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Douglas Murray – Does Iran have nuclear weapons? Does god exist?

Douglas Murray on BBC’s The Big Questions

HJS Associate Director Douglas Murray discusses British Identity and Iran on Nicky Campbell’s The Big Questions, Sunday 4 March 2012.

Og flere glimrende artikler fra The Spectator – først om Murray’s nye bog:

The forgotten victims of the Troubles

Douglas Murray – 22nd February 2012

The 30th January this year was the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day when members of the British Parachute regiment shot dead fourteen civilians on the streets of a British city. The constant commemoration of that day by families of the dead and injured was one of the things that kept its memory alive and eventually led to the British government setting up the Saville Inquiry. That inquiry – the longest and costliest in legal history, and the subject of my recent book – exonerated the dead and accused some people still living.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Remembering Christopher Hitchens

Douglas Murray – 16th December 2011

Just one of Christopher Hitchens’ talents would have been enough for most people. In him those talents — like his passions — all melded into each other: as speaker, writer and thinker. Yet he was more than the sum even of these considerable parts, for he possessed another talent that was even rarer — a talent for making us, his readers, want to be better people. He used his abilities not to close down questions and ideas, but to open them up. In the process he made you, the reader, aware that you needed to do more, engage more, think more and know more. Writers often feel a need to impress their readers. Christopher made his readers want to impress the writer.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Push off now, Press TV, and take your conspiracy theories with you

Douglas Murray – 20th January 2012

A week that began with an insane decision from the European Court of Human Rights has come to an end with a sensible decision from Ofcom. The Iranian government’s propaganda channel in London, Press TV, has just had its license to broadcast revoked.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Hague’s misplaced optimism

Douglas Murray – 13th January 2012

William Hague has an article in the Times today arguing against what he refers to as the ‘pessimism’ of those who have expressed concerns about the direction of the ‘Arab Spring’. As somebody who cannot see the virtue of either optimism or pessimism as policy, and preferring facts to moods, I think the Foreign Secretary’s central points should be answered. Particularly as he chose so injudicious a day to publish his piece.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Livingstone will get away with it, of course — because he’s on the ‘left’

Douglas Murray – 9th February 2012

Ken Livingstone has just reminded us of a prevailing rule in British politics. His comment that the Conservative party is ‘riddled’ with homosexuals ‘like everywhere else’ would have earned him a sacking if the parties had been reversed and a Conservative politician had talked of the Labour party in this fashion. [...]

Mere HER i The Spectator.

The conservative case for equal marriage

Douglas Murray – 5th March 2012

In America a new generation of Republicans is challenging the traditional consensus of their party on gay marriage. They — as well as some of the GOP old guard like Dick Cheney — are coming out in favour. In Britain the subject is also back on the agenda with the coalition government, at the insistence of the Prime Minister apparently, planning a ‘public consultation’ on the matter.

Mere HER i The Spectator. Douglas Murray blogger om løst og fast i  Standpoint Magazine:

Leveson Levity

Douglas Murray – March 2012

Should there be an inquiry into the Leveson inquiry? The phone-hacking which prompted the setting-up of the inquiry faded almost immediately as a procession of celebrities complained about what they disliked most in the press.

Now everybody has settled in, his lordship most of all. A nadir was reached when three editors of those infinitely depressing celebrity magazines gave insights into their trade. Counsel to the inquiry was a nice young woman. The matter arose of a picture of Heston Blumenthal dressed up as an egg. Counsel giggled with the three witnesses as his lordship tried to locate the page in the relevant magazine. Much hair was flicked. “Not my normal journal,” Lord Leveson joked in that way older men do when they are not yet beyond flirting and engage in it with studied senility. Everyone laughed. Some of the lawyers stretched back while laughing so they could be more in camera-shot. Oh how jolly. And oh how much money evaporating every second.

The inquiry needs to discover only one thing: how did the law come to be broken, repeatedly and publicly, with impunity?

Mere HER i Standpoint Magazine.

Andre kilder: The Daily Express,

Edward Luttwak om de svækkede shiamuslimer

“Den shiamuslimske halvmåne” bliver ikke til noget foreløbig:

Revenge of the Sunnis

What the Arab Spring is really about.

By Edward Luttwak | December 7, 2011

Logo Foreign Policy MagazineThe last decade has been marked by the rise of the Shiites in the Middle East. Through the bullet and the ballot box, Shiite parties have risen to power from Baghdad to Beirut — thereby extending Iran’s reach into the heart of the Arab world. Sunni rulers have viewed with much anxiety the new “Shiite crescent” that extends from Iran all the way to Lebanon.

But as a popular — and now military — uprising in Syria becomes more powerful, the Shiite ascendancy is coming to an end. With every day that passes, President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power seems to weaken: The United Nations assessed on Nov. 1 that Syria had entered a state of civil war and the country’s economy is projected to contract by a disastrous 12 percent to 20 percent this year. And now, the regional Sunni powers are hoping to exploit the turmoil to launch a counteroffensive that could reverse their losses.

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Oversigt over konflikter mellem shia ~ sunni

Glimrende initiativ:

Overviewing Shi’a-Sunni Conflicts

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – December 2, 2011

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As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the “Arab Spring,” it is worth examining the nature of Shi’a (Shiite) -Sunni relations in the Middle East. Indeed, commentators such as Patrick Cockburn have been warning that “since the start of the Arab uprisings this year, Shi’a-Sunni hostility has deepened again wherever the two communities seek to live side by side.”

To discuss this issue, a country-by-country survey is useful wherever there are significant Shi’a-Sunni divides in the population.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Arutz Sheva, - også kaldet Israel National News.

Pundits om Iran, terror etc.

Mord, vold, terror, død og ødelæggelse. Had. Muslimer. The usual stuff:

Bombing Iran a ‘Bad Idea’? Probably. But It’s the ONLY Idea

October 24, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Dalia Dassa Kaye at the Foreign Policy website argues that bombing Iran is a “bad idea.” She’s absolutely right. It’s a bad idea, except all the others are worse. As Prof. Kaye observes,

The aftermath of an attack could be devastating militarily and politically. It could unleash a wave of Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces, allies, and interests. Iran maintains a wide array of levers across the region, including militia groups it has trained and funded, that it could employ to retaliate against U.S. forces or diplomatic personnel, particularly in countries like Iraq. Iranian missiles have ranges that can reach Israel and all its Gulf Arab neighbors, including those hosting U.S. military forces.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Logo Family Security MattersDon’t Just Blame Iran for the Terror Plot, Blame WikiLeaks

Ryan Mauro – October 25, 2011

The U.S., Saudi Arabia and the international community are debating how to respond to Iran’s planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C., but there is another party that shares responsibility: Wikileaks, the anti-censorship organization that recklessly published confidential diplomatic cables that prompted Iran to target the ambassador.

Last November, Wikileaks published a series of documents exposing private communications between international government officials. One of the most explosive documents was a State Department cable dated April, 20, 2008. It quoted the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, as secretly telling General David Petraeus, “He [the Saudi king] told you to cut off the head of the snake,” referring to the Iranian regime.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

What Will They Think of Next?

Why the crazy Iranian plot to pay Mexicans to kill the Saudi ambassador isn’t so implausible.

By Christopher Hitchens | Oct. 24, 2011

There may conceivably be a reason to doubt the truth of the Obama administration’s claim that the “Quds Force” of the Islamic Republic of Iran went into the free market for murder in order to suborn the killing of the Saudi ambassador to the United States. But neither the apparently surreal nor the apparently flagrant nature of the thing would constitute such reasons. We have been here before, as a splendid recent book reminds us, and have learned that no allegation made against the goon squads in Tehran can be thought of as prima-facie implausible.

