Profound Observation! Israel and The Palestinians!

Court Jesters get reprieve and the entertained remain the stuckees! You would think the public would be incensed but they remain passive sheep ready to be shorn.

Pays to be exclusive. (See 1 below.)
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Democrats seem ticked and not happy people based on these statistics but then as another Democrat recently said :"What difference does it make?"

Can't argue with statistics!

In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 

In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States who later died from the wound.
In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.
In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan.
In 1984 James Huberty a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant.
In 1986 Patrick Sherril a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.
In 1990 James Pough a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.
In 1991 George Hennard a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 23 people in a Lubys cafeteria.
In 1995 James Daniel Simpson a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.
In 1999 Larry Asbrook a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 8 people at a church service.
In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US.
In 2003 Douglas Williams a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.
In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech .
In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.
In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.
In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.
In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people in a school. 

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And then:Perhaps the most profound observation I have read in recent times.

"Life is like a penis - simple, relaxed and hanging free ... it's women who 
make it  hard."

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Israeli technology continues to flourish. 

I am a great believer in nano technology!

While Israeli science forges ahead, Arabs and Muslims contribute gold plated bathrooms in their private airplanes and apply nano technology to bombs they implant in their bodies. 

Yes, Hillary: "What difference does it make?"(See 2 and 2a below.)

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Israeli - Palestinian peace talks reach crucial stage? 

If there is ever a resolution of this problem, which has been blown out of proportion by Palestinians in order to extort money from the West as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been doing for years, the Arabs will have to construct more propaganda to continue perpetuating a new ruse.   

Why let a profitable venture die when the West is so prone to being energy dependent suckers? Just my thinking.(See 3, 3a and 3b  below.)

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Allegedly, Russia has not delivered S-300 missiles as yet to Syria. (See 4 below.)

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Marc Faber continues suspect of the market.  It is getting a bit long in the tooth when you look at multiples and the fact that earning comparisons should begin to narrow.  (See 5 below.)

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1) Members Only

How the White House is weaseling Congress out of ObamaCare.

The White House on Wednesday released the legal details behind its ObamaCare bailout for Members of Congress and their staffs, and if anything this rescue is worse than last week's leaks suggested: Illegal dispensations for the ruling class, different rules for the hoi polloi.

Thanks to an amendment from Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley that Democrats enacted in 2010, the Affordable Care Act says that "the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available" to Congress are the ones offered on the ObamaCare insurance exchanges. But Members and many aides have been flipping out because they won't qualify for ObamaCare subsidies and they'll lose employer contributions they now receive under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, or FEHBP, which picks up about three-quarters of the average premium.

At President Obama's personal request, the Office of Personnel Management decreed that the Members don't have to get off the gravy train after all. The eat-your-own-cooking provision begins with the phrase "Notwithstanding any other provision of law." The feds now interpret that clause as a loophole to mean that the Affordable Care Act did not change the 1959 law that created the FEHBP.

Since Members and staff still technically meet the definition of federal employees qualified for the FEHBP, the Administration says they're still entitled to enroll in the FEHBP concurrently with the exchanges. The feds then "clarify"—their euphemism—that the regulatory meaning of health benefits in the FEHBP can be ObamaCare plans. Voila, taxpayers will continue to chip in $4,900 for individual and $10,000 for family coverage.

The charitable term for such legal gymnastics is creative. When statutes conflict, the bedrock administrative law obligation is to enforce the most recent statute. "Notwithstanding" clauses are routine catchalls that are supposed to emphasize Congress's intent that a new bill is controlling and pre-empts other laws on the books.

The White House is claiming the clause means the opposite, as if the 2010 law and the 1959 law have nothing to do with each other. That is not how it is supposed to work. When Congress kicked itself out of the traditional FEHBP, it kicked itself out of the FEHBP.

At least the Members will still have to sign up for exchange coverage as the law requires. Given the lawless White House record, it probably considered finding some excuse to exempt Congress entirely and decided that option was too explosive politically. But creating a special financing stream for the political class is almost as much of an abuse.

