YET ANOTHER crossborder shooting from the LAF

the Lebanese Army has been compromised.. What else is new? Lebanon can fire on Israeli soldiers on three seperate occasions, capture and kidnap Israeli soldiers, kill Israeli soldiers and the international community yawns. Only when Israel takes military action to defend itself, do we hear the hollers heard round the world against Israel. And people wonder why Israel is so cynical about the International Community? heres why: theyre a bunch of wimps who only flex their muscle against the only democracy in the Middle East. What else is new?

Suicide Watch

What do we do when someone threatens to commit suicide? Well, here in the US, the police will typically put the person on some kind of Suicide Watch, and as i imagine, must be careful not to lock anyone suicidal in a room with any kind of sharp objects/instruments, pills, etc. to be sure that there are no tools handy to harm themselves with.

What would we think of a world where a man threatened to commit suicide, and the local authorities locked the person in a room with a loaded revolver? Or even more unthinkable, that local authorities would lock a sane man in a room with those weapons and demanded he committed suicide? We would think the world has turned upside down!!

Well I'm sorry my friends, this is what it looks like is happening in the Middle East. Israel is not suicidal, but the international community, joined by the US, wants Israel to engage in suicidal actions, however well misplaced their sentiments may be.

Israel unilaterally (without any help or peace deal from the Palestinians) withdrew from Gaza. Immediately following this undeserved gesture of Israel, the rocket attacks began to increase in frequency and intensity, culminating in 750,000 of Israeli citizens being forced to live in bomb shelters.

You can count the number of successful Palestinian rocket attacks from the West Bank on one hand!! Are we to think that the terrorists in the West Bank are just nicer than the ones in Gaza? Lets not be absurd. Because of the Israeli military/police presence in the area, it is much more difficult for terrorists to get off a rocket from the West Bank.

This is the same West Bank that now Barack Obama and the international community (lets face it though, not all of them) wants Israel to surrender to the Palestinians. And what happens when the rockets begin to fall? Throw up our hands? Sorry Israel, our bad? no biggie, us Americans and Europeans can go back to our cozy continents conquered from their original inhabitants while Israelis live in bomb shelters.

Israel has shown time and time again it is willing to make painful sacrifices for peace. All of the Sinai returned for a piece of paper that may not even be enforced in the near future. Gaza returned for rockets. Peace offers rejected from Olmert, Rabin, Barak, even Netanyahu is willing to talk with no prohibitions. And now we force a deal down their throat. Is this the model for how we treat democracies? Sell them down the river?This is shameful and unacceptable. Write your congressman. Write Barack Obama. This isnt a Jewish vs. Non Jewish thing. This is for anyone who values the main principles of a liberal democracy; the right to vote, free speech, free assembly, womens rights, minority rights, gay rights, human rights on a continent that is devoid of any of these things.

The West: Our Own Worst enemy

Only foolish westerners work against their own self interests to empower their own enemies. Even Israels "friends" such as the US, France, Britain, etc. work against the MidEasts Only Democracy to weaken it through pieces of paper in exchange for a militarily undefendable Israel. Have we seen the Arab League take similar steps, even token steps, to work against the endemic corruption and brutality of their own regimes? No. If this were the case, every country would be at least or around Moroccos level of progress and there would be no "Arab Spring," Just a relatively stable MidEast working toward a better tommorow. No My friends, alas, the Arabs laugh at us. "Let the US and Britain handle Israel, it will free us up more time to count our oil money and crush any token opposition to our brutal, misogynist, sexist, murderous policies. Life is Good. If Alcohol was permitted, it would be Miller Time"

Pro-Palestinian activist murdered by Palestinians

Recently, an anti-Israel Italian activist by the name of Vittorio Arrlgoni was murdered by the very people he was trying to help, the Palestinians; Gazans in particular. Arrlgonia even compared "Israeli crimes against Palestinians" to Nazi crimes. Additionally, he was twice arrested by Israeli authorities.

Newsflash: If you want to help Muslims on their turf, there is a good chance you will in fact be killed by Muslims (e.g. the 12 UN aid workers killed in Afghanistan in response to some dingbat in Florida burning a Koran , Pakistan Islamists killing of aid workers and Journalists, Irans indefinite detaining of 3 anti-Israel/ anti-American students at the border with Kurdistan, The Talibans murdering of 10 aid workers last year, 42 aid workers killed in Somalia in 2008 etc. The UN even declared Pakistan and Afghanistan unsafe for aid workers with over 100 killed yearly.)

Try helping the poor in the US, or even Israel. It will be appreciated, and you will be able to live to tell about it. No good deed for Islamists goes unpunished.

