Israel: Front Line In The Long War

This is an article by Daniel Gordis in The Jerusalem Post about how Israelis spent Summer 2014:  http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-dose-of-nuance-Hope-youre-having-a-good-summer-372646

191,000 dead in Syria prompts Obama to think of an idea that could be the start of a plan to commence contemplating the beginning of...whatever

This is an interesting read at the Middle East Eye site: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/obama-says-no-strategy-yet-execute-scores-syrian-soldiers-295339151

I have an article titled "The Radical Realism of Barack Obama" in the September 2014 edition of Quadrant. Out on Monday!  

South Australians Supporting Israel

I saw an electronic flyer and decided to attend. The South Australians Supporting Israel group mustered upwards of eighty people outside Parliament House in Adelaide today, Sunday 24 August, 2014. Everybody was very polite and reasonable as you might expect. The organisation has a Facebook address: https://www.facebook.com/search/keyword/?q=south%20australians%20supporting%20israel 

200 Hollywood Entertainers Denounce Hamas

Creative Campaign For Peace has enlisted the support of 200 Hollywood entertainers with this declaration: "Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage." Click this link for the full story:http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Seth-Rogen-Schwarzenegger-join-hundreds-of-Hollywood-heavies-in-support-of-Israel-372041
And here is the link to the Creative Community Community For Peace site: http://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/

Hamas Executes Gazans

Photo: Reuters

It is a troubling picture but the world needs to know what it is up against. There is a case to be made that Hamas is even more monstrous than Islamic State (IS) because it conspires to have its own people killed in order to advance a political agenda and then, when that does not work, starts murdering them itself. Click this link for the story: http://www.debka.com/article/24209/Hamas-conducts-summary-mass-executions-against-IDF-intelligence-penetration

An Israeli Arab: "I Feel a Part of this State"

The Israeli village of Daburiyya

Here is an interesting article by David Horowitz in The Times of Israel. Professor Ahmed Eid's attitude towards the State of Israel sounds very similar to most - but not all - the Israeli Arabs I met in Israel back in January 2012: http://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-doctor-saves-jewish-soldier-hit-by-arab-bullets-no-big-deal/

Human Rights Watch's Misleading Report on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

Dr Tawfik Hamid, in an article for the Clarion Project, critiques a misleading report by Human Rights Watch on Egypt's struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood: http://www.clarionproject.org/blog/egypt/human-rights-watch-egypt-security-force-misleading?nocache=1

Jihad Against the Zoroastrian Yazidis

Click this link for an update from Reuters on the continuing jihad against the Yazidis:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/15/uk-iraq-security-yazidis-killings-idUKKBN0GF1XZ20140815

At the following link The Telegraph newspaper has a pictorial essay by Sam Tarling on the current plight of the Yazidis:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11030905/Yazidis-Iraq-rituals-Sam-Tarling-Iraqi-Kurdistan-Lalish-Kurdish-Peshmerga-Gwar.html
 

The Salisbury Review

You can find The Salisbury Review by clicking on this link:http://salisburyreview.com/ This blog even gets a mention - "Down under with Daryl" - on the bottom right-hand corner under Recommended. The Autumn 2014 edition (Autumn in the UK, that is) comes out in September.

Pierre Ryckmans (aka Simon Leys): 1935-2014

The title of Ian Baruma's article about the life and work of Pierre Ryckmans in The New York Review of Books is "The Man Who Got it Right". That pretty well says it all: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/simon-leys-man-who-got-it-right/

My indebtedness to Pierre Ryckmans/Simon Leys comes at the end of this article I wrote about China's 1979 Democracy Wall for Quadrant magazine in 2012: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/4/democracy-wall-beijing-1979/

The Kurds vs the Islamic State

President Barzani of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan: "We have ordered the Peshmerga forces to attack the terrorists..." 

Here is an article by John McTernan, in the Telegraph newspaper, speaking about the Kurds who are standing up to the IS terrorists and protecting Christian and Yazidi refugees:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11026422/Britain-must-give-the-Kurds-the-tools-to-lead-Iraq-out-of-this-mess.html

The Islamic State vs the Yazidis

Here is a link to an article by Liz Sly and Loveday Morris in the Sydney Morning Herald on current the plight of the Yazidis:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/kurds-open-escape-route-for-some-trapped-yazidis-20140810-102e92.html

And here is a background article by Christine Allison on Yazidism: http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/yazidis.htm

Here is the link to to Yazdi female politician in Iraq arguing for help to save her people from the Islamic State terrorists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdIEm1s6yhY

Calling All Hamas Apologists! Calling All Hamas Apologists!

Click the following link, Hamas Apologist, and as John Lennon would say, "Take this, brother, may it serve you well":
http://honestreporting.com/idns-08072014-journos-tell-all/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+honestreportingRSS+%28Honest+Reporting%29

Know Thy Enemy

The following article for Al Jazeera, by Richard Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton, encapsulates the growing alliance between the Western Left and Islamo-fascism. If we turn everything Professor Falk believes on its head we might begin to approach the truth. Hamas is a terrorist outfit that has commandeered Gaza for its own apocalyptic and millennialist purposes. Every death in Gaza during Operation Defensive Shield is its entire responsibility. Gazans (and Israelis) die so Professor Falk can spout the Muslim Brotherhood's propaganda.

Click this link to know the voice of the enemy of civilisation:          
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/08/gaza-saudi-egypt-20148295742128666.html