May 2, 2005, Waves at sunset swirling around a underwater structure at Brighton, Michigan. 

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Rooster "Crowing"

"Oh"

History…

330: Constantinople becomes the new capital of the Roman Empire.

1751 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)

1752 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)

1833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215

1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Fransisco
1875 George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout

1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co

1910 Montana's Glacier National Park forms

1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented

1919 Yankees' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie

1921 Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality

1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)

1928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady NY)

1929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)

1931 Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe

1947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy

1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)

1949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN

1949 Siam renames itself Thailand

1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory

1953 Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory

1955 Israel attacks Gaza

1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open

1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

1959 Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires


1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1963 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham AL

1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument

1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 14 performances

1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1972 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show

1972 San Francisco Giants trade Willie Mays to New York Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams & cash

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the "Pentagon Papers" case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct.

1975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market

1977 Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game

1978 Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps

1980 Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament

1980 Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies

1981 Jamaican born reggae singer Bob Marley dies of cancer.

1984 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars

1986 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic

1987 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)

1988 France performs nuclear test

1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds

1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panamá

1994 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa

1996 Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die

1997 New York Mets C Everett & Butch Huskey are 9th to hit consecutive pinch HRs

1997 Paine Webber Senior Golf Invitational

1997 Sara Lee LPGA Classic

1997 IBM computer Deep Blue beats chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game series; it is the first time a computer beats an international grand master in a multigame match.

Born…

1891, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., publisher and public official

1893, Martha Graham, choreographer, dancer, and teacher

1888, Irving Berlin, composer

1904, surrealist artist Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain.

1922, Louis Farrakhan, religious leader

Missing in Action

1966 FENELEY FRANCIS J. CURTIS MI
1966 VILLEPONTEAUX JAMES H. JR. CORDESVILLE SC
1968 JIMENEZ JUAN M. SAN ANTONIO TX GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1969 DAUGHERTY LENARD E. THE ROCK GA 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1969 HORIO THOMAS TERUO HONOLULU HI 03/27/73 REL BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1969 JACQUEZ JUAN L. SANTA FE NM 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE 98
1969 RYAN WILLIAM C. JR. BOGOTA NJ
1972 ALLMOND BARRY K. FORT WORTH TX CACCF REMAINS RECOVERED DIED WHILE MISSING LISTED ON WALL NOT AS POW/MIA
1972 BLASSIE MICHAEL JOSEPH ST LOUIS MO "FROM ""UNKNOWN"" TO KNOWN 06/30/98"
1972 HASELTON JOHN HERBERT NEWPORT VT 04/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 KITTINGER JOSEPH W. JR. ORLANDO FL 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 PADGETT JAMES P. CEDAR KEY FL 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 REICH WILLIAM J. CLINTON WI 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 STROBRIDGE RODNEY L. TORRANCE CA
1972 TALLEY WILLIAM H. SAYRE OK 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL IN 98
1972 WILLIAMS ROBERT J. DALEVILLE AL

The New York Times

We are supposed to feel really secure about dividing up Social Security, too. Private pensions aren't even upheld by the courts but yet we are supposed to annihilate SSI. I don't think so.
United Air Wins Right to Default on Its Employee Pension Plans
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
Published: May 11, 2005
United Airlines, which is operating in bankruptcy protection, received court permission yesterday to terminate its four employee pension plans, setting off the largest pension default in the three decades that the government has guaranteed pensions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/business/11air.html?hp&ex=1115870400&en=9b9ae0ca7d8254b4&ei=5094&partner=homepage

China Rules Out Using Sanctions to Pressure North Korea
By JOSEPH KAHN and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: May 11, 2005
BEIJING, May 10 - China on Tuesday ruled out applying economic or political sanctions to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, appearing to undercut a crucial element of the Bush administration's evolving North Korea strategy. The announcement comes just as American intelligence agencies are trying to determine whether North Korea is preparing for a nuclear test.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/international/asia/11korea.html?hp&ex=1115870400&en=f0fde2257bb11d8a&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Haaretz

Ceremonies and sirens to mark Memorial Day
By Haaretz Staff and News Agencies
Wednesday's Memorial Day events will begin with the sounding of a two-minute siren at 11 A.M., and will be followed by ceremonies at military cemeteries throughout the country, in remembrance of the 20,368 victims of wars and acts of terror since the country was founded in 1948.
During the past year, 169 soldiers and 63 civilians were killed, most in attacks by Palestinians.
The central commemoration ceremony will begin at 11 A.M. at Mt. Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, attended by President Moshe Katsav, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574905.html

Gov't mulls severe new immigration, citizenship policy
By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent
A committee headed by Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz is formulating a new immigration policy for Israel that is expected to be as severe as any in Europe.
The most far-reaching proposal would prevent automatic citizenship for children of Israelis if the children were not born in Israel, or if only one parent is Israeli.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574856.html

Fashionable question. It's a sympathetic trigger to Bush's idiotic politics. This is the problem wth Bush's politiking international rather than being a president in pursuit of good will and policy.

