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Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
BREAKING: P.A. THREATENS TO DE-RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AND CANCEL ALL AGREEMENTS
Palestinians may cancel agreements signed between the PLO and Israel; Abbas paving way for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to take control over entire W. Bank, says Fatah official after Islamist groups agree to join PLO.
Mohammed Shtayyeh, member of the Fatah Central Committee and one of the Palestinian Authority negotiators with Israel, was quoted Sunday as saying that the Palestinians may cancel the agreements signed between the PLO and Israel.THIS MIGHT BE TIMED TO LOOK LIKE A RESPONSE TO BIBI'S POSITION THAT HE WON'T NEGOTIATE WITH THE P.A. IF THE BRING HAMAS INTO THE PLO, BUT IT WAS THE REALLY THE ARAB PLAN ALL ALONG, EVER SINCE OSLO - AND ALL THE INTERIM AGREEMENTS AND THE FLOTILLAS WERE ALL A CHARADE.
AND TURKEY AND IRAN ARE IN ON IT.
THEY KNEW ISRAEL CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH HAMAS - THAT'S WHY THEY MADE THE DEAL.
THE KARINE-A PROVED THE PEACE PROCESS IS A CHARADE. THE INTIFADAS PROVED THIS. THE CONTINUED USE OF GENOCIDALLY HATEFUL ANTI-JEWISH BOOKS IN THEIR SCHOOLS PROVE IT; GENOCIDAL ARTICLES IN THEIR PRESS AND ON THEIR TV.S, AND SERMONS IN THEIR MOSQUES PROVE THIS. THEIR REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS PROVES THIS.
IF THEY CANCEL THE AGREEMENTS THEN ISRAEL SHOULD ANNEX THE SO-CALLED TERRITORIES AND EXPEL THE ARABS THERE TO JORDAN.
HOLLYWOOD HAD AN AWFUL YEAR AT THE BOX OFFICE - AND WONDERS WHY...
With five days left in 2011, ticket sales in North America are running about $500 million behind last year — despite higher prices — prompting a round of soul searching by studios trying to determine what went wrong and how best to proceed.
... What has gone wrong? Plenty, say studio distribution executives, who point to competition for leisure dollars, particularly among financially pressed young people (the movie industry’s most coveted demographic); too many family movies; and the continued erosion of star power.
One more thing: “You have to go back and look at the content,” said Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution for Warner Brothers. “Good movies always rise to the occasion. Bad ones, not so much.”
... “There may be a correlation to the recent strength of video game sales,” he said. “You look at a game like the new ‘Call of Duty’ selling $400 million in its first 24 hours and say, ‘What? How is that even possible?’ ”MAYBE IF HOLLYWOOD STOPPED MAKING ANTI-AMERICAN ANTI-WEST CRAP = AND IF ITS "STARS" STOPPED BASHING AND/OR APOLOGIZING-FOR THE USA - THEY'D DO AS WELL AS THE GAMES.
MORE PROOF OF THE SECOND TEMPLE - AND HANUKKAH
A rare clay seal that appears to have been used to authenticate the purity of ritual objects used in the Second Temple has been discovered during excavations near the Western Wall, the Israel Antiquities Authority said yesterday.
The report of the discovery is particularly timely, since a seal like the one displayed yesterday, on the fifth day of Hanukkah, played a key role in the holiday, according to religious tradition. The Festival of Lights celebrates the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks and the rededication of the Temple - made possible by the single vial of oil affixed with just such a seal of purity, which tradition has it kept the menorah lit for eight days.
The seal, which was displayed in a ceremony in Jerusalem yesterday, is two centimeters in diameter and has a two-word Aramaic inscription that translates as "pure for God." It was discovered during excavations beneath Robinson's Arch, in the Old City's archaeological park.THE MOSQUE ATOP THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS AN AFFRONT TO G-D. IT SHALL NOT STAND.
HASIDIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN BEIT SHEMESH IS GETTING DISTURBINGLY OUT OF HAND
I recently wrote about the case of a rabbi making a most revolting statement that it was better for a religiously minded soldier to die in battle than hear a female singer play. But that's just the tip of the iceberg of cases of - specifically - fringe elements of Hasidics who are enacting discrimination against women mainly in Beit Shemesh and it's getting disturbingly out of hand, and cannot be ignored. Let's start with this Jerusalem Post op-ed:
As these recent incidents involving aggression against even religious women should tell, however, it's not just "secular" women who've been targeted by these near-misogynists who seem determined to destroy proper distinctions between Judaism and Islam. Even religious women have been victimized by this crazy mindset. Here's another recounting by a pious woman of her experience on a segregated bus in Beit Shemesh. The headline there hints at similarities with Rosa Parks, and it makes me think of how sickening it'll be if a black woman - whether religious or not - were to run afoul of any alleged Hasidics who espouse that kind of insanity and even go so far as to use racial slurs. I don't know of any actual incidents like this occurring yet, but if something concrete isn't done soon, it could happen.
Thank goodness that now, the right is making a more serious effort to confront problems like these. I suspect that one of the reasons why this has been taking place is because these fringe extremists - who certainly aren't following any true beliefs in Judaism with their behavior - must think having a conservative government in control makes it easy to get away with their offensive acts. Not so anymore as Netanyahu has wisely come out swinging clearly against these monstrous acts.
Many in Jewish society consider the image of an "evil Hasidic gangster", something that Fagin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist may have led to, an offensive stereotype. Why are these nutcases going out of their way to legitimize such a filthy concept by stooping to violence against women (and even men) in Jewish society over disagreements with how they run their lives?
Here's some more past horror stories you should take note of, including a case of 10 teens of a "national religious" background who were assaulted by a mob of as many as 70, another one involving fringe extremists who terrorized religious girls out of hate for their gaining a school building, and there's videos there to check as well, and another with a letter by Rabbi Dov Lipman on arrests that thankfully were made. And here, most recently, is a chilling case of an 8-year-old girl who was threatened by these madmen (via JPI). More on the same situations is also available here and here. As these should make clear, it's not just "secular" women or even men who've been targeted, but also religious people from non-Hasidic backgrounds. And it's a very scary situation that needs to solved.
Discrimination and violence against women – purportedly motivated by religious sensibilities – have spiraled out of control.Back in the late 1990s, there were a couple of similar incidents of would-be Hasidics who antagonized women they considered "immodestly" dressed (one witness said it was like being attacked by a sea of black), including spitting at or worse, throwing rocks at women whose dress style they disapproved of. There was no indication of whether any of the victims who experienced this horrific behavior were religious themselves, and at that time, one could pretty much say that the MSM exploited these cases as a way of smearing the right in Israel. That was one of the causes of anti-religious sentiment in Israel at the time, because they agitated people's take on Judaism, and led to the loss of the Likud in the 1999 election, partly because the Hasidic religious parties were seen as close to them. I can't help but wonder if their chilling beliefs stemmed from Islamic influence, since this kind of mindset might date back to the 19th century at the time of the Ottomans. And maybe I'm right; it could have something to do with that. (Not to mention the anti-Zionist Satmar sect.) I'm practically on the verge of suspecting that those fringe extremists were hoping to doom the right's electoral chances at the time.
In recent weeks, we have been witness to women attacked for refusing to move to the back of the bus to uphold a policy of gender segregation; women forced out of a venue where elections in a Jerusalem neighborhood were being held; women denied the right to come on stage to receive an official Health Ministry prize for research into the relationship between Halacha and medicine; women banned from a Jerusalem ad campaign to encourage organ donations; and women prevented from serving in key IDF positions due to the opposition of a growing, increasingly vocal group of religious male soldiers and officers. And this list is by no means exhaustive.
These incidents have generated a debate over what has been euphemistically referred to as the “banishing” of women from the public sphere. But chauvinism, discrimination or downright violence would more accurately describe this behavior.
On Saturday night, a young haredi man was arrested on suspicion of spitting at a woman helping girls onto a school bus at a religious-Zionist elementary school in Beit Shemesh.
