victory of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in the presidential straw poll

Why did Paul, a former Libertarian candidate who sees dark conspiracies in the Federal Reserve and other places , beat GOP stars like Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty and even Sarah Palin?

Paul has called for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, slammed AIPAC “control” of U.S. policy and said Israeli policy on Gaza amounts to keeping Palestinians in a “concentration camp.” Paul has also opposed Iran sanctions, a top priority of most pro-Israel groups.

via jewish-politics-ny.com

Results of this year's poll were announced just as the crowd prepared for the conference's keynote speaker, Fox News host Glenn Beck.

via foxnews.com

consider this: if Ron Paul were as anti-Islam as he is anti-Israel, he would not have been in CPAC, and his perspective would not have
been represented. Instead of coming together on our basic core values and
circling the wagons on the fundamentals -- national security, small government,
low taxes, and the freedom of speech -- the floundering, fleshy, unfocused CPAC
leadership had a circus of the fringe.

There’s nothing conservative about soft-pedaling jihad. This
was CPAC? Or was it the Islamist repackaging of the conservative movement?

Every year CPAC gets progressively worse. Silly, even. Is it

hard to believe that this year’s CPAC was co-opted by Paulian bots?

CPAC 2010 was like CPAC 2009 in that it had nothing

addressing the war we are engaged in and the enemy threat doctrine. That again
was why I held my event there. Stealth jihadist Grover Norquist and his soldier of Allah Suhail Khan seem to be in charge at CPAC -- no CPAC event goes on that doesn't reflect their perspective. Norquist and Khan are serving the
purposes of the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamic organization that
has infiltrated the U.S. government and media to such an extent (as Stephen
Coughlin explained at our CPAC event) that it controls the information and
dissemination of everything you see, hear, and read on Islam -- unless you do
your own research, your own study, and frequent blogs like mine and Robert Spencer’s.

via atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

Our Islamist Envoy

Hussain: Wrong choice for OIC. AFP/Getty Images/Newscom View Enlarged Image

Infiltration: What a tangled web Islamist appointees weave. When his pro-terrorist quotes surfaced, a new White House envoy dismissed them as someone else's. A recording says otherwise.

Now Rashad Hussain, President Obama's pick as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has changed his story. He admits he did indeed call the indictment of a now-convicted terrorist a "travesty of justice."

Politico.com has provided the quotes from a recording of the 2004 event attended by Hussain to the White House for review. In it, Hussain defended confessed terrorist Sami Al-Arian, suggesting the government had railroaded him. A Florida professor, Al-Arian was running a U.S. beachhead for Palestinian terrorists. In a plea deal, he copped to a reduced charge of conspiracy to provide material support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a federally designated terror group. In a speech at a Cleveland mosque, Al-Arian once thundered: "Let's damn America, let's damn Israel, let's damn their allies until death."

When the controversy first broke, the White House deferred to the spin of Hussain and the Mideast outfit that scrubbed the offending statements from its Web site. Turns out the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, a Saudi-tied, anti-Israel journal that sells Intifada trinkets, deleted his remarks after receiving a phone call from Hussain. WRMEA once employed Al-Arian's daughter as a staffer. Thanks to the recording, there's now no denying what Hussain said. After this deception, Obama should change his pick for envoy, who would join the OIC, a 57-government Islamic bloc, the largest voting bloc in the U.N.

The OIC is waging an international campaign against "Islamophobia," calling it the real "terrorism." The bloc's assault on free speech includes pressuring the West into passing laws criminalizing criticism of Islam, including motives of jihadists like Al-Arian.

It's plain that Hussain, who also has bashed the Patriot Act and other key anti-terror tools, cannot be trusted to represent U.S. interests vis-a-vis the OIC.

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Last Chance of Survival

In the summer of 2011, it will have been 18 years since the Oslo Accords were signed by Shimon Peres, secretly and without the knowledge of the Israeli public whose rights to their own land were being signed away. The accord was based on meetings by left wing academics with terrorists that were illegal under Israeli law, signed covertly by a disgraced politician who had been an admirer of Marx and finally sealed with a public handshake between the world's greatest terrorist and an Israeli Prime Minister suffering from such severe dementia that he had trouble recognizing the man beaming down on them both as the President of the United States, who 5 years later would be facing impeachment.

