Video: Nigel Farage & Ken Livingstone om EU

Ayatollah Livingstone. Ville gøre London til et fyrtårn for islam. Røde Ken. Som selv er ret velhavende. Og Jew Hating Ken. Mente ikke, jøder ville stemme på ham, fordi jøder er rige, sagde han. Heldigvis tabte The Labour Party stort, da der var lokalvalg den 3. maj 2012 og konservative Boris Johnson kunne fortsætte som Londons borgmester. Livingstone tabte også til Johnson i 2008:

UKIP Nigel Farage & Red Ken Livingstone on collapsing Eurozone Sky News 10 Jun 2012

Labour Ken Livingstone agrees with UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage that the Eurozone must breakup.

Dalrymple om Livingstone – herlig, velskrevet ironi:

No Representation without Taxation: Theodore Dalrymple finds much merit in a proposal from Ken Livingstone

by Theodore Dalrymple – March 13, 2012

Theodore Dalrymple is surprised to find himself agreeing with Ken Livingstone – so long as we also have a new law banning hate speech against the rich.

The resentful define the rich as those who have more money than themselves; while the politicians who play to this resentment never consider themselves as members of the rich.

No one better illustrates this last principle than Kenneth Livingstone, erstwhile mayor of London, and perhaps soon again to be mayor. Mr Livingstone’s company – presumably a sole-trader company – made £238,000 last year and £284,000 the year before. This puts him firmly in the upper one per cent of the population as far as income is concerned; he is, I think it fair to say, one of the rich.

Mere HER hos The Social Affairs Unit.

Opdatering: Spansk økonomi er et pyramidespil:

The Bill Is $50, No — Wait — $125 Billion (and Counting) for Spanish Banks

June 10, 2012 – 7:33 am – by David P. Goldman

There must be somebody besides us ex-bankers-in-remission rolling around the floor laughing about the succession of headlines on Saturday afternoon. First came this:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is estimating that Spanish banks need at least a euro40 billion ($49.87 billion) capital injection following a stress test it performed on the country’s financial sector.

and an hour or two later, this:

Spain will seek financial help from its Eurozone partners but exactly how much won’t be known until private audits are undertaken, the country’s economy minister announced Saturday. Earlier, European finance ministers discussed plans to offer Spain up to $125 billion (100 billion euros) in a bid to stabilize its banks — and ease concerns over the even bigger European debt crisis. [...]

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Børsen, Commentary Magazine, Commentary Magazine, Commentary Magazine, Christian Concern, Christian Concern, Christian Concern, Gatestone Institute, Gatestone Institute, The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Chronicle, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The New York Times, The American, Business Insider, Bloomberg, UKIP, UKIP, BBC, BBC, CNBC, CNBC, Reuters, Reuters, Radical Islam, Ministry Matters,

Video: Ezra Levant, David P. Goldman, Stephen Harper, Peter Mansbridge

Økonomisk krise i Europa. Spengler:

Ezra Levant & David P. Goldman on the economic crisis – June 7, 2012

From The Source on Sun News Network: As goes Europe

Ezra Levant is joined by guest David Goldman to discuss how the fate of Europe’s economy may well effect the globe.

Et sammendrag:

PM Stephen Harper on the global economic meltdown

Peter Mansbridge interviews Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth.

Og artikel – mp3 med højtlæsning her:

A Continental Fantasy

Simple-mindedness and megalomania characterize the “European project.”

Theodore Dalrymple – 31 May 2012

On a flight from Copenhagen to Brussels, I read two publications that I see infrequently: the International Herald Tribune and Le Soir, the principal Belgian newspaper in French. Both, not surprisingly, had much coverage of the European crisis, and both used an expression that, to me, has a sinister ring: the European project.

Mere HER i City Journal.

David P. Goldman om Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis – årgang 1916 – har skrevet en ny bog. Lewis ser tilbage på det århundrede, der gik. Spengler anmelder:

Bernard Lewis’ Stubborn Hope

In Notes on a Century, the historian is still optimistic about a ‘great civilization’ in the Muslim world

By David P. Goldman | May 9, 2012

Bernard Lewis beckons to us as if from the mists of legend. A poet-scholar, linguist, observer and sometime participant in the great events of the Middle East for seven decades, the London-born scholar belongs more to the world of T.E. Lawrence than to ours. At 95, his prose is translucent and his recollection luminous.

But Notes on a Century—his personal and professional memoir—makes for sad reading, for two reasons. The first is that we will not find another like Bernard Lewis; it is a valedictory essay not just for a remarkable man but for an epoch. No university today could train a poet capable of extracting the red thread of history from the obscure orthography of official archives, or a historian-diplomat who knows the songs of a dozen peoples in their own dialects. Part of the reason is ideological. The post-colonial-studies movement typified by the late Edward Said has ruined a field that once was called “Orientalism”—meaning simply a specialty in Near Eastern philology rather than Greek and Roman. Saudi and other Gulf State funding of Middle East studies programs, meanwhile, has made a critical stance toward Muslim culture an academic career-killer. Even without the ideological divide, though, our culture has grown too brittle to nurture another mind of Lewis’ depth.

Mere HER i The Tablet.

Opdatering – Spengler har lidt mere om bogen:

Bernard Lewis’ Valediction

May 9, 2012 – by David P. Goldman

Prof. Bernard Lewis has just published a memoir which is as much a valedictory statement of his views as a reminiscence about a remarkable life; I review it today at the Jewish webzine The Tablet. Lewis has of course been denounced from the left (by the sulfurous Edward Said) as an “orientalist,” which used to mean scholar of Semitic languages but now means “neo-colonialist.” That is an absurd charge by an incompetent and mendacious scholar, but it ruined Middle Eastern studies in the politically correct (and Arab-funded) world of academia. From the right, he has been denounced as an “Arab apologist” by Pamela Geller and as a “Pied Piper of Islamic Confusion” by Andrew Bostom.

