You Are Left or You Are Left Behind: Multicultural Cruelty

The following was printed in American Thinker on April 25th, 2012

Dear Conservative Friends,

Below I have reprinted one of the most painful letters I have ever received.  Sandra and I (as all names herein, this is a pseudonym) were the only two people in our doctoral program cohort for three and a half years.  As a team of two, we took the same courses and endured the same abuse from the same professors.  We would eagerly share gossip and insights after every class and commiserate after every intellectual and emotional hurdle.  Through our frequent meals and shared struggles we became very close.  In the letter below, Sandra tells me that her "integrity as a global citizen" demands that she no longer communicate with me.

After reading the letter below, imagine Sandra's openness on a hiring committee!  The domination of academia's multicultural dogma means that Americans cannot discuss Islam, immigration, or many other vital topics without being called "racist."  I have tried in vain to explain that sustaining the West provides the greatest hope for women, LGBT folk, and freedom of conscience; after the West falls, Western "human rights" values will not predominate.  Protecting the West is progressive.  This chilling letter shows the extent to which multiculturalism is a cult and not system of beliefs open to debate.

You should learn from my mistakes. I stepped down as the head of the Brooklyn Tea Party when two of my oldest friends threatened to never speak to me again if I continued to advocate "culturism" as an alternative to multiculturalism.  Even after I stepped down, one of them immediately disowned me.  Another has remained friends, but we no longer discuss politics.  I had suspected that Sandra would not speak with me due to political disagreements.  As the letter conveys, I greatly overestimated the extent to which people's hearts can override indoctrination.

Revenge partially motivates my reprinting of this letter.  I am bitter at what multicultural dogma has done to my nation and to my friendships.  I hope that in years to come, Sandra will look up this letter and see what a horrid "humanitarian" she was, call me, and apologize.  But I also hope that somehow a liberal will read it and realize how personally cruel liberal dogmatism has made him or her.  Then perhaps we might begin to restore some tolerance for a diversity of opinions.  Our nation, our hearts, and some friendships might get rescued in the process.

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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2012 13:42:25 -0400

Subject:

From: Sandra.multiculturalist@msu.edu

To: pressjohn@hotmail.com

Dear John,

Writing to you having finally finished all the candidacy requirements, proposal defense, and am looking forward to a summer of dissertation writing.  It must seem like a lifetime ago when we were in classes together.  Jack Franklin and Adam are still plugging away as well - although neither of them make it to Jefferson Square all that much.  There is new student in the program - Jim Bernstein, so a warped form of the entering class of Fall 2006 lives on.

I received your facebook request and notice of your publication and thought that I should actually write you back rather than avoid the topic.  As you know, it has been my idea that backing away was a gentler form of conflict than direct confrontation, however I have more recently discovered that the other party cannot read my mind and communication would save years of misinterpretation.

So basically I was approaching our relationship on a very familiar level with the thought that I don't have to approve of all that my family members believe and do in order to maintain relationships with them. I was very fond of you and really felt like we were comrades-in-arm having survivor hazing from historians in all shapes and forms -be they real, would be, or historian of education.

In the process of becoming a doctoral candidate my bubble was burst and I began to realize that the relational framework in which I lived in was not enough and I have begun to take responsibility for the political consequences and social implications of my own thoughts and actions.  This shedding of my more provincial self, therefore, lead to a more nuanced look at my associations and actions. I could no longer approve-by-association your public work to rally against building a mosque downtown, your concept of Americanization, your tea-party work, blog postings, etc.  I had to begin to consider our relationship not fraternally but as colleagues.

So frankly I cannot approve of your politics and maintain my own personal integrity as a global citizen.  I apologize if this sounds hurtful as I do have a tender spot for you.  I feel as if we grew up together in a certain sense - bumping into the sharp edges within this rabbit hole called NYU.  I fondly remember the steps we traveled together; I am grateful for the company at the time; and I wish you well in the future.

All my best,

Sandra

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/you_are_left_or_you_are_left_behind_lessons_in_multicultural_cruelty.html#ixzz1t71zjd4P

The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets)

In the early years of the Iranian Revolution, an obscure cleric named Ayatollah Gilani became a sensation on state television by contemplating bizarre hypotheticals at the intersection of Islamic law and sexuality. One of his most outlandish scenarios — still mocked by Iranians three decades later — went like this:

Imagine you are a young man sleeping in your bedroom. In the bedroom directly below, your aunt lies asleep. Now imagine that an earthquake happens that collapses your floor, causing you to fall directly on top of her. For the sake of argument, let’s assume that you’re both nude, and you’re erect, and you land with such perfect precision on top of her that you unintentionally achieve intercourse. Is the child of such an encounter halalzadeh (legitimate) or haramzadeh (a bastard)?