That handshake with Arafat took place on September 13th, 8 years minus 2 days, before terrorists would duplicate a feat that only Arafat's own terrorists had previously accomplished, by simultaneously hijacking 4 aircraft. Even as the United States had begun pandering to Arafat, the rise of the next wave of terrorism was already underway with Bin Laden hard at work on the organization that would evolve into the Al Queda we know today. The Oslo Accords would play a crucial role in the rise of Islamist terrorism creating a vacuum into which the Muslim Brotherhood could step into with groups such as Hamas and Al Queda. And the Oslo Accords would also come to define Israel's worst defeat since the accords it had signed with Rome over two thousand years ago.
Now as that fateful 18 year mark approaches, there is still a crack in the door remaining through which Israel can save itself. In Hebrew the word for life is Chai, whose letters code as 18. And eighteen years after the scourge of Oslo has brought war and death into the heart of Israel, turned its town and cities into targets for missiles, made its roads into highways of death and now threatens to divide Jerusalem itself-- Israel has the chance to choose life over death by appeasement.

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With evidence lacking against Israel now the BBC points the finger at all Jews around the world

The common language of these terrorists and their enablers are that they hate Zionists and not Jews, but now it is very obvious that isn't just Israel that they hate when they start accusing diaspora Jewery.

A terrorist is assassinated and the defrauding business of Dubai attempts to libel Jews. How would publishing the photos and information in the case help find the suspects? Dubai isn't interested in resolving the case at all and is merely waging a public relations war. As for the death of a re-known terrorist I hope Israel did kill him, but is it not premature to hand out the blame? Even if the blame does not stick... now these forces are looking to indict Jews around the world.

As self-righteous uproar against Israel rises in Britain over Mossad’s supposed use of stolen British passport identities for the hit-squad which assassinated senior Hamas operative Mahmoud Mabhouh, one or two solitary voices have been trying to introduce a little realism into this latest excuse for frighteningly unhinged Israel-bashing (see the newspaper comment threads, from the moment Dubai published the passport details, for the eruption of a hatred that seizes any and every opportunity to give vent to this bigotry). Tom Gross (who has circulated the picture above of one of Mabhouh's victims, a child murdered by a Hamas missile in Sderot) has written an excellent resumé of the madness (this article being a notable exception), pointing out that much of the British media in particular has jumped to the conclusion that this was indeed a Mossad operation even though there is a possibility that Israel may have been set up.

Some of this coverage surely amounts to incitement to racial hatred. Douglas Murray draws attention here to the astonishing suggestion broadcast on BBC Radio Four’s PM programme that

up to one million Jews worldwide might be on hand to assist Mossad in executions

a claim which turns every Jew in the diaspora into a potential suspected killer and thus a target for hatred and violence. In my view this claim should be brought to the attention of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
If the Dubai hit was a Mossad operation, it would appear at first blush to have been remarkably incompetent; since the Mossad would obviously have realised that their every move was being recorded on Dubai’s omnipresent security cameras, to have laid a trail to lead straight back to Israel like this appears bafflingly sloppy. And to use the identities of people now living as immigrants in Israel is perplexing.
On the other hand, the Jerusalem Post reports that Israel had very good reason for wanting Mabhouh dead, so much so that it may have factored in the all-too likely repercussions:

A diplomatic fallout with London, caused by the use of forged UK passports, seems a very real possibility if UK authorities officially blame Israeli intelligence for the Dubai slaying. But such a development would surely have been factored into any decision to take Mabhouh out. The diplomatic friction now building up would have been deemed bearable before any go-ahead was given for the killing....According to reports, Mabhouh oversaw the smuggling of Iranian long-range rockets into Gaza, enabling Hamas to threaten the densely populated Gush Dan region, home to more than three million Israelis and the scene of the country’s financial hub.

