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Posted in: Cantor: Obama not 'true friend' of Israel
Kol Ha-Kavod to Rep Cantor for speaking Truth to Power By the way, there will certainly be more Jewish Republicans in the next House of Representatives. I've just heard Sen Joe Lieberman is also thinking of reregistering, now that he's no longer on the Dem ticket, :-) Wouldn't that be nice?!
Posted in: White House: Official 'misspoke' on Goldstone report
Ari, don't be silly. Of course the US vetoed every single piece of criticism because they considered it in its own right. When there was no Israel, remember, Franklin D Roosevelt didn't lift half a fingure to destroy the death camps or the railroads leading there. Why? Proportionally, the Jewish population in the US in the 30-40s was larger than it is now. So what gives? The reason US (and UK) did not intervene then was simply because they were not in competition. But after Germany was defeated, and Israel managed to defend itself, suddenly the US became interested in keeping Israel in the Western camp. So the more weakness Israel shows, the less intimidating it is, the less it is also an interesting ally.
Posted in: What's next for the Goldstone report?
Well, well well, DRE again - hasn't changed in the last 70 years I remember quite well the times when Goebbels and Hitler were appealing to the good Jewish groupds to condemn the evil acts perpetrated by the rest of the Jewish-Cosmopolitan-Bolshevist whatever, evildoers. If you would read the "Stuermer" even then, those Germans were also very concerned for the fate of the Muslims in the League of Nations mandate.
Posted in: Syria to block Facebook over Golan
There are 3 different areas: A) the eastern Kinneret coast, B) the western part of the Golan heights and C) the eastern part of the Golan heights, which all have different legal qualities. The eastern Kinneret coast (A) was part of the *Palestine* entity as far as 1947, but conquered by the Syrian aggressors in 1948. The Western Golan (B) was given away, illegally, in 1923, against the League of Nations mandate, to the Syrians. The Eastern Golan (C) was won over by Israel in a defensive war, 42 years ago. So part A is clearly not disputed since a *naked* right of conquest reliquished once some other country conquers the territory. For example, Florida was originally conquered by Spain, but then taken over by the Americans. Part B would be theoretically disputed, if the British had the right to give away territory. Which they didn't. Part C is right of conquest in a defensive war - it has the same legal status as the Russian claim to the formerly German Eastern East-Prussia, which the Russians won in 1945.
Posted in: Mitchell, Netanyahu can't reach compromise on construction
Andy, there is no such thing as the 1967 border. There is a pre-1967 former cease fire line, but it has no contractual validity in international law. Israel doesn't occupy Yehuda and Shomron, because it didn't belong, legally, to any other state after the establishment of the League of Nations mandate. And according to the League of Nations mandate, Jewish settlement is welcome in the area of that mandate.
Posted in: Podhoretz's Jewish question
Historically, Jews voted Republican before WW1. The same was by the way also true for African Americans. The great reorientation took place in the 12 years before FDR, when successive Republican Presidents aggressively courted WASP aristocracy and slammed the door shut to Jewish immigration. Once FDR was elected, the Democrats successfully insinuated that Republicans were Anti-Jewish, and Republicans passively obliged out of thinking that there are more anti-Jewish, than Jewish votes to be had. Of course, when Obama continues doing what he's doing, at some point he will lose the Jewish vote - just like Republicans did after WWI.
Posted in: Op-Ed: Changing our campuses from polarized to pro-peace
Cheryl, we all know Biting Dawg dislikes real Jews, there is no value in talking to him. At least the Jews who spoke to the Nazis in the 40s had the reasonable expectation they will be the last to be sent to the gas chambers. But talking to Biting Dawg - complete waste of time. Yeah - like your comment on the GhettoStrassen U, exactly the Jstreet mentality, :-) "Please Herr Sturmbahnführer, don't put my kids on that transport, take someone else's"
Posted in: Op-Ed: A precarious moment in Catholic-Jewish relations
So the Wise Bard is upholding the Kazar hypothesis? Very much hmmmm. Actually, it is on very thin ground - 70% of Ashkenasi Y-chromosome lineage are definitvely Mid-Eastern/Mesopotamic, not Eastern-European/Central Asian. However, there is one exception, and that is Ashkenasi Levi lineages. Not in the Cohen lineage which is extremely homogeonous, nor the Israel lineages which are 70% Mesopotamic. But in the Ashkenasi Levite - which themselves are relatively small segment - 2-3%, approx half seem to be of Eastern Slavonic background. It is possible that these are indeed the descendents of Khazari Kaggans that were slighlty "demoted", from Cohen to Levi.
Posted in: Op-Ed: A precarious moment in Catholic-Jewish relations
Well, Reform and Conservative jews can't ask Catholics to believe in the eternal validity of the Covenant at Har Sinai, if they don't believe it either. It wouldn't be logical, right? As far as I know, those who DO believe in the eternal validity of the Covenant don't take part in the dialogue in the first place. Biting Dawg just spews his antisemitic venom. Thanks for the DNA tests we now actually know that A) Ashkenasi Jews in their overwhelming genomic majority have descended from Mesopotamia, just like the biblical records say. What those tests also show, B) is that the current muslim inhabitants of the area are new-comers from all the corners of the earth, but mainly from the Arabian Peninsula. And Melvyn - you are right, for some reason JTA does not monitor the comments to pull them out.
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Posted in: Egyptian blames Jewish 'conspiracy' for UNESCO loss
09/24/09 03:08 PM
The last I heard, neither Israel nor the US were any longer filing any vocal protest against Hosny. It was just that Hosny was simply useless for most of the countries that contribute to UNESCO. They simply soberly assessed their interests and said they don't need that jerk.