One should be cautious about attacking Prof. Lewis, whose analysis of Muslim rage did more to galvanize Western support for the idea of a war on terror than any other single source, and who drew more opprobrium from the academic left than any other personality. His optimism about Islamic democracy ultimately was misplaced, in my view, but should be understood in context. As I wrote in Tablet:

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Video: Michael Coren om aktivisten Andreas Ias

Venstreekstremisten, Andreas Ias er en af dem, der giver Danmark et dårligt ry i udlandet. En dansker, der støtter islamister. En israelsk soldat gav Ias en på lampen, efter at de bevæbnede aktivister havde angrebet israelerne med stokke. Aktivisterne brækkede hånden på den israelske soldat, der slog igen. Og gerningsmanden var Andreas Ias. Der er åbenbart mere i den historie end man umiddelbart skulle tro. Soldaten Eisner siger i følge The Globe and Mail:

“We know the history of these anarchists,” he said. “They came with sticks and broke my hand, but no one will tell or film that.”

Den israelske soldat har masser af opbakning. Fra Sky News:

More than 80 Israeli soldiers and reservists have signed a petition of support for a military commander who was filmed assaulting a Danish pro-Palestinian activist.

Den anti-isralske anarkist benægter, at den to timer lange konfrontation var voldelig, skriver The Jerualem Post. Netanyahu, Peres og andre har fordømt soldaten og episoden efterforskes af IDF. Coren støtter heller ikke danskeren:

Michael Coren on terrorism supporter Andreas Ias

Anarkisterne havde fået klar besked på ikke at blokere trafikken og passere gaden. I stedet provokerede de og forsøgte at bryde soldaternes afspærring. På denne video ser man fjolset fra Danmark vade bevidstløst og uopmærksomt lige ind i de fremrykkende soldaters række:

Og artikel af Spengler, som indleder med en omtale af vores håbløse landsmand:

Sympathy for the Leftist Devil

April 18, 2012 – by David P. Goldman

Israel’s minor annoyance over an influx of pro-Palestinian activists in the so-called flotilla rates a great deal more attention than it deserves from the liberal media, for example, this tongue-clicking, finger-wagging item from the New York Times’ “The Lede” blog. It used to be that the body of a dead Palestinian kid (almost certain shot by Palestinians in crossfire) was the poster for Palestinian activism. All the flotilla folks have is a video of an Israeli officer bonking a blond boy in the face with his rifle; the boy falls, gets up, and walks away with a hurt look. “Israeli soldiers brutally attack Palestinian activists,” reads the super-imposed title on the video.

It can’t be good to be a pro-Palestinian activist these days. No one has time to worry about the Palestinians. Bashar al-Assad continues to slaughter his own people — nearly 10,000 over the past year — and the Muslim Brotherhood leaders of the Syrian opposition undoubtedly would slaughter Assad’s Alawite coreligionists were they to take power. There are at least 2,000 dead and 22,000 injured in little Yemen during the past two years. All of this pales next to what is likely to come in Egypt, as the military and the Islamists fight for power.

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Andre kilder: Den Korte Avis, Haaretz, Haaretz, Haaretz, Haaretz, Haaretz, Israel Hayom, Israel Hayom, The Jerualem Post, The Globe and Mail, Ynetnews,

Henryk Broder revser Günter Grass

Worldcrunch har oversat Broders artikel, der stammer fra Die Welt:

‘A Well-Meaning, Educated Anti-Semite’ – Günter Grass Slammed For Israel-Iran Poem

Op-Ed: The 84-year-old German Nobel laureate’s new poem entitled “What Must Be Said” accuses Israel of plotting to destroy Iran, while acknowledging the risk of being dubbed anti-Semitic. Grass’s long-hidden stint as a teen member of the Nazi SS doesn’t help his case.

By Henryk M. Broder

Günter Grass has written a poem called “Was gesagt werden muss” (What Must Be Said) that was published Wednesday in Germany by the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily. It starts off like this:

“Why do I keep quiet, I’ve been holding back too long…”

From these opening lines, some readers might think that the 84-year-old German Nobel literature laureate is finally about to explain why he kept quiet for so long about his stint with the Nazi SS. But that’s not the case: the moralizing poet has moved on. This time it’s about an immediate concern to us all. It’s about sheer survival.

Mere HER i Worldcrunch.

Opdatering:

An Open Letter to Günter Grass

April 8, 2012 – by David P. Goldman

Herr Günter Grass:

By now you must be tired of hearing how shameful it is for a former SS man to denounce Israel as a threat to world peace at a time when the government of Iran (among others) publicly threatens to annihilate the Jewish state. It is obscene to suggest, as you did in your diatribe “What Must Be Said,” that Israel might “annihilate the Iranian people.” Now that we have that out of the way, I would to set you straight about your own country’s tragedy. It’s all your fault. Well, perhaps not exactly your fault, but the fault of your way of thinking and of people who thought like you. I am not talking about your enthusiastic service to the Nazis.  I am going to surprise you.

People tend to forget that you hate Germany and the Germans almost as much as you hate Israel and the Jews. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the disgusting German Democratic Republic collapsed, you will recall, you pleaded with your government to give this monster another lease on life — not to reunify Germany, but to keep the GDR intact. As I used to tell my German friends before Wiedervereinigung, if you Germans had been as smart as us Jews, you would have gotten your own national homeland right after the war, like we did. But you hate the Germans so much that you did not want them together in a single state. That doesn’t make us Jews feel any better, but your consistency is duly noted.

Mere HER i PJ Media.

Gunter Grass Shouldn’t Be Barred From Israel

by Alan M. Dershowitz – April 9, 2012

The decision by Israel’s Interior Minister to bar German writer, Gunter Grass, from entering the Jewish state is both foolish and self-defeating. Grass wrote an absurdly ignorant and perversely bigoted poem comparing Israel to Iran and declaring Israel to pose a great danger to world peace. He also warned Germany that by selling submarines to Israel, it is becoming complicit in a crime against humanity.