Sources:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/balochistan-pakistans-secret-dirty-war

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/07/medical-charity-americans-killed-militants-remote-area-n-afghanistan/

http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/en_GB/features/caii/newsbriefs/2011/04/13/newsbrief-02

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/281962,un-recalls-dangers-to-aid-workers-in-conflict-zones.html

G-d bless the Fogel family

Media outlets around the world were abuzz about this gruesome murder, a whole family was murdered with knives in their sleep, a wife, a husband, an 11 year old, a 4 year old, and a 3 month old. The murder was committed by Palestinian terrorists. Over 20 Palestinians have been arrested in connection with this monstrous, unspeakable crime, including an intelligence officer of the Palestinian Authority.

However, the victims of this heinous crimes were only occasionally referred to as "victims", they were for the most part referred to as "settlers," seemingly attempting to somehow whitewash the crimes, even though the butchering of an innocent family and three small children can never explained through a political lense, which goes along with much of the violence against civillians the Palestinians perpetrate.

But lets think about this term 'settlers' for a moment. What about all the Muslim Settlers of Pakistan? in 1947 Muslims carved out a nice piece of India and sent millions of Hindus on their way and killed another 500,000 of them. They named it "pakistan." No reparations for them? No Land for peace deal? Why? because Hindus are peaceful. Peaceful enough to get on with their lives and rebuild and not hold onto violence and victimhood like a warm blanket. Lets reward people for hideous inhuman behavior, Land for peace horray!

What about the entire population of California and Texas? This land was taken from the Mexicans by war. the USA was hardly under any existential threats, but we took the territory through corrupt politics and careful control of the media by William Randolph Hearst through "yellow journalism". Im not even getting started about the USAs systematic brutality, land annexation, and the de-facto genocide of the American Indian. Yet the government of the US, Israels closest friend, even before Barack Obama, refused to recognize Judea and Samaria and Gaza as part of the Jews ancestral homeland. The US wouldnt/will not even recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel!!

Australia, and New Zealand, and Canada, and most of south America, and most countries on this earth have been outrightly stolen from its indigenous inhabitants. The modern Egyptian day stole the land of Egypt from the Black African Copts, and the modern day Syrian stole that piece of land from the Native Assyrians. However Israel was not stolen from anybody. The Land of Israel is and has always been the land of the Jews. It was thousands of years ago, and within the last 130 years (yes long before the holocaust) it was rebuilt by Jews who wanted nothing more than to live in their own land and live in peace and harmony with their Arab neighbours.

Israel was declared a legal state by one of the first UN Resolutions in 1948, and by the Balfour declaration some 20+ years before. This was denied by a war of extermination of 5 Arab armies, a war that perpetually continues, just not with bullets on the battlefield. It is continued by butchering families and small children while they sleep. It is continued by opening fire on a car with innocent pregnant women inside. It is continued by firing over 10,000 rockets into civillian territory. It is continued by denying Israels very legitimacy,

Even the Obama administration declared the settlements illegitimate, just not illegal. This idea has become a cancer that has even infected very pro-Israel public figures like Charles Krauthammer and Alan Dershowitz. The time to stop this charade is now. Annex the West Bank, take back Gaza, and declare these as lands of Israel proper, enough is enough. Deport any Palestinians with any problems with this. The world and our president is still skeptical of Israel, and asks Jewish leaders to search their hearts if Netanyahu is sincere about peace, even after an unprecedent 10+ month freeze in building settlements, even after returning Gaza only to be thanked with 10,000 rockets and mortars, even after supporting a two-state solution and Palestinian aspirations for their own state. Even after the Palestinians in response to these concessions will not even stop their incitement and glorification of terrorists, which in all likelihood set up a breeding ground for these unspeakable attacks.

The world will be perpetually angry with Israel if the West Bank is annexed (they already are) but at least they will respect Israel. Strength, not just on the battlefield, is something the world and President Obama respect. President Karzai of Afghanistan said he was willing to join forces with the Taliban soon before a beautiful dinner with President Obama. Strength. Indifference to criticism. Do it. The American people are behind you.

The New Middle East

Despite all the brouhaha over the protests in Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, and to a lesser extent Iran, a huge revolution has taken place in Lebanon, at the perfect time for Hezbollah. A UN Tribunal was right about to indict high ranking officials of Hezbollah in the suicide-bombing murder of Rafik Hariri (former prime minister of Lebanon) in 2005. Hezbollah pulled out of the government, causing the government to collapse, and through intimidation, has put in place it's own puppet Najib Mikati as prime minister of Lebanon. Now there are no more illusions, Lebanon has officially thrown its lot in with the Iranian axis. And with Iran losing its grip over power and control of its own people, the Ayatollahs may be looking for a way to deflect attention from themselves and consolidate its power by uniting all Muslims in the Middle East on the one and only issue they agree on: Israel. I, and all supporters of Israel, have full faith that Israel will out last every last one of these cruel and murderous regimes, but we are all concerned that Israel will be forced to be the West's canary in the coal mine once again.