ObamaCare's complex subsidy system, with varying levels based on income, is not incidental to the exchanges. It's the beating heart of this exercise in wealth redistribution and social and economic central planning. The entitlement's architects never envisioned that well-to-do movers and shakers—Mr. Obama might even call some of them "the rich"—would get (or deserve) taxpayer benefits merely because they happen to run for or work for Congress.

Millionaire Senators and the affluent professionals who are chiefs of staff, legislative directors and the like were supposed to go on the exchange and abide by its rules. There are only three insurers offering public utility-type plans on the Washington, D.C. ObamaCare exchange. The FEHBP sponsors 21 plans in metro D.C. and 24 in Virginia. Perhaps as a new perquisite the White House will entice a plan to the exchange that only Members can choose.

It would have been fairer and less corrosive to the rule of law had Congress simply passed a bill giving their workers a raise to make up for the lost compensation of dropping out of the FEHBP. But that would mean an ugly political fight that voters might notice. It's so much easier to slip through this political fix in August when Congress is out of session and the press corps can't wait to hit the beach.

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2)

Netanyahu: Negev will become the Israeli Silicon Valley

IDF's Communication Corps compound will make the move from central Israel to the new Negev complex next year, with the Intelligence Corps following suit in 2018 with 30,000 personnel. PM: Move will have unprecedented economic, social and cultural impact.

Gadi Golan

2a)Nanotech’s ‘small world’ inching ever closer

A breakthrough technique developed by an Israeli team could allow for the development of microscopic devices that will help millions

By David Shamah

The tech universe is shrinking rapidly as companies seek to make ever-tinier devices that can do ever-more powerful things. But there’s a limit to how much you can shrink the silicon that goes into computers, cellphones, tablets, and the like; at that point you have to starting thinking about nanotech — developing components out of atom- or molecule-sized material (a nanometer is one-millionth of a millimeter).

Nanotechnology holds great promise for the future, but there are many technical challenges on the road to that future. This week, the Weizmann Institute of Science announced that it had figured out a way to overcome one of the most daunting technological issues that has been holding back nanotech development. The breakthrough, say Weizmann experts, could help jump-start a whole industry.

It’s all a function of Moore’s Law, named after Intel cofounder Gordon Moore who (accurately) predicted in the early 1960s that computer processing power would double every 18-24 months. In a semiconductor chip, the more transistors, the more powerful the chip. Manufacturers have various techniques for loading up more transistors in order to make chips more powerful (Intel, for example, has developed a multigate transistor, allowing more electronic signals to flow through a component).

While building more powerful chips — which require more “crowded” chips — manufacturers have to ensure that the chip remains small enough to fit into devices that companies like Apple and Samsung are busy dreaming up (all of which, of course, need to be small enough to fit into a pocket or purse).

Nano is about much more than computers, though; nano-sized components will, for example, allow doctors to more easily treat a wide variety of diseases, as mechanized and computerized atom-sized self-propelling devices will be able to reach and treat parts of the body that currently require major surgery — such as using nanoparticles to destroy cancer cells deep inside the body, obviating the need for chemical therapy (the technique, called Kanzius RF Therapy, is currently being researched in the US). Advanced medical devices are made up of transistors and semiconductors.

Sometime soon (probably by the end of the decade, many experts believe), straight transistors will have run out of room to grow, and manufacturers will have to start developing chips and components using nanotech techniques, manipulating atom-sized materials to build the wires that make up the transistors that create a semiconductor.

But manipulating atom-sized materials requires atom-sized tools — which do not exist (or if they do, are unsuitable for creating wires). To get around that, scientists set up a scenario to try and “guide” the nano-materials they use to develop nano-sized wires, transistors, and components. Based on the behavior of these components, scientists can, if they set the scenario properly, get the materials to form nano-wires, the first step in developing a whole component.

But things work differently in the nano-world, and getting the materials to behave properly is a challenge. With silicon, the material semiconductors are made of, you know what to expect; silicon acts as expected.

