ART, THEN AND NOW...

The original:

The NYTimes knock-off:

Which is better?

And what does the latter say about the state of our culture?

HEZBOLLAH'S DRUG JIHAD IN MEXICO

The Hezbollah, not getting much funding from Iran just now, has chosen to offset this loss with drug operations in Mexico plus dawah:

Catholic Mexico is in the midst of a crisis of faith. According to a local businessman, who asked to remain anonymous, it is widely believed that within a decade, Chiapas will be the first federal state in Mexico to turn its back on the Church.

"The Muslim missionaries are very active there," he said. "It's hard to know exactly how many people have converted to Islam over the past few years."

Official data suggests that Mexico is home to some 4,000 Muslims – a fraction in a country whose population numbers 115 million. Theoretically, this is a negligible number, but it is enough to cause concern in the United States – and Israel should be concerned as well.

Follow the money

US intelligence indicates that Mexico is home to some 200,000 Syrian and Lebanese immigrants – most of them illegal – who were able to cross the border via an extensive web of contacts with drug cartels, both in Mexico and in other countries in South America.

These cartel contacts smuggle illegal immigrants – including individuals affiliated with Iran, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups – into Mexico, placing them a virtual stone's-throw away from the United States.

Western intelligence agencies have been able to gather ample evidence suggesting that the drug cartels in Mexico – which are the de facto rulers of the northern districts bordering the US – are in cahoots with Islamic terror organizations, which are eager to execute attacks against American, Israeli, Jewish and western targets; but most of all, the Islamic terror groups are eager to make money, so they can fund their nefarious aspirations.

It's worrisome alright, and the Hezbollah's activities there can be equally dangerous for local Mexicans, but will the Mexican government do anything about it? Unfortunately, there's no telling if they will.

Journal News Published Names of Gun Permit Holders, No One Got Hurt

And now, they are announcing they will do it again:

Journal News Announces It Will Post More Names and Addresses of Legal Gun Permit Holders

The intent of the Journal News is to malign and intimidate Gun Owners. 

The intent of the Journal News to establish an implicit threat against legal Gun Owners.

AND YET, GUN OWNERS HAVE NOT AND WILL NOT TRACK DOWN THESE JOURNALISTS AND HARM THEM.

Why?

Because these are law-abiding citizens.

The Journal News is threatening law-abidiing citizens, and as we can expect, the law-abiding citizens do not retaliate with violence.

Now, if the Journal News were to threaten gang members in their "news" paper, they would likely not be treated so kindly.

This proves, once again, that the Mainstream Media is Leftist, cowardly, anarchic in nature, and thoroughly malicious.

FACT: THE SO-CALLED "FISCAL CLIFF" IS THE COMPROMISE

OBAMA BALKED AT SIMPSON-BOWLES. HE SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT FOR IT AT LEAST AS HARD AS HE FOUGHT FOR OBAMACARE, BUT HE DIDN'T.

AND, THE LAST ELECTION DIDN'T REALLY DEAL WITH THE ISSUE AS MUCH AS IT SHOULD HAVE.

LAST YEAR, OBAMA, REID AND BOEHNER MADE AN AWFUL DEBT-CEILING COMPROMISE, AND -  BARRING A MIRACLE, WE WILL ALL HAVE TO LIVE WITH ITS AWFUL CONSEQUENCES.

REPEAT: THAT WAS THE COMPROMISE - ONE OBAMA AND REID AND THE ANTI-MILITARY SPENDING PINKO DOVES ACTUALLY LIKE.

OBAMA, REID AND THE LEFT ACTUALLY LIKE THAT COMPROMISE, AND THAT'S WHY THEY FEEL LIKE THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME UP WITH ANOTHER ONE.

IF WE "GO OFF THE CLIFF" - AND IF RETAIL NUMBERS FOR CHRISTMAS TURN OUT TO BE AS BAD AS I'VE HEARD THEY ARE, AND IF CATALONIA SECEDES, THEN WE WILL HAVE A GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE THAT WILL MAKE 2008 LOOK LIKE A MINOR BLIP.

