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April 30 [Modia] Jour de la Choa commence ce soir - Mer, 30/Avr/08[Modia] Jour de la Choa commence ce soir
Le jour de la commemoration de la Choa commence ce soir.
C'est l'occasion unique pour bien nous instruire, pour en tirer les lecons. Cette annee, en plus, nous sommes confrontes a un probleme terrible sur lequel je vous donne tous les elements que vous connaitrez donc comme tous les Israeliens informes sans fard par leurs radios et leurs televisions. Un scandale de cruaute sans sans nom contre les rescapes et survivants de la Choa. Et malgre la lutte pour les aider, on n'y parvient pas depuis plus d'un an et des centaines meurent chaque mois dans des conditions terribles. Voici toutes les informations qu'il serait immoral de ne pas connaitre. Et il ne cessera que si tous, personnes privees et associations et responsables communautaires dans le monde, interviennent par mail et telephone et visites aupres des autorites. Lisez et tous les documents sur la Choa: http://www.modia.org/poeme/auschwitz/lachoa.html Et cela est exactement en relation avec la paracha de la semaine: nous n'avons qu'un choix dans le peuple juif, la vie ensemble dans la qedoucha: etudions cette paracha http://www.modia.org/tora/vayiqra/qeddochim.html Rav Yehoshua Rahamim Dipour Yerouchalayim [Modia ] Jour de la Choa commence ce soir {French} - Wed, Apr/30/08[Modia] Jour de la Choa commence ce soir
Le jour de la commemoration de la Choa commence ce soir.
C'est l'occasion unique pour bien nous instruire, pour en tirer les lecons. Cette annee, en plus, nous sommes confrontes a un probleme terrible sur lequel je vous donne tous les elements que vous connaitrez donc comme tous les Israeliens informes sans fard par leurs radios et leurs televisions. Un scandale de cruaute sans sans nom contre les rescapes et survivants de la Choa. Et malgre la lutte pour les aider, on n'y parvient pas depuis plus d'un an et des centaines meurent chaque mois dans des conditions terribles. Voici toutes les informations qu'il serait immoral de ne pas connaitre. Et il ne cessera que si tous, personnes privees et associations et responsables communautaires dans le monde, interviennent par mail et telephone et visites aupres des autorites. Lisez et tous les documents sur la Choa: http://www.modia.org/poeme/auschwitz/lachoa.html Et cela est exactement en relation avec la paracha de la semaine: nous n'avons qu'un choix dans le peuple juif, la vie ensemble dans la qedoucha: etudions cette paracha http://www.modia.org/tora/vayiqra/qeddochim.html Rav Yehoshua Rahamim Dipour Yerouchalayim New books on Modesty, Modern Controversies & the Shidduch Crisis
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The intersection of faith, culture and politics Wednesday, April 30, 2008 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* WELCOME to the newsletter read by, among others, Washington power brokers, editorial page editors, and society's most important and influential citizenry. THEY'RE in great company! **<>**<>**<>**<>****<>**<>**<>**<>** [ J E W I S H L I V I N G ] ---> reality check Dream Teams May Test Party Ties By Jonathan Tobin Pennsylvania's Democratic slugfest may leave some Jewish votes up for grabs http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/tobin043008.php3 ---> ess, ess/ eat, eat! The Kosher Gourmet By Linda Gassenheimer Fresh herbs, sauteed veal and tiny creamer potatoes makes a light spring dinner http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ess/ess_spring_flavors.php3 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* [ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ] NEW SERIES! "Sparks of Spirituality" by Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. 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Gott: Don't rush to meds for diabetes treatment; absorbing calcium http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gott1.asp * Frugal Living by Sara Noel : Are you a cheap date? http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/frugal_living.php3 * Bruce Williams on JWR: Inheritance could free reader from debt; more http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/bruce1.asp <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> link/post, Jonathan Spyer, "Making Mischief"link:
Whatever the Israelis offer, Syria won't give up its alliance with Iran, which allows it to punch above its weight in the region.
With attention in the Middle East focusing on the US congressional hearings regarding a possible Syrian nuclear programme, the Syrian newspaper al-Watan made a surprising announcement last Wednesday. According to the newspaper, Israel, via Turkish channels, had in the previous 24 hours expressed its willingness to exchange the entirety of the Golan Heights area for peace with Syria.
The same day, Syrian expatriate affairs minister Buthaina Shaaban confirmed the information in an interview with al-Jazeera. Israeli spokespeople neither confirmed nor denied the reports. Senior officials said only that both Israel and Syria understood the "price" of an agreement. Could the latest diplomatic feints herald a renewed peace process between Israel and Syria? Almost certainly not. Here's why.
The Turkish channel of communication is a reality. The Israeli and Syrian governments send regular messages to one another. And Israel's statement in response to Shaaban's remarks is indicative of the Olmert government's willingness in principle for compromise on the Golan.