Not necessarily so in the nano-world, however; sometimes nano-materials don’t follow the rules, due to the many environmental factors that can affect them. Very often, the nano-wires curve outside of the guides they are supposed to follow, upwards and outwards, rendering them, if not useless, then far less effective as semiconductor components. This difficulty in getting the materials to do what they are expected to do has been one important reason why more progress hasn’t been made on nano-components, scientists say.

The problem has been solved — or, potentially solved — thanks to research led by Prof. Ernesto Joselevich of the Weizmann Institute’s Chemistry Faculty, who has found a way to grow semiconductor nano-wires out, not up, on a surface, providing, for the first time, fully repeatable guidance to produce relatively long, orderly, aligned structures. The team’s achievement has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), USA.

Joselevich, doctoral student David Tsivion and postdoctoral fellow Mark Schvartzman of the Materials and Interfaces Department grew nano-wires made of gallium nitride (GaN), a mix of nitrogen and gallium, using a sapphire base — a combination that appears to induce the desired behavior in the nano-wire material, said Joselevich. Another advantage of GaN nano-wires is that they are excellent conductors of electricity. The nano-wires were so well-behaved and malleable, in fact, that the team was able to build a self-assembling Address Decoder, a component that tells a processor which chip to use and when. As a result of his work in this field over the past several years, Joselevich has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant.

Commenting on the findings, Joselevich said that “it was surprising to discover that the optical and electronic properties of our nano-wires were just as good, if not better, than those grown vertically, because growing semiconductors on a surface usually introduces defects that degrade their quality.”

Although gallium is a relatively rare element, the principles and methodology developed by the team will be of use with other elements and materials, so the day when nano-components start powering LEDs, lasers, information storage media, transistors, solar cells, computers, photovoltaics, medical devices, and much more may not be far off.

“Our method makes it possible, for the first time, to determine the arrangement of the nano-wires in advance to suit the desired electronic circuit,” said Joselevich. “The ability to efficiently produce circuits from self-integrating semiconductors opens the door to a variety of technological applications.”

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3)  US-sponsored Israel-Palestinian interim peace talks near moment of decision

The formal Israeli-Palestinian meeting announced by the US State Department as scheduled for next Wednesday, Aug. 14 is but the outer shell of the secret hard-core negotiations bouncing back and forth for weeks between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

The real talks are approaching a climax on the fundamental issues of borders, Jerusalem, refugees and settlements. Every afternoon in past weeks, Kerry has called the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian leader on secure phone lines and taken the talks a step further. Any incoming calls from the two leaders are switched directly through to the Secretary of State, an unheard of procedure in his department.

Ten days later, our sources reported dramatic progress, to the point that Kerry was asking Netanyahu for specific information on the Jewish settlements he was willing to remove in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and Abbas was chipping in with additions to the list. Netanyahu countered with questions about the Palestinian concessions on offer for the evacuations.

The process has been reduced to straight haggling, Middle East bazaar style – except that the wares laid out for sale are Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, security, international security forces and the borders that will separate Israel from a future Palestinian state.

Although Secretary Kerry has stated publicly that his objective is a final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, his expectations are more realistic when he handles the behind-the scenes, real-life horse trading. All three parties appreciate that the most they can achieve are interim accords. Items bound to remain at issue will have to be set aside for a future round of negotiations at a time which none of the parties is inclined to pin down.

For now, the officials assigned with conducting the formal negotiations are not privy to the progress made secretly by their principals. US special envoy Ambassador Martin Indyk, Justice Minister and senior negotiator Tzipi Livni and Palestinian negotiator Saab Erekat are therefore still in the dark.

Progress is substantial enough by now to have prompted Kerry to convene a meeting of Jewish American leaders for a briefing Thursday evening, Aug. 8, at the White House.

He told them there was a “strategic imperative” to arrive at a deal soon, and said he understood the difficulties Netanyahu faced in dealing with a coalition that included hard right parties and figures. He was described as appearing “bullish” about the talks, but also “nervous” about the Israeli prime minister’s ability to overcome the resistance in his own Likud party and government coalition to sweeping concessions on settlements.

