The Americans are often being criticised for being too capitalistic. Mmh. Now it seems as if it were the German firms who are more interested in trade than in morality. They would like to do business as usual with Iran, irregardless of Iran`s threats against Israel. Davids Medienkritik has the whole story here: “Handelsblatt: [...]
In seinem Artikel „Die Simulation des Appeasements“ stellt Hector Calvelli die interessante Frage, ob sich die Haltung Europas gegenüber dem militanten Islam überhaupt als Beschwichtigung bezeichnen lässt. Er kommt zu folgendem Schluss:
Der Antiamerikanismus wie der eliminatorische Antizionismus sind in Alteuropa längst schon mehrheitsfähig; sie werden allenfalls aus Opportunitätserwägungen, auch zur Wahrung des eigenen guten Gewissens, [...]
Dr. Oliver Marc Hartwich, ein neues Mitglied der Achse des Guten, weist hier auf einen Artikel hin, der den Kampf gegen islamischen Extremismus in Australien beschreibt:
Dr. Oliver Marc Hartwich, a new member of the Axis of Good, points to an article on how Australia fights militant Islam:
“How Australia confronts militant Islam - A nation’s blunt [...]
Last week I received this wonderful email:
Dear Karin,
It’s been a while since I last wrote to you about how much I love and appreciate your blog. At that time, I congratulated your for finding your friend Debbie. I remarked how touching I found it that you wrote to her in the form of [...]
It is only January, I have only read the prologue and glanced through the rest, but I know this is going to be the book of the year 2007: Mark Steyn`s “America Alone”, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006.
Excerpt:
“Our enemies are small worms,” Adolf Hitler told his generals in August 1939. “I saw them at Munich.” In [...]
Mühltal, January 10, 2007
I feel very much like on a day back in March 2003. Spring was in the air and skies were sunny and blue. It was only weeks before the war in Iraq started and I felt as if I had not deserved it. I was going to enjoy a peaceful beautiful day [...]
“Der Westen darf Israel nicht allein lassen” schreibt Jacques Schuster in seinem heutigen Kommentar in der WELT. Dem ist absolut nichts hinzuzufügen.
“The West must not leave Israel alone”. I have absolutely nothing to add to Jacques Schuster`s headline in today`s WELT.
Ausschnitte:
Seit Monaten macht die israelische Regierung der Welt klar, dass sie eine iranische Atombombe nicht [...]
“Der Westen darf Israel nicht allein lassen” schreibt Jacques Schuster in seinem heutigen Kommentar in der WELT. Dem ist absolut nichts hinzuzufügen.
“The West must not leave Israel alone”. I have absolutely nothing to add to Jacques Schuster`s headline in today`s WELT.
Ausschnitte:
Seit Monaten macht die israelische Regierung der Welt klar, dass sie eine iranische Atombombe nicht [...]
In an interview with Deutschlandfunk Dr. Peter Gauweiler CSU (Bavarian Christian-Social-Union) politician said:
We must make it clear to the Americans, or to be more precise the current American government, that they cannot exterminate other cultural aspirations on this planet - and not everything is automatically terrorism - as they did with the Apaches and Sioux.
More [...]
On Sunday January 28, 2007 a pro-Israel demonstration is going to take place in Berlin.
It is directed against Ahmadinejad`s plan to wipe Israel off the map.
Critics of this demonstration say that one should not compare Ahmadinejad to Hitler. Well, comparing is not saying that they are identical. There is indeed still a huge difference [...]