Such tales of random ribaldry may sound anomalous in the seemingly austere, asexual Islamic Republic of Iran. But the “Gili Show,” as it came to be known, had quite the following among both the traditional classes, who were titillated by his taboo topics, and the Tehrani elite, who tuned in for comic relief. Gilani helped spawn what is now a virtual cottage industry of clerics and fundamentalists turned amateur sexologists offering incoherent advice on everything from quickies (“The man’s goal should be to lighten his load as soon as possible without arousing his woman”) to masturbation (“a grave, grave sin which causes scientific and medical harm”).

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EPA Official's 'Philosophy' On Oil Companies: 'Crucify Them' - Just As Romans Crucified Conquered Citizens

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) took to the Senate floor today to draw attention to a video of a top EPA official saying the EPA’s “philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of oil and gas companies - just as the Romans crucified random citizens in areas they conquered to ensure obedience.

Inhofe quoted a little-watched video from 2010 of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official, Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, admitting that EPA’s “general philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of oil and gas companies.

In the video, Administrator Armendariz says:

“I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement, and I think it was probably a little crude and maybe not appropriate for the meeting, but I’ll go ahead and tell you what I said:

“It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them.

“Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”

“It’s a deterrent factor,” Armendariz said, explaining that the EPA is following the Romans’ philosophy for subjugating conquered villages.

Soon after Armendariz touted the EPA’s “philosophy,” the EPA began a smear campaigns natural gas producers, Inhofe’s office noted in advance of today’s Senate speech:

“Not long after Administrator Armendariz made these comments in 2010, EPA targeted US natural gas producers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming.

“In all three of these cases, EPA initially made headline-grabbing statements either insinuating or proclaiming outright that the use of hydraulic fracturing by American energy producers was the cause of water contamination, but in each case their comments were premature at best – and despite their most valiant efforts, they have been unable to find any sound scientific evidence to make this link.”

In his Senate speech, Sen. Inhofe said the video provides Americans with “a glimpse of the Obama administration’s true agenda.”

That agenda, Inhofe said, is to “incite fear” in the public with unsubstantiated claims and “intimidate” oil and gas companies with threats of unjustified fines and penalties – then, quietly backtrack once

Washington Times:

