Video: Douglas Murray on Israel and a nuclear Iran
This speech is excellent.
Probably Douglas Murray's finest speech delineating the inane moral fetor emanating from Western academicians on the Iranian nuclear crisis (and the hapless Jewish state Europe hates).
Conference on the Perils of Global Intolerance: The United Nations and Durban III - Part 2
Here are the rest of my notes on Conference on the Perils of Global Intolerance: The United Nations and Durban III. Unfortunately, I missed a chunk in the middle for work....
There was a brief press availability during the conference break. It was especially interesting listening to Zuhdi Jasser describing his Congressional testimony and how they tried to pigeonhole him into a right v. left scenario and how the left got its talking points from the Islamists. None of the speakers really had a definitive answer on why the left is so enthralled with the ‘Palestinians’ and the Islamists generally, who stand for so much that is anathema to the Left. Douglas Murray speaking – he is hysterical. He says that he picked up the New York Times only because the hotel delivered it. He says that Yasser Arafat after his death gets better coverage than Republicans. Arafat was greeted at the UN by ‘wife beater Idi Amin and Nazi Kurt Waldheim.’ He then reads from Moynihan’s 1975 rejection of the Zionism is racism resolution. He’s hysterical. Simon Deng is a Sudanese Human Rights activist. He is furious about UN for ignoring enslavement of southern Sundanese by Arabs – instead the UN is only focused on the ‘Palestinians.’ He himself was tricked into slavery by an Arab when he was 9 years old! Says he’s been to Israel five times visiting Sudanese refugees. Says they were promised shelter in Egypt but escape to Israel where they find shelter. They have to dodge Egyptian bullets to get there. Deng is blasting the notion that Israel is racist. The room is so silent you could hear a pin drop. He talks about black Jews in Israel (presumably Ethiopians). He says that the people who suffer the most from the UN are not the Israelis but the people ignored by the UN as part of its big lie against Israel. Deng just announced in the name of the President of Southern Sudan that their embassy will be built in Jerusalem – not in Tel Aviv. They will not be part of Durban. Jon Voight is next. He praises Deng, and then all the other speakers. Anti-Semitism is a disease. Jason Kenney, Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism points out Canada’s lead role in boycotting Durban. He explains why. Mike Huckabee is the last speaker. I will have to leave in the middle. Obama’s speech yesterday applies to the ills of humanity like a mother kissing a child’s wound when she has no medicine. Obama’s speech won’t resolve conflicts. He doesn’t understand why so many Jews support Obama. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. He talks about the NY9 election last week and says it shows how Obama has no clue what’s at stake in Israel. Talks about first trip to Israel in 1973. People came to escape tyranny. Israel stands and fights for its very existence. It’s irrational to think that Israel giving up increasing amounts of territory will bring peace, just like it’s irrational to think that a Barack Obama speech will bring peace to the world. He says that if UN votes on ‘Palestinian state’ US should cut off all funding and kick them out of the US. We have pressured Israel more for building bedrooms than we have pressured Iran on building nuclear bombs. And Obama’s response has been ‘can’t we all just get along’? How many rockets from Canada would it take for US to react? One. But Israel has taken 4,000. US can’t ask other nations to do what US won’t do. He mentions Fogel family.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
