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Obama needs to support freedom in Iran

by Michael Rubin
National Review Online
June 23, 2009

http://www.meforum.org/2168/iran-silence-is-not-neutrality

Over the weekend, both conservative columnist George Will and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan argued that conservative criticism of President Obama’s rhetorical restraint amidst the Iranian protests was unwarranted.

“The president is being roundly criticized for insufficient rhetorical support for what’s going on over there. It seems foolish criticism,” Will said.

“To insist the American president, in the first days of the rebellion, insert the American government into the drama was shortsighted and mischievous,” Noonan wrote. “The ayatollahs were only too eager to demonize the demonstrators as mindless lackeys of the Great Satan Cowboy Uncle Sam, or whatever they call us this week.”

Both Will and Noonan are right that Obama should not endorse former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, but the president should certainly speak up for the principles of freedom, liberty, and free elections. He should point out that Afghans, Iraqis, Pakistanis, and Turks — almost all of Iran’s neighbors — have freely chosen governments, and that this is a right that the Iranian people should also enjoy. Indeed, he can cite the Iranian legacy of elections going back to the constitutional revolution early last century. Right now, the Iranians are suffocating under a media blackout. In Tehran during the 1999 student uprising, I remember the frustration in the streets at the lackluster international response, especially as Iranian state television began broadcasting forced confessions. Read the rest of this entry �

From Julia Gorin’s blog:

Srdja Trifkovic sent in the following:

Take a deep breath and a large whisky.

Think you’ve seen it all? Now there is a pro-KLA musical by a former law school dean (Chicago Kent) and former Clintonite who spent a little time in Kosovo and uses his position to state that the Serbs are the “cancer” of Europe… and gets friendly reviews and a politely sympathetic article in the ABA Journal. Incredible!

“Turning romantic ideals into reality, discovering who you are in the midst of a geopolitical earthquake.” Says the trailer, referring to the “hero” of the musical, an Albanian adolescent whose name is Arian*.

Yes: Arian - or could anyone think of a better name for “romantic ideals” turned into reality the last time before March 24, 1999 by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, when they cut it off from Serbia (Yugoslavia) to attach it to Albania, slaughtering Serbs, Jews, Roma? Heil Hitler and Allahu akbar.

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*) The völkisch terrorist’s name is spelled like this by the sensitive law professor who composed the propaganda melodrama, its sound is that of the term Aryan “used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features“, and this is certainly not accidental. But of course the title of the musical is not “You took away my swastika”. It’s called “You took away my flag”.

A 1941 New York Times article provides key evidence in a momentous dispute

by Jared Israel
Editing and translation by Samantha Criscione

A well-informed, Vatican-friendly voice from the past — The New York Times — reports a Vatican policy of subversion to push Yugoslavia into the Nazi camp and, failing that, break it up and bring the clerical-Fascist Ustasha to power in a faux-independent Croatia.

[from: The Emperor’s New Clothes (TENC), June 15, 2009]

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“The pope does not go to the museum.”
– Vatican Ambassador Antonio Franco, quoted in
“Pope to shun disputed Israel photo: envoy,” Agence France Presse, March 10, 2009

In April 2007, Vatican ambassador to Israel Antonio Franco threatened to boycott that year’s observances at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Authority. Following bitter criticism, the Vatican backed down, and Franco attended the observances.

In March 2009 Franco announced that, during his Middle East trip in May, Pope Benedict XVI would visit Yad Vashem but would definitely not enter the Yad Vashem museum, thus contradicting standard protocol for visiting dignitaries. And in May, Benedict XVI did indeed boycott the museum.

These actions, diplomatically severe and aggressively publicized by the Vatican through statements to the media, are part of an intense struggle between Israel and the Vatican over Eugenio Pacelli, otherwise known as Pope Pius XII. The bone of contention? A caption under a picture in the Yad Vashem museum, criticizing Pacelli for his role during the Holocaust. [1]

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The vast majority of Europeans suffer from the psychological disease of narcissism. They simply cannot stop looking at themselves in the mirror and telling themselves how wonderful they are. Any non-European who tries to point this out to them will find that the Europeans will react the way a dog reacts when somebody pets it while it is eating. The disease is so deep that even when the Muslims take over all of the European countries, the Europeans will be oblivious to their situation of Dhimmitude as long as the Muslims keep supplying them with mirrors. And the Muslims know this.

Heat Heath - USA (06/15/2009 19:18)

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… einfach gute Übersetzungen.

Infolge der Wahl des eurabischen Kandidaten Barack Hussein Obama zum US-Präsidenten scheint die “Weltvernunft” ihren Wohnsitz in den USA vorübergehend aufgegeben zu haben und nun zwischen Israel und - sie muss es derzeit wirklich schwer haben - sogar Ländern wie Ägypten, Jordanien und Bahrein zu pendeln.