Iran readying hacker attacks on U.S. infrastructure, specialists say

Iran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists will warn Congress Thursday.
“Elements of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] have openly sought to pull hackers into the fold” of a religiously motivated cyberarmy, according to Frank J. Cilluffo, director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University.
Lawmakers from two House Homeland Security subcommittees will hold a joint hearing Thursday about the cyberthreat posed by Iran, as tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program continue at a high level, and a possible Israeli strike looms.
The Washington Times obtained advance copes of witnesses’ prepared testimony.
In his remarks, Mr. Cilluffo says that, in addition to the recruiting by the IGRC, another extremist militia, the Basij, “are paid to do cyber work on behalf of the regime, [and] provide much of the manpower for Iran’s cyber-operations.”
Both militias are believed to be under the control of Iran’s clerical leadership, headed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Two Revolutionary Guard leaders have been indicted by U.S.prosecutors for their part in an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States by bombing a prominent Washington restaurant.
“Over the past three years, the Iranian regime has invested heavily in both defensive and offensive capabilities in cyberspace,” states testimony from Ilan Berman, vice president of the hawkish American Foreign Policy Council, in his remarks for Thursday’s hearing.
Estimates of the skill level of Iran’s hacker army vary, but Mr. Cilluffo points out that there is a veritable “arms bazaar of cyberweapons” currently accessible through the Internet hacker underworld.
“Adversaries do not need capabilities, just intent and cash,” he states.
Mr. Cilluffo was recruited by former President George W. Bush on Sept 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He helped set up the first Office of Homeland Security in the White House. He left for George Washington University in 2003.
In 2009, Iran’s nuclear program was attacked by a cyberweapon called Stuxnet. Although there is no definitive evidence of Stuxnet’s origins, Iran has blamed the United States and Israel and has been girding for a conflict in cyberspace ever since.
“For the Iranian regime … the conclusion [drawn from Stuxnet] is clear: War with the West, at least on the cyberfront, has [already] been joined, and the Iranian regime is mobilizing,” states Mr. Berman.
The tensions between Iran and the West have taken other unconventional forms besides cyberwarfare.
Iran claimed this month that it has been able to copy sensitive technology from a U.S. drone that crashed over its territory. It has also accused the United States and Israel of killing several of its nuclear scientists.
The congressional testimony comes as the world waits for the next round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program — which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes — next month in Iraq.
The United States and other member of the U.N. Security Council are pushing Iran to end its program of uranium enrichment. In exchange, trusted third countries would provide fuel for its civilian nuclear program. Enriched uranium can be used as fuel, but it can also quickly be further enriched and used in a nuclear weapon.
As negotiators prepare for the next round of talks, the tightening screw of international sanctions and the still-looming threat of an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear sites have provoked angry threats from leading figures in the Revolutionary Guards.
Mr. Cilluffo points out that “Iran is not monolithic: command and control there is murky, even within the IRGC [Revolutionary Guards], let alone what is outsourced.”
He notes that the Lebanese-based militant Hezbollah movement — which the Iranians have frequently used as a terrorist proxy — has begun recruiting its own cybermilitia of skilled hackers.
“Iran has a long history of demonstrated readiness to ploy proxies for terrorist purposes,” Mr. Cilluffo’s testimony states.
“There is little, if any, reason to think that Iran would hesitate to engage proxies to conduct cyberstrikes against perceived adversaries.”
Those proxies could make it might be hard to prove that Iran was behind the attacks.
Mr. Berman’s testimony notes that an extremist newspaper affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards last year warned the United States to “worry about ‘an unknown player somewhere in the world’ attacking a section of [U.S.] critical infrastructure.”
In 2009 and 2010, a hacker group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army attacked Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu, as well as Iranian websites belonging to the opposition Green Movement.
“In the event of a conflict in the Persian Gulf” attacks like that on Twitter “could provide Iran an avenue for psychological operations directed against the U.S. public,” states Mr. Cilluffo.
Such operations would aim at sowing fear and confusion by attacking systems Americans rely on in their daily lives.
In a Persian Gulf military stand off, Iran might also combine computer-network attacks against U.S. military information and communications systems with more conventional jamming techniques “to degrade U.S. and allied radar systems, complicating both offensive and defensive operations,” Mr. Cilluffo adds.
Some parts of the federal government like U.S. Strategic Command and the State Department’s Nonpoliferation Bureau have begun to pay attention to the Iranian cyber threat, but no one in the administration is “tasked with comprehensively addressing the Iranian cyberwarfare threat,” Mr. Berman warns.
“The U.S. government, in other words, has not yet even begun to get ready for cyberwar with Iran,” he concludes.

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Guy Delisle's biased focus on Jerusalem

A reviewer at Comic Book Resources wrote about moonbat Guy Delisle's graphic novel Jerusalem, and confirmed some concerns any Zionist like myself could have that this really is biased in favor of the so-called palestinians:

This time Delisle’s wife’s job with Doctors Without Borders takes them to the heart of much of the turmoil in the Middle East, the city of Jerusalem. Far from a city of wonder, Delisle is shocked to find how dirty and garbage-strewn Jerusalem is and lacking in infrastructure, at least on the Palestinian side of things. Much of the book is filled with Delisle wandering about the city and the outlying areas, making sketches and talking to denizens that hail from a variety of cultures and backgrounds.

Delisle doesn’t delve too deep into the whys and wherefores of the Palestinian situation, no doubt assuming most readers understand the two sides’ positions and issues regarding things like the Jewish settlements. Indeed, this is one of Delisle’s subtlest graphic novels to date. His sympathies clearly ally with the Palestinians, but rather than use a sledge hammer to get his points across, Delisle relies on small observations: the thin hungry wrists of a woman in his cartooning seminar, or the way everyone seems to casually carry assault rifles. More often than not he simply presents a situation and allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.

Some advice to the man who wrote that: don't try to fool me or anyone else by arguing that it's not hammer-handed. Subtlety is an even more effective tool, and if Delisle's sympathies are biased in favor of those Golda Meir and Newt Gingrich said were never a real race, and if he considers Jewish rights to Jerusalem illegitimate, then that is simply unacceptable.

Now, about the lack of cleanliness on the side Delisle takes. Here's a clue to why it's not easy to work on that (Hat tip: Vlad Tepes):

Two civilian employees of the Defense Ministry are recovering from a near lynch attempt on Monday.

The two were traveling to Mount Scopus in Jerusalem when they accidentally made a wrong turn and ended up stuck in a traffic jam between two Arab cars. A crowd of Arab youths then showed up and began throwing rocks at them.