Abbas questions Israel's belief in democracy
By News Agencies
BRASILIA, Brazil - Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas questioned Israel's belief in democracy on Tuesday after an Israeli official suggested a victory for Hamas militants in Palestinian parliamentary elections could put Israel's pull-out from Gaza at risk.
Abbas criticized a decision by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to postpone the withdrawal from Gaza by three weeks under what he said was the "pretext of religious celebrations in Israel."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574904.html

Disengagement Watch

The business dreams of the settlers are born of necessity
By Eli Ashkenazi
A year from now, guests at family celebrations may get to sample delicacies by Simona Barshishat. Barshishat, well-known in her community of Ganim for her specialty desserts, is enrolled in an entrepreneurship course, along with 10 other residents of Ganim and Kadim, the two settlements in northern Samaria slated for evacuation under the disengagement plan. Barshishat believes the course will give her appropriate tools for turning her hobby into a business.
The course was conceived several weeks ago, when the Jewish Agency's Settlement Department, Ariel's Small Business Development Center and the Samaria Regional Council saw a need to provide would-be evacuees with tools for navigating the period of uncertainty awaiting them.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573377.html

A graveyard with no dead
By Tom Segev
Not far from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - between the new U.S. embassy building, an institution that identifies itself with a splashy sign as a sauna for gays, and a street that bears the name of the philosopher Hannah Arendt - there is a large lot with an estimated value of more than 100 million euros in the real estate market, on which stand 1,172 stelae (slabs) made of dark concrete; they look like headstones in a cemetery. This is the new memorial to the Jews of Europe who were murdered by the Nazis. After stormy, emotion-charged debates lasting 17 years, the memorial will be dedicated next week in a state ceremony.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/572910.html

Boston Globe

The weapon of choice in NY City were grenades as well. This is getting interesting. Domestic terrorists mimic those of abroad. Very interesting. The British Consulate. Russian's Georgia.

Agents check report of grenade near Bush
May 10, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service was investigating a report Tuesday that a hand grenade was thrown at the stage during President Bush's speech in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/10/agents_check_report_of_grenade_near_bush/

High cost of housing leaves some Bay Staters stuck as renters
Middle-class families lack funds to escape apartments for homes
By Keith Reed, Globe Staff May 8, 2005
Three months ago, Stacey and Patrick Goodwin began to search for their first home.
What they found was frustration: With a combined income of $74,000, they could only get approved for a mortgage of $250,000. Concentrating their search in the Route 128 corridor, they could find nothing that suited them in that price range. Most of the condos they looked at would have carried at least an $1,800 monthly mortgage payment, $600 more than they spend on rent.

http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/2005/may/0508_renters.html

Germany dedicates Holocaust memorial
Prayers, dissent heard at Berlin opening ceremony
By Tony Czuczka, Associated Press May 11, 2005
BERLIN -- Germany dedicated its new national Holocaust memorial yesterday with a rabbi's prayer for the dead and a survivor's plea for reconciliation, but disagreement surfaced even at its opening over how to remember the 6 million Jews killed under the Nazis.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/11/germany_dedicates_holocaust_memorial/

Amnesty is offered to Taliban rebels
May 10, 2005
KABUL -- A senior Afghan official called yesterday on Taliban rebels to give up their fight under a government amnesty that, for the first time, would include wanted criminals and the rebel leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar. The offer was made by Sebaghatullah Mojadeddi, head of a commission seeking to make peace with Taliban-led militants. It came after US forces battled insurgents for five hours Sunday and two Marines and up to 23 rebels were killed. (Reuters)

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/10/amnesty_is_offered_to_taliban_rebels/

Blasts batter Iraq, killing scores
Suicide bombers strike; US forces sweep into region
By Antonio Castaneda, Associated Press May 11, 2005
BAGHDAD -- In three devastating attacks, suicide bombers killed at least 57 people and wounded more than 100 this morning, with victims ranging from police recruits in northern Iraq to migrant workers waiting at a small market in Saddam Hussein's hometown.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/05/11/blasts_batter_iraq_killing_scores/

continued...

Dresden's Frauenkirche. The Jewish Community is honored with extraordinary devotion unlike seen anywhere else outside of Israel. How deeply does a country of people, namely the Germans, have to feel it's regret. Thank you. 

German Holocaust Memorial under Stormy Skies. 

Germany yesterday dedicated its Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin an undulating field of more than 2700 concrete slabs. There was some controversy over the coatings of the concrete coming from a German manufacturer that assisted the Axis Powers. I do believe at this point all that has been set aside. 

...ism ......... An evolving Jewish Assessment ...

Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism

No. 30 1 March 2005 / 20 Adar Rishon 5765

Jews against Israel

Manfred Gerstenfeld

Anti-Semitic attacks on Israel by Israelis and Jews are frequently indistinguishable from those by gentiles. Among the specific aspects in the anti-Israel writings of some Jews are the use of their family's Holocaust experiences, their references to being Jewish or an association of some kind with Israel.

Gentile assaults on Israel and Jews often use statements from Israeli or Diaspora Jewish defamers as a legitimization.

In order to fight verbal attacks against Israel by Israelis and Diaspora Jews more effectively, a much better understanding of their background, motives and methods is required. This issue has largely been neglected by Israel and the major defense organizations.