THE SAD THING IS THAT THIS CALAMITY IS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE.

IT'S NOT LIKE A TSUNAMI OR EARTHQUAKE OR HURRICANE. OR A PLAGUE.

IT'S AN ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE MESS - ONE OBAMA BROUGHT UPON US BY FOISTING THE ILL-CONCEIVED AND CORRUPT PORKULUS UPON US - AND BY DELIBERATELY FAILING TO PASS A BUDGET SINCE THEN SO THE TRILLION BUCKS OF WASTEFUL BOONDOGGLES COULD BE CONTINUED VIA "CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS".

AS A RESULT, OBAMA HAD INCREASED OUR PROJECTED DEBT BY 10x.

YES: BY TEN TIMES.

AND THE CLIFF DOES NOTHING TO SOLVE THIS TIME BOMB.

NOTHING.

OBAMA IS WORSE THAN A MISERABLE FAILURE.

HE IS A COLOSSAL FAILURE.

SHARIA PROSECUTIONS IN EGYPT

The dark forces of Mohammed Morsi are looking to put the opposition on trial:

Egypt's chief prosecutor ordered an investigation on Thursday into allegations that opposition leaders committed treason by inciting supporters to overthrow Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The probe by a Morsi-appointed prosecutor was launched a day after the president called for a dialogue with the opposition to heal rifts opened in the bitter fight over an Islamist-drafted constitution just approved in a referendum. The opposition decried the investigation as a throwback to Hosni Mubarak's regime, when the law was used to smear and silence opponents.

See more on the subject from Joel Pollak. And there's an example of just how bad the Mubarak regime was too.

WOW: DECLASSIFIED FBI REPORT DETAILED ISLAMISM/LEFTISM TIES IN 1970

VIA DOUG:

... starting sometime around 1965, the blacks began the process of expelling the Jews from the Civil Rights movement, as they embraced anti-Semitism and the Arab war for the destruction of Israel. In New York City, this period reached a culmination in the 1968 teachers strike.

The strike was caused by the decision of a black school board in Brownsville, Brooklyn to fire many of the Jewish teachers and administrators from the local schools and replace them with black separatist teachers and administrators. 
The head the teachers union Albert Shanker dated the end of Jewish-black cooperation to the strike. 

While researching my book, yesterday I came across a fascinating FBI report from 1970 that was declassified under the Freedom of Information Act in 2009. 

Titled, "FBI Monograph: 

Fedayeen Impact - Middle East and United States, June 1970," it is focused on the PLO, and Fatah's penetration of the American political Left.  

Here's the link:  

http://www.governmentattic.org/2docs/FBI_Monograph_Fedayeen-Impact_1970.pdf 

In the section on PLO operations in the US, The monograph discussed its outreach to the African American political leadership and the radical white establishment. These sections of the report are fascinating and I recommend you take an hour or so to read the entire document yourself. 

As the report puts it, "Since the June 1967, war, reports emanating from various sources have suggested that the Arabs have co-opted black extremists in the United States to assist the 'struggle' against Israel in the Middle East and in the United States."

RTWT.

THE POSTMODERN LEFT IS ALLIED WITH GLOBAL JIHAD BECAUSE THEY SHARE A HATRED FOR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION AND THE WEST.

(WHICH IS WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT WE HAVE TO DEFEAT THE LEFT AT HOME BEFORE WE CAN DEFEAT GLOBAL JIHAD.)

IT IS NOT A MERE COINCIDENCE THAT THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ASCENDED TO POWER IN EGYPT AFTER JUST 2 YEARS OF OBAMA'S FIRST TERM.

OBAMA ENABLED THEIR ASCENSION.

HE DID SO BECAUSE HE AGREES WITH THEM THAT THE WEST IS AT FAULT FOR ALL MIDDLE EASTERN PROBLEMS - AND THAT ISLAMISM IS NOT THE PROBLEM.