The recent spate of incidents is so severe that it brought the issue of gender discrimination to the center of public discourse. Significantly, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who opened Sunday’s cabinet meeting by denouncing discrimination against women, has called on haredi legislators to speak out publicly against the phenomenon and ask their spiritual leaders to do so as well.
In recent years, a rapidly growing ultra-Orthodox community has adopted more extremist positions, especially with regard to questions of female modesty, known as tzniut in Hebrew. Women’s physical proximity, no matter how perfunctory, has been transformed by radical haredi men into an insurmountable hurdle.
The inner dynamics of the ultra-Orthodox community allow these men to leverage their influence. Moderation is viewed with disdain as a weakness. The result has been an unrivaled push for the radical revamping of the public domain.
Much has changed since Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895- 1986), the most important halachic authority in America, permitted men to commute to work on subways and buses because “unavoidable and unintentional physical contact is devoid of sexual connotations.”
Today, in contrast, where the zealots have a say, women simply do not exist. You can search in vain for a female presence in the ultra-Orthodox press. Pictures of women are taboo, even when the subject is an infant. If there is a doubt regarding the gender of a baby – say in a diaper ad – sidelocks or a kippa are added. Female names are even abbreviated.
This hyper-puritanical world view is, furthermore, being accommodated outside strictly ultra-Orthodox circles. As The Jerusalem Post’s health reporter Judy Siegel reports in today’s paper, at least two state-funded health funds – Clalit and Meuhedet – have published special brochures in deference to ultra-Orthodox sensitivities.
Neither “breast” nor “cancer” is mentioned in these brochures. Instead, code words are used. And even the most innocent photos of women or young girls are vigilantly removed. Faced with the prospect that segments of the ultra-Orthodox community would refuse to read these “sexy” brochures – and thus endanger women’s lives by failing to detect breast cancer early – the heads of the health funds apparently felt compelled to make these modifications.
Similarly, public bus companies, apparently motivated by economic considerations, have allowed haredi activists to enforce gender segregation. By caving in to these unreasonable demands, the bus companies and health funds are giving them legitimacy. And the inevitable side effect is a feeling of entitlement and self-righteousness that emboldens some particularly extreme haredi men to aggressively confront women – whether on the bus, in the streets of Beit Shemesh or elsewhere.
According to a recently released CBS report, by the year 2059, haredim – who currently make up 10 percent of the population – will grow by 580% and represent a third of Israelis. As it grows, the need for haredim to integrate into mainstream Israeli society and transform themselves from a parochial enclave to a full-fledged partner in the flourishing of a healthy Jewish state will grow as well.
What is desperately needed today in the ultra-Orthodox community is the sort of reasonable, pragmatic spiritual leadership personified by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein that would enable such integration. Otherwise, coexistence will inevitably become more and more difficult.
As these recent incidents involving aggression against even religious women should tell, however, it's not just "secular" women who've been targeted by these near-misogynists who seem determined to destroy proper distinctions between Judaism and Islam. Even religious women have been victimized by this crazy mindset. Here's another recounting by a pious woman of her experience on a segregated bus in Beit Shemesh. The headline there hints at similarities with Rosa Parks, and it makes me think of how sickening it'll be if a black woman - whether religious or not - were to run afoul of any alleged Hasidics who espouse that kind of insanity and even go so far as to use racial slurs. I don't know of any actual incidents like this occurring yet, but if something concrete isn't done soon, it could happen.
Thank goodness that now, the right is making a more serious effort to confront problems like these. I suspect that one of the reasons why this has been taking place is because these fringe extremists - who certainly aren't following any true beliefs in Judaism with their behavior - must think having a conservative government in control makes it easy to get away with their offensive acts. Not so anymore as Netanyahu has wisely come out swinging clearly against these monstrous acts.
Many in Jewish society consider the image of an "evil Hasidic gangster", something that Fagin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist may have led to, an offensive stereotype. Why are these nutcases going out of their way to legitimize such a filthy concept by stooping to violence against women (and even men) in Jewish society over disagreements with how they run their lives?
