Unlike the failed multicultural policies of France, Germany and Britain ("How multiculturalism went wrong and what to do instead", AFR March 13) that have resulted in fragmented societies, alienated minorities and resentful citizenries, the multicultural policies in Australia have been a huge success and have become a pillar of Australian society and democracy. 

Australia can teach Europe and the rest of the world a thing or two on how to develop and implement world class policies that allow its multicultural communities to achieve their aspirations and to preserve their cultural heritage, and at the same time enable them to build a cohesive society.

As a result of its strategic foresight Australia is well placed to meet the challenges of the 21st century characterised by the ongoing need for continuous innovation, collaboration and partnerships in a interdependent world.

Long live Australia.

Ordan Andreevski
Australian Outreach
United Macedonian Diaspora (Australia)
Hawthorn, Vic

http://www.afr.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/mulitculturalism-done-right-here-20150316-1m01l0

Multiculturalism overrated in U.S.

Why is it any less divisive here than it is there? Perhaps both he and the government are unfamiliar with Teddy Roosevelt’s warning that “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

– FRANK SALVIDIO, West Springfield

http://www.masslive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/03/letters_to_the_editor_multicul.html

Multicultural societies with their consequent fragmentation and chronic ethnic tension are unlikely to meet Jewish needs in the long run even if they do ultimately subvert the demographic and cultural dominance of the peoples of European origin in lands where they have been dominant.

At present the interests of non-European-derived peoples to expand demographically and politically in the United States are widely perceived as a moral imperative, whereas the attempts of the European-derived peoples to retain demographic, political, and cultural control is represented as "racist," immoral, and an indication of psychiatric disorder. From the perspective of these European-derived peoples, the prevailing ethnic morality is altruistic and self-sacrificial. It is unlikely to be viable in the long run, even in an individualistic society. As we have seen, the viability of a morality of self-sacrifice is especially problematic in the context of a multicultural society in which everyone is conscious of group membership and there is between-group competition for resources.

https://archive.org/details/CultureOfCritique

http://www.neoeugenics.net/whither.htm

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/immigration.pdf

http://web.csulb.edu/~kmacd/books-derbyshire.html

An under-noticed news report last week confirmed previously-held suspicions and strong implications that Israeli troops are aiding the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official Syrian affiliate.

Speaking to Israeli occupation troops last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter on the ground in Mount Bental (part of the occupied Golan Heights) found that Israeli troops receive wounded al-Qaeda fighters, treat them in Israeli hospitals and send them back to continue fighting against the government in Syria.

The Nusra Front in August overran the Qunaitra crossing, the checkpoint between the Israeli-occupied and Syrian-controlled sectors of the Golan Heights. Israeli invaded that region of south-west Syria in 1967 and has illegally occupied most of the Golan Heights ever since.

As I pointed out in a previous column, the reports of UN peacekeeping forces since Nusra took over the checkpoint were highly suggestive of Israeli contacts and even military aid to the al-Qaeda rebels. But this Wall Street Journal report has confirmed the fact.

"We don't ask who they are, we don't do any screening," the unnamed Israeli military official told the paper of the hospital treatment of al-Qaeda fighters. "Once the treatment is done, we take them back to the border [sic - ceasefire line] and they go on their way [in Syria]," he said.

An unnamed military official also said there is an "understanding" between Israeli forces and al-Qaeda fighters there and that "there is a familiarity of the [al-Qaeda] forces on the ground".

Popular conspiracy theories have it that al-Qaeda and the "Islamic State" (also known as ISIS or ISIL) are Israeli- and/or US-intelligence creations. While there's no evidence for that, it's certainly true that the US-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003, and its consciously sectarian occupation regime of the country thereafter, created the conditions in which al-Qaeda in Iraq (later known as ISIS) was formed and thrived. Veteran journalist Patrick Cockburn demonstrates this most convincingly in his essential new book The Rise of Islamic State, which I have previously lauded here.