But with regard to Israel's position - the international and domestic contexts need to be borne in mind. Internationally, the Israeli defence establishment is known to have been opposed to the US decision to make public aspects of the intelligence behind Israel's bombing of a suspected nuclear facility in eastern Syria on September 6 2007. Part of this opposition related to the issue of revealing of sources. But a large part derived from the Israeli desire to avoid placing the Syrian leadership in a humiliating position from which it would feel obligated to retaliate for the attack.
From the Israeli point of view, the attack itself was sufficient to convey the desired deterrent message to Syria. The regime of Bashar al-Assad is regarded by the Israeli defence establishment as a weak and brittle entity. Apart from a general desire to avoid open conflict, Israel also has no desire to place Assad's regime in jeopardy - since whatever would replace it in the event of its falling would almost certainly be worse. Israel has no desire to see the Assad family franchise to its north replaced by a hungry, newly-minted Sunni Islamist government. Hence, the sudden dangling of the possibility of talks may be seen as a face-saving device for Assad, provided partially by Israel.
Domestically, Israeli opposition to concessions to Syria remains widespread and reaches to the highest levels of the current government. This will continue to be the case for as long as Syria remains part of the Iran-led alliance in the region. Both the president, Shimon Peres, and deputy prime minister Shaul Mofaz have asserted in recent days that if giving up the Golan Heights to Syria means in essence ceding it to Iran, then no deal is possible.
This then leads to the key question. Could Israeli concessions to Syria prove a sufficient prize to lure Damascus away from its 25-year alliance with the mullahs in Tehran? Answering this requires taking a closer look at the Syrian regime's interests in the region.
Syria lacks the size of Egypt and the resources of Saudi Arabia. But it has been able to project power and influence in the region because of its willingness to support radicalism, act as a disruptive force and thus create a situation in which it cannot be ignored. Thus, Damascus backs a host of Palestinian groups opposed to a peaceful settlement of the conflict with Israel - including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP-GC and others. Syria offered significant support to the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. And most importantly, Damascus maintains influence in Lebanon - following its ignominious departure in 2005 - via its relationship with the pro-Iranian Shia militia, Hizbullah.
The ability to foment chaos and project influence in Lebanon is key for the Assad regime. The expulsion from that country was a personal humiliation for the young president, and its loss is exacting an economic cost on Damascus. Furthermore, the regime seeks to prevent at all costs the commencement of the work of the tribunal into the killing of former prime minister, Rafik al-Hariri. Its chosen method for doing this is the fomenting of instability in Lebanon and the instrument it chooses to use is Hizbullah.
The mainstream Arab states - most importantly Egypt and Saudi Arabia - are frightened by the growth of Iranian influence across the region. They are furious with Syria for its backing of non-Arab Iran. But only by backing the radical power in the region can Syria maintain its powerful role as mischief-maker. No Iran means no more fomenting radicalism, no more reaping the benefits of having to be bought off, no more pro-Iranian militias to help out in Lebanon, no return to Lebanon, and the nightmarish possibility of seeing major regime figures collared for the killing of Hariri. It is a near certainty that the regime will prefer to maintain all of these - with the additional mobilising charge of the "occupied Golan" into the bargain - rather than give it all up and become a minor, status quo power.
In other words, Syria is too deeply committed, on too many levels, to its alliance with Iran to consider abandoning it for the Golan and the Arab mainstream. Syria's conflict with Israel can't be separated out from Damascus's larger regional concerns. Hence, with all due respect to the Turkish mediators, we are faced here with another manifestation of that well-known Middle Eastern phenomenon: much ado about nothing.
Professor Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center <http://www.gloriacenter.org> Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal <http://meria.idc.ac.il> Editor, Turkish Studies Jonathan Spyer, "Making Mischief".
Making Mischief Whatever the Israelis offer, Syria won't give up its alliance with Iran, which allows it to punch above its weight in the region.
With attention in the Middle East focusing on the US congressional hearings regarding a possible Syrian nuclear programme, the Syrian newspaper al-Watan made a surprising announcement last Wednesday. According to the newspaper, Israel, via Turkish channels, had in the previous 24 hours expressed its willingness to exchange the entirety of the Golan Heights area for peace with Syria.
The same day, Syrian expatriate affairs minister Buthaina Shaaban confirmed the information in an interview with al-Jazeera. Israeli spokespeople neither confirmed nor denied the reports. Senior officials said only that both Israel and Syria understood the "price" of an agreement. Could the latest diplomatic feints herald a renewed peace process between Israel and Syria? Almost certainly not. Here's why.
The Turkish channel of communication is a reality. The Israeli and Syrian governments send regular messages to one another. And Israel's statement in response to Shaaban's remarks is indicative of the Olmert government's willingness in principle for compromise on the Golan.