These wrong-headed views deserve to be rebutted on their demerits, as Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did quite effectively in his public response to Grass, by exposing his “shameful moral equivalence between Israel and Iran, a regime that denies the Holocaust and threatens to annihilate Israel,” by pointing out that “it is Iran, not Israel, that threatens other states with annihilation,” and that it is Iran who supports the Syrian regime’s crackdown of its people and “stones women, hangs gays and brutally represses tens of millions of its own citizens.” Grass’ poem has also been effectively critiqued by Israelis across the political and literary spectrum. That is as it should be in an open, vibrant democracy, accustomed to rancorous public debate. But a great nation, committed to freedom of expression and dissent, should not bar a critic, even a critic as bigoted as Grass, from its territory.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. The Huffington Post her.

Günter Grass Goes From Bad to Verse

by Bruce Bawer on Apr 9th, 2012

The only surprising thing about the anti-Semitic “poem” that Günter Grass published last week, and that has created an international firestorm, is that he waited so long to write such a thing.  Anti-Semitism, after all, is all the rage these days among left-wing European literary intellectuals (excuse the multiple redundancy), and Grass has always prided himself on being in the forefront of these trends, not being a Johann-come-lately.

Who is Günter Grass, you ask?  For decades after the 1959 publication of his first and most famous (and highly overrated) novel, The Tin Drum, he was described by admirers as the conscience of postwar Germany.  His detractors had other words for him: smug, arrogant, obnoxious.  Even Richard Gilman, a writer for the left-wing The Nation whom one might have expected to celebrate the guy, complained in 1982 about his “lofty, hectoring tone,” stating: “Today there is no writer more swollen with self-importance…than Gunter Grass, who has begun to think of himself as identical with the fates of German literature, German politics, and German mores.”  John Updike, for his part, saw Grass as a “cautionary case” for politically engaged writers: “he can’t be bothered to write a novel; he just sends dispatches…from the front lines of his engagement.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Opdatering 12. april 2012:

The First Death of Günter Grass

Bernard-Henri Lévy – April 11, 2012

There is North Korea and its autistic tyrant, equipped with a by and large operational nuclear arsenal.

There is Pakistan, armed with warheads — no one knows how many, nor precisely where they are located, nor what guarantees we have that they will not, one day, fall into the hands of groups linked to Al Qaeda.

There is Putin’s Russia, which, in the space of two wars, has accomplished the exploit of exterminating a quarter of the population of Chechnya.

There is the butcher of Damascus, whose body count so far is at 10,000 and whose criminal stubbornness threatens the region’s peace.

Mere HER i Huffington Post. Kan også læses her hos Bernard-Henri Lévy.

Andre kilder: The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Washington Post, Israel Hayom, The Telegraph, The Tablet,

Opdateret.

Video & artikel: Walid Phares om gidseltagningen i Egypten

Journalistisk aktivisme er obligatorisk i de fleste europæiske lande, bla. Danmark. Medietilskud gives under forudsætning af, at man fremmer multikultur og mellemfolkelig forståelse. Kritik nedprioriteres. Islam er ikke så farlig. OIC skubber lystigt på. Halalhippier har kronede dage. Omfanget af denne dumhed står klart nu, men det vil ikke ændre noget. Lov er lov og lov skal holdes. Ingen mistænker tilskudsreglerne for meddelagtighed i Vestens gigantiske fejltagelse. Fra Fox News:

Walid Phares & Harris Faulkner on American hostages in Egypt – Feb 6, 2012

Egypt detains 19 American aid workers – What can U.S. do to bring them home?

Der bliver sagt nogenlunde det samme i næste video, men de supplerer hinanden. Fra 1. februar 2012:

Walid Phares on Americans in the US Embassy in Egypt

Most Egyptians Oppose U.S. Economic Aid

Most favor aid from Arab nations

by Ahmed Younis and Mohamed Younis – February 6, 2012

About 7 in 10 Egyptians surveyed by Gallup in December 2011 oppose U.S. economic aid to Egypt, and a similar percentage opposes the U.S. sending direct aid to civil society groups. This rebuke of U.S. financial support may be a challenge for Egypt’s newly elected parliament and its future president as the government attempts to bolster the nation’s financial stability.

Mere HER hos Gallup.

Edge of Terrorism

Al-Qaeda’s Strength Lies in its Ideology, not its Leaders

Walid Phares – February 6th 2012

Ten years have slipped by since Osama bin Laden’s jihadists massacred thousands of men, women and children in the northeastern United States, prompting the start of what Americans came to know as the War on Terror. The current administration, however, insists on more benign terminology, choosing for political reasons to describe the conflict as an “overseas contingency operation,” and a “war against al Qaeda.” But are we making progress in this conflict, whatever the name? Gaining an objective assessment begins with asking the right questions.

Mere HER i The Cutting Edge. Gidseltagning er meget oppe i tiden:

Iran ‘detains alleged BBC Persian journalists’

7 February 2012

Reports from Iran say several people have been detained for alleged links to the BBC’s Persian service, which is banned in the country.

Mehr news agency said they were involved in newsgathering, recruiting and training for Iranian journalists and had arranged trips abroad for them.

A BBC statement said no BBC Persian staff members were working inside Iran.

Mere HER hos BBC.

Opdatering:

Now it’s $11 Billion for the Muslim Brotherhood? Only in America

February 12, 2012 – by David P. Goldman

Now that America-hating Islamists control three-quarters of Egypt’s parliament and the military government has rejected American protests at the prosecution of U.S. citizens for supporting democracy, Egypt is asking for $11 billion in Western aid. That has to be the least popular idea to float down the Potomac in a long time. Nonetheless, the Obama administration and its supporters in the Punditeska doubtless will ask American taxpayers to ante up a large part of the $11 billion handout, in the interest of  “promoting Egyptian democracy.” Only in America do we feed the mouth that bites us. CPI Financial News reported on Sunday:

Mumtaz El Saeed, Egypt’s Finance Minister, says the country needs $11 billion to help it get through the next fiscal year, as well as help with economic reforms, according to a report in Al Ahram, a local newspaper.