Mere HER i Slate. The National Post her.

A Pattern of Appeasement and Retreat

October 24, 2011 – by Michael Ledeen

Take two headlines, one about Iraq, the other about Afghanistan.  The Iraqis told us to honor our signed agreement, and pull out all our troops by year’s end.  Over in Kabul, Karzai said he’d go to war against us if we attacked his neighbor, Pakistan.  It’s the same story in both places, but the real headline is the thirty-year-old one:  U.S. fails to come up with an Iran strategy.

It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it?  You’re a Middle Eastern leader, and you’ve been working and fighting alongside the Americans.  The United States was magnificent on the battlefield, and you either won (as in Iraq) or were winning (Afghanistan) when the Americans announced they were leaving.  And they even set a date for their departure.  Where does that leave you?

Mere HER i Pajamas Media. Family Security Matters her.

Regime blames assassination plot on its enemies

By Reza Kahlili – October 21, 2011

Iran panicked after the United States accused it of hatching a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, immediately denying the allegations, which included plans to bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies and labeling the plot’s organizer an enemy of the state.

We should have seen it coming.

Iranian officials warned Saudi officials months ago of repercussions because of the Saudi monarchy’s intervention in Bahrain and Yemen, where Iran is pushing for the overthrow of U.S.-friendly governments to establish Shiite rule. Some Revolutionary Guard commanders and parliament deputies even called for a military response to the Saudis’ action in the region.

Mere HER i The Washington Times.

Explaining Iran’s Approach Towards the Middle East

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – October 25, 2011

What drives Iran’s ambition to become the dominant power in the Middle East at the expense of the Sunni Arab Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? Is it solely an issue of Iran’s Shi’ite Islamist ideology?

To begin with, it is worth recalling that many of the Iranian regime’s assertive and expansionist policies today predate Khomeini’s revolution and rise to power in 1979. For example, Iran’s claim to Bahrain goes back to the secular Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s resolution in November 1957, declaring the island to be Iran’s fourteenth province. Eventually, the Shah let go of Bahrain for the time being, much to the chagrin of Iranian nationalists.

Mere HER i Middle East Forum. The Jerusalem Post her.

73% of Iraqis: Iran Is Likely to Act Aggressively When U.S. Troops Leave

By Terence P. Jeffrey – October 24, 2011

About 73 percent of Iraqis said they believe it is likely Iran will act aggressively toward their country after U.S. troops leave in December.

Fifty-one percent said they believe the security situation within Iraq will get worse when the U.S. forces leave.

Mere HER hos CNS News. Jeg har blogget en hel del om Iran her i oktober. Se for eksempel:

Andre kilder: Tablet Magazine, Fox News, Family Security Matters, Townhall,

Video: Robert Spencer og Ezra Levant om terrorplaner Iran ~ USA & Saudi Arabien

Det iranske regime står bag nye terrorforsøg i Amerika, dels i USA i Washington D.C. og dels i Argentina i Buenos Aires.

I USA gik de planlagte aktioner ud på at dræbe den saudiarabiske og den israelske ambassadør via bombeangreb. Den saudiarabiske ambassadør skulle dræbes ved en bombeeksplosion på en restaurant. Mellem 100 og 150 mennesker ville have været til stede, skriver Family Security Matters.

Desuden skulle både den israelske og den saudiarabiske ambassade i USA bombes.

De to landes ambassader i Buenos Aires, Argentina skulle have samme fine, islamiske behandling.

  • Den absolut vigtigste årsag er hævn for WikiLeaks. Her i citatet omtales præcis den saudiarabiske ambassadør, der skulle myrdes – fra The Christian Science Monitor den 29. november 2010:

according to a cable recording a conversation between Saudi Ambassador to the US Adel al-Jubair and a US diplomat, Saudi King Abdullah repeatedly urged the US to attack Iran. “He told you to cut the head off the snake,” al-Jubair told the diplomat – the snake, of course, being Iran.

  • Hævn for Saudi Arabiens hjælp til Bahrain, der derved undgik et arabisk forår

Den med Bahrain har jeg set i amerikansk presse. Men den med WikiLeaks har jeg indtil for kort tid siden kun set i The Christian Science Monitor i en ret god artikel. Der er jo i den grad tale om en eksistentiel trussel imod Iran. Det er virkelig underligt, at den forklaring ikke er den centrale på pressens dagsordenen.

Vestens iagttagere kan ikke tænke længere. Det er blandt andet en konsekvens af  politisk korrekthed. Det er jo svært at læse sig til viden, der kun sjældent trykkes.

Pressen spekulerer i, om Khamenei & Ahmadinejad kan have vidst noget om planerne. Selvfølgelig gjorde de da det. Har det nogen betydning, at terrorplanlæggerne gemte sig bag et mexikansk narko-kartel og en brugtvognsforhandler? Nej. Og vil Kina & Rusland være med til FN-sanktioner imod Iran? Som det betyder noget. Og hvad vil præsident Obama gøre? Sikkert ingenting.

Senior American officials themselves were struggling to explain why the Quds Force, an elite international operations unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, would orchestrate such a risky attack in so amateurish a manner.

Det skriver The New York Times. Sagen er at det iranske shia-regime føler jorden brænde under sig. Indre fjender – de har befolkningen imod sig. Ydre fjender – sunnierne i Saudi Arabien og israelerne vil have styret bombet. Forholdet til Tyrkiet er mere end køligt. Det arabiske forår har styrket Det Muslimske Broderskab og svækket Irans indflydelse i Mellemøsten. Styret i den pro-iranske Syrien vakler og det svækker Hizbollah, der i forvejen marginaliseres af “foråret”. Det iranske regime kan falde når som helst – de har næsten ingen støtter.

Det er panik før lukketid, det vi ser.

Det er ikke meget af det, der skrives, der har nogen større læseværdighed. Jeg er dybt skuffet. AEI har som næsten de eneste nogle artikler med lidt løft i, men ingen skærer det indlysende ud i pap:

Se så for Helgoland af at få de mullaher og deres revolutionsgarde væltet!

Vi snupper lige videoen først:

Fra 12. oktober 2011:

Ezra Levant with Robert Spencer on Iran’s terror plot

Og så lidt artikler – mest om fjendtligheden mellem Saudi Arabien og Iran:

Iran’s Provocative Rhetoric

By Ali Alfoneh | October 12, 2011

In the hours following the United States Department of Justice press release on the foiled terror plot “directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States,” the Islamic Republic officials have energetically dismissed the allegations against Iran.

Hassan Qashqavi, deputy foreign minister, stressed: “Despite some conflicting points of view, relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and [Saudi] Arabia are based on mutual respect between Muslims and such deeds [the allegations against Iran], which are designed to instigate conflict in the region, will not have the slightest impact.” Ramin Mehmanparast, Foreign Ministry spokesman, called the allegations “a ridiculous theater” directed by “the American-Zionist axis;” while Ala al-Din Boroujerdi, parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy chairman, bizarrely said the United States allegations serve the purpose of “diverting public attention from the revolt against Wall Street.”

Mere HER hos AEI. CNN her.

Saudi Arabia and Iran: Competing Autocracies

by Ali Alyami – October 11, 2011

Despite their public pronouncements and overt disputes, the Saudi and Iranian autocracies share the same objectives: to prevent democracy from taking root in their and other Arab and Muslim countries.

Their overriding goal is to severely undermine the Western democratic influence, especially that of the US, in Arab and Muslim countries. They consider democracy a mortal threat to their oppressive rule.

