by Bill Levinson

Chutzpah = murdering one’s parents and then asking the court for clemency as an orphan

The National Jewish Democratic Council has reached a new level of desperation in its attack on Mitt Romney for making a speech at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan. NJDC argues that, because Henry Ford once published anti-Semitic material (which he later retracted and repudiated, which is more than NJDC’s friends at MoveOn.org ever did), Republicans “fail to understand the Jewish community.”

This is quite a mouthful from an organization that was so eager to attack Evangelical Christians that it relabeled and repackaged genuine Nazi “Jews as Christian haters” propaganda in its own blog, of which we will now remind our readers.

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By Andrew Cochran*

“An American citizen charged with receiving terrorist training at an Al Qaeda camp in Somalia — including classes in how to become a homicide bomber and ‘wage violent jihad’ — was taken into custody by FBI agents and returned to the U.S. Monday night night…” Daniel Joseph Maldanado, 28, a.k.a Daniel Aljughaifi, was charged with receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to use an explosive device outside the United States. The criminal complaint provides the following information about Maldanado:

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by Asaf Romirowsky*

In 1915, John Dewey of Columbia University and Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins University came together with other educators to establish the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an organization designed to preserve the integrity of the academy from a politicized donor-driven agenda.

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by Bill Levinson

What has happened routinely in Israel just happened in the United States. A crazed militant “Islamic” Bosnian immigrant, Sulejmen Talovic, opened fire in a Salt Lake City shopping mall, where he murdered five people, including a 15 year old girl, before being put down by police officers. Reuters reports,

The teenager, dressed in a trench coat and carrying a shotgun, a .38 caliber pistol and what police said was a “backpack full of ammunition,” opened fire at random on Monday evening, sending terrified shoppers running for cover. Salt Lake City police chief Chris Burbank said the gunman appeared determined to “shoot as many people as he possibly could.”

This underscores what we have said on numerous occasions:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Yesterday, USA TODAY’s headline article read, “Arabs try outreach to Israel, U.S. Jews - Saudis, others seek to counter extremists.” I hate to be cynical (realistic), but the article’s title contains a major oxymoron. The Saudis — the ruling family and their Wahabi clerics — are extremists. The article claims, “Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, are making some of their most public overtures ever to Israel and American Jews in an effort to undercut Iran’s growing influence, contain violence in Iraq and Lebanon and push for a Palestinian solution.” Could the threat of Iran be causing a regional political realignment? Iraq proves that the hatred between Sunnis and Shiites trumps all other issues of the day. Could Sunnis, whose “capital” is Saudi Arabia, and who hate Israel, choose to side with Israel because they hate/fear Shiites more, whom also hate Israel? Tehran, the Shiite “capital,” wants the bomb, but Israel already has the bomb. What strange bedfellows realpolitik makes for. I’m not going to jump to any conclusions, as Jew-hatred has been inculcated into generations of Sunnis, but this info is food for thought. Here’s what USA TODAY considers the good news:

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by Andrew Whitehead

On February 11, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C. based Islamic hate group, issued an “American Muslim News Brief” that included two very interesting items. The articles are in response to Senator Boxer rescinding an award she gave to the executive director of CAIR’s Sacramento, California chapter.

“A senator reacts to terrorist fear” by Jonathan Curiel of the San Francisco Chronicle:

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by Daniel Pipes*

In October 2006, the Brandeis Middle East Review and the Middle East Forum at Brandeis invited me to speak at the University, and I quickly accepted. The hosts and I selected the date April 23 and the topic (”The Islamization of Europe?”), and everything appeared settled.

But on Jan. 23, former President Jimmy Carter visited Brandeis, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz quasi-debated him, and the ensuing contention prompted the University to establish a closed student-faculty committee to monitor speakers on the Middle East. (This committee comes on top of an already existing committee the provost created earlier in response to the “Voices of Palestine” exhibit in Spring 2006.) Oddly, although my talk was to deal with Europe, it was deemed to fall into the Middle East category and is now on hold, pending this new committee’s approval.

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by Michael Rubin*

The Iraq war has pumped adrenaline into the publishing industry. Whereas five years ago, few bookstores included any selections on Iraq, today dozens of Iraq books line the shelves. There have been three waves of Iraq-related publishing: First came the embed accounts that described the military campaign; second were examinations of prewar planning and, third, studies of the occupation. Quantity does not equal quality, though, nor does popularity correlate to accuracy. Many of the most popular books have been deeply flawed. Many authors use their Iraq narrative to promote other agendas, be they related to U.S. domestic politics, U.N. empowerment, or independence for Kurdistan. Other authors have substituted theory for fact or tried to propel their experience into the center of the Iraq policy debate. While time has already relegated much Iraq-related writing to the secondhand shelf or dustbin, several authors have produced works that will make lasting contributions, be they to future generations of war and post-conflict reconstruction planners, or scholars looking more deeply into the fabric of Iraq.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

As if the Sunni vs. Shiite violence in Iraq wasn’t evidence enough that Islam has a problem — “Thunderous explosions and dense smoke swirled through central Baghdad on Monday when three car bombs ripped apart a crowded marketplace in a Shiite neighborhood, setting off secondary explosions and killing at least 71 people, police said. A suicide bombing nearby killed at least nine…” Here’s some more evidence, if you can stomach it:

Egypt’s president questioned Shiites’ loyalty to their countries, Jordan’s king warned of a coming Shiite crescent from Iran to Lebanon, and last month King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia denounced what he called Shiite proselytizing. …

Shiites make up less than 15 percent of Saudi Arabia’s population, many of them in the oil-rich Eastern Province. The austere Sunni religious establishment considers them heretics. One cleric, Abdul Rahman al-Barak, considered close to the royal family, has called Shiites “infidels, apostates and hypocrites.”