Even though all the events in the Mid East in recent weeks completely disprove the notion of the Middle Ages Jew to Israel, i.e. that all the woes of the Mid East can be eased by signing a meaningless peace agreement with the Palestinians, The Obama administration still felt it neccesary to say that America finds Israels settlements illegitimate. We should all look to Israel with great awe and respect; here is a country, that has had to fight for its very survival since its inception, the fact there is even a notion that Israel would give back land won in defensive wars speaks volumes about the kind nature of Israel (and i live in california and my cousins in texas, stolen from Mexico, not for defense but expansion) . And this is no notion, Israel has returned Gaza and has been thanked by thousands upon thousands of rockets and mortars on the Israeli civillian population. And the US response? Settlements are illegitimate. Give the Arabs more land to launch rockets from.

At this point, when autocratic dictators friendly to the US are being ousted with quickness, leaving such uncertainties to the future of said countries, this is the time when the US should realize that Israel is truly our only real friend in the region, all the rest of the friends of the US are not the Arabs, but a single cruel dictator who can be ousted at anytime.

I think the citizens of the USA, and even most politicians, liberal and conservative, do realize this. However, Obamas hard-headed approach toward Israel does not allow reality to see the light of day.

I think we can honestly say that Obama will never learn when it comes to the Middle East.

If after all these events, the Obama Administration still cant stop its antagonistic approach toward Israel, their truly is no hope. Israel must do what it needs to do. Obama will be in office for 5 more years at most, but the American people and its leaders will always be eternal supporters of Israel.

Side NOTE:

I hate Arab autocrats as much as the next guy, but when the Iranian people protested in June of 2009, Obama looked the other way for the sake of 'engagement.' When Egypt started to protest, Obama threw Mubarak under the bus faster than you can say 'Tahrir Square.'

What message is this sending to the world?

Ill tell you: Be an enemy of the US. It pays.

The Middle Ages Jew

The press in Israel has been repeating a certain motif I found scarily interesting. Israel has now become the Middle-Ages Jew, where all the troubles in the world (Islamic Terrorism and Middle East woes) are blamed on him. Even the President of the United States, in one form or another, believes in the lie.

Nearly all of his Middle East Policy focuses on one thing: the removal of West Bank settlements. By shoving a peace deal down Israels throats that is full of security gaps, the lie says, peace will magically brought not only to Israel but to the entire region. Leaving out the obvious holes in this idea that Hezbollah and Hamas will continue to operate with impunity against Israel, leaving Israel without land and still without peace, many of the hugest problems of this troubled region HAVE OR HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ISRAEL. Examples:

-The bloody 8 year war between Iran and Iraq.

-The 1982 Hama massacre perpetrated by the Syrian army, where over 40,000 were killed in a period of a few months. (Fighting, ironically, the Muslim brotherhood)

-Saddam Husseins mustard gassing of Kurds that claimed 188,000 Kurdish lives.

-The occupation of Cypress by Turkey.

-Turkeys 'terror war' against the Kurds which has claimed 37,000 Lives since 1984

-The Arab Muslim Janjaweed massacre of over 300,000 Black Africans and rapes of scores of Black African women.

-Sectarian violence between Sunni & Shia, not only in Iraq.

-The Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Turkey, a so-called democracy, which will not even do the dead the justice of admitting there was a genocide. This genocide claimed the lives of 1 million or more Armenians.

-The US-led Gulf War in 1991 to bail out Kuwaiti oil autocrats, which left Israel at the mercy of Saddams SCUDD missiles which then president George H. W. Bush forbade Israel to respond to. ("Sit tight Israel, while we protect Kuwaiti and Saudi oil interests." ) In this war, Holocaust survivors in Israel were forced by the threats of Saddam to wear gas masks, to once again relive the horror of awaiting a chemical attack against their bretheren.

Would all these transgressions and their root problems magically disappear in the case of a forced peace which allows YET ANOTHER Iranian proxy on the border of Israel?

You be the Judge

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6537751.stm)

(http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2230854320080422)

(http://worldnews.about.com/od/iraq/qt/chemicalali.htm)

(To compare: all of Israels wars have been swift and have been a response to direct Arab violence/aggression.)

The Fires

Three days ago, a tragedy occurred here and in Israel. A young guy, two years older than me, from our shul died from prescription drugs, and a terrible fire started in northern Israel where 41 Israelis have already lost their lives.

I pray to G-d to give Israel the superhuman strength and ability to put out the fires and  my prayers go out to all the families who have lost someone. We have frequent fires in California, but Baruch Hashem, usually very few people, if any, die.