The Saudi and Iranian regimes compete over the hearts and minds of oppressed Muslims, including their own, and use whatever they can to outdo each other by painting themselves as the protectors of Islam and Muslims worldwide.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Og en tredje artikel om samme emne:

The religious roots of Iran’s rivalry with Saudi Arabia

By Vali Nasr – October 13, 2011

The furor over the alleged Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States has made one point clear: The most important strategic divide in the Middle East today is between Iran and Saudi Arabia. At issue is religion and power. Iran’s clerical rulers see their regime as the product of the first and only Islamic revolution, and the true vanguard of Islamic politics in the Muslim world.

For it’s part, Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam; the Saudi king carries the title of the keeper of the two holiest shrines in Islam (those of Mecca and Medina). The Saudi monarchy was also born of a puritanical religious revolt and continues to see itself as the true standard bearer of Islam.

Mere HER i The Washington Post.

Andre kilder: The Christian Science Monitor, AEI, AEI, AEIAEI, AEI, AEI, AEI, AEI, AEI, AEI, AEI, CNN, CNNNPRBreitbart, Family Security Matters, Family Security MattersBig Peace, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York TimesHeritage Foundation, Heritage Foundation, The Daily MailThe American, The American, The AmericanCommentary Magazine, The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, The Washington Post, The Washington PostThe Washington Post, Newsmax, NewmaxFox News, CBS News, CBS News, City JournalPajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas MediaForeign Policy, Foreign Policy, Foreign PolicyNational Review Online, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Israel Hayom,

Opdatering – flere kilder: The American, The Washington Post, The Washington PostThe New York Post, The Washington Institute for Near East PolicyThe Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, USA Today, Foreign Policy, Family Security Matters, Family Seurity Matters, Family Security MattersNational Review OnlineJyllands-Posten, CNS news,

Video: Daniel Pipes & Peter Kurti

Først et interview fra The Centre for Independent Studies. Uploadet på YouTube den 22. september 2011:

CIS Occasional Interviews: Daniel Pipes

Scholar on Radical Islam Daniel Pipes speaks to the CIS’ Peter Kurti on the current Middle East upheavals.

Og forelæsning fra samme center i Australien – 23 august 2011:

Making Sense of the Middle East Upheavals

Daniel Pipes is president of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

His website, DanielPipes.org is one of the Internet’s most accessed sources of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam. The Boston Globe states that “If Pipes’ admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11″ and the Washington Post deems him “perhaps the most prominent U.S. scholar on radical Islam.”

He received his A.B. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University.

Andre kilder: ABC News,

Opdateret.

Amitai Etzioni om det begrebsforvirrede Mellemøsten

Om imamer, meningsmålinger, revolutioner, demokrati og mere:

Toward a Nonviolent, Pluralistic Middle East

September 11: A Decade Later

by Amitai Etzioni – Fall 2011

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The 2001 attacks on the United States have intensified the debate that has existed since the dawn of Islam: How is the West to respond to the followers of Muhammad? Some—most famously Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington—held that the contest is between two rather monolithic civilizations that are bound to clash. In a 2007 award acceptance speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Lewis described a history of clashes between Islam and the West. He stated that at first Muslims sought to spread their nascent faith through conquest throughout the then-Christian world; then the Christians invaded the Muslim world (the Crusaders); then the Muslims pushed back into Europe (the Golden Age of Islam); then the West retaliated by colonizing the Muslim world; and now the Muslims are again rising against Christendom by terrorism and flooding Europe with immigrants.[1] Huntington argued that “Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.”[2] By contrast, President George W. Bush stated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that “Islam is peace,”[3] while British prime minister Tony Blair argued that the problem was not Islam but “extremists trying to hijack it for political purposes.”[4]

Mere HER i Middle East Quarterly.

Video: Walid Phares om USA og Mellemøsten lige nu

Fra 14. og 15. august 2011:

Phares on America Now radio w/ host Andy Dean: Panoramic analysis of current ME affairs

In an interview with America Now radio show host Andy Dean, professor, expert and lecturer of Middle East affairs and counter-terrorism Dr. Walid Phares provided an in-depth panoramic analysis of current middle eastern and US security policy issues including: the Pakistani ISI’s involvement in giving China access to US Special Forces technology, the revolts and progress towards democracy in Egypt and Syria, the significance of the intelligence found in bin Laden’s Pakistani compound, the Iranian nuclear threat, and the need for the US administration to come to terms with properly identifying the Islamist/Jihadist threat.

August 15, 2011

Phares to CTV: Syrian uprising is strong

Lecturer, Professor and Middle East and counter-terrorism expert Dr. Walid Phares, advisor to the U.S. congress, said in an interview with CTV that what is happening in Syria now is just the beginning of what will become a revolution. He further explained that the Syrian uprising is strong.

August 14, 2011

Flere artikler om vold i England

Skriften på væggen: Vi kan ikke blive i Europa. Det er ikke her, vi skal bo, når vi bliver gamle. Det er ikke her, børnebørn og oldebørn skal vokse op. Det er på tide at forberede udvandring. For mange vil det tage måske 10 år at få styr på gæld, banklån og lignende.

I løbet af nogle år kommer der sandsynligvis et ægte stop for al indvandring. Men der kommer også noget andet: et totalt stop for al europæisk udvandring. Man vil forhindre europæerne i at rejse. Kapitalflugt. Tomme huse. Truende statsbankerot. Det er mit gæt. Det udvandringsstop kommer, når det er for sent at redde stumperne.

Skynd jer ud, venner. Tag gerne eventuelle virksomheder og ansatte med jer. Protestantismens etik kan rekonstrueres overalt, hvor en nation vil det. Disciplinering til lønarbejde. Det, der har givet Danmark en stor middelklasse. Det, der skabte USA. Tag det med jer og rejs fra multikulturen.

Europarådet forlanger diversitet og det kan rådet ikke få uden fremmedimport. Europarådet har oprettet et redskab for at sikre, at rådet får sin vilje: Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol. Hele 47 lande er medlemmer. England, Danmark og flere. Et andet af rådets værktøjer er Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonvention. Europas destruktion ligger fast og har gjort det i årtier. Det er en knaldrød dagsorden, der er tale om. Socialisme ad bagdøren, som forlængst er implementeret i de danske love. I dag har vi human lefts. Ikke human rights som i gamle dage. Og domstolsstyret er ikke demokratisk. Uanset hvilken regering, vi vælger, er der intet, der bliver anderledes. Der er kun spin og tom snak tilbage. Tilsat diversitet, vold, plyndringer med videre. Rejs, venner, rejs.

Er det måske ok, at du bliver slået til kørestolsbruger, hvis du får skattelettelser? Eller at din datter eller dit barnebarn bliver voldtaget, men eftersom der findes “økonomiske incitamenter”, så går det nok?

Nej. Og det kan ikke lade sig gøre at ændre noget ad politisk vej. Forlad Europa, mens I endnu kan:

Byen brænder

10. august 2011

Billederne fra London og andre britiske storbyer, der er stukket i brand af hærgende unge og kriminelle bander bringer mindelser om science fiction-film, hvor hele byer er omdannet til ruiner, og hvor forbrydere terroriserer de overlevende. En britisk avis bragte i går endda en tegning, hvor apokalypsens ryttere betragter den brændende storby.

Mere HER i Berlingske Tidende.

England fik aldrig rigtig noget ud af 70′erne og 80′erne. Hele 40 års efterslæb. Den middelklasse, de burde have opbygget, udeblev. I stedet blev proletariseringen udvidet ved hjælp af indvandring. Formålet var at udrydde det, Max Weber kaldte kapitalismens ånd og protestantismens etik. Det lykkedes. Berlingske skriver i lederen, at ingen har et svar, der virker. Det passer ikke helt. Vi har svaret, men det er for sent.

