Romania says it will stand by Israel in event of conflict with Iran

Romania says it will stand by Israel in event of conflict with Iran
Romanian President Traian Basescu tells President Shimon Peres his country will stand by Israel if it attacks Iran.
By The Associated Press
Romania's president said Thursday his country will be a loyal partner of Israel and NATO in the event of a conflict with Iran, but added that he hopes the dispute can be solved through diplomacy and sanctions.
"We hope that the sanctions imposed by the Security Council of the U.N. will create the correct solution in Tehran, not digging graves for American soldiers but starting transparent negotiations," said President Traian Basescu standing next to Israeli President Shimon Peres who is on an official visit to Romania.
Basescu told reporters if a conflict broke out with Iran, "Romania will be a loyal partner of NATO ... and a loyal partner of Israel. The two leaders earlier talked for an hour about a range of topics including Iran."
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good to know Israel still has friends

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Gulf State Arabs Buy Up Galilee Lands

Jewish Rights Compromised By Free Market - Atlas Shrugged, but he's got Dandruff
So my Jewish friends on the right... and your complete free market view... how do you defend us from this? Could it be that a free market is not just? Don't you think some regulation is valid here? I'm waiting for the Right Wing Blogosphere to answer me on this...  people who confuse free market theory as their religion deserve to lose their birthright. I got a bowl of soup to sell you

Wealthy foreign Arabs have bought up hundreds of dunams of land in the Galilee, according to a report broadcast Saturday on Voice of Israel government radio. The land, which was owned privately and which was zoned for agricultural use, was sold due to economic hardship.
The buyers were wealthy citizens of Arab states in the Persian Gulf that do not have any diplomatic relations with the State of Israel.
Groups of Galilee Jewish farmers who tried to organize a counter-offer failed to raise enough money to purchase the land from its owners.
Israeli lands are being sold to the highest bidder.

Agriculture Minister Shalom Simchon said he had no legal authority to intervene in the matter. The Israel Lands Authority, which owns most of the land in Israel, told the radio station it could not stop a transaction involving privately-owned land.
The Knesset last month passed a bill that mandates the sale of 400,000 dunams of the Land of Israel by 2014, the equivalent of 400 square kilometers, or 155 square miles (nearly 99,000 acres). The law allows another 400,000 dunams to be sold after 2014.
Kadima Knesset Member Nachman Shai slammed the same in a news release, saying "Israeli lands are being sold to the highest bidder," just as expected and feared during the vote on land reform.
"The Israel Land Authorities reform is a loophole calling out to the robber, and it will attract, as expected, Arab investors from abroad, who will eventually gain control over significant pieces of land in Israel," Shai said.
Meretz head Chaim Oron also pointed to the sale as proof that the land reform bill had been "misguided."

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YidWithLid?, Pamela Geller? ....come on guys! it didn't work! I'm sure we can get Norquist to write a check to any of you bloggers who can explain this one. Maybe some of the Hezbollah supporters in Michigan that the GOP is ass kissing can explain this if you can't

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Japan Apologizes for WWII Before Obama Can

We figure Obama's TelePrompter was being loaded with the text calling on Americans to hang their heads in collective shame for daring to win World War II. But those sneaky Japanese beat him to the punch and apologized for their unsavory behavior before and during the war.

Asia paused on Sunday to remember Japan's surrender to the Allied forces ending World War II 65 years ago.
The Japanese prime minister apologized for wreaking suffering on the region, and the South Korean president said Tokyo's remorse was a step in the right direction.
From Nanjing, China - the site of a 1937 massacre by Japanese troops - to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which has drawn outrage from Asia for honoring Class A war criminals, people prayed for the millions who died in war and expressed hopes for peace.
The reckoning with history has taken special meaning this year as it comes amid a global effort to realize a world without nuclear weapons, a resolve backed by President Barack Obama. But there were reminders of lingering tensions.
In Seoul, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, dressed in traditional robes, led a ceremony celebrating the liberation of the Korean peninsula from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule with the Aug. 15 surrender. He also urged North Korea to abandon military provocations and make a "courageous change" toward peace.
In Tokyo, at a ceremony for the war dead, Prime Minister Naoto Kan reiterated his apology to South Korea for wartime atrocities, and this time offered his regret to all of Asia.
Last week, Kan offered "deep remorse" in an apology issued ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula on Aug. 29, 1910.
"We caused great damage and suffering to many nations during the war, especially to the people of Asia," Kan said Sunday before a crowd of about 6,000, including Emperor Akihito. "We feel a deep regret, and we offer our sincere feelings of condolence to those who suffered and their families."