But with regard to Israel's position - the international and domestic contexts need to be borne in mind. Internationally, the Israeli defence establishment is known to have been opposed to the US decision to make public aspects of the intelligence behind Israel's bombing of a suspected nuclear facility in eastern Syria on September 6 2007. Part of this opposition related to the issue of revealing of sources. But a large part derived from the Israeli desire to avoid placing the Syrian leadership in a humiliating position from which it would feel obligated to retaliate for the attack.
From the Israeli point of view, the attack itself was sufficient to convey the desired deterrent message to Syria. The regime of Bashar al-Assad is regarded by the Israeli defence establishment as a weak and brittle entity. Apart from a general desire to avoid open conflict, Israel also has no desire to place Assad's regime in jeopardy - since whatever would replace it in the event of its falling would almost certainly be worse. Israel has no desire to see the Assad family franchise to its north replaced by a hungry, newly-minted Sunni Islamist government. Hence, the sudden dangling of the possibility of talks may be seen as a face-saving device for Assad, provided partially by Israel.
Domestically, Israeli opposition to concessions to Syria remains widespread and reaches to the highest levels of the current government. This will continue to be the case for as long as Syria remains part of the Iran-led alliance in the region. Both the president, Shimon Peres, and deputy prime minister Shaul Mofaz have asserted in recent days that if giving up the Golan Heights to Syria means in essence ceding it to Iran, then no deal is possible.
This then leads to the key question. Could Israeli concessions to Syria prove a sufficient prize to lure Damascus away from its 25-year alliance with the mullahs in Tehran? Answering this requires taking a closer look at the Syrian regime's interests in the region.
Syria lacks the size of Egypt and the resources of Saudi Arabia. But it has been able to project power and influence in the region because of its willingness to support radicalism, act as a disruptive force and thus create a situation in which it cannot be ignored. Thus, Damascus backs a host of Palestinian groups opposed to a peaceful settlement of the conflict with Israel - including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP-GC and others. Syria offered significant support to the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. And most importantly, Damascus maintains influence in Lebanon - following its ignominious departure in 2005 - via its relationship with the pro-Iranian Shia militia, Hizbullah.
The ability to foment chaos and project influence in Lebanon is key for the Assad regime. The expulsion from that country was a personal humiliation for the young president, and its loss is exacting an economic cost on Damascus. Furthermore, the regime seeks to prevent at all costs the commencement of the work of the tribunal into the killing of former prime minister, Rafik al-Hariri. Its chosen method for doing this is the fomenting of instability in Lebanon and the instrument it chooses to use is Hizbullah.
The mainstream Arab states - most importantly Egypt and Saudi Arabia - are frightened by the growth of Iranian influence across the region. They are furious with Syria for its backing of non-Arab Iran. But only by backing the radical power in the region can Syria maintain its powerful role as mischief-maker. No Iran means no more fomenting radicalism, no more reaping the benefits of having to be bought off, no more pro-Iranian militias to help out in Lebanon, no return to Lebanon, and the nightmarish possibility of seeing major regime figures collared for the killing of Hariri. It is a near certainty that the regime will prefer to maintain all of these - with the additional mobilising charge of the "occupied Golan" into the bargain - rather than give it all up and become a minor, status quo power.
In other words, Syria is too deeply committed, on too many levels, to its alliance with Iran to consider abandoning it for the Golan and the Arab mainstream. Syria's conflict with Israel can't be separated out from Damascus's larger regional concerns. Hence, with all due respect to the Turkish mediators, we are faced here with another manifestation of that well-known Middle Eastern phenomenon: much ado about nothing.
Dr. Jonathan Spyer is a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya Israel. The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center DER SPIEGEL INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER - Wednesday April 30, 2008
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Palestinian militants discuss Israel truce in Cairo Israel opens key West Bank roadblock Obliteration and Obligation: The Nuclear Defense of Israel Rights groups: Israel violating international law PA to shun Israel's Independence Day visitors The Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel could have ended up ... Israel: Amnesty for Palestinians a success Israel pullout risks Iran foothold on Golan: minister Israel, Hamas trade blame over civilian deaths in Beit Hanun Damascus think tank chief handles Syrian talks on Israel Israeli State Radio Outs the Academic Fifth Column (by Steven Plaut)Israeli State Radio Outs the Academic Fifth Column By Steven Plaut Until now, Israel’s state-owned media have generally never done any investigative reporting on Israel’s Far left and Academic Fifth Column. The TV and radio stations are owned by the Israel Broadcasting Authority, and the IBA has always been a poorly-disguised bastion of the Left. Its heads have never hidden the fact that think their mission in life is to advance the Left’s agenda. That is why the decision to run a series of radio shows viciously attacking the academic far Left and the “Post-Zionists” is so significant, and why it has the far leftists in Israel soiling themselves in anguish. Last evening the first of what is promised to be a series of two-hour radio shows on the subject was aired on Reshet Bet, one of the large state-run radio channels in Israel. It can be heard via the internet in Hebrew where you need to click the program entitled “The Anti-Zionist Congress.” These shows are part of the wider state-media coverage of Israel’s 60th independence anniversary celebrations. The show lasted two hours so I cannot post a