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- Developers Say Lunar Elevator Within A Decade [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e31a429e230b78d7
- Russia To Kick Off Construction Of A New Spaceport [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/b50f17d546e9c2d4
- New Powers Given To Russia's Security Agency "Echoes The Era Of
The Soviet KGB" [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/38e447f90211b5d1
- EU To Hold Atheist And Freemason Summit [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/9b654bdf6891fa67
- On The Spirit That Lurks In The Bohemian Grove [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e89228a58825d072
- Do You Have A Responsibility To Understand Prophecy? [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/3daafc01b7bc6478
- Israel's southern border wide open and undefended [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/64d32faad66501f0
- WILD AT HEART REQUIRED READING [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/267eb1e9b7ff14db
- BISHOP PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/9b4808b9dedc8a78
- JEWISH ANTI-SEMITIC GATHERING [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/cc965b66fc627b00
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Topic: Developers Say Lunar Elevator Within A Decade
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e31a429e230b78d7
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:59PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/42e8f2628ee07bb1
*Developers Say Lunar Elevator Within A Decade
*<http://www.universetoday.com/2010/07/19/developers-say-lunar-elevator-could-be-built-within-a-decade/>The
idea of a space elevator has been around since the late 1800's, but despite
big dreams and years of research, the low-cost, easy access to orbit that a
space elevator promises is likely still decades away. The biggest problem
rests on the fact that no one has been able to successfully manufacture long
ribbons made of ultra-light, ultra-strong carbon nanotubes, the only known
material that is strong enough for a space elevator. But entrepreneur
Michael Laine believes a lunar elevator – a space elevator from the surface
of the Moon – could be created with materials that are available now. With
more research and the right amount of capital, Laine says a lunar elevator
could be built within a decade. While Laine said he is still "emotionally
very invested" in the concept of a space elevator based on Earth, for now he
has shifted his focus to the lunar elevator. "There was a question of where
was I going to put my time," he told Universe Today, "and being able to do
this soon – perhaps within 5-7 years and not some mythic 15-25 years in the
future is enticing."
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Topic: Russia To Kick Off Construction Of A New Spaceport
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/b50f17d546e9c2d4
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:58PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/6928b27c893c5d71
*Russia To Kick Off Construction Of A New
Spaceport*<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10698433>
The future cosmodrome will be built near the town of Uglegorsk in the Far
Eastern Amur region, close to the border with China. It is planned to be
mostly used for civilian launches and should be operational by 2015. "The
government has made a decision to earmark 24.7 billion rubles ($809m) over
the next three years for the start of the full-blown construction of the
Vostochny cosmodrome," Mr Putin said. Vostochny means "eastern" in Russian.
The head of Russia's federal space agency, Roscosmos Anatoly Perminov, said
that up to 30,000 specialists would build the new space launch facility. He
also noted that it will be smaller than Baikonur, which Russia rents from
Kazakhstan. "It will be a least costly and a more compact site," Mr Perminov
noted, comparing the new site with Baikonur, which is the largest and oldest
space launch facility in the world. The new space port will cover some 700
sq km and will contain new launch pads, a high-tech residential compound and
research laboratories.
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Topic: New Powers Given To Russia's Security Agency "Echoes The Era Of
The Soviet KGB"
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/38e447f90211b5d1
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:57PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/4bf69b77d5d77d00
*New Powers Given To Russia's Security Agency "Echoes The Era Of The Soviet
KGB"*<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i6eCHe8kgIeX8w5N5-xbvZP8OhtAD9H266780>
Human rights and democracy activists say this power could be used to
intimidate government opponents and stifle protests. "This law is targeted
against the opposition ... It's a draconian law which is unprecedented in
the world and is reminiscent of our repressive past," Boris Nemtsov, a
leader of the opposition Solidarity movement, was quoted as saying by the
news agency Interfax. The security service is the main successor agency to
the KGB. The bill was approved by the upper house by a vote of 121-1. The
sole vote against was cast by the house's speaker, Sergei Mironov, who said
he had was apprehensive about the measure. Opposition groups frequently are
denied permission to hold rallies or are allowed to hold them only in
out-of-the-way neighborhoods. Riot police often break up unsanctioned rally
attempts swiftly and brutally. The bill has raised doubts about President
Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to promoting full-fledged democracy and freedom
of expression. Medvedev often has spoken of instituting judicial and police
reforms, and has taken a less hard line on many issues than his predecessor
Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent and later head of the FSB. Putin is now
prime minister and many see his intolerance of dissent as influencing the
Kremlin.
