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		<title>Fidel Castro Denounces Bin Laden Hit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are the communist dictator's utterances still taken seriously?]]></description>
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<p>“The assassination of an unarmed human being while surrounded by his own relatives is something abhorrent. Assassinating him and sending him to the depths of the sea shows fear and insecurity, (and) turns him into a much more dangerous figure.”  Fidel Castro, May 5<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p>Fidel Castro’s blatherings, one would like to think, are not taken seriously. So why bother publicizing them?</p>
<p>Alas, all evidence proves the opposite. Most educated people, for instance, based on the MSM’s dutiful dissemination of Fidel Castro’s blatherings, firmly believe the U.S. embargoes or even “blockades” Cuba. But, in fact, for most of the last decade, the U.S. has served as Cuba’s biggest food supplier and fifth biggest source of imports. The expenditures by 400,000 travelers from the U.S. to Cuba, combined with a blizzard of remittances from the U.S. to Cuba, makes the annual cash-flow from  the U.S. to Cuba an estimated $4 billion nowadays. While a proud Soviet satrapy Cuba received $3-5 billion annually from the Soviets. Some “U.S. blockade.”</p>
<p>Point is, never underestimate the gullibility and/or servility of the world’s media (particularly those bestowed Havana Press Bureaus) to Fidel Castro’s blatherings.</p>
<p>Sadly, lunacy on the subject of Fidel Castro is hardly confined to the lunatic fringe. Upon his illness in 2006, an editorial on Castro&#8217;s legacy by the London Times, considered one of the world&#8217;s wisest and most respected newspapers (and owned by Rupert Murdoch, no less) gave the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; or even the respectably conservative view on Fidel Castro.</p>
<p>&#8220;Castro has some real accomplishments to point to,&#8221; starts the London Times. &#8220;Under his rule, the impoverished Caribbean island has created health and education systems that would be the envy of far wealthier nations…and there is near full literacy on the island.&#8221;</p>
<p>For the record: in 1958 that &#8220;impoverished Caribbean island&#8221; had a higher standard of living than Ireland and Austria, higher per-capita income than Spain and Japan, more doctors and dentists per capita than Britain and lower infant mortality than France and Germany&#8211;the 13th lowest in the world, in fact. Today Cuba&#8217;s infant-mortality rate&#8211; despite the hemisphere&#8217;s highest abortion rate which skews this figure downward&#8211; is 48th from the top.</p>
<p>“Propaganda is the heart of our struggle,” (Fidel Castro in a letter to revolutionary colleague Melba Hernandez in 1956.)</p>
<p>&#8220;Foreign reporters — preferably American,” wrote Che Guevara in his diaries, “were much more valuable to us at that time (1957-59) than any military victory. Much more valuable than recruits for our guerrilla force, were American media recruits to export our propaganda.&#8221;</p>
<p>So has anything changed? History records few recruitment drives as phenomenally successful or as enduring as Castro and Che’s.</p>
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		<title>The Palestinians&#8217; Case Against Israel Is A Genocidal Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 04:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times runs our half-page ad in defense of Israel. ]]></description>
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<p>The ad below appears in today&#8217;s <em>New York Times</em>.   This half-page ad exposes the Palestinian case against Israel for what  it is.  Nothing but lies.  <a href="http://walloflies.org/">We have run</a> ads similar to this on a number  of college campuses this Spring to counter the &#8220;Apartheid Weeks&#8221;, the  rise of the Muslim Student Associations and the dramatic rise of  anti-Semitism in our Universities.</p>
<p>The  Freedom Center is<a href="http://walloflies.org/"> committed to defending Israel</a> and what they stand  for, and to fight anti-Semitism, not only on the campuses, but in our  government, the media and in society at large.</p>
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		<title>The Palestinians&#8217; Case Against Israel Is A Genocidal Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The ad below appears in today&#8217;s <em>New York Times</em>.   This half-page ad exposes the Palestinian case against Israel for what  it is.  Nothing but lies.  <a href="http://walloflies.org/">We have run</a> ads similar to this on a number  of college campuses this Spring to counter the &#8220;Apartheid Weeks&#8221;, the  rise of the Muslim Student Associations and the dramatic rise of  anti-Semitism in our Universities.</p>
<p>The  Freedom Center is<a href="http://walloflies.org/"> committed to defending Israel</a> and what they stand  for, and to fight anti-Semitism, not only on the campuses, but in our  government, the media and in society at large.</p>
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		<title>Exposing Iran’s End Times Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaking of apocalyptic video complicates the mullahs' dark plans.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.atimetobetray.com/">Reza Kahlili</a>, a former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps who spied for the CIA, obtained and released a secret documentary produced by the Iranian regime last month that claimed that President Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Khamenei and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah are the incarnations of prophesied figures. Their religious command is to lead a final war that destroys Israel to trigger the arrival of the Hidden Imam. The publication of this video has thrown a wrench into the regime’s plans by embroiling it in a political crisis.</p>
<p>The film had several <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/29/iran%E2%80%99s-end-times-documentary/">startling revelations</a>, such as that Ayatollah Khamenei believes he is required to lead an Arab coalition in destroying Israel and that the death of Saudi King Abdullah will be a green light for the sequence of End Times events to begin happening. The Muslim Brotherhood’s rise in the Arab world is viewed as the fulfillment of Islamic prophecy. Given Khamenei’s poor health and viewing of recent events as signs that the final war is to begin soon, the video could not be more chilling. Luckily, Kahlili’s release of the film is causing trouble for the regime.</p>
<p>“The movie has caused intensive internal fighting. The moderates are attacking Ahmadinejad and the hardliners are rejecting the comparison of the mythical figures to Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. The hardliners are angry that the video made it to the West, proving that the regime is messianic,” Kahlili told FrontPage.</p>
<p>The managing editor of <em>Kayhan</em>, a state newspaper, has criticized the film because he feels the West can use it as a weapon against Iran. Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, the highest Shiite religious authority, has <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/exposure-of-movie-predicting-shiite-messiah-causes-turmoil-within-iranian-regime/">said</a> it is a danger to Islam.</p>
<p>“The analysis for the timing of the Coming of the last imam is quite concerning. These analyses could weaken the very belief of Muslims. Such activities should not take place in Iran…This is very worrisome,” al-Sistani said. A top seminary in Qom has also <a href="http://features.kodoom.com/en/iran-culture/iran-s-seminary-school-rejects-portrayal-of-ahmadinejad-as-companion-to/v/2654/">rejected</a> the equating of Ahmadinejad with Shoeib-Ebne Saleh, the End Times character who is to lead the recapturing of Jerusalem.</p>
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		<title>The New Way to Fight Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's new intelligence strategy to disrupt terrorist cells and training operations.]]></description>
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<p>Last September, General David Petraeus, Commander in Chief of the Central Command, signed a seven-page memo authorizing an increase in American special forces operations across his command. Under the order, which was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html?hp">reported</a> by the <em>New York Times</em> last week, American special forces would be able to deploy to countries throughout CENTCOM’s area of responsibility (the Middle East and Africa) to “gather intelligence and build ties with local forces.” They would also gather intelligence “that could pave the way for possible military strikes in Iran.” Notably, the order applies to all countries within the region. Many are at least officially friendly to the United   States, but some, notably Syria and the afore-mentioned Iranian regime, are decidedly unfriendly.</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em> report makes for fascinating reading and certainly sounds portentous. But it is important to understand exactly what such an order means (to the extent it is possible to understand a classified document that has not been seen by the general public). General Petraeus has not authorized any attacks or disruptive operations by American forces, he lacks the authority to do so; any major operations would require Washington’s approval. But he has made it possible for American military personnel to function as intelligence operatives, infiltrating countries both hostile and friendly, to assess conditions on the ground and work, perhaps in conjunction with local friendly forces, to disrupt terrorist cells and training operations.</p>
<p>These efforts will provide the United   States with valuable human intelligence in areas where the CIA and other intelligence agencies lack significant resources, and will provide details that even the most advanced satellite or drone cannot possibly detect. While deploying American troops secretly into any country will always carry risks, General Petraeus will not be freelancing any unsanctioned invasions, despite some of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/25/opinion/main6517976.shtml" target="_blank">alarmed reaction</a> the memo has generated.</p>
<p>These assignments will be dangerous, both for the personnel involved and for the United   States politically, but they should still be applauded. Nine years of warfare in Afghanistan, and now seven years in Iraq, have shown how difficult it is to wage war against diffuse terrorist cells linked only by their ideology, with heavy weapons and mass formations of troops designed to do battle with the Cold War-era Soviet  Union. It took a long time after the shocking attacks of September 11<sup>th</sup> for the American military, as powerful as it is, to adjust to the new kind of war, waged not by billion-dollar battalions, but the courage and ingenuity of small units.</p>
<p>Given the current weaknesses in the American economy, such a shift away from the massive deployments of the last ten years was inevitable. America cannot afford to keep fighting <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100502/ap_on_re_us/us_times_square_car_smoke" target="_blank">attempted car bombers</a> with columns of tanks. Once American forces have left Iraq, and after Afghanistan is stable enough to leave (<a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=3063490" target="_blank">if ever</a>), future battles in the war against Islamist extremism will be waged by these clandestine warriors. By infiltrating extremist hotbeds, they will make possible the same kind of targeted killings of enemy leaders that have of late proven so successful in Pakistan and Yemen.</p>
