Dershowitz – ‘Why J Street Attacked Sarah Palin’

The solution to the “Palestinian” curse on Israel

From Dershowitz – ‘Why J Street Attacked Sarah Palin’

Alan M. Dershowitz

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Shortly after Sarah Palin provoked a barrage of criticism for her use of the term “blood libel,” a Democratic Congressman named Steve Cohen compared Republican statements about the Obama health care reform to “the big lie” told by Joseph Goebbels, saying it’s “like [a] blood libel. The same kind of thing.” Cohen further posited, “the Germans said enough about the Jews and the people believed it and you had the Holocaust.” For the most part the left excoriated Palin for being insensitive to Jewish suffering, while the right has either defended her use of that historical term or has given her a pass on it. I am one of the few liberal Democrats who, while criticizing her use of crosshairs in indentifying contested congressional seats, found nothing objectionable in her use of “blood libel” as a metaphor to describe what she regarded as a false accusation of complicity in the bloodletting in Tucson. I have heard little from the left regarding Congressman Cohen’s more extreme statements.

The irony, of course, is that many of the same people on the left who criticized Palin for insensitively to Jewish suffering, have themselves contributed to Jewish suffering by unfairly demonizing the Jewish state and trivializing the increase in global anti-Semitism. They have also given a pass to those on the hard left who have used Holocaust and Nazi references in mischaracterizing Israeli self defense actions.

Consider the case of Norman Finkelstein, a hero of the hard left. Finkelstein regularly uses Nazi references in his attacks on Israel. He has said the following about the Israeli Defense Forces: “[I] can’t imagine why Israel’s apologists would be offended by a comparison with the Gestapo.” (This same formulation has been used by Finkelstein’s British clone, Gilad Atzmon and by others on the hard left.) Most recently, Finkelstein, who regularly refers to the Holocaust as a “circus,” responded to a critic with the words “Heil Hitler,” and to Israeli President Shimon Peres’ Christmas greeting to the Christian world with the words, “And a ‘Heil Hitler!’ to you too.”

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Yet, although J Street, which claims to be a pro-Israel lobby, went out of its way to criticize Palin’s remarks, it has not leveled comparable criticism against Finkelstein and other prominent leftists who abuse the language of Jewish suffering. The reason is obvious: Many J Street supporters adore Finkelstein, cheer him at his lectures and echo his demonization of Israel. J Street does not go after Finkelstein for the same reason it refused to go after Richard Goldstone: If it did, it would lose support from many on the hard left, which it is trying to cultivate. (One of J Street’s leading activist and supporters, Letty Pogrebin, has praised Goldstone as a modern day prophet and supported the most egregious statements made in his report.)

It has not leveled comparable criticism

against prominent leftists who abuse

the language of Jewish suffering

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The solution to the “Palestinian” curse on Israel

Obama’s State of the Union Was Tantamount to Plagiarism

Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

From http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/alvin-felzenberg/2011/01/26/obamas-state-of-the-union-was-tantamount-to-plagiarism

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what can be said of plagiarism? President Obama’s second State of the Union address contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince. I suppose this is what one does when one not only has nothing new to say, but is required by custom and Constitution to come forth with a report of some kind by a certain time and day.

Had Obama or his writers been considerate enough to have informed listeners of where some of the president’s best lines and offered-up ideas originated, the speech might be remembered for its cutting and pasting of great and not-so-great moments of the past performance of others. After quoting Robert Kennedy early on, Obama tried to have his listeners believe that everything else he said that we might remember were his or his writers’ creations. Had the president submitted the text of his second State of the Union Address in the form of a college term paper, he would have been sent forthwith to the nearest academic dean. Once again, our public affairs are such that we have one standard for presidents and another for undergraduates. Now is as good a time as any to let Obama’s listeners in on what the late Paul Harvey would have termed “the rest of the story.” [Take the poll: Was Obama’s State of the Union speech a success?]

Early in his address, Obama said that he wanted the nation he leads to be a “light to the world.” The last president who set such a mission for the nation he led, and in those exact words, was Woodrow Wilson.

Obama’s SOTU Message: ‘US Risks Losing It’s Global Supremacy’

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

From http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2011/01/25/obamas-sotu-message-us-risks-losing-its-global-supremacy/

The UK’s Telegraph reports that President Barack Obama will use the State of the Union address to raise the alarm about America’s global decline. As the Telegraph summarizes:

“A briefing paper released by the White House in advance of the address on Tuesday said: ‘The most important contest we face today is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s America’s contest with competitors across the globe for the jobs and industries of our time.’

With unemployment stuck at 9.4 per cent and the likes of China, India and Brazil surging in the global economy, Mr Obama is also expected to address the insecurity about the future that many Americans feel.

