The Cold War with the Soviet Union and the accepted rule of M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) proved valuable for America and the Soviet Union. Each Super-Power understood their civilizations would be destroyed. But, that was based on two intelligent but hostile nations, understood that even if one conducted a surprise nuclear attack, the radiation clouds would not only saturate the attackers’ land but the entire globe.

Some will recall China’s above ground nuclear tests wherein the radioactive clouds circled the planet three times before dispersing and that was only one small test.

But, circumstances change: It is understood when Third World nations ruled by dictators, the rationality of not using Nuclear Weapons under the M.A.D. understanding was no longer viable.

(Israelnationalnews.com) Businessman Sheldon Adelson, the publisher of the Yisrael HaYom newspaper, fired a loud broadside over the decks of rival newspapers Sunday evening, accusing them of "dictatorial" practices. He also said that saw his newspaper as emulating the role that Fox News plays in the United States.

Speaking at the Israel Media Watch media prize award ceremony, Adelson said that over the last 20 years, in which he has been visiting Israel very often, he noticed that “something seemed strange” about the political views of his friends in the Jewish state. While Adelson's own political views were “far to the right,” he said (“Attila  the Hun was too liberal for me,” he humorously put it), the friends' political views “didn't seem to jibe with reality.”

He said that he came to realize that the friends' world view was based on a false picture of reality which they had been receiving from the newspapers – particularly Ma'ariv and Yediot. “I found out that not only are they off base … they clearly follow the carrot and the stick approach. You get something nice if you act nice, or you get beat up if you don't act nice. Now what does that 'act nice' mean? Give me what I want, do want I tell you – purely in a dictatorial way.”

He told the audience at the IMW event that he sees his mission as similar to that of Fox News in the US, and that he even went so far as to contact Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch and to receive his permission to use the slogan “fair and balanced,” which Fox News uses to describe itself.

The West is a hybrid culture; it is a work of art that always has sought to establish and sustain its identity by images and artifacts. Its core organizing element is a passion play whose cast of characters is well known. The imagery is backed by armed force, burnings and terror because history gives the lie to the play of fictions. The origins of the magic and imperial ambitions of the cult of aesthetics can be found in its Hellenic-Roman roots.

Because the West is a construction, it was inevitable that it would produce as its last phase an ideology called postmodernism, the notion that nothing is genuine or integral, that everything is “a social construct,” an adulterate and arbitrary mixture. The denial of any truth but the reigning cultural dogmatic clichés ally postmodernism with communism and the Church: universal preachers who back their absurd (illogical) claims with brute force and mountains of lies which the West dresses in gorgeous rhetoric and imagery.

Because the West is a hybrid civilization whose main ingredients negate each other, relate like oil and water, the passion of the West is a play for purification, for clarity of identity. Purification means adoration of the self, both the individual and the corporate collective body or persona ficta (Rousseau) in the form of images. Thus, in his famous Confessions, Rousseau defined and re-made himself as a fiction: “the more I lie, the more I am true.” Moreover, this fictional self was a model, a point of comparison for the humanity of everyone else.

(Israelnationalnews.com) Iranian authorities have arrested seven people who are associated with the U.S.-funded Farsi language radio station that broadcasts from Washington and Prague. They were charged with inciting unrest as the Islamic Republic’s regime tries to prevent a massive demonstration called for Thursday.  

The suspects allegedly trained outside Iran to learn how to create public disorder, but no identities were released, Associated Press reported. They also were accused of planning to participate in the rally this week that marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which preceded he current fundamentalist Muslim government.

Last month, as the government braced for another huge demonstration, government and religious leaders issued unusually harsh statements saying that opponents should be killed. Opponents have charged the regime with employing scare tactics by carrying out the assassination of a university physics professor several weeks ago and then blaming the protestors for the killing.

*Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report, Israel National Radio, February 8, 2010. 
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Today I am going to construct a dialogue between Pat and Josh, the presentation of which may be awkward but nonetheless informative.

Pat begins by saying, “I can’t understand you Israeli Jews!  Impending doom hangs over you and you do nothing, despite a still formidable military establishment.” 

“What would you have us do”? Josh responds: “bomb Iran, expel the Arabs from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza and tell the rest of the world to go to hell?”

“Why not?” says Pat” “I’d rather go out with a bang than a whimper.  Instead, you engage in a demeaning charade with a villain like Abbas. You pretend he’s serious about peace, that he’s compelled to make bellicose statements for domestic Arab consumption.  That’s escapism.”

 “Of course you’re right Josh. Abbas is a bloody liar, and only idiots take him seriously.”

“Well Josh, you seem have an awful lot of such idiots in Israel. A psychologist would say Jews suffer from a self-victimization syndrome.  Jews seem to feel morally superior by being victims rather than victors.  I remember Golda Meir saying:  "When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons."   To me this is sickness unto death.