<p>They will not be enough to defeat militant Islamism, but if kept up at a steady pace, will serve to keep it off balance and offer local governments the chance to develop functional, stable societies of the sort less likely to export fanatical suicide bombers to the West. For that reason, this plan — what we know of it — should be commended. It offers the prospects of tangible benefits to the United   States for relatively little risk.</p>
<p>But the risk is real, not just for the soldiers whose lives will be in danger (though we of course must keep them in our thoughts) but due to the temptation to become overly reliant upon these elite teams at the expense of other, more traditional elements of American military strength. Given the enormous financial pressure the United   States finds itself under, and given the tendency thus far of the current White House Administration and Congress to favor social spending, cutbacks to some elements of American military readiness are inevitable. Until America’s fiscal house can be put back in order, that is simply the bleak reality.</p>
<p>But the cuts made today to save money tomorrow will have an enormous impact for decades to come. Ballistic missile defense, as originally envisioned by the administration of George W. Bush, has already been scrapped, and the orders for advanced navy destroyers and F-22 stealth fighters have been slashed. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently got into a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6460AN20100507" target="_blank">public spat</a> with the Navy over whether or not the United States truly needed 11 aircraft carriers when the rest of the world combined does not have that many. Such debates will undoubtedly become more common in the years ahead, and military leaders and politicians alike must avoid cutting American capabilities too deep on the false assumption that special forces teams can pick up the slack.</p>
<p>To an extent, they can — but only to that extent. Indeed, it is worth noting that the original report on the expanded role for these teams was quite clear that one of their missions is reconnaissance in preparation for a possible American attack against the Iranian nuclear program. That example perfectly illustrates the proper balancing of unconventional special forces and old fashioned heavy firepower. After all, once American special units conducted such preliminary survey missions, it would fall to the Navy and Air Force to blast their way into Iran, destroy their targets, and then deal with the inevitably violent Iranian response.</p>
<p>There is a role for special forces teams in future wars and low-level conflicts, and General Petraeus and the Obama Administration are to be praised for recognizing that. But the best efforts of those brave Americans deployed far from home will be wasted if the United   States does not maintain the striking power to make use of their hard-won information and chooses instead of cut the military too deep to reduce deficits or free up funds for social programs of dubious value.</p>
<p><em>Matt Gurney is an editor at the </em>National Post<em>, a Canadian national newspaper, and writes and speaks on military and geopolitical issues. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:matt@mattgurney.ca" target="_blank">matt@mattgurney.ca</a>. </em></p>
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<p>President Obama may soon discover his  predecessor, George Bush, was more than correct in designating  North  Korea an “Axis of Evil”  state.</p>
<p>As the  United  States announced on Monday it would conduct joint  naval exercises with the South Korean navy in response to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_Cheonan_sinking" target="_blank">sinking of a South  Korean warship</a> two months ago, North  Korea, the nation deemed responsible for the  disaster that cost 46 lives, raised tensions by putting its military forces on a  war footing.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/LE26Dg01.html" target="_blank">Asia Times</a></em> reported yesterday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, in a military  broadcast, placed his million plus armed forces on “combat readiness,” causing  concern worldwide about North Korean intentions as well as a drop in major stock  markets.</p>
<p>“We  do not hope for war but if South Korea, with the United States and Japan on its  back, tries to attack us, Kim Jong-il has ordered us to finish the task of  unification left undone during the…(Korean) war (in 1953),” the military  broadcast stated.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/LE26Dg01.html" target="_blank">North Korea, of course, denies</a> that it sank the South Korean corvette, <em>Cheonan</em>, on March 26, but the evidence  states otherwise. An international commission made up of experts from  Australia,  America and  Sweden investigated the sinking and  concluded North  Korea was guilty of the atrocity after finding North  Korean torpedo parts in the wreckage raised from the sea bottom.</p>
<p>“The  evidence is quite compelling,” said Ban Ki-moon, United Nations secretary  general. “There is no controversy.”</p>
<p>North  Korea also has a long history of committing  terrorist acts against South  Korea. In 1983, North Korean agents bombed a South  Korean delegation in Burma, killing several members. In 1987,  North  Korea was also blamed for blowing up a South Korean  airliner in flight. In another naval incident in 2002, four South Korean sailors  were killed in an exchange of gunfire with North Korean patrol boats.</p>
<p>Besides  joint naval exercises with the United  States, the South Korean government has responded  with punitive measures. All trade with  North  Korea will be cut off as well as access to shipping  lanes through South Korean waters that North Korean ships use to shorten voyages  to China.</p>
<p>South  Korea will also again name  North  Korea as its “principal enemy”, a designation  dropped in 2004 during a warming of relations. According to a <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/world/asia/26korea.html?hp" target="_blank">New York  Times story</a></em>, North Korea was  first named a “principal enemy” in 1994 after threatening “to turn Seoul into a  ‘sea of fire’ ” during the crisis over its nuclear weapons program.” After the  <em>Cheonan</em> incident, Kim Jong-il has  threatened South  Korea with “all-out war” if sanctions are applied.</p>
<p>The  world is now waiting to see whether Kim Jong-il will actually carry out his  threat to engulf the two countries in war or whether he is simply staging a  tantrum to extort aid from Western countries as he has done in the past.</p>
<p>Although the two  Koreas are still technically at war,  outwardly, the war scenario appears the most unlikely one. Both North and  South  Korea know the latter is not going to initiate any  military action against the North over the <em>Cheonan</em> incident. As columnist Donald  Kirk states, South  Korea is doing so well economically, possessing one  of the world’s fastest growing economies, it does not want to risk its  hard-earned prosperity and high living standards in a destructive war. Kirk and  other military analysts have pointed out a further reason for  South  Korea’s avoiding war over North Korean provocations  like the <em>Cheonan</em>:  Seoul would bear the brunt of any North  Korean attack due to its location close to the North Korean border.</p>
<p>“The North  still has thousands of artillery pieces within range of metropolitan Seoul and  the nearby port of Inchon as well as missiles with the range to reach anywhere  in the South, and nobody in South Korea really wants to challenge that,”  <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/LD29Ae01.html" target="_blank">Kirk writes</a>.</p>
<p>For  North  Korea’s part, war also does not appear to be an  option. Its army is in a very dilapidated condition. Years of sanctions and a  ramshackle economy have left the North Korean armed forces with no money for  training, maintenance or for purchasing new equipment.  North  Korea’s biggest military threat is its 60,000  commando troops, many of whom have been moved close to the border. In case of  war, it is thought the North Koreans’ plan, due to their army’s movement  limitations, would be to occupy Seoul and then seek a  ceasefire.</p>
<p>Analysts, like the military news publication <em><a href="http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/South-Korea-Plans-To-Invade-The-North-6-26-2009.asp" target="_blank">Strategy  Page</a>,</em> state that the modern, well-equipped South Korean army, which  produces many of its own weapons and is supported by a strong economy, has a  plan to throw back such an invasion and then move into the North. Such a plan to  cross the border would also be implemented if the North Korean state ever  collapsed. American forces in South Korea, which numbered 42,000 before 9/11,  now stand at about 30,000 and would come under South Korean command in case of a  conflict.</p>
<p>But  common sense may play no part in a Stalinist dictatorship’s decision to go to  war, especially one struggling to survive. Reports have been coming out of  North  Korea that the people are again facing starvation  like in the 1990s when an estimated two million died. A poor harvest this year,  the failure of a currency reform scheme last year and the repressing of private  farmer’s markets have again left the long-suffering North Koreans destitute.</p>
<p>North  Korea also cannot look to  China, its main ally, for help.  China, like other countries, has refused  food aid as long as North  Korea refuses to give up its nuclear weapons  program. Not wishing to support an economic cripple,  China also vainly wanted  North  Korea to adopt free market reforms and become  self-sufficient like it did. Like South  Korea, China fears a North Korean collapse and  the millions of hungry Korean refugees that would flood over its border seeking  food.</p>
<p>Unlike in the 1990s though, North Korean citizens are  reported to be more restless regarding their cruel, state-sponsored fate. The  underground black market is reported as thriving, indicating a disregard for the  government, as the people are becoming more aware of what is happening outside  their country, especially on the North Korean-Chinese border, where smuggling  and Chinese cell phones, although illegal, have connected North Koreans with the  modern world.</p>
<p>To  block this unrest from becoming a popular uprising and detract people’s  attention from their misery, the North Korean government may do what the  Argentinean military junta did in 1982 when faced with a similar disastrous  economic situation and restless population: launch a military adventure. And  with the 60<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the start of the Korean War next month,  Kim Jong-il may see that as a sign to “finish the task” of reuniting the Koreas,  especially while his government still controls the population.</p>
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		<title>Praising Arizona</title>
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<p><strong>This article is reprinted from <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/">City Journal</a></strong></p>
<p>Supporters of Arizona’s new law strengthening immigration enforcement in the state should take heart from today’s <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/opinion/30fri1.html" target="display">editorial</a> blasting it. “Stopping Arizona” contains so many blatant falsehoods that a reader can be fully confident that the law as actually written is a reasonable, lawful response to a pressing problem. Only by distorting the law’s provisions can the <em>Times</em> and the law’s many other critics make it out to be a racist assault on fundamental American rights.</p>
