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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Netanyahu Speaks, Islam Conquers


Posted: 25 Sep 2009 03:27 PM PDT


First up is the Binyamin Netanyahu speech at the UN. In sharp contrast to
Kaddafi's rambling lunacy or Obama's generic "Insert Talking Points and
Hopeful Slogans" speech-- Netanyahu distinguished himself by speaking well
and to the point. He challenged the UN directly to be better than it is
and to live up to its own values.













Netanyahu is well aware that the UN
is not about to jump into action. The last time the UN jumped into action
was when it was essentially run by NATO members. And that's no
coincidence. Instead Netanyahu has attempted to provide cover for future
Israeli action by demonstrating the UN's uselessness, much as Bush and
Powell went through the motions at the UN before launching Operation Iraqi
Freedom.

The UN is a forum, not a force. Netanyahu understands
that, and his speech set up the moral high ground for Israel to take
unilateral action against Iran.

While I'm not pleased with some of
the concessions Netanyahu made in his speech, it was an essentially strong
showing that demonstrated once again that Israel is open to peace, and by
contrast that its enemies are not.

Shirat Devorah
has
the full text of Netanyahu's speech
for those who would rather not
watch the video

Various commentators have unloaded their own views.
At the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick
writes
of An Enfeebled Obama



The fact of the matter is that Brzezinski's view is in line
with the general disposition of Obama's foreign policy. Since entering
office, Obama has struck a hard-line position against Israel while
adopting a soft, even apologetic line toward Iran and its
allies.

For eight months, Obama has sought to force Israel to the
wall. He has loudly and repeatedly ordered the Netanyahu government to
prevent all private and public construction for Jews in Israel's capital
city and its heartland in order to facilitate the eventual mass
expulsion of Jews from both areas, which he believes ought to become
part of a Jew-free Palestinian state.

...

In the meantime,
in his address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday and in his
remarks at his meeting with Netanyahu and Abbas on Tuesday, Obama made
clear that, in the words of former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton,
he has "put Israel on the chopping block." He referred to Israeli
communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines as
"illegitimate."

Moreover, Obama explained that Israel can no
longer expect US support for its security if it doesn't bow to his
demand that it surrender all of the land it has controlled since
1967.

Apparently it is immaterial to the US leader that if Israel
fulfilled his demand, the Jewish state would render itself defenseless
against enemy attack and so embolden its neighbors to invade. That is,
it matters not to Obama that were Israel to fulfill his demand, the
prospect of an Arab war against Israel would rise steeply. The fact that
Obama made these deeply antagonistic statements about Israel at the UN
in itself exposes his hostility toward the country. The UN's
institutional hostility toward Israel is surpassed only by that of the
Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic
Conference.

...

Obama's failures in both foreign and
domestic policy have weakened him politically. His response to this
newfound weakness has been to put himself into the public eye seemingly
around the clock. Apparently the thinking behind the move is that while
Obama's policies are unpopular, Obama's personal popularity remains
high, so if he personalizes his policies, it will become more difficult
for his opponents to argue against them.

But alas, this policy
too has failed. The more Obama exposes himself, the less he is able to
leverage his personal celebrity into political power.

The question for the US's spurned allies in general - and for Israel in
particular - is whether we are better off with a politically strong
Obama or a politically weak Obama. Given that the general thrust of his
foreign policy is detrimental to our interests, America's allies are
best served by a weak Obama. Already this week Israel benefitted from
his weakness. It was Obama's weakness that dictated his need to stage a
photo-op with Netanyahu and Abbas at the UN. And it was this need - to
be seen as doing something productive - that outweighed Obama's desire
to put the screws on Israel by preconditioning talks with a freeze on
Jewish construction. So Obama was forced to relent at least temporarily
and Netanyahu won his first round against Obama.

These are key excerpts, but the entire article is certainly worth
reading.

Muslims Against Sharia

has the Hamas rebuttal


At IsraPundit, Ted Belman describes what he sees as The Master Plan

The best way for Britain to gain control of Palestine was to
act ostensibly on behalf of the Jews. This was born out in the Balfour
Declaration in 1917 in which the British Government backed the creation
of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, mind you, not Palestine as the Jewish
homeland. Britain would have Palestine and the Jews would have a
homeland in it. Britain had no fears that too many Jews would want to
come. Afterall they were not pioneers and certainly not fighters. The
blueprint evolved: the Arabs when required would “revolt” against the
“foreign invasion”; the Jews would be forever a threatened minority.
Thus Britain would be called upon to maintain the peace. Unfortunately
for them, as Robbie Burns wrote, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
gang aft agley,”

Throughout the twenties and thirties the British
encouraged the Arabs to “revolt”. But because of the Holocaust, the Jews
kept coming. Britain in order not to lose control had to limit their
entry. Thus the Peel Commission in the late thirties recommended in a
White Paper that only 75,000 Jews more, be allowed into Palestine by
1944. The Jews had to be kept to a minority at all costs. In fact
Hitler’s Final Solution played into their hands as there would be less
Jews left to emigrate to Eretz Yisroel. The British spin machine went
into overdrive and overtime. “Afterall, couldn’t let German spies into
Palestine, could we.”