OBAMA BELIEVES THIS BECAUSE HE SEES THE WEST AS THE INVADER, THE EVIL COLONIAL POWER - DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE HOLY LAND IS THE CRADLE OF THE WEST, THE ARABS THE INVADERS AND ISLAMISM THE ANTI-ENLIGHTENMENT FORCE FOR TYRANNY.

LEFTISTS - LIKE ISLAMISTS - ARE TOTALITARIAN UTOPIANISTS WHO THINK THAT THEIR ELITE CAN RESTRUCTURE SOCIETY AND CREATE A PERFECT WORLD.

WHEN PEOPLE THINK THEY CAN CREATE A PERFECT WORLD, THEN THEY OF COURSE CAN COMMIT GENOCIDE IN ITS NAME - THEY FEEL A PERFECT UTOPIA IS WORTH A FEW MILLION LIVES.

THIS IS WHY SOCIALISTS AND ISLAMISTS HAVE COMMITTED MOST OF THE GENOCIDE IN HUMAN HISTORY.

• SOCIALISTS COMMITTED MORE GENOCIDE IN THE 20TH CENTURY THAN JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY IN THE PRECEDING 20 CENTURIES.

• AND ISLAM HAS KILLED 10X MORE SINCE IT'S INCEPTION THAN SOCIALISM AND JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY COMBINED.

AS LONG AS LEFTISTS HAVE POLITICAL POWER WITHIN THE WEST WE WILL NOT DEFEAT GLOBAL JIHAD, AND CREEPING SHARIA REMAINS A REAL THREAT.

AS DOES ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF THE WEST DUE TO UNAFFORDABLE LEFTIST PONZI SCHEMES.

AND IF WE COLLAPSE ECONOMICALLY, THEN OUR KINETIC DEFENSE CAPABILITY COLLAPSES AND GLOBAL JIHAD WINS AGAIN.

ALONG WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA.

IF THE 20TH CENTURY WAS "THE AMERICAN CENTURY" (AND TO HAVE BEGUN WITH THE END OF WW1), THEN THE 21ST CENTURY MIGHT VERY WELL TURN OUT TO BE TYRANNY'S CENTURY, AND IT MIGHT THEN BE SAID TO HAVE BEGUN ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001.

SIGH.

THE HISTORY OF "VA'AD HATZNIUT"

If you've ever wondered how the "modesty patrols" of Haredi sects like the Satmar came to be in the weeks following the Weberman trial, plus how they came to believe so insanely in separation of the sexes, The Forward's got some history on the origins and where they may have drawn the ideas from:

Until recently, the Va’ad Hatznius was little known outside the Hasidic community, but its actions have reverberated through the community for years. Although they ostensibly monitor the moral behavior of both sexes (men and women are both warned not to read English books, watch television or surf the internet), most of their energies are directed towards ensuring that women and girls dress and behave modestly.

Their reasoning is clear: When a female wears revealing clothing or chats with the opposite sex, it could entice the men, and lead to dire consequences. In other words, the goal of their injunctions is to inhibit the sexual impulses of the male population.

Where did the tradition of the Va‘ad Hatznius originate? And what do the Hasidim themselves think of it? The term V‘ad Hatznius doesn’t appear in the Bible or in the Talmud, but Maimonides does write, in Hilchos Yom Tov 6:21, that “the Beit Din [rabbinical court] must appoint officers during the festivals to patrol the gardens and orchards and along the rivers to prevent men and women from gathering there to eat and drink, lest they fall into sin.”

So apparently, they must've gotten it from there, without even considering that those writings only pertained to Yom Tov (Jewish holidays), and it was only on days like those that they objected to social gatherings.

The Jewish communities of Eastern Europe may have been opposed to wearing fancy dress in the 18th century, and monetarily penalized women and tailors who wore and designed fancy clothing, but:

The intention of those rulings had nothing to do with preventing sexual temptation, however. “They were simply worried that if Gentiles were to see how much money Jews were spending, the wealthy landowners would raise the taxes for the entire Jewish population,” Fishman explained. In fact, men, too, were warned not to dress in conspicuously lavish clothing or wear powdered wigs.