As well as Ambassador Indyk, Kerrry invited National Security Adviser Susan Rice to join him at the meeting, which lasted 90 minutes, to signal President Barack Obama’s approval.

Kerry criticized the European Union’s policy of excluding Israeli enterprises on the West Bank from grants and prizes as likely to “nudge Netanyahu away” from a deal with the Palestinians, and therefore counter-productive to the peace effort he launched last February.

Kerry’s motive in summoning American Jewish leaders to the White House was his belief that progress in the negotiations has brought the Israeli prime minister close to a crossroads. He will soon face a decision to reshuffle his cabinet and replace ministers who would oppose the terms of the interim accord shaping up with Palestinians. For this step, he would find the support of American Jewry helpful.

Netanyahu will soon need to present the leaders of the pro-settlement Israel Beteinu and Bayit Yehudi parties with the choice of backing him up all the way to the accord with the Palestinians to which the US Secretary is steering at speed, or quitting the government coalition. The same question will be put to Netanyahu’s own Likud party members.

3a)A Comparative Analysis: Jewish Response to Nazism and Fundamental Islam 

by

Jerrold L. Sobel

Times change, circumstances are nuanced, players are substituted, but like fashion, history has a tendency of repeating itself.  However, unlike shoes or dresses, reiterative history can be disastrous to a country and its people.  Point in hand, the circumstances and attitude of many Jews today regarding “peace” talks between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs and those of their brethren 80 years ago at the dawn of the Holocaust.

Few will argue that 1933 and the rise of Hitler to the Chancellorship of Germany was a pivotal moment in Jewish history.  However, not many are familiar with the dynamics of that time and how a united effort might have nipped Hitler in the bud.

Upon his ascendency, persecution of Germany ’s Jews immediately began.  As the outrages increased, a storm of protest echoed across Europe and the United States .  Ordinary Jews and their Christian supporters began boycotting German goods in an attempt to sink an already Depression era, fragile German economy.  Nonetheless, then as today, a schism soon arose in the Jewish community between Jewish leadership on both sides of the Atlantic seeking a tempered response to the Nazis, and the rank and file which sort to confront the nascent German leader head on.

As the turpitude against the Jews escalated throughout Germany the American Jewish Congress approved a program of protests and marches that would culminate in a massive demonstration at Madison Square Garden on March 27, 1933.  

Rabbi, Stephen Wise, was President of the American Jewish Congress.  Along with Supreme Court Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, he was an esteemed leader of the Jewish community.  On the one hand Wise wished to placate his outraged membership which called for marches, boycotts, and demonstrations; on the other he was too timid for such action.  Seeking a way out of his dilemma, He meekly signed a joint letter of protest and took the advice of his friend Justice Brandeis not to bother Roosevelt about  a boycott.

In defiance of Wise, the plebeian members of the AJC marched anyway.  Soon afterward, the preeminent leadership of the other mainstream Jewish groups disassociated themselves from this grass root movement and ended any effective, organized American protest against Hitler.

Sound familiar?  Is this not happening today?  The players have changed.  The names are different, so are the dates but the substance remains the same.  Faced with a vitriolic, dehumanizing foe whose intentions are widely proclaimed, most mainstream Jewish leadership remains insouciant to the danger a Palestinian state would hold for the Jews of Israel. 

Just this past June, Abraham Foxman, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, and David Harris condemned recent statements by senior Israeli officials about the impossibility of a two state solution calling them irresponsible, claiming they undermine the credibility of the government.  

This is similar to when Jewish leadership failed to recognize what Hitler spelled out for them in Mein Kampf. Today’s elitist organizations fail to perceive the Muslim manifestos as the root of Jewish hatred, not statehood or settlements.

Hitler rambled in Mein Kampf:   “The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people.”....”The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew. “  And on and on.

