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: &#8220;2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0.&#8221; Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: &#8220;1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0.&#8221; If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he&#8217;d still be alive, although bored.</p>
<p>Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties &#8212; and it&#8217;s a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.</p>
<p>(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don&#8217;t worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.</p>
<p>Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game &#8212; and it&#8217;s not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.</p>
<p>(5) You can&#8217;t use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here&#8217;s a great idea: Let&#8217;s create a game where you&#8217;re not allowed to use them!</p>
<p>(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Girls,&#8221; light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is &#8220;catching on&#8221; is exceeded only by the ones pretending women&#8217;s basketball is fascinating.</p>
<p>I note that we don&#8217;t have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.</p>
<p>(7) It&#8217;s foreign. In fact, that&#8217;s the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not &#8220;catching on&#8221; at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.</p>
<p>(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it&#8217;s European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren&#8217;t committing mass murder by guillotine.</p>
<p>Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he&#8217;ll say something like &#8220;70 degrees.&#8221; Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he&#8217;ll say it&#8217;s about 200 miles.</p>
<p>Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more &#8220;rational&#8221; than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man&#8217;s thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That&#8217;s easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?</p>
<p>(9) Soccer is not &#8220;catching on.&#8221; Headlines this week proclaimed &#8220;Record U.S. ratings for World Cup,&#8221; and we had to hear &#8212; again &#8212; about the &#8220;growing popularity of soccer in the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women&#8217;s World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women&#8217;s games are as thrilling as the men&#8217;s.)</p>
<p>Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year&#8217;s Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.</p>
<p>Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.</p>
<p>If more &#8220;Americans&#8221; are watching soccer today, it&#8217;s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man who could see Stalin's real agenda long before the rest of the world caught on. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bourke-white-margaret-gen-george-patton.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234354" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bourke-white-margaret-gen-george-patton-283x350.jpg" alt="bourke-white-margaret-gen-george-patton" width="228" height="282" /></a>Nearly 70 years after the untimely death of U.S. General George S. Patton, suspicions linger as to the nature and circumstances surrounding the demise of this formidable military genius.  On a war-torn, two-lane highway in Mannheim, Germany, Patton’s car was struck on December 21, 1945 by a two-ton Army truck less than six months after the end of WWII hostilities in Europe.  The accident left Patton clinging to life in a Heidelberg hospital during a crucial period when the Allies were attempting to transition from the ravages of war to a sustained peace in Germany.  Within three weeks, Patton would lose his final battle, and the fate of post-war Germany would be sealed for several decades.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">At the time of his death, Patton had been relegated to a desk job, overseeing the collection of Army records in Bavaria.  That he had been an outspoken critic of Stalin and a vocal proponent of liberating Berlin and the German people from certain communist aggression triggered his sudden removal from the battlefield.  In the aftermath of war, the Western powers sought to sideline the mercurial Patton and his incendiary views.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">But Patton despised the politically driven circus and the media minions that carried out their dirty work.  Still, he continued to speak out against the Russians as an American witness to their brutality during and after the war.  As Stalin devoured Eastern Europe, Patton remarked, <i>“</i><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"><i>I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them… …the Russian has no regard for human life and they are all out sons-of-bitches, barbarians, and chronic drunks.”</i></span></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In early May 1945, as the Allies shut down the Nazi war machine, Patton stood with his massive 3rd Army on the outskirts of Prague in a potential face off with the Red Army. He pleaded for General Eisenhower’s green light to advance and capture the city for the Allies, which also would have meant containment of the Russians. British Prime Minister Churchill also thought the move a crucial and beneficial one for post-war Europe and insisted upon it, but to no avail. Eisenhower denied Patton’s request, and the Russians took the region, which would pay dearly for years to come.  Earlier that year, at the February conference in Yalta, President Roosevelt, with Churchill at his side, extended the hand of friendship to “Uncle Joe” Stalin and signed his Faustian pact.  In so doing, the destiny of millions was reduced to mass starvation, blood revenge, and distant gulags. At the time, Patton understood the tragedy of this event and wrote, “<span style="color: #1d1d1d;"><i>We promised the Europeans freedom. It would be worse than dishonorable not to see that they have it. This might mean war with the Russians, but what of it?”</i></span></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Berlin also was given to Stalin’s Army as red meat to feed the dictator’s appetite for killing Germans. To some, including Patton, this was an unnecessary and devastating concession.  In late April 1945, Patton claimed he could take Berlin in just “two days,” an assessment shared by the commander of the 9<sup>th</sup> Army, General William H. Simpson. As with Prague, Patton’s request to secure Berlin was denied. Sadly, after Patton finally reached the ravaged city, he wrote his wife on July 21, 1945, <i>&#8221; for the first week after they took it (Berlin), all women who ran were shot and those who did not were raped. I could have taken it (instead of the Soviets) had I been allowed.&#8221;</i></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Conventional wisdom holds that Eisenhower’s choice not to capture the eastern capital cities was sober decision-making or that he was bound by the Yalta agreements, though he originally planned for Berlin and Prague. Many would argue that in the spring of 1945 the U.S. was fatigued with war and its military was in no condition to fight World War III. <span style="color: #000000;">The Americans also needed the Russians to</span><span style="color: #000000;"> join the</span><span style="color: #000000;"> fight in the Pacific </span><span style="color: #000000;">w</span><span style="color: #000000;">ar, though the Russians never fulfilled th</span><span style="color: #000000;">at</span><span style="color: #000000;"> promise. Yet, </span>the “what ifs” of history echo in Patton’s words: <i>&#8220;The American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because, while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these.”</i></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Moreover, Patton’s notion of meeting the enemy “now, rather than later” in retrospect seems not the mere wiles of a warmonger unable to embrace peacetime, but rather a worthy and prudent strategy of a seasoned tactician, even if a gamble. Stalin’s own records prove that he told his leaders to “play down” the Berlin invasion, aware that it was Europe’s crown jewel. Eisenhower, for all his discernment and skill at war management, did not see the Russians coming as did Patton and Churchill, who both recognized the wisdom of stopping Stalin in his tracks and perhaps offering Eastern Europe a chance at liberation.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Stalin had promised to liberate the capitals of Eastern Europe—Berlin, Prague, and Vienna—as well as Eastern Poland and the Baltic states. In his public broadcast dating back to November 1943 he promised, “The day is not far off when we will completely liberate the Ukraine, and the White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; we will liberate . . . the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finnish Republic.”  Instead, history proves that Stalin was responsible for the murder and/or starvation of some 40 million Russians and Ukrainians during his reign of terror.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In light of the Red Army’s 20th century rampage, with unprecedented carnage and devastation and arguably the darkest time in Western history, was Patton not the sober warrior speaking truth to a political expediency or human fatigue?  Was he not correct about Russian post-war intentions? Would not his attempt to push back his future foes and prevent further genocide have been worth the risk of another battle to secure the eastern capitals? We know the answer now, but Patton knew the answer then.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">By the end of the war Patton was defeated. As Eisenhower prepared for the political stage, every misspoken or emotionally charged word uttered by his greatest fighting general threatened to undermine Eisenhower’s credibility and authority, as well as the progress of a post-war order. Patton’s outspoken and unsolicited opinions, coupled with his unwillingness to punish all German citizens during the de-Nazification period, caused Eisenhower to sideline the general. Patton believed in the righteous cause of the military and revealed his plans to fight those who were destroying its morale and who endangered America&#8217;s future by not opposing the growing Soviet threat.  As a result, he was silenced. He would later say, <i>&#8220;when I finish this job, which will be around the first of the year, I shall resign, not retire, because if I retire I will still have a gag in my mouth . . .”</i></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Never short on words or the courage to deliver them, one wonders what secrets Patton might have revealed to the world had he not met a premature end. His diaries are littered with criticisms of Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley, and at times he found fault with how the war was executed at what he believed was at the expense of American GIs? Were these convictions enough of a threat to put his own life in danger with his peers? Is it plausible that the Russians, weary of his anti-Soviet rhetoric, might have employed the NKVD for the ultimate dirty job?</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In light of those who opposed Patton—enemies and allies alike—is it any wonder why 70 years later many still would question his untimely death?</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Even today, his silence can be heard.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/europe-anti-semitism.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-234077" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/europe-anti-semitism.jpg" alt="europe-anti-semitism" width="250" height="200" /></a>The May 24, 2014 terrorist attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum that killed four people (including an Israeli couple) has spurred serious discussions about European anti-Semitism in European capitals and at the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels. The jihadist killer was a French Muslim of Arab North African extraction, named Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who spent over a year in Syria, and had links with radical Islamists.</p>
<p>Earlier, in 2012, a horrible murder of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France committed by Mohammad Merah, a jihadist, North-African Arab Muslim, points to a pattern. Both Merah and Nemmouche had a history of petty crime, were radicalized in jail, and both were in touch with jihadists abroad, Merah in Afghanistan, and Nemmouche in Syria.</p>
<p>The leniency in which European authorities treat the radicals among their Muslim minorities has encouraged violence against Jews. Whether it is colonial or white guilt, fear of Islamic terror, or of being accused of Islamophobia, the EU tolerance, learned following the Holocaust, has been misdirected. Instead of protecting the victims of intolerance &#8211; the Jews &#8211; EU authorities are more interested in cultivating their radicalized jihadist Muslim constituents, regardless of the consequences.</p>
