Oliver Stone Apologises for claim Hitler was a 'Scapegoat' in World War Two 'Who did more Damage to Russia than Jews'
By Daniel Bates
July 28, 2010
Director Oliver Stone has been forced to make a grovelling apology over an anti-Semitic outburst.
The double Academy Award winner claimed that the Russians suffered more during the Second World War and that there was a Jewish 'domination of the media'.
Stone also said that Jews had '****ed up' U.S. foreign policy for years and suggested the British supported Hitler.
No one has made or will make a public declaration about a change in policy, but a reassessment is nonetheless under way, and we can already detect the first products of this rethinking.
The foreign policy team of US President Barack Obama is undertaking a reassessment of its policy all over the Middle East, including Israel. No one has made or will make a public declaration about such a change, but a reassessment is nonetheless under way, and we can already detect the first products of this rethinking of policy.
Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday urged Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, slamming the current state of the Palestinian enclave as a "prison camp."
"Let me be clear that the situation in Gaza has to change... Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp," he said in a speech to a business association during a visit to Turkey.
Speaking later after talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Cameron defended his harsh description, saying that "even though some progress has been made we're still in a situation where it's very difficult to get in, it's very difficult to get out...
As parents arrived early Monday morning to drop their kids off for summer camp at the B’Nai Shalom Synagogue in Olney, Md., they were greeted by a derogatory name for Jews spray-painted on the building.
“I started welling up with tears and tried to conceal it from our 3-year-old,” said concerned parent Laurie Blumstein.
But the anti-Semitic vandalism didn’t stop there. Swastikas were spray-painted across the entire building and sidewalk and German references to the Holocaust were found on lampposts even parking spots.
“The words ‘Arbeit Macht Frei,’ which translate to 'work will set you free,'” said Rabbi Ari Sunshine. “Those are the words that are written above the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp.”
You have to hand it to US President Barack Obama. He is relentless. Just when you thought he was shifting gears – easing up on Israel and turning his attention to Iran's nuclear weapons program – he pulls out a zinger.
His recent courtship of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu led some Israelis and supporters of Israel in the US to believe the administration had seen the light. After 18 months, we were told Obama finally realized that contrary to what he had thought, Palestinian statehood is not the most urgent issue in the Middle East, Iran's nuclear weapons program is.
Hezbollah is the number one Jihadist and terrorist group worldwide, much more treacherous, better organized, structured and armed than Al Qaida, and on top, Iran is totally behind it. Hezbollah that fully controls the Lebanese government and has erected a ministate in Lebanon, is not just a dire threat to Lebanon and its peaceful people, but in fact is a real threat to all the Arab and Western countries, and to the essence and core of global order, freedom, peace and democracy.
There is no doubt that the hesitant, blurred, lukewarm and indecisive Western policies in the Middle East are working very well to the advantage of the rogue regimes and terrorist groups, while increasingly shaking, destabilizing and weakening the pro-democratic, pro-western and moderate countries. The West in general and the USA in particular are directly or indirectly, intentionally or naively, playing the role of a guardian angel or the savior for both the Baathist regime in Syria and the mullahs’ Islamic republic in Iran.
Speaking Moshe Arens, Yitzhak Noy and Jay Bushinsky
July 26, 2010
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Israel's former defense minister, Moshe Arens, is interviewed on "Middle East Perspective" about his willlingness to consider the idea of forming a single state which would include the Palestinian residents of the West Bank under Israel's flag as citizens with equal rights. The interviewers are Jay Bushinsky of CBS Radio and Yitzhak Noy of Israel Radio.
This program can be heard in Montreal on CJRS - 1650 AM. on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m.
JERUSALEM -- Iran's nuclear ambitions, genocidal threats and involvement in worldwide terrorism has been condemned by an international group of scholars, authors and public figures as a threat to mankind.
In a detailed and heavily-documented report issued here by one of its leading members, former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, the group charged that Iran is the "toxic convergence" of four dangers:
-- nuclear threat;
-- genocidal incitement;
-- state-sponsored terrorism;
-- violations of the Iranian people's rights.
She hails from a large Sharon-region Arab town and used to be as modern, fashion-conscious and hip as my daughter. The two met while working in one of the nearby shopping malls. It was a few years ago. Nadra always did the Saturday shifts because, as a Muslim, she saved the employer legal headaches. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement and Nadra was paid double-time.
We knew her in jeans, cute tank-tops and assorted eye-catching coiffeurs.