Equally ribald but on a much larger scale, the resurgent Muslim world’s animus towards Jews has its underpinnings in their foundational scriptures the Koran and Hadith which contain passages such as:  

“ And well ye knew those amongst you (Jews) who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath: We said to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

This and countless other incendiary, epithetic denunciations of Jews and Christians is replete in both these holy books.  Analogous to hatred spewing from the pages of Mein Kampf,  disdain for every religion and for those that believe in no religion at all exude from these Islamic scriptures.  

Likewise akin to Mein Kampf,  the wanton hatred is not hidden. To those willing to open their eyes, it’s easily recognizable.  This age old conflict is ecclesiastical from the Muslim viewpoint.  It began subsequent to the Treaty of Hudabiyyah, and continues today.  Hudabiyyah is often unabashedly referenced by PA negotiators during this latest round of talks. 

Once again, the theocratic nature of this conflict is not conjectural, it’s repeated at the highest levels of Fatah governance.

“ Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs"(i.e., Jews) is a war of religion and faith.   Long Live Fatah!”  This non too mundane statement was uttered by the moderator at a Fatah event on January 12, 2012.  He unambiguously highlights the thinking of the PA and Fatah.  And defines the conflict with Israel for what it is, an uncompromising religious war mandated by Islam.  It may not be what certain Jews and their supporters on the left wish to hear.  Or for that matter it may not be what Prime Minister Netanyahu; (if he’s really buying into this charade) wishes to hear, but it’s what every facet of the PA government and their supporters are saying.  Lest we forget, compared to the other recalcitrant terrorists, these are supposedly the “moderates.”

In a 2010 survey, more than 98% of Palestinian Arabs proclaimed religion as an integral part of their lives.  The current PA Mufti, Muhammad Hussein, no less execrable than his forebear and Hitlerian disciple, Hajj Amin al- Husseini had this to say last year:

“ Palestine in its entirety is a revolution....continuing today and until the End of Days.  The reliable Hadith...says:  “The Hour of Resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews.  The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.  Then the stones or trees will call: ‘Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”

There doesn’t seem to be too much wiggle room here, particularly since a 2011 poll taken by project Israel reports 73% Palestinian Arabs surveyed believe the Islamic Hadith that preaches it is Islamic destiny to kill Jews wherever they are.  A further 68% stated they justify suicide bombings and the murdering of civilians to defend Islam.

Joel Fishman an historian and fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs states:  “The intensity of Palestinian incitement and hatred of Israel is pervasive.  It includes the naming of public buildings, sports facilities, and streets after Palestinian terrorists who have murdered Israeli civilians.  The public discourse, which encompasses the educational system, teaching materials such as textbooks and maps, television, billboards, and the media of popular culture (such as websites and crossword puzzles), conveys a message of hatred.  It honors Palestinian “martyrs,” killed while perpetrating terror attacks against Israeli civilians and exhorts the youth to emulate such “exemplary role models.”

Taking this short history of the past 80 years into account, what can we come away with?

Not wishing to rock the boat and possibly be accused of dual loyalty, upper class, socially elitist Jewish leadership in America failed millions of their co-coreligionists in Europe by not organizing and demanding support and concrete action from the Roosevelt Administration.  

Equally abhorrent, today with the concurrence of many Jews, there is a President and Secretary of State which either lack the sagacity or the inclination to recognize the danger that a Palestinian state would bode for the Jews of Israel.

Whereas the aforementioned, radical pro-Nazi Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al- Husseini sought gas chambers to eliminate the Jewish presence in Palestine.  Backed by generational endemic hatred and the wherewithal of modern technology, a political mistake such as creating a terrorist entity within their midst could have equal catastrophic consequences for the Jews of Israel.

During a march in Gaza earlier this year, PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas said Husseini was a great manwhose ways should be emulated by all PA Arabs, and was worthy of great praise.  Yet disingenuously, Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry dissimulate any knowledge of this.

To conclude:  The facts are unmistakable.