Only in Britain could the eradication of someone who was planning to murder untold numbers of innocents (Tom Gross reports he was apparently en route to procure Iranian missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv from Gaza) be deemed worthy of censure by western hypocrites. If, apart from eradicating a terrorist before he could further assist mass murder, the operation was intended to give a message to bad guys everywhere that they will be successfully hunted down, it was a striking success for whoever carried it out – so much so that if Israel was not behind this, it would undoubtedly want its enemies to think that it was. As for the British and Irish passport-holders whose identities were purloined for the hit:

... the olim [immigrants] who found their names on the Dubai police’s wanted list will not encounter great difficulties in clearing their names, since most of the details in the forged documents were changed from the originals. The assassins apparently went to great lengths to ensure that the olim could distance themselves from the incident, changing passport numbers, inserting bogus middle names and altering dates of birth.
... The Gulf state, keen to preserve its name as a neutral financial haven, free from the violent woes that afflict other parts of the Middle East, has gone out of its way to try and embarrass the assassins and those who sent them. Such efforts, presumably, would have been foreseen by the mission’s planners as a possible outcome, and deemed acceptable.

Certainly, Dubai seems to have gone to great lengths to incriminate Israel. Why, after all, did it publish the passport details like this? If it wanted to catch the real agents, this was hardly going to advance this aim for which it obviously needed merely to go through the usual channels of inter-state police and intelligence agencies. Dubai is now going out of its way to point the finger at Israel, with its police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim calling upon Interpol to issue a ‘Red Notice’ to arrest the head of Mossad.
There are many unanswered questions arising from Dubai’s claims. It is possible that Israel was responsible alone for this operation; it is possible that it was not involved and it is being set up; it is possible that Mossad was one of a number of state actors which are now setting up Israel alone to take the rap. Who knows?
Only the British media, it seems, for whom Israel is always guilty of bad deeds.

via spectator.co.uk h/t via docstalk.blogspot.com

Sickening that people around the world aren't shouting foul at the BBC who is showing their true NAZI colors. No Godwin's so called law need apply. Hunting for accusations against global Jewery is no longer merely an accusation against Israel.

BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, is one of the world's largest media institutions, disseminating news via television, radio and the Web. The BBC provides information in English, as well as 42 other languages, and has a global network of correspondents.