The Saga of the captured Hikers in Iran

Three American hikers: Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal all 'accidentally' crossed the border of Kurdistan into Iran. After over a year, The Iranians released one of the so called "enemy spies" Sarah Shourd, on humanitarian grounds plus $500,000 reported by ABC news about two months ago.

A dime should not be spent to free these morons. Sarah Shourd wrote an article sympathizing with Syrian attacks on Jews (http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=e276b8706a88aca9e3a98dbbd5526d1d)

All these far left loony terror lovers got a taste of their own medicine when they crossed into Iran.

I'll bet the first thing they asked after their arrest was; can I have my right to a phone call? Habeus Corpus? The authorities in Iran probably let them in on the fun after they had a few laughs.

Israel and the US may be far from perfect, but even at our worst, we have freedoms that are pretty enviable, ESPECIALLY to those who live in the mideast. Two of the hikers chose to live in Syria over the US.

We should let them fulfill their dream of co-existing in the Muslim Middle East. Too bad theyll be in prison doing it

Ground Zero Mosque Hypocrisy

How is it that the Islamic world can continue having zero tolerance for all other ideas and religions, reject freedom of speech when it comes to a cartoon of mohammed, but invoke "freedom of religion" when trying to build an Islamic Center near Ground Zero (site of the 9/11 attacks.) I find this tasteless at best and pretty offensive at worst. Shall we build a German restaurant right outside of The Museum of Tolerance? Technically its legal, but it would probably be in poor taste. 

Muslims want freedoms when it suits them. Muslims want freedom of religion to build minarets in Switzerland and Islamic centers near ground Zero. But go to A Muslim country. Their tolerance for all other customs and religions stops right when you get to the airport. Whether you're Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi, you need to wear one of their rags over your head.  A woman who was a  british national was raped in Abu Dhabi and SHE was held in prison for unlawful fornication [according to the laws and customs of Islam]. Nope, no tolerance there. Yet these same Muslims cry "religious intolerance" when Americans have a problem with building a shrine to Islam right near a place where a mass murder of 3,000 took place in the name of Islam. Bill Maher points out this Muslim hypocrisy out very hilariously in his movie "Religilous"

The religous Imam who is behind this Islamic Center, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, was asked on live radio if he considered Hamas a terrorist organizaiton, a question which the Imam refused to answer.

Apparently suicide bombings on buses, cafes, and discotecs is not so cut and dry with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

As for the issue itself, let the New yorkers decide.

But muslims need to understand freedom of religion and freedom of speech is a TWO WAY STREET.

Muslims MAY NOT ask for freedom of speech when no one can make a cartoon about Mohammed for fear for their lives.

Muslims MAY NOT ask for freedom of religion while all other religions are routinely persecuted, killed, or ethnically cleansed from virtually EVERY muslim country

They may be lucky in the US, where we allow this walking contradiction to continue. But the rest of the world wont be so tolerant. And after enough attacks by Islamic fanatics, I believe the USA will also end this pointless charade of appeasing the misogynistic, hateful culture of a religion which finds honor killings and public stonings of women to be 'holy.'

 

Dont Confuse the "US-Israel relationship" with the "Obama-Israel" relationship

The people of the United States and Congress are firmly behind Israel. When Bibi swung by a few months ago, political rivals John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi got together, side by side, with Netanyahu, for the cameras. As far as US citizens are concerned, its only a matter of nearly inconsequential degree concerning strong support for the Jewish State, and every time Al Queda or other assorted Islamic fascist mass-murderers strike, that support for the Jewish State only deepens in the US.

Dont Confuse the "US-Israel relationship" with the "Obama-Israel" relationship. Presidents come and go, and between the way Obama has been handling BP and unemployment,

support for Obama is eroding, even among strong Obama supporters such as James Carville and Ed Koch. Israel should throw caution to the wind

in appeasing the Obama administration. US Support will never waver, the Islamists wont have it any other way.

 

What if Israel sent a flotilla to Turkey?

"What if Israel sent a flotilla to Turkey?"

OR

"The Kurds: Turkey's Palestinians"

What if Israel sent aid shipments to the Kurdish separatist groups in Turkey? How would Turkey respond to an attack on her sovereignty like that?

There is no way to know 100%, but Turkey is not exactly known for empathizing with its enemies. Despite facing a much smaller threat

from Kurdish separatists than Israel does from Hamas, Turkey fights these Kurds with a unique fierceness. From 1984 to 2008,

over 35,000 Kurds were killed by the Turkish military. In fact, one of the main reasons that Turkey is friends with Israel and 

WILL CONTINUE to be friends with Israel is because Israel supplies the secular, Turkish Army with invaluable high-tech

weapons with which to fight their own terrorists.