<p>The law, SB 1070, empowers local police officers to check the immigration status of individuals whom they have encountered during a “lawful contact,” if an officer reasonably suspects the person stopped of being in the country illegally, and if an inquiry into the person’s status is “practicable.” The officer may not base his suspicion of illegality “solely [on] race, color or national origin.” (Arizona lawmakers <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/in-response-to-critics-arizona-tweaks-new-immigration-law-92495249.html" target="display">recently amended</a> the law to change the term “lawful contact” to “lawful stop, detention or arrest” and deleted the word “solely” from the phrase regarding race, color, and national origin. The governor is expected to sign the amendments.) The law also requires aliens to carry their immigration documents, mirroring an identical federal requirement. Failure to comply with the federal law on carrying immigration papers becomes a state misdemeanor under the Arizona law.</p>
<p>Good luck finding any of these provisions in the <em>Times</em>’s editorial. Leave aside for the moment the sweeping conclusions with which the <em>Times</em> begins its screed—such gems as the charge that the law “turns all of the state’s Latinos, even legal immigrants and citizens, into criminal suspects” and is an act of “racial separation.” Instead, let’s see how the <em>Times</em> characterizes the specific legislative language, which is presumably the basis for its indictment.</p>
<p>The paper alleges that the “statute requires police officers to stop and question anyone who looks like an illegal immigrant.” False. The law gives an officer the discretion, when practicable, to determine someone’s immigration status only after the officer has otherwise made a lawful stop, detention, or arrest. It does not allow, much less require, fishing expeditions for illegal aliens. But if, say, after having stopped someone for running a red light, an officer discovers that the driver does not have a driver’s license, does not speak English, and has no other government identification on him, the officer may, if practicable, send an inquiry to his dispatcher to check the driver’s status with a federal immigration clearinghouse.</p>
<p>The <em>Times</em> then alleges that the law “empower[s] police officers to stop anyone they choose and demand to see papers.” False again, for the reasons stated above. An officer must have a lawful, independent basis for a stop; he can only ask to see papers if he has “reasonable suspicion” to believe that the person is in the country illegally. “Reasonable suspicion” is a legal concept of long-standing validity, rooted in the Constitution’s prohibition of “unreasonable searches and seizures.” It meaningfully constrains police activity; officers are trained in its contours, which have evolved through common-law precedents, as a matter of course. If the <em>New York Times</em> now thinks that the concept is insufficient as a check on police power, it will have to persuade every court and every law enforcement agency in the country to throw out the phrase—and the Constitution with it—and come up with something that suits the <em>Times</em>’s contempt for police power.</p>
<p>On broader legal issues, the <em>Times</em> is just as misleading. The paper alleges that the “Supreme Court has consistently ruled that states cannot make their own immigration laws.” Actually, the law on preemption is almost impossibly murky. As the <em>Times</em> later notes in its editorial, the Justice Department ruled in 2002, after surveying the relevant Supreme Court and appellate precedents, that “state and local police had ‘inherent authority’ to make immigration arrests.” The paper does not like that conclusion, but it has not been revoked as official legal advice. If states have inherent authority to make immigration arrests, they can certainly do so under a state law that merely tracks the federal law requiring that immigrants carry documentation.</p>
<p>The <em>Times</em> tips its hand at the end of the editorial. It calls for the Obama administration to end a program that trains local law enforcement officials in relevant aspects of immigration law and that deputizes them to act as full-fledged immigration agents. The so-called 287(g) program acts as a “force multiplier,” as the <em>Times</em> points out, adding local resources to immigration law enforcement—just as Arizona’s SB 1070 does. At heart, this force-multiplier effect is what the hysteria over Arizona’s law is all about: SB 1070 ups the chances that an illegal alien will actually be detected and—horror of horrors—deported. The illegal-alien lobby, of which the <em>New York Times</em> is a charter member, does not believe that U.S. immigration laws should be enforced. Usually unwilling for political reasons to say so explicitly, the lobby comes up with smoke screens—such as the <em>Times</em>’s demagogic charges about SB 1070 as an act of “racial separation”—to divert attention from the underlying issue. Playing the race card is the tactic of those unwilling to make arguments on the merits. (The <em>Times</em>’s other contribution today to the prevailing de facto amnesty for illegal aliens was to fail to disclose, in an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/nyregion/30newark.html?ref=nyregion" target="display">article</a> about a brutal 2007 schoolyard execution in Newark, that the suspected leader was an illegal <a href="http://www.voiac.org/victims.php?id=373" target="display">alien</a> and member of the predominantly illegal-alien gang Mara Salvatrucha.)</p>
<p>The Arizona law is not about race; it’s not an attack on Latinos or legal immigrants. It’s about one thing and one thing only: making immigration enforcement a reality. It is time for a national debate: Do we or don’t we want to enforce the country’s immigration laws? If the answer is yes, the Arizona law is a necessary and lawful tool for doing so. If the answer is no, we should end the charade of inadequate, half-hearted enforcement, enact an amnesty now, and remove future penalties for immigration violations.</p>
<p><em>Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of </em>City Journal<em>, the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the coauthor of </em><a href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/immigration_solution/" target="display">The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today’s</a>.</p>
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		<title>Jews Who Cheapen the Holocaust</title>
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<p>If there is any group that should know the uniqueness of Nazi evil and should not want the evil of the Holocaust cheapened for political purposes, it is the Jews. Yet, there is at least a 50-50 chance that if you read or hear a public personality use Nazi imagery to describe conservatives, the person is a Jew. Specifically, a Jew on the Left.</p>
<p>Of course, non-Jews on the Left also compare conservatives to Nazis, and some non-Jews on the Right will sometimes compare the Left to Nazis, but there are three important differences.</p>
<p>First, however many or few tea party banners compare President Obama to Hitler (and such comparisons are as reprehensible as they are self-defeating), conservative public figures &#8212; such as politicians and prominent columnists &#8212; almost never compare liberals to Nazis, while public figures on the Left often compare conservatives to Nazis.</p>
<p>Second, among liberal Jews, the percentage that believes that Americans on the Right are just a step or two away from being Nazis seems to be greater than the proportion of liberal non-Jews who believe that.</p>
<p>Third, when Jews on the Left call conservative Americans Nazis, they mean it in its literal sense &#8212; they really do regard the conservatives they compare to Nazis as racists comparable to Nazi anti-Semites. On the other hand, when conservatives use the term, it is meant to signify non-democratic or dictatorial policies, regimes or individuals &#8212; e.g., Seinfeld&#8217;s &#8220;soup Nazi&#8221; or Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s &#8220;feminazis&#8221; &#8212; not as potential or likely mass murderers.</p>
<p>Why is this? Why do so many Jews see conservative/Right-wing Americans as Nazi-like?</p>
<p>The answer lies in the rhetoric of the Left and in Jews&#8217; fears.</p>
<p>Leftist rhetoric routinely depicts opponents of the Left in extreme terms. Opponents of race-based affirmative action are racists. Opponents of same-sex marriage are homophobes. Opponents of illegal immigration are xenophobes, racists and engaged in Nazism (that is the word that Cardinal Roger Mahony used to describe Arizona&#8217;s anti-illegal immigration law). And so on.</p>
<p>But there is an additional explanation for why liberal and Leftist Jews use &#8220;Nazi&#8221; and &#8220;Holocaust&#8221; rhetoric to depict conservatives.</p>
<p>Jews, Right or Left, have been seared by the Holocaust. And most, if not all, believe a Holocaust could happen again &#8212; hardly an idiosyncratic belief given Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s declared aim of annihilating the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Where liberal and conservative Jews differ is where each group thinks the greatest danger to the Jews lies. Jews on the Left are certain that the greatest threats to Jews come from the Right. Conservative and centrist Jews believe that dangers to the Jews can come from the Left, from the Right, from Islam, from a renewal of Christian anti-Semitism, indeed from anywhere, but that at this moment, the world&#8217;s Left is far more an enemy of the Jewish people than the world&#8217;s, not to mention America&#8217;s, Right.</p>
<p>When liberal Jewish columnist Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote recently that tea partiers had engaged a &#8220;small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht,&#8221; he meant it. Kristallnacht (&#8220;Night of the Broken Glass&#8221;) is widely considered the opening act of the Holocaust. In November 1938, in the course of two days, tens of thousands of German Jews were arrested and deported to concentration camps; scores of Jews were beaten to death; 267 synagogues were destroyed; and thousands of Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized.</p>
<p>Why would a New York Times columnist use the term when talking about American tea partiers?</p>
<p>Because when Rich and most other Jews on the Left see Right-wing non-Jews, they see swastikas. It is an inversion of the famous scene in Woody Allen&#8217;s film &#8220;Annie Hall&#8221; in which the WASP character is depicted as seeing the Woody Allen character as a Hasidic Jew. Most American Jews on the Left &#8212; like Leftist professors on college campuses &#8212; inhabit an insular universe, where regular, let alone intimate, contact with conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, is almost non-existent.</p>
<p>Last week, another Jewish liberal, Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., in attacking the tea partiers, specified &#8220;white Christians&#8221; as people who fear members of all other religious and racial groups. And this past September, Grayson, referring to Congress not having passed health care legislation, said on the floor of Congress, &#8220;I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven&#8217;t voted sooner to end this Holocaust in America.&#8221; In Grayson&#8217;s view, 12 percent of Americans not having health insurance constitutes a &#8220;Holocaust.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another liberal Jewish commentator for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse, who teaches at Yale Law School, likened the situation of illegal immigrants in Arizona to that of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Denmark. As if being deported to Mexico for illegally entering Arizona is comparable to being sent to Auschwitz for being a Danish Jew.</p>