<p>In November, 2003, the European Union&#8217;s racism watchdog group, the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia, shelved a report on anti-Semitism which it had commissioned earlier from a Berlin-based research group. The center&#8217;s staff apparently objected to the study&#8217;s definition of anti-Semitism, which included some anti-Israeli rhetoric, and to its conclusion that Muslims and pro-Palestinian activists were largely responsible for anti-Jewish vandalism and violence. Yet the Commission saw nothing wrong with publishing a survey claiming that Israel was seen by Europeans as the greatest threat to world peace.</p>
<p>Gabriel Schoenfeld’s book “The Return of Anti-Semitism” (Encounter Books, 2005) documented the anti-Israel backlash that has often taken the form of physical attacks on Jews, including beatings of Jewish children in schools, assaults on Jews wearing religious garb in the streets, and vandalism against Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. But there is also the question of what Schoenfeld regards as a more “genteel” anti-Semitic bias perpetrated by progressive intellectuals. By depicting Zionism as a racist or imperialist creed, these progressive intellectuals are seeking to undermine the legitimacy of Israel, and holding it responsible not only for Palestinian suffering but also for Islamic terrorist attacks on the West.</p>
<p>The greatest threat to Jews in the West now comes from an unholy alliance of leftists and Islamists. The new anti-Semitism in the West, as Schoenfeld put it, usually begins with hostility toward Israel, but it does not stop there. By identifying prominent Jews as “Zionists,” and casting doubt on their allegiance to their native countries, and by attributing to them disproportionate power and influence, the new anti-Semitism has grown to monstrous proportions while cloaking itself in a mantle of political correctness.</p>
<p>The rise of anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews in Europe, and the simultaneous victories of fascist parties (France’s National Front, Greece’s neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, Hungary’s Jobbik Party, to name a few) in the recent European parliamentary elections, has prompted many European Jews to consider abandoning the continent where Six Million European Jews were murdered during WWII, better known as the Holocaust.</p>
<p>A 2012 survey on anti-Semitism conducted by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) reveals that <a href="http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2013-discrimination-hate-crime-against-jews-eu-member-states_en.pdf">66%</a> of Jewish respondents (5847 Jews surveyed) said that anti-Semitism in Europe is increasing, particularly on the Internet. Two thirds of the respondents consider anti-Semitism to be a problem across the eight EU Member States surveyed (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Sweden and the UK). 76% of the respondents also believe that the situation has become more acute and that anti-Semitism has increased in the country where they live over the past five years. In the 12 months following the survey, close to half of the respondents worry about being verbally insulted or harassed in a public place because they are Jewish. Furthermore, 66% of parents of school-aged children worry that their children could be subjected to anti-Semitic verbal insults or harassment at school or en route, and 52% worry that they could be physically attacked with an anti-Semitic motive while at school or en route. In the past 12 months, over half of the survey’s respondents (57%) heard or saw someone claim that the Holocaust was a myth or that it has been exaggerated.</p>
<p>Simon Heffer, a British journalist who edits the <em>Daily Mail’s RightMinds</em> section, suggested last week (June 6, 2014) that Britain should offer asylum to European Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in continental Europe. He wrote, “Britain may have been shamefully slow in the Thirties to grant <a href="http://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2014/06/top-uk-editor-says-britain-should-grant.html">asylum</a> to Jews fleeing Hitler, but we should warmly welcome here those who are now seeking a new home.” He added that, “The shocking murder of four people at the Brussels’ Jewish Museum last week by a French Islamic extremist reflects an increase in anti-Semitism in Europe, and above all, in France, where there is a large Muslim population.”</p>
<p>Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, presenting the results of a study on worldwide anti-Semitism in 2013, on April 27, 2014 declared that “Normative <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Kantor-Amid-increasing-anti-Semitism-normative-Jewish-life-in-Europe-is-unsustainable-350545">Jewish life</a> in Europe is unsustainable.” Kantor asserted that “Jews do not feel safe or secure in certain communities in Europe.”</p>
<p>In a June, 2004 interview with the Jerusalem Post while on a visit to Israel, French-Jewish Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld suggested that French Jews should pack their bags and get out. He pointed out that “One of the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/25177/">lessons</a> of the Holocaust is that even if you want to fight against a wave of anti-Semitism, the best thing is to leave if you can.”</p>
<p>Things are unlikely to get better for Jews living in Europe. High unemployment, the result of economic stagnation, and the continued arrival of hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants from Africa and the Middle East can only mean the continued scapegoating of the Jewish diminishing minority. The growing electoral power of the Muslim community throughout Europe, and the political bonding between far-left and far-right parties with the Muslim community bodes ill for Jews. The failure of European societies to integrate the Muslim community cannot be ignored as a factor in producing anti-Jewish violence. The EU Member States policies that condemn Israel’s defensive measures against Palestinian terrorism, and the boycott of Israeli products, provide a backwind for both the Islamists and their allies in the far-left and far-right, and an excuse for violent anti-Jewish hate speech that ends up with deadly action. The media in the EU states has likewise been one-sided and biased in its coverage of Israel.</p>
<p>The EU must launch a widespread educational program that will instill the values of tolerance, empathy, and non-violence. Political-correctness is meaningless without a comprehensive coeducational campaign that will explore the common values shared by all religions. School children, both native French and immigrants, must be taught the history of anti-Semitism and the lessons of the Holocaust. And, last but not least, a fair and balanced presentation of Middle East realities is a prerequisite for a behavior change.</p>
<p>While the EU governments and politicians are busy conducting surveys, and at the same time pandering to their radicalized Muslim minorities, normative Jewish life in Europe is slowly disappearing, and for some, it is time to pack up and leave.</p>
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		<title>Jews, Get Out of Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 04:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only dignified response to post-Holocaust anti-Semitism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jewish-cemetery_2495092b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226008" alt="jewish-cemetery_2495092b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jewish-cemetery_2495092b-450x280.jpg" width="315" height="196" /></a>The Anti-Defamation League created a stir last week by </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://global100.adl.org/">releasing the results</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of a global survey of antisemitism, the most comprehensive ever.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These results are considered shocking by many. Actually, for those who bother to keep up with reality, they contain no surprises.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Middle East and North Africa come out worst, with 74 percent among population groups qualifying as antisemitic according to the poll’s 11-question index. The most antisemitic political entities in the world? The West Bank and Gaza, coming in at 93 percent. (Yes, those same Palestinians with whom Israel is always under pressure to “make peace.”) </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The next worst region is Eastern Europe, with 34 percent scoring as antisemites. But not too far behind is Western Europe—the home of multiculturalism, advanced environmental awareness, bevies of human rights NGOs, and so on—at 24 percent.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The West European countries scoring highest for antisemitism were Greece with a whopping 69 percent, France at 37 percent, and Spain at 29 percent. Germany did itself proud by coming in above the West European average at 27 percent—a bit over one-quarter antisemitic seven decades after the Holocaust.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Over the weekend the European Jewish Association (EJA), along with other European Jewish organizations, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/news.aspx/180822#.U3y-w9KSzlt">held a briefing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on the survey in Brussels for EU ambassadors and officials. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One of the West European countries scoring lowest for antisemitism was the Netherlands at 5 percent. Yet Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, chief rabbi of the Netherlands, told this gathering: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Today, there is a strong political polarization, especially in Holland. Radicals from both sides of the political spectrum have become more extreme, and the middle ground is disappearing. I can’t walk a whole day in the street without having at least one person shout the words “dirty Jew” at me, because I am visibly Jewish.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If so, one hates to think what it’s like in the high-scoring countries.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the EJA, “called upon all EU member states to establish central committees, directly accountable to the respective prime ministers, in order to lead the fight against anti-Semitism.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But would establishing committees really be an adequate response at this stage?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then things got really ugly.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In Milan, Spain on Sunday night, the Israeli professional basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv won the European championship in a stunning upset by beating Real Madrid. Many Israelis—not least the 9,000 loyal fans who flew to Milan to cheer their team—were ecstatic. The prime minister and the president congratulated the team, and on Monday night Tel Aviv held huge celebrations.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Spanish fans reacted differently. Of course, they weren’t expected to be happy that their team lost. But it wasn’t just a matter of not being happy.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It turns out that Spanish Twitter users reacted to the loss by </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/spanish-jews-cry-foul-over-anti-semitic-basketball-tweets/">“post[ing] 17,500 messages of anti-Semitic abuse.”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> After the game they “created an expletive anti-Semitic hashtag in their messages…, which briefly became one of the most popular keywords on Twitter in Spain.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Specific reactions included “Jews to the oven” and “Jews to the showers.”</span></p>
<p>By the way, in Spain today—with its antisemitism ranking of 29 percent—there are about 45,000 Jews out of a total population of 47 million.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The report goes on to say that “Twelve Jewish groups in the northeastern Catalonia region lodged a legal complaint over the messages.” The leader of one of these groups “presented copies of anti-Semitic tweets to state prosecutors.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Again, getting some of these vicious people in trouble—if that indeed happens—might be worthwhile; but would it really solve the problem?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Instead of committees, lawsuits, and the like, I would suggest a different solution: for Jews, at last, to give up on Europe. For good. To leave it and not go back to it (to live, at least) for a long time, if ever.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If the Holocaust was not enough to convince some Jews that they are not wanted in Europe; if, seven decades later, the situation is one where a rabbi in one of the less antisemitic countries cannot walk the streets without being called &#8220;dirty Jew,&#8221; is it not time to conclude that one is in the wrong place?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I would prefer for European Jews to come to Israel—which also has to cope with an antisemitic environment, but where Jews are in a qualitatively different situation because they stand on their own two feet and look out for themselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But if not Israel, at least not Europe.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The only remaining dignified response is for Jews to bid Europe adieu.  </span></p>