In order to fight verbal attacks against Israel by Israelis and Diaspora Jews more effectively, a much better understanding of their background, motives and methods is required. One must identify the origin of their ideas and where they stand politically, as well as how they interact with others. Furthermore, a psychological analysis of the elements of self-hatred in their discourse is required.

Some aspects of this behavior require specific scrutiny, while others should be investigated within the framework of general verbal attacks against Israel, i.e., classical gentile anti-Semitism or the "new" anti-Zionism. To deepen insight into this phenomenon, it should also be studied internationally.

Many gentile assaults use statements from Israeli or Diaspora Jewish defamers as a way of legitimizing their attacks on Israel or Jews. Furthermore, a small number of anti-Israel Jews enable the media to present a Jewish community divided on key Israeli policy. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz mentions that the Boston Globe published two pictures of Israel's 55th anniversary parade: one of pro-Israel groups carrying flags and the other of the Neturei Karta, a small ultra-Orthodox group at a counter-demonstration, carrying banners that included the slogan "real Jews are anti-Zionists." This created the impression that an equal number of Neturei Karta and Zionists attended the parade.2

When identifying basic components of the anti-Israel assaults by Jews outside Israel, one important facet is anti-Semitic statements and actions. These have also to be seen in the context of the more general debate about the point at which extreme critique of Israel turns into anti-Semitism.

Defining New Anti-Semitism

Gradually, a consensus is developing on the definition of "new" anti-Semitism, i.e., the variety of Jew-hatred targeting the state of Israel. Once this mutation's key characteristics have been classified, an analysis of any speech, writing or action can be made to determine its anti-Semitic elements. It is no longer relevant who the author is and whether he is Muslim, Christian, atheist, communist, Maoist, Trotskyite, Socialist, Liberal, neo-Nazi, Israeli or Diaspora Jew.

One effort to define the borders between critique and anti-Semitism was made by the Berlin Technical University's Center for Research on Anti-Semitism. It characterized new anti-Semitism inter alia as a critique of Israel - that the Jewish state is negatively distinct from all others, and therefore has no right to exist.3

Irwin Cotler, the Canadian Justice Minister undertook a more detailed analysis of the multiple aspects of the new anti-Semitism. He claims that people become anti-Semites when calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jews; when denying the Jewish people's right to self-determination; when they de-legitimize Israel as a state or attribute all the world's evil to Israel; when Nazifying Israel, denying the Holocaust or singling out Israel for discriminatory treatment in the international arena. Cotler also mentions cultural anti-Semitism as a characteristic of the new anti-Semitism. He defines it by saying that "Israel is attributed a mix of evil qualities by salon intellectuals and western elites."4

Using mainly Cotler's definitions, one can analyze anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic statements by Jews abroad. A few examples will illustrate this. To investigate the phenomenon efficiently, texts from the perpetrators are quoted jointly with the comments of various critics.

The Academic Boycott

The prime location to start investigating hate attacks by Jews is the campus. One major aspect of the new anti-Semitism is the academic initiatives to discriminate against Israeli universities and scholars. These efforts began in 2002 and developed rapidly in a number of countries. They took the Israeli government, as well as the Jewish world - including the academic one - by surprise.

These discriminatory initiatives have many facets. They cover issues such as calls for a moratorium on cultural and research links with Israel at European or national levels, the severing of relations between European and Israeli universities as well as the boycott of Israeli academics. In the United States, the main pattern has been to promote the divestment of Israeli securities and those of companies that have military dealings with Israel.5

An analysis of the signatories and initiators of the various appeals shows that Jews and Israelis have played an important role in the attacks. The initiative for the boycott in the UK was taken by Stephen and Hilary Rose, two Jewish professors. Other prominent Jews were also among the signatories of an open letter in the Guardian.6

A few weeks later in Australia, a similar initiative began which secured 90 signatories. One of the two initiators was John Docker, a Jewish Australian author from the Australian National University humanities research center.7

In July 2002, The Observer published a lengthy article by the Roses, which detailed Israeli military actions. When mentioning the murders by suicide bombers, the Roses carefully avoided describing these as Palestinians, nor did they refer to any negative Palestinian action in the entire paragraph.8 This is a well-known distorting technique.9 In their article the Roses also compared Israel to South Africa. Even the Jerusalem Post10 and the Jewish Chronicle gave them the opportunity to present their discriminatory ideas.11

In a later article the Roses reported receiving substantial hate mail. They also mentioned substantial support from people they called "pathologically anti-Jewish." They went to great lengths to dissociate themselves from being Jewish anti-Semites.12 This denial of anti-Semitism is a recurrent motif among Jews who attack Israel.