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Opdatering 1.marts 2012 – fra The Voice of Russia den 8. februar 2012 – vælg mellem video eller mp3:

Walid Phares on Voice of Russia Radio: Trial of Americans in Egypt

Walid Phares comments on pending trial of US citizens for funding NGOs in Egypt

19 Americans to face trial on NGO funding

Sam LaHood, the son of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is among 43 people charged in Egypt after a probe into a foreign funding of non-governmental organizations. The inquiry into the NGOs whose stated aim is to promote democracy has added the strains between the U.S. and Egypt and jeopardized American financial aid to the Egyptian military, a close ally. The U.S. State Department said yesterday that it wants Egypt’s government to clarify reports that 19 Americans are among 43 people to be prosecuted. The U.S. has responded by saying that 1.5 billion dollars in annual aid from the U.S. sent to Egypt could be in jeopardy if the situation is not resolved. We are joined on the line to tell us more about the latest Walid Phares, the author of the book “The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East”.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player – varighed 17½ minut.

Opdatering 2. marts 2012 fra The San Francisco Chronicle:

Seven Americans on trial over charges that their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt on Thursday after the United States posted nearly $5 million in bail for them and nine others who managed to leave before a travel ban was imposed.

Andre kilder: Reuters, Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Washington Post, The Tablet, BBC, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy,

“War is deceit”
koranen

Audio: David P. Goldman hos Middle East Forum

Opdatering – nu også i videoform:

Audio-version:

Islamic Civilization is Dying

A briefing by David P. Goldman

November 15, 2011

Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 11 minutter.

Der følger en artikel med:

Islamic Civilization is Dying

A briefing by David P. Goldman – November 15, 2011

David P. Goldman is best known for his “Spengler” column at Asia Times Online, which draws a million readers a month. He headed global bond research for Bank of America as well as other Wall Street research groups. Trained in music theory as well as economics at City University of New York and the London School of Economics respectively, he has written extensively on music, mathematics, religion, and the cultural heritage of the West, in Forbes, The Tablet, First Things, and Pajamas Media. Mr. Goldman addressed the Middle East Forum in New York on November 15, 2011.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum, hvor man også kan høre audioen fra hjemmesidens player.

Audio: David P. Goldman, Robert Spencer & Jamie Glazov

De er bare herlige, de tre herrer her - FrontPageMagazine skriver om denne audio, der er dukket op på BlogTalkRadio i dag:

Opdatering – nu også som video:

“The Great Debate: David Goldman vs. Robert Spencer” on The Jamie Glazov Show

The Great Debate: David Goldman vs. Robert Spencer — on The Jamie Glazov Show

Two titans will go toe-to-toe:

David P. Goldman, the author of the new book, How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too). After 9/11, he began writing weekly essays at Asia Times Online under the byline “Spengler.” After joining the masthead of First Things magazine early in 2009, he revealed his identity and devoted himself to writing, mainly on politics and strategy, but also publishing essays on religion, classical music, literature and mathematics.

and

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including two New York Times​ bestsellers, The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam​ (and the Crusades) (both Regnery).

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time.

Desuden 2 artikler af David P. Goldman – alias Spengler. Veritas Universalis har tidligere haft et uddrag af Goldmans nye bog, men det var meget lille sammenlignet med dette:

The fifth horseman of the apocalypse

By Spengler – Dec 13, 2011

(The essay below appears as a preface to my book How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too). [1]

Population decline is the elephant in the world’s living room. As a matter of arithmetic, we know that the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations. Two out of three Italians and three of four Japanese will be elderly dependents by 2050. [1] If present fertility rates hold, the number of Germans will fall by 98% over the next two centuries. No pension and health care system can support such an inverted population pyramid. Nor is the problem limited to the industrial nations. Fertility is falling at even faster rates – indeed, at rates never before registered anywhere – in the Muslim world. The

world’s population will fall by as much as a fifth between the middle and the end of the 21st century, by far the worst decline in human history.

Mere HER i Asia Times. Kan også læses her hos ICJS.

Corruption and Islamism in Egypt

December 2, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Egypt under Mubarak was a tightly-controlled kleptocracy, and Egypt since Mubarak has been an uncontrolled kleptocracy, in which public officials steal whatever isn’t tied down. Shiploads of rice, diesel fuel, and other tradables are leaving Egyptian ports for hard-currency markets, while the country–which imports half its caloric consumption–runs out of money. Mubarak’s elite has helicopters revving on their roofs. It’s no surprise Islamists swept this week’s parliamentary elections. Whom do we expect Egyptians to vote for?

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Kan også læses her hos ICJS.

Man kan høre mere Goldman og Glazov her hos Veritas Universalis:

• Video: David P. Goldman & Jamie Glazov – igen

Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, Human Events,

Video: David P. Goldman & Jamie Glazov – igen

Jamie Glazov interviewer David P. Goldman:

Obama: The Anti-Israel President” on The Jamie Glazov Show

Det første interview er i skriftlig form og kan ses her hos Veritas Universalis:

• Jamie Glazov interviewer David P. Goldman – the horrors to come

Denne video er omtalt i interviewet øverst:

Obama – The Anti-Israel President

Der er endnu en interessant audio med Goldman hos Big Government:

• How America Can Deal with a Changing Muslim World

Andre kilder: David Horowitz Freedom Center, BlogTalkRadio,

Video & artikler: Egyptens dødskamp trækker ud – nyt holocaust rykker nærmere

Folks, it doesn’t look good for Egypt:

Looting the Egyptian Currency: Democracy in Action

By David P. Goldman – November 25th, 2011

The ugly denouement of the so-called Egyptian Spring is visible in the collapse of Egypt’s stock exchange (down 11% in the first three days of this week) and the impending collapse of the Egyptian pound, as residents and foreigners flee to hard currency. A unique sort of brutality characterizes Egypt’s currency crisis: banks cannot meet the demand for currency because it is impossible transport bank notes. Mobs hijack the armored cars, as Al Ahram reported today:

“Demand on the dollar increased by 100 per cent since Saturday,” said Bilal Khalil, deputy head of the exchange division of the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce (FCC).