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		<title>Putin’s Chess Moves on Ukraine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 04:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Vladimir-Putin-011.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225135" alt="Vladimir Putin" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Vladimir-Putin-011-450x270.jpg" width="270" height="162" /></a>Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a multidimensional geopolitical chess game, while the Obama administration and our European allies remain in a defensive, reactive stance. In his latest Ukraine gambit, Putin is playing the diplomatic offensive. He offered what he called “goodwill gestures” following a phone call with Didier Burkhalter, the Swiss president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He has also spoken with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Evidently, President Obama is no longer on Putin’s speed dial for Ukraine discussions. However, they may cross paths next month in France at the ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the allied invasion of Normandy, which both Obama and Putin have said they plan to attend. </span></p>
<p>As part of Putin’s “goodwill gestures” he sent signals that he intended to de-escalate tensions in eastern Ukraine by withdrawing Russian troops from the Russia-Ukraine border and by calling for pro-Russian separatists to postpone their local referendum on sovereignty scheduled for this Sunday. Putin also indicated his willingness to accept the plan for Ukraine’s presidential election to proceed on May 25<sup>th</sup> so long as the Russian demand for autonomy in eastern Ukraine was met. And Putin took up Chancellor Merkel’s suggestion for a round-table discussion among the Ukrainian factions.</p>
<p>That all sounds like a potential diplomatic break-through. However, more likely what we are witnessing instead is just another set of chess moves in which Putin is willing to sacrifice a minor chess piece for something of more value and is employing a decoy strategy.</p>
<p>“He really promised nothing,” Kirill Rogov, an economic analyst and political commentator in Moscow was quoted in a front page May 8th New York Times article as saying. “He demonstrated that he controls the level of tension in Ukraine. He can return the situation to the high levels of violence at any moment. He did not refuse the referendum, but only proposed delaying it.”</p>
<p>NATO officials have stated that they had not seen any signs of Russian troop withdrawal so far. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s Secretary General said: &#8220;So far we haven&#8217;t seen any indications that they are pulling back their troops. Let me assure you that if we get visible evidence that they are actually pulling back their troops, I would be the very first to welcome it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even if Putin does withdraw some troops, it may consist of nothing more than the token withdrawal from the border that happened once before. Moreover, to prove Russia’s military might and reach, on May 8<sup>th</sup> Putin oversaw military exercises throughout Russian territory involving Russia&#8217;s nuclear forces. Intercontinental ballistic missiles were launched as part of the exercise from land and sea. But Putin is not content for his country to just be seen as a “regional” power, as President Obama so naively described Russia.</p>
<p>Ominously for the United States, Russia has sent intercontinental strategic bombers across the Pacific Ocean that, according to an <a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/may/05/us-russian-planes-more-active-in-asia-pacific/all/?print">Associated Press report</a> on May 5<sup>th</sup>, have been flying along the Californian coast. Such provocative activity has not occurred since the end of the Cold War. The Associated Press stated in its report that Gen. Herbert Carlisle (who is the Commander of Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; and Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii) linked the flights “to the situation in the Ukraine. He said Russia was demonstrating its capabilities and gathering intelligence on U.S. military exercises.”</p>
<p>As for the pro-Russian separatists, they said at first that they would consider Putin’s request for a delay of Sunday’s referendum, but then decided to go ahead with it. Denis Pushilin, the self-declared chairman of the Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic said, as quoted by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti: &#8220;After the vote that was held today, the unanimous decision was to go ahead with the referendum May 11.”</p>
<p>The question on the referendum ballot will be:  &#8220;Do you support the act of proclamation of independent sovereignty for the Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic?&#8221; Ultimately, a vote for “independent sovereignty” could lead to an attempt at full secession from Ukraine, a request to join the Russian Federation or a demand for complete autonomy while remaining nominally within Ukraine.</p>
<p>This appearance of “self-determination” will allow Putin to say that he “tried” to use his influence with the separatists, but that he can’t force them to bend to his will. A referendum declaring independence from the central government in Kiev or a desire to become part of Russia could then be used by Putin to legitimize his demand that the separatists have an equal place at the table in discussions with the central government in order to “reform” the constitution. Reform in Putin’s mind means complete decentralization of power in Ukraine away from Kiev, allowing Russia to treat eastern and portions of southern Ukraine as satellite regions within its sphere of influence. That will accomplish his main goal without having to incur the risk of Russian casualties in an all-out invasion or to take full responsibility for the economy in those portions of Ukraine as he has effectively done in Crimea. To that end, Putin is still sowing the seeds of discord by expressing sympathy for the separatists whom have forcibly occupied government buildings and effectively are in control in major parts of eastern Ukraine.</p>
<p>“I can understand the people in southeast Ukraine, who say that if others can do what they like in Kiev, carry out a coup d’état, take up arms and seize government buildings, police stations and military garrisons, then why shouldn’t they be allowed to defend their interests and lawful rights?” Putin said at a Kremlin news conference.</p>
<p>Of course, unlike the game of chess, real world events on the ground in Ukraine are not in the hands of any single player, even one as clever as Putin. Once the passions of the pro-Russian separatist movement are released, it may be very difficult to put them back into the bottle. On the other hand, if recent polls are correct, nearly seventy percent of the residents of eastern Ukraine want Ukraine to maintain its current borders and reject the idea of Russia sending in its troops to supposedly protect Russian-speaking citizens. If the referendum vote is not rigged – a very iffy assumption, to be sure – Putin may be unpleasantly surprised by the result.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, Vladimir Putin retains the upper hand in Ukraine and continues to outmaneuver President Obama and our European allies who are struggling to put together an effective counter-strategy. A weakened residue of western Ukraine left in Kiev’s hands, while the rest of Ukraine and its valuable natural resources and industrial base move firmly within Russia’s orbit, is Putin’s strategic objective, which he is on his way to achieving by hook or crook.</p>
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		<title>How Modernity ‘Radicalizes’ Western Muslims</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why second generation Muslims are more susceptible to jihad than their parents. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/sharia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223533" alt="sharia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/sharia-450x277.jpg" width="315" height="194" /></a>A new </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/denmark-muslims-218-percent-more-criminal-in-2nd-generation-than-first">Danish statistical study</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> finds that “Muslims [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first.”  While some of these crimes are clearly related to Islam—such as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/denmark-muslim-attacks-apostate-from-islam-at-asylum-center">attacks</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on Muslim apostates to Christianity—others, such as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/copenhagen-police-muslim-youth-rob-still-more-their-preferred-victims-are-non-muslims">rampant theft of non-Muslims</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, would appear banal, until one realizes that even robbery and plunder is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/coptic-abductions-and-the-jizya-rationale/">justified by</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/milking-egypts-christian-copts-dry/">Islamic doctrine</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">—as one UK Muslim cleric once </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://enzaferreri.blogspot.com/2013/02/jihad-seekers-allowance-new-form-of.html">clearly said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The interesting question here is why are second generation Muslims, who are presumably more Westernized than their Muslim parents, also more “radical”?  Lest one dismiss this phenomenon as a product of economics or some other “grievance” against European host nations, the fact is, even in America, where Muslims are much better assimilated than in Europe, they too are turning to “radicalism.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For example, some time back, Attorney General Eric Holder </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-eric-holders-blunt-warning-terror-attacks/story?id=12444727">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that “the threat [of terrorism] has changed … to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens—raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Around the same time, Sue Myrick, then a member of Congress, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8225586/US-home-grown-terrorists-a-global-threat-warns-congresswoman.html">wrote</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a particularly candid letter on “radicalization” to President Obama:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For many years we lulled ourselves with the idea that radicalization was not happening inside the United Sates. We believed American Muslims were immune to radicalization because, unlike the European counterparts, they are socially and economically well-integrated into society. There had been warnings that these assumptions were false but we paid them no mind. Today there is no doubt that radicalization is taking place inside America. The strikingly accelerated rate of American Muslims arrested for involvement in terrorist activities since May 2009 makes this fact self-evident.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Myrick named several American Muslims as examples of those who, while “embodying the American dream, at least socio-economically,” were still “radicalized,” astutely adding, “The truth is that if grievances were the sole cause of terrorism, we would see daily acts by Americans who have lost their jobs and homes in this economic downturn.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Quite so. Yet, though Myrick’s observations were limited to the domestic scene, they beg the following, more cosmic, question: If American Muslims, who enjoy Western benefits—including democracy, liberty, prosperity, and freedom of expression—are </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">still</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> being radicalized, why then do we insist that the importation of these same Western benefits to the Muslim world will eliminate its even more indigenous or authentic form of “radicalization”?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After all, the mainstream position evoked by most politicians maintains that all U.S. sacrifices in the Muslim world (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.) will pay off once Muslims discover how wonderful Western ways are, and happily slough off their “Islamist” veneer, which, as the theory goes, is a product of—you guessed it—a lack of democracy, liberty, prosperity, and freedom of expression. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet here are American and European Muslims, immersed in the bounties of the West, and </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">still</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> do they turn to violent jihad. Why think their counterparts, who are born and raised in the Muslim world, where Islam permeates every aspect of life, will respond differently?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fact, far from eliminating “radicalization,” Western values can actually exacerbate Islamic tendencies—hence why second generation, “Westernized” Muslims are also becoming more “radicalized” than their parents.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some already known that Western concessions to Islam—in the guise of multiculturalism, “cultural sensitivity,” political correctness, and self-censorship—only bring out the worst of Islam’s “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-islamic-schoolyard-bully-and-obamas-america/">schoolyard bully</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.” Yet even some of the most prized aspects of Western civilization—personal freedom, rule of law, human dignity—when articulated through an Islamic framework, have the capacity to “radicalize” Muslims.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Consider: the West’s commitment to the law as supreme arbitrator, for the Westernized Muslim becomes a commitment to establish and enforce Islamic law, Sharia; the West’s commitment to democracy, for the Westernized Muslim becomes a commitment to theocracy, including an anxious impulse to resurrect the caliphate; Western notions of human dignity and pride, when articulated through an Islamic paradigm (which sees only fellow Muslims as equals) </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-dare-you-the-supremacist-nature-of-muslim-grievances/">induces rage</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> when Muslims—Palestinians, Afghanis, Iraqis, etc.—are seen under Western, infidel dominion; Western notions of autonomy and personal freedom have even helped “Westernize” the notion of jihad into an individual duty, though it has traditionally been held by Sharia as a communal duty.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In short, a set of noble principles articulated through a foreign paradigm can lead to abominations. In this case, the better principles of Western civilization are being devoured, absorbed, and regurgitated into something equally potent, though from the other end of the spectrum.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Put differently, just as a stress on human freedom, human dignity, and universal justice produces good humans, rearticulating these same concepts through an Islamic framework that qualifies them with the word “Muslim”—</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Muslim</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> freedom, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Muslim</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> dignity, and </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Muslim</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> justice—leads to what is being called “radicalization.” </span></p>
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		<title>What the Post-American World Will Look Like</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6highres_00000401419611.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221411 alignleft" alt="Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in China" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6highres_00000401419611.jpg" width="268" height="187" /></a>The Cold War map of the world divided into two camps was simple and clear. The post-American world will be a much more ambiguous place. Instead of two global ideological alliances based around two world powers, there will be three post-ideological powers, no longer global in scope, and one worldwide ideological alliance.</span></p>
<p>The United States, Russia and China are post-ideological states. Russia and China have abandoned Communism. The United States is even abandoning nationalism; to say nothing of capitalism, democracy or freedom. Its rulers cling to scraps of global leftist ideology that isolate them from their own people.</p>
<p>Russia, China and the United States are all demographically unstable. Russia and the United States are both on track to majority-minority status. China&#8217;s demographic disaster will be the outcome of its one child policies, gendercide and its war on the countryside. The United States will probably weather its demographic problems better than Russia or China, because the former faces a fatal Muslim demographic takeover and the latter a conflict that will tear it apart, but like Russia and China, the demographic crisis in the United States will be exacerbated by the lack of common bonds to see it through a period of social stress.</p>
<p>There is little to unify Russia or China except greedy oligarchies playing at nationalism. It&#8217;s an unconvincing nationalism because the sons and daughters of their elites spend more time abroad than at home and sometimes even hold American citizenship. The oligarchs of Russia and the princes of China are as globalist as any Eurocrat. They have few national commitments. Their goals are wealth and power for their own families and associates.</p>
<p>Unfortunately there may be even less to unify the United States after the left erodes everything from free speech to the free market. Uncontrolled immigration has imported masses of hostile populations everywhere from Nashville to Minneapolis radically changing quintessentially American cultures and replacing them with balkanized minority coalitions with little in common except a mutual hostility against the United States.</p>
<p>In contrast to the cultural vulnerabilities of the three powers, Islam, the defining global ideological alliance, lacks a superstate as the center of its empire, though it has many state bases, but enjoys the allegiance of a worldwide population larger than any of the three powers. Demographic projections continue to favor the growth of Islam over China, Russia and the United States.</p>
<p>The three powers deal with Muslims by dividing them up into three groups; those that are part of their systems, those that are outside but allied to them, e.g. Syria for Russia, Saudi Arabia for the United States and Pakistan for China, and those that are its separatist or terrorist enemies.</p>
<p>Instead of coming to terms with a global struggle with Islam, each power largely concentrates on fighting Muslim separatist or terrorist groups that destabilize its sphere of influence while arming, funding and supporting those Muslim separatist and terrorist groups that destabilize rival powers.</p>
<p>Muslim terrorists operate in all three powers, but are dismissed as unrepresentative aberrations. That is wishful thinking, but empires are shaped to fight their own kind. Islam, like Communism, is something different. It is an ideology and post-ideological powers who believe in very little are poorly adapted to fighting it. Instead many of their elites secretly admire its dedication.</p>
<p>Islam emerged by taking advantage of the slow collapse of the Roman Empire. Its reemergence as a world power once again coincides with the fall of empires. Like a hyena trotting after prey, Islam is a cultural carrion eater consuming the skills and knowledge of superior civilizations to sustain its warlordism whose religious fanaticism eventually decay into decadent dynasties.</p>
<p>The collapse of the Pax Americana under Obama has freed up Russia and China to begin campaigns of territorial expansionism. Obama&#8217;s failure to deter Russia in Ukraine will encourage China to use force as a solution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea. These events will wake the world from the dream of the Pax Americana in which American power kept the peace in much of the developed world.</p>
<p>Those most immediately affected by the decline of the United States will be the Asian and European countries that outsourced their defense to the United States after WW2.</p>
<p>Europe was able to turn inward without having to make the hard choices and its elites were even able to drag the United States into implementing their vision internationally. But that is coming to an end. Libya may have been the last such war and the American contribution to it was fairly limited.</p>
<p>The nations of Europe suffer from Japanese birth rates, Russian demographics, Chinese corruption and American economics (though it would be more accurate to say that America suffers from EU economics.) Despite its size and population, Europe does not have a bright future.</p>
<p>Russia will not stop with Ukraine and NATO will dissolve, officially or unofficially, but the budding Russian empire will find that fighting a new wave of Muslim insurgencies in formerly peaceful republics will consume too much of its time and energy. The soldiers who will march on the scattered pieces of the old red empire will be Muslims and the Eurasian Union will become a Muslim empire with a handful of churches. Like Rome, its fall will come at the hands of its own barbarians.</p>
<p>Iraq and Afghanistan will not be as psychologically devastating to Americans as Vietnam, but severe military budget cuts and a campaign against the warrior culture will leave the military in no shape for anything except peacekeeping missions.</p>
<p>None of this has to happen, but it will if the same bad decisions continue to be made.</p>
<p>If eight years of Obama are topped by eight years of Hillary; this is where we will end up. If multilateralism continues to be the great obsession of the elites, if bad economics and bad strategy continue destroying nations, if the developed world continues de-industrializing to save the planet while empowering energy tyrannies, then the post-American world will be upon us.</p>
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		<title>An Indian Immigrant&#8217;s View: Leftist Indoctrination in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>While giving finishing touches to his Ph.D. dissertation the Dutch student Jerke de Vries had a seemingly harmless idea. A believing Christian that he was, he decided to thank God in his dissertation acknowledgement.</p>
<p>What seemed like a nice gesture to him, did not sit well with the members of the Dissertation Committee at the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands). They gave him a choice between God and the doctoral title.</p>
<p>He was ordered to blacken the sentence acknowledging God in several hundred printed copies of his dissertation, or face a certain rejection of his thesis.</p>
<p>Apparently in the committee’s view, it is one thing to acknowledge a favorite pub, a regular hang-out or even the local soccer team, like other batch mates, but by mentioning God the student had clearly crossed the norms of acceptability.</p>
<p>Finally, Jerke de Vries did bowed down to the dictates of the committee, but kept his pride by physically removing the entire acknowledgment page from several hundred copies of his dissertation, instead of blackening out the ‘objectionable’ sentence, as the committee had instructed.</p>
<p>What happened last week in a Dutch University is not an isolated case of academic overreach by overzealous members of a committee. Universities throughout Europe and North America are increasingly turning into hostile places, not only for believing Christians, but for anyone holding convictions other than the ones approved by the leftwing establishment.</p>
<p>The leftwing “Inquisitors” running amok on European campuses are not to be confused with the run-of-the-mill atheists or old school liberals. They have a well articulated faith and are anything but “liberal” in the originally intended meaning of the word.</p>
<p>Instead they are intolerant “professors” of the doctrine of religious Leftism bent up moulding young impressionable minds into their own image.</p>
<p>By default, they occupy the moral high ground in every campus debate. They claim to be impersonating dissent, while attacking every other dissenting opinion. They claim to be the champions of minority rights, while demonizing minority groups that do not confirm to the leftwing world view.</p>
<p>They take words like &#8220;democracy&#8221; hostage, while whitewashing the present and historical transgressions of leftist regimes and despots of the world.</p>
<p>These leftwing activists have deep contempt for the western society and laws, but are unhesitant in misusing free spaces and legal recourse provided by the society to slander, malign and destroy their perceived enemies.</p>
<p>By the end of the 1960s, sensing the failure and imminent disintegration of the radical student movement many European leftwing thinkers like the German agitator Rudi Dutschke called for a “long march through the institutions” as an alternative means of effecting “radical change” – alluding to the famous “Long March” that brought the Communist leader Mao Zedong to power in China.</p>
