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Lessons Along the Journey Introduction
by paraisrael (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 11:25:26 PM
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Lessons Along the Journey
Introduction
Earths crammed with heaven, and
every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his
shoes. The rest sit round and pluck
blackberries. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
I stepped into New York Citys St.
Patricks Cathedral to escape the
snow and sleet of an icy November
afternoon. As the massive wood
doors creaked closed, I shook off the
chill and decided to tour the church
while I warmed up. Id never visited
St. Patricks, and the exquisite
interior caught my attention. I turned
to my right and began moving along
the Stations of the Cross. I strolled
passed stained glass windows and
lingered at statues of Saints
illuminated in the glow of flickering
candles.
Then I noticed the other visitors also
wandering through the sanctuary.
Many paused when some object of
devotion caught their interest. Others
sat quietly in pews. A few knelt in
prayer. Some slept. Most, though,
continued their tour until they
reached the front door and exited
back onto the street. As I watched, I
realized each person illustrated points
along my journey toward Christ.
My journey began in Judaism. Mom
did her best to give my sister and me
some semblance of religious training,
but she was too caught up in her own
life dramas to do more than live her
Jewish culture before us during
holidays such as Rosh Hashonna,
Yom Kippur, and Passover. But
because I saw her pray over the
Yahrzheit candles commemorating
her mothers death, I learned there is
a God in heaven, and that we can
speak to Him.
I still remember my first prayer. I
said it every night for years during
my early childhood: Oh God, please
God, dont let anything happen to me,
Andrea, or my mother. For reasons I
now forget, I didnt want my mom to
know I was praying, so I spoke
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secretly to God while lying in bed
with the lights out.
And also for reasons I now forget, I
stopped talking to Him when I was
around 12-years-old. We remained
estranged until my later teen years
when I grew curious about my
mothers God. What was He like?
What did He think of me? Did He
think of me? I wandered through the
doors of faith in much the same way
as one visits a church more from
curiosity than devotion. I prayed,
gave to charities, fasted, and tried to
follow the Ten Commandments.
But the longer I visited God, the
more I learned He required things I
was unwilling to give. Like
obedience. Commitment. Sacrifice. It
wasnt long before I sought the
nearest exit and stepped back onto the
wind-whipped streets.
All that changed when I was twenty-
two. Protestant acquaintances
introduced me to a kind of
relationship with God I never knew
possible. I soon experienced the
warmth of our Saviors forgiveness
and acceptance. At times, I even
sensed His presence as close as the
air around me. During the following
three decades in evangelical
fellowships, I learned about prayer,
worship, surrender, and confession. I
taught Sunday school classes, led
home Bible studies, and discussed
theological nuances in spirited
conversations with my friends over
coffee.
But like those asleep in the pews, I
often dozed in the midst of the
journey. I grew comfortable with my
walk with Christ, I became satisfied
with my Bible knowledge, church
attendance, and religious acts.
Without realizing it, I had lost the
distinction between doctrinal
accuracy and passion, between
knowing about God and falling
deeper in love with Him. My religion
had become little more than
monotonous routine. My church
attendance faltered. My prayer life
withered.
Thats where I was in my journey
that cold November day when I
escaped the weather. Thats where I
was when something else caught my
attention in the Cathedral, something
that reminded me why, despite my
growing coldness, I continued to
press forward.
I stared at the crucifix suspended
behind the altar, and meditated on
why the King of Glory emptied
Himself of unfathomable grandeur
and clothed Himself with inglorious
flesh. Why did He subject Himself to
hunger, cold, pain, and a hundred
other afflictions common to our
frailty? Most of all, why did He
permit Himself to be mauled, spat
upon, and then nailed to a splintered
cross?
Scripture tells why. From the earliest
hours of creation, to its final curtain
at the end of the age, God wove His
deeply intimate love for each of us
into the tapestry of history, history
that culminated on the Cross and
exploded from the empty tomb
through timeless eternity. The Cross
is our assurance that, despite our
failures, sins and heartaches, the
Father stands beside us, urging us to
fix our eyes on the journeys end.
The journeys end. Although I
converted to Christ in 1972, I didnt
begin writing about the lessons I
learned along my journey until 1995.
It would be another decade after that
before the path led me into the
Catholic Church.
Written at different points along my
walk with Christ, and compiled here
in relative order of their initial
publication, these essays tell of my
ambling journey from trust, to doubt,
to confidence, to uncertainty, and
back again to trust. They tell of the
many times I learned obedience, and
the oh-so-many times I failed to obey.
They illustrate how often I learned of
Gods glory, only to take His glory
for granted. And they chronicle how
the heavenly Father continued to
reach for me, even as I stumbled and
strayed from the narrow way.
I hope you will find my experiences
of some value as you make your own
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way toward the Kingdom.
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I have wandered all my life, and I
have traveled; the difference between
the two is this we wander for
distraction, but we travel for
fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
Richard Maffeo earned his
baccalaureate and masters degrees
from Pentecostal schools, and taught
Bible classes in a variety of Protestant
churches before being received into
the Catholic Church in 2005. He has
published hundreds of inspirational
articles and is the author of We
Believe: Forty Meditations on the
Nicene Creed (Xulon Press, ISBN
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Golan: A novel of the 1973 Yom
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A 10-year-old Israeli boys
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This Day, June 20, In Jewish History
by melamed&mavin (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 4:44:00 PM
JUNE 20 In Jewish History
840: Louis the Pious, King of the
Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor
by virtue of being the son of
Charlemagne. When it came to
dealing with his Jewish subjects,
Louis followed in the footsteps of his
father. During his reign charters were
issued giving Jews permission live
according to their Law. They
promised protection of body and
property and permitted freedom of
movement and trade includingthe
right to hire Christians to work in
their homes. Some Jews were also
exempted from the laws of trial by
ordeal of fire and water. Rothschild elevation to the House of
1214: University of Oxford received
its charter. Jews were not always
welcome at Oxford. The Oxford
University Reform Act passed in
1854 allowed Jews to take degrees at
Oxford. Today, Oxford offers degrees
in both Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
1391: The Christian population of
Toledo rose against the largest Jewish
community in Spain. Four thousand
Jews were killed.