<p>The liberal Jewish former-columnist of the Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman, wrote in 2007, &#8220;Let&#8217;s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Jew on the Left, George Soros, said at the Davos conference in 2007, &#8220;America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.&#8221; As Martin Peretz wrote at the time in The New Republic: &#8220;He believes that the United States is now a Nazi country. Why else would we have to go through a &#8216;certain de-Nazification process&#8217;? I defy anybody to interpret the remark differently.&#8221;</p>
<p>And Seth Meyers of &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; asked, referring to the new Arizona law, &#8220;Could we all agree that there&#8217;s nothing more Nazi than saying &#8216;Show me your papers&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p>These are only a few examples.</p>
<p>Jews who compare conservative Americans &#8212; tea partiers, global-warming skeptics, supporters of Arizona&#8217;s illegal-immigrant law, former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, conservative Christians &#8212; to Nazis and the Holocaust not only smear decent Americans &#8212; who, as it happens, are far more pro-Jewish and pro-Israel than most Americans on the Left &#8212; they also cheapen the horror of Nazism and the Holocaust.</p>
<p>But in the closed world of the Left generally and of the Jewish Left specifically, there is an Auschwitz under almost every conservative bed.</p>
<p>As a Jew who has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism &#8212; from being sent by Israel to the former Soviet Union to aid Soviet Jews, to writing a book on anti-Semitism (&#8220;Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism&#8221;), to serving on the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum &#8212; I have always found any trivialization of Nazism and the Holocaust offensive. That Jews would do this &#8212; to fellow Americans, no less &#8212; and solely in order to serve their Left-wing politics is worse than offensive. It is immoral.</p>
<p>Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show and is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of four books, most recently &#8220;Happiness Is a Serious Problem&#8221; (HarperCollins.) His website is <a href="http://www.dennisprager.com/" target="_blank">www.dennisprager.com</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times lies about Arizona and endorses illegal immigration.]]></description>
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<p>The <em>New York Times</em><strong><em> </em></strong>has hit a new low today in its lead editorial, entitled “Stopping Arizona.”  The<em> Times</em> maliciously misrepresented <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1215" target="_self">Arizona’s new law </a>, intended to combat the ravages within its borders caused by illegal immigration.  The <em>Times</em>‘ lies are typical of the race-baiting tactics employed by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=93&amp;type=issue" target="_self">progressive left</a>.</p>
<p>For example, the <em>Times</em> falsely claimed:</p>
<blockquote><p>The statute requires police officers to stop and question anyone who looks like an illegal immigrant.</p></blockquote>
<p>The truth is precisely the opposite.  The new law does not empower local law enforcement officers to pick up anyone they wish who looks like he or she doesn’t belong in this country.  It requires first that the officer have a separate legal basis for coming into “lawful contact” with the individual, such as a speeding violation.  Then – and only if the officer has “reasonable suspicion” that this individual may be in the country illegally –  can the officer ask to see the individual’s documents which <em>federal</em> law requires aliens residing in this country to carry with them at all times.</p>
<p>“Reasonable suspicion” is a court-defined standard, not a broad mandate for police harassment based on a person’s appearance.  The Arizona statute provides specific guidelines to govern law enforcement officers, including a list of documents such as an Arizona driver’s license which an officer must presume is sufficient proof that someone producing such a document is legally in the country.</p>
<p>Maybe the <em>Times </em>and other critics of the “reasonable suspicion” standard – including President Obama for that matter – should read the federal law stating that if an alien is encountered and they are not carrying ID they are in fact in violation of the law <a href="http://law.onecle.com/uscode/8/1304.html" target="_self">(8 USC 1304 (e)) </a>and subject to fine or imprisonment.  The Arizona law is designed to aid in enforcement of this federal requirement, including requiring police officers to contact the federal government as soon as practicable when they suspect a person is an illegal alien.</p>
<p>To make sure that the new law will not be used as a justification for racial profiling, it provides that a law enforcement official, in making any stops and subsequent inquiries into immigration status:</p>
<blockquote><p>may not solely consider race, color or national origin</p></blockquote>
<p>The Arizona law also requires that it</p>
<blockquote><p>be implemented in a manner consistent with federal laws regulating immigration, protecting the civil rights of all persons and respecting the privileges and immunities of United States citizens.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>The New York Times</em> shares an underlying progressive agenda of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=6&amp;type=group" target="_self">open borders </a>with a coalition of radical groups spearheaded by such entities as the National Lawyers Guild, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6156" target="_self">Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund</a>, and the American Civil Liberties Union.<em> </em></p>
<p>For example, the <em>Times</em> goes so far as to criticize another Arizona law, now before the Supreme Court, that revokes the business licenses of employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.  The <em>Times </em>evidently does not care about the near slave labor conditions that some illegal aliens are trapped in by exploitative employers.  Anything that might get in the way of the open borders philosophy is a no-no to the progressive crowd.</p>
<p>At the end of its editorial, the <em>Times </em>asks rhetorically:</p>
<blockquote><p>Is our core belief still the welcome and assimimilation of newcomers?</p></blockquote>
<p>The answer can still be yes while maintaining the rule of law.  It has never been the core belief of this country that anyone from anywhere in the world is entitled as a matter of right to enter this country whenever and however they want without following the rules for lawful entry and residence.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Billy Hallowell]]></dc:creator>
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<p>This weekend, <em>The New York Times</em> <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/the-sunday-word-nuclear-warnings/">reported</a> on a secret, three-page memorandum that was composed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and sent to President Obama’s national security advisor this past January.  The document highlights Gates&#8217;s fear that the United  States is not adequately prepared for a nuclear Iran, while calling for effective long-term strategies in dealing with the defiant Mideast nation.  This unintended admission showcases the American government&#8217;s lack of long-range preparedness in the face of an aggressive and resistant Iran, while leaving many to wonder how the administration will confront Iran’s ever-increasing volatility.</p>
<p>The recent memo, written just three months ago, is startling in its own regard, as it appears to warn the White House that the U.S. is ill-prepared for the potential nuclear fruits of Iran’s defiance.  While this memo does, indeed, provide new internal insight, experts have been aware of the horrific dangers of a nuclear Iran for years.  On Mon., <em><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63J04H20100420?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews">Reuters reported</a></em> that, with “sufficient foreign assistance,” Iran may have the capability to strike the U.S. with a missile by 2015.  This, teamed with Iran’s very obvious nuclear ambitions and a plethora of “what ifs” should sanctions fail, has many experts worried about what is to come.  As time progresses, Iranian leaders are making it clear that, regardless of Western pressures, nuclear plans are forging onward.</p>
<p>Over the past two weeks the Iran/U.S. saga has intensified.  Just days prior to the memo&#8217;s release, <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Gates-No-Iranian-Nuclear-Weapon-for-At-Least-a-Year-90785969.html">Gates told reporters</a> that he does not anticipate Iranian ability to produce nuclear weapons for at least another year.  While this may seem like a settling piece of information, one year is hardly enough time to make viable headway with a nation that shows no signs of yielding. Gates vocalized this timeline in response to recent statements from Behzad Soltani, the head of Iran&#8217;s Atomic Energy Organization.  According to <em><a href="http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Gates-No-Iranian-Nuclear-Weapon-for-At-Least-a-Year-90785969.html">Voice of America</a></em>,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Iran&#8217;s Fars news agency quotes the deputy head of Iran&#8217;s Atomic Energy Organization as saying &#8220;no country would even think about attacking Iran&#8221; after it joins the nuclear club.  Fars also quotes the official, Behzad Soltani, as saying Iran plans to expand nuclear technology for &#8220;purposes other than energy and fuel production.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This exchange of sorts occurred around the same time last week that President Obama met with 47 world leaders to discuss global nuclear security.  As <em><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1982962,00.html">Time Magazine reports</a></em>, the event was an attempt by Obama to build support for international sanctions against Iran.   In warding off U.S. pressures, <em><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1982962,00.html">Time reports</a></em> that “…Iran has relied on its commercial relations — especially with Russia and China — to thwart U.S. efforts to isolate Iran.”  Coincidently, Iran was not invited to Obama’s conference, so the nation held its own “summit” to counteract the U.S.-led event.  In sum, 60 nations were in attendance (13 more than attended the U.S. conference), including representatives from both Russia and China.</p>
<p>Following the wake of the memo’s release, Gates seems to be downplaying the concerns that the document has sparked.  However, the Jan. 2010 memorandum exposed appropriate urgency in a matter that can no longer be ignored.  In the original memo, Gates plainly stated that the U.S. “&#8230;does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability.”  In an effort to put the Jan. 2010 memo into context, Gates attempted to explain why he issued what some see as a “jolt to action” for the Obama administration.  Gates said,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The memo was not intended as a &#8216;wake up call&#8217; or received as such by the President&#8217;s national security team.  Rather, it presented a number of questions and proposals intended to contribute to an orderly and timely decision making process.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In the end, regardless of the PR game administration officials are likely playing, the main story here is that the U.S. lacks long-term strategy in dealing with a dangerous and volatile rogue nation – a nation that is doing little to nothing to comply with international requests that it stop utilizing nuclear materials.  Regardless of what Gates intended, or believes for that matter, the lack of a solidified plan is more than evident.  So, the natural question is: Where do we go from here?</p>
