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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Please Welcome Vocal International

Michael L.

Vocal International is a recently created non-partisan news magazine out of Brussels, Belgium wherein the editors offered me a monthly column.

Vocal International a non-partisan, European monthly magazine, provides first-rate coverage and analysis of the pressing political issues in Europe and within its neigborhood. With contributors and columnists spanning the higher echelons of politics, business, governance, media, law and academia, Vocal International is an indispensable read for anyone to understand what matters for Europe. The magazine’s editorial is strengthened by its coverage of subjects and views rarely found in the European media.

My first piece is published today, June 1, and is entitled, An Aggressive Alliance; risk for the Region and the West?

If that does not sound like one of my titles it is because it isn't.

The piece is currently on the front page and within the "special reports" section.

It is a brief meditation on the meaning of the alleged recent pact between Turkey and Saudi Arabia in opposition to Assad in Syria and the potential consequences.

I am looking forward to exploring this new venue because it looks sharp.

I very much hope that you guys drop in.

8 comments:

Shirl in OzJune 1, 2015 at 4:11 AM
Kol hakavod Mike. You deserve it.
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JayinPhiladelphiaJune 1, 2015 at 9:04 AM
Off to read. And congrats. First Brussels, then the world! ;)
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kJune 1, 2015 at 12:22 PM
Hi Mike,
congratulations! Am really pleased for you.

It looks like an interesting site.
Interesting to see wide variety of subject matter.

It does look like a 'politically' mixed site.
Without the usual obvious partisanship on some issues.
Although, definitely pro-EU.
It would be surprising for a magazine based in Brussels not to be.

At the moment, Britain is under the spotlight due to the fact of the referendum on staying in Europe.
Polls are saying we will vote to stay in. Easily.
But we're a bit wary of polls following the fact that they were so uniformly wrong on the general election.
Lots of ' horse-trading' in the next weeks and months between our government and the other European leaders.
It will be interesting.

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JeffwithaJJune 1, 2015 at 3:23 PM
Congratulations Mike!
My oh my, you are in demand!
I will check out the site. Best of luck!
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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Please Welcome Vocal International

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