1567: Jews were expelled from
Brazil by order of Regent Don
Henrique
1652: During the reign of Mehemed
IV, Tarhoncu Ahmet Pa?a was
appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman
Empire. During Pasas time of
service, Mehmemed Jews fleeing the
Chmielnitzki Uprising were
encouraged to settle on the banks of
the Danube in Morea, Kavala,
Istanbul and Salonica.
1768: The third of the Haidamack
uprisings called Koliyivschyna began.
During the uprising an estimated
50,000 Ukrainian Jews were
murdered by the Cossacks. The
Haidmamaks were gangs of
Cossacks, who along with their
peasant allies robbed traveling
merchants and plundered the towns
and villages in the Ukraine. They saw
themselves as heirs to Khmelnitski.
The Khmelnitski were the Cossacks
who slaughtered Jews and Poles in
wholesale lots in the middle of the
17th century. Both of these
murderous slaughters were part of the
drift into degradation that became the
lot of increasing numbers of Eastern
European Jews. This drift into
degradation brought about numerous
responses on the part of the Jews
ranging from mysticism and
messianicism to the Haskalah and
immigration to Western Europe and
eventually to the New World.
1757: In Kameiek (Podolia), the
Frankists, calling themselves
Zoharists, decided to wage war
against the Talmud. They contacted
the local bishop, Dembovsky, and
convinced him to arrange a
disputation. Naturally, the Talmud
was condemned and thousands of
copies were burned. The Frankists
then became practicing Christians.
The Frankists were Jews who were
followers of Jacob Frank who had
proclaimed himself the Messiah.
1808: Birthdate of Rabbi Samson
Raphael Hirsch, leading founder of
what some call Modern Orthodox
Judaism.
1837: With the death of her uncle,
King William IV, Queen Victoria
assumes the throne. Since the British
monarch reigns but does not rule, her
influence on the progress of Jews of
Britain and Europe were primarily
tangential. Her treatment of Jews was
a mixed bag. During the Damascus
Blood Libel, the Queen put a British
ship at the disposal of her friend and
neighbor Moses Montefiore. But in
1869, the Queen blocked Lionel
at Auschwitz.
Lords. However, later she would
agree to the elevation of Lionels son
and would socialize with the French
branch of the Rothschild family when
she made trips across the channel.
The change was brought about by
Jewish financial support for the Suez
project and her relationship with
Benjamin Disraeli.
1879: In New York City, The Jewish
Messenger reports that A new
congregation has been started on East
57th Street, called Orach Chaim.
Some of the members of the new
congregation were disaffected
members of Adas Israel, another
congregation located on the same
street.
1892: Birthdate of Barnett Janner
British politician and leader of the
Jewish community. He was first
elected to the House of Commons at
the 1931 general election as a Liberal,
for the Whitechapel and St Georges
constituency in the East End of
London. He lost his seat at the 1935
election. Janner returned to
Parliament ten years later, when he as
returned at the 1945 general election
as Labour MP for Leicester West.
When that constituency was
abolished for he 1950 election, he
was re-elected for the new Leicester
North West. He held that seat until he
retired from the Commons at the
1970 general election, when his seat
was held for Labour by his son
Greville. In June 1970, he was made
a life peer as Baron Janner, of the
City of Leicester. He held many
positions in the Jewish community,
including President of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews, 1955-64.
He passed away on May 4, 1982.
1902: Herzl learns that Turkey
accepted the Rouvier Project.
Maruice Rouvier was one of those
permanent political animals created
by the revolving door governments in
the days of Frances Third Republic.
He was not Jewish. Depending upon
who formed the government Rouvier
held different cabinet posts including
finance and foreign affairs. He was
Prime Minister twice himself. At this
time, Rouvier was serving as the
Minister of Finance. At the same
time, like most French politicians, he
was always looking for ways to
counter German influence. The Turks
were in need of financial assistance
and Rouvier was willing to do what
he could if it would keep the Kaiser
out of the Mediterranean.
1905: Birthdate of playwright Lillian
Hellman.
1917: Birthdate of Franklin Littell, a
pioneer in the field of Holocaust
scholarship, who was also president
of Iowa Wesleyan College and a
founding board member of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
in Washington. His best-known book,
The Crucifixion of the Jews, pressed
his view that Christianity is
essentially Jewish and that Jesus, Paul
and Peter would have been executed
murder of innocent Arabs and Jews
1918: United States President Wilson
sent Henry Morgenthau and Felix
Frankfurter to Egypt to investigate
how to best aid Jews in Palestine.
1921: Shortstop Reuben Ewing made
his major league debut with the St.
Louis Cardinals.
1928: A court in Tel Aviv imposed
short jail terms and sentences of
deportation on three Jews who
resisted the police efforts to break up
a demonstration protesting the
flogging of prisoners in Palestine
jails. The three were additionally
accused of being Communists. The
demonstration was part of a larger
protest by Jews against the propensity
of the British immigration authorities
for deporting Jews on the slightest
pretext with little or no evidence of
serious wrongdoing.
1931: A newspaper in Salonica
called the Macedonia ran an article
about a resident named Isaac D.
Cohen. Cohen was sent as a
representative to the meeting of the
Maccabiah which was held in Sophia,
Bulgaria. However the newspaper
stated while away, he also attended a
conference held by a revolutionary
organization, which had come up
with the decision to sue for the
independence of Greek and Yugoslav
Macedonia. This lie led to attacks on
Jews who were said not to be
patriotic.
1931: Birthdate of actor Martin
Landau.
1936: The Palestine Post reported
that according to the new Palestine
Emergency Regulations a life
sentence could be imposed on any
person carrying arms, bombs or
incendiary material. Arab attacks on
Jewish settlements continued
unabated. Police patrols were stoned
in Arab villages and three British
soldiers were injured in various
shooting incidents throughout the
country.
1939: In commenting on wave of
violence gripping Palestine including
yesterdays bombing in Haifa, Davar
wrote, Who throws bombs? Is it the
same hand that is sowing blood and
ruin in the Arab market in the Jewish
suburb? These are not the ways of the
Jewish population in Palestine in their
struggleRuin and paralysis of
economic life will only hurt the Jews
in Palestine. Sacrifices may be
necessary for our political struggle
but every act paralyzing our life
unnecessarily weakens the Jews here
more than its sabotages the Palestine
Governments new policy and it only
causes failure of Palestine Jewrys
struggle against the policy. In a
separate column, David Ben Gurion
condemned the violence saying The
Jews must sacrifice everything for
immigration, colonization, self-
defense and independence but we
must not sully our struggle with
despicable acts of madness such as
have been recently committed at Tel
Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. The
and stupid sabotage are act that are
only helping our most bitter enemies.