<p>They wanted a Cultural Revolution – another Maoist term – to transform society by taking control of academic and cultural institutions. This was in contrast to the classical Marxist notion of transforming society by taking over the means of production by force.</p>
<p>Today’s leftwing dominated academia is result of this meticulous ‘Long March’. Leftwing members of academia do not simply hold radical views, but take it upon themselves to indoctrinate their unsuspecting students. This indoctrination does not only take place in class rooms but permeates every aspect of teaching and formal learning.</p>
<p>In European countries like Germany, Holland or Belgium this indoctrination starts even more rigorously at the school level. A random look at the text books and curricula would prove the point. The constant looming threat of activism barging into classrooms makes even teachers with dissenting views toe the “party line”.</p>
<p>The Left has already succeeded in producing a resentful generation in times of economic stagnation. A generation not taught to use its rational faculties in debate, but to get shocked and offended in the face of diverging opinions.</p>
<p>Despite “expertise” in class warfare and degrees in areas like gender and ethnic studies, this generation is not getting what it thinks it is “entitled” to. This generation is not taught to be objective and self critical, lest it be too hard on itself! So if these young people are not getting what they think they deserve. Then, it has to be the system’s fault.</p>
<p>Universities and institutions of higher learning that once heralded the age of enlightenment and brought forth the marvelous innovations of the industrial revolution are turning into Leftwing Seminaries geared to produce committed leftists &#8212; to paraphrase the American social commentator Dennis Prager.</p>
<p>The Leftwing narrative is running unopposed on our campuses with no opposing narrative to counter it. Today, nothing less than the very soul of the Western civilization is at stake and we just might be letting the other side win by default.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1348336233_0.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219103" alt="1348336233_0" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1348336233_0-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>Ceuta is one of two small Spanish enclaves in North Africa, the second being Melilla. They provide the only possible entry to European territory without leaving Africa. Ceuta is separated from the Iberian Peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar, and lies at the strategically important boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. 1300 years ago, Muslims used it as a staging ground for their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and their aggressive inroads into Europe. The tide took centuries to turn, but </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ceuta">in 1415</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Portuguese conquered Ceuta. This event marked the beginning of half a millennium of European dynamism and global expansion.</span></p>
<p>It is ironic that Ceuta is now once again at the front lines. This time we are witnessing the retreat and decline of Europe, and the demographic expansion of Africa and the Islamic world. As one member of Spain’s maritime rescue services commented in late 2013: &#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/world/europe/as-desperation-mounts-more-migrants-cast-their-lot-on-a-troubled-sea.html">It has</a> been a very busy summer, because we’re now also rescuing Africans who not only cross in a toy boat but haven’t even spent money on buying proper oars.&#8221;</p>
<p>Apart from scaling the fences at Ceuta and Melilla, other common routes into Europe are by boat, sometimes via Spain’s Canary Islands off the Atlantic coast of North Africa, but more frequently to Mediterranean islands such as Italy’s Lampedusa. Some also enter Europe from the east, via the Greek islands. Greece has a huge problem with illegal immigrants, many of them Muslims coming from as far east as Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The tiny island of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/malta/10192458/EU-immigration-Malta-is-the-smallest-state-and-we-are-carrying-a-burden-that-is-much-bigger-than-any-other-country.html">Malta</a>, which is a member of the EU, has already received tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming in by boat. Many of the arrivals hail from the poorest and most war-torn parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Their arrival constitutes a heavy burden for such a small nation.</p>
<p>On <a href="http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/02/07/inenglish/1391774548_753814.html">February 6 2014</a>, at least 14 illegal immigrants, most of them sub-Saharan Africans, died while trying to swim from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The Spanish government’s local delegate said that the migrants were “aggressive” and began throwing rocks. Civil Guard officials used anti-riot gear to dissuade them from rushing the border, yet about 200 attempted to swim around the seawall. Sources said that the migrants stampeded, some stepping on others on the beach, as they jumped into the sea. Authorities said the police in Ceuta used rubber bullets to ward them off, but that they fired them in the air and did not target anyone directly. &#8220;<a href="http://www.thelocal.es/20140207/spain-admits-then-denies-firing-rubber-bullets-at-migrants">We did</a> not use anti-riot equipment when the immigrants were in the water.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the number of illegal immigrants landing in Italy rose tenfold in January 2014, the country’s deputy interior minister said. &#8220;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10618498/Italy-experiencing-massive-influx-of-refugees.html">In 2013</a>, Italy was subjected to an incessant and massive influx of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East,&#8221; Filippo Bubico told parliament. Throughout 2013, a total of 2,925 vessels of various shapes and sizes landed on Italian shores, carrying about 43,000 people. This represented a rise of 325 per cent in just one year. Reality is increasingly imitating fiction, with boatloads of people coming from the south to Europe, just as described in Jean Raspail’s novel <i>The Camp of the Saints</i> from 1973.</p>
<p>In early <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10621863/Italian-navy-rescue-more-than-1000-migrants-in-a-day.html">February 2014</a>, more than 1,000 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in nine overcrowded rafts and dinghies were rescued by the Italian navy within the space of just 24 hours. The vessels, in which approximately 1,120 people were packed tightly, were first spotted in waters south of Sicily by Italian military helicopters attached to naval ships. Once reached by naval patrol vessels, the migrants were given life jackets and transferred to a larger ship. It is thought they were trying to reach Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island. The turmoil in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring, the civil war in Syria and instability in Africa has led to a sharp increase in the number of illegal immigrants trying to reach European shores.</p>
<p>The German professor of sociology <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2007/06/a-continent-of-losers/">Gunnar Heinsohn</a> worries about the “demographic capitulation” of European nations. He fears that their low birth rates will lead to the collapse of the welfare state. Immigration from Third World nations cannot solve this problem; it only makes it worse. He does not believe that material aid to countries with large youth populations will prevent violence and terror. On the contrary, it may fuel more unrest. Over the course of five generations (1900-2000), the population in predominantly Muslim countries grew from 150 million to 1200 million — an increase of 800 per cent. This growth still continues. Heinsohn notes that Western countries are funding the Palestinian population explosion, for instance. He thinks that we must cease this support. He also believes that the West should stay out of the affairs of Muslim countries with expanding populations as much as possible. We should only interfere briefly if they threaten us directly.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It’s true that birth rates do not remain static. Even in some Muslim countries, birth rates are now lower than they were a few years ago. However, they are still substantially higher than those in virtually all European nations.</span></p>
<p>We don’t know exactly what the population was in the entire Roman Empire in the first century of our era. However, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_demography">estimates</a> typically range between 50 million and 80 million people, perhaps a little bit more, perhaps a little bit less. By comparison, it was estimated by 2013 that the global population grew by around <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/typhoon-haiyan-there-is-worse-to-come">75 million</a> people annually. This means that the world’s total population is now growing by roughly another Roman Empire, <i>every single year</i>. Most of this rapid growth is concentrated in dysfunctional and technologically backward societies.</p>
<p>The continent of Africa today houses a population larger than that of the continent of Europe. This has not happened for thousands of years. Already today, African and Muslim illegal immigrants are fleeing from their own failed societies to get into Europe, sometimes risking their lives by literally swimming to European shores.</p>
<p>A report <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/africa-to-record-largest-population-growth-over-next-40-years/1748380.html">from 2013</a> predicted that sub-Saharan Africa will record the largest population growth between now and 2050. According to the Population Reference Bureau, the world’s poorest region will more than double in population, from 1.1 billion to 2.4 billion. The entire population of the European Union is about 500 million people. It is estimated that Africa’s population will grow by at least twice that much, in just two generations. Where are these people supposed to live? Will they have water, food and work at home? If not, where will they go next?</p>
<p>Western governments and human rights organizations seem to treat the huge influx of illegal immigrants as some kind of natural disaster, something that will pass. It’s not. It’s an ongoing process, which keeps getting worse and worse. Europe’s misfortune is that it is situated right at the doorstep of the world’s most dysfunctional continent – Africa – and the world’s most dysfunctional cultural sphere, the Islamic world.</p>
<p>By 2014 Muslim-dominated <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html">Bangladesh</a> was estimated to house perhaps 165 million people, a number that keeps growing by a couple of million annually. In 2000, the then Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, was asked by the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> how the country was going to feed, house and employ the expected doubling of its population by 2050. She replied: “<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/people-migrationeurope/article_1193.jsp">We’ll</a> send them to America. Globalisation will take that problem away, as you free up all factors of production, also labour. There’ll be free movement, country to country. Globalisation in its purest form should not have any boundaries, so small countries with big populations should be able to send population to countries with big boundaries and small populations.”</p>
<p>Sheikh Hasina was again Prime Minister of Bangladesh in early 2014. Coincidentally, both of her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Hasina">children</a> live in North America.</p>
<p>Hasina is essentially arguing that her nation needs more <i>Lebensraum</i>, and that other countries should accept this. The Nazis wanted more <i>Lebensraum</i> for Germans. This was seen as evil, and other Europeans fought them. Why are they now supposed to meekly accept more <i>Lebensraum</i> for Pakistanis, Egyptians, Nigerians or Bangladeshis in Europe? Despite their flaws, the Germans have at the very least shown themselves capable of maintaining a science-based industrial economy. That’s not equally the case with Nigerians and Bangladeshis.</p>
