The blogosphere is buzzing about the US Consulate in Jerusalem. Look at its website and you’ll see why. What’s missing from the site?
Yup – any mention of Israel. As far as the US Consulate is concerned, Israel’s capital city is Arab. It's as if Israel and its Jewish identity have been airbrushed from history altogether. Astonishing.
When the worm finally turns, it really gets itself into a flat-out spin. More and more scientists have just about had it up to here with the rubbish being put out as the ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming. Marc Morano reports how members of the American Chemical Society (ACS) have risen in revolt against the group’s editor-in-chief -- with demands for his removal -- after an editorial appeared claiming ‘the science of anthropogenic climate change is becoming increasingly well established.’
The editorial claimed the ‘consensus’ view was growing ‘increasingly difficult to challenge, despite the efforts of diehard climate-change deniers.’ The editor now admits he is ‘startled’ by the negative reaction from the group’s scientific members.
Poor bewildered soul. He really thought he had written what was undeniably the case. Here are some examples of that ‘negative reaction’ he...
An eye-opening story in the Jerusalem Post takes the current anti-Israel stance by Gordon Brown’s government onto a new level still. Herb Keinon reports that the British government is funding political activity in Israel that runs counter to Israeli government policy:
British spokesman Martin Day said in an interview in Dubai with Al-Arabiya television last week that the British government was ‘taking practical steps towards freezing settlement activities.’ ‘For instance,’ Day said, ‘we finance projects aimed at halting settlement activities. One of these projects seeks to build new Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem and save Palestinian houses from demolition.’ In addition, Day said in an Arabic interview, ‘we also finance organizations that monitor settlement activities.’
Wow. Just imagine if America, say, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland had been funding projects aimed at halting Loyalist marches or building houses for Catholics in Loyalist areas.
It would seem that the British government is actively subverting the government of Israel. HMG appears to have forgotten that it stopped governing Palestine in 1948.
Extraordinary.
Is Obama going out of his way to make an obscene gesture to the Jews ? On the Commentary blog Contentions, Jennifer Rubin is rightly astounded by the fact that Mary Robinson, UN Commissioner and former president of Ireland, is being awarded the Medal of Freedom by Obama.
Mary Robinson?
This is the same Mary Robinson who presided over the infamous and odious Durban anti-Israel and anti-Jew hate-fest a few days before 9/11. As Rubin points out:
...Recently deceased congressman and human-rights champion Tom Lantos had this to say:
Mary Robinson’s lack of leadership was a major contributing factor to the debacle in Durban. Her yearning to have a ‘dialogue among civilizations’ blinded her to the reality that the noble goals of her conference had been usurped by some of the world’s least tolerant and most repressive states,
I wrote yesterday about concerns that Iran might be pulling the strings of an illusory peace in Iraq. Brace yourselves – I have long had concerns about other alliances.
One of the many absurd mantras of the ‘we were taken to war in Iraq on a lie’ brigade is their belief that, in the Muslim and Arab world, everyone stays within their own silos. Thus Saddam could never have been working with al Qaeda because Saddam was secular and al Qaeda are religious fanatics; thus Hamas/al Qaeda could never be working with Hezbollah because Sunni and Shia are mortal enemies; thus since Iran poses a mortal threat to the world we should have attacked Iran, not Iraq.
It has always seemed to me, however, that ‘either/or’ in these circumstances is wildly inappropriate. Even mortal enemies form alliances against a foe...
It’s got to be one of the most unintentionally comical and yet revealing stories of the summer. An atheist summer camp has been set up to indoctrinate children in ‘free thinking’ by ensuring that not one hint of religion nor any discussion of religious ideas creeps into the programme. The ‘free thinkers’ running the camp are clearly incapable of seeing the paradox. Wouldn’t it be a good idea for a camp promoting ‘free thinking’ to be run by people who can actually think?
The picture is of Goya's engraving: 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters'
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