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I bet that slap in the face really stings... you deserve it Obama

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Obama Mosque Remarks Reverberate - Muslim leaders will soon back down

After weeks of heated debate over plans for an Islamic community center near Ground Zero - the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York - it seems Muslim leaders will soon back down, agreeing to move to a new site.

The decision follows a high-profile campaign against the project that included advertisements on New York buses showing images of the burning Twin Towers, an iconic landmark razed when al-Qaida terrorists flew packed passenger planes into them in 2001. The New York Republican party is also said to be planning a hostile television campaign.
Sources in New York said on Monday that Muslim religious and business leaders will announce plans to abandon the project in the next few days.
New York Governor David Patterson said last weekend that Muslim leaders had rejected outright his proposal tto swap the site in for another in Manhattan.
But several people familiar with the debate among New York's Islamic activists now claim that the leaders are convinced abandoning the site is preferable to unleashing a wave of bitterness towards Muslims.
They also hope the move will be seen as a show of sensitivity to families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, and to the American public generally.

If only our own president showed some sensitivity to the American public.

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By VICTORIA MCGRANE And SIOBHAN GORMAN

President Barack Obama's weekend remarks supporting the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero reverberated across the country, nationalizing a debate over the New York City project.
A number of Republicans on Sunday folded the president's remarks into their election-year narrative that Mr. Obama, a former constitutional scholar, is out of touch with the American citizenry.
The dispute over the mosque is just the most prominent in a series of debates around the country where Muslim groups have sought to build mosques. In the community of Temecula, Calif., where a proposed mosque has sparked an intense dispute, Mr. Obama's comments spurred a surge of letters to local newspapers decrying his statements. Pastor William Rench of Calvary Baptist Church, next door to the proposed mosque site, said he now expected opposition to the mosque plan to harden.

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"It will galvanize their desire for resistance to the mosque," he said. "It confirms in their minds the idea that Mr. Obama seems to be more accommodating to the Islamic world than he is for the Christian representation in America." Mr. Rench said former President George W. Bush, who also spoke of Islam as a peaceful religion, might have made similar statements, but Mr. Rench said he disagreed with those views.
Mr. Rench said initially he opposed the new mosque next door because he thought such a large structure on two acres would tower over the church. But since he has begun reading more commentary from American Islamic leaders, he said, he has grown concerned about extremist statements such as one imam declaring Islam the "dominant" religion. He said he now worried that a large mosque could attract an extremist crowd in contrast to the current local Muslim community.

U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes members of the U.S. Muslim community to a White House Iftar Muslim dinner and supports the prosposed mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York. Video Courtesy of Reuters.