For those unfamiliar with Kurds:

Kurds are a distinct ethnic group of the Middle East (Do not call them Arabs.) They are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims. They live in a state they call "Kurdistan" which is actually part of four other

border sharing Middle East states: Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. The only reason the Kurds in Iraq have a de-facto state is because the US

invaded Iraq in 2003 and liberated the Kurds. The Kurds in Iraq gained the most from the US war. However, the Kurds in Iran, Turkey, and Syria have not only

NOT been given a state by their Arab bretheren, they are routinly attacked and captured in military operations by Iran and Turkey.

Turkey and Iran love to whine about the Palestinian state, but dont you DARE ever mention "Freeing Kurdistan" the way the "Free Gaza"

flotilla did.

If there is one thing the Middle East is all about, its hypocrisy. Turkey and Iran whine about Israel not giving the Palestinians a state,

and keep Suppressing the Kurds. Syria whines about Israels military operation in Gaza, where maybe 1,200 were killed, when in 1982 Syria killed 40,000 of its own people

with cyanide gas to suppress a terrorist uprising by the Muslim brotherhood. One must look past the words of these Arab countries

and look to their actions.

We may never know how Turkey would react to Israel sending aid shipments to Kurds of Turkey, because Israel wouldnt infringe on

an ally's sovereignty like that. However, Turkey can not even come to grips with the Armenian genocide they presided over.

If you mention the Armenian Genocide in Turkey you can be killed, and many who have spoke out have been killed. Not a nation

that values tolerance. The only reason Turkey probably wouldnt cut off relations with Israel if they sent a flotilla to Kurdistan is

because as said, Turkey needs Israel's high tech military gadgets to fight their own bloodier war with terrorists than Israel conducts.

It would be funny if it wasnt the truth that Israel needs to deal with every day. Israel needs to stand strong and not accept any threats

to their sovereignty, especially in the realm of fighting terror. No one asked Turkey too.

The Flotilla Fiasco

The video says it all. Israeli naval commandoes boarding the flotilla, and as each commando was lowered from the boat, an onslaught of metal poles, knives, and beatings were meeting them. Some of the Israeli commandoes were thrown from the top to bottom deck by the activists. A journalist on CNN pointed out that if a US naval raid was met with that kind of violence, the activists would be very lucky if everyone on the flotilla was not killed. But somehow Israel loses the PR battle.

A little background on PR:

We learned that the founding fathers of the USA were the first innovators of Public Relations. A bunch of middle class merchants in colonies were not ready to fight a bloody battle with the British. So our founding fathers kicked it into high gear. The Boston Massacre took place, where colonists claimed a mass killing of colonists took place on behalf of the British. It turned out only 5 colonists had died, and those colonists were part of a crowd that was throwing projectiles at British Troops. However, the colonists got their story to the press first, and this "massacre" sparked the rebellion which culminated in the American Revolutionary War. 

The pro-Palestinian and pro-Arab media are very savvy concerning public relations. They always get their twisted side of the story out first, and by the time the Israeli (most often the most truthful) side gets out, opinions have already been formed. Jenin is another excellent example of this. The fact that the Arabs got their side of the story out so quickly created a reality where some still believe to this day that Israel committed a massacre in Jenin against unarmed civillians. Also, many people dont know that the US's involvement in liberating Kuwait was directly due to Hill & Knowlton, then the world's biggest PR firm. They sold a whole story of Iraqi soldiers take Kuwaiti babies and leaving them outside to die. It turned out the whole story was a lie, and the sobbing girl who told it, a 15 year old girl named Nayira, was actually a daughter of a high-ranking Kuwaiti diplomat.

Its not about right and wrong.  Its a battle of information. Things can go very well or very wrong simply due to the Public Relation techniques (or lack thereof) employed. Arabs have been fantastic with PR for decades. If Israel just puts a little bit of thought and time into it, the dividends paid will be HUGE.

Lightning out of Lebanon

When I took my 2nd College Poli Sci class, in summer school, we were told to read this book called "Lightning out of Lebanon" (by Barbara Newman and Tom Diaz) in addition to our textbook.This book really opened my eyes to the threat we face from Hezbollah. 

Some people think Hezbollah is an Israel problem,not our fight. To them I would say, Hezbollah killed more Americans than any other terror organization up until 9/11.

Besides that though, Hezbollah is a much more organized and intelligent terrorist organization than Al Queda. This is directly due to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard sending 2000 of its own members to start Hezbollah and continuing to support them

with finance and manpower to this day. This book tells the story of Hezbollahs sleeper

agents in the USA who are just waiting for the order to kill and maim Americans, Hezbollah's bases in South America from which they launched attacks at Jewish

targets,their fundraising efforts in the US, and about a Hezbollah affiliated shopkeeper in Baja California who crossed the border into the USA and checked 

himself into a Chula Vista hospital for RADIATION POISONING. Chula Vista is right around the corner from where I live. Evidence suggests he may have been poisoned by a dirty bomb, perhaps of his own creation.

