Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
A Conservative Rabbi’s CUFI Invocation and a Love Offering for Israel
by Jerry Gordon, Israpundit, May 10, 2008
Thursday was Yom Ha’aztma’ut (Israel Independence Day). There were festivities and commemorations across North America, Europe and in Israel. Christians United for Israel (CUFI) held a Night to honor Israel at a regional gathering in Seekonk, Massachusetts. Pastor John [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
PROFILES IN POLITICAL COURAGE
“Republican Chairwoman Sue Lowden showed great political courage in standing up against mandatory vaccinations in the state Senate a few years back. That brave stand gave the Culinary union all the ammo they needed to bring her down, absurdly claiming the young mother was ‘in favor of [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
NAACP FIGHTS FOR BUSSING
The Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County is in contract talks with the Teamsters this week at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks. And what cataclysmic issue is of such monumental concern in the negotiations that it warranted a full-scale press release this morning? Wages? [...]
Columbia’s Catastrophic “Nakba” Conference
comment by Jerry Gordon
The new Palestinian ploy is to trash Israel on the 60th Anniversary by trying to focus the media’s attention on ‘Nakba’- the Disaster referring to the Arab defeat during Israel’s War for Independence in 1948-1949 and the flight of refugees. Of course there were several more ‘nakbas’ meaning the [...]
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Sphere ItFrom Fox News:
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes and artillery units have hit Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq, following a rebel raid on a military outpost in Turkey, the military said Sunday.
Targets in Saturday’s raids included an area just across the border where rebels had allegedly gathered after attacking the military station in Hakkari [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that three weeks before Hizballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speedboats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod Mediterranean ports and raid its [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Tom Bergin
ImageLONDON (Reuters) – Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has pulled out of a planned gas project in Iran, after coming under pressure not to participate from U.S. lawmakers who were concerned about Iran’s nuclear programme.
A spokeswoman said on Saturday that the world’s second-largest non government-controlled oil company by market capitalisation was [...]
From Fox News:
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah TV says that Hezbollah-led opposition forces will withdraw all their gunmen from Beirut in compliance with an army request.
An opposition statement says the move comes in response to an army order, but the statement said that a “civil disobedience” campaign will continue until its demands are met.
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[...]From Yahoo! Finance:
ANB Financial banks closed by federal regulators over ‘unsafe and unsound’ practices
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP)—Federal regulators says they’ve closed ANB Financial National Association banks after discovering “unsafe and unsound” business practices there.
David Barr, a spokesman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says many customers served by the bank’s nine locations had accounts under $100,000, [...]
From Iran Focus:
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his warning that the Jewish state will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, but expressed hope the international community would be successful in checking Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“Yes, Israel will not tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of people who say openly, explicitly and publicly [...]
From Iran Focus:
BRUSSELS (AFP) — The EU presidency on Friday condemned “in the strongest possible terms” anti-Israeli remarks made by Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called the state of Israel “a stinking corpse”.
Ahmadinejad’s comments, delivered Thursday, “are unacceptable, damaging and uncivilised,” the European Union’s Slovenian presidency said in a statement.
The EU presidency “condemns in [...]
From Iran Focus:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – The weak U.S. dollar is the main reason behind oil prices rising to record levels, not demand or supply factors, an Iranian Oil Ministry official was quoted as saying on Saturday.
“We must be aware that it is not the price of crude oil that has risen but the dollar value [...]
From Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, May 10 – Iran has presented a package of nuclear proposals to the West in a bid to counter a similar offer to be made by major world powers to Tehran to convince it to abandon its controversial nuclear activities.
The package was handed to Spanish Foreign Minister Angel Moratinos in Madrid [...]
From Iran Focus:
Adnkronos International
ImageTehran, 9 May (AKI) – Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy were a dangerous triangle, according to an Iranian website close to the government.
“The Berlusconi-Merkel-Sarkozy triangle represents a threat,” said the website,’Tabnak, considered to be close to the former commander of Iran’s revolutionary guards, [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile’s military sources report: Hizballah’s advance on two key Lebanese locations Saturday, May 10 had immediate effect on the strategic balance between the Iran-backed Shiite group and Israel. Sidon in the south, Lebanon’s second largest city, which provides Hizballah with control of a continuous coastal strip from its southern Beirut district all the [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
After four days of fierce fighting in which at least 24 people died, the Lebanese army revoked two government measures in obedience to Hizballah demands: the Shiite group’s independent telecommunication network will not be shut down and the pro-Hizballah Brig. Gen Wafiq Shqeir would keep his job as Beirut international airport head of [...]