full protocol, but I will summarize it briefly here. The MC was Kobi Barkai and the producer and editor was Avraham Ben-Melech. The program was by far the best expose of Israel’s treasonous far Left to appear in the Israeli media to date. While giving plenty of time to the anti-Zionists to state their “claims,” in such a way that that no leftist has any legitimate grounds for complaint about the show, it also gave full time to critics of the Tenured Traitors to state THEIR claims. On the one hand, lengthy citations and statements by Ilan Pappe, Uri Ram, Shlomo Zand, and Teddy Katz were read or recited from interviews. But they were answered by critics of the “Post-Zionists,” including Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, Amnon Lord, and others. Also, the MC himself attacked the Anti-Zionist academics harshly and at length throughout the show and made it clear that the goal of the program was to expose a group of traitors that had grown up inside Israel. The main point made over and over was that there is no such thing as a “Post-Zionist,” and that those claiming to be so are really anti-Zionists seeking Israel’s annihilation. While some of the leftists say so openly in the show, the others pretend to be seeking only what is peaceful and good for Israel, but the show made it clear that this is only a pretense. The MC described at length how the “Post-Zionists” collaborate with anti-Semites, devote their energies to demonizing Israel as a Nazi-like, fascist apartheid state, accuse Israel of conducting “ethnic cleansing” and genocide against the peaceful innocent Palestinian Arabs, insist that Israel has always sought war and conflict, including being responsible for the Six Day War, but the Arabs have always sought peace. It even cited Avi Shlain’s claim that Israel was guilty of causing the Syrians to shell Israel before 1967 from the Golan Heights. The program described at length those Post-Zionists who deny that Jews are a people and insist Jews have no right to a state or self-determination. The program cited Tel Aviv University anti-Zionist (and communist) Prof. Shlomo Zand at length as declaring in his new recent “book” that Jews are not a people at all and that Jewish nationhood is a complete fabrication of the Zionists. The program described how such people seek to make Israel junk its flag and the national anthem to make Arabs feel more “welcome,” and otherwise seek to eliminate any semblance of any Jewish character to the state. It described at length the pseudo-history of Ilan Pappe and Teddy Katz, who invented an imaginary massacre of Arabs, supposedly by Jews in 1948 near Haifa. It cited Uri Ram, an anti-Zionist from Ben Gurion University, saying that there is no justification for the existence of any Jewish state. It cited Prof. Shlomo Avineri from the Hebrew University as saying that such academic leftists are seeking the annihilation of Israel. It repeatedly described such “Post-Zionists” as being driven by psychological disorders and Jewish self-hatred. I happen to consider the program a consequence of the many years of efforts by myself and others to expose the Tenured Traitors and the Academic Fifth Column in Israel. Most recently Isracampus.org.il is doing important work to expose these people. As one indication of the effectiveness of the radio program, I attach below the hysterical ravings of one of the worse anti-Zionist leftists from the University of Haifa as posted on a University of Haifa chat list for professors. It is unedited and spelling left uncorrected: From: “Micah Leshem” Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:35:16 +0300 Subject: [Segel-plus] Kol Israel disgusting sectorial demagoguery and propaganda Last night’s episode of “60 years of the Statel” (ùùéí ùðåú îãéðä) on Reshet Beth of Kol Israel (1905-2100h) was titled “The Anti Zionist Congress”. In part 1 (apparently the 2nd part is yet to be aired), the program let vent to a 3 hour diatribe of anti “New Historian” Academics, harbored by our universities, and associated them with Nazism, Antisemitism, and a variety of epithets that were also aimed at “some MKs” and, of course, the Palestinian citizens of the state. This vitriol was repeated 3-4 times: at the beginning of the program, and after each break for advertisements and the news. Some words from Pappe, Katz, and an Oxford Professor (apparently originally Israeli) were brought, each followed by demagoguery such as a lengthy quotation from an “anonymous American professor” (really, they stated s/he was “Anonymous”) and repeatedly the horrible crimes typical of intellectual Jews such as abysmal self-hatred etc etc. At no point was there any reference to historic facts, true or false, although in a giveaway line they mentioned that it was all started by the opening of the IDF archives! Itamar Rabinovitz was enlisted to explain that no minority is better treated in any western country than the Israeli Arabs – although some minor problems might need attention. The program is by A. Ben Melech and I have never heard a more sickening or partisan broadcast on Kol Israel previously, not even in pre-election party political broadcasts. I do not know if Arutz 7 broadcasts stuff like this, but allowing Government Radio to tout such a platform is an outrage, delegitimising differences of opinion at best, and academic and historical research at worst. I can think of no better justification for avoiding paying the agra at all costs. While it is quite possible that the majority of Jewish Israelis will dance on the roofs and invade the pitch in glee upon hearing this program, its iniquitous content is not a matter of opinion. It is a clear breach of trust by a major government authority in a supposedly free society. Micah I think that anything that could get Micah Leshem so hysterically angry must be a major national success! Posted by Ted Belman @ 6:10 am | [JWR] Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood (by Daniel Pipes)Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood By Daniel Pipes
Obama asserted in December, "I've always been a Christian," and he has adamantly denied ever having been a Muslim. "The only connection I've had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father's side came from that country [Kenya]. But I've never practiced Islam." In February, he claimed: "I have never been a Muslim. … other than my name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to the Islamic religion."