However, these rulings were issued during a time when Jews were collecting taxes for the Czarist government and hence had the power to levy fines against members of their own community, and ex-communicate or penalize them for defying the rules. Once the Czarist government took away the power of the Jews to tax their own population in 1844, the only means that community leaders had to ensure adherence to their rulings was through social pressure – a tactic which has remained effective till today, as Hasidim continue to fear being ostracized from their community or losing valuable marriage prospects as a result of so-called indecent behavior.

So when they could no longer tax their own, they turned to different ideas, including the following:

The strict separation of men and women is a relatively modern one, Fishman explained. In Czarist Russia, men and women used to stand together at weddings; there was no mekhitse, or partition between them. When Sh-Anski, the author of The Dybbuk, led his series of landmark ehnographic expeditions through Volhynia and Podolia in 1912–1914, he photographed cemeteries in which the graves of even the most pious couples were found side by side. Today most Hasidic men are buried separately from their wives. The Ohel (gravesite) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, for example, is not next to the grave of his wife, Chaya Mushka.

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz, who was raised in the Satmar community of Wiliamsburg, and is the director of the Beit Midrash program at the modern Orthodox rabbinical school, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, told the Forverts that the Va’ad Hatznius isn’t an organized body but an informal group of people who act on their own, and whose actions the Rebbe doesn’t officially condone. Every v’aad is comprised of a theoretician, one who decides which kind of behavior to ban, and enforcers.

The theoretician is usually a well-regarded figure, while the enforcers give a more fanatical impression, Katz explained. “They usually wear their tsitsis out, their hair and clothing is unkempt, and they have no job, so they don’t elicit much respect from the community. Weberman was undoubtedly a theoretician, his tsitsis didn’t hang out, his hair was combed, he had a job, this is why families trusted him.”

In other words, he made a cunning wolf in sheep's clothing.

The edict against reading English books is a weird one. Given that they're living in countries outside of Israel where the majority population does not speak Hebrew or even Yiddish, one would think the Satmar would recognize the importance of reading English to get around in wider society. Clearly, they don't, as their anti-Zionist stance that's led them to so much hostility against the state of Israel further implies.

One of the biggest benefits of the Weberman trial was how it helped bring a lot of the most questionable customs and tactics the Satmar use to the forefront for everybody to learn about, even on a beginner's level. If you know where to look, you'll also notice that a lot of the Haredim who try to defend their beliefs in separation of sexes will use the word "modesty" even when it doesn't make sense. But in the end, all their beliefs in separation of sexes has done is lead to a lot of problematic situations for how to handle themselves even in their own community and outside of it. That's why the time has come to modernize, and to bring back the mixed company at weddings again.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VERSUS OBAMACARE: THE FIGHT AIN'T OVER, NOT BY A LONG SHOT

NO COURT WILL EVER TAKE AWAY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE USA. 

COURTS CAN ERR. BUT ULTIMATELY RIGHT TRIUMPHS. 

REMEMBER: DRED SCOTT FELL. 

IT TOOK A CIVIL WAR, BUT IT FELL. 

IF AN OBAMA-PACKED COURT UPHOLDS OBAMACARE AND TAKES AWAY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, IT MIGHT TAKE ANOTHER CIVIL WAR.

VIA JIM.

DESPITE "GLOBAL WARMING", A DEEP FREEZE IN EASTERN EUROPE IS KILLING HUNDREDS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY 4 DAYS

INSTAPUNDIT TODAY: THE BIG FREEZE: Cold Weather Across Europe, Asia Kills Hundreds.

TAB 4 DAYS AGO:

BRRRRRRR!: NO GLOBAL WARMING IN EASTERN EUROPE! 