And now it seems that Israel is in a direct alliance with al-Qaeda in Syria. This is a tactical alliance, meant purely to bleed the country and prolong the civil war.

Read the quotes from Israeli officials in recent months about the Nusra Front and you will see a strange sort of soft-peddling of the group, casting them as a kind of "moderate al-Qaeda" if you will.

"Nusra is a unique version of al-Qaeda," retired Brigadier General Michael Herzog told the Wall Street Journal. "They manage to cooperate with non-Islamist and non-jihadi organizations in one coalition." Herzog is a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP, the think tank of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the première Israel lobby group in the US) and former chief of staff for Israel's defence minister. The Nusra Front "are totally focused on the war in Syria and aren't focused on us," he claimed. "But when Hezbollah and Iran and others are pushing south, they are very much focused on us."

Hizballah and Iran, allies of the Bashar al-Assad regime, are aiding the government in Syria and fighting on the ground alongside Syrian army troops against al-Qaeda, the "Islamic State" and other Sunni rebel groups.

Even before Nusra took over the Qunairtra checkpoint in August, reports suggested Israel seemed on rather friendly terms with the al-Qaeda affiliate.

In June, army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner told Foreign Policy that the Israeli government has provided medical assistance to more than 1,000 Syrians over the past fourteen months. "We give medical aid to people who are in dire need," he said in a telephone interview with the magazine, echoing the statement made last week to the Wall Street Journal. "We don't do any vetting or check where they are from or which group they are fighting for, or whether they are civilians."

Ehud Yaari, an Israeli fellow at WINEP, admitted that Israeli assistance has benefited fighters: "The wounded are both fighters and civilians but there are not too many civilians left because of the fighting raging there ... Close to 900 Syrians have been treated in Israel."

Foreign Policy reports that, even earlier than June 2014, in March 2013: "Some 400 armed opposition fighters, backed by artillery fire from three tanks, seized a Syrian military outpost atop a hill at Tal al-Garbi, planting four black flags and raising concern that extremist groups are moving into the zone.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/inquiry/17582-israeli-army-admits-aiding-al-qaeda-in-syria

https://www.facebook.com/372841462744998/photos/a.380060145356463.101085.372841462744998/1049020598460411/?type=1&theater

Netanyahu: 'ISIS is Good for Israel'!

https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/netanyahu-isis-is-good-for-isra
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Multicultural Britain has failed

Trevor Phillips should be congratulated, not pilloried, for his honesty and realism. The truth is that multiculturalism has not worked. It has delivered not a tolerant multiracial society but a divisive, compartmentalised society not unlike that of Northern Ireland.

It has unwittingly spawned a political correctness that is almost totalitarian and has enabled widespread abuse and criminality to flourish in Rotherham, Oxford and elsewhere.

What the UK needs is a tolerant monocultural society that embraces and integrates all ethnic groups into UK society while enabling them to maintain their beliefs and cultures. We seem to have lost sight of the adage “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” and we need, but  don’t have, an overarching shared set of “British” values.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/letters-growth-yes-if-you-mean-the-national-debt-10119005.html

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vikaryan wrote on Mar 30^th, 2015 at 11:51am:


it was never about Hawaii...it was about the citizenship of his father!

http://www.zazzle.com/natural_born_tshirt-235558781107996670

Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election makes him the longest serving prime minister in Israel’s history. His 20% margin of victory (30 Knesset seats to 24 for his nearest opponent) underlines the mass base of his consolidation of power.

Most critical commentators cite Netanyahu’s racist pronouncements; his rejection of any two state solution and his overt appeal for a mass Jewish voter turnout to counteract the ‘droves of Arab voters’ for his electoral victories. There is no question that the majority of Israeli Jewish leaders and parties support Netanyahu’s racist pronouncements and ‘no-state’ solution and joined him in a coalition government. But the larger issue is the positive mass response to Netanyahu’s call to action. Nearly three quarters of the electorate turned out (73%) to elect him. Moreover, Netanyahu has been elected prime minister for four terms: between 1996-99 and more recently 2009-20.