Khalil went on to say that many people prefer to convert pounds to dollars in times of crisis. “The exceptionally high demand on the American dollar resulted in a shortage of supply and a higher cost,” he said.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Kan også læses her hos Free Republic.

What Do Totalitarians Do When They Gain Power Democratically?

November 25, 2011 – by Barry Rubin

In the last scene of the film “The Candidate,” about a U.S. Senate election, the victorious candidate expresses American cynicism about politics by asking, “What do we do now?” The idea is that politicians just want to get into power but have no idea of how to deal with problems or even a coherent worldview. Soon deadlock will set in and nothing is really going to change.  It is the sarcasm fit for an open, non-ideological system where individual ambition prevails.  But as long as there’s always another election, we know that things will be all right and life will be tolerable.

Not so in the Arabic-speaking Middle East.  These politicians know precisely what they want to do: seize state power (albeit by peaceful means, if possible), fundamentally transform their societies, and hold onto state power forever. And they are capable of changing things a lot.

Naïve Western officials, journalists, and “experts” think that an electoral victory for the Islamists is just fine and dandy. They will obey the rules; be worn down by the necessary compromises of democratic politics; have to focus their effortson collecting garbage, running schools, and fixing roads; and then another election will come along and things will always be all right.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Egypt: between the devil and the deep blue sea

By Melanie Phillips – 23 November 2011

The violence in Egypt has continued to escalate as the demonstrators out on the streets insist that the army council step down immediately. A brief truce brokered by clerics earlier today appears to have collapsed. There is no doubt that Egypt’s military regime has behaved, and will continue to behave, with great brutality. But as I wrote here two days ago, Egypt is between the devil and the deep blue sea. Bad as the military regime may be, the most likely alternative of a Muslim Brotherhood regime would be worse. The army cracks down on dissent, which is bad enough; the Islamists, however, crack down on the freedom just to be.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Kan også læses her på Melanie Phillips blog. Og dødstrusler. Nyt folkedrab forude? Den søde, kærlige venstrefløj og deres presse ville omgående gå til angreb på enhver, der forsøgte at forhindre det. En ting er, at arabere siger, de vil myrde. Men at sige, at de siger det? Nej, der går grænsen. Det ville være dæmonisering og det kan vi jo ikke have:

Cairo rally: One day we’ll kill all Jews

Muslim Brotherhood holds venomous anti-Israel rally in Cairo mosque Friday; Islamic activists chant: Tel Aviv, judgment day has come

Eldad Beck – November 25, 2011

Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo’s most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to “one day kill all Jews.”

Some 5,000 people joined the rally, called to promote the “battle against Jerusalem’s Judaization.” The event coincided with the anniversary of the United Nations’ partition plan in 1947, which called for the establishment of a Jewish state.

Mere HER i Ynetnews.

Michael Coren on batshit crazy Egyptian politician

Here’s your “Arab spring.”

Andre kilder: Pajamas Media, The Telegraph, National Review Online, The New York Daily News,

Bruce Bawer og David P. Goldman forsvarer Geert Wilders

Cecilia Malmström, Europa-Kommssionær for Indre Anliggender, er en halvhippie og en forfærdelig person, siger Geert Wilders i følge Dutch News. Wilders vil nemlig have indvandringen skåret ned til 50 pct., men Malmström står i vejen. Wilders synes også, at det er noget pjat, at den hollandske stat vil fejre 400 årsdagen for “Dutch-Turkish relations”:

“Gül’s Islamic regime and his party colleague, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, are no friends of the West and therefore not of the Netherlands either. President Gül is not welcome. Turkey has no place in the community of European values and there’s no reason for a party.

Det siger Wilders i følge Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Men sandheden er altid ilde hørt. Om fornærmede muslimer:

The United Nations: The Devil’s Jury

by David P. Goldman – November 24, 2011

In Stephen Vincent Benét’s story “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” Satan called a jury of the damned composed of turncoats, traitors, and Blackbeard the Pirate, “with the stench of hell still upon them.” At the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusations against the Dutch political leader Geert Wilders will be heard by Chinese and Russian lawyers who spent the 1970s and 1980s running the “human rights” entities of their respective countries, an Egyptian-educated diplomat from Morocco, and a “human rights” specialist from Cuba, according to the UNHRC website. The Cuban died last year, but in the spirit of Benét’s story, he still might be serving on the UN working group hearing Mr. Wilders’s case.

Last week, three Dutch Moroccans filed a complaint against their country’s government with the UNHRC, an entity that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in 2007 accused of a “pathological obsession with Israel,” echoing similar complaints by the United States, Canada and the European Union. Under the Bush administration the United States boycotted the Council, but President Obama sent American diplomats back to it. On Oct. 1, the State Department released a statement claiming that “U.S. engagement thus far has resulted in significant improvements to the Human Rights Council as a multilateral forum for promoting and protecting human rights. Accomplishments include groundbreaking resolutions on freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, preventing discrimination against women, LGBT human rights, (and) religious tolerance.”

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Bawer har mere om Hollands håbløse situation:

Netherlands Sliding Into the Abyss

By Bruce Bawer – November 17, 2011

In a new interview in the Dutch magazine Panorama, Geert Wilders talks about a variety of things, including his forthcoming book about Islam, which will be published in the U.S. in April. In it, he says, he’ll document the fact that “Islam is a dangerous ideology” and that “Muhammed really is one of the big bad guys” of history, whose negative influence continues to be felt today. Yes, Wilders acknowledges, there are genuinely moderate people who call themselves Muslims, and if they want to call themselves Muslims that’s fine with him — but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.