And, of course, let’s not forget al-Qaeda’s official position on “fellow” Shiite Muslims:

People of discernment and knowledge among Muslims know the extent of danger to Islam of the Twelve’er school of Shiism. It is a religious school based on excess and falsehood whose function is to accuse the companions of Muhammad of heresy in a campaign against Islam, in order to free the way for a group of those who call for a dialogue in the name of the hidden mahdi who is in control of existence and infallible in what he does. Their prior history in cooperating with the enemies of Islam is consistent with their current reality of connivance with the Crusaders.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

For years we’ve heard the yadda yadda about the “cycle of violence” between Israelis and Palestinians, which Max Abrahms of the National Review has aptly termed a “fallacy.” If we want to examine a true cycle of violence, we only need look at the current Palestinian civil war, where “Unfinished business [revenge] between Gaza’s powerful clans is one of the main threats to the power-sharing agreement signed last week between the Islamic militant group Hamas and the Fatah movement,” according to the AP. But in a sickening twist to this clan feud, scores can be settled with money — $47,000 per victim — just as Palestinian parents used to sell their children as homicide bombers, getting $10,000 to $25,000 from Saddam for each bomber they produced:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Get ready for another “controversy” over Muslim “sensitivities,” and to hell with everyone else’s feelings. Some residents of the Kensington neighborhood in Brooklyn are tiring of being blasted with the Muslim call to prayer five times per day. While most in the U.S. are used to hearing church bells chime, it is interesting to speculate as to where religious freedoms should be allowed to impinge on others’ peace and quite. Note that most church bells simply sound the hour and/or quarter and half hour, and limit special chimes solely to special occasions like Christmas. The Muslim Adhan is specifically religious in nature — and occurs five times per day, 365 days a year. Below, I present several viewpoints, as published by Courier-Life. Note the words of the Muslim Imam, who seems to be drawing a line in sand as to how much Islam should be restrained, if at all:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

A Dubai man “has been charged with the premeditated murder of his sister… after receiving an anonymous call suggesting she was having ‘extramarital affairs’.” Wow. This is the basis for murdering your own sister? In other news today, Shiite vs. Sunni violence in Iraq — a truck bombing — has killed 15 and injured 25. Still wondering whether Islam has a problem?

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Israel functions as a civilized society, seeking to keep Muslim pilgrims safe, and in return it gets riots, racial slurs, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. In a BBC article entitled, “In Jerusalem archaeology is politics,” author Paul Reynolds describes why Palestinian objections to Israel’s attempt to restore a walkway to the Dome of the Rock are completely baseless, yet understandable. First, I present Reynolds’ justifications for Palestinian hysteria, then the truth of the matter — rationality; a word absent from the Arab/Muslim lexicon. It is people like Reynolds who reinforce Palestinian childish behavior, as he produces sophistry which contains truth, yet negates truth (i.e., the facts don’t really matter), all in the same essay:

The reason for the protest does not really have much to do with archaeology in fact. It is a protest about presence. The Palestinians and the wider Muslim world have an objection to anything the Israelis do that touches on the Haram.

Such work is seen as symbolising a threat to Palestinian and Muslim identity and a rallying point for Palestinians to express their desire for their own space, their own state.

In this atmosphere, the arguments of the archaeological academics do not carry much force.

So, in “this atmosphere,” Palestinian hatred gets another free pass, even though it has no basis in reality:

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by Bill Levinson

We previously described how Hillary Clinton accepted campaign contributions from the shadowy international financier and convicted inside trader George Soros, who is morally albeit not legally a domestic enemy of the United States. Soros is the individual who uses his enormous wealth (some allegedly acquired through collaboration with genuine Nazis during the Second World War, see below) to denounce the United States as a menace to world peace while saying that Israel causes anti-Semitism.

It now turns out that Hillary Clinton has also accepted campaign contributions from Jane Fonda, who once posed in a North Vietnamese gun emplacement. Every Vietnam veteran needs to be aware that Hanoi Jane Fonda is funding Hillary Clinton’s political career, and that Hillary Clinton is knowingly and willfully accepting Fonda’s support. Hillary Clinton has also taken money from filmmaker Michael Moore, who has praised the terrorists who are murdering our men and women in uniform while cutting the heads off helpless prisoners like Margaret Hassan “Minutemen.” In combination with Bill Clinton’s credibly-alleged acceptance of illegal campaign contributions from a hostile foreign power (China), Hillary Clinton must be regarded as a security risk to the United States.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

As today’s Palestinian riots prove, Arabs/Muslims are drunk on, and addicted to, virulent hatred of all things Jewish. When Arabs controlled Jerusalem, Jews were not allowed to visit the Wailing Wall (Temple Mount). Since Jews have controlled Jerusalem, Arabs/Muslims have been allowed to visit their “third-holiest shrine,” the Noble Sanctuary (Dome of the Rock). Muslims reach the Noble Sanctuary via a “centuries-old ramp” which was “damaged in a 2004 snowstorm.” Jews are repairing the ramp so that Muslims can safely reach their shrine. But all the anti-Jewish brainwashing of Arabs/Muslims leads them to see Jewish conspiracies everywhere, including in a repair project meant to keep Muslim worshipers safe.

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