"Always" and "never" leave little room for equivocation. But many biographical facts, culled mainly from the American press, suggest that, when growing up, the Democratic candidate for president both saw himself and was seen as a Muslim.
Obama's Kenyan birth father: In Islam, religion passes from the father to the child. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) was a Muslim who named his boy Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Only Muslim children are named "Hussein".
Obama's Indonesian family: His stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was also a Muslim. In fact, as Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kantor of the New York Times: "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim." An Indonesian publication, the Banjarmasin Post reports a former classmate, Rony Amir, recalling that "All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims."
The Catholic school: Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades. Kim Barker of the Chicago Tribune confirms that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school." A blogger who goes by "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" found that "Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name 'Barry Soetoro' serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. … Barry's religion was listed as Islam."
The public school: Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times learned from Indonesians familiar with Obama when he lived in Jakarta that he "was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended." Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star visited the Jakarta public school Obama attended and found that "Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim." Although Siddiqui cautions that "With the school records missing, eaten by bugs, one has to rely on people's shifting memories," he cites only one retired teacher, Tine Hahiyari, retracting her earlier certainty about Obama's being registered as a Muslim.
Koran class: In his autobiography, Dreams of My Father, Obama relates how he got into trouble for making faces during Koranic studies, thereby revealing he was a Muslim, for Indonesian students in his day attended religious classes according to their faith. Indeed, Obama still retains knowledge from that class: Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times, reports that Obama "recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them [to Kristof] with a first-rate accent."
Mosque attendance: Obama's half-sister recalled that the family attended the mosque "for big communal events." Watson learned from childhood friends that "Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque." Barker found that "Obama occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers." One Indonesia friend, Zulfin Adi, states that Obama "was Muslim. He went to the mosque. I remember him wearing a sarong" (a garment associated with Muslims).
Piety: Obama himself says that while living in Indonesia, a Muslim country, he "didn't practice [Islam]," implicitly acknowledging a Muslim identity. Indonesians differ in their memories of him. One, Rony Amir, describes Obama as "previously quite religious in Islam."
Obama's having been born and raised a Muslim and having left the faith to become a Christian make him neither more nor less qualified to become president of the United States. But if he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president. [Chabad.org] Numbers (by Yanki Tauber)
Language of the Soul (by Jay Litvin)
[Chabad.org] The Parshah in a Nutshell, Kedoshim
[The Observer] Hizbollah builds up covert army for a new assault against Israel
DISHONOR MURDERS ARE NOT "RESISTANCE" (by Judith Apter-Klinghoffer)Judith Apter Klinghoffer http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/49860.htmlDISHONOR MURDERS ARE NOT "RESISTANCE"
In rising Euro-Muslim tensions Tony Blankley writes:
Perhaps the greatest secular gift to the world by Judeo-Christian civilization is its seminal concept of the individual, which it raises above the tribe or the collective. In Genesis, we are told that man is made in the image of God. Deuteronomy tells us that “each human by his own sin is to be judged” and “do not punish children for the sins of their fathers.” And of course, the biblical life and teachings of Jesus reflect the deep importance of the individual. Thus was planted in the soil of the West our uniquely heightened respect for the individual. And they are being murdered in ever increasing numbers: One estimate claims there may be one so-called honor killing a month in Britain. She is Kurdish. The killing was done in Sweeden. The decision was made in Austalia by a council of men. heart breaking German Charity Helps Turkish Women Escape Forced Marriages Murderous Mothers: The Hidden Female Face of Honor Killings Let us not forget the Double dishonor murder in Texas
Dr. Sharif Kanaana, a professor of anthropology at Birzeit University, explains:
What the men of the family, clan, or tribe seek control in a patrilineal society is reproductive power. Women for the tribe were considered a factory for making men. The honor killing is not a means to control sexual power or behavior. What's behind it is the issue of fertility, or reproductive power. Unfortunately, relativist multiculturalists provide these men with the tools to justify their brutality by arguing that women opposing it are collaborating with the anti-Muslim Western enemy. So, in an article on the subject published in Kurdish Iraq we find the argument that fighting for "honor killing" is fighting against alien democracy:
It is indicative that whenever I have discussed the issue with Kurds of either Turkey or Iraq, while they are against killing "in the name of honor," they do recognize the importance of honor and would rather "solve the problem" by either marriage or sending the girl away. But this apparent "choice" in the eyes of the family is like what Zizek says when he talks about the "choice" between "democracy or fundamentalism," a forced choice where "you're free to decide, on condition that you make the right choice." And he continues: "What is problematic in the way the ruling ideology imposes the choice on us is not 'fundamentalism' but, rather, democracy itself; as if the only alternative to 'fundamentalism' is the political system of liberal democracy." So, the Iraqi parliament refusal to increase the penalty (currently 3 years) for dishonor murder can be misrepresented as an act of cultural defiance. I hope the archbishop of Canterbury is proud of his tolerant view of this Basra father:
Rand Abdel-Qader told her best friend she had fallen for Paul, 22, who she met at a charity for displaced families where she was a volunteer. But "training" will not provide the solution. For in Jordan being raped will also get you murdered for dishonor. Only Jail can offer a modicum of security.