Israel deals with an unusually potent threat from Hezbollah, and now, 10 years later, Israeli newspapers are abuzz of whether or not then Prime Minister Barak pulling out 

of South Lebanon in 2000 made sense,

considering now Hezbollah's arsenal of rockets is more deadly than ever, and the fact that after the pullout Hezbollah kidnapped and killed Israeli soldiers twice, once in 

2000, which Israel did not respond to, and in 2006, which was the impetus to the well known Second Lebanon War of 2006. Conventional (and maybe seemingly logical)

wisdom in 2000 was that Hezbollah was created because Israeli occupied some land in Lebanon, i.e. No Occupation= No more Resistance= No more Hezbollah. 

How wrong this turned out to be. When we have terrorists like Hamas and 

Hezbollah organized and funded by outside states like Iran, occupation is no more than a pathetic excuse. They exist not because of an occupation, but because their

Iranian masters oblige them too.

There really is only one way out:Unfortunately, Israel will be pushed and will finish the job (alone as usual), while the rest of the civilized world comes along kicking and 

screaming. Hamas and Hezbollah must go the way of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and Blue Star in India. Every freedom & peace loving Westerner should thank Israel for always being on the front lines of most anti-democratic, anti-liberal values such as gender equality and human rights, evil, murderous

people on earth today. Thank You Israel!

NOTE:

Also, Over that summer Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the Iranian Presidential "election", back when Ahmadinejad was still fairly unknown, and our teacher warned us that this 

guy could be trouble.

However, Ahmadinejad is only a symptom of the disease. All the Iranian clerics, even ones such as the more "moderate" Hashemi Rafsanjani, have made inflammatory

threats about using nuclear weapons against Israel. When this is the "moderate" viewpoint, regime change is in order. Everybody thanked Israel years after they

bombed Saddams nukes, but right after it happened, Israel was condemned, even by her allies. Maybe the world wont get so lucky this time. Israel may deem a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities too costly. And then what will we do? Iran is a threat

to Israel, yes, but nuclear proliferation in the Middle East will be EVERYONES problem. Just wait. 20 or 30 years down the road, US scholars and pundits will be lamenting 

that we should have done more to halt Irans nuclear program. I pray that I am wrong.

Hobby or Necessity?

Mr. Thomas Friedman wrote an article for the New York Times last month saying, for Israel, pursuing peace was more of a "hobby" than necessity.

(Thomas Friedman is a well known pundit in the USA and is often thought of as 'middle of the road' and a voice of reason on a variety of subjects and issues. I happen to agree, but not on Israel. No one with a pair of eyes and ears could agree with this assessment)

-Ask the 9,000 Jewish folks who were kicked out of their homes in Gaza in 2005 to make way for Arabs how much of a hobby peace has been for them. (Most of them have not been resettled into permanent residences)

-Ask the cities of Sderot and Ashkelon, bombarded by rockets with even more intensity starting in 2005 after Israel disengaged for peace. A grand total of over 5,700 rockets and 4,000 mortars have been fired at these desert communities. Ask their maimed children, dead spouses, or the hordes of little children forced to live in (or at all times be within 8 seconds of) bomb shelters about Israel's peace 'hobby.'

-Ask the Jews around the world who have felt a surge of Judeophobic violence since Operation Cast Lead in 2009. (Cast Lead was an operation by the IDF which was executed to stop the rocket fire from Gaza, the same Gaza Israel unilaterally withdrew from in 2005)

-Ask Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel in 2000 and current defense minister, who with President Bill Clinton, offered the Palestinians 92% of the West Bank, all of Gaza,  a capital in East Jerusalem, as well as an internationally funded (including Israel) aid package for the Palestinians to build their state. Arafat turned down this generous offer WITH NO COUNTEROFFER!!

-Ask Mahmoud Abbas, The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Abbas told the Washington Post (Abbas's Waiting Game, by Jackson Diehl) that former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, offered him an even more generous offer than Arafat got in 2000, with a whopping 97% of the West Bank offered to the Palestinians. Abbas turned it down, he didnt like the borders.

In an effort to be Politically Correct, and using some kind of backwards moral equivalency, Mr Friedman doesnt see that it is plainly the Palestinians (or their leaders, more specifically) who treat peace as a hobby, if that.

SIDE NOTE:

The difference between the Palestinians and Israel: The Palestinians are not DESPERATE ENOUGH for their own state. The desperate post-Holocaust Jews even accepted a non-contiguous state in Palestine in 1948. Arabs chose war. This plays out over and over and over and again through history, with the Jews going to the table, and making sacrifices, with Arabs not even making the slightest of sacrifices, like ending the practice of naming Palestinian Streets after terrorists who committed attacks with civillian death tolls as high as 37.