Such criminal acts soil our just
struggle, undermine the efficiency of
our work and play the game of our
foes.
1939: Final broadcast of Song
School, a radio show featuring Jewish
Jazzman Benny Goodman
1940: On the day when France
surrendered to Germany Propper de
Callejn was First Secretary of the
Spanish Embassy in Paris. In order to
prevent the German army from
plundering the art collection that his
wifes family kept at the Chateau de
Royaumont, he declared this castle to
be his main residence, so it would be
treated in the same privileged way as
the accommodation of any other
diplomat. Among the art works thus
saved are a triptych of Van Eyck (one
of Adolf Hitlers favorite painters). In
July 1940, , in co-operation with the
Portuguese Consul Arstedes de
Sousa Menendes, he would issue
from the Spanish Consulate in
Bordeaux more than thirty thousand
transit visas to Jews, so that they
could cross Spain to reach Portugal.
When Spains Foreign Minister
Ramn Serrano Suer learned that
Propper de Callejn was issuing visas
without the previous authorization of
his Ministry, he had him transferred
to the Consulate of Larache in the
Spanish protectorate in Morocco.
Afterwards, he would be posted to
Rabat, Zurich Washington, Ottawa
and Oslo. Propper de Callejns
father, Max Propper, was a Bohemian
Jew, and his mother, Juana Callejn,
was a Spanish Catholic; they raised
Eduardo and his brothers in the
Catholic faith His wife, Hlne Fould
-Springer was a socialite and painter.
She was from a notable Jewish
Austrian-French banking family,
though she converted to Catholicism
upon their marriage and is a sister of
prominent Paris art patron and
philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild
(Baroness lie de Rothschild,)
19162003). He never gained public
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recognition for his heroic acts before
his death in 1972 in London.
1942: Grace Goodside married
cinematographer Jess Paley meaning
that she would gain fame as Grace
Paley.
1942: Mass killings of Jews by the
Nazis began at Auschwitz.
1942: From now until October 9th,
13,776 Jews would be deported from
Vienna to Theresienstadt
1943: Five thousand Jews from
Amsterdam are deported to
Auschwitz.
1943: The Ternopol (Ukraine)
Ghetto is liquidated.
1943: Himmler sent 100 Jews to a
concentration camp in Alsace called
Natzweiler. They were killed there
and their skeletons were sent to the
Anatomical Museum in Strasbourg.
1943: Five thousand, five hundred
Jews were rounded up in Amsterdam
and deported.
1945(9th of Tamuz, 5705): German
born author and playwright Bruno
Frank passed away. Frank left
Germany after the Reichstag Fire and
eventually made his way to the
United States.
1945: Aware that British hostility to
the Zionist enterprise was often a
mask for anti-Semitism, Churchill
cautioned his colleague Lord Croft to
not be drawn into any campaign that
might be represented as anti-
Semitism.
1947(2nd of Tamuz, 5707): Ben
Bugsy Siegel was gunned down by
fellow mobsters over financial
irregularities surrounding the building
of the Flamingo in Las Vegas.
1948: During the Israeli War for
Independence, the Etzel (Irgun) ship
Altelena reached the coast of Tel
Aviv carrying 800 new immigrants
and weapons. The Etzel claimed they
had an agreement that 20% of the
arms on board would be used by its
members in defending Jerusalem.
David Ben Gurion, head of the new
state of Israel, saw this as threat to the
power of the new government. He
believed that there could only be one
army and that it had to be under the
control of the national government. If
the Irgun wanted to fight, then its
members had to become part of the
army just as the members of the
Palmach and the Haganah had done.
Ben Gurion refused to accept any
compromise on this point. He ordered
the ship to be fired upon. The incident
almost caused a civil war and was
only averted by an impassioned and
at times incoherent speech made by
Menachem Begin to his followers
over the radio that night not to take
up arms against fellow Jews. One
only has to look at multiplicity of
armed groups operating today on the
West Bank and Gaza to see what
would have happened if Ben Gurion
had not reluctantly taken such bold
action which was necessary if the
new state of Israel was going to be a
coherent nation.
1948(13th of Sivan, 5708): Twenty
Jews were killed in a bombing in the
Jewish Quarter of Cairo.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported
that legislation empowered the
minister of finance to underwrite up
to 50 percent of mortgage loans for
the construction of low-cost housing.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported
that Britain had promised to press
Egypt to open the Suez Canal for oil
tankers bound for the Haifa refineries.
Contrary to earlier news, General
William Riley, chief UN
representative in the Middle East,
reported to the UN Security Council
on June 13 that Egyptian interference
with Israel-bound shipping in the
Suez Canal was an aggressive,
hostile action, undertaken in the spirit
of blockade and having partial effects
of a blockade.
1952: In address to the Commercial
and Industrial Club, Schmuel
Elyashiv, Israels Ambassador in
Moscow said there were prospects
of expanding Israels trade relations
with Russia. This year Israel shipped
oranges and bananas to Russia. The
Soviets would have bought more if
the Israelis had produced a larger
crop.
1954: Birthdate of Ilan Ramon,
Israels first astronaut.
1965(20th of Sivan, 5725): Bernard
Baruch passed away.
1965: The New York Times reports
on the challenge facing Jack Benny as
he faces the first summer in 33 years
when he does not find himself in the
midst of hectic preparations for a new
season on radio or television.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported
that the US administration informed
Israel that it would receive $200m. in
transitional aid, much less than it was
expected. Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin told the Labor Party
symposium Israeli Arab citizens are
entitled to full and equal rights, but
with the knowledge that not all the
duties of equal citizens are demanded
of them, nor can all rights be granted
to them as long as the enmity of the
surrounding Arab world to Israel
persists.
1977: Shlomo Hillel completes his
term as Interior Minister
1977: Yosef Burg begins his terms as
Interior Minister
1982: Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin arrived in
Washington.
1985: In Dublin, the Irish Jewish
Museum is opened by the Irish born
former President of Israel Dr. Chaim
Herzog during his State visit to
Ireland.
1990: Actress Ina Balin died at the
age of 52 from pulmonary
hypertension.
