David Frum's Diary (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008David's Bookshelf 106The Israeli war for independence has never really ended. The issues in the conflict remain not only unresolved, but violently contested. Of the five Arab states that invaded Israel in 1948, three (Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq) remain legally at war with Israel. The Arab refugees who fled the war zone remain stateless persons.The ongoing nature of the...
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The Pakistan Daily has a series of quotes, purportedly from David Ben Gurion in 1967, saying that Pakistan is Israel's enemy and drawing the conclusion that therefore the Mumbai terror attacks (as well as the assassination of Benazar Bhutto) must have been Zionist plots. Another article in the same paper makes the point more explicitly: The Mumbai operation was too sophisticated for the...
Divining the News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was in India to discuss peace. There is also a quote of David Ben Gurion (Israel’s first Prime Minister) about Pakistan doing the rounds: Ben Gurion on Pakistan, published in the Jewish Chronicle, 1967: “The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for...
s o s (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
"It is essential that we...strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans." -- David Ben Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister. Janes information group, the world's foremost source on intelligence information, reported in July 2001 that "The Indian spy agency RAW and the Israeli spy agency Mossad have created four new agencies to infiltrate...
Monkey in the Middle (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
... ancient port city of Jaffa, by Jewish settlers, Tel Aviv has grown into a vibrant, dynamic city. David ben Gurion declared the State of Israel born from the Tel Aviv Museum now the on Friday, May 14, 1948.Tel Aviv is Israel's economic hub, home of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and many corporate offices and research and development centers. Its beaches, cafés, upscale shopping and secular...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
As written about here, the GA’s in town and so are thousands of Jewish leaders from the US, Israel, and around the world. So what goes on at this mega-conference anyway? Here’s one wrap-up: Edgar Bronfman tells us that at age 36, David Ben-Gurion was the head of the Labor Party. Herzl was 36 when he came [...]
Israelated (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu 'Land for Peace is Land for War' Moshe Ya'alon, a former IDF Chief of Staff who this week joined the Likud party, declared Wednesday morning that the "land for peace" policy he once backed has proven that giving up Jewish land to Arabs brings war. He once stated that Israel could defend itself without the Golan Heights, which outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proposed giving...
Real Jew News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... of political Zionism. But the slogan flies in the face of even what Israel’s “founding father” David Ben Gurion recognized (& later lied about) in 1918 in the Yiddish language newspaper, Yiddishe Kemper : “Eretz Israel is not an empty country. West of Jordan alone houses three quarter of a million people. We should not to take the land from others—but to build the ruins.” View Entire...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... Sdot Yam. - Sdot Yam was established in 1936, just north of Haifa. It was founded at the urging of David Ben-Gurion during the period when the British were refusing to allow Jews to enter the Promised Land. The Kibbutz was ostensibly based on fishing, but was in reality used for smuggling in then-illegal immigrants. It served as a base for the Haganah (unofficial army of the Jewish...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
Bauman Rare Books offers rare finds for memorable gift-giving this holiday season LAS VEGAS, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauman Rare Books, with galleries in Philadelphia, New York and Las Vegas, offers first edition books in a wide range of subjects and price ranges -- perfect for holiday gift-giving. According to David Bauman, founder of Bauman Rare Books and one of the country's most respected...