If the Palestinians were desperate for independence like the Jews were, there would have been a state in 1948. Or 2000. Or in Gaza in 2005. Or with Olmert in 2009. Or after 1967, Or 73. The list goes on and on.

Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchens making Mos Def look idiotic about Iran

 Mos Def- you are a brilliant rapper, but anything that comes out of your mouth resembles the substance i have to pick up after my dog every morning

Obama strikes new tone on terrorism, bans Islam, jihad from security terminology-

"You take a country where the overwhelming majority are not going to become terrorists, and you go in and say, 'We're building you a hospital so you don't become terrorists.' That doesn't make much sense," said National Security Council staffer Pradeep Ramamurthy.

If you build Israel a hospital, you are a hero to Israelis, no matter what disingenuous intentions lie within the philanthropic act itself (case in point; the donations to Israel from Christians who actively convert Jews in America). If you build a hospital for a Muslim country, its a spit in the face. What is with the hostility of the Muslim world? What is notable is that Obama employs a similair type of hostility when dealing with Israel.

The Obama Administration makes no attempts to pull punches aimed at Israel, yet at every turn Obama feels that the way we should treat the Muslim world is the way bad parents treat a spoiled kid, so careful not to anger them, never asking for even the smallest of concessions, quick to allay any percieved discomfort, no matter how trivial, while at the same time using a much harsher set of standards when dealing with others. The Obama administration refuses to name Radical Islam by name, although Radical Islamists kill our troops and civillians, but has no problem perpetuating the hideous myth that building in Jerusalem puts our troops in danger.

Obama met with Afghanistan's President Karzai after Karzai welcomed dubiously elected Iranian President Ahamadinejad in his country and gave him a platform to spew his Anti-American drivel. Despite this slap in the face to America, Obama flew to Afghanistan to have a public, camera-filled dinner with the corrupt Karzai, in stark contrast to the private, 'no cameras allowed' meeting Obama had with Netanyahu. Obama also kept Netanyahu waiting an hour and a half after meeting with him for 30 minutes to have dinner, a dinner Netanyahu was not invited to. Obamas treatment of Israel makes me want to puke, and the sad thing is, he is giving ammunition to all the voices who said he would be against Israel because of the Anti-Semetic vitrol he sat through for 20 years listening to Revered Wright. I consider myself extremely liberal on nearly all fronts, my vote in the primaries went to Hillary. The only thing that held me back from giving Obama my vote was the fear that Obama would give the Iranian wolves the keys to the Jewish henhouse, together with the fear that Obama would push Israel into more unilateral concessions in return for terror, even more so than his predecessors because of his Muslim heritage.

(SIDE POINT: Obama is a Muslim. This might be the un-PC thing to say, but he is a Muslim as much as my father is a Jew. In Islam, the father determines the religion, in Judaism, the mother. If my grandmother gave birth to my father, and afterwards promptly converted to Catholicism and raised my father as a Catholic, my father would still be considered a Jew by even the most stringent Jewish authorities. As I said, even if Obama doesn't consider himself a Muslim, the Muslim world does, and he is well aware of this.)

To take a page from the Reverend, Obama's chickens will 'come home to roost' if he doesnt stop this ill treatment of Israel. The American people are behind Israel, Congress is overwhelmingly behind Israel (Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner got together for some snapshots with Netanyahu during his visit here). Israel is an integral part of the USA's national security strategy, and together with Obama's percieved appeasement of Radical Islam, will create a picture for Obama's political foes that he is soft on terror. Perhaps they are right.

With all of George W's shortcomings, and the fiasco of Iraq, he had one thing right; we shoudlnt wait to be attacked. Obama is fine with fighting in Afghanistan, because 3,000 Americans were butchered by the Taliban's designs. 

Shall we wait to be murdered in our sleep/leisure time for the next time we fight back?

Frightening Distinctions of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Frightening Distinctions of the Islamic Republic of Iran

by Josh White

March 12, 2010

Ancient Persia (Iran) was home to the first human rights charter penned by Cyrus the Great. The current ruling mullahs (clerics) of Iran could not have fallen farther from the tree. Modern day Iran is a place where women can be raped, and if reported to authorities, in all likelihood will end up as a ruling of “fornication” against the rape VICTIM, a crime usually punishable by death.

Besides this, Iran has earned many frightening distinctions as a country where human rights are routinely suppressed and people are routinely beaten, raped, murdered, and controlled, simply for practicing things like freedom of speech, freedoms that Westerners generally take for granted.