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Topic: EU To Hold Atheist And Freemason Summit
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/9b654bdf6891fa67
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:56PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/cce792ccc6764e4f
*EU To Hold Atheist And Freemason Summit* <http://euobserver.com/9/30506>
Brussels is to hold an EU summit with atheists and freemasons in the autumn,
inviting them to a political dialogue parallel to the annual summit the bloc
holds with Europe's religious leaders. While the EU is a secular body, the
three European presidents, of the commission, parliament and EU Council,
alongside two commissioners, on Monday met with 24 bishops, chief rabbis,
and muftis as well as leaders from the Hindu and Sikh communities. The
annual dialogue, which has taken place since 2005, is for the first time
this year made legally obligatory under Article 17 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Under pressure from Belgium, which constitutionally protects and financially
supports humanist organisations as well as churches, the EU has been forced
to hold a mirror-image summit, but of atheists, scheduled for 15 October.
However, in a move that perplexed and annoyed humanist groups, the EU
atheist summit will also welcome under the rubric of 'non-religious groups',
the Freemasons, the secretive fraternal organisation, according to
commission spokeswoman Katharina von Schnurbein.
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Topic: On The Spirit That Lurks In The Bohemian Grove
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e89228a58825d072
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:56PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/4993927f9b111883
*Apollyon Rising 2012 On The Spirit That Lurks In The Bohemian
Grove<http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/apollyon-four.htm>
*
Thanks to radio host Alex Jones, the public has seen one such ritual on
film. A few years ago, Jones and a British filmmaker slipped into the
Bohemian Grove 30 miles west of Santa Rosa, California, where they recorded
what is now known as the Cremation of Care ceremony. What Jones caught on
camera is like something out of a Stanley Kubrick film. Hooded figures made
up of some of the world's wealthiest, most powerful men including acting and
former U.S. Presidents such as George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Vice
President Dick Cheney and other participants gathered beneath a 40-foot-tall
stone owl surrounded by water. A child (or effigy) dubbed "Dull Care" is
delivered by a ferryman on a small boat and is placed on the altar before
the owl, where it is burned as an offering for the purpose of magically
alleviating the cares and concerns of those elitists making the sacrifice.
Before Jones captured this astonishing ritual on film, American citizens
were not even aware that such occultism is carried out under the cover of
darkness by the world's most powerful and respected leaders. Does this not
cause reasonable people to question what other sorcery is occurring behind
the veil?
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Topic: Do You Have A Responsibility To Understand Prophecy?
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/3daafc01b7bc6478
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:55PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/cb979d52f5762028
*Do You Have A Responsibility To Understand
Prophecy?*<http://www.logosapologia.org/?p=657>
As Isaac Newton observed, God held the first century Jews accountable for
knowing prophecy. It is likely he will us as well. In fact, Jesus taught
that we have a responsibility to know prophecy and keep watch. "Watch
therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour." (Mt 25:13) "But
watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and
drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like
a trap." (Lk 21:34) Paul confirms this in his letter to the Thessalonians,
"For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like
a thief in the night. While people are saying, "There is peace and
security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come
upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. *But you are not in
darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.* For you are
all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of
the darkness."
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Topic: Israel's southern border wide open and undefended
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/64d32faad66501f0
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:10PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/e9fa3f550ba95211
Israel's southern border wide open and undefended
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 20, 2010, 9:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Hamas missiles
<http://www.debka.com/search/tag/Hamas%20missiles/> Iron
Dome <http://www.debka.com/search/tag/Iron%20Dome/> Israel-Egyptian
border<http://www.debka.com/search/tag/Israel-Egyptian%20border/>
Iron Dome will not be deployed against Gaza missiles
Turkey's foreign minister Ahmed Dagutoglu met secretly in Damascus with
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal Monday, July 19, as well as getting together
with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al
Hariri to synchronize their operations against Israel, focusing for now on
the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
In Israel, meanwhile, the home-made Iron Dome defense system against short-
and medium-range missiles was given a showy press after just-completed
successful tests - notwithstanding the admission that it would take months
before the new system was able to protect the Israeli communities and towns
abutting Gaza.
The Iron Dome proved it could simultaneously intercept volleys of rockets
coming in from different directions while computing their trajectories to
determine which would hit populated areas.