<p>We Europeans do not have an obligation to destroy ourselves. Africans, Muslims and others are adults and should be able to fix their own problems. Moreover, Europe and the wider Western world simply don’t have the strength to fix all of the problems of Africa, the Islamic countries and the rest of the developing world, even if we wanted to. We constitute a rapidly shrinking part of the world’s population and economy. Moreover, we have plenty of unemployment, debt and other problems of our own to deal with.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s nice to be kind and humanitarian, but the enormous migration waves we are currently facing are unprecedented in recorded human history, both in speed and in sheer numbers. At some point, the issue will no longer be about our humanitarian ideals or feeling good about ourselves. It will be about a fundamental question: Do we want something recognizable as European civilization to exist and flourish a century from now? If so, then the Utopian and dangerously naïve ideal of open borders simply cannot be sustained for much longer.</p>
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		<title>John Kerry&#8217;s Blackmail</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secretary of state tells Israel to surrender -- or the boycotters will win. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/17763891.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217858" alt="17763891" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/17763891-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>American Secretary of State John Kerry continued the Obama Administration’s record of bullying, saying on Saturday, “for Israel there is an increasing de-legitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it, there is talk of boycott and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?&#8221; Kerry is pressuring Israel to make very difficult compromises, claiming if not there will be a “high risk” of increased boycotts, and a higher likelihood of international isolation for Israel. This, in English would be called </span>blackmail<em>.</em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p>This administration has repeatedly pushed through controversial, executive action policies that the majority of Americans oppose – and the Middle East is no different. Instead of standing with America’s closest ally, Kerry spent the weekend threatening violence and boycotts against Israel if the Jewish State doesn’t make sacrifices to placate the Palestinian Arabs. Despicable incitement which provides moral encouragement to those who seek to kill Jews and are also enemies of the West.</p>
<p>Why haven&#8217;t the Palestinians been threatened if peace talks break down? As a fellow Front <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ari-lieberman/palestinians-cheer-while-america-mourns/">Page Mag columnist previously noted, Palestinians cheer while America mourns</a>. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/gaza-arabs-celebrate-boston-marathon-attack-with-dance-candies/2013/04/17/?src=ataglance">Palestinians in Gaza cheered</a>, “danced in the streets and handed out candy and sweets to motorists and pedestrians alike.” “Similarly, after the 9-11 attacks that killed 3,000 people, the Palestinian response was quite similar. Old women were seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA0NKQ0k6E">shrieking in jubilation</a> while children passed out sweets and men cheered approvingly.”  And these are the people American officials support?</p>
<p>Lest one forget, there were mass protests against America amongst Palestinian Arabs during President Barack Obama&#8217;s visit to the region.  Palestinians are no friends of the Christians, and stand as allies of Arab fundamentalists who are also anti-American.  Israel remains the only place in the Middle East where American flags aren’t burnt.</p>
<p>In November, John Kerry encouraged the Arabs to commit violence against Israel when he asked, &#8220;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/us-palestinians-israel-kerry-idUSBRE9A60P220131107">I mean, does Israel want a third intifada</a>?&#8221; Kerry said Israel&#8217;s &#8220;isolation&#8221; would be their own fault if a peace deal with the Palestinians falls through. Kerry further warned the Israelis that &#8220;the alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos.&#8221; Tantamount to incitement by saying either give in or accept attacks. Despicable<i>.</i></p>
<p>Simply, John Kerry is telling Israel that if it does not sacrifice land to the Palestinian Arabs, then they can deal with Arab violence. What Kerry neglects is that if Israel does sacrifice, it will also deal with Arab violence, and the Arabs won’t stop attacking as long as there is a Jewish State. The Palestinian Arabs have massacred Jewish men, women and children before there was a state of Israel, and don&#8217;t need John Kerry to encourage them to continue to do so.<br />
These are Israel’s so-called “peace partners.” These are the people who are demanding that Kerry and Obama forget that America and Israel share common Christian-Judeo values, and Israel is a staunch ally of America.  It is time for Kerry to wake up and realize that Israel is not the problem in the Middle East – the Palestinian Arabs are.</p>
<p>As Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon noted, the county &#8220;will not negotiate with a gun put to our head,&#8221; and &#8220;We will make decisions that protect the interests of the state of Israel – If we had made decisions according to every boycott threat, we would not be here today.&#8221; <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11816">Zionist prophet Ze&#8217;ev Jabotinsky</a> said many years ago: &#8220;At the root of our 2000 years of suffering is our refusal to surrender. The history of the Jewish people in the exile is not the history of what they did, but the history of what was done to them.&#8221;</p>
<p>John Kerry: Leave Israel Alone and stand with Israel, not with those who celebrate the Boston Massacre and 9/11.</p>
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		<title>The International Holocaust Remembrance Day Charade</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/w-holocaust-day.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217569" alt="w-holocaust-day" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/w-holocaust-day-450x303.jpg" width="315" height="212" /></a>President Barack Obama joined in the commemorations of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (the day the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, January 27, 1945), issuing a statement that urged the nation and the world to remember the victims of the Holocaust.  His statement said “We recall </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/01/27/obama-holocaust-remembrance-day/4943077/">six million Jews</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and millions of other innocent victims who were murdered in Nazi death camps. We mourn lives cut short and communities torn apart.” Obama added, “In our lives, we always have choices. In our time, this means choosing to confront bigotry and hatred in all its forms, especially </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/01/27/obama-holocaust-remembrance-day/4943077/">anti-Semitism</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.” Obama’s statement talked about doing our part to ensure that survivors receive some measure of justice.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While President Obama’s words are praiseworthy, his recent actions in striking a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state, and pressuring Israel to make dangerous concessions to the Palestinians, is placing the Jewish state in jeopardy. The Obama administration must recognize the fact that to ensure survivors receive ‘some measure of justice’ means protecting the Jewish state, and the living Jews from another Holocaust. The anti-Semites of this world, whether in the halls of the U.N. or in Tehran, Ramallah, or Gaza, want nothing better than to annihilate the Jewish state. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The State of Israel is the “collective Jew,” and home to the majority of Holocaust survivors. The charade that the U.N. puts on annually on January 27, called the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, cannot obscure its deliberate and vicious anti-Semitism practiced by the majority of this body, and its affiliated agencies, targeting exclusively the Jewish state. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Addressing the U.N. delegates in January, 2005, on the commemoration of the 60</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Israel’s foreign minister at the time, Sylvan Shalom reminded the delegates that the U.N. Charter meant to insure against another Holocaust. “The very </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/dhh_weblog/2005-blog/2005-01-blog/2005-01-24-un_holocaust.htm">first clauses</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of the UN Charter bear witness to the understanding of the founders, that this new international organization (The United Nations, JP) must serve as the world&#8217;s answer to evil (of the Nazi holocaust JP), that it comes, and I quote: ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person.’ ”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The current Israeli ambassador to the U.N., Ron Prosor, had this to say on Monday, January 27, 2014. “The U.N. marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but the hatred that is disseminated by (certain) governments only shows that the organization (the U.N., JP) has yet to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-hasnt-learned-from-holocaust-israel-envoy-says/">internalize</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the lessons of the Holocaust.  Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, we are still witnesses to the phenomena of racism and anti-Semitism that rears its head around the world.”  Prosor pointed out that anti-Semitism has not been eradicated, and its venom is being expressed in sermons by Palestinian Authority (PA) clerics, in PA educational institutions, textbooks, and in speeches by leaders around the world. He accused Gaza based Hamas of perpetuating anti-Jewish propaganda, and specified that “Palestinian children learn that the lives of Jews are worth less.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Israeli government received its annual report on anti-Semitism worldwide. It appears from the report that there has been a worrisome increase in anti-Semitism, according to 76% of the respondents. The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nrg.co.il/Scripts/artPrintNew.php?channel=1">report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> presented by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, shows that the highest percentage of reported anti-Semitic activities are in Hungary, France, Belgium, and Sweden. The situation is less severe in Italy, Germany, and Britain. In Hungary, the respondents pointed to the extreme Right as the most threatening to Jews, whereas in France and Belgium, radical Muslims are the major source of anti-Semitic hate. 69 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, European Jews live once again in fear.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If aliens stumbled upon the U.N. debates, read its resolutions, or walked the U.N. halls, they would clearly conclude that the sole purpose of this world body is to censure a tiny Jewish state called Israel. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which is a non-voting observer to the U.N., is the second largest intergovernmental organization after the U.N, and can count on the votes of 57 Islamic states as its members. Along with the Third World member states, the OIC is almost guaranteed to master an “automatic majority.” Until the fall of the Soviet Union, that majority could add the Soviet Bloc, and in 1975, following a steady drumbeat of anti-Israel declarations, the U.N. General Assembly adopted the resolution that “Zionism is Racism.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This January, a few days before UNESCO was to launch a landmark exhibit at its Paris headquarters on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reneged due to Arab League pressure.  UNESCO chief Irina Bokova shamefully surrendered to the Arab demands. Hillel Neuer of the U.N. Watch revealed that “if the notorious UN Human Rights Council dedicates a full 50% of its resolutions to demonizing the Jewish state, at UNESCO the numbers are 100%.”  Neuer added, “Despite the repeated claims by the Obama administration that UNESCO is God’s gift to the Jews, and to humanity, the opposite is true; it is arguably the most anti-Jewish body in the entire U.N.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With remarkable cynicism, the same Ms. Bokova, UNESCO’s chief, who canceled </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> exhibit, attending the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Paris Shoah Memorial stated, “The future cannot be built on a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_marks_international_day_of_commemoration_in_memory_of_the_victims_of_the_holocaust/back/9597/">forgotten past</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. The history of the Jewish genocide is the history of the Jewish people and it is also the history of humanity as a whole.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Guardian piece by Alexander Ryvchin (November 26, 2013) exposes the anti-Israel bias in the U.N.  