<p>Obama’s nuclear summit was likely a starting point for what is to come.  On April 14, just four days before the now-infamous memo leaked, <em>The Los Angeles Times</em> quoted Gates as saying that a broad, international agreement is extremely important if the U.S. plans to make headway with Iran.  In fact, the Obama administration is pushing so hard for <em>something</em> viable that officials are willing to adopt weaker sanctions than they would like, so long as the United Nations and the international community join forces in furthering Iranian isolation.   According to the <em><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sc-dc-iran-sanctions15-20100414,0,6942156.story">Times</a></em>,</p>
<blockquote><p>[Gates] said a Security Council resolution &#8220;provides a new legal platform&#8221; for individual nations or groups such as the European Union to take more stringent action. In that way, the UN resolution acts as a &#8220;launching pad&#8221; for economic strictures that are much tougher than those adopted by the world organization, [Gates]  said.</p></blockquote>
<p>This indicates that the Obama administration is settling for whatever compromise its international colleagues are willing to make.  As a result of pushback from other nations, the U.S. has abandoned a push for a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sc-dc-iran-sanctions15-20100414,0,6942156.story">ban on petroleum</a> heading to and coming from Iran.   With Turkey, China and Russia serving as potential blockades to Security Council action (the latter two have recently joined talks), U.N. sanctions may be weak at best.  Still, the <em>Times</em> notes that insiders believe that U.N. agreement, regardless of strength in tone, makes a statement to Iran and is essential to the formulation of smaller contingencies of nations that, under U.S. leadership, may embrace stricter sanctions.  While only time will tell how the scenario will play out, swift and stringent U.S. policy is surely due.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>To Hell on a Fast Horse:<br />
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West</em><br />
By Mark Lee Gardner<br />
Morrow, $26.99, 336 pp.</p>
<p>Some things never change.  The New York Times, for instance, can always show sympathy for a cop killer with an excuse.</p>
<p>In 1926, a Times book reviewer criticized <em>The Saga of Billy the Kid</em>, one of the first books on the Kid and Pat Garrett that relied on actual reporting, for presenting Garrett as a hero.  The critic, who apparently had watched a few too many Tom Mix movies, thought the lawman with eight kids to feed should have given Billy “a chance to fight for his life.”</p>
<p>I didn’t know liberals were so into dueling. The statement is doubly ironic since the Kid’s most famous killing was the straight-up bushwacking ambush of the (admittedly corrupt) sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico.</p>
<p>Nearly a century later, the Times can still find fault with nearly every police shooting, while it romanticizes cold-blooded cop killers for &#8220;standing up to the Man&#8221;—especially if their politics are radical.</p>
<p>The story of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid often has been used as sort of a pseudo-Marxist fable&#8211; though, unlike Jesse James, John Dillinger and other outlaws who attained such status, the Kid didn’t rob banks.</p>
<p>One of the more infamous accounts of the legend is Sam Peckinpah’s <em>Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, </em>a glum disaster of a movie that basically killed what was left of the drunken director’s career (plus nearly snuffed out the Western genre itself in the early &#8217;70s).  Peckinpah imagined Garrett as a man who is bitter about being used as a capitalist tool to kill off a young rebel threat who sits around grousing about the greedy businessmen who have destroyed the code of the West.</p>
<p>But the truth comes out in Mark Gardner&#8217;s <em>Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West. </em>He reports Garrett was an enthusiastic, if not terribly successful, capitalist himself who had invested in and started several large cattle concerns and other enterprises.</p>
<p>And while Billy may have been on the right side in the famed Lincoln County War, it was the only time in his life that the career horse thief and casual killer had any justification for his actions.</p>
<p><em>To Hell on a Fast Horse</em> may not present a lot of new information, but it is a vividly told, action-packed and thoroughly enjoyable look at the complete lives of two of the Old West’s iconic figures.</p>
<p>Gardner tells the story as parallel biographies. The Kid was not born William Bonney (as usually reported) but probably Henry McCarty, the son of a poor Irish refugee.  A petty thief who gradually drifted West ahead of the law, the Kid graduated to stealing horses and constantly practiced with his pistols.  Personally charming, the Kid attracted a loyal band of cohorts — and women — and his dash and daring earned him admiration among some in the general public.</p>
<p>Garrett, meanwhile, was almost the Kid’s direct opposite.  A tall man of few words, Garrett was born on a prosperous Louisiana plantation but sought his fortune in the West. He worked as a buffalo hunter and cowboy, saving his money until he opened his own saloon in Lincoln County.  Garrett married Juanita Gutierrez, who died within months of the wedding. (The Kid, along with most of the county&#8217;s folks, probably attended the wedding reception, leading to the myth, central to Peckinpah’s film, that Garrett and the Kid had been good friends.) Garrett then married Juanita’s sister, Apolinaria, who bore him nine children.</p>
<p>Two things would forever shape how the American public would view both men.  First, the irony that the Kid worked his first straight job for John Tunstall, the most sympathetic figure in the Lincoln County War, a smaller entrepreneur looking for fair treatment in the cattle market. After Tunstall was shot down in cold blood, many saw the Kid’s subsequent actions — including shooting a corrupt sheriff from ambush — as honorably seeking vengeance and justice for his dead boss. His real motives, however, were far cloudier than that.</p>
<p>Garrett, on the other hand, would never live down the fact that he ultimately shot the Kid from a position of advantage in the dark, even taking into account the number of deputies Garrett had lost in the pursuit of the Kid, and his belief that the Kid was armed and making a move on him.</p>
<p>Garrett never garnered a reputation like Wyatt Earp, Bill Hickok and other legendary lawmen because of how he shot the Kid in the dark. Ironically, Garrett’s detractors generally ignore that the Kid had shot Lincoln County’s Sheriff Brady from ambush&#8211; and that Garrett had captured the Kid alive once, only to have the outlaw murder one of his deputies and escape.</p>
<p><em>To Hell on a Fast Horse</em> at times reads like a Louis L’Amour book, especially when Garrett’s posse pursues the Kid and his band and engages in a series of gun battles and hairbreadth escapes.  While such modern Western movies as <em>Open Range</em> have tried to be more “realistic” about the marksmanship in the Old West (if they couldn’t shoot better than that, many would have starved to death), Gardner relates gun battles in vivid detail that reminds us that these people were <em>very</em> familiar with weapons—and some of them could <em>really</em> shoot.</p>
<p>More importantly, Gardner gives a balanced and complete portrait of Garrett, a flawed and fascinating man whose ambition often exceeded his reach in business. He nonetheless remained an effective law enforcement officer who was constantly called back into service to solve particularly troublesome situations.</p>
<p>The legend surrounding Billy the Kid remains fascinating, as it does not quite fit into the usual template of the outlaw who becomes an American folk hero. He may have been charming and had flair to spare, but he also casually gunned down men who had no chance to fight back.</p>
<p>The Kid also was, by trade, a horse thief.  Unlike most other crooks-turned-icons, he didn&#8217;t rob banks that were regarded as the bad guys for foreclosing on American home and farm owners during hard times. (Though in pre-Federal Reserve times, small investors and farmers could lose their life savings because of such robberies.)  His only virtue was seen as standing up for the little guy against bigger corporate interests in avenging his murdered boss.</p>
<p>Of course, it’s elected officials today who rob the banks blind, call <em>them</em> the bad guys and seem to be hell-bent on killing small businesses …</p>
<p>Maybe moderns shouldn’t feel so superior and sneer so much about the “Wild West.”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the radical recruiter of Van Jones behind the administration’s capitulation on nuclear policy? ]]></description>
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<p>The last time that President Obama’s senior advisor and assistant <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418">Valerie Jarrett</a> was in the news, her favored political recruit, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406">Anthony “Van” Jones</a>, was resigning his post as White House presidential advisor amid revelations of a radical background that included communist sympathies and his support for 9/11 Truther conspiracy. Now Jarrett, widely viewed as Obama’s radical alter ego, has reemerged – this time as a foreign policy guru.</p>
<p>As Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed a new <a href="../AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Low/Content.IE5/7AWR0LT1/nuclear%20arms%20treaty">nuclear arms treaty</a> last week, Jarrett sat observing nearby. That Jarrett has once again found herself in a position of influence is not surprising. Jarrett proudly acknowledges her remarkable closeness to President Obama. “We have kind of a mind meld” is the way she put it in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26jarrett-t.htmlhttp:/www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26jarrett-t.htmlhttp:/www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26jarrett-t.htmlhttp:/www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26jarrett-t.htmlhttp:/www.nytimes."><em>New York Times</em> magazine interview</a> last summer. “When senior staff meetings in the Oval Office break up, Valerie Jarrett often stays behind” with the President, the <em>Times</em> article reported. In short, Jarrett is like a member of the Obama family, but one who has seized command of a variety of policies at the White House.</p>
<p>Although neither elected, nor confirmed, nor even vetted, and without previous Washington experience, Jarrett has been installed as senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernmental and public engagement. She also was given the recently created Office of Urban Affairs, even though we have a cabinet member who is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Now it appears she is involved in our nation’s foreign policy.</p>