Trying Again

By March 2004, after boycott attempts largely failed, an open letter was published in the Guardian signed by over 300 academics, asking leaders of Israeli universities to reveal whether they support government policies. It contained many familiar names of anti-Israel academics. Among its signatories were Jews such as Mike Cohen, Stephen and Hillary Rose and John Docker, as well as Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond from France and Lawrence Davidson from the U.S.
Other signatories were Israelis such as Eva Jablonka, Ilan Pappe and Tanya Reinhart, as well as Arabs and notorious gentile anti-Israeli academics such as Mona Baker and Sue Blackwell. Nahman Ben-Yehuda, dean of Hebrew University's Social Sciences faculty, told the Guardian that the letter recalled the days of McCarthyism.13

Martin Kramer, editor of the Middle East Quarterly, wrote in a web log that "Israeli academics have never boycotted Palestinian professors, even in the worst days of terror." He mentioned that the academic boycott against Israel explicitly imposes a political litmus test on Israeli scholars. "It is radical-style McCarthyism."14

Noam Chomsky

Several Israeli academics were among the signatories of anti-Israeli petitions.15 Tanya Reinhart of Tel Aviv University was particularly active. In a letter to another left-wing professor, Baruch Kimmerling of Hebrew University, who opposed the boycott, she wrote that what Israel is doing exceeds the crimes of South Africa's white regime.16

Reinhart, a linguist, is a pupil of Noam Chomsky, a well-known professor of linguistics at MIT in Boston. Chomsky's pronouncements make him a Jewish paradigm of Cotler's definition of cultural anti-Semitism. He has systematically attributed to Israel a mix of evil qualities over the decades. In his student days, Chomsky belonged to a group called Avuka (Hebrew for "torch") which opposed the establishment of a Jewish state.17

Alan Dershowitz considers Chomsky "the intellectual godfather" of the anti-Israel campaign, mentioning that Chomsky seeks the abolition of the state of Israel.18 This makes Chomsky an anti-Semite according to the definitions of both Cotler and the Berlin Anti-Semitism Center, as he expresses views that define Israel as a state fundamentally distinct from all others in a negative sense.

Chomsky also wrote an introduction to a book by the French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson.19 Yet his reputation has survived internationally among many.20 Chomsky's systematic role in promoting hatred of Israel has impacted many others. When analyzing academic discrimination of Israel, one finds direct or indirect indications of his influence in many places. One is that among those active in the academic boycott of Israel, linguists seem disproportionately represented. This concerns both Jews and non-Jews. Some examples are the aforementioned Tanya Reinhart as well as Francesco Gatti21 and Rodolfo Delmonteboth of Cà Foscari University in Venice. A disproportionate number of linguists at Harvard and MIT have signed anti-Israel petitions.23 One organizer of a campus divestment campaign was Uri Strauss, a citizen of Canada and Israel and a graduate linguistics student at the University of Massachusetts.24

Chomsky also has made a major effort to promote historian Norman Finkelstein, another adversary of Israel.25 Among Finkelstein's books is The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.26 Leading Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer called Finkelstein a "Jewish anti-Semite" and considered the attention his book received as a temporary setback in the struggle for Holocaust education.27 Finkelstein's book received extensive publicity in France28 and other European countries.29 30

Israeli historian Ronald Zweig wrote: "Himself Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors, Finkelstein could allow himself to articulate what many people believe but do not dare say in public."31 Another Jewish distorter of Holocaust memory from the academic world is Sara Roy from Harvard's University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She uses being a child of Holocaust survivors. At a Holocaust Memorial Lecture she compared Israelis to Nazis.32

Even in the Jewish Press

Jewish journals sometimes print essays of Jewish authors using anti-Semitic arguments. The American magazine Tikkun published an article by Joel Kovel, the Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College (NY). Kovel calls Israel a racist state that "because it automatically generates crimes against humanity and lacks the internal means of correcting them, cannot have that legitimacy which gives it the right to exist."33 He also compares the Zionist state to the Nazi state.34

Tony Judt, Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University, de-legitimizes Israel in a different way. "Israel is…a Jewish state in which one community - Jews - is set above others, in an age when that sort of state has no place."35 In his reply to Judt, Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of the New Republic, claimed Judt considers all Jews responsible for each other's behavior. He argues this is not a Zionist notion but an anti-Semitic one.36

Networking

Norton Mezvinsky, who teaches history at Central Connecticut State University, has been an opponent of Israel for several decades. His spiritual mentor was Reform Rabbi Elmer Berger, executive director of the American Council of Judaism. Jonathan Calt Harris in FrontPage Magazine mentions how in November 2000 Mezvinsky participated in an event in which the central theme "was to compare Israel with Nazism and apartheid."37

Mezvinsky also updated Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, a book by the extreme left-wing Israeli academic Israel Shahak, and wrote its introduction. On the Amazon internet site, Chomsky comments on the book: "An outstanding scholar, with remarkable insight and depth of knowledge. His work is informed and penetrating, a contribution of great value." This reaction provides another illustration of the collaboration of anti-Israel forces in academia.

The networking between anti-Israel forces on campus is succinctly described by Ruth Wisse of Harvard: "Like many such initiatives since the 1960s, the petition campaign against Israel is promoted by relatively small numbers of faculty with interlocking interests. Its driving force are Arabs, Arabists, and their sympathizers who help prosecute the war against Israel as a way of diverting attention away from Arab regimes. They are joined by Leftists - including Jews - who see in Jewish particularism the chief hindrance to their internationalist faith; by radicals who consider Israel and America to be colonial powers and who promote their reactionary or revolutionary alternatives; and by antiwar enthusiasts who blame Israel for inviting Arab aggression against it."38

Categorizing Israel's Enemies

Israel's Jewish adversaries must be categorized in order to better expose and combat them. Firstly, there are hard core extremists who have been active against the country for decades. Alfred Lilienthal, author of The Zionist Connection, is a prominent example. In the introduction to his book, Lilienthal praised the UN resolution which equated Zionism with racism and racial discrimination.39

Chomsky, Mezvinsky and Finkelstein are among the better known Jewish distorters of Israel's image on campus. Others may take even more extreme positions, but their attacks are incidental rather than ongoing.