He wrote, “The need for greater balance in the U.N. treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict recently came to light in the most unexpected of circumstances.  Earlier this month the U.N. General Assembly convened to engage in its annual ritual of passing a series of resolutions condemning Israel. Not a single resolution critical of the Palestinian leadership, or concerning any other global issue for that matter, was adopted during the meeting. The point of interest was the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/28/australia-is-right-to-challenge-the-uns-anti-israel-bias">candid reaction</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of a Spanish-speaking U.N. interpreter, oblivious to the fact that her microphone remained on as she addressed her colleague.” The interpreter complained about 10 anti-Israel resolutions while there’s other really bad things happening around the world, but no one says anything about the other problems. Ryvchin concluded, “Through her frank admission, the interpreter, unencumbered by rank or protocol, was perhaps the only person in the room who had nothing to be embarrassed about. She had spoken an inconvenient truth, and the delegates in the chamber knew it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The inconvenient truth is that the U.N. is a major purveyor of anti-Semitism today.  Through its deliberate bias against the Jewish state it has also fostered anti-Jewish bigotry. The only Jews the U.N. undemocratic majority loves are dead Jews, hence the annual lip service to the Holocaust, and condemnation of anti-Semitism. Ambassador Prosor summed it up best when he said “The State of Israel is the only guarantee that the future fate of the Jewish people will be held in our own hands.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As long as the cabals of undemocratic states hold sway at the U.N. and its affiliated institutions, and President Obama facilitates a stronger and more dangerous Iran, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day must be seen for what it is; lip service to murdered Jews and a charade.</span></p>
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		<title>International Holocaust Remembrance Day&#8217;s Fatal Flaw</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anne-Frank.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217504" alt="Anne Frank" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anne-Frank.png" width="315" height="230" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-International-Holocaust-Remembrance-Days-fatal-flaw-339546">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>On the surface, it is very moving to see half of the members of Knesset at Auschwitz marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.</p>
<p>But in a larger sense, it is not at all clear why this is necessary.</p>
<p>The Jewish people have Yom HaShoah V’Hagevura, our own national day of mourning for the genocide of our people in Europe.</p>
<p>More importantly, we carry the legacy of the Holocaust inside of us.</p>
<p>Every day, at some level, we experience the ulcerative loss of a third of the Jewish people in the hell of Europe, because we feel the hollow absence of the victims.</p>
<p>The six million murdered have become 10 million descendants who were never born. And we miss them.</p>
<p>We remember them too, every day, when we look at our children and thank God we can protect them.</p>
<p>Israel does not need this extra Holocaust memorial day. And before we send another delegation of elected officials to Auschwitz next January 27, we need to ask whether this extra day serves any positive purpose.</p>
<p>In November 2005, Israel was one of the co-sponsors of the UN General Assembly resolution that made January 27, the day Auschwitz was liberated, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. At the time, Israeli politicians and American Jewish leaders extolled the resolution as signaling a new era of UN relations with the Jewish state.</p>
<p>They also proclaimed that the educational materials that would be disseminated worldwide under the auspices of International Holocaust Remembrance Day would make a significant contribution to the combat of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>But eight years later none of this has happened.</p>
<p>To the contrary, the UN has escalated even further its official anti-Semitism through its diplomatic, cultural and educational aggression against the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Consider for instance that a week before its duly mandated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the UN ushered in 2014 as the Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The occasion was marked among other things, by the January 20 opening of a yearlong exhibit at the UN Headquarters in New York portraying Israelis as Nazis and Palestinians as Jews.</p>
<p>Since 2005, anti-Semitism has risen throughout Europe, as have levels of anti-Semitism among Europhilic Americans.</p>
<p>Jews throughout Europe feel under assault, and unprotected. The situation is so bad that Jews don’t even bother reporting most of the anti-Semitic attacks they suffer.</p>
<p>The more closely we consider events the more clearly we see that ironically and obscenely, Holocaust memorializing in Europe is enabling anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Europeans use the focus on the Holocaust to pretend that European anti-Semitism began with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933 and ended with their defeat 12 years later. In truth, the Nazis’ rise to power was a natural consequence of 1,600 years of European Jew hatred.</p>
<p>From the time of Roman Emperor Constantine, persecution, expulsion and massacre of Jews was the norm, not the exception, in European life.</p>
<p>Hitler and his colleagues were adored not despite their hatred of Jews and their organization of German politics around the dehumanization of Jewish people. They were supported by the Germans, and by the majority of the people in the European lands they conquered because of their anti-Semitism and their dehumanization of Jews.</p>
<p>This Jew hatred did not die in Auschwitz.</p>
<p>As Ruth Wisse explained in August 2010, political anti-Semitism was resuscitated immediately after the war ended with the establishment of the Arab League. The League’s sole purpose was to reorganize anti-Semitic politics around denying the Jewish people their legal right to establish a sovereign state in their homeland.</p>
<p>In other words, with the establishment of the League in March 1945, the just-ended physical annihilation of European Jewry was replaced by the campaign to deny Jews political freedom and independence in our land.</p>
<p>Rather than combat this affront to international law and to the Charter of the United Nations, Europe, along with the rest of the world, sought to appease, and so facilitated and encouraged Arab anti-Jewish aggression.</p>
<p>When in 1948, in breach of the UN Charter the Arabs invaded the nascent State of Israel, they were not punished for their illegal action. And in the intervening 65 years, the Arabs’ refusal to recognize or live at peace with the UN member state similarly has gone unpunished.</p>
<p>Even worse, instead of censuring the Arabs for their immoral and illegal behavior, the UN has adopted their venomous anti-Jewish agenda as its own.</p>
<p>It bears noting that Wisse presented her position at a conference sponsored by Yale University’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism.</p>
<p>Hers was one of several hundred important papers presented there by academics from around the world.</p>
<p>YIISA ’s conference was so successful in highlighting the central position anti-Semitism plays in global politics today that many participants optimistically believed it would serve as the catalyst, finally, for a serious reckoning by American and European academia with the scourge of anti-Semitism that was not eradicated – or even seriously dealt with – after the Holocaust.</p>
<p>But alas, it was not to be. Angered by the conference’s success, Arab donors, PLO officials and Europhilic academics demanded that Yale close YIISA .</p>
<p>Ten months later, Yale closed YIISA .</p>
<p>YIISA ’s successor, the unaffiliated Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, just published a five-volume set of the papers presented at the conference.</p>
<p>YIISA ’s closure was one more indicator of anti-Semitism’s profound and enduring influence on our daily lives.</p>
<p>And it is vital that we understand how this is the case.</p>
<p>In Europe, and increasingly in Europhilic sectors of American society, anti-Semitism is not combated or even seriously studied because most Europeans and their American admirers don’t have a problem with anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Whereas they enthusiastically condemn their colonialist past, which was far shorter and less violent than their Jew hatred, they shrug their shoulders, turn a blind eye, or condone continued assaults on Jews.</p>
<p>The Arab transposition of political Jew hatred from Europe to Israel provided the Europeans with a new post-war political framework to attack Jews. And with it, they continue to blame Jews for everything from the price of oil to Islamic terrorism while slandering the descendants of their grandparents’ victims with blood libels against Israel.</p>
<p>In this rancid environment, rather than serving to combat Jew hatred, International Holocaust Remembrance Day inadvertently enables it. By bowing their heads in honor of dead Jews for five minutes every January 27, the Europeans get to pretend that the Holocaust was exogenous, as opposed to organic to, and still very much a part of European civilization.</p>
<p>Modern Zionism was conceived as having two objectives – to enable the Jews to protect ourselves from anti-Semites; and to end anti-Semitism by normalizing Jews as a nation among the nations. But as Wisse notes, like the Jews in exilic communities, the Jewish state cannot end other people’s hatred of Jews, because we didn’t cause it. Only the anti-Semites, through their own moral reckoning with their anti-Semitic past and present, can do that.</p>
<p>In light of the Europeans’ continued refusal to undertake such a moral reckoning, far from combating anti-Semitism, International Holocaust Remembrance Day serves as a cover for it. Israel and the Jewish people should not let the Holocaust serve as a fig leaf for their continuing, and growing, hatred.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anelka_gesture.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216786" alt="Anelka_gesture" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anelka_gesture.jpg" width="280" height="210" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="www.thecommentator.com">TheCommentator.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The case of French footballer Nicolas Anelka, his &#8220;celebratory&#8221; quenelle gesture and his subsequent curious defense has once again raised allegations and concerns over the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe.</p>
<p>The quenelle gesture which has been described by some as an inverted Nazi-style salute, has been popularized by the French comedian Dieudonné. Monsieur Dieudonné and his fans defend quenelle as an &#8220;anti-establishment&#8221; gesture and maintain that it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>The fact that Monsieur Dieudonné has been convicted seven times for his anti-Semitic utterances and may well be on the way to his eighth trial, this time for implying that a Jewish journalist belongs in a gas chamber, hasn&#8217;t deterred his supporters from keeping on making that claim.</p>
<p>Monsieur Dieudonné who considers himself as a performance artist does not draw his fan-base from the French Far-Right, but from the mainstream of French society, mainly educated, urban youth.</p>
<p>In the age of Social Media the quenelle gesture has gone viral throughout Europe with people sharing their photographs of joyfully giving quenelle salutes and occasionally with very disturbing backdrops, like the Auschwitz death camp, the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam or the Jewish school in Toulouse where a massacre took place in 2012.</p>
<p>The French Striker Nicolas Anelka has been quick to plead ignorance to the wider implications of his highly public gesture, so did NBA Star Tony Parker before him and other major or minor celebrities like him in the past.</p>
<p>The incident wIll hardly affect Mr. Anelka&#8217;s football career and most probably he will be let off with a proverbial slap on the wrist. Considering the nature of Social Media this infamous gesture too may fade away as just another seasonal fad.</p>
<p>However, a question would still remain unanswered. Can one assume that anti-Semitism (or the term M. Dieudonné and his friends hide behind &#8211; &#8220;anti-Zionism&#8221;) is once again socially acceptable in Europe?</p>
<p>Is there a ready and receptive audience? Or better yet, does it pay to play with anti-Semitic symbolism in Europe today?</p>
