Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor of Law at Northwestern and a contributor at The Volokh Conspiracy blog
In this video, Professor Kontorovich examines the actual issues of International Law as they apply to Israeli settlements and the double standards applied to them.
Also see his video on The Legal Case for Israel
Here is the video of his appearance on Shalom TV:
Jewish Right To Israel
Jewish Right To Palestine (click on image)
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Obama Praises Turkey's Erdogan As Erdogan Puts A Knife in the US's Back
The situation is getting very dangerous and with a "friend" like Erdogan it is clear that Obama’s policy toward Syria, Iran, the advance of revolutionary Islamism, and the Israel-Palestinian “peace process,” is in serious trouble.
Barry Rubin
Barry Rubin writes about further signs of Obama's failed foreign policy as Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Praised at White House as He Subverts U.S. Interests
Rubin notes 5 factors that should have mitigated against the warm reception that Obama gave Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan during his visit to the White House -- yet didn't. Here is a summary of 2 of them:
Raymond Ibrahim: Islamic Forced Conversions - Past and Present
The following by Raymond Ibrahim is reposted here with permission of Middle East Forum:
Islamic Forced Conversions - Past and Present
The lost history of Christians forced to convert to Islam—or die—is reemerging, figuratively and literally. According to the BBC: "Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony [last Sunday] at the Vatican—a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480.They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after refusing to convert to Islam."
The BBC adds in a sidebar: "The 'Martyrs of Otranto' were 813 Italians beheaded for defying demands by Turkish invaders to renounce Christianity. The Turks had been sent by Mohammed II, who had already captured the 'second Rome' of Constantinople."
In Germany, UN Helps Islamist Attack on Free Speech Against Thilo Sarrazin
The following by Andrew Harrod and Sam Nunberg is reposted here with permission of the Middle East Forum:
UN Pressures Germany to Bow to 'Hate Speech' Hysteria
A recent decision by the United Nation's (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) foreshadows an ominous future for free societies should Muslim entities like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) achieve their goal of having "Islamophobia" defined internationally as a form of prejudice.
Former German central bank board member Thilo Sarrazin has got himself in trouble with the UN, as theTurkish Union in Berlin-Brandenburg (Türkischer Bund in Berlin-Brandenburg or TBB) stated with satisfaction in an April 18, 2013, German-language press release. The spokesman of this German-Turkish interest group, Hilmi Kaya Turan, praised a February 26, 2013, "historic decision" by the CERD condemning Germany for not having prosecuted Sarrazin's criticism of Arab and Turkish immigrants.
Why Is It Difficult For The West To Behave Rationally And Defend Itself Against Terrorism?
The Price of Blindness
by Jonathan RosenblumJerusalem Post
May 3, 2013
In preparation for Yom Yerushalayim, I've just finished The Battle for Jerusalem: An Unintended Conquest
by long-time Jerusalem Post reporter Abraham Rabinovich. (The book is an expanded e-book version of his 1972 classic.) Rabinovich interviewed over 300 combatants in the battle, and it shows. No one captures the experience of war from the fighters' perspective better than Rabinovich.While reading The Battle for Jerusalem, it struck me that Israel's need to constantly defend itself against threats to its very existence from 1948 to the present, has prevented the most basic human instinct – the instinct for self-preservation – from atrophying here to the degree it has throughout the West.
Retiring Yale classicist Donald Kagan, 80, expressed concern in his valedictory interview with the Wall Street Journal's Matthew Kaminski that the delicate flower of democracy is threatened today. He laments the development of a culture that "makes it difficult for us [i.e., the West] to behave rationally when the rational thing is to be tough." He sums up the basic lesson of growing up in the tough Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn: "If you don't want trouble with someone be sure he has something to be scared of."
Kagan attributes the West's failure to absorb that lesson to culture and a lack of political leadership. Democracy, he argues, requires free, autonomous, and self-reliant population, and they are in increasingly short supply in an America of office workers and disability recipients.
Israelis, however, have been forced to be tough for wont of choice. And the experience of war has developed the qualities Kagan considers fundamental for democracy and the capacity for leadership.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
By Bungling Both Iran and Russia, Obama Continues To Empower Syria
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Obama and Kerry's Fingerprints
In Syria, the motto for stopping the bloodshed might be summed up this way: when the going gets tough, the tough hold a conference. That’s the latest word from Secretary John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov who are planning the event for some time in June. Neither Assad, nor the opposition, has committed to attend. |
Friday, May 17, 2013
Egypt's Radical Clerics -- And What They Say About Christians, Moderate Egyptians and The US
The following by Raymond Ibrahim is reposted here with permission of the Middle East Forum:
Radical Cleric Swears to 'Pop America's Eye' if Moderate Morsi Threatened
American Middle East analysts often claim that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization, nothing like the more radical Salafis. If true, what do we make of the fact that the most intolerant, anti-American, hate-filled Salafis and jihadis also happen to be the greatest and staunchest supporters of Morsi? Doesn't such unequivocal support indicate shared ideologies and goals?
Consider: A few weeks ago, while discussing the ongoing protests against Egypt's President Muhammad Morsi—himself a leader of the Brotherhood—Sheikh Abdullah Badr, an Al Azhar trained scholar and professor of Islamic exegesis, made the following assertion on live TV:
Arlene Kushner on Israel's War of Pre-emption Against Syria and Hezbollah
From Arlene Kushner:
May 16, 2013:
May 16, 2013:
Dead Serious
The NYTimes ran a piece yesterday in which it directly quoted a "senior Israeli official" -- who according to the JPost had contacted the Times (emphasis added):
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"Israel is determined to continue to prevent the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah. The transfer of such weapons to Hezbollah will destabilize and endanger the entire region.Read: 'Israel determined to stop Syrian weapons transfer'
"If Syrian President Assad reacts by attacking Israel, or tries to strike Israel through his terrorist proxies, he will risk forfeiting his regime, for Israel will retaliate."
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Video: Latma on Channel 10's Scoop About Netanyahu's Bed
I wasn't expecting a new Latma video this week because of Shavuot, but here it is -- including a skit on Netanyahu's bed he had installed on his plane.
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