...

The US is now the big power in
the ME and she is following Britain’s Master Plan. The US wants Israel
to be shrunk but not exterminated.[See The conspiracy to Shrink Israel]
Thus the US will be needed to protect them. To this end she trains Fatah
and keeps Hamas alive. The Saudis also depend on them for
protection.

The US uses the same technique. In response to the
Second Intifada after the failure of Camp David, the US sent Sen.
Mitchell to Israel to investigate the violence, and wouldn’t you know
it, he recommended a settlement freeze just as the Peel Commission
recommended an immigration freeze. In both cases, Jewish rights were
restricted as a result of Arab violence.

The United Nations does
the same thing. As a result of Hamas rocket violence and Israeli
self-defense, the UN appointed Goldstone to head a commission of
enquiry. The Goldstone Report did what it was expected to do, namely,
recommended Israel be tried for war crimes and perhaps crimes against
humanity.

Israel Matzav
has bitter reaction from Israel's left
to Netanyahu's speech


You see, Barack Obama and the Arab world aren't the only
ones who believe that theHolocaust is the only justification for the
State of Israel's existence: So does Israel's religion rejecting Left.
In the minds of Levy and his colleagues on the Left, if only Israel
would forget about the Holocaust, it would be able to give the entire
country away to the 'Palestinians,' peace would magically break out and
the wolves and the sheep would lay down together.

That's why Levy
is horrified that Binyamin Netanyahu reminded the world again that six
million Jews were murdered by the Nazis between 1939-45. That reminder
may produce international sympathy for an Israeli position that is less
generous than committing national suicide. And that's the last thing
Levy wants to see happen.

...

Gideon Levy is a bitter man
because his vision for a secular, 'humanitarian' state of all its
citizens is losing out to a vision of a Jewish state that is much closer
to what Israel's founders originally envisioned. Levy's friends the
'Palestinians' bear much of the blame for his vision's rejection. But
like much of the world, for Levy and the bitter Israeli Left, the
'Palestinians' can do no wrong.

The Muqata blog has a
focused take

on both Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad's appearances


Oh My Valve who
has been sharply critical of Netanyahu
gives him
some praises



In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Bibi Netanyahu
stood up and defended Israel, and the Jewish people against the racism
of the Iranian Theocracy, and the racism of the UN. He shamed the
worthless sons of bitches in that worthless piece of crap building that
houses that worthless piece of crap organization which watches silently
while we are murdered by rockets and homicide bombs; while genocide is
committed in Darfur, and then condemns us for fighting back against
those that have sworn to enact and execute our
destruction.

Beyond Israel, Atlas Shrugs has a look at the Islamic day of DC Colonization in photos.

Iran's second nuclear facility
has come to light, at Gateway Pundit

Jonah Goldberg remembers Irving Kristol.


“I am so nostalgic.” That’s the phrase I associate most with
Irving Kristol, who died last week at the age of 89.

What piqued
Irving’s nostalgia, at an American Enterprise Institute conference I
worked on in 1992, was old-fashioned censorship. In the good old days,
he explained, local communities were able to determine their own
standards without inviting lawsuits from the ACLU and overwrought
invocations of “Fahrenheit 451.” In fact, hanging a “Banned in Boston”
banner in a bookstore window, he explained, was the surest way to sell
that book in New York. Local censorship, tethered to common sense and
grounded in community norms, gave communities a say in how they would
live. It made the world a more diverse, sane place.

“Though they
continue to speak the language of Progressive reform,” Kristol wrote,
“in actuality they are acting upon a hidden agenda: to propel the nation
… toward an economic system so stringently regulated in detail as to
fulfill many of the traditional anti-capitalist aspirations of the
Left.”

It's unfortunate that too few have remember
Kristol, in contrast to the outpouring of grief for Bob Novak. HotAir,
which ran not one but two pieces by Robert Stacy McCain in defense of
Novak, did not bother to note Kristol's passing. I guess a pro-terrorist
9/11 Truther who obsessively hated Jews and Israel trumps a man who
genuinely made a difference.

Show me the values, and I'll show you
the man.

Jack Kemp in American Thinker puts
brother's keeper' issues in a new light


After hearing Obama state at the U. N. that Israel's
settlements are not legitimate, I believe the time has come for Israel
to call out Obama's worldview versus theirs.

We know that Obama's
step brother lives in a hut in Kenya on ten dollars a year.

In
reply to the Biblical question "Am I my Brother's Keeper?",

I
propose that the Israeli government offer to move George Obama from his
Kenyan hut to a newly constructed settlement building in Judea or
Samaria and give him a job. Whether George will accept this offer is
debatable, but the offer should be made, nonetheless.

It is time
to let the world see the contrast between Barack Obama's values and
those of the Bible and the State of Israel.

Indeed.
After all Israel took in Vietnamese boat people and today takes in
Sudanese refugees, both from wars Israel has not at all been involved
in.

