The Death of Journalism?
April 23, 2009 - 11:48pmFrontpage Interview’s guest today is Los Angeles documentary filmmaker John Ziegler. His new movie is Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted. He was just recently arrested on the campus of USC for trying to give out copies of his documentary
Bolivian Raids on Chabad House 'Unexplainable'
April 23, 2009 - 11:42pm(IsraelNN.com) Several times this week, Bolivian police have forcibly closed a Chabad House in an area popular with foreign backpackers. A Foreign Ministry official said Thursday that there were no Israeli citizens caught up in the raids, but other reports indicated that several Israelis were arrested.The Chabad House targeted by Bolivian law enforcement is located in Rurrenabaque, in the northeastern part of the country. Rabbi Aharon Fraiman, a Chabad emissary in the town, told the Chabad.info website that local police have not presented any official closure order, nor have they provided a reason for the raids. The rabbi further claimed that several Israelis were arrested by police and that one of them had already been kicked out of the country.
The Russian Handicap to U.S. Iran Policy
April 23, 2009 - 11:39pmJCPA
There are voices in the Obama Administration who believe that the Kremlin is able and willing to exert pressure on Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. However, perceived geopolitical and economic benefits in the unstable Persian Gulf, in which American influence is on the wane, outweigh Russia's concerns about a nuclear-armed Iran. The Kremlin sees Iran not as a threat but as a partner or an ad-hoc ally to challenge U.S. influence.
UN kicks Jews, Iranians out of racism meeting
April 23, 2009 - 11:36pmGENEVA (AP) — The United Nations expelled three groups from its conference on global racism Thursday for unacceptable behavior related to the opening speech that Iran's president gave denouncing Israel.
The Real Interrogation Scandal - It’s the disclosure of the memos that should ‘shock the conscience.’
April 23, 2009 - 11:32pmNRO
‘Does it shock the conscience?” Chris Wallace, the Fox News Sunday anchor, pressed former CIA director Michael Hayden about waterboarding. General Hayden gave the only responsible answer that honesty would allow: “It depends on the circumstances.”
CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles
April 23, 2009 - 11:27pm(CNSNews.com) - The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) -- including the use of waterboarding -- caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.
Netanyahu to offer U.S. three-part plan for peace talks
April 23, 2009 - 1:51amHAARETZ
Netanyahu will tell Obama that he will not recognize a nation-state providing Palestinian self-determination if the Palestinians don't recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. From the standpoint of the Israeli prime minister, the requirement that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is a fundamental demand in any negotiations on a final settlement. It is not a precondition to conducting negotiations, but rather necessary to progress towards an agreement.
Pro-Israel activists protest in Geneva
April 23, 2009 - 1:47amJPOST
Shouting "I'm a Zionist" in English and French, several thousand pro-Israel activists rallied Wednesday in Geneva against the United Nations' week-long anti-racism conference, which opened with a call from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to eradicate Zionism.
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The Geneva Jewish community, with the help of Chabad, opened a visitors' center a short distance from the conference venue, where they handed out coffee, sandwiches and provided meeting rooms as well as computers.
5 police wounded in Kafr Kassem riotin
April 23, 2009 - 1:45amJPOST
Five Border Policemen were wounded Wednesday night, one of them moderately and four lightly, when they were attacked while demolishing an illegally-built structure in the Arab village of Kafr Kassem.
Clinton: PA Arabs Must Recognize Israel
April 23, 2009 - 1:44am(IsraelNN.com) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stated Wednesday that the United States would not finance or participate in contacts with a government run by Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs that included Hamas unless it would renounce violence and recognize Israel. Clinton furthermore stated that three conditions, which were adopted by the international community, would have to be fulfilled before the US would deal with a PA that includes Hamas.
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