Besides the hard core of Israel's adversaries from the academic world there are those who go along. They will never take any initiative but are available to provide support to the initiators by signing petitions. Another category are those incidentally incited to participate in anti-Israel actions. An example of the latter is Peter Fonagy, a Jewish psychoanalyst of University College in London, who signed the Open Letter initiated by Stephen and Hilary Rose, published in the Guardian.40

When he became the subject of severe criticism by Israeli academics, Fonagy responded that he had been under personal stress and had not been thinking clearly when he signed the call for the boycott. He withdrew his signature and apologized for it.

Where to Go from Here?

This essay illustrates some key aspects of verbal Jewish aggression against Israel as well as Jewish anti-Semitism in the world of academia. There is a substantial gap between the importance of the problem and the attention given to it in the Jewish world. The Jewish academics' attacks on Israel must be analyzed not only in the wider context of academic aggression against Israel, but also within the framework of a profound study of contemporary
Jewish anti-Semitism, Israel-hatred and self-hate yet to be undertaken.

Jewish self-hatred manifests itself in Israel as well. It is confined mainly to people outside the mainstream of society. Systematic research covering anti-Semitic texts in Israeli society will illustrate this.41 The World Jewish Congress drew attention to this phenomenon: "Certainly, a most disturbing element in the present situation is the fact that certain extreme left-wing Israeli organizations are often operating in concert with the Arabs in such campaigns and even orchestrating them."42

The above type of analysis should be enlarged in various directions. Analyzing the anti-Israeli statements of some Jewish politicians is a further avenue to follow. Those of the late Austrian socialist Prime Minister Bruno Kreisky are a prime example for further investigation. A current example of Jewish promotion and initiation of political attacks against Israel is Ronnie Kasrils, former guerilla and current South African Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry. Kasrils initiated a discussion about a possible boycott against Israel in the South African cabinet.43 44
Many insights on strong anti-Israel bias can also be gleaned from British Labour MP Gerald Kaufman's speech in the House of Commons delivered after the Jenin Defensive Shield operation.45 In March 2004 he called for economic sanctions against Israel.46 In the financial world, American Jewish billionaire fund manager George Soros' statements illustrate a highly problematic attitude. He said inter alia, "I'm also very concerned about my own role because the new anti-Semitism holds that the Jews rule the world…As an unintended consequence of my actions…I also contribute to that image."47

Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said that Soros blames the victim of anti-Semitism for all of Israel's and the Jewish people's ills.48 Such attitudes have manifested itself in many ways in the post-war period.

Financial and Other Areas

In the 1950s, Gordon Allport discussed various aspects of self-hate. Among these, he mentioned "the subtle mechanism" whereby the victim agrees with his persecutors and "sees his own group through their eyes." He said that a Jew "may hate his historic religion…or he may blame some one class of Jews…or he may hate the Yiddish language. Since he cannot escape his own group, he does in a real sense hate himself - or at least the part of himself that is Jewish."49
New versions of the old motif have now emerged. Among these are Jews who hate the Jewish state or see it through the eyes of "politically correct" members of some Western elites. They may even lead, not just join, these attacks.

Anti-Semitic Jews have also become an important tool in the anti-Israeli campaigns of Western media. On the British media, Robert Wistrich observes: "Only those Jews who smash Israel appear in the media, and Israel is routinely represented as an ethnic-cleansing rogue state - when not compared to Nazi Germany and South Africa - and at the same time is held to a higher standard than other countries."50

So far there have been many rewards with correspondingly limited penalties for some of the Jews who attack Israel. They have positioned themselves in society in such a way that they are applauded by part of the non-Jewish environment and provide useful alibis for Israel's Western enemies.

A Multidisciplinary Assessment Required

One also finds anti-Israeli Jews in various human rights organizations and other NGOs. Jews with a strong anti-Israel bias in the media are another group requiring in-depth research.
A more profound analysis should not be limited to the factual assessment of speech, text and actions. The phenomenon should also be assessed politically, culturally, psychologically and socially. Though there is collaboration between Israeli and Jewish anti-Israel forces, there are also important differences between the two which should be detailed. As aforementioned, if one reads anti-Semitic texts without knowing the author, one is often unable to guess whether the author is Jew or gentile. Yet there are specific aspects in the hate writings of some Jews against Israel. These concern the use of one's family's Holocaust experiences, references to being Jewish and an association of some kind with Israel.

It would have been a wise policy for Israel and the Jewish defense organizations to have confronted these attacks on Israel much earlier and more aggressively. Once a phenomenon reaches greater proportions without checking, it becomes far more difficult to fight.

http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-30.htm

May 10, 2005. Reindeer Farm in Alaska. I have a little trouble thinking of Alaskan Wildlife living at a farm. Reindeer FARM. What is Alaska coming too? 

