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Aug 24, 2009
Aug 17, 2009
Real connection
Israeli Embassy honors injured US troops 
WASHINGTON – Thirty American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were guests of the Israel Defense Forces attaché and Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday night.
Thirty soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan invited to Israeli Embassy in Washington in appreciation of their actions against terror. Troops, their families accompanied by IDF officers Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON – Thirty American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were guests of the Israel Defense Forces attaché and Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday night. The injured troops, who are hospitalized at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, arrived at the Israeli Embassy building in Washington accompanied by their family members. Each of the soldiers – whether arriving in a wheelchair, on crutches or on his own two feet – was greeted by an Israeli officer who escorted him throughout the event, which also included dinner.
"The connection was real. The meeting was moving and heartwarming," Brigadier General Ronen Dan, the Israel Air Forces' attaché in Washington, told Ynet. "I admit I was skeptic, but I left with a good feeling. We come from a different battlefield, but we all fight terror, we all have injured and we share the same values.
"These are precious people with a lot of unpleasant injuries. They seemed amazed by our gesture. We had a feeling they were thanking us from the bottom of their hearts," added Dan, who delivered a speech during the event.
The American soldiers shared their experiences during the event and listened to the battle stories of their Israeli counterparts. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told the American troops about his three children's IDF service and how one of them was injured while arresting wanted Palestinians in the territories.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the rehabilitation of Americans wounded in war has been active for 100 years. It has treated some 150,000 US troops and has rehabilitated the most serious injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The hospital organizes visits in Washington restaurants and foreign embassies for its most severely wounded patients. The decision to invite the injured to the Israeli Embassy was made last year, in honor of the American soldiers' contribution to the war on terror.
Aug 14, 2009
Straight from my mail box
An Urgent Message from Dick Morris for the League of American Voters
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Aug 13, 2009
God Bless America
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| Poll: 70% of Americans see Israel as U.S. friend By Haaretz Servic | ||
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 More than two-third of Americans regard Israel as an ally despite recent diplomatic tensions, a nationwide survey conducted by the U.S. polling firm Rasmussen Reports has revealed.The 70 percent who view Israel as America's friend marks twice the number of respondents who view Egypt as an ally, though that Middle Eastern country has been polled as the most highly regarded Islamic country among Americans. | ||
Aug 7, 2009
Barack Obama made up as The Joker
‘Racism’ Cries a Tired Obama Double Standard
Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:19 PMBy: Pamela Geller
A real brouhaha has ensued since the appearance of the “socialism” poster of Barack Obama made up as The Joker. Once again, great Americans are being brandedas “racists.” Steven Mikulan said in the LA Weekly that the poster “has a bit of everything to appeal to the drunk tank of California conservatism: Obama is inwhite face, his mouth (like Ledger’s Joker’s) has been grotesquely slit wideopen and the word ‘Socialism’ appears below his face. The only thing missing isa noose.” And Bedlam Magazine charged: “The Joker white-face imposed on Obama’s visage has a sort of malicious, racist, Jim Crow quality to it.”
Patriots, be on notice. This is the favorite tactic of the left. Any criticism of Obama, no matter what or how legit, will be labeled racism. Tea party? Racist! Opposition to socialism? Racist! Opposition to nationalized
healthcare? Racist! Opposition to cap and tax? Racist! Opposition to the ethnic cleansing of Jewish people in Israel? Racist!
This tactic used to be effective. One case study is the 2006 Virginia Senate race, and the destruction of George Allen’s re-election campaign by the “macaca” incident. A presidential contender was destroyed by a leftopathic lie, despite the fact that the charge of racism was utter nonsense. Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s insult to Indian people went unremarked and unnoticed in the main stream media.
The media has also ignored the real significance of the Obama Joker poster. It isn’t racism; it’s a sign of America’s rude awakening. The editor of the American Thinker, Thomas Lifson, observed that the poster showed that the inevitable backlash against Obama’s far-left policies has begun: “It is starting. Open mockery of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader.” But Lifson noted that “the President’s supporters have condemned the image, calling it ‘mean-spirited and dangerous.’ ”
Mean-spirited? Dangerous? Racist?
For years I covered the left’s spiteful and malicious attacks on President George W. Bush. He was likened to Hitler. “Bushitler” was so commonly used, it became a cliché. Leftists compared the jihadi attack on the twin towers to the Reichstag fire. And other motifs came into play as well: Vanity Fair even published an image of Bush as . . . The Joker. No one said a peep. Not a word. Instead, we were told that “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
And indeed it can be, at least unless you cross our Dear Leader Barack Obama. After eight years of relentless Bush bashing and America hating, The New York Times’s opinion makers are warning about the dangers of dissent. Bob Herbert recently warned about “right-wing hate-mongers” and “gun crazies.” Frank Rich sounded the alarm about “far-right rage.” Paul Krugman worried over “the rise of right-wing extremism.” Charles M. Blow came out more or less openly for a police state: “Society needs to do a much better job of creating an environment where hateful beliefs are never ignored and suspicious behavior never goes unreported.” What kind of “hateful beliefs”?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear who these people have in mind when she lied outright about anti-Obama protesters, claiming that they’re “carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare.”