Venstrefløjen giver andre skylden for de ødelæggelser, venstrefløjen selv har skabt. De snakker om arbejderklassen (arbejderklassen?) og forstår ikke, at problemet er dem selv. Arbejderne og gadeproletariatet er jo den gruppe, der burde starte de virksomheder og skabe de job, der mangler. Arbejderne er dem, der skulle have været middelklassen. Forældrene er dem, der burde have unge ansat på egne virksomheder og i egne butikker. Men i visse indvandrerkredse er der næsten ingen. Visse indvandrere ansætter ikke sorte, kvinder og vantro. Nu har England ikke længere protestantismens etik som sammenhængskraft. Ingen social kapital.

Indvandrere har ofte anden religiøs baggrund. Rastafari, animisme, voodoo. Og den etik, der følger med de mest uintegrerbare, er som i Afrika og i Mellemøsten. Mange af dem vil have sharialov. Loyalitet overfor stamme, klan og kaste – ikke England. Tag ikke vantro til venner, siger koranen, som også rummer et kapitel om plyndring  af krigens hus.

England kan ikke længere løfte sig selv. De kan ikke finansiere velfærd til sigselv og hinanden. Ingen fælles kultur. Ingen fælles værdier. Alle forsøg på at ændre de fremmedes kultur betragtes som racisme. De fremmede må ikke blive som europæerne – det strider imod målsætningerne om diversitet. Venstrefløjen har sejret ad helvede til:

Ignoreret af politikerne, mobbet af medierne

Af Hans Redder, Rasmus Bo Sørensen – 9. august 2011

I årevis er den britiske arbejderklasse blevet hånet og latterliggjort. I satireshows på tv udstilles de som dovne, dumme og uduelige, og mange briter opfatter deres socialstatus som selvforskyldt. Nu svarer den underkendte underklasse igen med vrede og vold i Londons gader. Det var kun et spørgsmål om tid, lyder det

Mere HER i Information.

Britain Riots 2011

A Nation of What

Daniel Greenfield – August 11, 2011

The London riots are yet another episode in the slow disintegration of Europe. London is no longer an English city, it’s just another pin on a map. Much of London is a bunch of Third World cultures living in a geographical area that they have no cultural or emotional connection to. The culture around them is as shamelessly materialistic, vulgar and violent as anything in the dark ages—with the occasional tip of the hat to politically correct values involving the environment or tolerating gay people. And the same goes for the rest of Europe’s capitals. Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels and Oslo are all obvious examples.

The real showdown in London was not between opportunistic rioters and the impotent police, but between African looters and Asian storekeepers fighting a purely materialistic battle. And if the UK’s immigration trends do not change, in a generation or two, the battle will have a much more open character. A struggle for ownership of the city.

Mere HER i Canada Free Press. Sultan Knish her.

Britain’s Road to Riots

Under Labour, a life on welfare appeared the best life to live.

By Douglas Murray – August 11, 2011

In April 1993, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death at a bus stop in south London. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) bungled the investigation, and by 1997, Britain’s new Labour government had announced a judicial inquiry into the matter. The report was published in 1999 and found that “institutional racism affects the MPS, and police services elsewhere.” It also made recommendations aimed at “the elimination of racist prejudice and disadvantage and the demonstration of fairness in all aspects of policing.”

Since then the country’s police services have been suffering a public nervous breakdown, quaking at every public-relations setback and buckling under mounting restrictions on their ability to their jobs at all. Currently, the Metropolitan Police is actually leaderless, its commissioner having resigned last month in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.

Mere HER hos Perdana. Stammer egentlig fra The Wall Street Journal her, men der er en paywall, som kommer og går. Melanie Phillips skriver igen om  volden:

Dogma and decency

Melanie Phillips – 11 August 2011

Tensions were said this morning to be running high in Birmingham, where three public-spirited Muslim men in Winson Green who had been guarding their area against thugs during the riots were appallingly run down and killed by a rioters’ car containing a number of black men. The police are conducting a murder investigation, and one suspect has been arrested.

Mere HER på Melanie Phillips’ blog.

The Disastrous Death of Common Sense

Former British Ambassador Charles Crawford argues that the Labour Party’s support for the unrelenting deconstruction of British values has created ignorant, violent decontextualised people, completely detached from history – and morality

Written by Charles Crawford on 10 August 2011

Over the centuries English property law has invented many ingeniously pragmatic ways in which property can be owned. One key distinction shows itself every time a couple take out a new mortgage. They are offered a choice: a ‘tenancy in common’ or a ‘joint tenancy’.

The difference is as simple as it is profound. Under a tenancy in common, the property is owned by A and B in specific shares (eg half/half, one third/two thirds); A’s share can be sold or bequeathed to someone else, so B now co-owns the property with that new person. By contrast, if A and B own under a joint tenancy there are no identifiable shares: if A dies, A’s share automatically goes to B.

Mere HER i The Commentator. Og Theodore Dalrymple, der denne gang bruger sig eget navn:

Behind England’s riots, a violent and entitled generation of British young people

By Anthony Daniels – August 10th 2011

The riots in London and elsewhere in England have confirmed what I long knew and have long preached to my disbelieving but totally unobservant countrymen: that young British people are among the most unpleasant and potentially violent young people in the world. It took determination on the part of my countrymen not to notice it.

Needless to say, any generalization on such a scale needs to be tempered by qualification. Of course it is true that not all young Britons are unattractive in appearance and conduct, only a far higher proportion of them than of the young of any other nation. It requires but an overnight stay on a Friday or Saturday in any British city to prove it. Even Russians are appalled by what they witness.

Mere HER i New York Daily News.

Learning Something from the Streets?

By Victor Davis Hanson – August 11, 2011

Thousands of pages have already been written in explication of the British rioting and (quite lesser incidence of) American flash mobbing. If one combines these analyses with direct news accounts, op-eds, Youtube confessionals, and official government pronouncements describing constantly changing strategies, I think one can draw three disinterested conclusions.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters

By Max Hastings on 10th August 2011

A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black  reporter named Joe Strickland.

He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media folk about how sorry they are about what happened. When they talk to each other, they say: “It was a great fire, man!” 

I am sure that is what many of the young rioters, black and white, who have burned and looted in England through the past few shocking nights think today.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

British youths are ‘the most unpleasant and violent in the world’: Damning verdict of writer as globe reacts to riots

By Lee Moran and Allan Hall on 10th August 2011

British youths have been branded as ‘the most unpleasant and potentially violent young people in the world’ by a renowned doctor-writer.

Anthony Daniels, a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who has worked in some of the hardest-hit areas on the planet, said the British were now in great fear of their own arrogant, knife-wielding children.

The author said Britain’s young had a ‘sense of entitlement’ and were unwilling to change their ways for anyone else – with the only difference between the rich and the poor being that the former had the money to buy what they wanted, whereas the poor had to ‘wheedle, cajole, swindle and steal it’.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

The Mob Tears at the Foundations of Civilization in London and America

J. Christian Adams – August 10, 2011

Watching London burn, one cannot help but sense something has gone awry in the west. London, the cradle of our law, spins toward lawlessness.

The law, the steady framework of our civilization, seems incapable of response. Americans don’t have the luxury anymore of watching the anarchy on television, assuming distance insulates us from the Mob-prowling neighborhoods like Camberwell and Tottenham. The howling rage has even come to our own Midwest.

Hopefully time and wisdom will reveal what has fractured, but for now, we are certain of some things.

Mere HER i Family Seurity Matters.