Mein Kampf, written by a psychotic anti-Semite laid the foundation of Nazi ideology which ultimately led to the death of 6 million Jews over a 12 year period of time.

The Koran and accompanying Islamic liturgy is replete with anti-Jewish and Christian invective.  Its teachings should unquestionably be recognized as the least common denominator of this dispute, not refugees, Jerusalem, borders, statehood, or any other prevaricate distraction.

Jewish leadership both here and in Israel , as in the past, is fragmented and seeks the path of least resistance; appeasement and acquiescence.  They are succumbing to the pressure of creating a Palestinian Arab state from the body of Israel , and condescendingly cajole and pressure the Israeli government to do so.

Continuing a policy of unrequited concessions, Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be following a pattern of kowtowing to this Administration’s demands.   Acquiescence to American cajolement for the release of 104 convicted killers as a starting point for the division of his country can’t be good for the Jews of Israel or for generations hence.

Finally, Obama:  Armed with loyalty from left wing leadership and an insensate 70% plurality of the Jewish vote; scandals be damned, is free to pursue his obsession of dividing Israel into two states.  


3b) Palestinian leaders must halt the hatred

By Andrea Levin 

As renewed negotiations get underway between Israelis and Palestinians, it’s vital for the success of the endeavor to identify what went wrong in earlier discussions.

Secretary of State John Kerry wisely stressed in his July 30 briefing with Israeli and Palestinian leaders the central aim of “ending the conflict” and he emphasized as well the “end of claims” against Israel. These are basic tenets of any rational definition of peace and would mean, finally, the end of the drive to remove the Jewish state. They would mean genuine acceptance by Palestinian Arabs of the sovereign rights of a Jewish nation in what is an overwhelmingly Muslim-dominated region.

Notwithstanding the many previous signed agreements, hand shakes and photo ops, such acceptance has been largely cosmetic. While Palestinian leaders have endorsed coexistence in speeches for Western audiences, including at Washington think tanks and international gatherings, too often for the audience that counts most — Palestinian Arabs who live next door to Israel and who need to hear their leaders’ clear affirmation of the legitimacy of the Jewish state — the message has been the opposite.

Indeed, the Palestinian leadership over the two decades since the signing of the landmark Oslo Accords in 1993 has failed disastrously to prepare the Palestinian people for peace with their Jewish neighbors.

Ironically, before Oslo, there was no Palestinian-controlled TV to demonize Jews, but after Israel’s ceding of territory and authority, official media outlets came into existence that regularly glorify terrorist violence, deny Jewish ties to the land of Israel, denigrate Jews in crude stereotypes, vow expulsion of the Jews and claim all the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as Palestine.

Regrettably, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues to play a double game. Thus on May 26, 2013, at the World Economic Forum, Abbas offered up the familiar public rhetoric, declaring: “We don’t teach and we don’t educate our children to hate or even discriminate against any religion, be it Judaism or any other.” He said: “We strive to spread the culture of peace among our people.”

Yet, for example, on July 3 another of hundreds of broadcasts on Palestinian television directly controlled by Abbas’s Palestinian Authority featured young girls reciting crude anti-Jewish bigotry:

Oh, you who were brought up on spilling blood

You have been condemned to humiliation and hardship.

Oh Sons of Zion, oh most evil among creations

Oh barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs. (Palestinian Media Watch)

The murderers of Jews are constantly extolled in what is cast as a fight to the death with Israel. On May 9, 2013, for instance, a TV segment was devoted to praising and thanking Abdallah Barghouti, currently serving 67 life sentences for his participation in such terror attacks as the Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem. In that attack families were singled out for particular slaughter and included Malki Roth, a 15 year old who was lunching with her best friend. They’re buried next to one another.

