The Times Talks Ethics

In this New York Times Op-Ed by the authors of a study that explores the reasons why people sometimes behave unethically, the writers reflect on the business world, where lapses of judgment can and have resulted in epoch losses for many.

The writers point to the fact that people who compromise their ethics often do so by fooling themselves, especially when they believe the outcome will be in their interests.

My immediate reaction to the piece is to want to write the authors to ask what their take is on the world's deeply unethical handling of the Middle East conflict. For example, what do they make of the UN, the World Bank, the IMF and the Quartet ignoring all signs that the PA isn't even close to looking like a state, yet they intend to "recognize" it as such in September? Is there anything they can think of, other than money or oil, that would explain the willingness of some of the world's most powerful entities to commit this deceptive and dangerous act? What's their opinion of why so few questions are asked of peace and human rights activists who support the world's most prolific terrorists in a cause built upon willful distortions of history and perverse interpretations of international law and agreements, not to mention the misuse of terms such as "occupation" "aggressor" and "apartheid" to slander the target of their sustained aggression? Just wondering.

Allen West in Dialogue with Muslim American

When the next presidential election season shifts into high gear, and the left is busy smearing Allen West as a "racist" or "Islamophobe," this is the video you want to come back at them with.

The U.S.-Manufactured Lie About Israel's "Illegal" Settlements

Today, the U.S. used its veto to defeat a U.N. resolution condemning Israel's "illegal" settlements after the 14 other nations that sit on the Security Council voted to condemn the Jewish state. According to the Jerusalem Post, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice told the UN body after casting her vote, “We reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity. Continued settlement activity violates Israel’s international commitments, devastates trust between the parties, and threatens the prospects for peace.” REALLY, Susan?

Here is a quick, but thorough, explanation of how the lie about Israel's "illegal" settlements was started by Israel's "special friend," the U.S. It was written by the late Shmuel Katz, a brilliant writer, whose work is an absolute must for anyone wanting to know about the birth of the modern State of Israel and its later history.

If you have never read a book or article by Samuel "Shmuel" Katz, all I can say is you must.  BattleTruth: The World and Israel, is a collection of essays and articles Katz wrote between February 1978 and the fall of 1982, a critical period in Israel's history. Reading Katz is both thrilling and infuriating. It's thrilling, because his plainly stated presentation of well-supported facts, laced with cunning wit, delivers the unvarnished truth about the conflict in the Middle East. It's infuriating, because Katz provides all the truths and details that U.S. Presidents, European leaders, the U.N. the Palestinians and, now, "progressive" anti-semites have forever been trying to bury or forget, as they're doing now with the "settlements."

What Are Other Journalists Thinking Since Learning of the Attack on Lara Logan?

If anything positive can come from the terrible assault against Lara Logan, perhaps it's that other mainstream American journalists will take time to rethink their coverage of the Middle East, while Lara takes time to recover.

The fact is, to get their stories heard, Western reporters (or their editors) consistently whitewash Arab and Muslim culture and events for the rest of us. For decades, they've reported on the plight of the Palestinians, and now the "democratic" revolution in Egypt, without ever putting into context the fact that Mein Kampf remains near the top of best-selling non-fiction book lists in the Arab and Muslim world, along with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, nearly 100 years after that forgery was exposed. Reality in the Middle East has been distorted by "affirmative action" journalism, which prettifies people who represent the most illegitimate, hate-based and violent causes, while Israel is smeared with outrageous lies to advance a "narrative" bought and paid for with the money and support of those who threaten journalists who report the truth.

The last two decades of developments in the Middle East have come courtesy of affirmative action journalists, academics and activists who were ignorant and ripe for being exploited as useful idiots by the Muslim world. One can only hope that the stark evil of the assault on Logan will bring those journalists, who have lost sight of the facts while reporting narratives, back to their senses and back to being reporters, not sociologists.

Israel Never Looked So Good

In this column titled, "Israel Never Looked So Good," David Suissa hits the nail on the head. But I would go a little further than he does. The Left's embrace of the Palestinian cause was based on willful ignorance and anti-Semitism. Even if one were to overlook their inexcusable ignorance of the Middle East conflict, the fact that they embraced the Palestinian cause anyway showed they didn't care if they were ignorant; they were ready to throw the Jews under the bus anyway.

So You Want To Boycott Israel?

This video is highly persuasive of what may be achieved by boycotting Israel. It provides great insight, in general, into the Zionist entity. Strongly recommended. - Liz

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Meshugunah In Jerusalem

The release of Palestinian prisoners by Israel is bad policy. But not all Israelis agree with this strategy. Nor do Americans who wish to see Israelis living in peace and security. Jerusalem Post columnist Sarah Honig tells it like it is.