However,Deputy Defense Minister Mattan Vilnai, who is responsible for
homeland security, was enlisted Tuesday for a radio interview to cool the
excitement of the 300,000 civilians targeted for Palestinian missile attacks
from Gaza for eight years and the communities of northern Israeli who lived
in the shadow of Hizballah's rockets up until the 2006 Lebanon war.
The Rafael-produced Iron Dome, while the most advanced of its kind in the
world, promises no more than 80 percent effectiveness, Vilnai explained.
Furthermore, it would not be permanently deployed at the northern or
southern borders - but only as required. Salvation was therefore not yet in
sight.
As a cure-all for Israeli border security, Iron Dome has at least four
shortcomings, defined here by debkafile's military sources:
1. *Its availability.* Iron Dome batteries will not be available in the
coming months, should a military showdown flare with Iran, Hizballah or
Hamas. Most optimistically, it will take another 10 months for Rafael to
manufacture the 16-18 batteries required by the two flashpoint border
sectors, deploy them and train crews to operate them. Therefore, even if the
$1.25 billion can be found for this number, Israel will not have the Iron
Dome ready for the next foreseeable rocket or missile attack.
2. *No combat experience*. Although a smash hit in tests, the system has
never been tried in combat conditions. No army in the world will deploy or
place orders for Iron Dome before its first test of fire against the diverse
arsenals of Hizballah and Hamas.
For example, it has never shown its paces against simultaneous Hamas and
Hizballah missile attacks from several directions from rapidly-moving
launching locations with the attackers using electronic devices for jamming
and deception. Four years ago, in the Lebanon War, Hizballah had begun to
master electronic devices for tracking, eavesdropping and locking in on IDF
targets. There is every reason to suppose that the Lebanese Shiite
terrorists have enhanced this capability since then.
3. *Distinguishing targets*. Publicity handouts present Iron Dome as
capable of distinguishing between incoming missiles heading for target
civilian areas and those that will explode in unpopulated areas.
This description oversimplifies the challenges: Today's battlefield is not a
clearly-marked arena between enemy missile launchers and anti-missile
systems for intercepting them. For instance, if the Iron Dome were to track
one volley of missiles aimed at its own base and another targeting the city
of Ashkelon, how would it choose which volley to intercept?
This dilemma could be sorted out with a large enough number of batteries
rising to an unrealistic figure.
4. *Expensive. * Iron Dome is costly - half a million dollars per battery
including its launching mechanism, compared with a Hamas Qassam missile
which costs $150 to manufacture.
On the working assumption that Hamas is able to fire an average 500 rockets
a day and Hamas 300 missiles, Israel would need to lay out a staggering $40
million per day to maintain this defensive system in working order, a
totally disproportionate cost in military terms.
This spiraling dilemma is the consequence of the Netanyahu-Barak
administration's innate lack of resolve.
It does not take a political genius to deduce that the Iron Dome hype was
drummed up after the weekly cabinet meeting of Sunday, July 18, laid bare
the prime minister and defense minister's ineptness in forging a policy to
deal with the massive, uncontrolled influx of up to 1,000 job-seekers per
month swarming across the unfenced Egyptian-Israel border - mostly from
Eritrea and Sudan.
Around 500 a year in 2008, their numbers have expanded to 8,000 in the first
seven months of 2010, with some 50,000 camping in Tel Aviv, 8,000 in Eilat
(one-tenth of the population) and thousands in Ashdod and Arad. Police say
the situation is out of control.
Five months ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered frontier fence to
be built but nothing was done. Tuesday, July 20, Home Security Minister
Yitzhak Aharonovitch touring the long, desert border only to announce that a
barrier would take three years to build and it was no substitute for a
coherent policy of restrictions
The deputy defense minister's cold reality shower have shocked Israelis into
grasping that their government is falling down on the two crucial tasks of
controlling the river of illegal migrants and protection against enemy
rockets.
No consoling peace hoopla is in sight. When Netanyahu met ailing Egyptian
president Hosni Mubarak on Sunday, they went round in circles for the
umpteenth time on ways to get direct talks with the Palestinians off the
ground and the situation in the Gaza Strip, which Cairo is only too happy to
shunt off to Israel. They did not get around to discussing the critical
situation along the much-too-open Egyptian-Israeli border.
debkafile's military sources report that some weeks ago, the American and
French military engineers building the steel wall along the Philadelphi
route for sealing the Gaza Strip arms smuggling tunnels off from their Sinai
routes dropped tools and gave up on the project.