At a dinner Friday celebrating the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Mr. Obama said Muslims have a right, as a matter of religious freedom, to build a religious center near Ground Zero. "Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," he said to applause.
On Saturday, the president said, "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque" near Ground Zero, he told reporters during a visit to the Gulf Coast. "I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding."
Later Saturday, White House spokesman Bill Burton said the president wasn't backtracking. "The president is not backing off in any way from the comments he made last night," he said. He had no further comment on Sunday.
Backers of local mosque projects welcomed Mr. Obama's comments, but some said he needed to be more forceful in his support for Muslims to build houses of worship.
"He should be more firm about it," said Hadi Nael, chairman of the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley, which is seeking permission to build the new center there. "I know it's political stuff, but he should assure the Muslim community they have the right to build over there."
Still, the weight of the president's words in support of freedom of religion bolster the Islamic Center's efforts, Mr. Nael said. "It will help the case," he said. "I feel very strongly the project will be approved."
The center plans to build a 25,000-square-foot mosque in conservative Riverside County outside of Los Angeles. Opponents have said it will draw extremists and traffic. Plans for a public hearing this month were postponed until November to perform a traffic study.
In Tennessee, where the growing Muslim community wants to build a larger mosque in Murfreesboro, Darrel Whaley of Milton said the president's remarks angered him. A local pastor at Kingdom Ministries Worship Center, Mr. Whaley has spoken at county meetings against plans for the mosque and recreational facilities.
Asked how the president's comments might influence the local debate over the Islamic center, Mr. Whaley said Mr. Obama "didn't help it any, that's for sure." Mr. Whaley said he was concerned that "if Islam comes in with the Sharia law, there's not going to be any such thing as religious freedom."
Recently approved plans to establish a mosque in Sheboygan County, Wis., have also stirred intense feelings. Imam Mohammad Hamad, president of the Islamic Society of Sheboygan, appreciated Mr. Obama's emphasis on religious freedom. "The issue here is not the issue of a religious building, it is an issue of the Constitution," he said. Another Sheboygan mosque supporter, the Rev. Gregory S. Whelton, a pastor at St. John's United Church of Christ in Sheboygan, said Mr. Obama articulated the same issues of religious tolerance that were at stake there.
"It falls right in with the middle of our debate," he said, adding that the local debate centered on religious tolerance and opponents' concerns that the mosque would attract extremists, a notion Rev. Whelton called "really funny."
While he believes Muslims have a right to construct mosques anywhere, the mosque near Ground Zero is different because of the circumstances of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he said. "To do it in light of what has happened," he said, "I'm not sure I would agree with that. But as far as their right to do it, absolutely."
On the national political stage, Mr. Obama's comments drew fire from Republicans. "Why isn't the president spending the time debating about jobs instead of moving into New York" local issues, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) asked on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. Mr. McCarthy also said the president was "insensitive" to what Americans feel on the issue.
Mr. Obama's remarks quickly energized local opponents of the proposed mosque. Gary Berntsen, a New York Republican Senate candidate, fired off a statement Friday criticizing the president's comments. In an interview Sunday, Mr. Berntsen, a former senior Central Intelligence Agency officer who served in Afghanistan, said a mosque near Ground Zero would become a national security risk.
"He missed the point that people found this offensive because it's very, very close to Ground Zero," he said. "That mosque will become a magnet for militants. They will be drawn there in large numbers, and they will seek to impose themselves on that mosque, regardless of who the leaders are."
Conservative blogger Pamela Geller, founder of a group called Stop Islamization of America and a vocal opponent of the mosque near Ground Zero, blasted Mr. Obama in a statement. The president, she said, "has, in effect, sided with the Islamic jihadists."
Write to Victoria McGrane at victoria.mcgrane@dowjones.com and Siobhan Gorman at siobhan.gorman@wsj.com

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paula jo said...

What you don't hear about is the Greek Orthodox Church they are trying to build in the same Neighborhood,running into one roadblock after another from the NYC Government,Guess if their Faith took part in terrorism and preached Jihad from the Church,Obama would back them too.

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Geert Wilders Warning to America

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Israel Removes Security Barrier - Reuters

With improved security in the area since the second Intifada, Israel removes a security barrier around the West Bank settlement town of Gilo.

