THINK ISRAEL

Below are just some of the recent articles up on Think Israel

DANGERS OF CAPITULATION
I WAS THERE: IMPRESSIONS OF KFAR MAIMON
A DAUGHTER OF ISRAEL
A SALUTE TO THE TRUE LEADERS
THE UNBEARABLE EASE OF DESTRUCTION
GAZA VERSUS BERLIN
GOING BEYOND SCAPEGOATING
ISRAEL AND THE HOLOCAUST
GAZA'S HISTORY AND THE JEWS
ISRAEL: THE JEWISH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATE
OCCUPATION AND SETTLEMENT: THE MYTH AND REALITY
THE OSLO SYNDROME
WHY SOME JEWS STILL BELIEVE IN ARAB MYTHS
SCORCHED-EARTH KULTURKAMPF

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The end of a golden age for Jews: "Pipes contends that the mega-events of the last few years may have ushered in a less favorable era for American Jewry: "The Jews' Golden Age in America began in 1950, when social restrictions were eased in universities, banks, businesses, clubs, etc. This period may now be ending with the growth of the American Muslim population. Within that community, there are significant elements that see American Jewry as their prime enemy; they perceive Jews as the cause of Islamic failure.... "Militant Islam cannot be compared to any segment of Christianity, Judaism, or Hinduism. These religions do not embody groups with totalitarian utopian ideologies that seek world hegemony. In fact, militant Islam resembles fascism and communism more than any religious movement. "All we can do presently is prepare ourselves for worse to come".

Birth order does affect some things: "Younger children do less well in terms of overall educational attainment than their older brothers and sisters, new research reveals today. A first child is typically at least a year ahead of a third-born brother or sister at the equivalent stage at school, it shows. At the same time, it suggests that parents with limited financial resources may invest more time and money in the education of their eldest child. The findings are claimed to represent the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of family composition on educational achievement. They will influence the long-running debate about why first-born children are typically more successful than their younger siblings. The research was carried out by Kjell Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and will be presented today to the 2005 World Congress of the Econometric Society, hosted by University College London. Working with colleagues at UCLA in the US, he analysed the entire population of Norway aged 16-74, between the years 1986 and 2000".

If you have not seen it already, Chrenkoff has a MOST interesting comparison between the situation in Louisiana and Mississippi. Miss. was worst hit but fared much better because of superior leadership. I don't need to tell you which political parties the respective leaders belong to.

Great news for Australian conservatives: "More young people voted Liberal than Labor at the last federal election, dispelling the popular belief that they are more likely to vote for left of the centre parties, a study has found. Political scientist Clive Bean said research into the political attitudes and voting behaviour of people aged 30 and under had found "substantially" more had cast their vote conservatively in last year's federal election. Professor Bean, from the Queensland University of Technology, said a poorly performing federal Labor Party under former Leader Mark Latham could be partly to blame. "In Australia, as in other countries such as Britain and the United States, the conventional wisdom has been that young people are more likely to vote for left of centre parties," Prof Bean said. "But an analysis of voter behaviour at last year's Australian federal election has shown this is not always the case. "Young men were far more likely to cast a conservative vote, and with young women it was a fairly even split between the two major parties."

Australian economy holding up well: "Australia's economic growth surprised observers with its strength yesterday but the outlook was met with caution for the year ahead. In the past three months, the country's Gross Domestic Product surged 1.3 per cent to add a further $2.7 billion to the national accounts. The result was well above most economists' expectations, which ranged from 0.7 to a steady 1 per cent, and took the yearly rate to 2.6 per cent. The number though is still well below the trend average of 3.75 per cent and lower than the past few years' rate of 4 per cent.... The impact of petrol prices and dampened consumer sentiment and spending were seemingly overshadowed by booming business investment, and the upward resources spike.... The Australian result reverses an emerging worldwide trend of slower economic growth."

The astrobiologists will love this report on Comet Tempel 1: "Dust emanates from the comet in frequent outbursts, likely a result of being warmed by the Sun. The dust kicked up by the impact was not the same as surface dust, but it spread through space and dissipated in a manner similar to the natural outbursts. While more analysis is needed, the interior is clearly different from the surface. Inside, the comet harbors a relatively high concentration of organic compounds, the stuff from which life is made. The organics were more prevalent during and after the outburst than the water and carbon dioxide that routinely escape from the nucleus, or hard core of the comet. The results were presented to reporters in a teleconference today and will be published later this week by the journal Science.

Strange Justice has a post up about a blogger in big legal trouble over exposing injustice

I often have up here postings about how something "is all in the genes". I have such a posting up today on POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH

For more postings, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. Mirror sites here, here, here, here and here. And on Social Security see Dick McDonald

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Practically all policies advocated by the Left create poverty. Leftists get the government to waste vast slabs of the country's labour-force on bureaucracy and paperwork and so load the burden of providing most useful goods and services onto fewer and fewer people. So fewer useful goods and services are produced to go around. That is no accident. The Left love the poor. The Left need the poor so that they can feel good by patronizing and "helping" them. So they do their best to create as many poor people as possible.

The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialistisch)

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