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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

Why Obama's at Buchenwald a Day After His Speech in Cairo

June 05, 2009 05:33 PM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

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Red Snow

Sean Ryan Stuart, the author of a recent Holocaust book about Buchenwald and Fascism, has recently republished one of his previous books entitled, 'Red Snow.'

3rd Edition is by CCB Publishing of Canada, and will be available next week, all over the world. IT is also based on true events, and it deals with Russian Organized Crime, Terrorism, Afghanistan etc.

Buchenwald, obama, Das Haus, the house and the son of the Rabbi

I am glad to see that Buchenwald concentration camp is getting some more publicity due to the visit by our president. The book Das Haus, the house and the son of the Rabbi is going to be an exciting movie. The screenplay was recently completed, and Athena Talent is representing the writers.

Holocaust/Buchenwald

Can anyone still deny what happened in Buchenwald? I recently read a book called, "Das Haus, the house and the son of the Rabbi." It was an incredible journey of hope, courage, fear, rebirth and faith. I have never been so moved in my life. Our president should read this novel, partially based on true events. The author used actual events, and spoke with the actual survivors of Buchenwald. There can be no doubt what these survivors experience.

Buchenwald, obama, Das Haus, the house and the son of the Rabbi

President Obama should of read this fascinating novel on the horrors endured by this young man while an inmate at this concentration camp. He was eventually freed in 1939 and came to America. Joining the US Army in 1941, he rose to the rank of Captain and led the soldiers to liberate his own village on Feb. 25th, 1945. Das Haus, the house and the son of the Rabbi is a moving novel based on some true events, and will be made into a movie soon.

The man with glasses

Must be the interpreter -- Angela's English isn't great, I don't think.

The U. S. and the Saudi Arabia

When are we going to stop taking orders from the top leaders of the fascist oil cartel and go back to free enterprise capitalism with competition .....which made our country great....this current policy of appeasement to the fascists and terrorists who they subsidise is a little too silly to believe ....

Dick Morris = Limbaugh or Hannity

For all the nay sayers, such as Justa Guy of NV

Islamist urges al Qaeda to open up to Obama’s offer

CAIRO, June 6 (Reuters) - A leader of an Islamist group that waged an insurgency in Egypt in the 1990s called on Saturday for al Qaeda and the Taliban to consider an opening offered by the U.S. president and call a halt to attacks on U.S. civilians.

Essam Derbala, a member of the leadership council of Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group, made the appeal after President Barack Obama said in Cairo on Thursday he wanted a "new beginning" in ties between Washington and the Muslim world.

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I trust Obama and I know

he is way smarter than I am. But, frankly, I have never been a big believer in the probability of success of a two-state solution (where Israel and a serious Palestine to be made from the so-called "Palestinian territories") are going to live side by side in peace. The last 60 years say this is fantasy.

I do not believe Israel should ever be obligated to give back land captured in wars started by those from whom the land was captured as a result. And, I believe you'd be as well off to annex the so-called territories into Israel with those willing to become loyal Israeli citizens staying and the rest banished to the neighboring Islamic countries in the region.

I hear that Israel will not accept this because they fear that in a generation or two they would end up with the "expanded" citizens then voting for Islam. Hey, the USA is changing too with an influx of immigrants. I believe we assimilate ours, and that Israel probably could too.

But, I'll go with Barack, since I do believe he is smarter than me by a mile.

Still, the "territories" are a poverty mess and likely remain so for the rest of our lives. Peace? Serious statehood? Seems unlikely to me.

Morris?

Yeah we should really be upset that that pathetic weasal Dick Morris is upset. He is a creature with no morals or convictions whatsoever.

US foreign policy

so wait you think a change in anything we say or do will make the members of terrorist groups hate us less, or attack us less? The only thing we can do that pleases them is to die, they believe the only people who deserve to live are those who convert and everyone else it is OK to kill.

There is nothing Obama or anyone else can do that will change their minds, so you either learn to live with the fact that everyday people will try to kill you or you find a way to kill them first.

Your right the 1% of the middle eastern lands run by Israel are the problem, it isn't that their neighbors refuse to acknowledge their right to exist, it isn't that a large segment of the Muslim world want to finish what Hitler tried, that isn't the problem, it is all the fault of the Israel.

I am waiting for someone to say the problem is that the majority of Muslim run nations in the Middle East have no respect for basic human rights, and until they do the US and the rest of the world should stop doing any business with them. The only thing stopping that is Oil.

I have never seen anyone arrested and killed in Israel for preaching Christian beliefs, but in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others it happens on a regular basis. I don't remember the last time Israel refused to let women vote or go to school, again a common occurance in the Muslim world.

For 50 years Muslims around the world have protested the creation of Israel, and the fact that they were allowed to resettle lands that nobody denies belonged to them for centuries of history. Why is it that Israel has to give back land for peace but the Muslim nations around them can't see that they need to give Israel their land for peace.

If you want to call one side childlike, perhaps you need to look no further than Syria, Jordan, Egypt and ask yourself why have they not opened their arms for their brothers and sisters living in the camps in Gaza? How could good, peace loving Muslims allow their fellow believers to spend decades in camps and not invite them into their homes?

Keep on blaming Israel Tariq, because until Muslims look internally nothing will ever change.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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