Riot of Opportunity

The most outlandish international reactions to Britain’s violence

By Philip Walker | August 10, 2011

After five days of riots in London that have spread across the country, everyone seems to be pontificating on — or pointing the finger at — who’s to blame for the wave of violent social unrest. And some of the comments are just plain wacky: Since when does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad approve of mass protest in the streets? Here’s a look at some governments around the world — especially those past recipients of British condemnations and military campaigns — who just can’t resist the temptation to give Britain a taste of its own medicine.

Iran

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has urged the British government to stop its violent confrontation with rioters and start a dialogue. Hossein Ebrahimi, a member of the Iranian parliament, also told the Fars News Agency that Britain should permit human rights monitors to investigate the troubles in its restive cities. And on Wednesday, Aug. 10, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran:

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Opdatering: Hos Hudson New York skriver man om det samme som ovenfor - Anna Mahjar-Barducci – August 17, 2011:

The Kids Aren’t Alright

What’s really behind Britain’s wave of youth violence?

By Portia Walker | August 10, 2011

London – Buildings are charred and shops barricaded closed. Helicopters circle low overhead. London’s prison cells are all full. Police are flooding the streets of the capital. For four days now, mobs have run amok in multiple areas across this city, looting, brawling, and terrorizing people.  

As a mob stormed through a warm Monday night on a west London street, restaurants locked their doors and diners headed home early.

Mere HER i Foreign Policy. Og Chesler tror, at englænderne er tyske nazister. At de var på hver sin side under 2. verdenskrig, kan åbenbart være lige meget. Det hele er bare racistiske “Europeans”. Det her er fæl omgang sludder:

Multiculturalism = Racism

by Phyllis Chesler

The civilizational war that Jean Raspail once envisioned in his brilliant, dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints is now fully underway. What Raspail once only imagined has come to pass. People of color from many formerly colonized countries have created “no go” zones all across Europe; ambulances and the police enter there at their own risk.

The “youth,” the opportunistic criminal elements, the proto-jihadists (all of whom survive on the European dole), are torching cars, looting stores, battling the police.

Mere HER hos Phyllis Chesler eller her hos Arutz Sheva.

Opdatering – Jeg snupper lige dette citat:

[...]Unlike Los Angeles or Paris, the riots are not happening in ghettos where nobody goes. They are happening amid the organic gastropubs and latte bars. Alongside poverty, inner London is full of the sort of middle-class progressives who agree with Ken Livingstone that the rioters “feel no one at the top of society, in government or City Hall, cares about them or speaks for them”.

I predict a lot of those people, as they cower behind their sash windows, are revising their views tonight. The hardening of liberal opinion in London is palpable, and is taking even the likes of Boris Johnson by surprise.

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

Mere opdatering – det tonser løs med artikler om vold i England:

London and UK riots: The long retreat of order

To understand the cause of these riots, we need to accept that the police ceded control of the streets to the criminals decades ago.

By Philip Johnston – 09 Aug 2011

When rioters rampaged through the suburbs of Paris six years ago, Nicolas Sarkozy, then France’s interior minister, called them racaille. While this can mean “rabble” or “riff-raff”, it also translates as “scum”.

You cannot imagine a British politician using that term to describe the youths who have turned London into a war zone. Yet it is the word that will have been on the lips of all decent people as they watched – appalled, shocked and ashamed – while the capital and, later, other cities were trashed by elements of their criminally inclined underclass. Epithets like “rabble” or “riff-raff” are too mild for the lawless, feckless, mindless and amoral thugs who forced passers-by to strip naked while they stole their clothes; or who torched a furniture warehouse that had withstood the Blitz; or who ransacked shops across London. What else do you call them?

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

How did England’s cities become engulfed in a Lord of the Flies nightmare? Moral relativism is to blame, not gang culture

By Toby Young – August 11th, 2011

Towards the beginning of Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s masterpiece about a group of teenage boys marooned on a desert island, a scene takes place in which the most vicious of the boys, Roger, throws stones at a younger boy whose sandcastle he’s just knocked down:

Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

Western Unrest and the Failure of Social Engineering

Frank Salvato – August 12, 2011

While the world mainstream media is focused on the unrest that has plagued Great Britain, they are delinquent in reporting on societal unrest elsewhere in the Western world. In Chile, tens of thousands of students staged violent protests, demanding changes in government-funded public education. In Philadelphia, a rash of “flash mob” incidents has forced that city’s mayor to impose curfews for teenagers in several neighborhoods. And in Milwaukee, authorities are investigating a string of mob-like actions involving large groups of predominantly black teenagers near the Wisconsin State Fair, leading one City Alderman to attributing the violence as a sign of “deteriorating African American culture in our city.”

In all of these instances – from London to Milwaukee, Santiago to Philadelphia, one common factor exists: Young people, who have been endowed with a falsely elevated sense of self-esteem, are narcissistically demanding more from a grossly over-extended government entitlement system instituted by Progressives to create a dependent populace. Why would anyone want to create such an unstable and dangerous societal atmosphere? Power.

Mere HER i Family Security Matters.

Tyrkiet er en sikkerhedsrisiko

Christopher Hitchens: Turkish military is no longer the guardian of secularism

Christopher Hitchens – Aug 3, 2011

To read of the stunning news, of the almost-overnight liquidation of Turkey’s Ataturkist or secularist military caste, and to try to do so from the standpoint of a seriously secular Turk, is to have a small share in the sense of acute national vertigo that must have accompanied the proclamation of a new system in the second two decades of the 20th century.

For example, today’s vice-president of Kemal Ataturk’s historical political party, the Republican People’s Party or RPP, was quoted last Friday as speaking of “a second Turkish republic” with a heavy heart “in the seaside city of Cannkkale,” and not long after, it seemed that some high-ranking Turkish officers would now be arrested rather than, as previously reported, having had their resignations accepted. That famous seaside peninsula, as The New York Times did not emphasize, also bears the name of Gallipoli. It is the place where Gen. Mustafa Kemal inflicted the most bloody and tragic defeat on British imperial forces in 1915-16, while also convincing Rupert Murdoch’s cocky colonial ancestors that their brave Aussie forebears had been used as cannon fodder by teak-headed British toffs. The apple of the notorious 1981 Mel Gibson movie did not roll very far from the tree. Within a few years of Gallipoli, the same Turkish general had, in fact, reversed the local verdict of the 1914-18 war, and expelled Greek, French, and British forces from Anatolia.

Mere HER i  National Post. Kan også læses her i Slate.

Turkey’s Islamic Revolution

Benny Morris | August 1, 2011

Logo The National InterestThe Turkish Islamists, who took control of the country after democratic elections in 2002, are well on their way to completing a revolution which will radically affect the Middle Eastern balance of power and perhaps, more generally, the international arena (West versus Islamic East), practically without protest or opposition. This weekend, they ticked another important “V” in their gradual desecularization of the country with the mass resignation of the country’s top military brass and their immediate replacement by Islamist-friendly generals.

The dramatic resignations of the chief of staff and the heads of the army, air force and navy were prompted by the ongoing trial of about 200 military officers for conspiring against the regime. Most observers regard the charges as trumped up. But their purport was clear: To cow the army and the country’s secular, educated middle classes. As it emerges, the trials served to defang the army in advance of the takeover of the high command.

Mere HER i The National Interest. Tyrkiet er en sikkerhedsrisiko. Men det vidste vi jo godt:

Turkey and the risks to EU security

Jeff Taylor – August 3rd, 2011

Monday a Home Affairs select committee report said that Turkey must bolster its border controls before it should be allowed to join the European Union.