What, asks the interviewer, is his great fear? Answer: that “if we don’t put an end to Islamization, it will slowly but surely insinuate itself into our society, at the cost of our freedom. And bit by bit things will go the wrong way. That’s why I’m extending this warning. Otherwise someday our children and grandchildren won’t have freedom any more.” To which the interviewer replies: “And if people say: come on, Geert, it’s not really so bad, is it?…What do you say then?” “I say: it’s worse than you think.”

Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her i FrontPageMagazine.

Jihad Watch kunne den 3. september 2011 berette om jihad i en hollandsk koncertsal:

Welcome to Eurabia. Here is yet another indication that Islamic supremacists will not allow the Infidels to maintain their practices that are forbidden by Sharia — such as music. [...]

Jihad Watch har oversat dette citat fra ShowNieuws:

Tonight a man was arrested at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. There was a classical concert scheduled in the Great Hall, where Queen Beatrix sat on the first row. Concertgebouw director Simon Reinink confirmed this to ShowNieuws.  This man, neatly dressed in a suit, entered the stage and began a speech about Islam. He called himself the servant of God and invited the public to believe. One person who was present wrote on Twitter: “He said: ‘There is no bomb … I’m sorry.’”

Andre kilder: Here’s The Right Side Of It, Diana West, Wikipedia, The New English Review, The New English Review, Vlad Tepes blog, The Jerusalem Post, Tundra Tabloids, Atlas Shrugs, Arts Journal,

Reuters: Ann Barnhardt lukker sin forretning

Det totale økonomiske kollaps venter lige rundt om hjørnet, kan man med god ret formode. Der kommer alarmerende rapporter hver dag. Barnhardt har mistet troen på både branchen og sin egen forretning, som lukker. Beslutningen kommer i kølvandet firmaet MF Global’s bankerot i begyndelse af november, - man antager at svindel er involveret i MF Globals exit. Reuters:

Barnhardt Capital Management, a Lone Tree, Colorado-based commercial hedge broker specializing in cattle and grain, said on Thursday it is shutting down operations after six years for an “excruciatingly simple” reason.

“I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets - because they were not,” Ann Barnhardt, the firm’s founder, said in a statement on the company’s website.

Pessimismen har aldrig været større i min levetid. Fattigdom forude…

Opdatering 19. november 2011 – Spengler viser heller ingen bamhjertighed:

Republicans, Democrats, and Wall Street Fraud or: Who’s the MF Now?

November 18, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Jon Corzine’s MF Global is missing $600 million of customer money, and the bankruptcy trustee has no idea when it might be found or when investors might be paid back, if ever. The New York Times today says that the investigation points to the conclusion that the firm simply misappropriated (that is, stole) customer money to back up failing bets on the distressed bonds of failing European governments.

The former head of Goldman Sachs and Democratic governor of New Jersey presided over a firm that may turn out to have been a criminal enterprise.  Maybe the Occupy Wall Street movement should shift venue to the headquarters of the Democratic Party, which has a long pattern of involvement in outright corruption.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Note: Ann Barnhardts pressemeddelelse kan læses her hos Zero Hedge.

Andre kilder: Gramercy Images News, The New York Post, Active Investor, CNN, Zero Hedge, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Radio Patriot, Bloomberg,

Jamie Glazov interviewer David P. Goldman – the horrors to come

Om Goldmans nye bog:

How Civilizations Die

by Jamie Glazov on Nov 14th, 2011

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is David P. Goldman, the author of the new book, How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too), which Regnery brought out this fall. After 9/11, Goldman began writing weekly essays at Asia Times Online under the byline “Spengler.” At the time he directed a research group at Credit Suisse, and afterward ran fixed income research for Bank of America. After joining the masthead of First Things magazine early in 2009, he revealed his identity and devoted himself to writing, mainly on politics and strategy, but also publishing essays on religion, classical music, literature and mathematics. He left First Things early in 2011 to write his book.

FP: David P. Goldman, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Let’s begin with what inspired you to write this book.

Goldman: Thanks Jamie.

It was 9/11 and the aftermath. I’m an old Cold Warrior; I consulted for Norman A. Bailey, the head of planning at NSC in the first Reagan administration. We were playing a deadly global chess game with a fairly rational opponent; when the Russians knew they were beaten, they caved.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Interview med Spengler

Om Spenglers nye bog:

“How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)” by David P. Goldman

Review and Interview – Ruth King – October 26, 2011

Demographic predictions often affect national security policy. President Jimmy Carter’s smarter brother Billy put it succinctly. When questioned about his shady deals with Libya, he replied “The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews.” American policy with respect to the Middle East has been stated a tad more elegantly but it is based on the same immoral and obtuse calculations.

With respect to Israel, misleading predictions of Arab population growth were used, mostly by soft-core supporters to suggest that Jews were doomed to become a minority west of the Jordan River and should concede that geography in order to secure demography. A study : “The million Person Gap: The Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza-the American-Israel Demographic Research Group” was published by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in February 2006  with Ambassador (Ret.) Yoram Ettinger  as head of the Israeli team. All the meticulous research, including birth and death records and emigration numbers, revealed a net loss of Arab births and a surge in Jewish births in the West Bank.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Og et ganske lille uddrag af bogen:

Book Excerpt: How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too)

October 27, 2011 – David P. Goldman

Population decline is the elephant in the world’s living room. As a matter of arithmetic, we know that the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations. If present fertility rates hold, the number of Germans will fall by 98 percent over the next two centuries. No pension and health care system can support such an inverted population pyramid.

Opdatering: Asia Times har et bedre uddrag HER. Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Andre kilder: ICJS, ICJS, Asia Times,

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.