1990: Rabbi With Tefillin by Jan
Styka goes on sale at Christies
Auction House. The painting
completed in 1892 was the product of
a Polish artist. Can such a painting be
described as Jewish Art? Look at the
canvas and you decide.
1999: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including Noahs Flood: The
New Scientific Discoveries About the
Event That Changed History by
William Ryan and Walter Pitman.
2004: In an article styled
Remembering Anne Frank, now 75,
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes
events around the world intended to
celebrate the life and writings of one
of the most famous victims of the
Shoah.
2004: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including War, Evil, and the
End of History by Bernard-Henri
Lvy; translated by Charlotte
Mandell.
2006: Haaretz reported that Israels
ambassador to Germany presented
medals of honor on Monday to
relatives of five members of the first
European Union an anti-Nazi showcase some of Australias best
resistance group whose members hid
and fed Jews during World War Two.
This European Union, which had the
same name but nothing to do with the
modern 25-nation bloc of European
countries, was an underground,
Marxist-oriented group with around
50 to 60 German members, according
to a protocol prepared by Yad
Vashem Holocaust museum.
2007: In Jerusalem legendary Israeli
composer/singer Shlomo Gronich
presents his newest compositions of
biblical sources on a wide spectrum
of themes: justice, righteousness,
integrity, man and his identity, love
songs & prayers. The performance
includes Gronich on piano & shofar,
the Jerusalem String Quartet and
percussion.
2007: The Jerusalem Post carried a
page one report stating that Shin Bet
had foiled a bombing of the
synagogue in Modin known as the
pizza shul or Zichron LAvraham. Lemony Snicket, and his bestselling
2008: In Washington, D.C. Stephen
Joel Trachtenberg, the former
president of George Washington
University, discusses and signs Big
Man on Campus: A University
President Speaks Out on Higher
Education at Politics and Prose
Bookstore.
2008: The Spertus Museum
announced that it was shutting dow
n an exhibition entitled Imaginary
Coordinates in the wake of an outcry
from Chicago area Jews that it
expressed an anti-Israel basis.
2008: In Sarajevo, at The Jewish
Film Festival of Croatia, a member of
the Jewish community speaks about
filming the documentary Sarayevo
Mi Seudad de Oro, (Sarajevo My
God City) which tells the story of
the Jewish communitys role in
helping people escape the last war in
Bosnia.
2009: At Temple Judah in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa Sarah Maikon, daughter
of Renee Maikon and Marc Maikon,
and granddaughter of Sandy and Sol
Maikon, is called to the Torah as a
Bat Mitzvah.
2009: Gday Shalom Salaam Israel,
presented by the Australia Israel
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Cultural Exchange opens in Israel. As
part of the Gday Shalom Salaam
Israel event Deputy Prime Minister
Julia Gillard will participate in the
first Australian Israel Leadership
Forum organized by the Australia
Israel Cultural Exchange (AICE). The
forum will provide an opportunity for
both nations to build stronger ties as
well as build important people-to-
people links.Joining Gillard at the
leadership forum will be a number of
her parliamentary colleagues from
both sides of the house, including
former treasurer Peter Costello,
Jewish MP Mark Dreyfus and
Shadow Education Minister
Christopher Pyne. They are expected
to meet with their Israeli Knesset
counterparts. Alongside the high-
profile leadership forum, the week-
long AICE event is expected to
talent to Israeli audiences. Legendary
pianist David Helfgott will perform in
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, acclaimed
Australian-based chef Guillaume
Brahimi will whip up a meal at the
King David Hotel and jazz great Paul
Grabowsky will perform for the first
time in Israel. The week will also see
the annual Australian Film Festival in
Israel, which made headlines last year
when it opened in the besieged
southern town of Sderot. AICE is a
relatively new organisation that
promotes ties, particularly cultural
ties, between Australia and Israel. It
was launched in 2002 in simultaneous
ceremonies: one at Australias
Parliament House in Canberra and the
other at the Israeli Foreign Ministry
in Jerusalem.
2010: The Los Angeles Times
features a Sunday Conversation
With Daniel Handler who is perhaps
better known for his pen name,
volumes of childrens books, A Series
of Unfortunate Events and The Latke
Who Couldnt Stop Screaming: A
Christmas Story.
2010: Memorabilia and Memory:
Hitlers Hat and other shorts by local
filmmaker Jeff Krulik is scheduled to
be shown as part of the Jewish Study
Center Film Festival in Washington,
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Socialisms Gilded Cage
by Daniel Greenfield @ the
Sultan Knish blog (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 8:11:00 PM
The one great truth found at the
convergence of economics and
politics is that government costs
money. The more government you
have, the more money it costs. This
has both its good and its bad sides.
The bad side is obvious. We need
only look at the national deficit to see
that. The good side is that just as the
number of sheep helps limit the
number of wolves, so too the amount
of available money helps limit the
size of government.
Of course given power, governments
will vastly overspend beyond the
money available to them, but that
cannot go on forever. If the
population of wolves increases
drastically beyond that of the sheep,
no matter what the wolves do, there
eventually will be a dieback and a lot
of dead wolves. Because as wolves
sustain themselves on sheep,
governments sustain themselves on
money gathered from their own
subjects. A government that expands
beyond the ability of its subjects to
sustain it, will collapse sooner or
later. It can go deep into debt. It can
turn the entire country into a slave
labor camp, as the USSR did. It can
invade other countries and rob them,
as Nazi Germany did. But in the end,
there will be a dieback, and it will
fall.
Alternatively, the need of a
government for money can actually
lead to reforms and more freedom. It
is doubtful that America would exist
today, if King George III hadnt
needed more money. Much the same
can be said of Protestantism in
Europe. But it doesnt always have to
come about as a violent reaction
against a central authority. The
colonization of the New World is a
more positive example. As was the
rise of a European Middle Class and
the survival of the Jews in a Europe
and the Ottoman Empire. All are
examples of governments being
forced to grant rights or decentralize
their power in order to fund the
exercise of that power.
The visible paradox here is that
governments actually lose money by
increasing their power, and in order
to increase their revenues, they have
to give up some level of control over
the people they rule. That is why
authoritarian ideologies on both the
left and the right constantly warn
about the dangers of money as a
disruption of their moral and social
order. They are well aware that
freedom is financially rewarding, and
that open markets undermine central
authority.