COLDEST SINCE 1938, DESPITE HIGHER AMOUNTS OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE. IOW: AGW = BS.

At least 83 people have died in Ukraine from a cold spell that has been gripping the country, officials say. 

Temperatures as low as -23C (-9F) and heavy snowfall this month have left the capital Kiev and most of the country under a thick frozen layer.

NEW OBAMA POSTER: "FORWARD"... YEAH, OVER THE CLIFF AND INTO THE ABYSS!

"YES, VIRGINIA: THERE IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE!"

POLYAMORY ON THE MOVE.

JUST AS WE PREDICTED.

MORE ASININE AND ILLOGICAL LIBERAL LOGIC

• LIBERALS THINK IT'S AWFUL IF A PREGNANT WOMAN SMOKES CIGARETTES, USES RECREATIONAL INTRAVENOUS DRUGS AND DRINKS BOOZE, BUT IT'S OKAY IF SHE HAS AN ABORTION.

AND

• LIBERALS THINK WHEN JOURNALISTS LIKE JAYSON BLAIR AND FAREED ZAKARIA COMMIT PLAGIARISM I'TS A SERIOUS CRIME, BUT IF DAVID GREGORY VIOLATES GUNS LAWS IT'S OKAY.

MORE HERE.

"We need to restore our faith in liberty and markets and unleash the innate innovation and dynamism of the individual."

The US economy is in big trouble.

The cure is simple:

"We need to restore our faith in liberty and markets and unleash the innate innovation and dynamism of the individual."

RTWT.

REMEMBER: No economy ever grew because they raised taxes, increased debt and regulations. 

A METAPHOR I'M SURE WE'D RATHER NOT BE BOTHERED WITH

The leftist British comics/films site of Bleeding Cool posted this item asking "Is Atlantis Meant To Be Israel?" in reference to a crossover story DC Comics is publishing taking place in both Aquaman and the Justice League. Since this is written by the awful, overrated Geoff Johns, the same one who wrote the victimology story for the sake of Islam in Green Lantern, I wouldn't trust this particular item to do any better. Aquaman is made to describe "his people" as "superstitious, protective and aggressive", and 2 of those 3 words do not make me feel particularly comfy. Nor in fact does the site's suggestion that:

Or course, another reading may see Atlantis as Palestine. Or Iran. Or the USA itself. Cold War aspects given a new relevance due to international relations in the Middle East.

Bleah. Don't be surprised if this could be a potential metaphor for the "Arab spring" in the worst ways possible too. If Atlantis is supposed to serve as a possible metaphor for those, even that would only be reason to dread with a writer as repellant as Johns helming the story. One sure thing, please avoid his past writings like the Flash work he did, and also his early work on Green Lantern, which is just as repellant.

It's also quite galling how a man like Johns with terrible ideas for what makes entertainment is forcing his visions on Jewish creations (Aquaman creator Mort Weisinger was).

A DOCTOR YOU SHOULD NEVER TURN TO FOR TREATMENT

A Pakistani Muslim doctor whose clinic infected patients in Nebraska is trying to get his license restored in New York (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

Dr. Tahir Ali Javed, whose Fremont cancer clinic infected dozens of patients with hepatitis a little more than a decade ago, has applied for reinstatement of his medical license in New York.

Javed, 47, fled to his native Pakistan 10 years ago, when the severity of the hepatitis outbreak became known. His medical license in Nebraska was revoked. He surrendered his New York license.

In Pakistan, Javed became a public health official and reportedly blamed the situation in Nebraska on anti-Muslim sentiment.

Unsanitary practices in the Fremont clinic led to hepatitis C infections in at least 99 patients, several of whom died.

A Fremont-based group called the HONOReform Foundation grew out of the tragedy. It promotes sanitary practices in health care settings. The “One and Only” campaign that it advocates seeks to educate nurses, doctors and others of the importance of using syringes and needles only once.

Javed could not be reached for comment. His Omaha attorney, Michael D. Jones, said he hadn't had contact with Javed in years.