From WorldTribune.com:
China’s rise is posing serious challenges and its military buildup and international behavior could produce an “adversarial” relationship with the world, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said last week.
“After two centuries of perceived Western hegemony, China seems to be determined to flex its muscles,” Hayden said.
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Sphere ItFrom Iran Focus:
BEIRUT (AFP) — Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of deadly street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war.
Convoys of triumphant Shiite opposition gunmen firing into the air and flashing victory signs took to the streets after routing Sunni [...]
From Jerusalem World News:
Source: Ynetnews.com
Lebanon government decision to make Hizbullah communications system illegal incenses Shiite gunmen, who seize control of Sunni neighborhoods, pro-government media; surround home of anti-Syrian leader Hariri. Saudi leaders call emergency meeting
Hizbullah gunmen took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday in a third day of fighting between the pro-Iranian group [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
STOP THE UNION TAX GRAB
Citizen Outreach is launching a 10-day informational television campaign in Reno and rural Nevada urging voters not to sign the teachers union’s petition to raise taxes which will primarily go to paying union members more money for the bang-up job their doing in our public schools today. [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Ever imagined what it might be like to live in a community full of people who once supported Ron Paul for president of the United States? Well, imagine no more. The concept from which late-night talk show hosts and comedians alike will draw material for months is becoming a reality, thanks in [...]
From American Forces Press Service:
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2008 – More than a dozen insurgents were killed during a coalition forces operation to disrupt Taliban support operations in Afghanistan’s Helmand province yesterday, military officials reported.
Coalition forces searched compounds in the province’s Garmsir district, targeting a Taliban insurgent associated with procurement and smuggling of various types of [...]
From Family Security Matters:
Steven Emerson
The Council on American-Islamic Relations appears to have parted ways with one of its highest profile executives, but no one is saying why.
Ahmed Bedier, executive director of CAIR’s Tampa chapter, is no longer being identified as such in media reports. He has been quoted three times in the past week – [...]
From Family Security Matters:
Douglas Farah
Yesterday, the Associated Press today reported on how thinly spread U.S. Special Forces are in many parts of the world, including Latin America, at a crucial time.
“We’re going to fewer countries, staying for shorter periods of time, with smaller numbers of people than historically we have done,” Adm. Eric T. Olson [...]
From the Telegraph (Hat Tip: World Politics Review):
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
China is undertaking a dramatic overhaul of its nuclear weapons in an effort to modernise and expand its arsenal.
One of the world’s leading arms control experts has said that the Chinese have realised that their nuclear weaponry has fallen behind those of other major [...]
“Sectarian street clashes in Beirut boil up into gunbattles”: Hezbollah spoiling for Civil War
comment by Jerry Gordon
A Second Lebanese Civil war has erupted foisted by Hezbollah’s Sheik Nasrallah. It is a thinly disguised attempt to shut down the country and overthrow by violent means the faltering US backed government. Nasralleh uses a page out of [...]
From Fox News:
By George Russell
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top lieutenants on Monday are convening the first meeting of the U.N.’s Task Force on the Global Food Crisis. Ban says it will “study the root causes of the crisis,” and propose solutions for “coordinated global action” at a summit of world leaders [...]From BREITBART.com:
Nuclear missiles and tanks paraded Friday across Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era but new President Dmitry Medvedev warned other nations against “irresponsible ambitions” that he said could start wars.
Marching bands and 8,000 troops goose-stepped across the square, followed by a huge display of heavy weapons including Topol-M ballistic missiles [...]
From FT.com:
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
Chinese companies will be encouraged to buy farmland abroad, particularly in Africa and South America, to help guarantee food security under a plan being considered by Beijing.
A proposal drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture would make supporting offshore land acquisition by domestic agricultural companies a central government policy. Beijing already [...]
From BREITBART.com:
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s junta seized U.N. aid shipments headed for hungry and homeless survivors of last week’s devastating cyclone, prompting the world body to suspend further help on Friday.
The U.N. said the aid included 38 tons of high-energy biscuits and arrived in Myanmar on Friday on two flights from Bangladesh and the [...]