The time has come for intellectuals everywhere to unite in opposition to dishonor murders WITHOUT ANY IF OR BUTS. Abhorrence of past colonial sins should not serve as an excuse to justify the current murder of insufficiently submissive women just as it should not become an excuse to revive the Hindu tradition of Sati. Feminists must bite the bullet and admit that some traditional practices are vile. Enough is enough! [JPost.com] Rabbi leads interfaith delegation to Iran (by Haviv Rettig)
For the first time, an American rabbi will be traveling to Iran Tuesday on a mission of interfaith dialogue and understanding. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, one of the early forces behind the Jewish Renewal movement in America, will co-lead a delegation of 21 peace activists to the Islamic Republic on a mission "to humanize the face of Iran, lest we end up with a disaster of global proportions we cannot imagine," she told The Jerusalem Post by phone on Monday. Gottlieb, a longtime peace activist and recent cofounder of the Shomer Shalom Institute for Jewish Non-Violence, said her participation in the mission came out of Tuesday's threat by Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton that an Iranian assault on Israel would be met with an American response that would "obliterate" Iran. "It is important to negotiate and not threaten obliteration," Gottlieb believes, "in particular because there are between 30,000 and 40,000 Jewish people living in Iran, the oldest extant Jewish community in the Middle East, which has been there since the first exile in 586 BCE." The mission, the fifth "friendship and solidarity delegation" to Iran of the New York-based Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), is coordinated on the Iranian side with the Iranian Center for Interfaith Dialogue, described by FOR as "an official entity committed to supporting interaction between different religious communities." The itinerary of the trip, which returns to New York on May 13, includes Teheran, where the group will meet at least one representative of the Iranian government, according to Gottlieb, as well as the sacred Shi'ite city of Qom, and historic Esfehan and Shiraz. For Gottlieb, the Iranian Jewish community is an important factor in opening an interfaith dialogue with Iran. "Most world Jewry does not realize that the community is still there, and we have not asked ourselves how we can best protect and nourish that community. These are people who have chosen not to leave, because they have a deep connection to that place," she said. While the group will meet an government official, "our purpose is to meet civilian groups in the religious community, in arts and culture, students, women's groups." It's all part of an effort at "civilian diplomacy," which Gottlieb describes as "people-to-people [connections] to create a more positive environment on the ground for people to exchange productive dialogue and to create more understanding, to humanize the face of the enemy on both sides." Gottlieb rejects the idea that her participation on the mission may help legitimize a regime that publicly supports Holocaust denial. "Of course not. That [position] doesn't characterize me. FOR is very committed to the Jewish people and its well-being all around the world." Rather, "in every society there are people who represent hateful and unpopular positions that do not cultivate peace." What about the threat to Israel? "I don't think Iran is going to attack Israel; I think it's a chimera. Iran has never initiated a war. And the fact that Israel has never signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that it has nuclear weapons, is one of the reasons Iran wants nuclear weapons. Israel has already bombed Iraq and Syria. It is not [unreasonable] for Iran to think it will also be a target. Maybe we should be pressuring everybody to sign the NPT. We should be [backing] the forces of peace, not the forces advocating war." Gottlieb also disagrees with those who argue that a persuasive threat of force is necessary for diplomacy to be successful. "I think the American public accepts certain conventional ideas which are not borne out in history," she believes. "For instance, in the last 50 years there have been 72 nonviolent revolutions all around the world. If you ask the Iranian people, they are pleading with us not to go to war, saying to us, 'Let us solve our own problems, and let us work in our societies to make the changes we desire.'" One of the problems, she believes, is ignorance. "The history of Iran is not understood by the people of the US," she says. "If the American public cared to inform itself about the [American-supported] overthrow of [Iranian prime minister Mohammed] Mossadegh in 1953 and the politics we've engaged in towards Iran," they would see the situation differently. For Gottlieb, "unless we know the history, we'll be very vulnerable to the sound-bytes of our politicians. I'm traveling to better inform myself of what Iranians on the ground have to say, how they feel, what kind of support they want from us." Just three days after her return, Gottlieb will attend the Founders Conference in Chicago of Shomer Shalom. "I'm hoping to create a movement of Jewish people to study nonviolence both as a strategy and a way of life, to create seeds of peace, to build and nourish peace and understanding. That's what we're called to do in our tradition. I'm fulfilling a mitzva, and that's what a rabbi is supposed to do." She insists she is not naïve - "I've been at this for a long time, and I'm a student of history" - but simply has "great faith in the goodness of people, and I want to encourage that. I don't want to sit back passively while violence increases." She expects to face criticism for the trip, but criticism "can't stop us from thinking generations ahead. I'm doing this for my children and my grandchildren." New Spy Case Seen as Attempt to Delay Pollard Release (by Hillel Fendel)New Spy Case Seen as Attempt to Delay Pollard Release