What is more, the opposition has not differed from the Netanyahu coalition regime’s Judeo-centric policies and pronouncements. In other words, ‘racist’ ideology per se is not what drives the Israeli majority to repeatedly support Netanyahu.

Jewish-centered racism is an integral and accepted part of Israel’s political culture.

Long past is the notion that Israeli Jews would solve their social -economic problems via a collectivist economy and popular struggle against Jewish plutocrats.

Today Jewish-Israeli millionaires flourish alongside orthodox, secular, Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Sabra and Russian emigrant colonists. The former exploits labor and markets, while the latter dispossesses Palestinians. Netanyahu has discovered a formula for uniting quarrelsome Jewish parties, leaders and voters and for winning elections.

Moreover, Netanyahu has secured the financial and political backing of numerous overseas Jewish-Zionist billionaires. He has secured the unconditional support of tens of thousands of middle class Israel-First activists, academics and professionals who operate AIPAC and dozens of similar propaganda mills in Washington and Christian Zionists throughout the US. Netanyahu’s overseas backers ensure that the US government may grumble and criticize, but will never disrupt Netanyahu’s ‘plan’ of an ethnically pure ‘Greater Israel’ with Jerusalem as its ‘eternal’ capital. Obama may whine and talk to the press about ‘reconsidering US-Israeli relations’ but he has assured Israel and Netanyahu that military and economic ties will remain intact.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2015/03/31/the-roots-of-netanyahu-s-electoral-victo

http://8ch.net/pol/res/1609930.html

Manchu genocide against Dzungar Oirat Mongols

Quote:

http://historum.com/asian-history/83914-manchu-genocide-against-dzungar-oirat-mongols.html#post2079396?postcount=5

History is over-laden with atrocious crimes by one people against another throughout the centuries, exercising respective violent versions of what anthropologists today call ethnocentrism. The idea that "We are the People and everyone else is not" is endemic to world cultures and religions. But the extreme "Kill every thing that breathes" injunction as moral (and religious) policy is rare; after all, for even the most ruthless victor that which is taken alive has at least some economic, pleasure or productive value to the conqueror. The spiteful vanquishing of everything and everybody, repeatedly, in a holy book of all places, cannot be completely overlooked – as it always is – in the development of future peoples, world views, and civilizations that stemmed from it.

Arnold Toynbee, the well-known British historian, in arguing that religious "fanaticism" in Judaism has been inevitably passed to Christianity (and its notorious Crusades) and Islam (like its Holy Wars), had the audacity to openly attribute the ultimate cause of discriminatory suffering experienced by Jews throughout history upon their own heads.

http://holywar.org/jewishtr/18holo1.htm

Jewish Ethnocentrism is Biological

Quote:

http://www.thephora.net/forum/showpost.php?p=105076&postcount=6

http://www.thephora.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8526

Given that ethnocentrism continues to pervade all segments of the Jewish community, the advocacy of the de-ethnicization of Europeans is best seen as a strategic move against peoples regarded as historical enemies. 

http://web.csulb.edu/~kmacd/books-Preface.html

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Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf falls out of copyright in Germany at the end of 2015. What will happen when authorities can no longer control its publication and distribution? A new BBC programme examines the issues.

“They wanted to replace the Bible.” Whispering in a hushed room of the Bavarian State Library, rare books expert Stephan Kellner describes how the Nazis turned a rambling, largely unreadable screed – part memoir, part propaganda – into a central part of the Third Reich’s ideology.

As Mein Kampf comes out of copyright – meaning that, in theory, anyone could publish their own editions in Germany – a new programme on BBC Radio 4 explores what authorities can do about one of the world’s most notorious books.

http://www.thephora.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1321092

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150113-the-worlds-most-dangerous-book