FEBRUARY 1, 2010 Stephen Sizer Complains to Police About Blogger JANUARY 21, 2010 BBC Panorama Distorts the Facts About Jerusalem JANUARY 5, 2010 BBC Removes Misinformation on US, Israel, Geneva Convention AUGUST 25, 2009 Updated: BBC Corrects Misrepresentation of Israeli Politician's Proposal AUGUST 6, 2009 An Inside Look at the BBC Ruling Against Jeremy Bowen AUGUST 5, 2009 BBC Corrects: Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini Targeted All Jews, Not Only Immigrants JULY 17, 2009 Breaking the Silence and the British Media MAY 7, 2009 UK’s Independent Defends Unethical Journalism APRIL 15, 2009 Press Release on Key BBC Ruling Against Mideast Editor Jeremy Bowen MARCH 27, 2009 Charges of IDF "Wanton Killing" Crumble FEBRUARY 20, 2009 BBC Acknowledges Mistaken Reference to Holiest Jewish Site FEBRUARY 4, 2009 The McGirk Affair: Claims of Cold-Blooded Executions Not Credible JANUARY 23, 2009 Updated: UN Agency Condemns Israel, Enables Terror JANUARY 6, 2009 Norwegian Doctors in Gaza: Objective Observers or Partisan Propagandists? JANUARY 2, 2009 In Gaza Conflict, Context is Key NOVEMBER 26, 2008 BBC’s Web Site Conveys an Anti-Israel Message NOVEMBER 5, 2008 UPDATED: Mohammed Omer's Allegations Raise Questions AUGUST 28, 2008 BBC Corrects Misrepresentation of Iran Nuclear Program JULY 2, 2008 Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem: Bias in Euro Headlines JUNE 12, 2008 BBC's Mark Urban Feeds anti-Israel Prejudice MARCH 13, 2008 FoxNews Cites CAMERA on BBC's Fake Footage MARCH 11, 2008 BBC Corrects False Report FEBRUARY 26, 2008 Selective Reporting by the BBC FEBRUARY 5, 2008 The BBC and the Bombers in Dimona AUGUST 17, 2007 BBC Amends Faulty Article on Iraqi Jews, Acknowledges Farhud JULY 11, 2007 BBC Radio Adopts the Arab Narrative of the Six-Day-War JUNE 13, 2007 Border-line Improvement at BBC "Obstacles" Series JUNE 10, 2007 BBC: Obstacle to Understanding on Refugees JUNE 10, 2007 BBC: Obstacle to Understanding on Water JUNE 7, 2007 BBC Web Site Pushes Arab Narrative of Six-Day War MAY 31, 2007 BBC: Obstacle to Understanding on Jerusalem JANUARY 15, 2007 BBC Editor Sets Tone for Biased Reporting JANUARY 3, 2007 B'Tselem's Annual Casualty Figures Questioned DECEMBER 2, 2006 UPDATE: Peace Now Map Based Only on Palestinian Claims SEPTEMBER 7, 2006 Questioning the Number of Civilian Casualties in Lebanon JULY 29, 2006 BBC Headline Falsely Charges Beirut Airport “Destroyed” JULY 28, 2006 A BBC Fable JULY 17, 2006 BBC Does Not Give "Full and Fair Account" of Middle East Conflict JUNE 29, 2006 BBC News or BBC Propaganda? JUNE 29, 2006 Update on Media Coverage of Prisoners' Document JUNE 12, 2006 Israel Should Not Be Presumed Guilty of Gaza Beach Deaths APRIL 6, 2006 CAMERA ALERT: BBC's Hardtalk Host Harangues Halevy with Hostile Questions MARCH 10, 2006 BBC Partially Revises Biased Timeline on Web site DECEMBER 19, 2005 Truth Elusive in BBC’s (and PBS's) The Elusive Peace NOVEMBER 28, 2005 CAMERA Prompts BBC Correction on Rafah NOVEMBER 4, 2005 On BBC Website, Israeli Noise More Serious than Palestinian Terrorism SEPTEMBER 13, 2005 Media Excuses Palestinian Destruction of Synagogues MAY 12, 2005 BBC Correspondent Demonstrates Bias MARCH 21, 2005 BBC and Ha'aretz Journalist Whitewash Palestinian Incitement FEBRUARY 18, 2005 BBC Admits to Mistakes, Apologizes DECEMBER 15, 2004 Hamas Preacher Says BBC Correspondent is 'Hamas Man' JULY 26, 2004 Can the BBC Change? MARCH 3, 2004 BBC-WATCH: BBC Jerusalem Correspondent Misleads on Settlements FEBRUARY 2, 2004 BBC WATCH: BBC's Outdated Map Misleads JANUARY 29, 2004 BBC Under Fire DECEMBER 24, 2003 BBC-WATCH: Palestinians Attack Egyptian, But BBC Blames Israel NOVEMBER 7, 2003 BBC Questions Israel's Legitimacy OCTOBER 27, 2003 BBC-WATCH: BBC on Oslo OCTOBER 9, 2003 BBC-WATCH: News Hour Provides Platform for Attack on Israel OCTOBER 1, 2003 Double Standards in Headlines SEPTEMBER 18, 2003 BBC-WATCH: Julian Marshall Shows Disdain SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 BBC-WATCH: BBC's Warped Timeline SEPTEMBER 1, 2003 BBC Shapes 'News' to Fit Views AUGUST 26, 2003 BBC-WATCH: BBC Injects Anti-Israel Focus in Baghdad-U.N. Story AUGUST 22, 2003 BBC-WATCH: BBC Touts Hamas Line AUGUST 20, 2003 BBC-WATCH: BBC Blames Israel Again AUGUST 15, 2003 BBC-WATCH: The BBC on Egyptian Anti-Semitism AUGUST 15, 2003 New Web Feature: CAMERA Inaugurates BBC-Watch and Washington Post-Watch FEBRUARY 5, 2003 BBC's Profiles Obscure Reality DECEMBER 5, 2002 BBC's News Misjudgement NOVEMBER 26, 2002 The World Reports Objectively on Christian Support for Israel JULY 1, 2002 The World's Version of Mideast History NOVEMBER 16, 2001 EYE ON THE MEDIA: Return of the British Mandate OCTOBER 22, 2001 BBC Softpedals Terrorism OCTOBER 8, 2001 The BBC, the British Press, and the Attack on America OCTOBER 5, 2001 BACKGROUNDER: Jewish Settlements and the Media JULY 12, 2001 CAMERA Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal European Edition: "The Real Story on Israel" JUNE 1, 2001 A Look at BBC's Headlines MAY 24, 2001 BBC Correspondent Actively Supports Palestinian War Against Israel APRIL 19, 2001 More One-Sided Reporting by CNN, Reuters and BBC MARCH 30, 2001 EYE ON THE MEDIA: The BBC Goes to War NOVEMBER 12, 2000 BBC Provides Platform for Palestinian Propaganda OCTOBER 22, 2000 BBC Reporter Beaten by Palestinian Mob OCTOBER 12, 2000 Media Update on Temple Mount Riots NOVEMBER 6, 1998 CAMERA OP-ED: Seeing Through the BBC JUNE 26, 1997 Media Err on Jerusalem and Israel To view the corrected, uncorrected and dismal corrections on BBC, click below: Corrected