The lefts obsession with capitalism
emerges from the fear of an
ownership society, dominated by the
wishes of a socially conservative
middle class. It is not the poor and
oppressed that they care about, but
themselves. The far right meanwhile
is still stewing in the brew of
inherited lamentations over the fall of
kings and the diminution of inherited
nobility at the hands of a capitalist
meritocracy. Authoritarian ideologies
on the far left and the far right, are
both marked by symptomatic
obsessions with Rockefellers and
Rothschilds, banking institutions and
billionaires. They claim to do so
because they are concerned about the
centralization of power. More often
they simply want to be the ones to
centralize power, and recognize
capitalism as a dangerous tool that
puts social mobility outside the
control of any individual ideology or
political faction.
The intersections of power politics
and economics can often produce a
cycle, in which governments allow
freedom in order to draw in more
revenues, only to have those same
freedoms lead to more government
control. Immigration is one obvious
example. As is urbanization.
Complexity and diversity can lead to
more profits, but they also invite a
new degree of complexity in
government. Which means the rise of
a larger and more controlling
government.
A growing middle class and
urbanization was in the long run
structurally incompatible with feudal
monarchies, but both led to a demand
for even more centralized government
to serve as a provider of services and
control over dense population centers.
Monarchy gave way to socialism.
And socialism proved to be even
better at bad budgets and spending
money than Louis the Sixteenth. The
lesson is that the trap of tyranny is
always waiting by the side of the
road. Outsmarting it requires not only
moving fast enough to escape what is
behind you, but studying to see what
waits ahead of you in the direction in
which you are headed.
A citizenry with more money only
makes for a more tempting target.
Robbing the middle class is much
more fun than robbing peasants,
because they tend to have bigger bank
accounts. And they have already been
trained to meet lifes needs by
exchanging money for services.
Which is exactly the socialist pitch.
Along with the fine print that says the
government is not obligated to
actually provide those services, or
have them available, that the cost of
those services may change any time it
sees fit, and that it may change the
terms of the arrangement at any time,
and in any way it sees fit.
Tyranny dropped its iron collar and
reinvented itself as a gilded cage. A
Utopian system in which a wise and
kind government would see to
everyones needs and curb individual
greed and power. But when the
golden paint washed off, the gilded
cage turned out to be the old
fashioned black iron after all. The
paint only existed to sucker its new
occupants long enough for them to be
on the wrong side of the bars.
Governments, like con artists,
configure themselves to fit the
people. Even tyrannies are an
expression of that. The greatest
danger of tyranny is therefore not that
it will be imposed against your will,
but that you may actually welcome its
imposition. That you may not even be
able to recognize it as tyranny, until it
is much too late. The fundamental
shift that happens is that of the locus
of control passing from the power. In
democratic republics, the people
control the government. In tyrannies,
the government controls the people.
The power shift comes down to
whom both the people and the
government believe is best fit to
control. Who should hold the rope.
This is a question that comes down
to what people actually need from
their government and what they think
they need from their government. The
two tend to overlap, but they are
never quite the same. For
government, the matter is rather
simple indeed. What governments
need from the people is power.
Money is simply another expression
of power. Its popular potency lies in
its symbolic decentralization of
authority. By drawing the money
back, governments monopolize power
and diminish the available options for
citizens of that country.
By purchasing services from the
government through taxation, rather
than from corporations, the citizenry
create a much more insidious
monopoly. And they are engaging in
a transaction of unequals that shifts
their power balance much more
dramatically than any corporation
could do. And so the transition from
capitalism to socialism begins.
Socialism however is already a dead
end. Economic centralization leads to
a poverty of economic options. The
sheep begin to die off, and eventually
the wolves have to follow. Unless the
wolves reluctantly let the sheep live
to breed, and create many more sheep
to prey upon, and then the cycle
begins again.
Governments liberalize to allow for
wealth creation that they end up
restricting and consuming anyway.
And the social changes that
encourage wealth creation also create
new temptations for tyranny. The
cycle repeats itself again when
governments are formed into traps for
a new generation, and when that new
generation, having lost the wisdom of
the old, flies into the gilded cage, and
does not even notice when the door
slams shut. Socialisms gilded cage is
a new incarnation of the recurring
trap by which governments deprive
the people of their power. And
though a cage may be gilded, it is still
a cage.
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Jewish, Muslim Tensions Rise at UC Irvine
After Suspension of Muslim Group
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
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Submitted at 6/19/2010 7:57:00 PM
Tensions are rising at UC Irvine after
a Muslim student group wa
suspended for repeatedly disrupting a
speech by Israels ambassador to the
United States Michael Oren, pictured
here. (Reuters)
Tensions are high at the University
of California-Irvine after the school
recommended suspending a Muslim
student group for its role in the
disruption of an Israeli ambassadors
speech earlier this year.
Students at the university say Jews
and Muslims have been accusing
each other of discrimination and
harassment, as both sides have
embraced campus speakers seen as
hostile to Israel or Islam. Now the
proposed suspension of the Muslim
Student Union for at least a year has
made an already hostile situation
worse.
The school revealed this week that it
had recommended suspending the
Muslim group after 11 students were
arrested in February for repeatedly
disrupting a speech by Israeli
Ambassador Michael Oren, who was
repeatedly interrupted and called
murderer and war criminal by theyve been called every type of
pro-Palestinian students as he gave a
talk on the Middle East peace
process.
The Muslim group is appealing the
recommendation a process that is
expected to be completed before the
next school year begins.
The appeal comes after more than 60
faculty members at UC Irvine signed
an open letter last month condemning
what they said was an anti-Semitic
atmosphere at the school.
Weare deeply disturbed about
activities on campus that foment
hatred against Jews and Israelis, the
letter read, citing incidents over the
past few years that included the
painting of swastikas in university
buildings and the Star of David
depicted as akin to a swastika.
Some community members,
students, and faculty indeed feel
intimidated, and at times even
unsafe, the letter read.
But a lawyer for the Muslim Student
Its summer camp time in Gaza!
by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion
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for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 7:19:00 PM
Its time for summer camp that
time of year when Hamas and Islamic
Jihad can inculcate young men in the
ways of murder and jihad!
Palestine Today writes that Islamic
Jihad summer camps will enroll some
Union said any tensions on campus
derive from a Jewish organization
that is not connected to the college:
the Jewish Federation Orange
County.