From Yahoo! Finance:
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer
Gas pushes above $3.67 a gallon, while oil passes $126 on Venezuela supply concerns
NEW YORK (AP)—Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday, bringing its advance this week to nearly $10, as investors questioned whether a possible confrontation between the U.S. and Venezuela could cut [...]
From Iran Focus:
TEHRAN (AFP) — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that Iran’s arch-foe the United States was the main obstacle to resolving both the crisis in Iraq and the Palestinian question.
“Your presence in the Persian Gulf is the source of insecurity in this very sensitive region of the world,” Khamenei said to [...]
From Iran Focus:
United Press International
ImageTEHRAN, May 8 (UPI)—Iran recalled its ambassador to Iraq in protest of Baghdad’s support for a move by the United Arab Emirates to take ownership of three Persian Gulf islands.
The Emirates News Agency, WAM, said April 28 that the Iraqi government expressed “unconditional support” for the Emirates’ sovereignty over the Greater [...]
From Iran Focus:
ImageWASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States on Thursday ruled out sending a US envoy to Tehran to present a new offer from the big powers to persuade Iran to halt uranium enrichment.
“Once we have this all wrapped up in terms of some final details, then we’ll be happy to talk about it more. [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Washington Times
THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL
ImageAs President Bush enters his final months in office, there are mounting signs of disarray when it comes to current U.S. policy towards Iran and North Korea. The three remaining plausible candidates to succeed him — Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain — have yet to explain [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
At least 11 people were killed Friday, May 9, Day 3 of fierce clashes between Hizballah and pro-government forces, the worst since the 1975-90 civil war. At noon, Syrian Social Nationalist Party’s units entered Beirut to support Hizballah’s advancing occupation of Sunni West Beirut districts.
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that Thursday night, army [...]
BY: FERN SIDMAN
As Jews around the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel as a modern state, the annual Yom Ha’Atzmaout (Israeli Independence Day) festivities in New York took place amidst a backdrop of controversy and protest outside of Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday evening May 7th.
At a gala, star studded [...]
Trust me when I say you absolutely have to get this book! Clintonisms – The Amusing, Confusing, and Suspect Musing of Billary which is edited by Julia Gorin and is a proud product of the vast right-wing conspiracy, is raucously funny, eye-opening, sobering, and at times, enough to make blood shoot out of your eyes [...]
Palestinian “refugees” come up with another anti-Israel ploy: 100,000 march during Israel’s 60th-never happen!
comment by Jerry Gordon
JudyW over at Refugee Resettlement Watch has got it exactly right. The call for Palestinian “refugees”, who fled during the 1948-1949 War for Independence , to converge on Israel tomorrow, its Independence day, is nothing more than a sham [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
News reports during the past 24 hours reveal that a 46-year-old stubborn streak running through the hearts of government leaders in Myanmar closely resembles one that’s been embedded in the bleeding hearts of Congressional Democrats for nearly three decades.
Myanmar Rulers Stubborn
Members of the ruling junta in Myanmar (a.k.a., Burma) have refused the [...]
From American Forces Press Service:
By Navy Seaman William Selby
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2008 – The Defense Department is developing a proposal to finance university research on national security-related issues, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.
The Minerva Consortia, as it’s called, would have the academic and intellectual communities focus on certain physical [...]
From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman says the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari says the arrest of al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was confirmed to him by the Iraqi commander of the province.
There was [...]
From the Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media:
By: Phyllis Chesler
Dear Readers:
Greetings! I am recovering rather slowly from a non-life threatening surgical procedure but will begin posting new material together with the ongoing retrospective of some of my writing.
The distinguished editor and author, Leo Haber, asked me to contribute an article about my memories of Israel for [...]
From the US Dept. of State:
Fact Sheet
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Washington, DC
May 7, 2008
Campaign of Terror Unleashed in Zimbabwe
In the aftermath of the March 29, 2008 elections, President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party has unleashed a wave of political violence designed to cow opposition members and supporters into submission and deter them from [...]
From Fox News:
By Todd Connor
An influential Muslim cleric, instrumental in reaching out to law enforcement after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, arrived at a federal immigration courthouse in Newark, N.J., Thursday to fight deportation.Imam Mohammad Qatanani, accompanied by his wife and six children, had little to say as he walked past several hundred supporters [...]
Heh… This pretty much says it all folks…
From Fox News:
By Jana Winter
Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley’s controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center.The women’s anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for “Witches, clowns and [...]
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