Extreme fabrications regarding Jewish history may seem to the uninitiated too ludicrous to take seriously – the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, is said to have no Jewish connection despite vast archeological, biblical and other evidence. Jesus is said to be a Canaanite Palestinian teaching Islam, a claim that repudiates Jewish and Christian history together. Moses is said to be Muslim. Newspaper columns and broadcasts in official Palestinian media deny any ancient Jewish ties to any of the land of Israel, relentlessly altering place names and substituting Muslim ones. The ferocity of the campaigns in every aspect of society, saturating Palestinians in false beliefs – and hatred – make the prospects of normalization almost impossible to imagine.Indeed, the content of the invective against Jews and Israel is so violent – one Gazan speaker urged the harvesting of Jewish skulls – that many in the West seem prone to averting their gaze from what is clearly genocidal rhetoric with vague claims that progress in the peace talks will help do away with the unpleasantness.

But the cycle of indoctrination and violence cannot be broken without facing up to its existence, to the need for Western media attention and, above all, to the necessity for the Palestinians’ own leadership to halt the hatred and declare clearly in Arabic to Arab audiences that Israel and its people have a rightful place in the Middle East.

Andrea Levin is executive director and president of CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

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4)SUBJECT: Russia has not delivered Syria ordered missile systems

QUOTE:”Russia has not delivered advanced S-300 missile systems ordered by

Syria . . .Damascus has paid a multi-million deposit”

FULL TEXT:Russia has not delivered advanced S-300 missile systems ordered by
Syria although several have been built and Damascus has paid a multi-million
deposit, Vedomosti daily reported Friday[9 Aug.], citing arms industry
sources.

A batch of the systems was due to be sent to Syria this spring, according to
the Russian arms export agency's contract with Damascus, but the systems are
now apparently due for delivery no earlier than the summer of 2014,
Vedomosti said.

President Vladimir Putin said in June that Moscow had not yet delivered the
sophisticated anti-aircraft missile systems to the Syrian regime for fear of
upsetting the balance of power in the region.

Syria ordered four S-300 systems in 2011 at a cost of $1 billion and two
sources in the arms industry told Vedomosti that several of the S-300s have
already been built, while the production of the others has been postponed.

Syria has paid a deposit of several hundred million dollars, the sources
said.

The Russian producer of missiles used in the systems said in April that it
had received notice of its contract with Syria being postponed until the
summer of 2014, Vedomosti reported.

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said on a visit to Moscow in July
that all the contracts to deliver arms from Russia to Syria were still in
place.

Russia has angered the West and Arab states that oppose President Bashar
Assad's regime by refusing to halt military and other cooperation with the
Damascus regime throughout the Syria conflict.

Damascus is not expected to push for a quicker delivery of the systems or to
demand its deposit back due to Assad's need for Russian support, a source
close to Russia's arms export agency told Vedomosti

SUBJECT: Putin reportedly rejects Saudi offer of arms deal

QUOTE:”Moscow has rejected a Saudi proposal to abandon Syria’s president in
return for a huge arms deal …”

FULL TEXT:Moscow has rejected a Saudi proposal to abandon Syria's president
in return for a huge arms deal and a pledge to boost Russian influence in
the Arab world, diplomats told Agence France Presse.

On July 31, President Vladimir Putin, a strong backer of Syrian leader
Bashar Assad, met Saudi Arabia's influential intelligence chief Prince
Bandar bin Sultan, after which both Moscow and Riyadh kept a lid on the
substance of the talks.

"Every two years, Bandar bin Sultan meets his Russian counterparts, but this
time, he wanted to meet the head of state," said a European diplomat who
shuttles between Beirut and Damascus.

"During the meeting at the Kremlin, the Saudi official explained to his
interlocutor that Riyadh is ready to help Moscow play a bigger role in the
Middle East at a time when the United States is disengaging from the
region," the diplomat added.

Bandar proposed that Saudi Arabia buy $15 billion (11 billion euros) of
weapons from Russia and invest "considerably in the country," the source
said.

The Saudi prince also reassured Putin that "whatever regime comes after"
Assad, it will be "completely" in the Saudis' hands and will not sign any
agreement allowing any Gulf country to transport its gas across Syria to
Europe and compete with Russian gas exports, the diplomat said.