by Hillel Fendel 
Speaking with Arutz-7's Yedidya HaCohen, Esther Pollard said, "I feel great disappointment at the Government of Israel. Everyone in the media comes to me and hears what they should be hearing from Ehud Olmert - namely, that this entire [Kadish] case has nothing to do with Jonathan Pollard, that it does not cancel out the fact that Pollard deserves immediate release, and that the government of Israel is obligated to work for this goal." A statement released by the Justice for Jonathan Pollard organization states that the U.S. "has put Israel on the defensive once again, with breaking 'news' in the American media accusing Israel of running a spy in the US prior to the Pollard case... It is not clear for how many years the U.S. has been sitting on this 'breaking news' story waiting for the right moment to hurl new accusations against Israel, and thus falsely and unfairly target Jonathan Pollard by association." The statement notes that "unlike other espionage cases in the US, which are dealt with on a case-by-case basis, every accusation against Israel is yielded like a club against Jonathan Pollard - as if the 23 years he has served is somehow not enough to make up for all of the sins of Israel." "It's Up to Olmert" She noted what she said was the "suspicious timing of the breaking 'news' story," just prior to President Bush's anticipated visit to the region for Israel's 60th anniversary. Several news analysts have made this connection as well, seeing the release of the story as an attempt to prevent Bush from possibly pardoning Pollard in time for the upcoming Presidential visit. "There is solid support for Jonathan's release," Mrs. Pollard said. "Every senior American official familiar with the case and the secret files - people like James Woolsey, former head of the CIA, and Senator Dennis DeConcini, former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time of Jonathan's arrest - have been on record for years saying it is time to release Jonathan Pollard. There is no excuse that trumps the 23 years that Jonathan has already served in American prisons." "My husband should not have to pay the price for this latest case," Esther told HaCohen. "What, 23 years in prison are not enough? Olmert should say clearly that the cases are not connected. It is hard for me that after 23 years, we are once again abandoned, and that no one stands up for him." Mrs. Pollard urged the Prime Minister not to be deterred by this "blatant attempt to put Israel on the defensive, and to simply do the right thing: Bring Jonathan home now, alive, in time for Israel's 60th anniversary!" Barry Rubin, "Egypt: Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea".
Egypt: Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea Egyptian President Husni Mubarak is 80. After over a quarter-century in office he is ready for more. But how much longer will his rule--or regime--continue?
And under him, Egypt has not done so badly, or has it?
Well that depends. He has kept Egypt stable and out of war, no mean feat, and even delivered a bit of economic development, though recently there have been bread riots. But there has been no big improvement.
One is reminded of the old Egyptian joke where the president's chauffer explains the difference among his last three bosses. Gamal Abdel Nasser (1952-1970) always turned left; Anwar al-Sadat (1970-1981) always turned right. Mubarak ordered: signal left, signal right, then park.
Has Egypt been parked for the last 27 years? In some respects, yes. Being parked is better than getting run down by a speeding auto, though not better than making steady progress. Rights have been limited and suppression periodic. Yet this falls well short of the police states ruling in Syria and, formerly, Iraq. Corruption is astronomical.
I can't talk about the ambiguity of Mubarak's regime without thinking of that great old Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song, first recorded by Cab Calloway's orchestra in 1931. It begins: "I don't want you, But I hate to lose you, You've got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea."
For his own people, Israel, and the United States (or the West in general), Mubarak's government is most unsatisfactory in very many ways. Egyptians face mismanagement and limits on freedom. Israel has a peace but a cold one. The United States and the West gets nominal cooperation from Cairo coupled with the government's lavish use of anti-Americanism, radical Arab nationalism, and even Islamist rhetoric to keep the masses mobilized on its side.
Still, what's the alternative: violent instability or a radical Islamist revolution? Or is there a realistic hope of something better, of a moderate democratic state? Here, good intentions or wishful thinking should never be given precedent over realistic appraisal.
In assessing a political situation, one should always remember politics is the art of the possible. Egypt is a country with "too many" people and not enough resources. There are no easy solutions.