Here's some more past horror stories you should take note of, including a case of 10 teens of a "national religious" background who were assaulted by a mob of as many as 70, another one involving fringe extremists who terrorized religious girls out of hate for their gaining a school building, and there's videos there to check as well, and another with a letter by Rabbi Dov Lipman on arrests that thankfully were made. And here, most recently, is a chilling case of an 8-year-old girl who was threatened by these madmen (via JPI). More on the same situations is also available here and here. As these should make clear, it's not just "secular" women or even men who've been targeted, but also religious people from non-Hasidic backgrounds. And it's a very scary situation that needs to solved.
BARACK HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA: MAN OF THE PEOPLE - RICH, LEFT-WING HYPOCRITICAL PEOPLE
MORE PROOF THAT OBAMA IS A BREZHNEV SOCIALIST.
I HAVE A FEELING ALL THE KINGPINS OF THE CHICAGO MACHINE LIVE THIS WELL, TOO.
CORRUPT PANDERING POPULISTS ALL.
I HAVE A FEELING ALL THE KINGPINS OF THE CHICAGO MACHINE LIVE THIS WELL, TOO.
CORRUPT PANDERING POPULISTS ALL.
FILTHY TALIBAN ANIMALS BOMB FUNERAL IN AFGHANISTAN
THE FUNERAL WAS FOR A PERSON ALLIED TO THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT. 2O MUSLIMS WERE MURDERED.
THIS WAS PROUDLY PERPETRATED BY THE TALIBAN.
"TALIBAN" MEANS "STUDENTS" IN ARABIC.
THEY ARE WAHHABIST MUSLIMS WHO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT ISLAM TRULY IS THAN ANY MUSLIM-APPEASING NON-MUSLIM WHO IDIOTICALLY CALLS ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE.
IF ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE, THEN JESUS WAS A THREE-LEGGED LEFT-HANDED HERNIATED TOAD.
AND ANOTHER THING:
BIDEN IS WRONG ABOUT THESE TALIBAN:
FOR THE WEST TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE - AND FOR HUMAN LIBERTY AND DIGNITY TO BE ESTABLISHED WORLDWIDE, THE TALIBAN SCUM AND THEIR APPEASERS MUST BE DEFEATED.
THIS WAS PROUDLY PERPETRATED BY THE TALIBAN.
"TALIBAN" MEANS "STUDENTS" IN ARABIC.
THEY ARE WAHHABIST MUSLIMS WHO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT ISLAM TRULY IS THAN ANY MUSLIM-APPEASING NON-MUSLIM WHO IDIOTICALLY CALLS ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE.
IF ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE, THEN JESUS WAS A THREE-LEGGED LEFT-HANDED HERNIATED TOAD.
AND ANOTHER THING:
BIDEN IS WRONG ABOUT THESE TALIBAN:
- THE TALIBAN ARE NOT ONLY OUR ENEMIES -
- BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF OUR ALLIES,
- (A CONCEPT THE AMORAL EVIL-APPEASING BIDEN-OBAMA SCUM DON'T SEEM TO BELIEVE IN) -
- THEY ARE THE ENEMIES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
- WE SHOULD NO MORE ACCEPT THEM THAN ACCEPT SLAVERY.
FOR THE WEST TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE - AND FOR HUMAN LIBERTY AND DIGNITY TO BE ESTABLISHED WORLDWIDE, THE TALIBAN SCUM AND THEIR APPEASERS MUST BE DEFEATED.
MUSLIMS TARGET CHRISTIANS WITH TERROR ON CHRISTMAS
IN NIGERIA - WHERE THERE'S NOT A LIKUDNIK OR A PALINISTA WITHIN 1000 MILES.
ISLAMISTS ARE FILTHY SCUM WITH NOTHING BUT EVIL IN THEIR HEARTS.