Antonia Valentine of the New York State Education Department, which rules on restoration of medical licenses, confirmed that Javed has applied for reinstatement.

Valentine said in an email that the application will be investigated and referred to two committees before the New York Board of Regents rules on it. It's unclear when the ruling will be issued. Valentine declined to provide further information.

Steve Langan, executive director of HONOReform, said, “Sick people were injured, some of them died, and no justice has been done.”

The Nebraska Attorney General's Office pursued the revocation of Javed's medical license in 2003. It accused him of unprofessional conduct and gross negligence for allowing staffers to reuse syringes, which contaminated large bags of saline with hepatitis. The saline was used to clean out implanted devices that administer chemotherapy and other medications to cancer patients, infecting patients with hepatitis in the process.

The allegations said Javed had been warned multiple times that his office used unsanitary practices in administering the drugs and continued to allow it.

The Attorney General's Office also accused him of exploiting a patient to conduct a sexual relationship with her. The attorney general alleged that Javed, a cancer specialist, gave the woman a false diagnosis and told her not to seek treatment elsewhere because other providers would inform her insurance company and she wouldn't be able to get insurance again.

Documents indicate that Javed admitted to little. The exploitation accusations were dismissed. Javed chose not to contest the case against him and agreed to a settlement in which his Nebraska medical license was revoked in September 2003.

New York records show that Javed surrendered his medical license in that state in 2004, after he chose not to contest the Nebraska allegations.

Travis Bennington, a Fremont attorney who co-wrote a book on the case with one of the victims, Evelyn McKnight, said Javed fled to his native Pakistan before any criminal charges could be filed.

If he wasn't charged, why not? Why wasn't he even tried in absentia? What he did was very grave, led to several deaths, and yet he was never officially indicted? This is very sad. The man should not get a new license, nor should anyone looking for good medicare turn to him for treatment, and chances are they won't anyway, so I don't see what his point is of applying for a new license.

THE ISLAMIST DOMINATED SYRIAN "NATIONAL" COUNCIL

Melanie Phillips has written about how several world governments are making the same grave mistake they did during the Muslim uprising in Egypt:

To an astonishing silence by the media on both sides of the pond, the US along with the UK and a number of European governments is leading the west into an abyss. I have repeatedly noted here that the US, UK and France helped bring to power in Egypt Islamic extremists hostile to the free world, and were threatening to do something very similar in Syria. Now they have indeed done so by recognising the Syrian National Council as the legitimate leader of the Syrian opposition.

The thinking behind this is to designate the al-Qaeda linked Jabhat al-Nusra as a terrorist group, while supporting the Muslim Brotherhood – which dominates the Syrian National Council -- as a reasonable alternative. But this is the same catastrophic mistake the US et al have made in Egypt. For the Brotherhood are not a reasonable alternative to Islamic extremists hostile to the west. They are themselves Islamic extremists hostile to the west.

And they shouldn't have received any backing to begin with. What western governments who support the SNC are doing is just as damaging to the west as it is to countries plagued by Islamofascism, and sooner or later, the disaster is bound to lead to more.

RABBI NUCHEM ROSENBERG'S ATTACKER HAS BEEN INDICTED

Meilech Schnitzler, the Satmar community member who threw bleach at rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, one of the people who helped support one of the victims of Nechemya Weberman, has been officially indicted for his assault:

A Brooklyn fishmonger was indicted for throwing a cup of bleach in the face of a Chasidic rabbi who advocates for victims of sexual abuse in the haredi Orthodox community.

Meilech Schnitzler, 36, of Williamsburg, a member of the Satmar Hasidic sect, was indicted Wednesday on two counts of attempted assault, two counts of assault and criminal possession of a weapon. He could face up to 15 years in prison.

Throw the book at him hard. The gavel, too. DNA Info also reports:

Though Hynes and Rosenberg have had their differences in the past, Hynes has promised to vigorously prosecute the case against Schnitzler.

