I stopped reading TIME magazine when I was a teenager because it was obvious that it wasn’t objective or concerned with truth–but this is just sick. After blogs like LGF pointed to it, the praise copy ("champion of the dispossessed" and "global everyman") was edited out on the magazine’s web site.
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Tagged Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, TIME magazine
"As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, I remember my teachers, my mom and our neighbors telling us practically on a daily basis that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam," former Netherlands parliament member Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes. "For the majority of Muslims in the world, the Holocaust is not a major historical event that they deny. We simply do not know it ever happened because we were never informed of it."
Worth a read.
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Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Holocaust, Iran
Talk about gall. UN kleptocrat Kofi Anan journeyed to Missou to use the Truman Library for his last speech, digging at President Bush for various awful things, such as freeing 50-odd million people from tyranny, as Anan, a greater friend to dictators than even Jimmy Carter, handed in his resignation and left the building the US hosts and pays for. Truman must be rolling over in his grave.
But, then, Kofi has never lacked for irony. As another parting gesture, he inaugurated the UN Human Rights Council in June. And what has it done? Condemn genocide in Darfur? Seek to ameliorate the oppression of women in (pick one) any Arab country? Nah. It spends all of its energy attacking Israel. Go home, Kofi, and stay there.
UPDATE Better late than never, he finally mentioned the situation in Darfur in another of his "last" speeches. Muslim women, however, are still off his radar screen.
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Tagged Israel, Kofi Anan, UN Human Rights Council
There’s been lots of banter in the blogosphere on the Iraq Study Group’s amazingly convoluted recommendations, much of it glossing over co-director James Baker’s longstanding financial and other ties to Saudi Arabia, but noting that out of all the proposed Middle Eastern conferences and diplomacy, the one country left out entirely is Israel. While making the Golan Heights a bargaining chip for Iraqi peace.
Some say that was predictable, given Baker’s reputed remark to Bush senior years ago to "F…the Jews, they didn’t vote for us anyway," since few of them are Republicans. But Baker, of Houston, has been known in Texas for cynicism ever since he ran for attorney general back in the 1980s. His television ads featured him slamming a cell door while talking about locking up criminals and throwing away the key. He didn’t invent the imagery or the slogan, he just mined it for all it was worth. What he knew, and what he also knew at least some of the electorate didn’t know, was that the Texas AG handles only civil cases. Not criminal ones. Forturnately for Texans, he lost.
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Posted in Iraq, Israel, The War
Tagged Iraq Study Group, James Baker
That rabbi who succeeded in getting fifteen Christmas trees banned from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport might be attracting rousing cheers from some Muslims, a secular busybody or two, pushy atheists and the ACLU, but at least one Israeli Jew finds his behavior antithetical to the Hebrew bible.
"I would recommend that the learned rabbi…check [the] Torah, there definitely must be a mention of ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (by Moses, I believe?) or, in simpler words: ‘What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man’ (Hillel). Unless there was a new edition I am not aware of."
Meanwhile, some Christmas trees are reappearing on airline counters at the airport. And the Orthodox rabbi, Elazar Bogomilsky, says he didn’t mean to be a grinch, although he did threaten to sue. He only wanted a Hannuka menorah, in honor of the Festival of Lights which begins Friday, to have equal time with the trees, but airport officials chose to remove the trees, instead.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Scribbles
Tagged Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Simply Jews blog
When you’re translating to English from a language with a different alphabet (especially one without vowels), nobody can decide how to spell it. But that’s no biggie. Not when the holiday begins only a few days from now (Friday, actually), and there’s the first-ever blog carnival about it to attend. So attend.
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The Iraq Study Group’s recommendations for solving the problems in Iraq? Make them bigger by, among other things, offering to return the Golan Heights to Syria. Huh?
"The normal approach to a difficult problem would be to bound or simplify it. But the ISG recommendations try the exact opposite: it adds complexity to the already complex situation."
It will be interesting to see what the headline writers do with this one. Simplicity ain’t in it.
UPDATE The Wall Street Journal dubs it "The Iraq Muddle Group," but notes it serves the useful purpose of denying any fast departure and underlines the stark consequences of a failure there.
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Posted in Iraq, Israel, The War, Troops
Tagged Golan Heights, Iran, Iraq, Iraq Study Group, Pajamas Media, Syria
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