A lot of the tension and friction is
not on the campus, attorney and
activist Reem Salahi said. Its not
divided between Jewish and Muslim
organizations. Theres more tension
between Muslim students and these
Jewish organizations pressuring the
university.
She said Muslim students have been
intimidated and harassed and have
even received death threats in which
until at least the fall of 2011.
superlative imagined.
In recent years, UC Irvine has been
accused of fostering anti-Semitic
activity as the MSU hosted pro-
Palestinian speakers critical of Israel.
In 2005, the Education Departments
Office of Civil Rights found that
Muslim students had engaged in
offensive behavior, but that their
actions stemmed from opposition to
the politics of Israel rather than to
Jewish students themselves.
Three years later, Republican
members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee wrote to the Education
Department expressing concerns that
the office decided not to further
investigate charges that UC Irvine
had failed to respond quickly and
effectively to complaints by Jewish
students of being repeatedly
intimidated and harassed.
But now Muslim students find
themselves on the defensive.
The university on Monday released a
10,000 youngsters between the ages
of 12 and 16 this year.
Hamas camps will have far more
than that amount. A report about
Hamas camps from two years ago can
be seen here.
And how can I talk about summer
camps in Gaza without showing my
video, Hello Martyr, Hello Fatah?
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letter from a student affairs
disciplinary committee to a Muslim
Student Union leader saying the
group was found guilty of disorderly
conduct, obstructing university
activities and other violations of
campus policy.
The committee recommended
suspending the group for one year,
placing it on disciplinary probation
for an additional year and requiring
the student organization to
collectively complete 50 hours of
community service, a move that
would prevent the group from
conducting organized campus events
London: Muslim protest against
University spokeswoman Cathy
Lawhon said the committees
decision will be a binding
recommendation to the campus
office of student affairs if the groups
appeal does not succeed.
Lawhon said all the focus and
attention paid to tensions between
Jewish and Muslim students has
largely been generated by the outside
community.
Theres been a lot of attention on us
by outsider groups for whatever
reason for things that go on at every
UC campus around the state, she
said, adding that controversial
speakers usually go to all the UC
schools in the state. The only time
you hear about it is when theyre at
UC Irvine.
The Jewish Federation Orange
County, which compelled the school
to release the letter after filing a
Freedom of Information Act, praised
the school for its decision.
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While we would have liked for the
administration to have come to this
conclusion more quickly, we are
please that after due process, the
MSU has finally been sanctioned,
Shalom Elcott, president of the group,
said in a written statement.
Elcott told FoxNews.com that the
MSU has been largely responsible for
creating an anti-Semitic atmosphere
on the campus by inviting speakers
who equate Jews to Nazis and rally
support for jihad, or holy war.
The MSU has been looking for a
battle for a long time, he said,
adding that his group is only trying to
help bridge the differences between
the two sides.
Salahi declined to say whether legal
action is being planned in the event of
an unsuccessful appeal. But she said
students were outraged and
disappointed with the universitys
decision.
Its unprecedented a university
would ever do this, she said, adding
that the suspension would create a
really dangerous precedent for
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Mainstream media: Only Islamophobes could
wonder about a 52,000 square-foot mega-
mosque complex in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
by Marisol (Hija del Zion para
Israel - Daughter of Zion for
Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 5:47:16 PM
Mainstream media: Only
Islamophobes could wonder about a
52,000 square-foot mega-mosque
complex in Murfreesboro,
TennesseeThe Islamic Center of
Murfreesboro s plans call for a
52,000-sq. ft. facility that would
include a pool, gym, and school in
addition to a mosque.
But only Islamophobes could wonder
whos paying for it all. Only
Islamophobes could think theres
something odd about a mega-mosque
in a town of 100,000 in middle
Tennessee. And so this story makes
every effort to make the locals who
are opposed to it look like narrow-
minded, reactionary xenophobes who
jest plain dont cotton to people with
different beliefs thats all it could
be.
Plan for Mosque in Tennessee Town
Draws Criticism from Residents, by
Bradley Blackburn for ABC News,
June 18:
A plan to build an Islamic
community center in the middle-
Tennessee town of Murfreesboro
sparked an eruption of ugly criticism
6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns lower courts
ruling prohibiting Christians from distributing
leaflets at Dearborn Arab-American festival
by Marisol (Hija del Zion para
Israel - Daughter of Zion for
Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 7:09:36 PM
6th Circuit Court of Appeals
overturns lower courts ruling
prohibiting Christians from
distributing leaflets at Dearborn Arab
-American festival Good news, in an
update on this story. Meanwhile, of
course, we wait to find out the
grounds on which another group of
Christians was arrested there, as BWI
Breathing While Infidel is not
yet against Michigan law.
If its an Islamic festival, call it an
Islamic festival. Otherwise, stop
hiding behind the generality of Arab
-American while persecuting Arab-
Americans who also happen to be
Christian, but refuse to be dhimmis in
a free country.
Local news: Pastor gets OK for
handouts, from the Detroit Free
Press, June 19:
A Christian pastor can distribute
literature on the streets at this
weekends Arab-American festival
along Warren Avenue in Dearborn, a
on Thursday from some residents
who dont want a mosque built in
their backyard.
More than 600 people turned out for
a meeting of the Rutherford County
Commission Thursday night, with
some sharing their opposition in
public comments that at times turned
intolerant.
We have a duty to investigate
anyone under the banner of Islam,
Allen Jackson, the pastor of World
Outreach Church, said at the meeting.
The implication: Jackson has no
possible reason to object to the
mosque except as pastor of World
Outreach Church.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro
s plans call for a 52,000-sq. ft.
facility that would include a pool,
gym, and school in addition to a
mosque. The center has had a facility
in Murfreesboro since 1997, but says
that with over 250 Islamic families in
the community, it needs more space.
A whole lot of space, apparently.
It is not a huge mosque as they are
saying, said Imam Ossama Bahloul.
This place is too small for us and we
have to move.
Murfreesboro has a population of
just over 100,000, according the the
U.S. Census Bureau. It is about 30
miles southeast of Nashville.
three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
George Saieg of California wants to
hand out pamphlets aimed at
converting Muslims.
The Thursday ruling overturned a
District Court decision that supported
Dearborns policy, which said Saieg
and anyone else must hand out
literature only around their booths
because of crowd control concerns.
Crowd concerns.