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not sure I trust Reuters.... but we should make note of it. I sincerely doubt that security is any better.
if you click the label for this post you will see that Reuters is not a media agency.  they are in cahoots with terrorists that attacked an Israeli arbitrarily on the Northern border to Lebanon.  That and a whole history of orchestrated abuse

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Gingrich says Mosque Near Ground Zero Same as Nazi Sign Next To Holocaust Museum

take that Obama! the Leftist idea of Tolerance is a disgrace

New York - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday compared the mosque planned to go up blocks away from ground zero in New York to Nazis protesting next to the Holocaust museum.
Gingrich highlighted the fact that New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson and numerous others have proposed alternative locations for the mosque in arguing that the leaders of the cultural center are “radical Islamists” who want to prove that “they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by Islamists.”
“That’s why they won’t accept any other offer,” he said during an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”
Gingrich then declared that if the mosque is indeed being built as a symbol, which its leaders have repeatedly denied, New York authorities have every right to prevent it from being built.
“We ought to be honest about the fact that we have a right and this happens all the time in America,” he said.

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“Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington,” Gingrich insisted, speaking of the museum where just a year ago a guard was killed by a white supremacist trying to enter the building with a gun.
Gingrich then went on to claim that “we would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.”
“There is no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center,” he said.

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Harvard divests from Israel

According to Globes: (via memeorandum)

In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sale was mentioned. The Harvard Management Company manages Harvard University’s endowment.

The first assumption was that this was the result of political pressure from the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement.
Prof Bainbridge, though, notices that many of the companies from Israel listed were losing money. However that may not even be the real reason as Solomonia notes:

In other words, Israel’s economy is so good it’s no longer considered “developing,” it’s just a category shift…which sounds plausible to me. How much do you want to bet that that’s pretty close to what it’s going to be all about when we start hearing from on the record sources?

Yid with Lid and Israel Matzav have updated their posts accordingly.
In other BDS news, Johnny Rotten disagrees with the movement.

Most musicians, particularly those who have been around for 30 years, wouldn’t let hate mail upset them. They probably wouldn’t even read it. But John’s anger is genuine. He wants me to record it, for posterity. “I really resent the presumption that I’m going there to play to right-wing Nazi jews,” he tells me. “If Elvis-f******-Costello wants to pull out of a gig in Israel because he’s suddenly got this compassion for Palestinians, then good on him. But I have absolutely one rule, right? Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won’t understand how anyone can have a problem with how they’re treated.”

That’s our Johnny Rotten. Always lively. Always entertaining. Often wrong. But, whatever you may think of him, never afraid to stick that bog-brush haircut exuberantly over the parapet.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

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Harvard used to have quotas so it can creatively limit the number of Jews going to the school.

The Harvard Management Company, which manages Harvard University's endowment fund, has given notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sold all of its shares in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sales was given.

Harvard Management Company stated in its 13-F Form that it sold 483,590 shares in Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) for $30.5 million; 52,360 shares in NICE Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: NICE; TASE: NICE) for $1.67 million; 102,940 shares in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP) for $3.6 million; 32,400 shares in Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE:CEL; TASE:CEL) for $1.1 million, and 80,000 Partner Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTNR; TASE: PTNR) shares for $1.8 million.
Harvard Management Company's 13-F Form shows some interesting investments. Its two largest holdings, each worth $295 million, are in iShares ETFs, one on Chinese equities, and the other on emerging markets. Harvard also owns $181 million in a Brazilian ETF.

I hope they lose all their money. Is Bernie Madoff available to invest for them?

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Harvard employs professor Stephen Walt who along with University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer wrote a modern day Protocols of the Elders of Zion called The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (published by Harvard Press), which claimed that the Jews control American foreign policy.

Guess all those grants from Islamic oil money paid off. Middle Eastern Studies departments are epicenters of Jew Hate. Jewish students are physically threatened and intimidated. Harvard refuses to publish images of Mohammad, and Jews looking for religious accommodating dorms are ostracized by the media while their Muslim counterparts are given their needs.

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Israeli economy grows at double the expected rate

More evidence that Obama is an idiot.

In the second quarter of the year the Israeli economy rose 4.7%,  shattering forecasts of 2.9%.   The enormous growth comes after an increase of 3.3% in the previous half of the year and a drop of 1.5% in the first half of last year.

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Stop criticizing and divesting... and start listening to Israel