“This indictment alleges an act of thuggery in broad daylight that cannot be tolerated,” Hynes said in a statement. “The indictment sends a clear message that anyone who would seek to intimidate someone opposed to the uncovering of sexual abuse in the Orthodox community will face serious criminal charges and if convicted, I will ask for the maximum jail time.”

If Mr. Hynes is making an effort to overcome his flaws of yesteryear, that's something to appreciate. The perpetrator deserves a stern sentence for doing something that dangerous, and Hynes will be doing the right thing to ensure that Schnitzler is punished severely.

EVEN NOW, WE CAN'T THINK OBAMA SUDDENLY LIKES ISRAEL

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center makes clear to everybody that it'd be ill-advised to think that Obama now likes Israel, much as some would like to believe it.

OBAMA TRANSFORMING THE USA INTO THE USSA

LOST TRIBE RETURNS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY A DAY

WHAT GLENN HAD TODAY:

BANISHED IN THE 8TH CENTURY B.C., Lost Tribe of Jews Returns to Israel.

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds    

TAB HAD YESTERDAY.

THE REASONS WHY CHUCK HAGEL WOULD MAKE A BAD DEFENSE SECRETARY

Democrat senator Chuck Hagel has a dreadful stance on Israel, and he's also got a bad position on the subject of the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Islamic empire in Turkey. A member of an Armenian lobbying group said the following, and look carefully at some of the things Hagel said too:

"We remain troubled by former Senator Hagel’s acceptance of Ankara’s gag-rule on American honesty about the Armenian Genocide – the still unpunished crime against a Christian nation that continues to define Turkey’s present-day policies toward Armenia and much of the region,” ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian said in an emailed statement.

Hagel has opposed official U.S. government recognition of the genocide, and has declined to say whether he believes the massacre of more than 1 million Armenians beginning in 1915 was in fact a genocide.

“What happened in 1915 happened in 1915. As one United States Senator, I think the better way to deal with this is to leave it open to historians and others to decide what happened and why,” then-Senator Hagel told a group of Armenian reporters during a trip to the country in 2005.

“The fact is that this region needs to move forward,” Hagel added. “We need to find a lasting, just peace between Turkey and Armenia and the other nations of this region. I am not sure that by going back and dealing with that in some way that causes one side or the other to be put in difficult spot, helps move the peace process forward.”

ANCA objected to the argument that official U.S. recognition of the genocide would hinder peace between Turkey and Armenia.

Sound familiar? It's just like the language used by those who think peace between Israel and the so-called palestinians is more important than anything else and don't want to recognize that the Islamists were the ones who started the hostility. The Armenian movements who find that moral equivalence offensive are right to be angry about it, just like we should be for say, how Morrocan Islamists treated Jews in past centuries.

Hagel should not be a defense secretary, nor should he be a secretary of state or even an agricultural secretary; I think he'd be awful in a job like that too.

EGYPT: OUT THE FRYING PAN AND INTO THE FIRE

Egypt's Morsi signs Islamist constitution into law

Following referendum showing 63.8% of population supports controversial constitution, Egyptian president signs document into law; civilians rush to withdraw savings from banks; US: We urge Morsi to bridge division.

THE FACT THAT A MAJORITY OF EGYPTIANS VOTED FOR SHARIA DOESN'T MAKE IT ANY MORE MORAL OR GOOD OR RIGHT.

MAJORITY RULE GUARANTEES NOTHING:

IF 90% OF THEM VOTED TO KILL THE OTHER 10% IT WOULD BE DEMOCRATIC - AND EVIL GENOCIDE.

WHEN OBAMA REMOVED MUBARAK - OUR ALLY, AND A FORCE FOR  REGIONAL SECURITY - HE LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY UNLEASHED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND SHARIA IN EGYPT.

MORE THAN ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING ON EARTH, TOTALITARIAN TYRANNY UNDER SHARIA FOR 65 MILLION EGYPTIANS IS OBAMA'S FAULT.