Sherik Yermani at
Winds
of Jihad takes CNN to task
for again covering up the religion of
terror. It's interesting how hard it is to get the media to use the M
word, for Muslim. By contrast we had numerous articles on Madoff's
Jewishness and a priest who's investigated for child abuse has his
religion put front and center, even though in neither case was religion
the motivation, but the media can't point out the religion of an
Islamically motivated terrorists.

At
Soccer Dad, the Watcher's Council appears to have its results in, with my
article as the second highest non-council submission, though of course who
could top Big Government's Acorn takedown.


The council has spoken, again.

This
week's winning entry was Bookworm Room's
Liberals are correct: I have a serious problem with Obama's color, but it's his political color. This week's runners up were Mrs. Rhymes With Right's A
Reflection On The First Anniversary Of Hurricane Ike
, which isn't as
well remembered as Hurricane Katrina and The Razor's
Why Obama Ignores the War in Afghanistan, which struck me as being rather similar in
theme to the winning entry.

On the non-council side
the winning entry was
Big Government's big splash
Chaos for Glory: My Time With ACORN which drove a lot
of the news this week. The runner up was the politically incorrect
(though, I think, strategically correct
Sultan
Knish
's
The Future of the War on Terror, is the War on Islam.

Last week's winners are
here.

I'm proud to announce that my take on the Goldstone Commission based on the UN's history,
Verdict first; investigation afterwards was the
winning entry. Thank you for the votes. The runner up last week was
The Glittering Eye's
Keep Faith With
the Promise
a fine rebuttal (of a sort) to the President's message
to American students.

The winning non-council post was
Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate / WSJ's
How a Detainee Became An Asset. Said detainee was KSM.
The non-council runner up was
Villainous
Company
's
Own It, Mr. Secretary on the unconscionable decision
to publish the picture of a dying soldier.
Congratulations to all the
winners!

From Earl at Another Pundit, Michael Barone's
excellent article
pointing out Obama's temporal disability


In the early 1980s, while planning a vacation in Latin
America, I went to bookstores to look for histories of the region. All I
could find were Marxist tracts arguing that "the people" were exploited
by greedy corporations and military dictators, all propped up by the
United States.

Available literature on Latin America today
includes much more sensible accounts. But some people, including Barack
Obama, whose college thesis written in those years has never been made
public, seem stuck in a time warp in which the United States is the bad
guy.

That, at least, seems to explain Obama's latest foreign
policy moves, starting with Honduras, where the president was ousted by
the country's supreme court for violating a constitutional provision
that forbids any moves to seek a second term. (Other Latin countries,
notably Mexico, have similar constitutional
prohibitions.)

Today I appeared on The Gathering Storm at
BlogTalk radio. Thank you to my hosts, please stop by their respective
blogs
,
The Gathering Storm and Always on Watch. You can listen to the entire show here.



Finally
with Yom Kippur coming up, an old Spengler article
,
It's Easy for
the Jews To Talk About Life



What makes the Jews different is their unique belief that
the Covenant gives them eternal life, a belief grounded, to be sure, by
thousands of years of history, and survival against all odds against the
depredations of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Alexandrine and
Roman empires, not to mention more recent unpleasantness. It is not
changing the baby's diapers or changing grandma's bedpan to which the
Jews refer when they speak of delight in life, but rather the idealized,
perpetual life of a kinship community.

From an old article of mine on Jewish chaplains in the US military


At the Yokosuka Naval Base and Marine Corps Air Station
Iwakuni in Japan, chaplains will be specifically flown in to hold Rosh
Hashana and Yom Kippur services. In South Korea, where American troops
help democratic Korea hold the line against the forces of Kim Jong Il's
Communist dictatorship, Jewish soldiers from all across the Korean
pennisula will be gathering in Seoul for prayers under Chaplain Avrohom
Horovitz.

The matter is not as simple as it sounds. Jewish
chaplains have been wounded in the Korean war, though none fatally. Al
Jolson, born Asa Joelson in Lithuanaia, son of a cantor who became a
famous Jewish entertainer in America, starring in numerous shows,
musicals and even movies including most famously the Jazz Singer. During
the Korean War, he traveled against the advice of his doctors to
entertain American Troops there. He spent months there entertaining the
troops and continued on even though he developed a bronchial infection
of which he finally died. And the lights of broadway were dimmed for ten
minutes to mark his passing.

There is a famous story told about a
Jewish soldier on Yom Kippur during the Korean war. A Jewish Marine
corporal named Abraham Geller was engaged in combat at the Seoul-Kaesong road and under fire by snipers. It was Yom Kippur and difficult as it was to pray under those circumstances, Abraham Geller did his best.
After encountering a company of North Korean soldiers near Seoul,
Corporal Abraham Geller saved his Captain's life and took a bullet meant
for him. The bullet penetrated his abdomen and several loops of his
intestines. It would under ordinary circumstances have caused peronitis
as the contents of the intestines would have spilled out into the body
which would have been fatal, but according to the military surgeons,
what saved Geller's life; was that there was no food at all in his
stomach.









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