May 10, 2005. Matanuska River, Alaska. River is a diry. Probably turbulent sediment from higher river levels due to greater ice melt.  

High Tree Line. May 10, 2005 Matanuska River, Alaska. 

May 10, 2005. Palmer, Alaska. 

May 10, 2005. Palmer, Alaska. 

Enhanced picture Palmer, Alaska. 

May 10, 2005. Storm moving into Amarillo, Texas. 

May 10, 2005. Irwin, Iowa got hail. 

Michael Moore Today

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Army Recruitee Tells of False Promises;

"I would say, 'How dare you lie to my family and my son?'" Michael's mother Carol said.

Army Recruitee Tells Of False Promises
DENVER (CBS4) More allegations are emerging from CBS4's army recruiting investigation. A young man is sharing his story of how recruiters created false documents to get him into the ranks, and a recruiter is talking about the pressure to meet their quotas.
The troubles began for Michael Flaherty, 19, of Grand Junction, Colo., when he signed on the dotted line to become a soldier. He couldn't pass his physical, so Flaherty claims recruiters took him to a drug store and bought him a laxative to take in order to lose weight.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2584

More Cash, Appeals to Parents, Patriotism Haven't Reversed Trend

Army, Marines miss recruiting goals again
More cash and appeals to parents, patriotism haven't reversed trend
By Jim Miklaszewski / NBC News
WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials say it's not a crisis, but it is a major concern — a battle here at home to win the hearts and minds of potential new recruits.
After more than three years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the all-volunteer military is facing its toughest test yet.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2581

Navy Petty Officer Third Class Pablo Paredes Issues Final Statement Prior to Wednesday’s Court Martial
(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--May 10, 2005
The following statement was issued today by Navy Petty Officer Third Class Pablo Paredes prior to his court martial trial in San Diego on Wednesday:
Yesterday I formally entered a plea of “not guilty” to charges of unauthorized absence and missing movement stemming from my refusal to board the Iraq-bound ship USS Bonhomme Richard on December 6, 2004. I will be tried in a special court martial on 05/11/2005.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2591

Camilo Mejia’s Long Journey of Conscience From Nicaragua, to Iraq, to Military Prison
By Ron Smith / Narco News
Today events are occurring around the United States as part of the National Day of Action for GI Resisters. On March 19 of this year, my wife, and associate producer, Cindy Sousa and I had the opportunity to travel to Fayetteville, North Carolina, home of Fort Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the United States. We came to capture some of the stories of the young veterans of the current US war in Iraq who had come together to oppose the war.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2592

RADIATION & TORTURE
Almost 12,000 Iraqis are already behind bars and the US is planning for more, investing $50 million in expanding three detention centers and opening a fourth.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

THE MARCH OF FREEDOM
Almost 12,000 Iraqis are already behind bars and the US is planning for more, investing $50 million in expanding three detention centers and opening a fourth.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php

Behind Failed Abu Ghraib Plea, a Tangle of Bonds and Betrayals
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: May 10, 2005
In a military courtroom in Texas last week was a spectacle worthy of "As the World Turns": Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the defendant, holding her 7-month-old baby; the imprisoned father, Pvt. Charles A. Graner Jr., giving testimony that ruined what lawyers said was her best shot at leniency; and waiting outside, another defendant from the notorious abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Megan M. Ambuhl, who had recently wed Private Graner - a marriage Private England learned about only days before.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10graner.html?ex=1116388800&en=b3cc9e2871ee1a96&ei=5070

LancasterOnline.com
Author, activist found dead in city was ‘rising star’ in literary world
By Bernard Harris
Lancaster New Era
Published: May 09, 2005 1:50 PM EST
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Tristan Egolf, a local political activist and author, was found dead inside a city apartment Saturday.Lancaster City police reportedly are investigating Egolf’s death as an apparent suicide, although no officers were available to comment this morning. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
Egolf, 33, who reportedly lived in the 300 block of West Lemon Street, was found inside an apartment in the 400 block of North Charlotte Street.
Egolf was widely known locally as the leader of the Smoketown Six, a group of young men who were arrested in July when they attempted to protest President George W. Bush’s campaign stop in East Lampeter Township.

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/6/14168

The People Daily

US Congress approves 82 billion dollars for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan

The US Congress on Tuesday approved the final version of a bill providing an additional 82 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, sending it to President George W. Bush for his signature.
The Senate approved the legislation

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/11/eng20050511_184437.html


EU hopes to start talks with China on new partnership pact

The European Union (EU) said Tuesday in Brussels it hopes to start negotiations on a new bilateral partnership agreement with China later this year to replace the current agreement signed in 1985.
"Both the EU and China have changed beyond recognition in 30 years and so has our relationship," European Commissioner on external relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner said. "Our existing Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement simply doesn't live up to the dynamism of today's partnership."