ISLAMISTS ARE FILTHY SCUM WITH NOTHING BUT EVIL IN THEIR HEARTS.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
THE AUDACITY OF SECULAR HUMANISM
Secular humanists displaced G-d and put mankind at the center of the universe.
They say we can create heaven on Earth if only we can pass the right regulations, and tax rates...
Written and enforced by the properly educated politicians, (preferably the exact right mix of races and genders -- LGBT included -- and raceless, genderless, faceless multicultural Ivy Leaguer bureaucrats - who always have the greater good in mind).
They say we can regulate the temperature of the entire Earth - as if it wasn't dynamic and was merely a cozy cabin we could keep at 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
They say we should ignore the faiths that are the foundation of our own civilization and appease the most radical adherents of alien faiths who seek to tear our civilization down - especially our foundations - and that this will make the world a better place and the future more likely filled with peace and harmony
They say that the fetus - that all pregnant mothers acknowledge is their baby - (yes all, even those who choose abortion after all that's why they choose to abort!) - is not a human being and can be exterminated at will with no moral price to pay.
They say that the fruit of one's labor doesn't belong to those who labored for it --- whose dreams motivated the risk involved, whose hopes informed the effort involved, whose sweat and blood nurtured it and tended to it and realized it --- but to the group as a whole, and that it should be used, divided, taxed according to rules written by those properly educated multicultural bureaucrats (who always have the common good in mind).
They say that, given the vastness of the infinite universe, intelligent life is probably not a rare or special in any way and that given the age of the universe we humans are probably comparatively inferior by comparison to extra-terrestrial/extra-galactic beings - but they simultaneously hold that there is no such thing as a "primitive" culture here on earth because all human cultures are functionally and structurally and morally equal, (except for Western Judeo-Christians and capitalists who are evil).
And what type of heaven-on-earth do these secular humanists build?
Look at the USSR, Red China, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe. These places embody HELL ON EARTH, not heaven-on-earth. The value system that made these places Hell is evil - as evil as any in all of human history - and almost as deadly. Only jihadism has killed more people than secular humanism. (The religious wars within the West killed far FAR fewer people than were killed by socialism or Islam - which are both utopianist ideologies, ideologies that attempt to create heaven-on-earth but actually create Hell.)
They say we can create heaven on Earth if only we can pass the right regulations, and tax rates...
Written and enforced by the properly educated politicians, (preferably the exact right mix of races and genders -- LGBT included -- and raceless, genderless, faceless multicultural Ivy Leaguer bureaucrats - who always have the greater good in mind).
They say we can regulate the temperature of the entire Earth - as if it wasn't dynamic and was merely a cozy cabin we could keep at 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
They say we should ignore the faiths that are the foundation of our own civilization and appease the most radical adherents of alien faiths who seek to tear our civilization down - especially our foundations - and that this will make the world a better place and the future more likely filled with peace and harmony
They say that the fetus - that all pregnant mothers acknowledge is their baby - (yes all, even those who choose abortion after all that's why they choose to abort!) - is not a human being and can be exterminated at will with no moral price to pay.
They say that the fruit of one's labor doesn't belong to those who labored for it --- whose dreams motivated the risk involved, whose hopes informed the effort involved, whose sweat and blood nurtured it and tended to it and realized it --- but to the group as a whole, and that it should be used, divided, taxed according to rules written by those properly educated multicultural bureaucrats (who always have the common good in mind).
They say that, given the vastness of the infinite universe, intelligent life is probably not a rare or special in any way and that given the age of the universe we humans are probably comparatively inferior by comparison to extra-terrestrial/extra-galactic beings - but they simultaneously hold that there is no such thing as a "primitive" culture here on earth because all human cultures are functionally and structurally and morally equal, (except for Western Judeo-Christians and capitalists who are evil).
And what type of heaven-on-earth do these secular humanists build?
Look at the USSR, Red China, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe. These places embody HELL ON EARTH, not heaven-on-earth. The value system that made these places Hell is evil - as evil as any in all of human history - and almost as deadly. Only jihadism has killed more people than secular humanism. (The religious wars within the West killed far FAR fewer people than were killed by socialism or Islam - which are both utopianist ideologies, ideologies that attempt to create heaven-on-earth but actually create Hell.)