The project was abandoned after Hamas used heavy-duty machinery to cut
through the steel girders forming the wall.
This did not stop al Qaeda's No. 2 Ayman Zawahiri in a new video released on
July 19 from slamming Arab rulers, notably Egypt, for building the steel
wall.
Having given up on tactics for controlling the constant buildup of Hamas and
Hizballah missile arsenals, Israel has also left itself without a current,
effective defense for its southern population or Galilee and laid itself
open to an unhampered influx of African migrants, among whom al Qaeda
elements can easily mingle.
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Topic: WILD AT HEART REQUIRED READING
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/267eb1e9b7ff14db
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:07PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/b6d3aec7958f199c
WILD AT HEART REQUIRED READING
[In the June 28, 2010 Time Magazine online, the article "Mexico's Meth
Warriors" detailed the violent acts of La Familia Michoacana whose "...
grisly calling card is the severed head of an enemy. There have been at
least 20 decapitations this year in their stronghold of Apatzingán, a
colonial city of 100,000 inhabitants who live in perpetual fear of the gang.
Recently, four severed, blindfolded heads -- one belonging to a federal cop
-- were left on its main monument with a sign warning folks to 'take a good
look' at what happens to those who cross the Michoacán mob."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1997449,00.html#ixzz0tsOwhgu9
This same group is now said to base part of their ideology on the writings
of John Eldredge.]
Violent Mexican gang hijacks U.S. evangelical's book [Excerpts]
By Alfredo Garcia
Drawing from an unlikely source, La Familia Michoacana (the Michoacan
Family) bases part of its ideology on the book "Wild at Heart," by John
Eldredge of the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Ransomed Heart Ministries.
Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, known in Mexico as "El Mas Loco" (The Craziest
One), runs La Familia with rigid discipline and pseudo-evangelical spirit.
Doubling as both a political and social force, La Familia is known in
Mexico, a nation that has been plagued with drug-related bloodshed, for its
extreme violence.
According to Time magazine, while Moreno Gonzalez ferried cocaine to the
U.S. in the 1990s, he was influenced by Latino evangelicals and images of
the mafia in "The Godfather" films. Later, he returned to Mexico with a
sense of religious justification-and Eldredge's book.
The book has become central to La Familia's recruitment strategy and group
mentality.
For new recruits, the cartel turns to addicts in drug rehabilitation
clinics, helping them overcome addiction before forcing them to join the
group. Family values and religion are emphasized during the recruitment
process, which includes daily group prayer sessions and mandatory readings.
Included in the readings is Eldredge's book, Spanish translations of which
have been found in police raids of La Familia strongholds.
Eldredge's theology is based on a "muscular" view of Christianity, one that
emphasizes an "authentic masculinity" that has been lost, he said, in modern
Christian theology.
Central to "Wild at Heart" is an image of man as warrior, willing and able
to fight the battle, rescue the beauty, and live the adventure.
Eldredge says he has had mixed feelings about the group's use of his book.
"You know, at first I was shocked and angry," he said, initially calling the
mishandling of his book "pernicious."
"But after I had thought about it, I thought that I'm delighted that `Wild
at Heart' has found itself into their cult because hopefully it will bring
change."
http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/violent_mexican_gang_hijacks_us_authors_book/
[TBC: We have addressed Eldredge's book in a past issue of the newsletter:
http://www.thebereancall.org/node/8262]
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Topic: BISHOP PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY
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Date: Jul 21 08:07PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a31713451d273d4e
BISHOP PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY
WASHINGTON, June 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- Decrying as "missionaries of
hate" U.S. Christians who preach in Africa against homosexual practice, a
former bishop of the Anglican Church of Uganda has called upon western
countries to use their influence to promote acceptance of homosexuality in
Africa.
During his appearance in Washington, Christopher Senyonjo was hosted by
Bishop Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, the first
openly homosexual bishop in the Anglican Communion. The two spoke at the
liberal Center for American Progress about anti-homosexuality legislation in
Uganda, which they blamed on U.S. evangelicals. They also called for a
broader effort to decriminalize homosexual practices in Africa. Senyonjo's
appearance at CAP was part of a six-week speaking tour of the United States,
sponsored by Integrity USA, an unofficial homosexual caucus in the Episcopal
Church.