“True, but as you know Pat, Golda was a secular humanist, equivalent to Christianity without the Christian god.  Nietzsche said this humanism is based on a slave mentality, the mentality of those who derive their moral superiority from meekness and passivity.  But this mentality is not at all Jewish, even though it infects many Jews.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report is supposed to be the world’s most authoritative scientific account of the scale of global warming.

But this paper has discovered a series of new flaws in it including:

The Dutch court has adjourned the trial of Geert Wilders to give the three witnesses testifying for Wilders time to schedule their testimony.

The Dutch blogger Snouk writes that:

I asked Paul Belien about the delay and he wrote:

By Christopher Booker
Telegraph
February 6, 2010

In all the coverage lately given to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its embattled chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, one rather important part of the story has largely been missed. This is the way in which, in its obsession with climate change, different branches of the UK Government have in recent years been pouring hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into a bewildering array of "climate-related" projects, often throwing a veil of mystery over how much is being paid, to whom and why.

Egyptian authorities reportedly adopted strict security measures to ensure the ships' safety. According to the reports, the two Navy ships traveled through the canal en route to the Red Sea.

The sources did not provide the exact ultimate destination of the missile boats. However, Egyptian maritime sources quoted in the Arab media estimated that both ships were headed to the Persian Gulf and may reach it within four days. The veracity of these estimates is unclear.

The sail through the Suez Canal was coordinated with Egyptian authorities, which reportedly adopted strict security arrangements to ensure the safe passage of the two Israeli ships. According to Arab media, Egyptian forces prevented any vessels from passing through the Canal and also stopped the vehicular traffic on the road leading to it.

By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger 
February 5, 2010

1.  An assessment of the politically-correct Western policy-making, media commentaries and conventional wisdom raises the following questions:

*Is the Palestinian issue the crux of Middle East turbulence?

*Is the Arab-Israeli conflict the core cause of anti-Western Islamic terrorism?*

*Are Arab leaders preoccupied with the Palestinian issue and with the Arab-Israeli conflict?

*Is the Arab-Israeli conflict "The Middle East Conflict"?

*How valid is the contention that, in the Middle East, on words one does not pay custom, hence the awesome gap between rhetoric and reality?!

February 04, 2010

President Obama today at the National Prayer Breakfast raised the issue of his own eligibility for office – saying that people shouldn't be questioning his "citizenship."

Talking about the issue of "civility," he said, "Now, I am the first to confess I am not always right. Michelle will testify to that. But surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith, or, for that matter, my citizenship."

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Tennessee state Senate speaker and gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey has joined the growing ranks of officials and prominent commentators who say they are unsure of whether President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen.

Ramsey was asked Feb. 2 about the issue by Maclin Davis, a former state lawmaker and attorney for the state GOP, the Associated Press reported.

"I don't know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not," Ramsey responded. "I don't know what the whole deal is there."

(Israelnationalnews.com) It was a short, sweet victory: a small grassroots movement of students and IDF reservists, Im Tirtzu, launched a savvy and aggressive campaign against the New Israel Fund, for its support of NGOs that besmirched Israel and were quoted in the Goldstone report. Aided by information from Prof. Gerald Steinberg's NGO Monitor, Im Tirtzu exposed the fact that the NIF receives much of its money from the Ford Foundation – which also aids vehemently anti-Israeli Arab groups – and disburses millions of dollars annually to Israeli groups that accuse the IDF of war crimes and support anti-Israel campaigns abroad.

The Im Tirtzu campaign began with an extensive report on their findings in Friday's Maariv newspaper, by prominent journalist Ben Caspit. Apparently knowing in advance that the rest of Israel's media outlets would try to suppress the news, Im Tirtzu bought advertisements that rammed its message across for four straight days this week. The campaign, which could not be ignored, caused a frenzy and by day's end Wednesday Im Tirzu declared victory: a Knesset debate was held and a subcommittee of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee was created to investigate their claims.

However, Israelis who tuned in to the Wednesday evening newscasts on Channels 2 and 10 – the only commercial television channels with news programs – saw and heard nothing about the event. The parliamentary vote on creating the subcommittee was not even mentioned verbally in either channel's newscast. Mabat, the news program of state-run Channel 1, covered the public storm and parliamentary vote with a short item, 22 minutes into the newscast.

February 05, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – Paying tribute to "our rabbi" – the radical 1960s theorist Saul Alinsky – leaders of the left-wing Jewish lobby J Street launched what they hope will be a national mobilization, before an audience of about 175 people at the University of Pennsylvania Hillel center last night.

After he "conferred" rabbinical ordination on Alinsky, Temple University professor Elliot A. Ratzman used rhetoric from the late father of community organizing about "organizing people and mobilizing resources" to inspire conference attendees, which included many veteran activists of the Jewish left.

Ratzman, it was announced, will head the new "Philadelphia local" of J Street, along with well-known Jewish "peace" organizer, attorney Steven Masters.

In his own remarks, Masters said J Street had already amassed a war chest of $4 million to promote its agenda.