At one point the rock throwers, some of whom were students from a nearby school, approached the vehicle and slammed a large stone into the windshield. The rock struck the driver, Yehuda Attias, in the head. Attias, who was all bloody, hit the gas and the two Israelis then fled toward a nearby hotel. They called security and rescue forces and were taken to the hospital. Attias was since hospitalized several times because of the severe head injuries.

Eliezer Hakshur, Attias’ brother-in-law, told Arutz Sheva that it was a miracle that Attias survived the lynching attempt.

“He is suffering from headaches and has twice been hospitalized with vomiting and chills,” Hakshur said, adding the rock throwers were “probably a group of children from the nearby Arab school who realized the two were stuck, and called their friends who began to throw rocks at them. They smashed the car’s windshield and my brother-in-law’s head. He had deep cuts and his head is full of stitches.”

See also this article, and here's a news clip about some more junior jihadists who were arrested for attempting another of what we describe as lynches. How are sanitation and medical officials supposed to work properly there when Jewish lives are in danger of gangs raised under indoctrination of Jew-hatred and jihad? Something Delisle clearly doesn't want to research.

The CBR reviewer goes on to say that:

If there’s an overall enemy in Jerusalem, it’s not Israel but organized religion. The book is filled with squabbling sects of various monotheistic religions, each one eager to place their own concerns and traditions ahead of the others, or of general decency. Even different sects of the same religion, like the various groups of Christians that run the Holy Sepulchre, seem incapable of getting along. A Lutheran minister, a comics fan who owns copies of Hellsing and gives Delisle a small studio space, provide a contrast to the zealotry that surrounds the city, but he’s a lone voice of sanity in a city suffocating with extremists. Despite Delisle’s considerable dry wit this might be his darkest, saddest travelogue book yet, and that’s saying something for a man that’s been to North Korea.

He may not mention it, but one can only wonder if Hasidic Judaism - or any sect of Judaism with the possible exception of Reform - comes under assault here. While far from the most religious person myself, my default is Orthodox, but even if it's not under attack here, I can't say I'm happy to hear that Christianity is apparently attacked in this graphic novel. And while I will be more than honest enough to acknowledge that yes, there are Hasidics who've gone downhill into committing atrocious behavior (the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta are certainly an abominable bunch themselves), it is in complete violation of the Jewish faith and the arguments of Leviticus, for example.

Why do I mention Hasidics? Because I've seen how their image has tragically been exploited by anti-semites/Israelists as a way of targeting even non-Hasidics, certainly ever since the 1940s film of Dickens' Oliver Twist featured that revolting take on Fagin-as-Hasidic, and it sickens me to no end. What I'm saying is that should we ever learn that the GN does attack Hasidics in any way, it will be very sad, because of how Delisle may consider them worse in every way than Muslims.

In the comments section on CBR, someone said:

How utterly sad to me that Delisle saw such a different Jerusalem than I saw last year. Granted, I am a Jew and pretty devout (though also not what anyone would call a fanatic), but even so I saw a city with a thriving economy and a construction boom and a lot of life and joy. And I surely didn’t feel overwhelmed by “extremists.” If anything, I think I see more “ultra-Orthodox” Jews most days here in NYC than I did there. I did not expect to love my visit to Jerusalem, but I did and look forward to my return next month. I understand that non-Jews are not likely to see Israel the same way Jews do – and it’s valuable that they don’t since we need wake up calls – but I have to wonder if the author’s preconceived notions prevented him from seeing what I saw as well as what he saw.

The reviewer, whose name is Chris Mautner, replied with a clearer confirmation of just what's going on here:

Simon — Sorry if I made Delisle’s book sound like a screed. It’s not. If anything, he generally expresses annoyance and occasionally bemusement at how the different religions interact (or fail to) and generally prevent him from, say, getting an ice cream cone at the playground. Beyond that, there’s a deep sadness at how certain Israelis, especially the settlers, use religion as a means to justify their behavior. I didn’t get the feeling he came with preconceived notions. If anything he expresses a good deal of surprise at certain behaviors and attitudes throughout the book.

Also, remember he stayed in East Jerusalem, which is different than other areas of the city.

Well well well. So Delisle - and Mautner by extension - are basically attacking "settlers" by calling them "occupiers" as implied, and even stooping to something like an atheist position, but more disturbingly, are delegitimizing the Jewish claim and heritage to Israel by implying that Judaism is abominable? In that case, I've got a challenge for Mautner: do you consider "honor killings" committed in the name of Islam like this horrifiying case in Switzerland justified in any way? Do you even consider the murder of Jessica Mokdad from Michigan justified? Is murder committed in the name of the Religion of Rape justified? And what about sexual harrassment of Jewish women in the name of the same religion? What about the rape of Lara Logan? And what about terrorist attacks like this one in Nigeria? Is that justified?