Limited Time: Half Off! A Woman Rides the Beast DVD
While Senyonjo has been removed from the Episcopate by the Church of Uganda,
he continues to portray himself as an Anglican bishop. During his visit,
Senyonjo was scheduled to meet at the White House with foreign policy
officials of President Obama's administration.
A talk on June 8 between Robinson and Senyonjo began with opening remarks
from Michael Posner, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor. Posner said he was there to "lend the support of
the U.S. government to this very important subject."
IRD Anglican Spokesman Jeff Walton commented:
"Not content to compel Americans to surrender to their agenda of constantly
fluid notions of gender and sex, liberal Episcopalians who resent Africa's
traditionalist beliefs now want the U.S. Government to compel poor African
societies to bend to permissive, secular Western mores....These same liberal
Episcopalians and other U.S. religionists are often indifferent to
international religious persecution, even when churches around the world are
under attack. For them, seemingly sexual freedom is more important than
religious freedom."
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Topic: JEWISH ANTI-SEMITIC GATHERING
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21 08:06PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/364866bc009b9f8b
JEWISH ANTI-SEMITIC GATHERING
"The First National Jewish Anti-Zionist Gathering"
By Rich Trzupek
While the slogan for the "The First National Jewish Anti-Zionist Gathering
(IJAZN)" isn't actually "anti-Semites of the world unite!" that would have
been a fitting choice, combining both of the "gatherings" two underlying
themes: hatred of Israel and adoration of communism. The event [was held]
June 19 through 22...fittingly enough, in Detroit. The once proud and now
crumbling Motor City is perhaps the nation's best example of what happens
when leftist dreams come true. Even better, from the organizers point of
view, the Detroit metropolitan area is home to a large number of Muslims, so
the jihadis living among them can be counted on to make the radical Jews who
organized the event feel even better about their self-loathing.
Specifically, the organizers are the International Jewish Anti-Zionist
Network and the Middle East Children's Alliance. Neither organization
bothers to hide their radical, leftist world-view, a perspective that
dovetails nicely into their sure and certain belief that Palestinians and
Israelis could easily live in peace and harmony, if only Israel would grasp
the hand that Hamas and Hizbullah have repeatedly extended in friendship and
if only Israel would abandon its foolish alliance with those imperialistic
Americans.
The IJAZN was created in 2008 when Professor Moshe Machover and Selma James
announced the adoption of the organization's charter at a press conference
in London.
Machover, born in Tel Aviv in 1936, is an unrepentant admirer of all things
Marxist. He scorns representative democracy, because in his view our system
of government doesn't give appropriate weight to radical ideas. Oddly enough
though, the one representative democracy that comes closest to getting it
right in Machover's world is the nation he hates most of all: Israel. In
April 2010 he wrote: "But here is a rare, perhaps unique, exception: Israel
has just about the most democratic electoral system possible in a bourgeois
state: a consistent form of proportional representation...Minority voices,
including that of the Arab national minority, have regularly been heard on
the floor of that house." Not that providing Arabs living in Israel with the
very things that Arabs deny non-Muslims in every nation they control -- a
voice in government and freedom of worship - excuses Israel's many sins in
Machover's world. Of course not.Lest We Forget
The Middle East Children's Alliance is just as radical. Founder and
Executive Director Barbara Lubin, a Norm Chomsky disciple, was abducted by
Hizbullah in 1991. Recognizing that their captive was coming down with a bad
case of Stockholm syndrome, the terrorist organization released her,
prompting Lubin to observe that: "They're just ordinary schleps like the
rest of us." Ordinary schleps armed with missiles and RPGs perhaps, but why
quibble with a humanitarian like Lubin?
Given the alternate universe in which the organizers flourish, it's not at
all difficult to predict the themes of The First National Jewish
Anti-Zionist Gathering. According to their worldview, the aggressors in the
Middle East are nobly defending their rights and their land, while a nation
under siege has somehow become an agent of American imperialism. What's
truly troubling is that, based on their words and deeds, there's little
doubt that the organizers actually believe that represents an accurate
portrayal of the on-going struggle in the Middle East and that Machover,
James and Lubin don't know how they are being used - and will continue to be
used - by terrorists bent on the destruction of Israel.
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/06/08/the-first-national-jewish-anti-zionist-gathering/
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