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/11/eng20050511_184406.html

THE DECISION STREAM
The Cheney Observer Revisited

Kurds: Fallujah assault only scattered foe
December 21, 2004
BY ANNIA CIEZADLO
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq -- For six weeks, the U.S. military pounded Fallujah in an effort to crush the core of Iraq's insurgency -- and kill or capture its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-iside21.html

December 22, 2004 09:08 AM US Eastern Timezone
Halliburton Project Nears Completion as Barracuda Achieves First Oil Production; Caratinga Vessel Currently Undergoing Sea Trials and Final Inspections
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 2004--Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) announced today that its KBR subsidiary and Petrobras have reached another important milestone toward completing the development of the Barracuda and Caratinga offshore fields in Brazil. Today first oil production from the Barracuda Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, P-43, at Barracuda field in the Campos Basin was achieved from well BR-23, at a rate of 10,380 barrels per day (bpd) of 25 degree API oil. The well, at a water depth of 770 meters, is linked to P-43 by a 3,668 meter subsea pipeline.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041222005219&newsLang=en

Four killed Halliburton workers from Texas, Oregon, Alabama
12/22/2004, 1:44 p.m. CT
The Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) — Two Texas men and two others from Oregon and Alabama were identified Wednesday as the four Halliburton Co. employees killed in the attack at a military base in Iraq, a strike that is among the deadliest for the Houston-based contractor since its involvement there.

http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1103745246151060.xml&storylist=alabamanews

Judge Rules for Halliburton Retirees
The company cannot trim the medical benefits received by retirees of Dresser Industries Inc., which merged with a Halliburton subsidiary in 1998.
Stephen Taub, CFO.com
December 22, 2004
For a change, score this round for retirees.
As more and more companies try to cut back on the benefits promised to their former employees, a federal judge ruled that Halliburton Co. cannot trim the medical benefits received by retirees of Dresser Industries Inc., which merged with a Halliburton subsidiary in 1998.

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3515956/c_3515964?f=home_todayinfinance

Soldiers saw giant tent as inviting target for insurgents
By Bill Nichols and Del Jones, USA TODAY
Only a week ago, Christmas trees and other holiday decorations began to go up in the cavernous mess hall at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, Iraq. The soft-skinned tent is one of the few spots on the base where troops can relax with friends, eat a cheeseburger or catch Monday Night Football over Tuesday morning breakfast.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-12-21-mosul-tent_x.htm

Insurgents pierce U.S. defences
15 American troops die in midday attack on base near Mosul
By BORZOU DARAGAHI
Special to The Globe and Mail, with a report from AP
Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - Page A1
BAGHDAD -- An attack yesterday on an American military base in the northern city of Mosul killed at least 22 and wounded 66, the deadliest attack inside any of the U.S.-led occupation force's well-guarded bastions since the Iraq war began.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041222/IRAQ22/TPInternational/Africa

OPEC And the Burden of Social Responsibility
Vanguard (Lagos)
OPINION
December 22, 2004
Posted to the web December 22, 2004
Oseloka Zikora
IF United States Democratic Senators, Frank Lautenberg and Richard Durbin and Congressman Peter Defazio have their way, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, would soon become a sacrificial lamb on the altar of WTO rules. That is if the instrument of legislation can suffice as high priest. For that is what the Democrats proposed bill at the US Congress aims to secure, the demise of OPEC.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200412220499.html

Lawsuit to challenge Bush's higher-ed governance
A bipartisan group of lawyers is planning to file suit Tuesday challenging Gov. Jeb Bush's governance of higher education, saying the individual university boards of trustees are making an end run around the public's will, as shown by Amendment 11.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/10460403.htm

North says nuclear weapons part of self-defense
December 21, 2004 ㅡ Delegates from the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States sat down at a negotiating table in Beijing on Feb. 25, 2004, for the second round of talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear aspirations, but the talks were troubled. Washington persisted in its demands for a complete, irreversible and verifiable dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear programs, while Pyeongyang demanded compensation in return for a freeze.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200412/20/200412202357045539900090309031.html

50 detained in Najaf bombing
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December 20, 2004
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NAJAF, Iraq-- Iraqi authorities detained 50 suspects in connection with an explosion in the Shiite holy city of Najaf that killed at least 54 people and wounded 142, and thousands of mourners attended funerals for the victims on Monday.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-iraq20.html

Delay hampers Scripps recruiting

Recruiting efforts for Scripps Florida are being hindered by the delay of construction for the biotechnology researcher's permanent Palm Beach County headquarters.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6736504/

The greatest story never told
by Robert Lockwood Mills
December 20, 2004
There’s a story to tell this Christmas season about evil and redemption, about hope for the future. No, it isn’t the one about King Herod and the Babe of Bethlehem. That story has been told thousands of times, and has inspired Christians and even many non-Christians for two millennia. The new Christmas story hasn’t been told, because as was the case in Palestine two thousand years ago, the public isn’t quite ready to receive the news. There’s no room in the inn…not yet, at least.
The United States of America began as a secular country that welcomes religion, not as a religious country that tolerates secular humanism. It is a nation of laws, not men. Our founding fathers were mostly God-fearing gentlemen, but contrary to popular belief, the late 18th-century was not a time when religious observances were prevalent. We’ve become a religious nation, which is good, but in the evolution we’ve lost sight of the guiding principles on which America was founded.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1006