"I ought to cross you off my list, But when you come knocking at my door,
Fate seems to give my heart a twist, And I come running back for more," sang Calloway.
After all, that heart-twisting fate involves things like Hamas's takeover, Iraq's internal war, Hizballah's aggression, and Iran's expansionism plus nuclear weapons' drive. We are used to thinking of Egypt as the most important of all Arab countries, and that's still true relatively speaking though far less than a decade or two or three ago.
By the force of realpolitik, the foreigners conclude about Mubarak's regime (Calloway again): "I should hate you, But I guess I love you, You've got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea."
Thus, the West and Israel keep hoping. Maybe Egypt will restrain Hamas in the Gaza Strip and give vigorous backing to a serious peace process. Or possibly Cairo will lead a moderate Arab coalition against the forces of the Iran-Syria led HISH (Hamas-Iran-Syria-Hizballah alliance. A Muslim government official recently told me he calls them, the Addams family). After all, these actions are in Egypt's own interests, aren't they?
Egypt's interests, though, are in playing both sides simultaneously to the greatest extent possible. An Egyptian diplomat actually told me not long ago that he had advised Israeli Arabs to pretend to be good citizens and demand to join the army so they could better subvert the country. State-owned Egyptian newspapers blame all the terrorism in Iraq on American conspiracies.
Meanwhile, though, the Muslim Brotherhood is going to top-quality tailors to design its sheep's' clothing so that it can better wolf down Egypt. Credulous, or ill-intentioned, Westerners are all-too-willing to accept that the country's Islamist brothers are really moderates. It's easy to do that, just ignore their program and everything they say in Arabic. Just because they don't like the competition--al-Qaida or Iran--doesn't make them moderates.
There is a decent, moderate, democratic-minded opposition. But it is far too weak and poorly organized. Even the main "reformist" group has now been taken over by the Brotherhood.Who would you bet on in a showdown? No contest.
So what comes next? Gamal Mubarak, the president's 45-year-old son, who is deputy secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party? Perhaps some ex-general turned provincial governor or another official?
In social terms, the country is becoming increasingly "Islamic" according to the more restrictive standards demanded by Islamists. Does that mean a political swing as well? Not necessarily but the danger bears close watching. Egypt is famous for muddling through. That's the most likely outcome but nobody should be too complacent in assuming that's the way things have to be.
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin); the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan); A Chronological History of Terrorism, with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley). Prof. Rubin's columns can be read online. The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center JWR TODAY: Tuesday, April 29, 2008JWR TODAY: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end * 1986, Roger Clemens sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners. ALSO: Fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library, some 400,000 books and other items damaged or destroyed * 1991, Bangladesh cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless * 1992, deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, Calif., acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. King has since been arrested again and again for various traffic related violations * 1993, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II announced that for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle * 2004, Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production * 2005, Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ I N S I G H T ] * Dennis Prager: PBS, Bill Moyers and the Rev. Wright http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/prager042908.php3 * Argus Hamilton skewers politics and contemporary "culture" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/hamilton042908.php3 * Tom Purcell: Gross National Happiness http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/purcell042908.php3 * Dave Weinbaum: Wimps no more http://jewishworldreview.com/dave/weinbaum042908.php3 * REV. WRIGHT LAUNCHES OWN 24-HR. CHANNEL All Wright, all the time, preacher promises --- Andy Borowitz http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/borowitz042908.php3 * Pat Sajak: The Left's Demonization of Hillary Clinton http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/sajak042908.php3 * Rich Lowry: A Christian Farrakhan http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/lowry042908.php3 * Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Incoherence on deterrence (INFORMED!) http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney042908.php3 * David Limbaugh: The Rev. Wright Just Can't Help Himself http://jewishworldreview.com/david/limbaugh042908.php3 * Wesley Pruden: A trashy decade threatens Obama (OUCH!) http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden042908.php3 * Michael Goodwin: No debate about it: Clinton's a bully http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/goodwin042908.php3 * Roger Simon: Obama: The know-too-much candidate? http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/simon042908.php3 * Dick Morris: Superdelegates must vote early http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/morris042908.php3 * Cal Thomas: H.O.P.E.F.U.L. http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas042908.php3 * George Will: A Pastor at Center Stage ... And a Parishioner With Questions to Answer http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will042908.php3 * Thomas Sowell: An Old Newness http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042908.php3 <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ L I F E S T Y L E S ] * Nutrition Myths by Gwen Schoen: Can diet help reflux disease? http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/schoen.php3 * Fertility test claims to measure good eggs http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/measure_good_eggs.php3 * Dr. Peter H. Gott: Reader sees red on grocery store meat; donating blood worry http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gott1.asp * Frugal Living by Sara Noel : Adventures in marriage: Grocery shopping http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/frugal_living.php3 * The Supermarket Shopper by Stephanie Nelson: Bonus program a relief in taxing times http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/supermarket_shopper.php3 <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/ Want to drop us a note? 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