Friday, December 23, 2011
VIDEO: THE SARKOZY VERSUS ERDOGAN FIGHT GOES WAY BACK
ERDOGAN AND SARKOZY HAVE BEEN IN A PISSING FIGHT LATELY - EACH ACCUSING THE OTHER'S COUNTRY OF GENOCIDE.
THE FIGHT GOES WAY BACK:
SARKOZY IS RIGHT; ERDOGAN AND CHARLIE ROSE ARE WRONG.
AND..... AS I HAVE LONG ARGUED: TURKEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO.
TURKEY IS NOW NA FOE OF EUROPE AND ISRAEL AND CLOSER TO IRAN AND RUSSIA THAN THE USA.
IT'S TIME WE ACCEPTED THAT TURKEY IS PART OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD AND NOT THE WEST AND DEALT WITH THEM ACCORDINGLY.
THE FIGHT GOES WAY BACK:
SARKOZY IS RIGHT; ERDOGAN AND CHARLIE ROSE ARE WRONG.
AND..... AS I HAVE LONG ARGUED: TURKEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO.
TURKEY IS NOW NA FOE OF EUROPE AND ISRAEL AND CLOSER TO IRAN AND RUSSIA THAN THE USA.
IT'S TIME WE ACCEPTED THAT TURKEY IS PART OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD AND NOT THE WEST AND DEALT WITH THEM ACCORDINGLY.
DESPITE MONTI'S AUSTERITY BUDGET AND THE ECB BAILOUT, ITALY AND THE EURO STILL LIKELY TO FAIL
Prime Minister Mario Monti’s market honeymoon is ending as Italian bond yields approaching 7 percent signal mounting concern his government may struggle to sell 440 billion euros ($574 billion) of debt next year.
Monti took just five weeks in office to push through a 30 billion-euro emergency budget package aimed at taming surging borrowing costs. Investors reacted to the plan’s final approval by the Senate Thursday by driving up the yield on Italy’s 10-year benchmark bond by 12 basis points to 6.91 percent, close to the 7 percent level that prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts. It was at 6.94 percent at 10:13 a.m. in Rome.
“The Monti effect has now also been priced in and I think there is a lot of room for disappointment next year,” said Lex Van Dam, who manages $500 million in assets at Hampstead Capital LLC in London.THE EURO IS FAR FROM SAVED AND THE EU IS FAR FROM SECURE.
2012 WILL BE THE YEAR BOTH FADE AWAY.
REAGAN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE, 1981....
Nancy and I are very happy to send our warmest greetings and best wishes to all those who are celebrating Christmas. We join with Americans everywhere in recognizing the sense of renewed hope and comfort this joyous season brings to our nation and the world.
The Nativity story of nearly twenty centuries ago is known by all faiths as a hymn to the brotherhood of man. For Christians, it is the fulfillment of age-old prophecies and the reaffirmation of God's great love for all of us.
Through a generous Heavenly Father's gift of His Son, hope and compassion entered a world weary with fear and despair and changed it for all time. On Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Christ with prayer, feasting, and great merriment. But, most of all, we experience it in our hearts.
For, more than just a day, Christmas is a state of mind. It is found throughout the year whenever faith overcomes doubt, hope conquers despair, and love triumphs over hate. It is present when men of any creed bring love and understanding to the hearts of their fellow man. The feeling is seen in the wondrous faces of children and in the hopeful eyes of the aged. It overflows the hearts of cheerful givers and the souls of the caring. And it is reflected in the brilliant colors, joyful sounds, and beauty of the winter season.
Let us resolve to honor this spirit of Christmas and strive to keep it throughout the year.
Nancy and I ask you to join us in a prayer that prudence, wisdom, and understanding might descend on the people of all nations' so that during the year ahead we may realize an ancient and wondrous dream: "peace on earth, goodwill toward men." RONALD REAGAN
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