Masters also announced he was formally merging the peace group he founded in the mid-1990s, Brit Zedek V'Shalom, or Covenant of Justice and Peace, into the J Street organization. In past publications, Masters claimed Brit Zedek had the support of 1,000 rabbis and 40,000 lay members.

Ehud Barak should have been court-martialed and faced a firing squad if found guilty. But, Israel rarely punishes her politicians or generals who wander off the reservation.

February 04, 2010

Two members of Congress have written to the Environmental Protection Agency demanding answers about scientific documentation that was used to support the agency's determination that "greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare of the American people."

The letter is from U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., and follows by just a day a recommendation from officials at Penn State University that the work of one of their own – Michael Mann – regarding climate change documentation be investigated further.

The developments follow a tsunami that was triggered shortly before Christmas when a cache of e-mails sent among global warming proponents was hacked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, one of the world's premier global warming investigative organizations.. It revealed there were references to a "trick" to "hide the [temperature] decline," suggestions that other e-mails were being purged to prevent their revelations and indicated scientists who did not agree deliberately were being excluded from the discussion.

Barton, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Walden, ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, addressed their concerns to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson because the agency has based much of its work on information from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which worked closely with the officials East Anglia.

NASHVILLE – Citing American patriots such as Thomas Paine, James Madison, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, Judge Roy Moore lit a fire in the hearts of tea partiers tonight – inspiring four impassioned standing ovations with his reading of a "bill of particulars" against President Obama.

Moore, WND columnist, author of "So Help Me God" and candidate for governor in Alabama, began by quoting Thomas Paine as he made his case for independence from England:

"These are the times that try men's souls," he told a packed banquet room at the first national tea-party convention in Nashville.

"Once again we live in a trying time, not just trying to the souls of men and women, but the soul of our nation," he continued. "Once again, people across our country are rising up, tired of politics as usual, angry about the direction of our country."

The recent elections in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts send a strong message to the Democratic Party that Americans are weary of the direction in which the nation is headed, he said.

"Equally, if not more importantly, the election in New York sent a strong message to the Republican Party that we're tired of liberal Republicans who don't hold the principles of their party," he told a cheering crowd.

Moore condemned "senseless treaties" like the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and the Central America Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA. He said the nation's borders have been opened to criminals and terrorists, the Constitution discarded, the federal government grown in size and scope "far beyond anything our founders ever imagined," and the nation's debt is soaring.

A regional war may well be approaching. The actions and statements of Iran and its Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian proxies over the past week or so indicate that this is what Israel’s enemies are gunning for.

In preparing for this growing threat, Israel’s leaders need to consider more than just the military challenges it faces. They must consider the political actors at home and abroad that limit the IDF’s ability to fight to victory and develop strategies for neutralizing those actors.

(Israelnationalnews.com) The father and wife of a Land of Israel activist have received threats from the Jewish Department of the Shabak (Israel Security Agency), warning that he'd better "cease and desist.

Two months ago, Elad Meir, a resident of Haresha in the Talmonim bloc of Jewish towns in Binyamin, was detained and interrogated by the Shabak, and told to stop his nationalist, pro-Land of Israel activities. If he did not, he was told, he would be arrested.

He has not been arrested – but his father and wife have received threatening phone calls.

Meir told Arutz-7 that a few weeks ago, his father received an intimidating call from a Shabak agent. The father later said that the agent told him, 'Your son is involved and responsible for illegal acts,' though he did not elaborate. The agent threatened that if the activities did not stop, the Shabak would take very strong action against him – and against the father's ability to earn a living as well.

Just a week ago, Elad said, "My wife received a call as well. A man identified himself as 'Ron from the Shabak,' and said, 'Your husband has received several messages from us, but has not adhered to them. If this does not stop, we will take aggressive action against him.' My wife asked the agent to elaborate, and he said, 'I'm speaking very clearly. Your husband is a citizen like everyone else, and if he does not follow the law, we will take action against him as a lawbreaker, and we will act with aggressiveness.'"

February 03, 2010

JERUSALEM – A Rockefeller is raising capital to rebuild the Jewish Temple, said the news release published on CNN Money's Internet site and other news sources.

The plan would include a united Jewish and Palestinian Arab state. A Jewish group promoting the rebuilding of the Temple was reported to be cooperating.

The story spread virally through the evangelical Christian blogosphere.

But it was all part of an elaborate hoax.

The release, filed with MarketWire and republished at CNNMoney.com, claims "Supriem David Rockefeller" is director of a company, Kinti Holdings group, which is working with a Jewish Temple organization to rebuild the Third Temple.

States the release: "Kinti Holdings will be raising funds to go towards building the Third Temple in Jerusalem in strict coordinance with The Temple Institute, Rabbi Hiam Richman and The Palestinian National Interest Committee (PNIC) and supporting Husam Bajis for President of Palestine."

Richman, international director of the Temple Institute, a Jewish Temple activist group, told WND the release is a "scam."

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