<p>Going by Monsieur Dieudonné&#8217;s example, it most certainly does. His wife has capitalized on the market potential and registered quenelle as a trademark and he has now rolled out his own range of Quenelle-merchandise.</p>
<p>What Monsieur Dieudonné is doing, is by no mean new to Europe. He is playing with the age old clichés, conspiracy theories and selling a repackaged brand of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>What we have not seen in recent times is the level of acceptance for such ideas. His fans would not consider themselves as being anti-Semitic or even Far-Right for that matter.</p>
<p>They are often well educated and otherwise liberal. But in these times of economic stagnation they are discontented. Despite their college degrees they are not getting what they think they are entitled to.</p>
<p>It would be preposterous for them to even to think that it could to some extent be their fault. Well, then it certainly has to be a racket. If they are not getting what they think they deserve, then someone must have rigged the tables. &#8220;Performance artists&#8221; like Dieudonné are more than willing to fill such &#8220;intellectual gaps&#8221; with their conspiracy theories.</p>
<p>These are not a band of seduced, misguided or misled youth. You have to be really mean-spirited to perform or defend the act of raising an unmistakably anti-Semitic gesture in the Anne Frank House or the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, and still have the audacity to point fingers at others for their transgressions.</p>
<p>Despite being a recent immigrant to Europe, I have lived here long enough to know that people I am referring to have no idea of their own history, have no idea of the complexities of international politics, and, most surprisingly, have never even met a single Jew in their life.</p>
<p>Whenever I have directly confronted and disapproved of such acts and utterances, I have repeatedly been asked a question (and often by righteously indignant perpetrators themselves); why does &#8220;their&#8221; anti-Semitism bother &#8220;me&#8221;?</p>
<p>It does bother me. As an immigrant who has made a conscious choice of calling Europe my home, it bothers me even more than it should bother them.</p>
<p>Immigrants like me have come to the West in search of a haven, where they can pursue their dreams without fear and realize our potential without restrictions.</p>
<p>Anti-Semitism stands at the very core of the idea and the ideology that threaten the values that have made Europe and the West great. We do not need to dig deep into European history to know that whenever anti-Semitism rears its head, Europe has been plunged into darkness and destruction.</p>
<p>It is therefore imperative for us all in Europe to realize that resurging anti-Semitism is not merely a problem or matter of concern to the Jewish communities, but to the rest of freedom loving Europeans as well.</p>
<p><em><strong>Vijeta Uniyal is an Indian entrepreneur based in Germany. He is founder of &#8220;Indian Friends of Israel&#8221;, an initiative of Indian Diaspora in Europe to promote friendship between India and Israel. The article reflects the personal view of the author. He tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/iUniyal">@iUniyal.</a></strong></em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/border.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214525" alt="border" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/border-450x270.jpg" width="315" height="189" /></a>Now that it&#8217;s 2014, the gates of the U.K. are wide open for immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria, way over at the other end of the European Union. Some Brits are concerned: will the newcomers flood the labor market? Or the welfare offices? Or both?</p>
<p>For Britain&#8217;s leftist establishment, however, the question is a different one. As the <i>Guardian </i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2014/jan/01/romania-bulgaria-migrants-welcome-britain-poll">put it</a> the other day: “Now that Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are able to move to the UK to seek work, an alliance of Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrats has warned that politicians&#8217; anti-Roma rhetoric is already inflaming community tensions. Has this debate helped those planning to migrate to the UK feel welcome?”</p>
<p>To make them feel welcome or not to make them feel welcome: <i>this </i>is the question? For many on the European left, yep, it most assuredly is. “Are we welcoming enough?” “Will they have a good impression of us?” We&#8217;re dealing here with people who feel what may be fairly described as a compulsion to act like store greeters – only instead of hovering in the doorway of a Walmart they&#8217;re standing, figuratively speaking, at the airport arrivals gate, welcoming all and sundry to the sceptred isle. Indeed, on New Year&#8217;s Day, at least two of these dimwits were <i>literally </i>out there welcoming the newcomers to dear old Blighty: Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz, a Labour MP, and Mark Reckless (ha!), a Tory MP, actually dragged themselves to Luton Airport to shake the hands of arriving Bulgarians and Romanians and buy them coffee. Embarrassing.</p>
<p>Exactly what species of psychological disorder are these people suffering from? Why are they so terribly anxious lest newcomers fail to feel sufficiently “welcomed”? Why is that even a concept? I moved from one country to another many years ago, and then from that country to another country, and in neither case did it occur to me to think about whether I was being made to feel welcome or not. I was just one more person going through customs. Nor did I want or expect to be “welcomed”: what would that entail, anyway? All I wanted was to be left alone to find my way.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not enough for some of these European leftists, for whom such movements of population are shot through with profound ideological significance. For these folks, it&#8217;s almost as if their own countries are nothing more than empty vessels waiting to be filled – and given meaning – by new arrivals from distant shores. It&#8217;s as if they view themselves as little more than welcome mats on which immigrants are welcome to wipe their shoes. Or as servants waiting for their masters to arrive. Or as a godless people awaiting a messiah.</p>
<p>These folks talk a lot about the “Other” – a pivotal notion in postmodern academic folderol. At the heart of their self-definition – at the heart of what makes them, in their own eyes, good people – is that they&#8217;re prepared to embrace all “Others” without distinction or qualification. Simply knowing that other people are “Others” is enough to make them open their arms wide. And the more “Other” those others are, the better.</p>
<p>But this isn&#8217;t all: their twisted mentality comes with an important corollary. Since they view all of this stuff through a black-and-white, “us vs. them” lens, when they hear <i>anybody</i> express <i>any</i> concern about <i>any </i>aspect of immigration, they immediately attribute that concern to pure xenophobia – in other words, to a blanket hatred of the “Other.” Now, my own observations have convinced me that only a vanishingly tiny minority of Europeans actually consider “Others” by definition a bad thing; at the same time, they know enough about certain “Others” to know that it&#8217;s wise to be wary.</p>
<p>Too many people on the left, however, are utterly blind to these elementary rational distinctions. And so we have articles like <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/31/romanian-bulgarian-migration-politicians">one</a> that the <i>Guardian </i>ran the other day, in which Paul Quinn, a social “researcher” at Brussels Free University, explained the misgivings of many Britons about the forthcoming influx of Bulgarians and Romanians as symptoms of a psychopathology: our brains, he lectured, are “hardwired” to suspect and stigmatize people who are different from us but who don&#8217;t actually represent any threat to us whatsoever. Implicit in his argument was that people like himself and his right-thinking <i>Guardian </i>readers – who are busy fretting about whether the newcomers from Sofia and Bucharest are being made to feel welcome – are more evolved than those prehistoric <i>Daily Telegraph </i>types, and have therefore overcome their hardwiring.  So condescending was Quinn toward Brits who are concerned about this new wave of immigration that it didn&#8217;t occur to him that they might actually have done some reading and reflecting on the topic. No: his article was a perfect illustration of the fact that people like him regard people like them as mouth-breathing morons who operate on sheer herd instinct.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s Queen Margrethe of Denmark. In her New Year&#8217;s speech, Margrethe <a href="http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE2171416/laes-dronning-margrethes-nytaarstale-2013/">brought up</a> the mass rescue of the Danish Jews during the Nazi occupation, and observed – quite correctly – that on that occasion “Danish society showed its strength,” with gentiles from all walks of life risking their own safety to help their Jewish neighbors to escape to Sweden. But then she dared to suggest a similarity between those heroic actions and what she described as Danes&#8217; obligation to “recognize and respect” the fact that today their country is composed of “different people with different cultures and languages.”</p>
<p>In the past, Margrethe has been excellent on these issues, but this speech, alas, was a painfully typical example of muddy leftist pseudo-thinking about the “Other.” The facts are these: seven decades ago, the Nazis marched into Denmark and told the gentiles there that they were brothers – fellow Aryans – and that the relatively few Jews among them were the “Other” who needed to be gotten rid of. The gentile Danes knew better. The Jews were their neighbors. They were Danes. Morally, the <i>Nazis</i>,<i> </i>with their evil ideology, were the true “Other” – not an ethnic but an ideological “Other” that it would be self-destructive folly to welcome into Denmark with open arms.</p>
<p>Today, there are quite a number of ethnic “Others” in Denmark who are grateful to live in a free country, who contribute to it, and who – far from being seen as “Others” at all – should in fact be treasured. Among them is the brave young Danish-Palestinian <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/andrew-harrod/danish-muslim-apostate-faces-hate-speech-charges/">poet</a> Yahya Hassan, whose blunt criticisms of Islam have made him a bestseller and have exposed him to death threats. But there are also more than a few ideological “Others” in that country (some of whom have been responsible for those death threats) whom Margrethe – following the errant logic of today&#8217;s left – would appear to be comparing to the wartime Danish Jews. Alas, the correct parallel is to the invaders who, seven decades ago, goose-stepped into her kingdom from the south.</p>
<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, the <i>New York Times </i>served up another helping of this benighted brand of leftist logic about the “Other.” It took the form of an op-ed, headlined “European United, in Hating Europe,” by Andrea Mammone, an Italian historian at the University of London. (The title was telling: for Mammone, as for so many of his ilk, “Europe” isn&#8217;t the people of Europe but the supranational institutions that have been imposed on them.) How, Mammone wondered aloud, can European voters support “far-right” types like Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders? For Mammone, European voters&#8217; concern about the Islamization of Europe isn&#8217;t worth serious discussion: in his view, these voters are little better than mindless robots who – unknowingly imitating earlier generations of Europeans – are simply acting on a visceral need for “an &#8216;other&#8217; to oppose, exclude, resist, restrict or oppress.” In other words, they&#8217;re the ideological heirs of the Nazis.</p>
<p>All this leftist balderdash about the “Other” is, of course, rhetorically very useful. Instead of defending their own positions on these issues with logical, fact-based arguments (which, in many cases, is an outright impossibility), these leftists respond to their opponents by purporting to diagnose them – thus neatly leaving the impression, in the minds of impressionable and ignorant readers, that it&#8217;s those opponents who are factually and logically challenged. In reality, however, it&#8217;s the leftists who, by employing this slick dodge, neatly skirt the obligation to mount legitimate arguments for their own views. And what they manage to disguise, by doing this, is that it&#8217;s not the critics of Islam and immigration who are fixated on the “Other” – it&#8217;s these leftists themselves, whose one-note, nuance-free ideology makes even the most alarming and malignant manifestations of the “Other” hopelessly irresistible to them.</p>
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