Big Dig began with a critical decision
Novel technique may be behind troubles
By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff December 19, 2004
The Big Dig was just a drawing-board sketch in 1988, a dream to replace Boston's traffic-choked elevated roadway with a wider, faster underground highway.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/12/19/big_dig_began_with_a_critical_decision/

Shell welcomes renewal of Oman concession agreement
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies ('Shell') today welcomed the signing of agreements with the Government of the Sultanate of Oman which extend the term of Petroleum Development Oman's (PDO's) Block 6 concession.

http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/50852.html

Ministry seeks ways to offset BPC losses
Options include petroleum price hike and import duty cut
Staff Correspondent
The energy ministry has sought the finance ministry's assistance to find a solution to the financial losses incurred by the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) in importing oil at a very high price.

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/12/20/d4122001022.htm

Inaugural donors give $4.5 million
Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published December 19, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than $4.5 million from the corporate world has flowed to President Bush's inauguration fund, much of it from the energy industry and some of its executives in contributions of $250,000 each.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412190479dec19,1,4542621.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

MOE supports PTTEP's plan to seek concession in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (TNA) – Energy Minister Prommin Lertsuridej yesterday expressed full support for PTT Exploration and Production Plc (PTTEP)’s plan to seek a concession in oil and natural gas exploration in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

http://www.mcot.org/query.php?nid=33933

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April 7, 2005. Quieter picture. Equator intact. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is approaching. 

May 10, 2005. The Western Hemisphere. Noted the BREAK in the equatorial air to the Mid-latitude Vortex in the Atlantic Ocean. The break point at the equator is noted to connect to a peripheral vortex flow in the Southern Hemisphere related to the Antarctica Vortex. If you will entertain the thought of a complete circumglobal vortex secondary to the cap gradually moving north with ionic force while pulling the Southern Hemisphere air north as well; then realize the END of the circle starts at the Amazon Delta and completely circles Earth to end in the Mid-Latitude Atlantic Ocean Vortex. 

May 10, 2005. The heat transfer system is resolving into a vortex mid latitudes of the Atlantic Ocean. I believe this to be an improvement as it relieves the Arctic Circle ice formations of heat transfer however I believe this results in ocean temperature increase when not affiliated with ice melt. Neither option is good but this trend relieves vital ice from direct exposure of heat from the equator. 

May 2, 2005. The hemispheric vortex in the Atlantic always takes a turn north over the Greenland Ice. Here also noted is a larger heat transfer system from the equator to the Arctic Circle over Mid-Atlantic Ocean originating from the area of Panama. 

May 3, 2005. When first noted the hemispheric vortex. The 'gap' between the Vortex circulation and the Equatorial circulation is significant.  

May 11, 2005. Noted the 'gap' between the Hemispheric Vortex and the Equatorial air is closing. Also noted the turbulent 'injection' system over central North America directly from the equator to the cooler Great Lakes System. The Equatorial System appears to be increasing in volume UNLESS it is just spread out over a greater area as the North Polar Vortex pulls that moisture further north. This is a phenomena not noted in the Southern Hemisphere in relation to Antarctica where there is greater Ocean surface area as compared to the Northern Hemisphere where there is greater land mass. Antarctica is also a land mass where as the Arctic Ocean is an ocean capable of FLOATING in displacement under an ionized vortex. There is far greater plasticity with the water relationships of Earth in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern. 

April 7, 2005. The Equator is more reliably closer to 0 degrees latitude.

May 10, 2005. The equatorial air is intact in this satellite. HOWEVER. It has moved north of 0 degrees latitude. It appears incremental in this view but in actuality it is a significant 4 degrees north when one uses Panama as a reference point. Over the Pacific Ocean it is probably more.

May 10, 2005. Equatorial air intact in this satellite. There is still vortex flow from Amazon Basin over Africa and Middle East to Arctic Circle with less pronounced heat in the Northern Hemisphere. There is less heat over Africa. Noted significant vortex system in Northern Atlantic Ocean. The South Polar Vortex is quieter but has extensive peripheral reach to the equator over South America. 

April 11, 2005. European-African satellite. Noted heat as well as a vortex flow (difficult to note) from Amazon River Basin over Africa then the Middle East then onto Arctic Circle in Northern Hemisphere. Equatorial aire intact circumglobal. South Polar Vortex noted. 

May 9, 2005. This is the storm referred to below. Walnut Creek, California.

ACCORDING TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER :: Absolutely incredible. Sky black as night over this hill, the sun was out in back of me. It was beautiful. We got very little rain from this. (edited... lightening hit a tree and started a fire in the area and hail, a funnel cloud and other odd things for the Bay Area came along with this storm.)

May 10, 2005. Extensive Flower Beds of Pearl Street, Downtown Boulder, Colorado. They are among the healthiest, happiest flowers I have ever seen. They are lovely. It takes a lot, a lot of work to create such a splendid display of flowers. It is a way of inviting not only nature into one's life but beauty that welcomes the admiration of neighbors and friends while serving as a resting place for a glass of tea. Flower beds are more than a 'show of expertise' it compliments a lifestyle that includes nurturing.