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Defense Minister lets Hamas deposit nearly NIS 300 million in Bank of Israel

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has signed a document allowing Hamas in Gaza to deposit approximately NIS 282.5 million ($75 million) in the Bank of Israel. The reason for the deposit is that Hamas smugglers don't accept Shekels so Hamas needs a way to convert them into other currencies. read the rest at israelmatzav.blogspot.com

Gates of Vienna: Europe Moving Away from Freedom of Speech

FT is a Finn who writes from time to time for Europe News. He published an article a few days ago about the EU’s Framework Decision, which threatens to curtail free speech in the name of “community harmony” — i.e., not offending Muslims.

We’ve written about the Framework Decision here before, and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff talked about it at the FDI event last week. However, WFT feels that the issue could do with more exposure. He says:

The Framework Decision on which Austria and Finland are basing their law-proposals is EU-wide and affects the whole of Europe, as it will be implemented in EU countries at the end of this year. Austria has been on the map on GoV, but Finland — which along with Austria is on the front lines of this war — has been less prominent, and the consequences for Europe of the EU-mandated law upgrade also perhaps not covered as much.

We’re happy to oblige. Below is the entire article that was originally published at Europe News.

Europe Moving Away from Freedom of Speech
By WFT

This is a follow-up to the article of November 3rd last year Finland moving away from Freedom of Speech. Less than three months later, the title of that piece is more true than ever. But unfortunately it doesn’t stop there — hence the gloomier title in this piece.

Previously I wrote that “along with Austria, Finland is moving away from Freedom of Speech”, because of the similarities between the court-cases of the Austrian politician, Susanne Winters, and the Finnish politician, Jussi Halla-aho: Both of them politicians who have been charged, and sentenced, for publicly expressing a political opinion, in which they connect Islam with paedophilia.

Sadly the similarities between Austria and Finland go far beyond these two individual court-cases, as both Austria and Finland seem to be eagerly in the front line of what seems to be a campaign to basically end freedom of speech in Europe.

Both Austria and Finland are proposing a law which seems to be intended to end Freedom of Speech in these countries not gradually, but on the spot.

Both of these proposals have gained attention only recently, although at least the Finnish law proposal has been well on it’s way since summer 2009, when Finnish Minister of Justice Tuija Brax set out a committee to get the Finnish laws concerned with preventing racist and xenophobic crimes in the internet, up to date.

And what caused this sudden need to update these laws in Finland?

One might expect a long story about growing racist tendencies in Finland, or something else that sounds as alarming, but actually the answer is surprisingly dry: The actual reason is the EU Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA [pdf] (or, in Finnish 2008/913/YOS) which is, in short, about …combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.

Unfortunately, at least those who are in Finland, need to know the name of yet another document, namely the Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, made in Strasbourg in 2003, which, in short, is about criminalization of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems.

Based on these two documents, the committee came out with the 116-page long law proposal, which, in fact, is a direct attack against the fundamental values of Freedom of Speech, and so, against the fundamental values of democracy:

If the proposed changes into the law will be made, the looseness of the definitions of racism and xenophobia will allow the state to prosecute virtually anybody about virtually anything.

Because both of the law proposals have come to my attention only very recently, I won’t go into the details of either one. But concerning the Finnish proposition, what can generally be said is that the main focus of this proposition is on racist or xenophobic statements, rather than actions.

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The main concern of the proposition is clearly the racist and xenophobic statements in the internet, but concerns are also stated about politicians, journalists, artists, and even scientists.

If the law passes, it doesn’t matter if you are a scientist publishing a scientific study, an artist displaying your art, a journalist reporting about relevant issues in society, a politician stating your political opinion, or just a regular citizen writing in the internet — anything you do that is not completely in harmony with the multicultural agenda might be seen as racism and xenophobia, and you’ll have good chances to be charged.

