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By REBECCA HARSHBARGER in NY and S.A. MILLER in DC   Rep. Pete King says President Obama's weak Mideast policy is forcing House Democrats to make the difficult choice of either supporting Obama or supporting Israel. "I hope they put our relationship with Israel above their relationship with Obama," King (R-LI) said yesterday. Flanked by Jewish community leaders at a press conference across from the United Nations, King rallied support for his legislation calling for the US to quit the UN Human Rights Council and its probe of the Israeli raid May 31 on a flotilla off Gaza. Not a single House Democrat, including the entire New York City delegation, would sign on to that resolution introduced by King last week. But King found Dems and Jewish leaders back in the city who also don't trust the UN council, which regularly bashes Israel. He was joined at the press conference by Democratic Assemblymen David Weprin and Rory Lancman, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik and Jew...

By Larry Johnson Last night’s arrest of a U.S. citizen who thought he was spying for Israel is going to unleash a fascinating dynamic. The Washington Post reported this morning : Stewart D. Nozette, 52, was arrested on a charge of attempted espionage and is being held pending an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, authorities said. Authorities said the charges stemmed an undercover sting operation in which an FBI agent posed as an Israeli spy. Nozette allegedly passed the agent sensitive information through a “dead drop” at a D.C. post office in recent weeks, authorities said. Nozette worked for the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 through 1999, prosecutors said. He was credited with helping develop a radar in 1994 that suggested ice on the south pole of the moon. He was president of the Alliance for Competitive Technology, a nonprofit group he founded in 1990. He has held security clearances as high as top secret and...

by Will Heaven For the first time since the death of Pope John Paul II, Catholic-Jewish relations have become strained. Pope Benedict XVI, in an effort to heal a 20-year-old schism in the Catholic Church, has allowed a high-profile Holocaust denier back into his fold. But must the views of one lunatic bishop put an end to interreligious dialogue? Surely not. Now, more than any other time in our troubled history, Catholics and Jews must stand together against the threat of Islamism. The Holocaust-denying Bishop Williamson is, by all accounts, a deeply unpleasant and ignorant man. Despite being educated at Cambridge University, he rejects the existence of the gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps. In doing so, he denies the Holocaust as a historical event, claiming that "only" 300,000 Jews perished. To Roman Catholics, these views are intolerable. The pope has expressed his disapproval in the strongest terms, saying to an American Jewish delegation, "The hatred that was...

Durban II mixes the same old Israel-bashing with new attacks on free speech. One of Colin Powell's best moves as Secretary of State was to pull out of the 2001 United Nations Durban confab against racism once it became an anti-Semitic rant. One of the best moves the new U.S. administration and Europe could make is to stay away from the follow-up meeting altogether. "Durban II," planned for April in Geneva, promises to be an encore of the same old Israel-bashing. The draft declaration says Israel's policy toward the Palestinians amounts to no less than "a new kind of apartheid, a crime against humanity, a form of genocide and a serious threat to international peace and security." We'll spare you the rest of the diatribe. Israel will be the conference's main object of obsession, but it's not the only target. The draft declaration also goes after the West's freedom of speech and antiterror laws under the guise of protecting religion -- read: Isl...

Prayer or “open letter to god?” and Presidential Orientation 1) What? Are you still outraged by someone leaking Obama’s “prayer” from the wailing wall in Israel? Be still, grasshopper, all will be well. Or not. From today’s Israel Insider : What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Barack Obama campaign. Maariv, the second most popular newspaper in Israel, was roundly criticized for publishing the note Obama left in the Kotel. But now a Maariv spokesperson says that publication of the note was pre-approved for international publication by the Obama campaign, leading to the conclusion that the “private” prayer was intentionally leaked for public consumption. ——————- However, it now appears that Maariv had collaborated with the Obama campaign in getting the “private” prayer, with its “modest” supplicaton to the Lord, out to the public, buffing his Christian credentials and showing his “hu...

(A Short but "says it all" post from Stop-Obama.org) ~~~~~~~ by Jeff Gold CLICK HERE IF YOU ARE ON AN AGGREGATOR TO SEE THE ABOVE VIDEO Ok- we are used to the blatant lies and dissimulation; now it turns out he only tried convincing AIPAC that he’s the next best thing for Israel after Kosher Hamburgers. The Palestinians need a state that is contiguous and cohesive, and that allows them to prosper. A contiguous Palestinian state? Um… how exactly does one do that? With bridges and corridors criss-crossing and dividing up Israel proper? Yes, this from a candidate who thinks Arkansas is closer to Kansas than his home state, and that Oregon has great lakes. You thought George Bush was bad? Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided. Capital of Israel and Undivided?! Wow, was this a big one. Obama was really aiming to have AIPAC fall at his feet here, or he just believes himself to be the Messiah. Was Obama suggesting encouraging member states of the ...

"MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATION" I didn't say much about this story yesterday, as I felt more astute political bloggers than myself had it covered. But today, inevitably, comes the whitewash: Landau told the New York weekly that this description was "inaccurate" and "a perversion of what I said," and that he had expressed his views with "much more sophistication." Dr. Steve Appel, posted this in his blog The Daily Con: Julia Flight is engaged to Rex Mottram, MP. Brenda Champion is his old flame. She learned that Rex had been staying the week-end with a stockbroker in Sunningdale, when he said he was at his constituency, and that Mrs Champion had been there too. On the evening she heard of this, when Rex came as usual to Marchmain House, they re-enacted the scene of two months before. ‘What do you expect?’ he said. ‘What right have you to ask so much, when you give so little?’ Tactic: Whitewash an admission with an accusation. ————————– ...