It's definitely weird how people like Mautner can take these kind of positions when the late Will Eisner, while I don't know if he was religiously observant himself as a Jew or even a conservative per se, did write a few things taking pride in being Jewish, religiously or otherwise, with A Contract With God being a standout example. And as I'd noted before, Eisner also more or less took the Islamic world to task for their own part in supporting the Protocols of Zion monstrosity, just shortly before his death. And let's not forget what Martin Luther King said about what one does when one attacks Israel:

Shortly before his death, Dr. King had the moral courage to confront the burgeoning Jew hatred of both extreme leftwing Black organizations, including the Black Panthers and the radicalized Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, as well as the Black Muslims. For example, during a 1968 appearance at Harvard University, he stated bluntly:

"When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti-Semitism." [ from "The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel" by Seymour Martin Lipset; in Encounter magazine, December 1969, p. 24. ].

King immediately recognized anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism- Judenhass - refusing to indulge what he believed was simply another manifestation of the same hatred confronting Blacks. As Georgia Congressman John Lewis, who worked closely with Dr. King during the civil rights movement, observed last year on Martin Luther King Day,

So just what exactly is it that brings so-called comics readers of any sort to condone the positions Delisle's apparently got here? By doing so, they are in effect rejecting the beliefs of great folks like MLK, and come to think of it, they're even indirectly assaulting many of the Jewish comics creators of yore. What a shame that here's one more graphic novel dedicated more to delegitimizing Israel than anything truly crucial or productive, like combatting jihadism.

Update: the Wash. City Paper interviewed this pretentious man too, telling that he's of mostly Canadian background, and unsurprisingly, he still tends to stay ambiguous while still managing to show some bias, as does the interviewer himself when they tell:

On his travels he meets and shows his readers a variety of people including Israeli Jews in the military, Bedouins, ultra-extreme Jewish settlers, Palestinian student cartoonists, and a Christian minister (who provides him with studio space). Unlike his earlier books, here Delisle stretches into cartoon journalism, when he’s asked to do a story on Doctors Without Borders and “what they’re doing in Hebron, a West Bank city where the settlers are known to be especially militant,” he explains.

Why, what do they do exactly? Go around literally robbing banks and committing sexual harrassment and rape, the latter for which many followers of the ummah are known for? This is where we get a clue to how, if there's anyone whom Delisle particularly seems to have a problem with, it's those he calls "settlers". In that case, I am a proud member of that bunch too.

WCP: Obviously you’re familiar with Joe Sacco’s work Palestine—I believe you name-check him in the book…

GD: [Laughs] Yeah. You know people confuse me with Joe Sacco somehow.

WCP: Have you read Sarah Glidden’s book about traveling to Israel?

GD: Yeah, I did and I know Sarah now because I keep seeing her in festivals—we had a conversation in Germany with our books. I like her book and I like her a lot. We were in contact when I was in Jerusalem doing my blog. I think it’s an interesting book.

When we see that he's aligned with people like that, who even blabber vulgarities and seem to think that "right-wing" is the sole cause of all that's wrong with the world, we know something's wrong.

WCP: In the end, would you say that you tend to fall more on the Palestinian side? That’s what I thought I took away from the book…

GD: Yeah, kind of. Well, at first the general idea is that all the Palestinians are suffering unfairly from what the Israelis are doing to them. I guess that’s the feeling I came out with. Being with the Israelis, you know why they’re so paranoid and security is so high, but then again they feed the paranoia to themselves with the media and all that—a bit too much to me. I don’t talk about that in the book. I came back—I’m a left-wing guy, so of course to see what’s going on there and what happens to the Palestinians—you feel sorry for them. I don’t know anyone coming back from the humanitarian work in this region who says, “Everything’s fine.” That’s not possible. They all come back and say, “That’s so unfair.”

Here's where he really lets his bias slip out. He's predictably unclear, but I can guess what he's trying to do - claim subtly that Jews and/or conservatives "control the media" and have come up with the "general idea". But the fact is that a lot of people actually believe the so-called palestinians are suffering "unfairly", this despite how the Religion of Rape is the precise barrier to their ever being able to find a truly better life.