<p>Why else would she be in Prague for the preparations and signing of the arms treaty? As Obama has said, “She is someone I trust completely. She combines the closeness of a family member with the savvy and objectivity of a professional businesswoman and public-policy expert,” the <em>Times</em> magazine article stated. She is trusted “to speak for me particularly when we are dealing with delicate issues.” Such as nuclear arms matters? If so, that should be cause for concern. Jarrett’s only experience in foreign affairs is the insignificant fact that she was born in Iran, where her father was a doctor working for an American aid program. She lived in London as a child before coming to the United States.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Jarrett may already be exerting her influence on the president in this arena. On March 28, she appeared on ABC’s “The Week,” where she talked up the forthcoming nuclear deal between the United States and Russia. “The fact that the President and Russia are about to sign the START Treaty is a good sign that we’re making cooperation and good progress with countries such as Russia,” Jarrett insisted. Just a few weeks later, Obama has made – perhaps with Jarrett’s influence – a <a href="http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/90025822.html">sharp departure</a> on nuclear policy. Under the new plan, the United  States promises not to use nuclear weapons against nations that do not have them – even if they attack the United States first.</p>
<p>The President’s plan would lessen the part nuclear weapons play in our defense posture. According to the Center for Defense Studies, “our nuclear arsenal today is smaller than at any time since the Eisenhower Administration.” The CDS further notes that</p>
<blockquote><p>“the message being sent to the rest of the world is that the United States finds nuclear deterrence distasteful and wants to get out of the nuclear weapons business&#8230;.The result may be a more volatile and dangerous world.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There is no way to measure the role that Jarrett played in the administration’s nuclear policies, judged by many to represent a radical break with past policies. But it is precisely this that may hint at Jarrett’s newfound influence on foreign policy. After all, Jarrett has in the past been linked with a number of <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355659/postshttp:/www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355659/postshttp:/www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355659/postshttp:/www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355659/posts">radicals and their causes</a>. Most notoriously, she brought <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36289">Van Jones</a> into the White House as green jobs czar. She also brought aboard <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2009/07/cass_sunstein_yet_another_wack.php">Cass Sunstein</a> as a regulatory czar, notwithstanding his view that animals should have legal rights to sue humans. And she had the President create an office of Diversity at the Federal Communications Commission, where appointee <a href="http://radio.about.com/b/2009/08/15/who-is-mark-lloyd-and-why-is-conservtive-talk-radio-concerned.htm">Mark Lloyd,</a> a Jarrett friend, is said to be attempting to silence conservative talk radio. It was Jarrett who encouraged Obama to make his race speech in the wake of the highly controversial and damaging Rev. Jeremiah Wright tapes damning America. To refurbish<a href="http://www.firstladies.org/documents/art_flpublic.pdf"> Michelle Obama’s original public image of an angry woman</a>, Jarrett encouraged the future first lady to focus on concern about military families.</p>
<p>A President has the right to select his own trusted advisors. But given Valerie Jarrett’s radical ties, and her conspicuous lack of foreign policy credentials, the fact that she now has the president’s ear on issues as vital as the country’s nuclear posture is a truly worrying development.</p>
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		<title>Obama Welcomes A Stealth Jihadist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tariq Ramadan returns to the U.S.]]></description>
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<p>Five years after being barred from the U.S. for making charitable contributions to a group that sent those contributions to the jihad terror group Hamas, internationally renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, often dubbed “the Muslim Martin Luther,” will make his <a href="http://dnainfo.com/20100317/east-village/barred-muslim-scholar-tariq-ramadan-will-speak-at-cooper-union">first public appearance</a> in America this April after being permitted to enter the country.</p>
<p>The turnabout comes not because Ramadan has been cleared of these charges, but because Secretary of State Clinton has, in the words of State spokesman Darby Holladay, “chosen to exercise her exemption authority for the benefit of Tariq Ramadan.”</p>
<p>Holladay disingenuously suggested that the Bush Administration had barred Ramadan from the country because of his opposition to the Iraq War, but no “exemption authority” would have been needed to overturn a ban that had been put in place for that reason. Clinton was exempting Ramadan from prohibitions on supporters of terror groups entering the country.</p>
<p>And ironically, days after the Obama State Department announced the exemption for Ramadan, a Detroit-area Muslim named Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka was arrested at the border while attempting to cross from Canada back into the United   States. His crime? Lying to the FBI and immigration officials about his work with the Holy Land Foundation, formerly the largest Islamic charity in the United States, which has now been shut down for funneling charitable contributions to Hamas.</p>
<p>So what is the difference between Tariq Ramadan and Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka? They have both allegedly been disingenuous about their ties to a Hamas charity, and yet Ramadan is free to enter the United States and Masfaka is under arrest. So what unique and compelling benefit does Tariq Ramadan bring to the U.S. that would move Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to bend their own anti-terror rules and make this exemption for him?</p>
<p>The answer, of course, is that Tariq Ramadan is internationally famous as a voice of Islamic moderation – and a vocal critic of the Bush Administration’s Middle East policies, which the Obama Administration very much wants to subject to public criticism. Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka, in contrast, toils in relative obscurity and offers the Obama Administration no such political fringe benefits. Ramadan represents the kind of Muslim who should respond most favorably to Obama’s recurring pleas for a new relationship based on mutual respect: urbane, sophisticated, Westernized, closely identified with Islamic moderation and reform. In fact, Holladay explained the exemption for Ramadan in terms that specifically recalled Obama’s repeated appeals: “Both the president and the secretary of state have made it clear that the US government is pursuing a new relationship with Muslim communities based on mutual interest and mutual respect.”</p>
<p>However, there are cracks in Ramadan’s façade that should have raised eyebrows even in Obama’s State Department. Ramadan is the grandson of Hasan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood – an international Islamic supremacist organization that is dedicated, in its own words (according to an internal Brotherhood document captured in a raid of the Holy Land Foundation), to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house.” French journalist Caroline Fourest, who has published a book-length study of Ramadan’s sly duplicity, <em>Brother Tariq</em>, concludes that this much-lionized putative Muslim Martin Luther is actually anything but a reformer: in reality, Ramadan is “remaining scrupulously faithful to the strategy mapped out by his grandfather, a strategy of advance stage by stage” toward the imposition of Islamic law in the West.</p>
<p>Ramadan, she explains, in his public lectures and writings invests words like “law” and “democracy” with subtle and carefully crafted new definitions, permitting him to engage in “an apparently inoffensive discourse while remaining faithful to an eminently Islamist message and without having to lie overtly &#8212; at least not in his eyes.” Ramadan, she said, “may have an influence on young Islamists and constitute a factor of incitement that could lead them to join the partisans of violence.”</p>
<p>In light of Ramadan’s smooth duplicity, his new welcome into the U.S. is a fitting symbol for the entire catastrophe of the Obama Administration’s policy toward the Middle East and Islamic terror. Obama reaches out to the Islamic world, assuming that his overtures will be welcomed by voices of reason and restraint. But in making this appeal, Obama drastically underestimates the jihad threat and mistakes all too many enemies for friends. And so now he also underestimates and misevaluates Tariq Ramadan, with consequences that no one can foretell at this point, but which are not likely to be positive.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angered by genocide resolutions, Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens to deport 100,000 illegals.]]></description>
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<p>Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed the European Union recently why his country’s membership application should be rejected. In an interview with the BBC last week, Erdogan expressed his extreme displeasure with foreign countries recognising as genocide the 1915 massacre of the Armenians by <a href="http://www.asbarez.com/78347/erdogan-threatens-to-deport-armenians-from-turkey/">threatening to deport</a> 100,000 Armenians working illegally in Turkey.</p>
<p>“In my country there are 170,000 Armenians; 70,000 of them are citizens. We tolerate 100,000 more. So what am I going to do tomorrow? If necessary I will tell the 100,000: okay, time to go back your country. Why? They are not my citizens. I am not obliged to keep them in my country,” said Erdogan, leader of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, a conservative and Islamic political entity. Erdogan blamed the Armenian Diaspora for the genocide resolutions.</p>
<p>The reaction to Erdogan’s statement in Armenia was, predictably, swift and damning. Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian condemned the Turkish leader’s remarks, saying they “do not improve relations” between the two countries. The plan to open the Turkish-Armenian border, a prerequisite for Turkey acquiring EU membership, and to set up a joint commission to investigate the massacres may now be in jeopardy.</p>
<p>“When the Turkish Prime Minister allows himself to make such statements it brings up memories of the events of 1915,” said Sarkisian, whose government <a href="http://www.asbarez.com/78347/erdogan-threatens-to-deport-armenians-from-turkey/">disputes the 100,000 figure</a>.</p>
<p>In 1915, shortly after Turkey’s entry into World War One, 1.5 million primarily Armenian Christians living in the then Ottoman Empire, in an action resembling later slaughters by Stalin and Hitler, were subjected to massacres and deportations that often ended in death. The world’s indifference to the killings may even have encouraged Hitler who later referred to the 1915 Armenian holocaust in relation to his planned genocide of the Jews: “After all, who today speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?”</p>
<p>The three million Armenians living in their truncated state on Turkey’s eastern border are as traumatised about the tragedy that befell their people as the Jews are about the Holocaust. <em>Asia Times</em> columnist Spengler (a literary pseudonym) has called them “the ghosts of their murdered brethren” who “haunt the geopolitical stage as a silent chorus.”</p>