The Ann Arbor-based Thomas More
Law Center filed suit on behalf of
Saieg.
This story just happened to appear
directly under the preceding one:
Once-banned professor to address
fund-raiser
Tariq Ramadan, a noted Muslim
scholar, is to speak tonight in
Dearborn at a fund-raiser for the
Muslim Legal Fund, a Texas-based
nonprofit. He is to speak about rights,
duties and justice at the 6 p.m.
banquet at the Hyatt Regency in
Dearborn. Tickets are $30.
Ramadan was banned from visiting
the U.S. under the Bush
administration, but had his ban lifted
Would enough Music City Muslims
even commute on a regular basis to
fill the place?
Some at the Thursday meeting wore
religious or patriotic-themed clothing,
and no one defended the plan in two
hours of public comments, the
Tennessean newspaper reported.
They seem to be against everything
that I believe in, and so I dont want
them necessarily in my neighborhood
spreading that type of comment, said
one man at the meeting.
Tracey Steven, who also attended,
said, Our country was founded
through the founding fathers
through the true God, the Father and
Jesus Christ.
Some Cite Traffic, Housing Values
as Concerns
Others opposed to the plan did so for
more practical reasons, citing
concerns about the effects on traffic
and housing values. The mosque
would be built in a primarily
residential area.
I was very surprised they would
approve of that for any religion, said
resident Jackie Archer.
Despite the outrage, county officials
said Thursday that the plan will go
ahead. They defended their decision
by noting that the mosque plan met
zoning requirements and it is illegal
this year by the U.S. State
Department.
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Pro-Obama parody of We are the
world still up at YouTube
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Submitted at 6/19/2010 6:56:00 PM
Pro-Obama parody of We are the
world still up at YouTube Pajamas
Media interviews Caroline Glick,
who is behind the We con the world
video that was removed by YouTube
for copyright violations last week.
Im sure youll all be shocked just
shocked to hear that theres an
obscenity-laced parody of the same
song by pro-Obama Leftists that has
been left up by YouTube apparently
without any objections by the
copyright holder.
Warner/Chappell, which owns the
rights to We are the World, had
YouTube remove the video,
supposedly for copyright
infringement. Glick, who is
appealing, contends there were no
violations of the fair use doctrine or
U.S. copyright law. Indeed, I quickly
found that YouTube hosts another
parody video, Obamas Inauguration
Party Song, which also uses the tune
from We are the World. Neither
YouTube nor Warner saw fit to pull
this video, though the lyrics are
objectionable.
Glick comments about the obvious
hypocrisy:
They are trying to personalize
everything and demonize what they
cant contend with. The left has one
card, and they play it over and over
again for dealing with issues. They
have no answer but to resort to the
politics of destruction. Their favorite
method is to call anyone who gives
them an answer that they cant
contend with a racist. They cry for
terrorists who would destroy them,
but come out against democracies.
Heres more:
The critics of the parody show a
definite disconnect with what actually
happened, according to publicly
Lawsuit against Egyptian soccer star for
"normalization"
by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion
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for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 8:53:00 PM
From Al Arabiya(Arabic)(h/t for
initial translation Ali)
Famous Egyptian lawyer, Nabih Al
Wahsh, filed a lawsuit demanding
that Egyptian soccer player Emad
Moteab be stripped of his citizenship
because of normalization.
Moteab joined Belgian soccer club
Standard Lige, whose squad
includes Rami Gershon, an Israeli
soccer player. Moteab signed the
contract without any reservation over
available video footage of the
incident. The supposed peace
activists, some members of the
terrorist group IHH (Foundation for
Humanitarian Rights and Freedoms),
initiated the violence. Says Glick:
Calling them peace activists is a
complete lie. If you want to get some
credibility you attach the word peace
to your name or title, and you can get
immunity to criticism. Instead of
listening to the message, they are
demonizing the messenger.
She continues:
There is a boycott of Israel by
Hollywood and the rock world. They
would rather champion a terrorist
organization against Israel. Where are
the Jews of Hollywood Steven
Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, and
David Geffen? They will not speak
out on Israels behalf. They care far
more about being leftist than they
care about being Jews.
Unfortunately, thats not much
different than most of the rest of the
American Jewish community. But
read it all.
the fact that there is an Israeli, which
created an unprecedented situation.
The lawyer goes on to argue that
Motaeb knowingly joined the Belgian
team despite Egyptian hatred for
Israel.
Motaeb is very popular in Egypt,
having scored a last-minute goal
against Algeria to bring Egypt close
to World Cup competition last
November.
Al Arabiya quotes a prominent
Egyptian scholar Gamma al-Banna
(brother of the founder of the Muslim
Brotherhood, but considered much
more liberal) who said that there is
nothing wrong with Motaeb being on
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the same team as Gershon, as long as
he doesnt become friends with him.
Hatred for Israel is a given, he says,
but asking him to not be on a team
with an Israeli is going a little bit too
far.
The newspaper does bring up the
question of whether the Egyptian
should refrain from hugging the
Israeli when a goal is scored.
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Shloime Dachs singing Acheinu Kol
Beis Yisrael (Our Brethren the Entire
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all Jews under threat everywhere
every Monday and Thursday.
Did I ever mention that Shloime
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our house? Really.
Lets go to the videotape.
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Letter: Hamas must be part of a
peaceful solution It is not correct that
the 1980 Venice declaration of the
European Community called for the
creation of a -Palestinian state
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US asks Paraguay to extradite
Brooklyn-born Hezbullah financier
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 11:28:00 PM
US asks Paraguay to extradite
Brooklyn-born Hezbullah financier
The United States has asked Paraguay
to extradite Brooklyn-born Moussa
Ali Hamdan, who is accused of being
a financier for Hezbullah (Hat Tip:
Jihad Watch).
The United States has asked
Paraguay to extradite a Lebanese
national suspected of funneling
money to the Shiite militant group
Hezbollah from the South American
nation, court sources said
Wednesday.
Mussa Ali Hamdan, 38, was arrested
Tuesday in Ciudad del Este, part of
the Triple Frontier, a region the
United States has repeatedly cited as
being exploited by militant groups
that finance terrorist activities.
Hamdan is accused of 31 crimes,
according to Interpol. The US
extradition request cites his alleged
material support for Hezbollah
including falsified documents.