LIE! This has never happened at any of our rallies and protests. The left employed the swastika for years against Bush; the right has never engaged in this. Pelosi is spreading more lies and smears of good, decent folks. At the leftist rallies, the hatred against Bush was pushed and promoted relentlessly. The rallies that were organized by the far left infrastructure for years never hesitated to orchestrate the most vicious attacks on Bush. But when one poster mocking Obama appears in Los Angeles — a poster that was not orchestrated, not
part of any moveon.org strategy — and it’s the shot heard round the world.What happened to “dissent is the highest form of patriotism”?The left should be warned: The libelous smear of racism has lost its sting.
If everything is racism, then nothing is. The charge has lost its power. The more that leftists pull this evil trick,the more folks will shrug. The sad and terrible thing is that by using this tactic, the left has obscured the true evil of genuine racism. The fact is, when the left makes everything about race, and sees everything through a prism of “racism,” it shows us who the real racists are.
Pamela Geller is the editor and publisher of the Atlas Shrugs Web site and former associate publisher of the New York Observer.
Her Op-Eds have appeared in the Washington Times, News max, Human Events,World Net Daily, the American Thinker,Israel National News, and other publications.
© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Hillary Clinton:- “deeply regrettable” and “provocative.”
U.S. Keeps Israel on the Hot Seat
By: P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 07, 2009
The State Department has complained to Michael Oren, the recently appointed Israeli ambassador to the U.S., for at least the second time in recent weeks.
Last time it was because of Israel’s plans to build 20 apartments in sovereign Israeli territory in East Jerusalem. This time it’s over Israel’s eviction of two Palestinian families from homes in sovereign Israeli territory in East Jerusalem.
Israel’s liberal Supreme Court, which has often ruled in favor of Palestinians in property disputes, this time ruled that the properties belonged to Jewish families who claimed ownership. That didn’t stop Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—in addition to State officials’ phone call to Oren—from dubbing the evictions “deeply regrettable” and “provocative.”
The Obama administration, in trying to propel diplomatic activity between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab states, has been accused of putting one-sided pressure on Israel. The administration claims it’s also trying to get Arab states to make gestures toward Israel, and the Palestinians to stop anti-Israeli incitement. But State’s latest admonition to Oren gives the lie to any such claim to a balanced approach.
If the administration wanted to publicly accost the Palestinian Authority for behavior such as incitement, it could easily do so. Palestinian Media Watch has reported, for instance, on a Fatah-sponsored high school graduation ceremony in the West Bank (watch the proceedings here) where “high school graduates in a speech identify the Israeli cities Haifa, Acre, Jaffa and Jerusalem as part of ‘Palestine.’” A female and male graduate bellow things like “In the name of the Shahids [Martyrs], in the name of the prisoners, in the name of the stone and the rifle,” and “Fatah is [still] with the rifle. And our rifles are not rusty even if they have fired thousands of bullets.”
More blatant incitement—high school graduates in an official ceremony calling for Israel’s violent destruction—could hardly be imagined. But it’s not as if State has called anyone at the PLO’s mission in Washington (Obama signed a waiver in April allowing it to keep operating) to transmit a rebuke.
Or if that proved too cumbersome, it could have been done directly through the US Consulate in Jerusalem itself. But as noted this week in a full-page newspaper ad by the American Israeli Action Coalition, the consulate, albeit now located in pre-1967 West Jerusalem where Israel has been sovereign since 1948, is hardly an objective body. Its website is concerned solely with West Bank and Gaza Palestinians and not at all with Israel and Israelis, appears in English and Arabic but not in Hebrew, and so on.
State’s bias in not recognizing any part of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is, of course, familiar. Practically blotting Israel out of the Jerusalem consulate’s website, however, and presenting the consulate as almost solely a delegation to the Palestinians, has something strikingly less than evenhanded about it.
With such prevailing biases, there can be no realistic hope that the extremism being displayed in this week’s sixth General Assembly of Fatah in Bethlehem will be seriously noted by the administration or divert it from its path of trying to push Israel into concessions.
As opposed to perfectly legal measures by Israel like building homes or evicting illegal residents from other homes, the administration will not take the Palestinians to task, for instance, for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s statement to the assembly that “we…reserve our authentic right to legitimate resistance”—a codeword for terror—or the fact that “large posters featuring Palestinian children brandishing rifles decorated the conference hall and public squares in Bethlehem.”
Even many of those who believe in a genuine Israeli-Palestinian peace process as an imminent possibility are disturbed by the administration’s negative focus on Israel. To be fair, both the Clinton and Bush II administrations (and not a few Israeli leaders) shared the ability to overlook Fatah’s objectionable actions and words. But this administration’s spotlighting of Israel as the alleged bad boy—whatever the administration’s protestations—goes on. It causes unnecessary frictions in the relationship and does nothing to promote peace or U.S. interests, while continuing to chip away at Israel’s already badly maligned image.
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P. David Hornik is a freelance writer and translator living in Tel Aviv. He blogs at http://pdavidhornik.typepad.com/. He can be reached at pdavidh2001@yahoo.com.
Aug 6, 2009
64 years since Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)The end of the war  This photo shows a ‘mushroom cloud’ over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The ‘cloud’ was caused by the detonation of the first atomic bomb there in August 1945. Around 140,000 people lost their lives in this single explosion. The Allies wanted to force Japan to surrender by using this new weapon. Japan only surrendered after America dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. With Japan’s surrender the Second World War was truly over. Germany and Italy had already surrendered. Never before in history had so many countries and so many people taken part in a single war. People in Africa, Asia and South America were also involved in the war, because many of these nations were colonies of European countries. Soldiers from many colonies fought in the war. |
Jul 4, 2009
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