In 2009, Assad refused to sign an agreement with Qatar for an overland
pipeline running from the Gulf to Europe via Syria to protect the interests
of its Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas.

An Arab diplomat with contacts in Moscow said: "President Putin listened
politely to his interlocutor and let him know that his country would not
change its strategy."

"Bandar bin Sultan then let the Russians know that the only option left in
Syria was military and that they should forget about Geneva because the
opposition would not attend."

Russia and the United States have been trying for months to organize an
international peace conference between Assad's regime and the opposition to
take place in Geneva, but so far to no avail.

Asked about the Putin-Bandar meeting, a Syrian politician said: "As was the
case before with Qatar and Lavrov (in talks), Saudi Arabia thinks that
politics is a simple matter of buying people or countries. It doesn't
understand that Russia is a major power and that this is not how it draws up
policy."

"Syria and Russia have had close ties for over half a century in all fields
and it's not Saudi riyals that will change this fact," he added.

The meeting between Bandar and Putin came amid tension between Moscow and
Riyadh over the conflict in Syria, as Russia has accused the Saudis of
"financing and arming terrorists and extremist groups" in the war which has
killed more than 100,000 people since March 2011.

While there was no official reaction to the meeting, Russian experts also
said Putin had apparently turned down the Saudi offer.

According to military expert Alexander Goltz from online opposition
newspaper Ejednevny, "such an agreement seems extremely improbable."

"Support for Assad is a matter of principle for Vladimir Putin," he said.
"Even the bait of $15 billion, a huge sum that represents two years'
turnover for Rosoboronexport (Russia's arms exporting agency), will have no
effect."

Independent security expert Andrei Soldatov, who runs the Agentura.ru
website said: "This disinformation is aimed more at destabilizing Assad and
his entourage.

"Assad's position is growing stronger and stronger, and the Kremlin knows
this. Turning against them in this situation would be very stupid ... And
don't forget that in general the Saudis take years to keep their promises."

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5)US Stocks May Plunge 20 Percent or More by Year's End

By Dan Wei

The U.S. stock market is ready to careen downward, perhaps 20 percent or more by year-end, says Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report.

In an interview with CNBC, he compared the current market to that of 1987, before stocks crashed in October. 

Back then, "you had a powerful rally, but earnings were no longer rising substantially," he said. "The market was becoming very overbought."


The final rally heading into August 25 took place with a diminishing number of stocks reaching new 52-week highs, Faber says. 

Fast forward to the present. "If you look at the last two days, it's remarkable," he said. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index stands close to its record high of 1,709.67, closing Thursday at 1,697.48.

"Yet yesterday [Wednesday] and the day before, there were 170 new 52-week lows. That's a very high figure" and an ominous omen, Faber said.

Meanwhile, he's bullish on gold. 

"I like it here, because relative to other assets – paintings, collectibles, Manhattan high-end properties, Hampton [Long Island] properties, the Dow Jones, the S&P, the Russell 2000, I think gold is relatively cheap," Faber said. 

Spot gold has plunged 22 percent this year, trading at $1,312.96 late Thursday.

Other experts predict the stock market will tumble over the next few months.

"I think over the near term, the very near term, I can see the market struggling," Gluskin Sheff Chief Economist David Rosenberg said. "I'm sure that comes as a big surprise, but I think we're fully priced right now."

Meanwhile, other experts take such a gloomy stance even further .

The U.S. economy will eventually fall into a recession, smothered by an excessive debt load, says David Levy, chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center.

"We are still in a disinflationary and balance-sheet adjusting phase in the U.S. and globally, and that is going to bring, at some point, another recession," he told Barron's.

Such a dim view on stocks is 100 percent opposite that of fellow market guru Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania.

Siegel told CNBC the Dow Jones Industrial Average can reach 16,000 to 17,000 this year. It closed Thursday at 15,498.32.

Regardless of how fast the Federal Reserve tapers its quantitative easing, stocks will benefit, he says. "Either the economy's weak, the tapering will end; or the economy's strong, they'll taper, and earnings will be strong."

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