The Committee said that thousands of migrants were already entering the EU using Turkey as an illegal conduit to get into Greece. Many of these migrants said the committee have Britain in mind as their destination.

Mere HER hos The Economic Voice.

Efterlysning: Hvor er Det Arabiske Forår?

Der kommer stadig flere rapporter om Det Arabiske Forår, der blev væk. Men det er som om, ingen hører efter:

Misperceptions of the Arab Spring

by Jaïs Mehaji – July 27, 2011

Egypt Map

After successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt this year, Western media almost unanimously characterized protesters in the Arab Spring as “pro-democracy protesters” with no shades of gray. Any opposition to the existing regimes — whether in Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco — was hurriedly classified as part of the democratic camp, with very little analysis of their specific ideologies or nuances.

The real problem is that many of these incidents are emblematic of a more profound epidemic: the rise of political Islam and the re-Islamization of societies across the Muslim and Arab world.

Hudson New York HER.

The Myth of Brotherhood Moderation

U.S. State Department “Realism” Is Not Realistic

by Amr Bargisi – August 2, 2011

Although in the early days of Egypt’s revolution, the predominant narrative in American media and decision-making circles insisted that the revolution had been brought about by essentially secular people — that Egypt was on the verge of becoming a true liberal democracy — later, the involvement of Islamist groups in the revolution became too obvious to overlook.

At first, everyone was hearing about schisms among the Islamists, how their “new generation,” particularly those seceding from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), were completely different from their predecessors. The “new generation,” it was said, was worldly, open-minded and embraced the Western values of tolerance and diversity. With these new leaders in charge, it was further said, Egypt was on the verge of becoming a true liberal democracy.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Robert Fisk kan heller ikke se mange lyspunkter:

Robert Fisk: Egypt’s revolutionary youth are being sidelined

2 August 2011

Revolution betrayed. The Egyptian army now colludes with the hated Muslim Brotherhood to bring you – well, a new Egypt that looks much like the old one, cleansed of Mubarak and most (not all) of his henchmen, but with the Army’s corrupt privileges (housing, complexes, banks, etc) safely maintained in return for allowing the bearded ones a share in power. Cut out of the picture: the young and secular revolutionaries who actually fought Mubarak’s security thugs off the streets in order to rid themselves of the 83-year old dictator.

The picture is a grim one – Arab Spring turned into eternal Arab autumn. And the only bread and circuses to give the young Egyptians who demanded dignity in return for their courage will be the sight of the weary, disbelieving old lion in his iron cage at the Cairo convention centre tomorrow.

Mere HER i The Independent.

Kriminelle Hizbollah

Follow the money:

Hezbollah: Party of Fraud

How Hezbollah Uses Crime to Finance Its Operations

Matthew Levitt  – July 27, 2011

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In June, Lebanon’s new prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced the formation of a government dominated by members and allies of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah. The creation of the new government has made Hezbollah the most dominant political force in Lebanon just six years after the “Cedar Revolution,” which placed the group on the defensive and forced its Syrian patrons to leave the country. With control of the Lebanese government, a vast social-service network, an army of soldiers and operatives, and an arsenal of more than 40,000 rockets, Hezbollah has arguably never been more powerful.

Mere HER i Foreign Affairs. Mere om kriminelle Hizbollah:

Nuclear Cooperation between Argentina and Iran?

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – July 27, 2011

With the help of Venezuela, there is reason to believe that Argentina is cooperating with Iran on its the nuclear issue in a deal that involves Argentina’s willingness to drop the accusations against Iran for the 1994 bombing in return for business.

In a confidential letter that was sent by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Relations Committee, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ros-Lehtinen sought to establish “status of any possible economic projects Argentina may be engaged in with Venezuela that may involve Iran.” Ros-Lehtinen also sought to establish “the extent of any nuclear cooperation that may be at play between Argentina, Venezuela and Iran.” The letter was co-signed by Florida’s Republican Congressmen Connie Mack and David Rivera. “We are writing to express our concerns about information that our offices have received about potential efforts by Iran of nuclear cooperation with Argentina, using Venezuela as its intermediary,” the three legislators wrote.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Kaotiske Iran

Absurditeterne står i kø, når det gælder nyheder fra Iran. Michael Ledeen har nogle af de seneste:

Iran Approaching Fission? I’m Talking Politics, not Nukes…

July 7, 2011 – by Michael Ledeen

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The mullahs have stepped up their tempo of killing, both at home and abroad.  The main difference is that the Iranian citizens who are tortured and executed are slaughtered by fellow-Iranians.  Our guys and our friends and allies are gunned down, or, more often, blown up, by proxies.  As I have said before, the Iranians dread direct confrontation with other countries, both because they have no confidence in the loyalty of their armed forces (including the thoroughly corrupted Revolutionary Guards Corps), and because it’s not their way.  They prefer to kill stealthily, not openly.  You may have noticed that when the Saudis sent troops to help their neighbors in Bahrain put down an Iranian-inspired insurrection, the Tehran regime first thumped its chest  and promised to send the Guards to fight it out.  Then… nothing happened.  They just slinked away, back into their caves.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Kan også læses her hos Family Security Matters. Se eventuelt også Udo Schuklenk’s Ethx Blog, hvor man kan læse denne post fra februar 2011:

Opdatering:

Iran Is at War with Us

Are we at war with Iran?

Andrew C. McCarthy – July 9, 2011

‘You can clearly see what they are doing in Iraq.” Sen. Lindsey Graham was talking about the Islamic Republic of Iran, specifically the death trade plied by the mullahs, their Revolutionary Guard Corps, their Hezbollah operatives, and the assorted jihadists under their control. And while the plying is being done “in Iraq,” it is being done against America.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

Andre kilder: Maryam Namazie,

Video: Daniel Pipes – Mellemøsten

Fra Russia Today den 1. juni 2011:

CrossTalk: Yemen Descends

How has Saleh contributed to fighting Al-Qaeda? He might have been very productive while Washington refrained from criticizing his domestic policies. Today anti-regime protests are being crushed around Sanaa. Would the West prefer to sacrifice its special relationship with the regime for the sake of people power?

Og en audio fra “In the Market” med Janet Parshall fra 17. maj 2011. Israel ~ Palæstina:

State of affairs in the Middle East

Daniel Pipes rallies together his thoughts on the state of affairs in the Middle East. Pipes is the director of the Middle East Forum and is a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University. His keen insight could enlighten your point of view on what’s been happening in the Middle East.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Kan også høres her på Daniel Pipes’ hjemmeside. Varighed 15 minutter.

Desuden link til et Sun News’ interview med Pipes om Israel, Palæstina, Syrien, Tyrkiet, Obamas tale og mere:

Andre kilder: National Review Online, Daniel Pipes,

Trifkovic om demokrati i Mellemøsten og Obamas tale

Democratizing the Middle East: A Realist Alternative

by Srdja Trifkovic • May 23rd, 2011

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The most significant aspect of President Obama’s speech on the Middle East (May 19) is the absence of a plan to revive the “Peace Process.” The passing storm over his statements regarding the 1967 borders notwithstanding, it is already evident that there will be no new initiatives in the months to come. This is just as well, because any new initiative would be doomed to fail for as long as the political future of several key countries in the region remains uncertain. The PLO-Hamas coalition hopes, with good reason, that as several key Arab regimes become more democratic, they will become more willing to pursue policies supportive of the Palestinian views and aspirations.

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine.

Video & artikler: Daniel Pipes om Syrien & Egypten

Fra 22. maj 2011:

 CrossTalk: Arablutionaries

On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk: Is the revolutionary hype in the Arab world losing heart? Have Egyptians fulfilled their revolutionary aspirations, or will they find themselves powerless in the face of a new regime? And when will this new regime take over the current stalemate? Do the hundreds of citizens fleeing Tunisia are happy with what many label as revolutions?