And while you’re holding that lovely thought about the very possible near-future scenario of everyday-life Finland, keep in mind that the proposed maximum sentence for a racist or xenophobic crime will be up to four years of imprisonment.

And by near future, we’re talking this year. If everything goes as planned, this proposition will be implemented and fully functioning before summer, or latest at fall.

The bad news is that this not just about Finland or Austria: All the countries in the European Union are bound to update their laws according to the Framework Decision by 28. November this year.

What it means is that after November, a racist or xenophobic motivation will be a legal factor in the courts of all the EU-countries and so, by the end of this year, thought-crime will be reality in Europe.

Sure, intention has been a factor in the law for ages, but concerning actions, not statements.

Concerning actions, an intent might make the charges more serious — like in the case of deliberated murder — but here we are talking about something completely different: In the Finnish law proposal, racist motivation becomes a crime in itself.

It means that even if you would have a website or a blog where you simply collect news about Islam and display them publicly, if you are seen to have a racist motivation in doing that, it becomes a crime.

Now, one might think that example above is not really correct, since Islam is not a race, but don’t worry, that’s of course been taken care of.

The Framework Decision states that if going against a religion is seen as an excuse to go against the ethnicity of a certain group, it becomes a racist crime: In other words, if you criticize a religion whose majority is composed of people who are ethnically not white, it may set off the racist-alarm.

Oh yeah, and you don’t even need to wait for somebody from this religion or ethnical group to actually get offended, as it is also stated in the Framework Decision that the state should be eager to find and prosecute these cases on its own, on the grounds that people who are subject to racist crimes are “often particularly vulnerable and reluctant to initiate legal proceeding”.

So, although Austria, Finland, and now Holland have all shown unusual vigor in using their legal system to muffle politicians who are criticizing Islam, rest of Europe might not be too far behind.

As always with vague laws, the question is of course how these laws will be implemented.

Considering the politically correct atmosphere in Europe and the western world in general, the answers that come to mind are not very optimistic.

via gatesofvienna.blogspot.com

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Netanyahu leads the way

Israel today has the largest Jewish community in the world. We’re fast approaching six million souls and we’re fast approaching a point where the majority of the Jews will live in the land of Israel. That has not happened since the days of the Second Temple. That is, in one sense, good news and it will happen very shortly, but in another sense, it reflects not merely the growth and the development of Israel – the absorption of millions of immigrants from all over the world including over a million from the Former Soviet Union – and the naturally high growth rate of the Israeli population – very high – I think it’s the highest or among the highest in the developed countries, in developed economies – and that is a reflection of an inner – by the way – secular and religious alike – religious more, secular very high, very high, compared to say our counterparts in Western Europe – very, very high. And there is a natural life force in the Jewish people in response, I think, to the Holocaust – an enduring, lingering response to the Holocaust and to the wars of Israel and to our natural impetus to ensure that the Jewish people survive beyond the personal calculation and consideration that every family makes. So that is the good side and the robust nature of the Israeli economy, the development of the Israeli state, the Israeli society, the Israeli economy, Israeli technology – the capacity not merely to increase our numbers but to increase our productivity well beyond our numbers – to increase our economy, our GDP per capita well beyond the growth rate of our numbers – this is all good news.

The bad news is that we have steadily eroded as a people. The commitment of our young people – the Jewish people – have frayed at the edges, but there was a concomitant development which I think was important, and that is a concentration – a consolidation at the vibrant center including the Diaspora that says we should reverse this. And the most important thing which has happened in the last decade has been the conscious effort of the Diaspora first, and then Israel second, joining it pretty early on, to try to reverse the forces of the loss of identity through such programs as Masa and Taglit and the fostering of Jewish education, the study of Hebrew. These are conscious efforts to arrest the tide of loss of identity and we should continue them – we should increase them. We – I mean as a partnership between the Jewish people outside of Israel and the Jewish State of Israel, between the Jewish Agency and the Government of Israel and any other organization that seeks to support this important effort. We’re committed to this.

Read the whole speech at israpundit.com

Missile Defense-Dept. of Defense changes logo to a Obama-Islamic cresent hybrid

...flying bacon for the Moonbats?

Missile Defense-Dept. of Defense changes logo to a Obama-Islamic cresent hybrid

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h/t Christopher Logan