Amazingly and pathetically, the one value that came out of the recent budget showdown was Obama drawing the line at family planning. When it comes to the abortion part of family planning -- the aspect that gets the most attention -- many Americans feel downright ambivalent, in favor one day, not so sure the next, and all of it dependent on trimester and that sort of thing. Yet in the self-serving leaks coming from the White House, it was abortion where the president made his stand. Abe Lincoln he is not.
A leading nationalist has filed a criminal complaint against Peace Now leader Yariv Oppenheimer for giving U.S. embassy officials in Washington information with the intention of damaging the country. The alleged crimes are punishable by life in prison or even death.
I hope that American pressure on the government of Israel will bring about an implementation of orders against a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, he said in a document revealed last week by WikiLeaks.
Itzik Shadmi, head of the Binyamin Region Residents Committee, said, Peace Now for years incites policies against Israel in order to weaken the communities that have been established in Judea and Samaria. Peace Now sees that the public does not trust the left, and it decided to turn to the other countries.
We see these actions as damaging to the State of Israel. The publication of the documents simply confirms what we have known for years, and we expect the police to investigate Oppenheimer and his colleagues for acting against Israel and undermining the sovereignty of the government, Shadmi said.
One WikiLeaks cable stated that Oppenheimer told American officials that Israel is guilty of deception and has the tools to do what it has to do against Jewish communities. The documents said that the American officials were impressed with Oppenheimer's presentation and concluded, We are afraid that there will be a renewal of settlements, creating new neighborhoods contrary to Israels obligations to the United States. The obligations were not spelled out.
Oppenheimer has been instrumental in filing lawsuits on behalf of Arabs. The legal and military establishments have accepted many of his claims and have allowed and in some cases even encouraged an Arab land grab in Judea and Samaria.
Oppenheimer is public enemy number one among nationalists and was even slapped in the face by a nationalist academic this week.
Oppenheimer complained that Mor Altshuler slapped him violently several minutes before a television debate. She said she is sorry that she hit him in the face but added that her slap was symbolic.
She accused Peace Now of having sent her three people posing as students and trying to coax her into saying she approved the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin in 1995.
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Intentionally slapping a political Rival-Opponent on public media is a common method in many countries, espec in Asia, + has resulted in a number of POPCORN/VIRAL-WORTHY, INTER-FACTION(S). GLORIOUS MASS "BRAWLS" [pushing-n-shoving] AMONG THE POLITCOS.
The Communists wanted to turn every country in the world into communists, the Muslims want to turn every nation Islamic, and we want to turn them all into Democrats. Our national passion for democracy long ago overshot baseball, football, horse racing and billiards. Lately even our wars have turned into perverse democracy crusades. But the tonic of democracy does not cure all ills And like most medicines, it is quite poisonous when used against the doctors instructions..
Lately some of us have gotten caught up in the idea that the Arabs have finally become just as passionate about democracy as us. But where we have come to value democracy as an end, their passion is for democracy as a tool of change, a means, not an end. Even the most devout Mahmoud, his scraggly beard caught in the pages of the Koran, blesses democracy as Halal, so long as it ushers in the rule of the devout. What matter if the Caliphate comes by way of a lottery, inherited monarchy or the ballot boxso long as it comes.
...You can teach people to count ballots, but you cant teach them to understand why they count. They have to learn that for themselves. Otherwise theyll start miscounting the ballots or shooting everyone who doesnt vote the right way.
...Most revolutions like to call themselves democratic, because democracy is disruptive to the old order. But their revolutions are only democratic means toward authoritarian ends. The ultimate victory of one faction or another. And they typically have as much use for democracy, as the Muslim armies who captured Alexandria had for its library.
...Islams constitution is the Koran, which makes any national constitution the work of a lower body, to be overruled by even the meanest Hadith. Roughly on a par with UN covenants on womens rights and binding contracts signed with foreigners. Democracy decentralizes power by vesting power in the peoples will. Islam centralizes it in the binding of the Koran and the mouths of the Clerics who have memorized every verse. To question that centralization is to court blasphemy. And if the courts dont sentence you, the mob will.
By salaaming before the Koran, and apologizing for everyone who takes a lighter to a redundant copy of the orally transmitted venom of a frustrated desert merchant, we place the Koran above the people and the Constitution. Not by their will, but by the will of our own clerics. Clerics who subscribe neither to the Constitution or the Koran, but to the Emily Post Guide to Politically Correct International Appeasement. The Muslims have their Mullahs and we have our Senators. But the advantage of democracy is that we can more easily remove a Senator, than they can remove a Mullah. And we can generally do it without being burned at the stake for blasphemy. Which is why neither Senators nor Mullahs are fond of democracy.
[Asharq al-Aswat] [Asharq Al-Awsat] What is your view of the current political scene in Syria?
[al-Atrash] Some people are optimistic that the Syrian regime will put forward genuine reforms, but I am not optimistic at all, for hereditary President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist presidents-for-life. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... Hmm, was he trained as a dentist, or eye doctor??? Wikipedia sez eye doctor He only worked on eye teeth? Continued on Page 49
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if ever there was a neck made for hangin'.....
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Nice high forehead, too. Perfect for a sniper rifle...
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Let's say your dad has a sister, who is "Aunt Linda" to you. Your dad and Aunt Linda, being full siblings, have exactly the same genetic constitution
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I believe a lot of this is true. But not this part: "All human cultures display strict prohibitions against inbreeding and consanguineous marriage."
This displays an almost complete ignorance of history. The tabboo has always been blurred at the extreme ends of the human hierarchy. Small isolated rural clans/tribes and super elites/royalty. Basically, when family groups become distrustful of outsiders and dependent on one another.
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Amazingly and pathetically, the one value that came out of the recent budget showdown was Obama drawing the line at family planning. When it comes to the abortion part of family planning -- the aspect that gets the most attention -- many Americans feel downright ambivalent, in favor one day, not so sure the next, and all of it dependent on trimester and that sort of thing. Yet in the self-serving leaks coming from the White House, it was abortion where the president made his stand. Abe Lincoln he is not.
[Asharq al-Aswat] [Asharq Al-Awsat] What is your view of the current political scene in Syria?