The suspect is also accused of
counterfeiting US currency and
conspiracy to commit passport fraud,
according to the request.
Hamdan appeared Wednesday before
judge Hugo Sosa Pasmor to confirm
Saudi Arabia Wants to Go Nuclear.
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
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Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 10:33:00 PM
Not Enough Oil?
Saudi Arabia could be interested in
developing a uranium enrichment
capability as part of the kingdoms
efforts to establish a civilian atomic
power sector, an adviser hired by the
Middle Eastern state to devise its
nuclear strategy said Wednesday (see
GSN, Aug. 24, 2009).
The uranium enrichment process can
produce nuclear-weapon material as
well as fuel for civilian applications.
Over time, Riyadh is expected to
want to be involved in as many parts
of the atomic energy production
process as it can be, said David Cox,
a consultant whose firm was hired by
Saudi Arabia to prepare the nuclear
strategy.
Enrichment could happen there and
the same with mining uranium, Cox
said, adding that outsourcing will
happen initially.
Saudi Arabias King Abdullah City
for Atomic and Renewable Energy
chose Coxs firm, Poyry, to analyze
his identity as part of an extradition
request, and then was transferred to
Asuncions Tacumbu penitentiary.
Local media, citing local security
officials, have said Hamdan was
financing Hezbollah, which fought a
devastating 2006 war with Israel and
is blacklisted as a terror group by
Washington.
A cosmopolitan area and significant
tourist spot, the Triple Frontier is also
considered a major spot for
smuggling and other organized crime.
Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina
however deny their shared region is a
hotbed for terror financing.
Its well known that area of Latin
the potential for Saudi participation in
all aspects of the atomic-energy
production process, Reuters quoted
the consultant as saying.
Cox said his firms study is to
evaluate what part of [nuclear energy
production] is possible at a
reasonable economic cost.
The feasibility study would be
finished in several months and would
contain comprehensive guidance on
America is full of drug smugglers and
terror supporters. Read the whole
thing.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:28
AM
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the economic, institutional and
technical aspects needed for
beginning nuclear plant construction,
he said (Reuters/ Daily Star, June 18).
via gsn.nti.org Im not going to act
shocked. Im just not. Jordan is
doing it with Obama and the
Saudis are terrified of Iran. This is
what happens when you encourage
this. Posted via web from
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Lebanese pop
star banned from
Hezbullah ship
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
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Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 4:34:00 PM
Lebanese pop star banned from
LEBANESE page 9
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A Short Yom Kippur Message from
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Hamas arrests counterfeiters in
Rafah Palestine Press Agency reports
that Hamas caught people
counterfeiting US dollars near the
Egyptian border. Apparently the
counterfeiters dropped some of the
bills from a window, causing a
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Hezbullah ship Hezbullah has banned
Lebanese pop star Haifa Wehbe from
boarding the womens-only ship
called Mariam, which is supposed to
head to Gaza in the coming days.
Theyre afraid shell be a bad
influence on the rest of the terrorists.
According to the Kuwaiti paper, Hajj
was told yesterday by Hizbullah
leaders that Wehbe would have to be
prevented from taking part in the
journey on grounds that her nudity
and immodest dress will harm the
reputation of all women participating
in the trip.
The leaders further noted that the
ever-popular Wehbes presence was
likely to divert attention from the
main objective of the trip.
Later on Friday, Hizbullah denied it
was involved in preparations for the
trip, saying the group had decided
from the very beginning to stay away
from this humanitarian act in terms of
Oh joy! Adviser says Saudis may
want to enrich uranium
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 10:14:00 PM
Oh joy! Adviser says Saudis may
want to enrich uranium An adviser to
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says
that the Sheikhdom may want to
enrich uranium as part of its efforts to
establish civilian atomic power.
The uranium enrichment process can
produce nuclear-weapon material as
well as fuel for civilian applications.
Over time, Riyadh is expected to
want to be involved in as many parts
of the atomic energy production
process as it can be, said David Cox,
a consultant whose firm was hired by
Saudi Arabia to prepare the nuclear
strategy.
Enrichment could happen there and
the same with mining uranium, Cox
said, adding that outsourcing will
happen initially.
Saudi Arabias King Abdullah City
for Atomic and Renewable Energy
chose Coxs firm, Poyry, to analyze
the potential for Saudi participation in
all aspects of the atomic-energy
production process, Reuters quoted
the consultant as saying.
Cox said his firms study is to
evaluate what part of [nuclear energy
production] is possible at a
reasonable economic cost.
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:14
organisation, logistic support and
participation so as not to give the
Israeli enemy any pretext to attack the
participants.
Earlier this week, Hajj declared that
the female activists were all
independent women who believe in
breaking the siege on Gaza. She
added that This has nothing to do
with Hizbullah, although it is an
honor for us to be supporters of the
resistance.
Israel has said it wont allow the ship
to land.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:34
AM
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Israel and Syria announce nuclear
energy ambitions Israel and Syria
have both told a conference in Paris
they want to use nuclear power to
generate electricity. Israeli
Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau
AM
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Netherlands: Muslims urged to
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Surprise: Lebanon not interested in
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NY Times: Tel Avivs Technology
and Economy December clouds over
roof tops. Most Israeli homes no
longer use TV antennas but do warm
their water using passive solar
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911
Troofers
by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 6:03:00 PM
The Delft University of Technology,
Architecture School collapsed in a
pancake reaction to a fire. Let me
repeat that . the School Of
Architecture. Im highly doubtful
they built a deficient building for
themselves. Steel frame high rise
building collapses and is utterly
destroyed by a fire begun by a
shorted out coffee pot. It wasnt
bombs, renegade black-ops, secret
demolition, cruise missiles or
remotely controlled fake 737s that
brought down the architecture
schools steel frame building. It was
fire that weakened the interior steel
beam structure to the point that the
weight and mass from above finally
collapsed under the weight. Video of
the moment is identical to the kind of
collapse and dust/debris cloud
witnessed on 9/11 at the World Trade
Center.
View the fire and collapse here:
LiveLeak.com Delft University of
Technology in Holland on fire and
collapsing History of the Delft
University of Technology
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Its
a powerful slap in the chops to 9/11
Truthers. via americanthinker.com
I doubt this story will convince
anyone that we want.
they dont want to believe Islam does
anything bad.
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by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
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Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 6/19/2010 9:55:00 PM
Anyone but Rubio?
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