PORTRAIT IN CORRUPTION A worthless person, a wicked man, Walks with a perverse mouth; He winks with his eyes, He shuffles his feet, He points with his fingers; Perversity is in his heart, He devises evil continually, He sows discord. Proverbs 6:12-14 When I saw this article tonight about Olmert ( or as my friend Chaim at Freedom's Cost calls him 'AllMerde'... I just love that! ) all I could think is DUH!! Of course he is. How could ANYONE see that he just gives pieces of Israel away to terrorists like they are some blue light special? How could he not take swift and immediate action to stop the destruction of precious artifacts at the Temple Mount? How could he NOT be corrupt when he lays down with dogs (like Condi or Abbas)? Where is the man's Jewish pride? Where is his human pride? Those are rhetorical questions because he doesn't have any pride or none of the things happening in Israel would be happening. Annapolis is already a joke. Obviously no one rem...

LUNATIC RUNNING THE ASYLUM How much more PROOF do we need that this scum is a loon than his performances at Columbia and now his influences prior to Annapolis? How many BRICKS have to hit the radical Left before they realize that we can NOT negotiate with this sort of person? How many more lunatics have to be unleashed on us all before we take a strong stand and wipe them out? Ahmadinejad & Annapolis Amnon Rubinstein President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declaration regarding a worldwide Muslim referendum on the transfer of Israel to Europe, America or Alaska further serves to underscore the fact that we are dealing with a lunatic - a shrewd one, yes, but a lunatic nevertheless. The problem is this: The world - and especially we Jews - have had bad experiences with lunatics who have military power; we have seen their mad visions become reality. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JBLOG ME Iran is a regional superpower and the fear that it will soon arm itself with nuclear weapons is not paranoia. H...

TOM FRIEDMAN'S MEA CULPA? Friedman is like a pundit's "CHUCKY" - you just can't kill this jerk. But now we can VOTE on forgiving him for once again, flip flopping on his own superior excrement. O.K. - I have NEVER liked Friedman. Ever. Even though I have said on this blog I wasn't really able or strong enough to voice my opinions publicly until recently; seeing Friedman's books or work just made me cringe. Considering Tom Friedman works for the antisemitic pooper-scooper, birdcage lining, "all the news that fits we print" New York Times I guess he's got the goods on someone there because he's such an idiot. He doesn't really know what he's talking about, he's unattractive, he's arrogant, he's delusional and he's so full of himself you wonder how he fits that massive ego of his through a door. This is America - as far as I know we've been able to question and challenge decisions and actions taken by our polit...

THE REASON BEHIND JIMMY CARTER'S STUPIDITY Anyone remember this? CLICK HERE. It explains a lot about this man's state of mind & credibility. Then watch this video CLICK HERE. You'll get the picture of the real Jimmy Carter. Clearly. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JBLOG ME

Haveil Havalim # 129 Is Up! Kudos to Jacks Shack over at Random Thoughts for the great job in sifting through 126 posts and giving us this great round up. ( and for my mentions as well !) CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ROUND-UP AND CHECK OUT SOME GREAT BLOGS! Submit your blog article to the next edition of Haveil Havalim using the carnival submission form (CLICK HERE FOR FORM). Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page (CLICK HERE FOR INDEX) . PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JBLOG ME

The Stone of 'Amaleq and Hatred in the Arab World Written by Ruvy in Jerusalem (from a great site - Blogcritics - worth giving it some space on my blog) When I was still a university student thirty-six years ago, I lived in the North Bronx in an apartment covered with a giant Israeli flag on one wall, and a huge map of the country on the other. My fellow roommates and I dreamt of moving to a kibbutz in the Arava valley, known today as Yotvata. We immersed ourselves in the politics of the country and of the region as much as we were able with the books and radio broadcasts available and discussed the security of the country, and what it needed to do to make it truly secure, and how the Arabs could possibly defeat the country. While we ate Halvah bought in Arab stores on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, we conjured up scenarios that Anwar el-Sadat could use in attacking Israel and posssibly defeating it. Scenarios in hand, we tried to figure out counter-strategies that would stop him......

THAT SICK FEELING... The moment I saw this today I felt that sickly feeling in my gut. You know the feeling - that very strong "nothing good is going to come of this" feeling. Look who we are dealing with here: Assad, Bush & Olmert. Among other things I have congential cardiac problems; and these clowns aren't helping matters at all. Wonder if I can stick some politico with my next trip to St. Francis? Is anything really going to be accomplished here except more rhetoric, more promises and more dead Jewish children & adults because they are unable to stop the Islamofascist tide? PM: Assad wants talks, but only with Bush By Aluf Benn, Shmuel Rosner, and Barak Ravid Haaretz Correspondents Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Wednesday in Tel Aviv with ambassadors of European Union countries to Israel, a gathering that in great part focused on Syria and the possibility of a renewal of peace talks. Olmert acknowledged that the Syrian talks is an issue that the a...

Israel: A Beacon for the Mid-East By Licia Corbella It's telling, or should be, that for hundreds of Palestinians, the light at the end of their tunnel is, literally and figuratively, Israel. Since Hamas has taken control of the Gaza Strip following bloody battles with its Fatah rivals, women, children and Fatah fighters have cowered in a now squalid tunnel hoping to enter Israel and safety. Think about that. Even though the state of Israel does not appear on either Fatah or Hamas maps and even though both political parties' stated goals are the destruction of the tiny Jewish state, this group of Palestinians believe -- or rather know -- that the countrymen of their sworn enemy will treat them better than their fellow Palestinians. These Palestinians languishing in the Erez Crossing tunnel want to get to the West Bank through Israel rather than through Gaza because there is no question in their minds that the Israeli government and the Israeli people will not randomly kill the...