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  • Police Arrest Their Most Wanted Man But Judge Promptly Releases Him (Where's The Beef? Alert)

    12/30/2007 1:39:14 PM PST · by goldstategop · 4 replies · 144+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/30/2007 | Jerusalem Post
    Police arrested their most wanted man on Sunday, but suffered a setback when a court swiftly ordered his release. Amir Mullner was arrested near a Ramat Gan shopping mall early Sunday morning, along with four associates. Police said the men were suspected of conspiring to commit a crime. But when Mullner was brought before a judge to extend his remand, the latter released Mullner, saying police evidence was only barely indicative of the suspicions against him.
  • Turning Abbas' Logic On Its Head (How Palestinian Economic Collapse Will Hasten Peace Alert)

    12/26/2007 7:05:10 PM PST · by goldstategop · 8 replies · 192+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/27/2007 | Daniel Pipes
    Western financial aid to the Palestinians has, I showed last week, the perverse and counterintuitive effect of increasing their rate of homicides, including terrorist ones. This week, I offer two pieces of perhaps even stranger news about the many billions of dollars and record-shattering per-capita donations from the West: First, these have rendered the Palestinians poorer. Second, Palestinian impoverishment is a long-term positive development. To begin, some basic facts about the Palestinian economy, drawing on a fine survey by Ziv Hellman, "Terminal Situation," in the Dec. 24 issue of Jerusalem Report: # Palestinian per year per-capita income has contracted by...
  • Sex Is For Adults (Rabbi Shmueley Boteach: Not Kid Stuff Alert)

    12/23/2007 3:22:14 PM PST · by goldstategop · 38 replies · 163+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/23/2007 | Rabbi Shmueley Boteach
    America is talking about teen pregnancy. Britney Spears's baby sister Jamie Lynn, all of 16, is pregnant. The father, her 19-year-old boyfriend Casey Alridge, who may or may not face statutory rape charges for having sex with a minor, is someone she met at church. Then there is Juno, a satirical comedy about a tortured but well-meaning 16-year-old who gets pregnant and decides to give her baby to a childless couple who later want to divorce. It has been fascinating to watch the debate sparked by these two moms-to-be, with the principal question in each scenario being, "Why didn't she...
  • The Little Summit That Could... (Arab Dictatorships Boycott OSCE Conference In Israel Alert)

    12/18/2007 4:05:08 PM PST · by goldstategop · 2 replies · 165+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/19/2007 | Jerusalem Post Editorial
    'The time has come [for Arab states] to cease using international forums to vilify Israel and to publicly condemn those forces of hatred and violence that, ultimately, undermine everything they stand for," Deputy Foreign Minister Majallie Whbee, a Druse, said, rather impolitely, on Tuesday. Whbee's point was important not because he is not Jewish - the Arabs he addressed will no doubt write him off anyway as a loyal Israeli who holds a lieutenant-colonel's rank in the IDF - but because his audience was a group of European diplomats who were as embarrassed as Israel at the latest sign that...
  • Fundamentally Freund: Introducing George W. Clinton

    12/18/2007 3:49:14 PM PST · by goldstategop · 9 replies · 195+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/19/2007 | Michael Freund
    Will the real George W. please stand up? After seven years of fearlessly confronting evil, both rhetorically and militarily, the Bush Administration in Washington seems to have faded away, replaced instead by a meek shadow of its former self. Firm resolve has given way to disappointing frailty, as the shape and direction of US foreign policy increasingly resembles something taken straight out of Bill Clinton's playbook. Across the board, on nearly every major issue of the day, from Iran to Syria to North Korea, the Bush administration is in retreat, abandoning the principled stands of yesteryear and replacing them with...
  • The Receding Hemlines Of Crown Heights (Chabad's Attitude To Women - Rabbi Shmueley Boteach Alert)

    12/16/2007 4:41:41 PM PST · by goldstategop · 7 replies · 635+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/16/2007 | Rabbi Shmueley Boteach
    Returning to Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for a Shabbat is an exhilarating experience. Lubavitchers are arguably the most alive people in the world and there is a pulse and electricity in the air that can scarcely be found anywhere else. [A view of Crown Heights.] A view of Crown Heights. Photo: Courtesy What I did not expect, however, was to be approached by a large number of young rabbinical students of marriageable age who wanted counseling as to how to overcome their obsession with a woman's looks on dates. Some of the young men who approached me had...
  • Russian Army Gets 1st Chief Rabbi Since 1917 Revolution (Jewish Chaplain In Russia's Military Alert)

    12/16/2007 4:02:52 PM PST · by goldstategop · 5 replies · 405+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/17/2007 | Michael Freund
    For the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a chief rabbinical chaplain is servicing the spiritual and religious needs of Jewish soldiers in Russia's armed forces and various security services. Rabbi Gurevich and three Russian Jewish soldiers. Photo: Courtesy Rabbi Aharon Gurevich, 34, was appointed after being asked to fill the role by the chief rabbi of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, who had received official permission from the Russian government to establish a military rabbinate. Upon accepting the post, Gurevich was granted the rank of colonel by Russian authorities and was given permission to visit...
  • Who's Being Rational? (Appeasement And Peace Through Strength Schools Compared Alert)

    12/15/2007 3:15:38 PM PST · by goldstategop · 8 replies · 255+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/14/007 | Caroline Glick
    Life in southern Israel is unbearable. Since last January, on average, 6.3 mortars and rockets have been fired from Gaza on southern Israel every day. As Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna'i warned the heads of the communities around Gaza last week, due to the improvements in the Palestinian arsenal since Israel vacated Gaza two years ago, the Palestinians now field missiles and rockets with extended ranges that place 130,000 Israelis under threat of missile attack. Wednesday, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi made clear that if Israel wishes to secure its citizens there is only one thing it...
  • Nothing Old About (Rabbi Shmueley Boteach: Values Of Hebrew Bible Are Universal And Timeless)

    11/25/2007 7:22:05 PM PST · by goldstategop · 28 replies · 191+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/25/2007 | Rabbi Shmueley Boteach
    A few weeks ago I attended the annual dinner of the National Bible Association, which admirably seeks to promote the reading of the Bible across the United States. I was seated at a table with other Orthodox rabbis, one of whom had kindly invited me. Things did not go smoothly. One of the honorees was a Jewish-born Christian chaplain from the armed forces who spoke of his conversion away from Judaism and how he had chosen Jesus as his personal Messiah. Fair enough. People are free to believe what they want and, sadly, there are Jews who, sometimes out of...
  • Full Kassam Protection Impossible (Israel's Jimmy Carter Tells Sderot To Drop Dead Alert)

    06/29/2007 6:09:58 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 14 replies · 437+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 06/28/2007 | Jpost Staff
    Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that he had no intention of providing maximal protection to all residents of Gaza periphery communities. "A country cannot protect itself ad infinitum, because there would be no end to it." Olmert was addressing the Caesarea Conference. The prime minister added that stepping up protection would be "just as [ineffective] as the demand to solve Sderot's Kassam problem by wiping Beit Hanun and other towns in Gaza off the face of the earth. The prime minister appealed to the residents of the Gaza periphery: "In the short term we cannot supply you with all...
  • Our World: Grounded In Fantasy (Caroline Glick On The Oslo Photo-Op Peace Fantasy Alert)

    06/18/2007 7:16:16 PM PDT · by goldstategop · 10 replies · 503+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 06/18/2007 | Caroline Glick
    ran and its client state Syria have a strategic vision for the Middle East. They wish to take over Lebanon. They wish to destroy Israel. They wish to defeat the US in Iraq. They wish to drive the US and NATO from Afghanistan. They wish to dominate the region by driving the rest of the Arab world to its jihad-supporting knees. Then they wish to apply their vision to the rest of the world. Today, Syria and Iran are ardently advancing their strategic vision for the world through a deliberate strategy of victory by a thousand cuts. Last week's Hamas...
  • Rebbe To The World (Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson's Outreach To Non-Jews Alert)

    06/18/2007 1:24:24 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 4 replies · 731+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 06/17/2007 | Rabbi Shmueley Boteach
    Few men are able to shape the world in death as they did in life. To do so is to so subsume your existence to a lofty ideal, with such complete thoroughness, that your life comes to symbolize the values for which you toiled. In the latter half of the 20th century perhaps only two men can be said to have so completely revitalized their communities that they achieved immortality by becoming the symbol of their nations. They are Martin Luther King, Jr., who offered dignity and self-worth to a persecuted people, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who...
  • Say Goodbye to Europe

    01/09/2007 5:57:13 PM PST · by quidnunc · 113 replies · 3,209+ views
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | January 9, 2007 | Michael Freund
    If you ever wanted to see Paris or Rome before you die, but haven't had a chance to do so, you might want to hurry. Soon enough, most of what we now think of as Western Europe will be transformed into a branch of the Muslim world, which is sure to make it an even less welcoming place for Americans, Israelis and for Jews. That, at least, is the unpleasant, yet entirely unavoidable conclusion to be drawn from Europe's headlong demographic drive toward oblivion. Think I'm exaggerating? Consider a few cold hard facts. According to a recent report by the...
  • Jews Wake Up!

    12/08/2006 10:44:00 AM PST · by Sabramerican · 167 replies · 4,510+ views
    JERUSALEM POST ^ | Dec. 8, 2006 | Caroline Glick
    Column One: Jews Wake Up! Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 8, 2006 When the history of our times is written, this week will be remembered as the week that Washington decided to let the Islamic Republic of Iran go nuclear. Hopefully it will also be remembered as the moment the Jews arose and refused to allow Iran to go nuclear. With the publication of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group chaired by former US secretary of state James Baker III and former congressman Lee Hamilton, the debate about the war in Iraq changed. From a war for victory...
  • Hizbullahland

    08/27/2006 10:52:09 PM PDT · by garbageseeker · 3 replies · 556+ views
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | August 24, 2006 | By KSENIA SVETLOVA
    By 8 a.m. May 26, 2000, the day after the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon was completed, there were already some spectators at Fatima's Gate, a former checkpoint between Israel and Lebanon, and the new Lebanese frontline with Israel. Some were armed Hizbullah men with yellow flags, others curious citizens who came to observe the Israeli soldiers patrol the border just a few meters away. Here you could buy some refreshments with which you could more fully enjoy your time at the border, or perhaps some Hizbullah memorabilia such as yellow T-shirts with the organization's emblem or pins of Sheikh...
  • The Necessary Accounting (Caroline Glick On The Need For The Olmert Government To Go)

    08/25/2006 8:10:13 PM PDT · by goldstategop · 4 replies · 508+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Caroline Glick
    Today two groups of protesters are gathered outside the Prime Minister's Office. The Movement for Quality Government is demanding the establishment of an official commission of inquiry, headed by a Supreme Court justice to investigate the handling of the war in Lebanon. Down the road, IDF reservists are demanding that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz resign. The critical question arising from the separate protests is whether or not the country's current political and military leadership are capable of drawing the proper lessons from the war. If Israel's...
  • The Coming Wars (Caroline Glick: Israel Can Expect More Fighting In The Future Alert)

    08/20/2006 2:57:28 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 11 replies · 764+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 08/20/06 | Caroline Glick
    Since the cease-fire was implemented in Lebanon, we have heard scattered reports indicating that a prisoner swap with the Palestinians may be in the works. In exchange for hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian terrorists now held in Israeli prisons, IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit, who has been held hostage by Palestinian terrorists for nearly two months, may be released from captivity. These reports lend weight to the view that things are back to normal. Terrorists kidnap Israelis and hold them hostage and Israel releases terrorists in order to free them. It is a comforting thought for people like Prime Minister...
  • Why Israel Must Win (Caroline Glick On There Is No Alternative To Victory Alert)

    08/11/2006 8:31:22 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 12 replies · 462+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 08/11/06 | Caroline Glick
    As the Israeli people waited Thursday for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to implement his cabinet's decision to widen the ground offensive in Lebanon, Britain found itself under siege. British security officials announced that the entire country was on a red alert for a terror attack. The night before, British security forces foiled a terrorist conspiracy to explode some 20 US-bound passenger jets. As London's deputy police commissioner Paul Stephenson told reporters, "This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale." By Thursday morning security forces had arrested some 21 suspects. All are British citizens. All are Muslims. It...
  • The State As A Rootless Transient (Mark Steyn On Israeli Jews As The Pepe Le Pew Of Mankind Alert)

    08/06/2006 6:23:12 PM PDT · by goldstategop · 64 replies · 1,846+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 08/07/06 | Mark Steyn
    One of my favorite all-but-unknown books is The Heart Of Princess Osra, written by Anthony Hope in 1896. Hope hit the big time with The Prisoner Of Zenda and its boffo sequel Rupert Of Hentzau, two rip-roaring yarns in which an English dilettante twice contrives to save from usurpers the throne of Ruritania. The Heart Of Princess Osra is also set in Hope's fictional Mitteleuropean kingdom, but this time a century and a half earlier - the 1730s - and it's not a rollicking adventure but a series of ill-starred romantic vignettes featuring King Rudolf III's younger sister and various...
  • Destroy Hizbullah [Jerusalem Post Editorial]

    07/28/2006 10:25:49 AM PDT · by Ebenezer · 35 replies · 1,292+ views
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | July 28, 2006 | Editorial
    "These are the times that try men's souls," as Thomas Paine wrote during America's Revolutionary War. Israel is at war with a terrorist army, one that proudly targets our civilian population while hiding behind its own. It is a war Israel must win. Winning any war is not easy, but this case is made particularly difficult by the asymmetrical standards for victory. By normal military standards, Hizbullah's ambush of IDF forces in Bint Jbail in which eight of our soldiers were killed was a defeat for Hizbullah, in that even our weakened force was able to kill most or all...