And Delisle's accusing Israelis almost as a whole of "paranoia" is insulting and trivializes a lot of the problems with jihad. Pretty much the only thing he's honest about is being a leftard.

GD: I guess doctors feel like that because they see so much illness and suffering. I was talking to a doctor who works with Doctors Without Borders—they’re in so many extreme situations—I think doctors have to feel like that, otherwise they’ll just go nuts. And I think the same for someone who wants to do a book or reporting—I think it’s better to be kind of cold about the situation and then you don’t get too involved. You can feel for the people, but if there’s not much you can do—well, it’s just the way it is. You can talk about it…you’re going to help them…and that’s it. You’re not going to live their lives, they’re not going to live yours, and that’s how I felt when I was in North Korea. I would feel sorry for these people, but once you go, you can’t even be in contact with them. I think it would be dangerous for them, and that’s it. You just say bye-bye and you know you’re never going to see them. I feel terrible, but I think I have that distance that I can really look at the people. Even though the Palestinians are suffering, some of them were not very nice people and it’s not because they’re suffering that they have all the riots or they should be able to do whatever they want. And both peoples are in different situations—the Israelis, the Jews, they feel like they are the victims, of course, of the history of Europe. And then the Palestinians are the victims as well of something else, so you’re between two victims. Sometimes you just don’t feel sorry for any of them because it’s too much. They’re just showing so much victimization…it’s not because you’re a victim that you’re right somehow. It’s a feeling you get when you’re with the Palestinians for a long time, even though they are in an unfair situation of course.

After all the biases he's signaled against Israel, and I sadly suspect that he's even got one against Judaism too, even though not all "settlers" are religious, or wear kippas on their heads. Delisle's bias, as you see here, remains even when he supposedly criticizes the non-existent race of palestinians, yet at the same time doesn't have the courage to tell whether it's because the Islamic influence led to that kind of personality. And since when did any Jews who feel victimized feel that way just because of Europe? It's not just Europe that was ever a problem, it was Caliphates of the 8th century too. Even long before that, it was the Egyptians. What a fool this man is, to single out Europe, though if we took him as an example of the continent, he's part of the still continuing history of Europe's bad side.

And as mentioned, he still thinks the "palestinians" are the ones to side with here, and the Israelis/Jews the illegitimate ones. So any attempt to claim otherwise falls flat on its face.

An interesting article about the 1% …CNN:Don’t blame the 1% for America’s pay gap

FORTUNE — What if I told you that there was a group of hard-driving workaholics who tend to have advanced degrees and bring a level of talent and skill to their jobs that attracts premium pay in the global economy? Scholars have found that this group is more likely than much of the population to raise their children in two-parent homes.

You might think this was a group people would admire, even emulate, right? Not so. For this is the much-maligned 1%, whose media infamy via the Occupy Wall Street protests, followed by President Obama’spopulist reelection message, is now firmly embedded in the American psyche.

The 1% club stands accused, accurately, of more than doubling its share of the nation’s income since 1980. By 2007 it controlled nearly 24% of total income, the second highest in history, after 1929. (In 2009 its share dropped to 17%, suggesting that recessions aren’t necessarily kind to the rich.)

I have a question?

What do the 1% do?

Have they invented battery technologies?

Gas extraction techniques?

Developed new surgical methodologies?

Pioneered new antibiotics or cancer treatments?

………………………………………………………………………………………….

Or are they at Goldman Sachs evaluating risk for wealth preservation funds?

Serving on boards after selling bonds at JP Morgan?

Overseeing job flight to the lowest labor cost at GE, OR APPLE?

Above the line people are PRODUCING WEALTH.

Below the line they are enhancing it on the production value of those above the line. (Tim Geithner, Glenn Hubbard, Henry Paulson, etc…)

Yes, finance is well-represented in the 1% club, but there is also an especially high portion of the self-employed, along with a variety of other professions. And while CEO incomes rose astronomically through the 1990s, their incomes have actually declined over the past decade, according to University of Chicago’s Steven N. Kaplan.

I don’t know the answer to this question (nor is this article an objective study of that), but my thesis is that the rewards for those who manipulate capital, spread risk, create debt to ease the inflation of demand have benefited out of proportion to those who invent, start businesses, and take risk at the street level. In fact if my thesis is correct, those below the line would regard those above it strictly as building blocks for ‘REAL WEALTH CREATION’.