Desuden medvirker Alon Ben-Meir og Michael Munger:

Desuden to artikler om Syrien:

OBS – opdatering: nu kan nedenstående artikel også læses på dansk på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside her:

Fin de Régime in Syria?

The many benefits, and few dangers, of the Assad regime’s prospective fall

Daniel Pipes  – May 24, 2011

The revolt in Syria offers great opportunities, humanitarian and geo-political. Western states should quickly and robustly seize the moment to dispatch strongman Bashar al-Assad and his accomplices. Many benefits will follow when they reach their appointed dustbin of history.

Foreign: The malign but tactically brilliant Hafez al-Assad blighted the Middle East with disproportionate Syrian influence for decades. His son, the feckless Bashar, has continued this pattern since 2000 by sending terrorists to Iraq; murdering Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri and overthrowing his son, Saad; aiding the Hezbollah and Hamas terror groups; and developing chemical and nuclear weapons. His riddance will be a universal boon.

Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses her på Daniel Pipes blog. Samme steds uddyber Pipes ovenstående med endnu en artikel:

More on Regime Change in Syria

by Daniel Pipes – May 24, 2011

Several points were too bulky to fit into the main body of my column today, “Fin de Régime in Syria?” so I include them here:

(1) My title intentionally echoes one in Foreign Policy magazine from Summer 1980, “Dateline Syria: Fin de Régime?” Yes, I know: Stanley F. Reed III jumped the gun by (at least) 31 years but that does not deter me from repeating his quasi-prediction of the Assad demise.

Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes.

Pundits reagerer på præsident Obamas tale

Der er et bredt spektrum af protester – bla. et “emergency rally” i New York, fortæller Robert Spencer:

NYC emergency rally today: protest Obama’s jihad against Israel

If you are going to be in New York today, don’t miss this. Stand for freedom:

The Free World urgently needs your help!
An emergency rally to protest the outrageous speech of President Barack Obama!

Mere HER i Jihad Watch. Kan også læses her hos Atlas Shrugs.

Obama’s Middle East Speech

So balanced it goes nowhere

Raymond Ibrahim – May 20, 2011

Logo Family Security MattersOne of the problems with Obama’s Middle East speech was that parts of it were so deliberately balanced — so meant to appease all sides — that they go nowhere. For example, look at the portions where he discusses democracy in the Middle East versus the alternative — Islamist rule, which he does not name. One sentence seems to say that a “true” democracy is necessary, only to be followed by one that seems open to Islamist rule, and so on. Consider the following excerpts:

Not every country will follow our particular form of representative democracy, and there will be times when our short-term interests do not align perfectly with our long-term vision of the region.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Kan også læses her i National Review Online eller her hos Middle East Forum.

President Obama’s Mistake

by Alan M. Dershowitz – May 19, 2011

President Obama should be commended for his emphasis on Israel’s security and his concern about Hamas joining the Palestinian Authority without renouncing its violent charter. But he made one serious mistake that tilts the balance against Israel in any future negotiations. Without insisting that the Palestinians give up their absurd claim to have millions of supposed refugees “return” to Israel as a matter of right, he insisted that Israel must surrender all of the areas captured in its defensive war of 1967, subject only to land swaps. This formulation undercuts Security Council Resolution 242 (which I played a very small role in helping to draft). Resolution 242, passed unanimously by the Security Council in the wake of Israel’s 1967 victory, contemplated some territorial adjustments necessary to assure Israel’s security against future attacks. It also contemplated that Israel would hold onto the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and the access roads to Hebrew University, without the need for any land swaps. Land swaps would only be required to make up for any areas beyond those contemplated by Resolution 242. The Obama formulation would seem to require land swaps even for the Western Wall.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Kan også læses her i Huffington Post.

Obama’s Muslim Outreach 2.0: Doing Business with the Muslim Brotherhood

Frank Gaffney – May 19, 2011

President Obama’s latest paean to what he calls “the Muslim world,” delivered at the State Department today, was an exercise in whistling past the graveyard of real and growing dangers and a litany of misleading statements that borders on official malpractice.   Its most important upshot is this:  The United States is now prepared to do business with the Muslim Brotherhood.

While Mr. Obama did not use those exact words in his Muslim Outreach 2.0 speech,  that was surely the practical effect of his effusively depicting the so-called “Arab Spring” as a welcome expression of democratic sentiment throughout the region.  By so doing, he studiously ignored the reality on the ground in virtually every country in the Middle East and North Africa now undergoing political turmoil:  Islamists associated with or akin to the totalitarian, salafist Muslim Brotherhood are poised to be the principal beneficiaries of any balloting that ultimately occurs in Egypt and Tunisia – and, perhaps in due course in, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and beyond.

Mere HER i Big Peace. Kan også læses her hos Family Security Matters.

Obama abandons Israel

By Linda Chavez – May 19, 2011

President Obama’s major speech on the Middle East Thursday will come back to haunt him. He said nothing that will have any impact in deterring Syrian government violence against pro-democracy protestors, but the president did make pronouncements that threaten another state in the Middle East: Israel, America’s strongest ally in the region.

In his speech Thursday, the president paid lip service to Israeli security but laid down dangerous markers for restarting peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. With this speech, Obama became the first American president to require that Israel accept its pre-1967 borders as a starting point to negotiations with the Palestinians.

Mere HER i The Washington Examiner. Kan også læses her hos Free Republic eller her hos The Patriot Post.

President Obama’s Speech to the State Department Means New Dangers for Israel

May 19, 2011 – by Ron Radosh

President Obama has just finished his speech at the State Department. Much of it, particularly the sections regarding democratization and the Arab dictators whose regimes have begun to fail, echoes in many ways the very policies of the Bush administration — which the Democrats and Obama supporters disparaged and ridiculed when George W. Bush was in power. Indeed, it seems in some ways to be a rejection of his own Cairo speech, in so much as he said that for many of the Arab states, attacking Israel was the only way that Arab rulers could allow their populations to express themselves.

Yet, the bombshell in the speech is the following:

So while the core issues of the conflict must be negotiated, the basis of those negotiations is clear: a viable Palestine, and a secure Israel. The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Obama’s abandonment of America

By Caroline Glick – May 20, 2011

I was out sick yesterday so I was unable to write today’s column for the Jerusalem Post. I did manage to watch President Obama’s speech on the Middle East yesterday evening. And I didn’t want to wait until next week to discuss it. After all, who knows what he’ll do by Tuesday?

Before we get into what the speech means for Israel, it is important to consider what it means for America.

Quite simply, Obama’s speech represents the effective renunciation of the US’s right to have and to pursue national interests. Consequently, his speech imperils the real interests that the US has in the region – first and foremost, the US’s interest in securing its national security. Obama’s renunciation of the US national interests unfolded as follows:

Mere HER på Caroline Glicks blog. Kan også læses her i RealClearPolitics. Family Security Matters her.

Tidligere blogget om præsident Obamas tale:

Opdatering 21. maj 2011 – Allen B. West har udsendt en pressemeddelelse:

Congressman Allen West Response to President Barack Obama’s Call for a Two State Solution in Israel 

“Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state.

 Mere HER hos Congressman Allen West.

Og Robert Spencer skriver:

Obama Throws Israel to the Dogs

by Robert Spencer on May 20th, 2011

America is on the verge of abandoning its most reliable ally in the Middle East, thanks to Barack Hussein Obama.

