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  Scapegoating the Zionists   A facsism that learned to 'blame the Zionists' for Arab Muslims' crimes     It is quite interesting how a massacre by Arab Christians on Arab 'Palestinians' in Lebanon 1982, Sabra & Shatila is so typical of "Arabs kill Arabs" and Arabs blame the Jews...   You see it time and time again, you see it in Lebanon today, you see it among "Palestinians", heck, some lunacy fringe of Arabs even "blame the Zionists" in Iraqi Arab on Arab war.   It is not anymore restricted exclusively to the self inflicted 'Palestinians' that invest their...

Islamism & Arabism, pitting the world against the Jew It was not too long ago since the "blaming game" has resulted in active gas chambers, in plans for erasing an entire creed, origin from the face of the earth. The new antisemitism has recent years been translated into "anti Zionism", not only in theory but in "action" as well, from plain terrorism on innocent Jews -- even outside Israel -- through Arabs attacking innocent Jews in Paris, and beyond. True, some of Islamists are more open than others, like Adolf Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "wiping off" plan, or Hezbullah's "happiness" with Jews...

Christians are Jews' best friends Toronto Sun Sat, August 12, 2006 By MICHAEL COREN One of the most difficult things about spending time in Israel is returning home, as I did two weeks ago. As dangerous as life might be in the Jewish state at the moment, daily existence is layered in significance. Then it's back to North America, where the trivial is made to seem profound. I refer to Mel Gibson's drunken stupidity when he made various repugnant comments about Jewish people. As a Roman Catholic with three Jewish grandparents, and someone who worries every day about the...

A number of years ago I discovered a root cause of America's culture war. It came to me as I debated professor Alan Dershowitz about issues of Jewish concern before a 1,000 Jews at the 92nd Street "Y" in New York City. With the exception of support for Israel, Dershowitz, a Harvard liberal, and I agreed on nothing, political or religious. Toward the end of the evening I came to understand why. "Ladies and gentlemen," I announced, "the major difference between Alan Dershowitz and me is this: When professor Dershowitz differs with the Torah, he assumes that he is right...

Once upon a time, not too awfully long ago, America was known as the 'shining city on the hill.' America, the most radical experiment in the history of the world, was the only nation to which people oppressed and repressed by old world systems of social classes and castes could be free of the stifling bindings engendered by those man created constraints. She was a Judao-Christian nation where God of the bible, and not an elite ruling class, was sovereign over all. America was the land of hope, promise and opportunity, where not only all men were equal before God's...

This past week has been a disgrace for journalism. Especially for Canadian journalism. Especially for liberal Canadian journalism. Apparently unable to tolerate losing in the game of democracy, left-leaning pundits decided to blame the participants. Welcome to the hellish world of The Christian Right. I've never seen such flummery and nonsense in all my life. A toxin of ignorance and bitterness suddenly flowed into the media bloodstream and poisoned the body politic. The very nature of free speech and political expression was challenged. Why? Because the left lost. They had to find a scapegoat because they couldn't come to terms...

Less than 70 years ago, a madman named Adolf Hitler set out to convince the world that people with any amount of Jewish blood posed a threat to the human race and had to be exterminated for the sake of all mankind. His twisted vision set into motion a chain of events that even today leaves us breathless in consideration of its viciousness and scope. On Nov. 9, we commemorated the first of these pre-World War II pogroms, Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the end for European Jews. Last week, a survey released by the European Union reported that...

When American intelligence broke the Soviet wartime code, we learned that the Soviets had infiltrated the American government. The American intelligence community’s penchant for secrecy and its refusal to admit that it had been infiltrated was so great that it failed to disclose this to President Harry S. Truman. This is how Daniel Patrick Moynihan described it: "The Soviets knew we knew they knew we knew. The only one who didn’t know was the President of the United States. Our politics was injured for 30 years by this."—Quoted in the New York Times, March 30, 2002 here is a good...

DAILY NOTEBOOK.... Let That Canadian B--ch Know Just How You Feel About Anti-American Hate Speech March 10, 2003: Just like it has in the halls of power of many other Western democracies, anti-Americanism in Canada's capital is growing into a cancerous plague. First the Prime Minister's press secretary publicly referred to the President of the United States as a "moron." Now Carolyn Parrish, a Member of Parliament of the governing party of Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Chairwoman of the NATO Canadian Parliamentary Association, has publicly declared: "Damn Americans. I hate those bastards!" None of these public exclamations of contempt...

THE ICONOCLAST MONTHLY RANT THE NEW McCARTHYISM: FERRETING OUT REPUBLICAN RACISTS by Murray Soupcoff Trent Lott's ill-advised comments at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, praising Strom's Dixie-loving, civil-rights-loathing 1948 tilt at the presidential windmills, were not exactly an example of enlightened civility as far as the unintended targets of Mr. Lott's ill-chosen words were concerned. Senator Lott's apparent zeal to restore the glorious heritage of the Confederacy -- no doubt including separate drinking fountains for black folks, "colored" washrooms and stress-relieving vigilante lynchings of uppity "nigrahs" -- couldn't be expected to sit well withl the intended victims of any...