Obama’s State of the Soviet Union

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

From Obama’s State of the Soviet Union

When the applause had died down and the softly glowing screen of the teleprompter faded to black, the echoes of the Leninist cadences of Obama’s State of the Union address, “We must out-educate, out-compete, and out-innovate the rest of the world”, “We have broken the back of the recession” and “We can’t win the future with a government of the past” suggest that we are now living in a land without history.

How else could Obama get up and deliver an address whose rhetoric represents a 180 degree turn, while the substance continues down the same track. The meat of the address was stolen from Clinton’s 1992 campaign stump speeches on the economy. There is the same invocation of personal stories of unemployment combined with promises of replacing the old bad manufacturing jobs with free educations for everyone. But Clinton was better at pretending to be one of the boys, a working class man who only got out thanks to a good education. Obama’s people must have known that dog wouldn’t hunt.

As usual, the slogan du jour comes from the dictionary of the left. “Winning the future” was a common slogan on the left. While it was belatedly used by Newt Gingrich, it was most commonly employed in the 20th century by Communists and the far left. Two time Lenin prize winner, Danilo Dolci used it as the theme of one of his addresses. Jesse Jackson made use of it during his presidential campaign. Max Lerner gave a number of talks on “Winning the Future”. Mandella threw it in there. Most notably it was used by Lenin, “Our hopes must be placed on the young. We must win the youth if we are to win the future.”

The thrust of Obama’s agenda follows Lenin’s. The old jobs are gone. We must prepare for the future by educating our youth. The sturm und drang of the “We Musts” quickly becomes an argument for pandering to the teacher’s unions. Only by empowering the teacher’s union will we be able to compete with China. But China isn’t strong because of its teachers, but because it has no independent unions, no minimum wage, no pollution laws and nothing to get in the way of the terrible machine of its industry. The People’s Republic of China is not beating us in science or math, but in manufacturing cheap products with an undervalued national currency.

State of the Obama ‘Remaking America’ Revolution

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

Nation

State of the Obama ‘Remaking America’ Revolution: AT
The Most Offensive Line in the State of the Union: Patterico
The Bachmann Speech: RedState

Private Citizens Fight Voter Fraud: Adams
Hard choices cannot wait another year: Coburn
Obama: In 5 years, you’ll be blown away!: BlogProf

Regulations and Rhetoric: Blankley
A State of the Union response or a 2012 match-up?: JRubin
Obama Adviser Plouffe: Obama Will Address Gun Control: RCP

Economy

The state of the union is weak, and getting weaker: Blumer
Obama’s Sputter-nik moment: Cash for Education Clunkers: Malkin
The mother of all Big Dig boondoggles: Malkin

One of Obama’s Biggest Donors Now His ‘Economics Adviser’:RWN
Unions Bullying Employers With Help From NLRB: Lonely
GE Pays Tax Rate of 4%; Wal-Mart… 34%: Minyanville

Philippines: Misunderstanders of Islam murder five, wound 13 in jihad attack on crowded bus

The jihadis are attacking us all over the world. It is time we fight back.

From http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/philippines-misunderstanders-of-islam-murder-five-wound-13-in-jihad-attack-on-crowded-bus.html

More dawah and bridge-building. “Philippine Officials See Link to Islamic Militants in Bus Explosion,” from VOA News, January 26:

Philippine authorities say Tuesday’s deadly bomb attack on a passenger bus in Manila has the hallmarks of terrorist attacks in the nation’s turbulent south.Five people were killed and at least 13 others wounded when the bomb ripped apart a bus as it was traveling near Manila’s Makati business district. The blast was so powerful it damaged a nearby concrete wall.

FORT HOOD JIHAD: IT’S NOT INSANITY, IT’S ISLAM

FORT HOOD JIHAD: IT’S NOT INSANITY, IT’S ISLAM
From http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/01/fort-hood-jihadi-ruled-devout-not-deranged.html

The Fort Hood jihadi, Major Hasan, has been ruled sane. D’oh. Hasan is devout, not deranged.

Alleged Fort Hood shooter ruled ‘sane’: source AFP
KILLEEN, Texas — The US Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree on a Texas army base has been ruled sane and thus fit for trial, a source familiar with the case said.

The ruling by a group of medical experts, called a sanity board, opens the door for a court martial that could end in the execution of Major Nidal Hasan, who was paralyzed from the neck down during the November 5, 2009 massacre.

South Carolina introduces law banning Sharia

Another great start. I wish all the states will get on board.

From http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/south-carolina-introduces-law-banning-sharia.html

Crescent moon on flag, sí, Sharia, no

“There are numerous examples in dozens of states in which parties to such a dispute attempted to invoke Shariah.”