<p>Turkish nationalists deny that an Armenian holocaust ever took place. They will only admit that about three hundred thousand Armenians and an almost equal number of Turks were killed in “civil strife” in eastern Turkey between 1915 and 1917. The 1915 deportations, they claim, were justified because some Armenians were supporting the Russian army, Turkey’s enemy at the time. The Armenians were regarded as a knife at Turkey’s back that had to be removed.</p>
<p>But the deniers are fighting a losing battle. Already, more than 20 countries have labelled as genocide the 1915 Armenian bloodbath, including EU member states France, Germany and Italy. The United States and Sweden are the latest countries to move in that direction.</p>
<p>When Erdogan was in England, Sweden’s parliament voted to recognise the Armenian killings, prompting the Turkish leader to cancel his visit there and recall his country’s ambassador. The American government’s House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution (23 votes to 22) to the same effect, which, according to <em><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704059004575128083028873948.html">The Wall Street Journal</a></em>, angered Turkey.</p>
<p>But there are some Turks who want their country to confront this tragic crime in their nation’s past. The most prominent of these is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk">Orhan Pamuk</a>, the 2006 Nobel Laureate for Literature. Called by Spengler “the only Turk with a global voice”, Pamuk raised the Armenian genocide with a Swiss publication in 2005.</p>
<p>“Thirty thousand Kurds have been killed here, and a million Armenians. And almost nobody dares mention that. So I do,” Pamuk said.</p>
<p>For these remarks, Pamuk was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4205708.stm">criminally charged</a> with “insulting Turkishness.” Legal proceedings were later stayed, but the resulting furor and hate campaign caused Pamuk to move to New York.</p>
<p>Other Turks, while not dealing with the genocide question, criticised Erdogan for his BBC comments. One Turkish journalist, Mehmet Ali Briand, pointed out the irony of Erdogan denying the first Armenian deportation, when he wants to organize a<a href="http://times.am/2010/03/19/no-dear-prime-minister-don%25E2%2580%2599t-touch-the-armenians-protect-them/"> “second deportation”</a>, one that television cameras would witness.</p>
<p>“We could defend ourselves all we want…no one would believe us,” he wrote. “They’d say, ‘See, again the Turks are casting out the Armenians.’ ”</p>
<p>Briand suggests instead that since these Armenians are mostly poor people, doing menial work, who came to Turkey after the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, they should be shown compassion. These people would then preserve Turkey’s dignity, enhance its image and be “our strongest and most convinced lobby.”</p>
<p>A <em><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7066218.ece">Times On Line story</a></em> suggests Erdogan’s hard-line comments may have been directed towards a domestic audience rather than a foreign one. According to <em>The Times</em> account, since the next elections in Turkey are this July, Erdogan was trying to appease the voters who opposed reconciliation with Armenia.</p>
<p>Most likely though, Erdogan’s remarks are simply a “barbaric reaction” to offended dignity, similar to the Muslim reaction to the Mohammad cartoons.</p>
<p>But Erdogan’s comments may represent something more sinister than just an ethnic tantrum. Briand quotes another Turkish politician who said, “Turkey should teach Armenia a lesson never to be forgotten.” Erdogan is also not the first Turkish politician to advocate deporting the illegal Armenians, but is Turkey’s first leader. Like with Holocaust deniers whose negations conceal their desire to bring about another round of Jew extermination, the denial of the Armenian genocide may be serving the same purpose.</p>
<p>A new Armenian massacre may have been avoided as recently as the last decade. In his book <em>Chechen Jihad</em>, Yossef Bodansky writes that 2,500 Islamist fighters from Afghanistan helped Azerbaijan, “under the banner of jihad”, in the early 1990s in its war against Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh. Bodansky states the Azeris exploited “the mujahedin’s Islamist zeal to escalate the war against the Christian Armenians&#8230;”</p>
<p>This zeal, as the world has seen, usually means death for non-Muslims. The Armenian forces, however, held firm and the jihadists’ savage hatred for the infidel fortunately never reached their territory.</p>
<p>Orhan Pamuk believes freedom of speech is the only way for Turkey to come to terms with its past. But if Erdogan continues to utter offensive remarks against Armenians like in the previous week, his country will not have future, at least not in the EU.</p>
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		<title>All the News Unfit to Print</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why won’t the New York Times report on the anti-Israel funders behind the Goldstone Report?]]></description>
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<p>What the<em> New York Times</em> chooses to cover in the Arab-Israeli conflict – and what it excludes – is a story in itself. The paper’s silence, as of this writing, about an event that has rocked the Israeli media and public and triggered calls for government action once more raises serious questions about the paper’s news judgment. After all, the <em>Times </em>reports on no other foreign nation as minutely as it does Israel, whether about negotiations, housing permits in Jerusalem, Israeli gravel-use in the West Bank or a Tel Aviv polygamist.</p>
<p>The story being ignored is the Im Tirtzu campaign to expose the New Israel Fund’s connection to the defamatory Goldstone Report via its funding of groups that spurred the creation of and then contributed harsh commentary about Israel to the UN document. Originally founded as a student organization to counter anti-Zionist activity on campus, Im Tirtzu publicized revelations about the NIF-Goldstone ties in provocative ads across the country. The campaign began in January and has already prompted moves in the Knesset to intensify oversight of foreign political entities financing groups in Israel.</p>
<p>According to polls, the Israeli public by a significant margin opposes politically-based foreign funding of activity in Israel.</p>
<p>So why the silent treatment by the <em>Times</em>?</p>
<p>For starters, many of the very same NIF-supported NGO’s under fire for allegedly helping fuel the Goldstone calumnies against Israel are also preferred news sources of the <em>Times</em>, quoted regularly as reliable critics of Israeli society. B’Tselem and Yesh Din, for instance, are favorites, together cited at least 25 <em>times</em> in the last two years, typically charging the Israel Defense Forces or other official bodies with misconduct, and sometimes prompting entire stories focused on the NGO charges.</p>
<p>Gisha, another NIF grantee, has been invoked at least 10 times in the same period as an objective organization demanding “free movement” for Palestinians. Gisha allegations have triggered front page, multi-story coverage.</p>
<p>HaMoked, yet another New Israel Fund-financed NGO, has been cited by the <em>Times</em> denouncing Israel for its handling of residency issues for Palestinians. Still another, Bimkom, has appeared in the <em>Times</em> blasting Israel for the effects on Palestinians of the separation barrier. Two more favored by both the <em>Times</em> and NIF are Physicians for Human Rights and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The newspaper has cited the former assailing the Israeli military for ethics violations, the latter deploring alleged discrimination in traveling the roads. One more NGO that enjoys both the support of the NIF and the confidence of the <em>Times</em> is Breaking the Silence, which alleges abuses of Palestinians by soldiers.</p>
<p>The claims of all these groups are tainted by ideological bias and factual distortion. As Ha’aretz’s military correspondent notes with regard to Breaking the Silence, “Any organization whose Web site includes the claim by members to expose the ‘corruption which permeates the military system’ is not a neutral observer.” Indicative of the disregard for fairness and objectivity, the soldier “testimonies” posted on its Web site include no dates and no specifics, but are anonymous charges the military cannot investigate – or refute.</p>
<p>B’Tselem, created to “change Israeli policy in the occupied territories” and to monitor treatment of Palestinians there, has produced strikingly skewed and false categorizing of Palestinian casualties. The group has included terrorists such as Abdul Salaam Sadek Hassouneh, who murdered six at a Bat Mitzvah celebration in 2002, as “civilians” killed by Israel. Similar distortions minimizing violence against Israelis color much of B’Tselem’s work.</p>
<p>Gisha pursues legal measures against Israel charging “segregation” and has signed ads alleging Israel is an apartheid regime. Its reports minimize or ignore entirely the threats against Israel.</p>
<p>And so it goes with all the groups.</p>
<p>Yet the <em>Times</em> promotes their message and their standing, presenting them as mainstream, credible, worthy sources. Indeed, the paper avoids identifying their political hue, which is uniformly well to the left, if not radical. In <em>Times</em> parlance, they are merely Israeli “human rights groups.” Only once, for example, was any tagged correctly as an “Israeli leftist advocacy group” – and this not in a news story, but a summary brief. Perhaps accidentally.</p>
<p>Nor is this pattern regarding political labels applied consistently across the political spectrum. For example, on the few occasions when the Jerusalem  Center for Public Affairs has been quoted, the think tank has repeatedly been termed “conservative.”</p>
<p>Given all this, the absence of attention to the NIF-Goldstone connection is unsurprising, if journalistically indefensible.</p>
<p>The New Israel Fund must, moreover, be grateful for the <em>Times</em> silence; its American donors generally believe they contribute to the betterment of life for rape victims and battered women, for the enhancement of the environment and the strengthening of Israeli education. Most would not likely be happy learning NIF-funded publications had a hand in the Goldstone Report and smear Israel as an apartheid regime.</p>
<p>Most would probably not be contributors if they knew that, according to NGO-Monitor’s Anne Herzberg, there are NIF-funded groups that “demonize Israel at the UN, support boycott and divestment campaigns, promote ‘lawfare’ cases against Israeli officials and even advocate erasing the Jewish character of the state.”</p>
<p>Regrettably, the paper’s affinity for NIF-funded groups that blame Israel for the conflict and related problems is matched by its lack of attention to the genocidal demonizing of Israel in Palestinian society and the wider Arab world. Unmentioned in its pages, for instance, was a recent translation from Arabic by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) of yet another screed by a Muslim preacher in Nablus who calls Jews Nazis, exhorts his flock to kill all Jews and says:</p>
<blockquote><p>Palestine was subjected to a loathsome occupation of its land and holy places by these neo-Mongols, who perpetrated, on this holy, blessed, and pure land, acts of killing, assassination, destruction, expropriation, Judaization, harassment, and the fragmentation of the homeland. (January 29, 2010)</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, a number of NIF groups would agree with much of what the preacher at the Bourin mosque had to say. But that only underscores the need for serious investigation of the New Israel Fund and the many politically extreme grantees enjoying millions of dollars of its largesse.</p>
