WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled a nuclear weapons strategy that establishes new, formal limits on their use, prompting criticism from both advocates of more ambitious curbs and conservatives who questioned the decision to alter decades of bipartisan consensus on how to deter enemy attacks.

The new policy narrows the range of threats the Pentagon will seek to deter with nuclear weapons. Because of advances in missile defense and conventional weapons, the new policy states that the U.S. no longer will target most non-nuclear states, even those that threaten use of chemical and biological weapons.  [Read More]

The Obama Administration has yet again acted against the interests of Americans.  In the midst of conflict between the likes of Iran and North Korea, to name a few, Obama openly chooses to fundamentally change the nuclear policy of the United States?  Not Good.  If you ask me, it looks like that “we’ll open our hand if you unclench your fist” crap isn’t cutting the mustard.  If the President would stop dancing around like the liberal sugarplum king and  take care of business the right way, maybe his ears wouldn’t burn as much.

In Israel today is Yom HaShoa, the Holocaust remembrance day. It’s a solemn day in the Jewish State and around the world, meant to remember the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.  The UN Conference on Racism and Genocide, a well known anti-Israel forum, found it appropriate to invite Iran’s holocaust-denying, genocidal president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad to give the key note speech.

Ahmedinejad, the only head of state in attendance, said that  Israel was “founded on the pretext of Jewish suffering” and that it is the “most cruel and racist regime.”

Over 20 European nations dramatically walked out of the meeting during Ahmedinejad’s vile speech (video). 9 countries, including the United States and Israel had already chosen to boycott the conference, specifically because of its anti-Semitic slant. This conference was based on a document drafted eight years ago in South Africa which equates Zionism to racism.

It was reckless and irresponsible for the Obama Administration to have waited until this weekend before officially announcing that the US would again boycott the conference, after the speech the US asked Iran “to end its horrible rhetoric.” The UK did not boycott the conference, but upon walking out a spokesman for Gordon Brown said the that the British government “unreservedly condemn the Iranian President’s offensive and inflammatory remarks.”

People shouted at Ahmedinejad from the balcony during his speech, and some protesters wearing rainbow-colored clown wigs threw things at him (video).

Suggestion to the people staying at the UN conference: Talk about the ongoing racist genocide in Darfur. Have they not waited long enough for international assistance? Or, is it just easier to trash on Israel than deal with a real genocide?

Happy Hitler’s birthday to you Ahmedinejad. To the normal people out there, this is why the US doesn’t have relations with Iran and other hateful, tyrannical regimes.

Noah Pollack at takes a look at The J-Street Jive in a Commentary Magazine article to be published in April. J Street is a leftist group seeking to bring moral relativism, blame America first policy, and a heeping spoonful of high-flying Hope’nChange rhetoric to the American-Israel alliance.

What’s J Street think of Palestinian terrorism?

We’re not doing a very good job at creating a secure home by conducting ourselves in this manner towards another people that are a minority, and that are powerless, and treating them in a way that forces them essentially to become terrorists, and leads to us being again in danger.

And the US’s Role in Israeli politics?

[I]t’s time [for the United States] to act like the big brother or the parent and to say “enough is enough and we’re going to take the car keys if you don’t stop driving drunk.” We’re not talking about simply business as usual. There’s got to be some sort of intervention here where the U.S. says to Israel the time has come to finally do something. . . . And within Israel, the Israeli prime minister may have a tough time because of their domestic politics fulfilling their commitments. It’s going to be a lot easier if they say to their coalition partners and to the rest of the government, “I have to do this because the president of the United States is telling me to do it.”

Read the special online preview of “They’re Doing the J Street Jive“

At least Marty Peretz at TNR’s The Spine thinks so: Freeman is Toast… And Deserves to be Toast.

A press release from the Republicans Jewish Coalition:

RJC announces strong opposition to U.S. participation  in anti-Israel Durban II conference  and issues urgent action alert to its members

Washington, D.C. (February 23, 2009) – The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) announced its strong opposition to U.S. participation in the United Nations’ Durban Review Conference, commonly called “Durban II”, and issued a national action alert to its members, calling on them to contact the White House and their representatives in the U.S. House and Senate to demand that the U.S. withdraw from participation in the Durban II conference. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said, “President Obama’s decision to send a U.S. delegation to the planning sessions for Durban II is an extremely disturbing change in American foreign policy regarding Israel.  “Like the original Durban conference in 2001, the upcoming conference is based on a document which is specifically anti-Israel. In speaking about racism, xenophobia, and discrimination, the  ‘Durban Declaration and Program of Action’ which lays the framework for Durban II, names only Israel as an offender against human rights. The preparatory committee for Durban II is being chaired by Libya, with Iran and Cuba as vice-chairs. Durban II is based on a document that falsely targets the democratic State of Israel without mentioning real instances of human rights abuses in the dictatorships of Asia, Africa or the Middle East. It is not possible for U.S. participation in this conference to mitigate the anti-Israel hatred the conference is designed to produce. “So far, the U.S. delegation to the planning sessions has remained silent while additional anti-Israel language was added to the conference document. When the Palestinian delegation offered language that called for international protection of the Palestinian people (ostensibly against Israeli racism) and for implementation – as an international legal obligation - of the biased and ungrounded advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice against Israel’s security fence, the U.S. delegation reportedly raised no objection, allowing the language to go through to the final conference without debate. “It is worth remembering that in 2001, when the U.S. withdrew from the first Durban conference, Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed clearly the nature of the conference and why it was unthinkable for the U.S. to participate: ‘I know that you do not combat racism by conferences that produce declarations containing hateful language, some of which is a throwback to the days of ‘Zionism equals racism;’ or supports the idea that we have made too much of the Holocaust; or suggests that apartheid exists in Israel; or that singles out only one country in the world-Israel-for censure and abuse.’ “The U.S. showed moral clarity and stood by our ally Israel by boycotting the 2001 conference when it became clear that Durban I had degenerated into a hate-fest against Israel, Jews, and the West. This second conference will be no different. Britain, Italy and other countries are watching closely how the U.S. responds. The United States should join Israel and Canada in refusing to participate in the Durban II conference this coming April.”