Don’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:

• Det islamo-nazistiske Iran er ekstremt farligt
• Video: Robert Spencer og Ezra Levant om terrorplaner Iran ~ USA & Saudi Arabien
• Video: Iran er overalt i Sydamerika
• Video: Iran, Venezuela, USA, terror, muslimer og mere

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

USA: Præsident Obama, De Sorte Pantere, populisme på Wall Street og Gunwalker-skandalen

Præsident Obama støtter aktivt De Sorte Pantere i USA. The New Black Panther Party. Hvide kan ikke være medlemmer. Partiets medlemmer er racister. Og marxister. Partiet handler åbenbart også om islamisme. Mange af de ledende medlemmer bekender sig til yderligtgående islam:

Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007

by Andrew Breitbart

New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.

The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media’s failure to examine Obama’s extremist ties and radical roots.

Mere HER hos Big Government. Det er i øvrigt ikke første gang, præsident Obama sættes i forbindelse med De Sorte Pantere, hvilket man kan læse mere om i Human Events.

Interview: J. Christian Adams, author of “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department”

Ruth King – October 4, 2011

On Election Day in 2008, armed members of the New Black Panther Party, King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson adopted a menacing and intimidating stance as they stood at the entrance to a polling center in Philadelphia shouting that America would be ruled by a black man. The event was captured on camera and posted on the internet. After the election, J.Christian Adams, then attorney for the Voting Rights Section of the Department of Justice and other DOJ lawyers brought a voter intimidation case against them.

The New Black Panther Party ignored the suit and in May of 2009 the lawyers were ordered to dismiss the case in spite of clear evidence that an outrageous violation of federal law had occurred. After continual stonewalling by the Justice Department, on May 14th, 2010 J.Christian Adams sent a letter of resignation to become effective on June 4th, 2010.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Og til demonstrationen på Wall Street, hvor demonstranterne åbenbart er betalt for at protestere - i hvert fald i følge The Daily Caller. Hos City Journal er man også skeptisk overfor sammensætningen af demonstranter. Men folk på billederne fra The Daily Mail ser nu meget almindelige ud:

• Dozens arrested after 5,000 protesters march on Wall Street as Herman Cain tells them: ‘If you’re not rich it’s your own fault’

Men foto skal man ikke lade sig narre af. Det er halalhippier af værste skuffe, der er i gang:

When the Greedy Feign Outrage

Frank Salvato – October 7, 2011

By now, no doubt, you have heard about the “incredible” Occupy Wall Street Movement taking place on and around Wall Street; a movement whose organizers claim is “organic” and spreading across the globe, not unlike the so-called “Arab Spring.”

There are a few problems with this claim, however. First, the movement is anything but “organic.” And second, for the most part, the “Arab Spring” has facilitated the rise of radical Islamist factions to the courts of power. Incredible indeed.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Kan også læses her hos Big Government. Og Spenglers udlægning:

Wall Street Protestors Have Met the Enemy and It Is They

October 6, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

America is the land of opportunity, and never before the great housing bubble has a Ponzi scheme drawn such a wide base of support and benefited so many people. This was the most democratic scam in history, and if you got in on the first half of it, you’re still better off. The big losers were not homeowners, but the bankers. A quick look at the numbers shows how misinformed are the protesters running around Wall Street. Instead of picketing the bankers, they should pair off and picket each other. I ran through the numbers recently in an Asia Times Online essay. Here’s the story of the People’s Ponzi scheme in a nutshell:

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Paul Berman er helt anderledes begejstret – man er vel venstrefløjser:

The Power of a Crowd

Paul Berman – October 7, 2011

The trade unions joined on Wednesday. That was good enough for me, and I joined, too. I marched down Broadway with my comrades from the Jewish Labor Committee — a venerable organization, founded in 1934 to advance the principles of social democracy and anti-bigotry, and still on the job. I was delighted. The puzzled onlookers who look at these demonstrations and ask “What are the demands?” are being disingenuous. Everyone intuitively knows the demands.

Mere HER i The New York Times. Opdatering -  Paul Berman den 17. oktober i The New Republic – igen om protesterne i Wall Street:

• Why I Support Occupy Wall Street

Og om våbenskandalen. Fast and Furious. Gunwalker:

Holder’s Dubious History

The AG’s Fast & Furious amnesia is reminiscent of his Marc Rich amnesia.

Andrew C. McCarthy – October 5, 2011

House Republicans are now calling for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself in congressional testimony about the scandalous Fast & Furious program. Specifically, the attorney general claimed on May 3 that he had only “over the last few weeks” heard about the reckless gun-walking program his Justice Department was running with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) — a program in which guns were steered to violent Mexican gangs with predictably lethal results, including the murder of a Border Patrol agent. Contrary to Holder’s testimony, it is now being reported that he had actually been receiving briefings on the program since early summer 2010.

I’m shocked, shocked to hear it.

Mere HER i National Review Online. The Weekly Standard fortæller, at Det Hvide Hus intimiderer journalister, der har gravet i skandalen. Gunwalker skandalen kan blive ret alvorlig for præsident Obama.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, Big Government, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Pajamas Media, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, Free Republic, City Journal, The Washington Times, Newsmax, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, OneNewsNow, Michelle Malkin, Michelle Malkin, AEI, Asia Times, Ræson,

Mere om Israel vs. Egypten

Israels ambassadør i Egypten fortæller om evakueringen:

Levanon Speaks

In his first U.S. interview, Yitzhak Levanon, Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, recalls the 13-hour riot that led to the evacuation of his embassy

By Judith Miller | September 14, 2011

Yitzhak Levanon, Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, was just sitting down to his Sabbath dinner of schnitzel at his residence in suburban Ma’adi when the phone rang. One of the six security officials guarding the Israeli Embassy in downtown Cairo, which had closed for the weekend, was on the line. They were in trouble.

An angry mob of some 3,000 Egyptians had arrived at the embassy from what had been a peaceful protest at Tahrir Square. Turning on his television, Levanon surveyed the scene. Carrying hammers, axes, and steel rods, the crowd was screaming anti-Israeli slogans and starting to breach a tall cement wall that Egyptian security forces had hastily built on a bridge overlooking the embassy entrance several days earlier, to secure the building. Egyptian police and military security—complete with armored tanks and cars—were deployed outside the apartment building in which the embassy is housed. But the live footage of the assault being broadcast by Al Jazeera showed that Egyptian forces were doing nothing to stop the attackers.