“Bill Aimed at Protecting S.C. From Foreign Law Introduced in Legislature,” by W. Thomas Smith Jr. in Human Events, January 26:

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A legislative initiative aimed at preventing “a court or other enforcement authority” from enforcing foreign law in the Palmetto State was introduced today in both the S.C. House and Senate by Rep. Wendy Nanney (who drafted the bill) and Sen. Mike Fair respectively, who say the bill will preempt violations of a person’s constitutional rights resulting from the application of foreign law. Legislators and other proponents of the bill say America has unique values of liberty which do not exist in foreign legal systems. Yet foreign laws are increasingly finding their way into U.S. court cases, particularly in the area of family law, involving divorce and child custody where, for instance, Islamic Shariah Law has been invoked in several U.S. states.

Back in the day Obama’s Response to Bush

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

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Dennis Miller On the SOTU

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Donald Trump Reacts to State of the Union

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

Watch it here http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2011/01/donald-trump-reacts-to-state-of-union.html

Moscow airport bomb: Suicide bombers were part of squad trained in Pakistan

It seems Russia is paying for backing the Jihadis. Stop arming them and actually fight them and then you will be safe.

From http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2011/01/moscow-airport-bomb-suicide-bombers.html
The two suicide bombers who carried out the Moscow attack were thought to be part of a suicide squad trained in Pakistan’s al-Qaeda strongholds sent to the capital to target the city’s transport system.

I wonder what Putin’s next move will be.

Study: Rampant anti-semitism at the Huffington Post

The pro jihadis lefties turn out to hate Jews too.

From http://olehgirl.com/?p=6256

“Jews are evil. Israel runs the world. Lets kill ‘em all and give the land back to Islam; result-perpetual peace. Seig Heil.” A comment by prominent commenter “pedrothemigrant,” 5/23/08
Front Page magazine provides an in-depth look at what is business as usual over at the Huffington Post: “In its four years of existence,The Huffington Post (aka “HuffPost”) has grown from obscurity into the world’s most-visited blogsite, and one of America’s most popular news sites. It now has more monthly visitors than the Washington Post, and is supported by some of the largest advertisers in the world. Its representatives have been allowed to ask questions at presidential press conferences, and one was even given preferential treatment. It now enjoys access to, and influence over, the top levels of the U.S. government. Top members of the U.S. Senate are among HuffPost’s official bloggers, including John Kerry, Carl Levin, Chris Dodd, Barbara Boxer and others.
A significant reason for HuffPost’s success and “legitimization” are its claims that it is a nonpartisan “newspaper,” dedicated to “ferret(ing) out the truth,” and “debunking the left-right way of thinking.”
HuffPost also claims to be non-partisan in its moderation of user comments. Arianna Huffington, the site’s founder and Editor-In-Chief, claims HuffPost has “a zero tolerance policy” for hate speech, and that it acts vigilantly to keep its comment threads free of offensive content, 24-7.

Devastating… Frank Luntz Focus Group Dumps On Obama’s “Flat” SOTU Address (Video)

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

From http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/01/frank-luntz-focus-greoup-gives-obama-failing-grade-on-sotu-video/

Frank Luntz’s focus group gave Obama failing marks on this State of the Union Address tonight. The Atlanta focus group agreed that the nation was not out of its recession.

They thought the speech was flat.

They also didn’t trust Obama at all on cutting the deficit… Maybe because he talked aboutincreasing spending out of the other side of his mouth at the same time?

This was devastating.

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Only 7 of 13 Obama ’08 voters said they would vote for him now.
That’s gotta hurt.

Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech in 90 seconds

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

From Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech in 90 seconds [Biff Spackle]
Cub Reporter Biff Spackle condensed the full transcript of Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech into the Cliff Notes version.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and Professor Piven:

I’d like to welcome the new Tea-Baggers and pray for the recovery of Gabby Giffords, wounded in a tragic attack by right-wing conservatives and/or Sarah Palin.

Look, it’s no secret that I’m a Marxist. Look it up. Textbook definition. But I realize now, having withstood a massive repudiation in the midterm elections, that I’m going to have to pretend to be a centrist again. Let’s all relive the glory days of my 2008 campaign when a snappy logo, a compliant media and an amorphous slogan — Change! — catapulted me to my first real job.

92% Approval of SOTU Address

Previously posted Is Obama being pro Jihadi in the State of the Union 2011?

From http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=57222

From Ace of Spades

When I was reading the speech, I grew worried, because the first third of it was all feel-goodery and obvious-problem cathartic-shoutery. I worried that people, being dumb, as they are, would here (sic) a bunch of standard-issue complaints — it’s harder to find work now than it used to be; our factories are closing — and some boilerplate uplift about needing to do better and say “Hey, I agree with those very obvious observations.”