Speaking Jamil Hamad, Yitzhak Noy and Jay Bushinsky
July 20, 2010
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A proposal by ex-Defense Minister Moshe Arens that Israel should opt for a one-state solution to the dispute with the Palestinians is analyzed by Jamil Hamad of Time Magazine and Yitzhak Noy of Israel Radio on Middle East Perspective. The moderator is Jay Bushinsky of CBS radio.
The panel also discusses the economic situation in the West Bank and the status of the peace process being brokered by Presidential envoy George Mitchell.
By Ilan Berman
Wall Street Journal Europe
July 16, 2010
For years now, Sakineh Ashtiani has been incarcerated in an Iranian prison, sentenced to death by stoning for the "crime" of adultery. Until earlier this month, the case of the 43-year-old mother of two was known only to the select few who have been following her sad fate at the hands of the Islamic Republic. Today, however, her name has become a rallying cry to end the mullahs' suppression of human—and particularly women's—rights.
A widow living in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz, Mrs. Ashtiani was jailed in 2005 for adultery. She was convicted the following year of having "illicit relationships" with two men following the death of her husband, and received 100 lashes, the punishment Islam stipulates for sexual relations outside of marriage. Mrs. Ashtiani's ordeal did not end there. Her case was reopened in 2007, and new, graver charges of adultery while in wedlock were added. She was convicted once again, and this time sentenced to death by public stoning.
By Jay Bushinsky
The Jewish Chronicle
July 16, 2010
JERUSALEM -- States, like individuals, should learn from their mistakes. This truism applies to Israel as witnessed by her hasty withdrawal from southern Lebanon, May 24, 2000, and ill-considered exit from the Gaza Strip, September 12, 2005.
Both pullouts were unilateral and unconditional. And both had tragic results.
In the first instance, the overnight abandonment of the so-called Security Zone adjacent to the Jewish state's northern border, resulted in an immediate takeover by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas who promptly transformed it into the world's densest concentration of surface-to-surface missiles able to hit Israeli cities and towns as far south as Beersheba and possibly even farther.
The near loathing demonstrated by Obama toward Netanyahu last time around wasn’t miraculously replaced overnight by a magnificent meeting of the minds.
You just gotta feel for poor Barack Obama, so misunderstood, so misquoted, so taken out of context. And it so keeps on happening. Over and over. It almost smacks of a malicious design to misrepresent. Take the latest instance, for instance.
There was Obama’s own hand-picked (first African- American) NASA administrator, Charles Bolden, telling Al Jazeera that Obama himself stressed to him that henceforth NASA’s principal goals are to encourage children to learn math and science, expand international relationships and “foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science... and math and engineering.”
Speaking Shlomo Aronson, Jamil Hamad, Yitzhak Noy and Jay Bushinsky
July 12, 2010
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talks at the White House with President Obama is the opening topic on "Middle East Perspective" and is followed by the findings of a military committee that investigated the Israeli Navy's seizure. May 31, of a flotilla en route to Gaza and the peace plans proposed by Foreign Minister Lieberman and former Defense Minister Moshe Arens respectively. The panelists are Shlomo Aronson of the Hebrew University, Jamil Hamad of Time and Yitzhak Noy of Israel Radio. Jay Bushinsky of CBS Radio is the moderator.
This program also can be heard in Montreal o CJRS, 1650 AM, on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m.
AFP and Reuters contributed to this report
July 12, 2010
President Medvedev says Islamic Republic nearing possession of potential to build atom bomb
News agencies
Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday, in one of Moscow's toughest statements on the Iranian atomic drive.
"Iran is nearing the possession of the potential which in principle could be used for the creation of a nuclear weapon," Medvedev said at a meeting with Russian diplomats quoted by Russian news agencies.
The statement, which comes after a row with Tehran over Moscow's support of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, is one of the first times the Kremlin has recognized in public that Iran may be moving towards a nuclear weapon.
Russia, traditionally a diplomatic and economic ally of the Islamic Republic, has in the past taken a milder line against Tehran than Western powers but has noticeably hardened its position in recent months.
The United States and major European Union powers suspect that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful.
Op-Ed: Israel treated Turkish flotilla as military objective, rather than political drama.
Although Israel's Navy succeeded in stopping a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockade it lost yet another important public relations battle.
Organized in Turkey with government approval and sponsored by Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), a "humanitarian aid organization" linked to terrorist groups, the flotilla highlighted the IHH, garnered sympathy for Gazans, and encouraged Hamas; Israel was condemned by many in the international community. So who won?
Soldiers and passengers were injured; nine militants were killed when the soldiers were attacked and opened fire in self-defense. Could the incident have been handled better, or even avoided?
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Director Oliver Stone has been forced to make a grovelling apology over an anti-Semitic outburst.
To protect her we’ll call her Nadra.