Mere HER i Tablet Magazine.

Egypt Rewards Violence, Paves the Way for More

by Khaled Abu Toameh – September 16, 2011

The ruling military dictatorship in Egypt should not be allowed to avoid responsibility for the assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo last week.

Failure to take severe steps against the assailants will only encourage the rioters and enemies of peace. Today it is the Israeli embassy. Tomorrow it could be the embassy of the US or Denmark or any other country.

This is a case where the writing was on the wall.

A few days before the mob stormed the embassy, the Egyptian authorities honored a young man for climbing more than 20 floors to remove the Israeli flag from the offices of the Israeli embassy.

According to a report in Egypt’s Al Masry Al Youm newspaper, Sharqiya Governor Azazy Ali Azazy, honored the man who climbed the building that houses the embassy and tore down the Israeli flag.

Ahmed al-Shahat, 23, affectionately nicknamed “Flagman,” was awarded a flat and a job for his “courageous” deed.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Saudi Arabiens ambassade blev også angrebet den nat:

Cairo: Saudi Embassy Attacked

Tim Marshall – September 14, 2011

Not many people know this, but the Israeli Embassy was not the only one attacked in Cairo last weekend.

The Embassy of Saudi Arabia was also stormed by a mob. Strangely the Egyptian media mostly kept quiet about it. The Muslim Brotherhood, which welcomed the assault on the ‘murderous Nazi Jewish invaders’ had nothing to say about the Saudi incident.

Mere HER hos Sky News.

Opdatering 20. august 2011:

‘Egyptians paid to storm Israeli embassy in Cairo’

By Oren Kessler – September 18, 2011

Participants may have been paid 5,000-11,000 pounds to “go to the embassy and create chaos,” Egyptian newspaper reports.

Egyptian rioters who stormed the Israeli Embassy in Cairo 10 days ago were paid off by a wealthy tycoon, Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported Sunday.

Quoting a “judicial source,” the daily reported that last Thursday, a day before the incident, protesters were taken by “luxury tourist buses” to a lavish dinner where they were encouraged to take revenge against Israel “for our children killed on the border.”

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post.

Opdatering 22. september 2011 – Spengler om dystre udsigter for Egypten:

Endgame for Egypt

September 13, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Robert Musil’s Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften (“The Man Without Qualities”), one of the great novels of the past century, is a portrait of the Austrian elite early in 1914. The readers know that their silly world will come to a terrible end a few months later with the outbreak of war, but the protagonists do not. Musil published a first volume and spent the rest of his life trying to write a second, without success, for it is the sort of story that has no end except for the abyss.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media.

Opdatering 28. september 2011 – en episode i Jordan blev afværget:

Israel Evacuates Embassy Staff in Jordan Fearing Repeat of Cairo

September 19, 2011

Although the protest didn’t materialize into anything as significant as the recent raid in Cairo, Israel’s decision to evacuate its embassy in Jordan reveals its fear of an Islamizing Middle East.

Mere HER i The Trumpet.

Andre kilder: The Jerusalem Post, The Washington Post, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Asharq Alawsat,

Egypten: Kapitalflugt og stigende fattigdom

Det går særkt ned ad bakke:

When will Egypt go broke?

By Spengler – Jul 12, 2011

With demonstrators back on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Western media outlets once again are focused on the demands of urban protesters. A less tractable but more important story is: when will the Egyptian economy collapse altogether? The answer appears to be: at the very latest, when Saudi Arabia and Gulf states grow weary of paying Egypt’s bills, and probably well before then.

A May 19 report by the Middle East News Agency, an agency of the Egyptian government, allowed that the country’s hard currency reserves had fallen to just US$25 billion, from $36 billion in February, an alarming decline that described a course towards bankruptcy by late in 2011. The country’s central bank immediate denied the report in the official news outlet, averring that the real total was $28 billion. Emergency loans from Arab oil producers probably explain the discrepancy.

Mere HER i Asia Times.

Opdatering:

Caution: Storm Approaching

By Caroline Glick – July 16, 2011

It was seven months ago that Mohammed Bouazizi, a vegetable peddler in Tunisia set himself and the Arab world on fire. The 26-year-old staged his suicidal protest on the steps of the local city hall after a municipal inspector took away his unlicensed vegetable cart thus denying him the ability to feed his family of eight.

Mere HER i RealClearPolitics.

Spengler om Palæstina

Israel, Ireland and the peace of the aging

By Spengler – Jun 7, 2011

Sometimes, the best thing to do is nothing at all.

A generation from now, the Palestinians will make peace with Israel, for a simple reason: they will grow up – literally. Palestinian Arabs comprise one of the fastest-aging populations in the word.

United States President Barack Obama was misinformed when he told the America-Israel Political Action Committee May 22 that “the number of Palestinians living west of the Jordan River is growing rapidly and fundamentally reshaping the demographic realities of both Israel and the Palestinian territories”.

In fact, Palestinian fertility on the West Bank has already converged on the Israeli fertility rate of three children per woman, if we believe the Palestine Ministry of Health rather than the Palestine Authority’s Statistics Bureau.

Mere HER i Asia Times.

Det arabiske forår ender i økonomisk nedsmeltning

Humpty Obumpty and the Arab Spring

By Spengler – Jun 1, 2011

I’ve been warning for months that Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and other Arab oil-importing countries face a total economic meltdown (see Food and failed Arab states, Feb 2, and The hunger to come in Egypt, May 10). Now the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed my warnings.

The leaders of the industrial nations waited until last weekend’s Group of Eight (G-8) summit to respond, and at the initiative of United States President Barack Obama proposed what sounds like a massive aid program but probably consists mainly of refurbishing old programs.

Mere HER i Asia Times. Tidligere blogget om samme sag:

• Egypten: Statsbankerot lige om lidt?