[…] Befürworter ebenso wie Gegner eines israelischen Schlags gegen die Nuklearanlagen des Iran [warnen] davor, dass Irans Aufstellung von Terrorstellvertretern von Beirut bis nach Bolivien, von Managua bis nach Marseilles und von Gaza bis nach Gizeh bedeutet, dass es nach einem israelischen Angriff weltweit sehr hässlich werden könnte.
Doch all die Hässlichkeit, all die Instabilität und all die Tode werden im Vergleich dazu, wie die Region – und tatsächlich die ganze Welt – aussehen werden, wenn Iran eine Nuklearmacht wird, wie ein Spaziergang im Park anmuten. Das ist etwas, das die Araber verstehen. Und das ist der Grund dafür, warum sie Israel unterstützen und für einen israelischen Militärschlag gegen Irans Nuklearanlagen beten.

Caroline Glick, 27.4.2009 (Übersetzung: Ralph Raschen)

From a Jerusalem Post Newsletter (20/4/2009):

In an unprecedented coup, the rank hypocrisy of Durban II was exposed before the world this week when UN Watch surprised the Libyan chair — by bringing a victim of Qaddafi torture to confront her on Libya’s brutal torture and scapegoating of five Bulgairan nurses and a Palestinian doctor. The video clip has been broadcast around the globe.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH DRAMATIC VIDEO

A few days ago an organization called Human Rights Watch called on a well-known mad anti-Semitic führer committed to the destruction of Israel, to renounce on a great deal of his “identity”, leaving from now on one different people or religion, as well as freedom of expression, in peace:

Human Rights Watch called on Ahmadinejad to use his presence at the UN racism conference to announce an end to repression of the Baha’i people in Iran and a commitment to allow freedom of expression - an essential protection in the fight against racism worldwide.

It has done so not without hinting at the repeated elimination threats by exactly the same führer and other members of his clique against Israel, the Jewish State (oh, well, okay, even if without any reference to his proxies’ ongoing real actions in various countries aimed at making these very threats true).

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accomplished by “all those who have good intentions, and don’t want to know anything” (Gerhard Scheit):

DEBKAfile‘s Iranian sources stress that Ahmadinejad was telling the six powers that Tehran was not against negotiations but only on its own terms, which would be dictated when its government was good and ready. He thus placed in its real context the formal consent to negotiations which Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili delivered to European Union external affairs executive Javier Solana Tuesday.

Who is probably the best possible first “Western” partner of the murderous Mullah regime, if it is true that General Wesley Clark once asked Solana the secret of his diplomatic success,” and that Solana “answered: ‘Make no enemies, and never ask a question to which you do not know or like the answer.’” (Wikipedia)

And everything will be alright:

Former British prime minister and current Quartet Middle East mediator Tony Blair has been making daily statements warning of a breach with Israel if the Netanyahu government doesn’t fall in line.

Or do you want us to build a tiny little Nazi-Germany - uhm, sorry: another free Kosovo! - in place of the whole of Israel right now?

On Wednesday, for instance, Blair threatened, “There is no alternative to a two-state solution, except the one-state solution. And if there is a one-state solution, there’s going to be a big fight.”*

So be kind, trust us, and start waving the right flag again, Jews,

and you will see that, however we will call it, one-state, two-state, second final solution, everything is gonna be alright.

*) Caroline Glick, Ending Israel’s conditional legitimacy, April 3, 2009

“[T]hey are symbols of pride and wealth and arrogance. To put up such buildings is the most extreme sort of arrogance, and vulnerability is thus built into them. And the attacks against these buildings – by way of these attacks, one can erase one’s own feelings of powerlessness and one’s own humiliations and transform them into the powerlessness and humiliation of one’s opponent….And that evokes [sic.] drastic and dramatic reactions and bellicose reactions, and that’s what makes it so dangerous and so disastrous to attack and to destroy precisely these symbols.”

Who said that? What? “Adolf Hitler or maybe Mohamed Atta,” you say? Just because of that slip: “they are” in the beginning? No! It was “Wolfgang Benz: the historian and director of Berlin’s Institute for Research on Anti-Semitism,” of course, in a public German discussion in Berlin that took place shortly after the jihadistic attack on the Twin Towers.

When, in the Führerbunker, Hitler once again invoked the eradication of Bolshevism and the merciless resistance against the “world poisoner of all peoples,” “international Jewry,” as his testamentary will, he especially deplored the dereliction of an audacious policy of friendship with Islam, explaining by this the defeat.*

Gerhard Scheit, in: konkret, 12 (December)/2000)

“Let me say very clearly that the way the European Union will relate to an [Israeli] government that is not committed to a two-state solution will be very, very different,” said Javier Solana, the EU’s foreign and security affairs chief.

The Jerusalem Post, 16 March 2009

Don’t allow yourself to be fooled by their media manipulation of woman [sic] and children, the Hamas’ true message to Israelis is unequivocally clear: “You are our target - We want you dead.”

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Source: Official website of the Hamas’ armed wing,
the “al-Qassam Brigades”

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 28 February 2008

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