What the masses sense beyond the envy and rage, and the #occupy idiots is that those in the financial markets, and such have arrogated to themselves a reward set backed by amoral eyesight and mental processes they simply do not deserve in a free open capitalistic society. They have been corrupted by greed (The GSA’s recent actions in Vegas is a PERFECT example of the mental processes which result in self justification of corrupt practices until they are ‘acceptable’)

And the penalties for those who work…

Scholars are also taking note of social issues underlying America’s income divide. In his new book, Coming Apart, conservative social scientist Charles Murray documents far higher divorce rates and more children living with one parent in working-class communities. That’s a trend that has also caught the attention of liberals like Harvard’s Robert Putnam, who describes “gaps that didn’t exist decades ago but are widening at an alarming rate today” and are reinforced as wealthy parents spend far more time with their children.

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Amnesty International Says Europe Discriminates Against Muslims

Europe is not very discriminating when it comes to Muslims. Europe will allow any old Muslim in, no questions asked.

From Egypt Independent:

Photographed by AFP

European countries are discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in the fields of education and employment, according to rights group Amnesty International.

In a report focusing on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland, Amnesty urged European governments to do more to challenge negative stereotypes and prejudices against Islam.

The report was particularly critical of countries that have brought in outright bans on face-covering veils or on the wearing of religious symbols in schools.

20 Blacks Beat White Interloper With Makeshift Bludgeons; Victim In Critical Condition; One Attacker Said, "Now That's Justice For Trayvon"

From Ace

No national media coverage.
And this is the third racially-motivated attack in which the attackers explicitly cited "Justice for Trayvon" as a motivation or excuse for the brutal attacks.
1. The Baltimore Beating. This was the videotaped gang attack on a drunk St. Patrick's day reveler whose crime was Walking While White (Content Warning).
Baltimore's Chief of Police says it's not a hate crime. He's very worried about the politics.
There's one problem with that: the attackers say otherwise. The man identifying himself as the cameraman who giddily filmed the attack on the white tourist says:
2. The Chicago Mugging. Less vicious than the others-- this was merely a 2-on-1 attack. A veritable Marquis de Queensbury affair.
Although they did punched the downed victim repeatedly in the head.

Hayes and a 15-year-old Chicago boy walked up behind the 19-year-old man victim and pinned his arms to his side, police said. Hayes, 18, then picked up a large tree branch, pointed it at the man and said, “Empty your pockets, white boy.” The two allegedly rifled through the victim’s pockets, then threw him to the ground and punched him “numerous times” in the head and back before running away, police said. Hayes and the boy are black; the victim is white.
After being arrested, Hayes told police he was upset by the Trayvon Martin case and beat the man up because he was white, Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said, citing court records.

3. The latest "Justice" attack, in Mobile, Alabama.

According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but the kitchen sink. Police tell News 5 the suspects used chairs, pipes and paint cans to beat Owens.
Owens’ sister, Ashley Parker, saw the attack. “It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed.” Parker says 20 people, all African American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using “brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on.”
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What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal beating even worse. As the attackers walked away, leaving Owen bleeding on the ground, Parker says one of them said “Now thats justice for Trayvon.”

I repeat: No national coverage of this racial hate crime pattern in the media.
Apparently some victims are unworthy, and some hatred and violence is justified.
Is Obama going to say anything? Call at least one of the victims? Attempt to bring calm? Attempt a "Sister Souljah" moment (which could actually benefit him politically) and call out violent black racists?
Apparently not, and the media has decided that's their preferred political strategy, too.
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Israel’s ‘right’ to hit Iran goes viral

from The Times of Israel

A series of videos asserting that Israel is within its legal and moral rights to attack Iran have gone viral, and had been seen by over two million people as of Sunday. They were launched by the pro-Israeli activist group The Land of Israel.

The videos assert Israel’s obligation to protect its people from “a genocidal dictator.”

As of Sunday, the first of the videos, “Iran vs. Israel — Back to the future,” had been viewed about 1 million times since it was posted two weeks ago. The second, ”Iran vs. Israel — No fear,” posted late last week, had received over 1,650,000 views at the time of writing.

“Back to the future,” portrays Holocaust-era Jews, powerless and dejected, who tried to enter the United States on the USS St. Louis — but were forced to return to Nazi Germany. To a soundtrack of orchestrated music, American-born Jeremy Gimpel, one of the co-founders of the group, indirectly equates the gravity of the Iranian threat with that of the Holocaust.


The story from The Times of Israel here






Watch all of the videos at The Land of Israel

Two State Solution is great, as long as you don’t sell to a jew

Palestinian Sentenced to Death for Selling a Home to Jews

Former Palestinian intelligence official Muhammad Abu Shahala has reportedly been sentenced to death by the Palestinian Authority for selling a Hebron home to Jews. In response, Jewish officials from the community in Hebron are calling for international officials now to get involved—in order to save Abu Shahala’s life.