 

In an article published Friday in CSUN’s Daily Sundial, mathematics professor David Klein calls for an end to support for Israel, and what looks like a call for support of ” the elected government of Gaza,” the terrorist organization Hamas.

His rabidly anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist piece justifies Hamas terrorism because fewer Israelis are killed in the violence than Palestinians. The article is a fluff-piece that could have come from the mouth of any of Hamas’ spokesmen.

Unlike USC professor David Lloyd, who is organizing a national academic and cultural boycott of Israel, Klein’s pay check comes from the pockets of California residents.

Please write comments on the Daily Sundial piece here. Share the article and Klein’s personal anti-Israel site.

Join The Dana Report in contacting CSUN’s administration (818) 677-2130 – Demand that professor Klein be fired.

From Jewish World Review:

Though it represents itself to be a Muslim civil rights organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) devoted most of its resources earlier this month to mobilizing opposition to Israel’s attempt to neutralize Hamas militarily. It organized petition drives and bus caravans from chapters across the country to a protest held January 10th in Washington, D.C.
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The following report shows the consistent support CAIR officials have shown for Hamas, Hizballah and other radicals and their refusal to condemn terrorist attacks and suicide bombings by those groups. [Read More... CAIR Leaders in Their Own Words]

Shawn Steel, Former California Republican Party Chairman and Current California RNC Committeeman , had it out with CAIR a few years back; he re-caps CAIR’s attacks on him here: Who CAIRs? Anatomy of Misplaced Outrage

From the Jawa Report:

For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel criminate assault on the Gaza Strip and its educational institutions,” the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel stated in its inaugural press release last Thursday.Speaking in its mission statement of the “censorship and silencing of the Palestine question in U.S. universities, as well as U.S. society at large,” the group follows the usual pattern of such boycotts, calling for “non-violent punitive measures” against Israel, such as the implementation of divestment initiatives, “similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.”

The campaign was founded by a group of 15 academics, mostly from California, but is, “currently expanding to create a network that embraces the United States as a whole,” according to David Lloyd, a professor of English at the University of Southern California who responded on behalf of the group to a Haaretz query. “The initiative was in the first place impelled by Israel’s latest brutal assault on Gaza and by our determination to say enough is enough.” [Read More]

By Mark Steyn, on NRO:

In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell “You are the brothers of pigs!”, and a protester complains to his interviewer that “Hitler didn’t do a good job.”

In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters sneer at Jews, “You need a big oven, that’s what you need!”

In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, “Hamas, Hamas! Jews to the gas!”

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In Helsingborg, the congregation at a Swedish synagogue takes shelter as a window is broken and burning cloths thrown in; in Odense, principal Olav Nielsen announces that he will no longer admit Jewish children to the local school after a Dane of Lebanese extraction goes to the shopping mall and shoots two men working at the Dead Sea Products store; in Brussels, a Molotov cocktail is hurled at a Belgian synagogue; in Antwerp, lit rags are pushed through the mail flap of a Jewish home; and, across the Channel, “youths” attempt to burn the Brondesbury Park Synagogue.

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So, as I said, forget Gaza. And instead ponder the reaction to Gaza in Scandinavia, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and golly, even Florida. As the delegitimization of Israel has metastasized, we are assured that criticism of the Jewish state is not the same as anti-Semitism. We are further assured that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism, which is a wee bit more of a stretch. Only Israel attracts an intellectually respectable movement querying its very existence. For the purposes of comparison, let’s take a state that came into existence at the exact same time as the Zionist Entity, and involved far bloodier population displacements. I happen to think the creation of Pakistan was the greatest failure of post-war British imperial policy. But the fact is that Pakistan exists, and if I were to launch a movement of anti-Pakism it would get pretty short shrift.   [Read More]

Jon Leibowitz on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”

From NRO’s Media Blog: Israel-Haters Love Jon Stewart

From The Jewish Journal’s Blog:

I just got an e-mail from the Muslim Public Affairs Council applauding this segment from Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show.“

“The segment entitled ‘Strip Maul: Israel gets their bombing in before January 20th hope and change deadline’ was superb. Our staff and members appreciated the honest and critical attention brought to the extremely one-sided news reports about the Gaza crisis that have dominated the airwaves,“ MPAC, which wasn’t happy about Mayor Villaraigosa’s support for Israel’s actions, wrote in the letter to Jon Stewart and Friends.

“As huge fans of the show, we congratulate you for using humor as a tool to encourage critical thinking… We appreciate “The Daily Show’s” critical eye, quick wit and fantastic humor.“

MPAC encourage those on its listserv to watch the clip, post a comment thanking Jon Stewart for poking fun at his co-religionists and to monitor other media coverage of the war.

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h/t HotAir