<p>It underscores too the question about the news judgement of the <em>Times</em>, which has drifted increasingly away from objective reporting on Israel, has promoted its defamers, and continues to ignore the onslaught of Palestinian and broader Arab anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate indoctrination.</p>
<p><em>Andrea Levin is Executive Director and President of CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in </em><em>Middle East</em><em> Reporting in </em><em>America</em><em>.</em></p>
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		<title>Feminist Hawk Rising</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the new associate editor at NewsReal Blog.]]></description>
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<p>Visit <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/category/feminism/#pageTitle" target="_blank"><em>The Feminist Hawks&#8217; Nest</em></a> at <strong><em><a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com">NewsReal Blog</a></em></strong></p>
<p>I would like to introduce everyone to a dear friend of mine. This is Feminist Hawk. She&#8217;s a new associate editor at <strong><em>NewsReal Blog</em></strong>. She&#8217;s in charge of editing our new <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/category/feminism#pageTitle" target="_blank"><em>Feminist Hawks&#8217; Nest</em></a> sub-blog.</p>
<p>Feminist Hawk was created by my friend, the <a href="http://fawstin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">extraordinary artist Bosch Fawstin</a>, creator of Pigman and author of such works as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Table-One-Bosch-Fawstin/dp/0974955809" target="_blank"><em>Table for One</em></a>, <a href="http://fawstin.blogspot.com/2009/03/propiganda-drawing-line-against-jihad.html" target="_blank"><em>Propiganda</em></a>, and the forthcoming series <em>The Infidel</em>. He and I collaborated on the basics of her look and design but most of the credit for the success of her belongs to Bosch. There are several images of Feminist Hawk that Bosch has created that we&#8217;ll be unveiling and using for different purposes. (And maybe if Feminist Hawk really starts to take flight then we&#8217;ll be able to get Bosch to create some more.)</p>
<div style="width: 190px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Feminism-Struggle-Womens-Freedom/dp/1403975108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1267300526&amp;sr=8-1"><img class=" " style="margin: 3px 8px;" title="The Death of Feminism" src="http://newsrealblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/death.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="273" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">One of the most important Feminist Hawk books by the single most important Feminist Hawk author.</p></div>
<p>What does it mean to be a Feminist Hawk? Why do we use that term? The meme originates in a single issue: Islamofascist misogyny. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23FOB-medium-t.html" target="_blank">This <em>New York Times</em> article</a> identified David Horowitz and <em>FrontPage Magazine</em> as examples of Feminist Hawks. According to the <em>Times</em>&#8216; piece to be a Feminist Hawk was to take a hard line on Islamist regimes because of the Muslim world&#8217;s mistreatment of women. The Godmother of Feminist Hawkdom, Dr. Phyllis Chesler, was unfortunately not mentioned &#8212; an unacceptable injustice akin to ignoring Albert Einstein were one talking about physics &#8212; though <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/08/24/feminist-hawks-unite/" target="_blank">she wrote about it here in a must-read essay</a> which further defined the term. Robert Spencer, another crucial figure in this developing movement, also blogged about it <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/08/ny-times-notices-that-hawkish-sites-have-taken-up-feminism.html" target="_blank">here and listed numerous articles he&#8217;d written on the subject</a>.</p>
<p>At <strong><em>NewsReal Blog</em></strong> we want this to only be the starting point for what it means to be a Feminist Hawk. To be a Femininst Hawk is not only to champion this vital cause but also to adopt a style and an attitude. Feminist Hawks are confident, aggressive, and confrontational. They fight and will not be bullied. And our Feminist Hawk superheroine is meant to both symbolize and inspire these sentiments.</p>
<p>And just as <strong><em>NewsRealBlog&#8217;s</em></strong> big brother <em><a href="http://discoverthenetworks.org/" target="_blank">Discover The Networks</a> </em>seeks to reclaim the word <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=102&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">&#8220;liberal&#8221;</a> from the leftists who have hijacked it, <em>The Feminist Hawks&#8217; Nest</em> seeks to take back &#8220;feminist&#8221; from the Marxists who have stolen it. Who are the real liberals today? Who are the real feminists? Those on the Right who stand up for the rights of all persons, not just those of an &#8220;oppressed&#8221; political constituency.</p>
<p><a href="http://newsrealblog.com/category/feminism#pageTitle" target="_blank"><em>The Feminist Hawks&#8217; Nest</em></a> is <strong><em>NewsReal Blog</em></strong>&#8216;s sub-blog devoted to exploring these themes. Posts relating to Islamic misgoyny, feminism, and conservative women will appear here. It features every NRB commentary &#8212; no matter the subject &#8212; by some of our bloggers who most embody this spirit: Jeanette Pryor, Lori Ziganto, Cynthia Yockey, Jenn Q. Public, J.E. Tabler, and Kathy Shaidle. But men can be Feminist Hawks as well. <em>FrontPage Magazine</em>&#8216;s managing editor Jamie Glazov has been a continual advocate of these issues and his rhetorical style certainly fits with the Feminist Hawk mentality.</p>
<p>So please make a point to visit <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/category/feminism#pageTitle" target="_blank"><em>The Feminist Hawks&#8217; Nest</em></a>. And prepare as Feminist Hawk emerges with her talons ready.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/FH-2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-37070" title="FH 2" src="http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/FH-2-1024x743.png" alt="" width="614" height="446" /></a>Click <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/28/feminist-hawk-now-is-not-the-time-for-women-to-go-to-sleep/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/28/feminist-hawks-comment-of-the-day-ayn-rand-in-the-nest/" target="_blank">here</a> for the first two posts by Feminist Hawk. Click <a href="http://twitter.com/feministhawk" target="_blank">here</a> to follow Feminist Hawk on Twitter.</p>
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		<title>Identifying the Gitmo Nine &#8211; Washington Times</title>
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<p><strong><em>Washington Times</em> Editorial </strong></p>
<p>Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. seems to have a bizarre urge to stick his finger in the eyes of congressmen. On subject after sub-</p>
<p>ject, he has refused to give substantive answers to basic, straightforward congressional inquiries. In the latest instance, Mr. Holder&amp;apos;s obstinacy could put national security at risk.</p>
<p>This page reported in an exclusive last November that Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the Justice Department&amp;apos;s third-ranking official, recused himself on at least 39 cases of terrorist detainees &#8211; presumably because his former law firm did work for those detainees, even if Mr. Perrelli himself did not. Our report came in the context of a Senate hearing where Mr. Holder dismissively treated requests from Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, for the Justice Department to provide a list of all detainee cases from which Justice Department lawyers were recused, and the names of the lawyers.</p>
<p>On Feb. 19, after three months of stalling, Holder aide Ronald Welch finally deigned to respond to Mr. Grassley. &#8220;I asked for names, cases and recusals, and in return I received a five-page letter of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo that failed to sufficiently answer my simple questions,&#8221; said Mr. Grassley. Mr. Welch told the senator that at least nine lawyers at the department either represented detainees or worked on amicus briefs on detainees&amp;apos; behalf. But he didn&amp;apos;t name the lawyers (other than two already identified by Mr. Grassley), or the cases or other relevant information.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/25/identifying-the-gitmo-nine/">EDITORIAL: Identifying the Gitmo Nine &#8211; Washington Times</a>.</p>
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		<title>Cheney Released from Hospital &#8211; Washington Times</title>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Former Vice President Dick Cheney left a Washington hospital on Wednesday following a heart attack he suffered earlier in the week.</p>
<p>Spokesman Peter Long said Cheney was discharged from George Washington University Hospital and feeling good. &#8220;He will resume his normal schedule shortly,&#8221; Long said of Cheney, who has remained an active player in Republican politics.</p>
<p>The 69-year-old Cheney was hospitalized Monday after experiencing chest pains.</p>
<p><a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/24/cheney-released-hospital/" target="_blank">Read the rest at the Washington Times</a></p>
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		<title>The Times Finds A Lone Crazed Assassin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Collier]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Grey Lady won't tell you about professor Amy Bishop.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/">Newsreal</a></strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em></em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<title>Thomas Joscelyn: Amnesty International Stands by Jihadist &#8211; The Weekly Standard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International is at a crossroads. One path leads to a continued relationship with an admitted jihadist. The other is guided by an Amnesty official who has been outspoken in her criticism of Amnesty’s relationship with the jihadist. Thus far, Amnesty has chosen to stand by the jihadist – and chastise the whistleblower. In recent [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amnesty International is at a crossroads. One path leads to a continued relationship with an admitted jihadist. The other is guided by an Amnesty official who has been outspoken in her criticism of Amnesty’s relationship with the jihadist.</p>
<p>Thus far, Amnesty has chosen to stand by the jihadist – and chastise the whistleblower.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, the human rights organization has been criticized by one of its own officials for its relationship with Moazzam Begg – a former Gitmo detainee who has openly espoused jihadist views – as well as Begg’s organization, Cage Prisoners.</p>
<p>Begg has taken part in Amnesty’s campaign to close Gitmo, including trying to convince some European nations to take in more Gitmo detainees. But earlier this month, the Sunday Times (UK) reported that Gita Sahgal, the head of Amnesty’s gender unit, had complained about the relationship with Begg for two years to no avail.</p>
<p>So, Sahgal went public with her criticisms after penning an email to other Amnesty officials on January 30.  “I believe the campaign fundamentally damages Amnesty International’s integrity and, more importantly, constitutes a threat to human rights,” Sahgal wrote, according to the Times.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/amnesty-international-stands-jihadist">Amnesty International Stands by Jihadist | The Weekly Standard</a>.</p>
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