“According to various news agencies, Mr. Muhammad Abu Shahala, a former intelligence agent for the Palestinian Authority, has been sentenced to death, following a hurried trial. His crime: selling property to Jews in Hebron,” David Wilder and Noam Arnon, of the Jewish community in Hebron, write in a letter addressed to Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other high ranking officials.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of Israel has upheld the right of ANYONE to buy land ANYWHERE in Israel.

SEVERAL TIMES

While this is going on…

CBS UNDER FIRE FOR ‘60 MINUTES’ SEGMENT ATTACKING ISRAEL

Christian leaders, Middle East experts, and observers on Capitol Hill are crying foul on a CBS News report that they say erroneously blamed Israel for the persecution and migration of Palestinian Christians.

The report by “60 Minutes” contributorBob Simon blamedIsraeli security policies for the outflow of Christian Palestinians from historically Christian areas such as Nazareth and Bethlehem.

In interviews with Palestinian Christian leaders and others, Simon concluded that Israel, through its settlements and security measures, is squeezing Middle Eastern Christians into obscurity.

The segment’s profound inaccuracies were startling, Christian leaders and other experts argued. Simon’s report, they say, whitewashed the extremist rhetoric of its various subjects and intentionally failed to tell the real story behind the West Bank’s Christian exodus—and the continuing growth in Israel’s Christian population.

“I find it incomprehensible for CBS to focus on one Christian population that is not actually shrinking and blame its troubles on the steps Israel is taking to protect itself from these same Islamic terrorists” who target Arab Christians, said David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel, one of the nation’s largest pro-Israel groups.

“They leave out the fact that the only Christian community that is thriving is the one in Israel,” said Brog, explaining that Christian minorities across the Middle East routinely face slaughter at the hands of Islamic extremists.

What is in human beings that powers this kind of urge?

Where some kind of self blame, or allied blame is a substitute for moral courage.

Where some kind of self blame, or allied blame is a substitute for objective observation of bitter truths?

Not only has Obama been able to repeal the law of supply and demand, “The war on terror is over”

Weekly Std:

In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration is grappling with how to handle Islamists, radical adherents to Islam. Particularly, the issue has come to the fore in regards to Egypt, which,as Reuel Marc Gerecht notes, "is now certain" to elect "an Islamist" as its leaders the next time the Egyptian people go to the polls.
But some in the Obama administration are now seeing things differently.
"The war on terror is over," a senior official in the State Department officialtells the National Journal. "Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism."
This new outlook has, in the words of theNational Journal, come from a belief among administration officials that "It is no longer the case, in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to terrorists."
TheNational Journalexplains:

The new approach is made possible by the double impact of the Arab Spring, which supplies a new means of empowerment to young Arabs other than violent jihad, and Obama's savagely successful military drone campaign against the worst of the violent jihadists, al Qaida.

This administration according to a "senior official" believes that if (as this blog and author has been saying for A DECADE) the majority of people in the muslim majority nations, AGREE WITH GOALS OF AL QAEDA, AND SOME OF THEIR MEANS, that means the war on terror is over. It's good.

There is certainly NO WAY to deny the goals of the peoples over their WITHIN their own borders, but instead of facing a transnational group of religious killer morons, we will have the TEMPORARY SLIGHTLY BLUNTED actions of states, held back only by their ability to think up ways out of alliances with the fornicating, blaspheming, drunkards of the west, and unify around the confrontation of those same powers, ESPECIALLY THOSE 'MARKED BY ALLAH' AS EVIL, THE JEWS.

The miscalculation of the policies of the new Islamist govts is understandable since they will, like Iran, believe the blessings of god will conquer the material superiority of their enemy.

The arrogant, culturally superior attitude of the academic and political class here, however cannot be excused, anymore that the attitude and policies of one Stanley Baldwin and his students could be. What is worse, is that those policies will lead to precisely the same end as the Dear Vicar's did, an end one side expects.

The Islamist govts, will like the Muslims Brotherhood of Gaza (HAMAS) not relinquish power. How can they? It is their personal responsibility before god to reach their goals.

But they won't have to, because, we can all see that even if it would be stipulated that the actors of 1979 onwards were a tiny minority of extremists, the goals of that tiny minority are shared by the vast majority of muslims. That is why the ascendant form of Islam, IS ASCENDANT.

That is how it is.

Si vi pacem ... well if you are educated, you know the rest.