Then I read on, and saw that Obama then basically said, “I get what the American people said about spending too much in November. To that end, here are my top six priorities for new spending.”

I thought that would then turn the public off.

But… what if this was smartly calculated so that people would tune out before then?

Now, I have to check, but I thought that SOTU’s started at 8 pm, usually. This one? Nine. Nine? Most of America is asleep by 10.

So… did he start late and just yammer about obvious stuff (“twirling, twirling ever forwards”) to put people to sleep?

I don’t know. I’m having trouble understanding how the most listless, incoherent and transparently deceptive SOTU I’ve heard managed to please 92% of its audience.

~snip~

Agreed. All of it.

What’s The Difference Between Conspiracy Theories In The West And In Islam?

An interesting look on why most jihadis are toofers even though the jihadis committed 9-11

From http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2011/01/whats-difference-between-conspiracy.html

The difference between the crackpot theories in the West and in Islam is that those crackpot theories are hardwired into Islam–and into the Muslim media that broadcasts them:

Considering that the Koran depicts talking ants and birds, vouches for the power of sorcery, and has an entire chapter dedicated to the Jinn (Sura 72); that Hamas arrested 150 “witches” in Gaza last year; that Islam’s prophetMuhammad decreed that black dogs must die, “for they are devils”; thatthere is a fatwa to kill Mickey Mouse (a cartoon character), since rodents are “corrupters, steered by Satan”—considering all this, it should come as no surprise that animals are being portrayed as infidel operatives.

The Coming Surge: Muslim Population Growth Rate To Outstrip Rest Of World By 2-1

The jihadis are out breading us. More reason to attack them now before it is too late.

From Here The Coming Surge: Muslim Population Growth Rate To Outstrip Rest Of World By 2-1

The world’s Muslim population will grow at double the rate of non-Muslims over the next 20 years, according to a broad new demographic analysis that is likely to spark controversy in Europe and the United States.

If current trends continue, the study found, the number of Muslims in the United States will more than double, from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030. The percentage of native-born Muslims in the U.S. is projected to rise from 35 percent today to 45 percent in 2030.

The Future of the Global Muslim Population may be the first to attempt to map the Muslim population of most of the world’s countries. The analysis was conducted by two giant nonprofit groups interested in religion: the Pew Research Center and the John Templeton Foundation.

Among its other projections:

l Muslim populations in some parts of Europe will reach the double digits, with France and Belgium at 10.3 percent by 2030.

l Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

l Muslim population growth and fertility rates will continue to decline.

The analysis could fuel critics of Islam in Europe and the United States, who argue that the religion is at odds with Western values and worry that the number of Muslim extremists is on the rise. Or it could calm those fears by providing evidence that Muslim populations in the West will remain relatively tiny.

The Warning: Islamic Terrorist Cells Are In America…Waiting To Strike

Jihadis are already here. We should get them first before they attack us. Where is Home Land Security on this. Instead of feeling up people go after the terrorist cells.

From http://holgerawakens.blogspot.com/2011/01/warning-islamic-terrorist-cells-are-in.html

This truly is a fascinating article from Family Security Matters that I missed the first time around that it ran in The American Thinker – fascinating not only in what the author portrays about the fact that islamic terror cells are well entrenched in America but provides some incredible inside looks into the Iraq War and activities in Saudi Arabia.

Some riveting points from the article:

My mission was to interact with Saudi military officials in order to determine the support we could expect from the Saudi government, to determine if Iraqis were monitoring the activities of the U.S. forces at Arar, and to infiltrate the encampments of the Bedouin community (Saudis and Iraqis living in the desert of Arar).

During January 2003 and Feb 2003, Saudi Intelligence officers would boast that the American military was overreacting about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Their bravery changed as we approached the invasion of Iraq in Mar 2003. The high-ranking Saudi officers were scrambling to obtain gas masks and other protective equipment. They knew their equipment was substandard and they wanted U.S.-made protective equipment. We gave them some of ours. The Saudi Intelligence officers were visibly frightened about a potential chemical, biological, or nuclear attack and expressed their fears.

While in Iraq we determined the following:

1. Russian activity in Iraq had been rampant several months prior to the war and up until the day before the invasion.

2. Iranians were infiltrating southern Iraq by the thousands and were preparing to assist insurgents in removing U.S. forces from Iraq.

3. We found numerous pieces of evidence indicating WMD were in Iraq before the war began and some were still in Iraq.

4. I and other agents were informed by Iraqis that a civil war would erupt and violence against U.S. forces would increase due to the Iranian and Russian influence.

But probably the most disturbing issues brought up by the author involves the situation right here in America…regarding islamic terror cells in place in our very own neighborhoods: