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Does rural America know something we don't?
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Another response to Young 'Alan" Dershowitz from a learned colleague (See 1 below.)
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Ne'eman on Gaza.
In all candor the fire from Gaza was in response to Israel's Air Force killing the commander who instigated Cpl. Shallit's capture. (See 2 below.)
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Bernanke is uncertain about sustained employment and thus seems prepared to keep supplying money which will eventually trash the dollar and bring about inflation unless his record of applying the brakes betters all his predecessors.
Also pulling the plug, letting rates rise and money supply shrink could doom Obama's election prospects. Since Obama has a proven track record of blaming everyone for his problems I am sure Bernanke does not wish to become Obama's new Pinata! (See 3 below.)
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Whether you like Newt or not he at least offers sound solutions that directly attack the barriers inherent in current state policies towards offering adequate, affordable and varietal health insurance coverage. (See 4 below.)
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A family member works with George Zimmerman and made some observations but not ones pertaining to guilt or innocence.
'Apparently the press and media are posting photographs portraying a younger victim and not those pertaining to the vidtim's current dress and personna. There are additional instances of failed objective reporting because the press and media's goal, lamentably, seems more one of stoking the flames of uninformed anger than arriving at a justifiable cause or lack thereof.
We have seen rush to judgement before and one would hope saner, rational heads and an unbiased investigation will eventually prove the standard employed.
Yes, the entire episode is tragic but perhaps it does not portray that which the 'crowd and The Sharptons' would have us believe. Are we back to Obama's knee jerk Harvard Professor episode?
Time will tell.
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A haunting refrain! (See 5 below.)
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1)To Alan Dershowitz: Remember the Quraysh!
The writer graduated from Harvard way before Professor Alan Dershowitz.
By Wallace Edward Brand, JD, INN
The title of this piece should be a slogan for those who are considering the two-state solution as a solution to the Arab Israeli conflict.
You needn’t “Remember the Alamo” any longer. There are lots of Texans who will do that for you. Remember the Quraysh – and the Atalena as well.
What happened to Alan Dershowitz’s two-state solution to the Arab Israeli conflict on the way to the forum? See “The Case against the Left and Right One State Solution”
Did a dog eat up his homework? He hasn’t said why he has overlooked so much.
What did he overlook?
1. He over looked 38,000 broken or defaced tombstones at the 3000 year old Cemetery at the Mount of Olives, destroyed when the Jordanians had control [from 1948 to 1967] of the same land he wants to give to those Arabs local to Palestine — Arabs that the Soviet dezinformatsia want us to call “The Palestinian Arab People”. Be sure to keep the word “Arab’ in that designation otherwise someone might think you were referring to Trumpeldor and the Jews who formed the Palestinian brigade to help the WWI Allies, instead of those Arabs in Palestine.
Those “Palestinian Arab People” turned down an offer by the British to have their own state. Why? Because they could help out those occupying and colonialist rulers from Turkey, the Ottomans by fighting on their side against the British.
2. He forgot about how people in Israel and around the world missed visiting Rachel’s Tomb, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the Christian sites in and around Bethlehem, and even the Western Wall of the Temple Mount. He forgot that when the Jews weren’t looking at the Western Wall, the Jordanians built a latrine against it, removed by its liberators in June, 1967.
I visited Rachel’s Tomb last may when the UN designated it as a mosque. I bought some genuine red threads from the tomb to give to my daughters and granddaughters and daughter’s in law and the mother of one of my daughters in law who lives in Japan. (She loved it.)
When I was at the Tomb, a nice man asked me to put on Tefillin, and when I told him I didn’t remember how, he said he would help.
That was also the day that a gang of so called Palestinians threw rocks at the guardians of their “mosque”, the Jewish border patrol. Fortunately I had left by then. I had talked to those guards and they posed for a picture with us. They are nice guys. I don’t know why “The Palestinian Arab People” threw rocks at them.
3. Alan forgot about the Treaty of Huddibyah and the Jewish tribe of Quraysh whose 500 men, their arms tied behind them, had their heads cut off, so fortunately they couldn’t see their wives led off to Arab harems and their young children brought up under sharia.
He forgot about the time when Arafat was being criticized by “other Palestinians” ? (he was an Egyptian) for negotiation with the Jews instead of killing them. He winked at them and said in Arabic, “Huddibyah” — “Remember the Quraysh”(the predecessor in the Middle East to the Two State Solution”) that worked out well for the Arabs and not so well for the Quraysh who lost their heads.
The Quraysh had entered into a two-tribe solution when they were stronger than the Muslims, the treaty of Huddibyah. When Mohammed’s tribe grew in power, they canceled the treaty and wiped the Quraysh off the face of the earth. Hmmm. I’ve heard that expression before. Isn’t that what Ahmadinejad says?.
4. What will happen to those beautiful green areas planted by the Jews since 1967? Will they go the same way as those greenhouses left behind for the Arabs of Gaza by politically correct philanthropists?.
Did Professor Dershowitz forget why Prime Minister David Lloyd George was so anxious for Lord Balfour to finish his Declaration? Lloyd-George thought that the Arabs in Palestine, whom the Soviets now want us to call Palestinians, turned the Biblical land of Milk and Honey into a malarial wasteland.
Alan Dershowitz should read (or reread) “The Jews and Palestine” by the former prime minister, published in 1923 but fortunately Jews at Ein Shalom have put it on the internet and kept it there.
5. Young Alan forgot about those exclusive political rights the WWI Allies granted to the Jews, in trust until they could attain the things they would need to become a model of a modern European state.
He forgot about how the Arabs in Palestine, according to Mahmoud Abbas who wrote about it in Filastin, the official organ of the PLO, had voluntarily created a mass exodus from Palestine at the behest of the Arab Higher Executive Committee who said to them: “We are about to invade Palestine to clean up after Hitler, by annihilating those Jews he left behind. Leave your homes for a couple of weeks and after we finish them off, you can come back — if you don’t, you will be considered to be a traitor; you remember what we do to traitors, don’t you? We tie them upside down on telephone poles, slit open the bellies and pull out their guts, a blessing for Allah’s flies”.
And then when they got out and the invading armies surrounding Palestine never got in, the same guys threw them into prison (eternal refugee) camps so their hatred of the Jews would fester.
He forgot that after the exodus of those Arabs, and arrival of new immigrants from the aftermath of the Holocaust and from Russia, the Jews had the population majority that would allow their beneficial grant of political rights to mature into a legal grant.
6.He forgot that the British Mandate for Palestine was a trust agreement, so that England, who volunteered to be the trustee, and guardian, assumed a fiduciary obligation to the beneficiaries of the trust, and to his wards in Palestine. See Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant, paragraphs 1,2.
And he forgot that it was while England was abusing its fiduciary obligations, that it gave away what British Col. Richard Meinertzhagen, the political officer of England at the time of the Balfour Declaration, called some three-quarters of the land that had been pledged to the Jews. Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diaries 1917-1956 p. 118.
On an earlier page, in a foonote inserted 38 years later when the diaries were published as a book, he changes his mind, but as a lawyer, I prefer the contemporaneous account.
7. Alan forgot to read Sheik Abdullah Azzam’s books on how much priority must be assigned to getting infidels off any part of the dar al Islam, the land formerly controlled exclusively by Muslims, and how the two state solution would leave infidels still in control, be it ever so small, of some of the dar al Islam. Azzam taught Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden probably killed him and his two boys.
So, the best things is to assign young Alan some reading so he could learn about all these things and come back with a better paper:
1. Article 22 of the League of Nations covenant drafted by Jan Smuts. The Council of Ten put it into Part I of the Treaty of Versailles and it became the Covenant or charter of the League of Nations. By reading the first two paragraphs of Article 22, Alan will learn that the mandate was based on the old British concepts of a trust agreement or guardianship.
2. The language of the French process-verbal (he must get it translated – Mr. Salomon Benzimra can do it for him. Mr. Benzimra was born in Tangiers when it was an International Area (it is now Morrocco) went to school in Bordeaux and now resides in Toronto where one of the two official languages is French. He not only speaks French very well, he is the author of the excellent book, published last November on Kindle, entitled “The Jewish People’s Rights to the land of Israel.” and knows more about the San Remo agreement than some might want to know. Maybe one of them is Alan Dershowitz.
3. One of Shlomo Sand’s fans has been at Harvard or UCLA, Saree Macdisi, pushing a “one [Arab Majority] state solution to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict but leaving out the bracketed worlds. He has been telling the students there that the Jewish People don’t exist. Sand likely got that theory from Arthur Koestler who wrote a good novel on the subject matter.
He is a terrific novelist. Have you read his “Darkness at Noon”?
Shlomo Sand seems to believe this novelist’s theory, but a historian should have done more than a novelist to conclude there is no connection between Palestine and the Ashkenazis whom he claims are not Jews. How about the more than 50% of the Israelis that are Sephardic Jews that lived in the Middle East from the time of the Roman conquest, long before Mohammed invented Islam? Why is he silent about them? How about the DNA studies that provide proof positive that the Ashkenazis and the Sephardic Jews are the only remaining indigenous people of Palestine. Professor Dershowitz can look at them.
5. I have put together some of these solutions and the facts and legal conclusions in a piece written for the blog Middle East and Terrorism and edited by the charming and friendly Sally Zahav. It is called: Three Solutions to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. It outlines the three solutions being pushed by the extremists on the left and right (according Alan Dershowitz) as well as the liberal politically correct two-state solution he and Barack Obama are pushing. He should look also at the two part op ed I have written
Part 1: /Articles/Article.aspx/11408
Part 2: /Articles/Article.aspx/11412
about the evidence I have gathered on the purpose of the Balfour Declaration, the language in the cession of Ottoman sovereignty in the Article 95 of the Treaty of Sevres (as amended by the Treaty of Lausanne). He may or may not agree with me that evidence of purpose is admissible in the US, the UK and Canada as well as other nation-states to clarify ambiguity in the language of a statute such as the British Mandate for Palestine which became International Law.
He can find it in Arutz Sheva, edited by Rochel Sylvetsky, in English on the Internet.:
Finally he can read “Soviet Russia, the Creators of the PLO and the Palestinian People”. , “Was there a Palestine Arab National Movement at the End of the Ottoman Period?”, and “The Third Wave”
These are all in the Thin-Israel.org blog edited by Dr. Bernice Lipkin. To make absolutely sure he hasn’t forgotten anything, he should read Col. Richard Meinertzhagen’s “Middle East Diaries, 1917-1956″ – a Dane who became a British Army “political officer” in the Middle East when all this was being decided. It is hard to find and pricey when you find it, but the Harvard Harry Elkins Widener Library, donated by a distant relative of mine, can undoubtedly find a copy for him.
After Harvard excluded me from their “free and open marketplace of ideas” as claimed in their press release for their two day “One State Conference”, I wrote a codicil to my will, excluding them from it.
6. Alan should take his two-state solution to UCLA too. They had a “Son of Harvard Conference” conference and Judea Pearl, a faculty member, told me that they were all so politically correct — that it was impossible to present to the students at UCLA the idea of “one lawful state to the West of the Jordan River” – a Jewish one – as a solution to the Arab Israeli conflict.
Alan has a politically correct solution so he might be given access there although the Muslim influence there is scary. Alan would give them the second leg of the stool, and so they would would have a strong presentation of the one Arab majority state solutions and Alan’s politically correct two-state solution, but not the third leg. The students would not get a balanced presentation, but that does not seem to matter anymore in academia.
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2) The Multi-Layered Gaza Conflict
By Yisrael Ne'eman
Some two weeks ago there was another round of shellfire from the Gaza Strip and return fire from Israel. It all began when a Jihad terror squad was preparing rocket launches into Israel and they were knocked out by the Israeli air force. What followed was an Israeli targeted removal of one of the leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees responsible for the attack and then everything escalated. What is often forgotten is that the Resistance and Islamic Jihad are constantly firing salvos into Israel which for the most part miss their targets and/or are not reported. In this past round, and there will be many more, these two pro-Iranian groups decided to raise the ante, use larger and longer range missiles and draw Hamas into a full scale battle with Israel. Hamas PM Ismail Haniya, despite his fiery speeches about world Jihad and the destruction of Israel, declined the invitation. After a week of major instability Hamas found itself "sitting on the fence" not wanting a repeat of the Cast Lead operation of three years ago while denying they were remaining outside the conflict and the armed Jihadi struggle. Rather they put out the word that the time was not ripe - the Islamic cease-fire or "hudna" needed to continue until Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood would be guaranteed victory over the "Zionist entity". Attacks against Israel are on the background of the Jihad/Resistance Committees – Hamas competition for power in Gaza.
So if that is the case, why do the Jihad and Resistance Committees continue undermining Hamas policies, if supposedly all are on the same side? The Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees enjoy Iranian support in their challenge to Hamas, who now enjoy Turkish patronage since the flotilla affair two years ago and as of late they have the support of the new Egyptian Islamic regime. Both view Iran as an adversary despite diplomatic niceties. All three Palestinian groups are Sunnis, yet this does not stop the seemingly more radical Jihad and Committees from lining up with Tehran.
The second level of conflict is between the main Islamic Middle Eastern players, Turkey and Iran, as they vie for regional dominance, the Gaza Strip being only one front. Elsewhere Ankara lines up with the Sunnis and Tehran with the Shiites. Such is the case in the multi-ethnic Lebanese landscape where Hezbollah is a staunch Iranian ally and the minority Sunnis are split between religious and secular. Turkish PM Erdogen openly supports the opposition insurgency in Syria while Iran's Supreme Islamic Council stands with Assad's (pro-Shiite) Alawite regime. The conflicts in Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen follow the Sunni-Shiite divide while engaging the Turkish or Iranian patrons accordingly. The only difference in the internal Gaza struggle is that all are Sunnis. The more radical factions are allied with the Shiites. The vast majority of the Arab World is Sunni and hence their loyalties, although Arab nations are often less than happy about the Turkish projection of power, but due to their own domestic turmoil there is little they can due to counter any outside influence. Overall the Gaza issue is just a microcosm of a much larger power play.
The third level of clash is the most spoken about and most obvious, the one between Israel and the Gaza Islamists dominated by Hamas, just that the latter did not want a conflict at the moment even if their more radical Jihad/Resistance cohorts did. The latter won and received their week of instability.When firing on Israel both groups threaten Hamas with Israeli retaliations since Jerusalem views Hamas as the sovereign in Gaza responsible for security and keeping the border quiet. True, Israel will seek out Jihad/Resistance targets under such circumstances but increasing violence can force an unprepared Hamas into a war, one favored ideologically but in practical terms the continuing hudna is preferred.
As for Gaza several issues have yet to be decided.Who will get the upper hand, the Iranians through the Jihad/Resistance forces or the Turkish influenced Hamas? An Iranian victory determines an increase in hostilities. And even should it be the "moderate" Islamist Turks, would and could they force Hamas into making peace and accepting Israel's existence? This is an enormous long shot nullifying all Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood) doctrines. Hamas could be drawn into a conflict with the Jewish State and face a major invasion. Israel has the ability to capture all of Gaza but will not be able to enforce control without committing tens of thousands of soldiers on an average day to hold down the territory. A total Israeli victory is as unfeasible as an Israeli loss. Israeli options over what to do about Gaza are limited.
The "hudna" issue is only an excuse for the real clash between the Turks (and Arab Sunnis) and the Iranians.It is only a matter of time before rocket attacks against Israel will resume.The initiative can be expected to come from the Iranian proxies.