He began his betrayal with lip service to Israel’s concerns about defending itself from the relentless jihad that has been waged against it throughout the sixty-three years of its lifetime as a sovereign state: “For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won’t create an independent state. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Andre kilder: Hot Air, Big Peace, The American Spectator, CBS News,

Video: Præsident Obamas Mellemøst-tale

Der kommer mange artikler om situationen i Israel i øjeblikket. Jeg har samlet lidt af dem. Først om Præsident Obamas tale i dag. Reaktionerne på forslaget om at basere forhandinger mellem palæstinensere og Israel på grænserne fra 67 er præget af spin. Begge lejre tager afstand – palæstinenserne hysser mest. Her er talen. Meget flot, men utroligt naiv – Wall Street Journal har en udskrift her:

Obama’s Middle East Speech

Der er modstand fra Israel:

Statement on US President Obama’s Speech

[...]That is why Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress. 

Among other things, those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria beyond those lines.

Det siger premierminister Benjamin Netanyahu i en pressemeddelelse fra The Prime Minister’s Office i Israel. De palæstinensiske “flygtninge” skal tilbage til de palæstinensiske områder, siger Netanyahu videre. Ikke ind i Israel.

Det var åbenbart Syrien, der stod bag stormløbet på Israels grænser for få dage siden:

U.S. accuses Syria of inciting Israel border clashes

May 16, 2011

The White House accused the Syrian government on Monday of inciting deadly border clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian demonstrators, saying Damascus was trying to distract attention from its own violent crackdown on protests.

White House spokesman Jay Carney expressed regret for the loss of life in confrontations on Israel’s frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday but said the Jewish state “has the right to prevent unauthorized crossing at its borders.”

Mere HER i  RealClearWorld. The Washington Post spørger i en leder, om Syrien vil blive holdt ansvarlig for sin kriminelle ugerning:

Israel’s border bloodshed: Will Syria be held accountable?

Editorial May 17

The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad on Sunday made a desperate effort to distract attention from its continuing, bloody assaults on its own people. Hundreds of Palestinians were bused from refu­gee camps near Damascus to the de facto border with Israel in the Golan Heights, where they broke through a fence and invaded a nearby town. Surprised and badly outnumbered, Israeli troops eventually opened fire, killing at least one person. Crowds of Palestinians also marched on Israeli border posts with Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank; all together more than a dozen fatalities were reported.

Mere HER i The Washington Post. Der blev indført sanktioner, men ikke for angrebet på Israel. USA nævner alene overgreb på Syriens egen befolkning. Fra Voice of America:

Just Journalism har lavet en analyse af den engelske pressedækning i hele 2010. Israel får – som bekendt – en hård medfart derovre. The Henry Jackson Society skriver i en pressemeddelelse:

  • Israel was by far the most reported of the four Middle East countries studied in all five broadsheets and the BBC News website in the year prior to the Arab Spring
  • At the BBC News website news coverage of the Arab countries combined and doubled still amounted to less than was written about Israel
  • Three out of four permanent BBC correspondents in the region demonstrated an overwhelming focus on Israel, with 82 per cent of overall correspondence coverage of the four countries devoted to Israel
  • BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen devoted 95 per cent of his coverage of the four countries to Israel
  • Israel was the most cited across News, Comment and Editorial categories in every news outlet
  • Across all broadsheets, total News pieces on Egypt, Libya and Tunisia combined amounted to less than total News pieces on Israel
  • At The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph news coverage of the Arab countries combined and tripled still amounted to less than was written about Israel
  • Across all broadsheets, total Comment pieces on Egypt, Libya and Tunisia combined amounted to less than total Comment pieces on Israel
  • Across all broadsheets, total Editorials on Egypt, Libya and Tunisia combined amounted to less than total Editorials on Israel
  • Egypt was the second most reported country at all publications except for The Daily Telegraph, where Libya was the second most reported of the four countries
  • Tunisia was the least reported of the four Middle East countries in the year prior to the Arab Spring

Man kan se hele rapporten fra Just Journalism i pfd her.

Andre kilder: The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem PostThe Jerusalem PostThe Jerusalem PostJewish Telegraphic Agency, Yahoo! News, Prime Minister’s Office Israel,

Walter Laqueur om revolutioner

Another Revolution Betrayed

Walter Laqueur | May 16, 2011

Logo The National InterestIt is Difficult to predict revolutions. George Rude, the leading left-wing historian of the French Revolution once wrote that an intelligent observer of the French scene, native or foreign, would hardly have predicted in 1787 the coming of the revolution despite a variety of straws in the wind. There was probably no closer student of France at the time than Arthur Young, the leading British expert on agriculture, who visited France three times for extended periods on the eve of the revolution. While he saw a number of things that were wrong with the country, he certainly did not realize that a great revolution was coming.

Not as unusual as one might think. In Russia, there was no more ardent a protagonist of the revolution than Vladimir Ilich Lenin, who had devoted his whole life to the cause. And yet Lenin, in a lecture in Bern in January 1917, was quite pessimistic about the prospects of the masses rising up, telling his audience that the great event might not even happen in his lifetime. But it did happen just one month later. And by the end of the year, his party, the Bolsheviks, had taken power.

Mere HER i The National Interest. Det ligger en kopi i et forum på The People’s Daily her.

Opdatering – endnu en artikel om revolutioner:

Arabs and the long revolution

A talk by Brian Whitaker at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York, 18 May 2011

The Popular Uprising that began in Tunisia last December came as a surprise in one sense, but in another sense it was no surprise at all. Rather like an earthquake, we could be pretty sure it was going to happen, though nobody could say exactly when.

It was obvious, or ought to have been, that at some point something would have to give – and the same can be said of all the Arab countries. If the regimes don’t transform themselves radically over the next few years, eventually they are going to fall.

Mere HER i  Al Bab.

Opdatering: Den 95-årige Bernard Lewis har lige udgivet endnu en bog, skriver Enhanced Online News:

Opdatering 25. juni 2011 – endnu en artikel om revoutioner:

Arab Youth Rising & Europe’s Entitlement Kids: Contrasting Portraits Of A Generation

The young people on the two shores of the Mediterranean each have demands, but the sense of possibility embodied in North African and Arab quest for freedom is utterly absent in European youth protests.

By Gerd Held – June 23rd, 2011

Amidst all the uncertainty surrounding the rebellions in North Africa and the Middle East, one thing is sure: these are uprisings of young people. A new, questioning generation is manifesting, breaking away from the narrow confines imposed by their families and religion. And despite the precariousness of their situation, they have succeeded in making themselves heard.

When the late American political scientist Samuel Huntington spoke of an Islamic youth boom, he was assuming that the huge numbers of young people in the Arabic nations would necessarily turn towards fundamentalism. The assumption wasn’t at all far-fetched: cases abound of restless youth seeking answers in totalitarianism.

Mere HER i Worldcrunch.

Video: Ayaan Hirsi Ali om det “arabiske forår”

Fra “The 41st St. Gallen Symposium” den 12. maj 2011. Indlejring er deaktiveret, så man skal se video på YouTube:

Opdatering – video nu fra Dailymotion:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali – The Max Schmidheiny Lecture

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born in 1969) is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington D.C. In this position she is currently researching on the relationship between the West and the Islam. Besides, Hirsi Ali is Founder of the AHA Foundation that aims to protect the rights of women in the western world against militant Islam and tribal custom. As a daughter of a political opponent of the Somali dictatorship, she grew up in exile. After having received her Master of Arts in political science from the University of Leiden, Netherlands, she worked as a researcher for the Wiardi Beckman Foundation in Amsterdam. Hirsi Ali then served as an elected member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006, where she found her voice as an advocate for an enlightened Islam


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