PM Shamir planned to save 2 million Jews as Soviet Union appeared on verge of breaking up

PM Shamir planned to save 2 million Jews as Soviet Union appeared on verge of breaking up. (IMRA).

Avi Kfiri reveals in a article in Makor Rishon on 8 October that PM Shamir at the start of the 1990's set up a top secret group to prepare the emergency evacuation of up to 2 million Jews form the Soviet Union.
Shamir was feared that if the Soviet Union crumbled that hundreds of thousands of Jews would be killed in pogroms.

The planning went into great detail with Israeli agents visiting the Soviet Union to identify evacuation routes - including buildings that could be used for way stations and how arrangements could be made to feed the Jews as they were in transit. There were even plans to fly in thousands of IDF soldiers using Hercules planes to protect the Jews as they were evacuated from particularly dangerous areas. 

"The Islamic State knows best?" Toddlers in Iran taught chastity, hijab lessons.

"The Islamic State knows best?" Toddlers in Iran taught chastity, hijab lessons.(AA).
Islamic dress and notions of chastity will be taught to toddlers in Iran, as part of a move by the country to instill Islamic teachings into the younger generation, a report on Wednesday revealed.
The governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamadon, has recently stressed the importance of “popularizing” chastity and hijab among Iranians, advising that kindergarteners be taught, “before reaching those in higher education,” the Guardian reported.
“We cannot expect to see hijab and chastity exist in society without proper cultural work,” he said. “Our goal in the social transformation plan devised by the government is institutionalizing chastity and hijab as a natural [demand] in society,” he said.
Islamist rulers in Iran have recently ordered stricter enforcement measures from the Iranian Moral Police and the Revolutionary Guards.

Recently, Iranian police have bolstered the enforcement of modesty laws. Women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in “vulgar” dress are usually warned before being fined or detained in police stations.
As for a program targeting toddlers, the welfare office of the Iranian city of Qom is reportedly “training 400 experts on hijab and chastity who will be sent to kindergartens across the city,” according to the Guardian.
The report added that 1,530 kindergartens under the jurisdiction of a north-eastern province have already held “chastity and hijab exhibitions” in recent months.
“Research has found that indirect methods have more effect on kids,” welfare officer Tahereh Bakhtiyari said in comments to the newspaper. “Using art expression is one of these methods.”Hmmmm.....Just like in the ex- Soviet Union they used to 'wrap up' the babies so that they would become later in life 'Docile' adults......how did that work out again?Read the full story here.

Sequestration is 'The Sky Falling'?

Sequestration is 'The Sky Falling'?(CATO).By Christopher A. Preble.

Will sequestration undermine U.S. national security? Hardly. Today, the Cato Institute released a new info graphic putting these minor cuts in perspective.

Military spending will remain at roughly 2006 levels—$603 billion, higher than peak U.S. spending during the Cold War. Meanwhile, we live in a safer world. The Soviet Union has been dead for more than two decades; no other nation, or combination of nations, has emerged since that can pose a comparable threat. We should have a defense budget that reflects this reality.

Hmmm.....I'm sorry but with all due respect 'We do not live in a 'safer' world and the 'Soviet Union' might be 'dead' but the remains are getting up and showing their teeth!Read the full story here.

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My thanks go out to Harrison Moar and Zach Graves for conceiving this, pulling the data together, and making it look really cool.