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3)Pimco’s Gross: Fed May ‘Hint’ at More Easing at April Meeting
By Forrest Jones
The Federal Reserve will hint that it favors rolling out more extraordinarily loose monetary policy tools such as quantitative easing, the third such round since the downturn (known widely as QE3) at its next meeting, says Bill Gross, founder of Pimco, the world's largest bond fund.
While individual Federal Reserve governors have come out publicly for or against quantitative easing, which are asset purchases from banks designed to kick-start the economy when normal measures like rate cuts aren't enough, the Fed officially remains mute on the matter.
That will change at the Fed's April policy meeting, Gross says on his Twitter account, stating the Fed is "likely to hint" at QE3 in April meeting.
Editor's Note: You Deserve to Know What Obama and Bernanke Are Hiding From Americans
Markets play close attention to signs of easing, as it pushes up stock prices, weakens the dollar and fuels concerns that inflationary pressures will arise down the road as a trade off for jolting the economy today.
The Fed has rolled out two rounds of quantitative easing since the downturn, injecting $2.3 trillion into the economy via buying assets from banks, mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds namely.
Not only does quantitative easing juice markets, it stokes fears the Fed is concerned with the pace of recovery and is willing to increase inflationary pressures to avoid further price and employment declines.
Officially, the Federal Reserve recognizes improvements seen in the labor market and in other areas of the economy, such as in the manufacturing sector.
Plus yields have been climbing in government debt markets, a sign investors are selling safe Treasury bonds to stock up on equities in anticipation of more robust economic output.
However, in 2010 and in 2011, the economy began both years performing well only to hit soft patches and level off.
That may be happening now.
The Commerce Department recently reported that new single-family home sales fell 1.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted 313,000-unit annual rate in the U.S. last month.
January's figures were revised down to 318,000 units from a previous 321,000 reading.
The news came in wake of a National Association of Realtors report that total existing-home sales slipped 0.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.59 million in February.
Housing helped throw the economy into its recession and remains a major headwind to recovery.
Meanwhile, the Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of 2012, an election year that is sure to bring uncertainty to the economy.
"We’ve seen this story in 2010 and 2011, where it looks pretty good in the first half and then we have to change our tune in the second half," says Robert Tipp, the chief investment strategist in Newark, N.J., at Prudential Financial, which oversees $300 billion in bonds, according to Bloomberg.
Some Federal Reserve officials have suggested a need to give the economy time to heal on its own without more Federal Reserve intervention.
"Once inflation gets out of control, it takes a long, long time to fix it," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard tells Bloomberg Television.
Other Fed policy makers confirm the Fed has not yet decided on the issue of easing, always a hot-button topic.
"Nothing has been decided," says New York Fed President William Dudley, a close ally of Chairman Ben Bernanke, according to Reuters.
"It all depends on how the economy evolves," Dudley says, adding "it's about costs and benefits, and if we get to a point where we think the benefits of another program of QE outweigh the costs, then we'll certainly do so."
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4)This will be one of the most consequential court decisions in generations, as it will decide whether or not government has power over very personal decisions of life and death. If you believe,
I strongly support the 26 states that will argue before the Supreme Court that Obamacare is unconstitutional. But as I fight for the repeal of Obamacare, I will also advocate for specific replacement policies that will empower patients and create a free market framework for healthcare.
My "Patient Power" plan focuses on solutions that center on the doctor-patient relationship, use the best new science, lower medical costs, and improve the quality of life for every single American. Some of these solutions to save lives and save money include:
- Allow Americans to purchase insurance across state lines, making health insurance more affordable and portable
- Reform Medicaid by giving states more freedom and flexibility to customize their programs to suit their needs with a block-grant program
- Introduce lawsuit reform to stop the frivolous lawsuits that drive up the cost of medicine
- Stop health care fraud by moving from a paper-based system to an electronic one
- Invest in research for medical breakthroughs for urgent national priorities, like brain science with its impact on Alzheimer's, autism, Parkinson's, mental health and other conditions
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