And still western 'liberals' support these people

The Palestinian terrorist slaughter overnight of an Israeli couple Rabbi Udi Fogel and his wife Ruth and three of their children, 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad and three-month-old Hadas who were stabbed to death in their house in Itamar in Samaria -- three other children aged under 12 survived -- has received scant coverage in the British and western media.

True, the Japanese tsunami is driving out much other news. But there can be little doubt that the sluggish reaction is due in no small measure to the fact that the British media and intellectual class think – and sometimes even say – that the Israeli ‘settlers’ deserve what they get. Thus Israelis living on land to which they are legally entitled are dehumanised, and even their murders are shrugged off as of little account. Thus the moral cesspool into...

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Academic freedom in America

This account by the indefatigable David Horowitz on FrontPageMag.com provides a snapshot of one man’s attempt to confront the appalling grip of Islamist and leftist fascism on campus. Read it all.

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A strategic and moral error of the first magnitude

It is a measure of the truth of Ben Brogan’s very welcome piece in the Telegraph today that it was such a surprise to see it in a British ‘quality’ newspaper. For Brogan wrote in support of Israel and in protest at the prism of lies through which it is routinely portrayed in the UK. This is a rare event indeed in the British media.

More than that, he correctly identified the urgent need to repair the gaping hole at the heart of the British government’s currently confused and uncertain foreign policy. For despite the protestations of indestructible support for Israel expressed by David Cameron, the actual attitude of his government has become so inimical to Israel’s security and interests that relations between the two countries are at a low ebb and sliding further very fast.

As this blog has repeatedly warned,...

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Drowning in the facts

Great piece by Clive James in Standpoint on the way the Queensland floods have exposed the lunacy of Australia’s intelligentsia in their unshakeable belief in Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. James writes:

Before the floods, proponents of the CAGW view had argued that there would never be enough rain again, because of Climate Change. When it became clear that there might be more than enough rain, the view was adapted: the floods, too, were the result of Climate Change.

...Until the rains came, the voice of Professor Tim Flannery had been loud in the land. More moderate professors, who said that there might indeed be some man-made global warming, but not a lot, were heard only occasionally. Professor Flannery was heard all the time, and always predicting that the major cities would run out of water. The nice thing

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A lid is lifted at NPR

An eye-opening sting at America’s National Public Radio has lifted the manhole cover on that particular sewer. Two undercover reporters posed as representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group anxious to make a generous donation to NPR. Their conversation with two NPR executives, Ron Schiller and Betsy Liley, was covertly recorded and you can watch it here.

The NPR duo were not only clearly more than happy to take money from the Muslim Brothers but also smilingly nodded along to some egregious Jew-hatred which the alleged brothers came out with, as well as giving vent to some unlovely prejudices of their own against Republicans, the Tea Party and ordinary Americans -- whose lack of education apparently was the reason why they are so lamentably hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood. As a graphic demonstration of the gross ignorance, moral imbecility...

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Beyond satire (2)

In further evidence of the British government’s hold on reality in the Middle East, it has now upgraded the status of ‘Palestinian diplomats’ in the UK from a delegation to a diplomatic mission. The Guardian reports:

William Hague said that Britain had upgraded the status of Palestinian diplomats in the UK, in a largely symbolic move aimed at encouraging progress in peace talks with Israel.

Huh? But wait...

British officials said the only real change in the work of Palestinian diplomats will be that they will be given parking spaces by Westminster council, and find it easier to get British visas for their staff. ‘This really reflects our acknowledgement of Palestinian progress in achieving administrative goals in building institutions and in progress made in fulfilling the road map,’ a British official said.

Do you think the Foreign and Commonwealth Office thinks the ‘road map’ is all about parking?

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