The illegal government of Iran also uses rape as a weapon against its own people in a very horrifyingly unique way. When virgin girls, often political protesters, are given death sentences, they cannot technically be carried out because a virgin will go straight to heaven according to Islam. Accordingly, the soon-to-be executioner is required to rape this virgin on death row to prevent her passage to heaven. The families of fallen Iranian girls have to face the two-fold misery of losing their daughter and knowing her last moments involved being subjected to a frightening rape. 

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/17/former-iranian-basij-mili_n_395943.html)

Israel, in stark contrast, has no death penalty, and certainly never sanctions rape against suspected terrorist women it imprisons for security purposes. Some of the worst female allegations against the Israeli justice system I’ve read include Arab women being forced to be strip searched by female officers. Many of these strip searches have uncovered suicide bombs that have saved not only Israeli lives, but even the suicide bomber's life as well at times. Being strip searched is not a fun experience for an innocent person, but in Israel it is necessary, but nothing even close to judicially sanctioned rape and execution.

Iran has earned the distinction of leading the world in executing children according to Human Rights Watch. Even the notorious capital punishment practices of China forbids against the death penalty being used on convicts under 18 (http://www.cecc.gov/pages/newLaws/criminalLawENG.php). Even with China's well known frequent use of the death penalty, Iran still executes more prisoners than China on a per-capita level.

Another disgusting practice of Iran brings to mind the controversial comparison between modern day Iran and Nazi Germany, besides the dehumanization of Israel/Jews. The illegal government of the Islamic Republic has practiced mass murder against homosexuals practically since its inception in 1979. 

Many will argue that many Arab/Muslim nations in the Middle East have the death penalty as a punishment for homosexuals. However, the BBC (“Iran ‘must stop youth executions’") clearly states “Homosexuality is illegal in almost all Muslim countries, and punishable by death in many of them. But gay and human rights groups say Iran's record is particularly shocking, having executed possibly thousands of gay men since the Islamic revolution.”

Israel, in stark contrast to Iran, has the most developed Lesbian. Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender rights in the Middle East. Even controversial Gay Pride marches are not uncommon occurrences in the holy land. Rule of law rules Israel, not religion.

Furthermore, religious Jews in Israel (and abroad) do not execute homosexuals. Once again, the death penalty is strictly forbidden in Israel (except in the Palestinian territories where Palestinian ‘collaborators’ with Israel are executed routinely on little to no evidence, many times to settle personal scores.)

On January 6, 2010, the Media Line announced that Iran currently earned the distinction of being the worlds biggest journalist prison. Until now, Iran was ‘merely’ the biggest prison for the press in the Middle East (not known for being a beacon of journalism rights already), as reported by Reporters Without Borders in 2007.

In 2007, Eritrea and North Korea still held more journalists in prison than Iran, leaving Iran ranked as number 166 out of 169 countries for Reporters Without Borders in 2007. No longer. As said, Iran has passed the former threshold, now with a total of 42 journalists imprisoned, a higher number than anywhere else in the entire world.

Over 60 years since Israel's inception, and not only does the country still fight for legitimacy, it finds itself thrown against the Islamic Republic of Iran; a repressive, hate-filled enemy that denies the Holocaust while energetically in a race to make nuclear weapons to create another Holocaust. The people of Iran aren't bad, many are friendly to Jews and Israel. However, they are held hostage by leaders who hate Israel for no tangible reasoning. Israel has never attacked the Islamic Republic, and has only acted to defend itself in wars provoked by Arab aggression, be it 8,000 rockets or the closing of the Suez, or whatever else the terrorists/tyrants are up to again.

Unfortunately, there is no shortage of violent, despotic regimes in the world today. However, there are a certain few that stand out because of the extreme brutality, repression, and inhumane methods used by the government to suppress their people. Outside of regions currently engaged in Genocide, like Darfur, it could be safely said the Islamic Republic of Iran is the biggest threat to world peace. Allowing a belligerent, dangerous country like the Islamic Republic, the perfecter of the suicide belt, to acquire nuclear weapons will go down as one of the biggest catastrophes in human history. 

 

I think Alan Dershowitz agrees with me..

Double Standard Watch: For bigots, Israel can do no right. 

Alan M Dershowtiz 

Sunday Jan 24th, 2010

  "Even The New York Times, in an otherwise thoughtful analysis of the controversiality of the aid among some Israelis, failed to note the difference between Israel sending its limited resources to faraway Haiti and to nearby Gaza.  

 Haiti is not at war with Israel. Haiti has not pledged itself to Israel's destruction. Haiti has not fired 8,000 rockets at Israeli civilians. Gaza, on the other hand, has a popularly elected government that has done and continues to do all of the above. Moreover, there is no comparison between the tens of thousands of Haitians who have died from a natural disaster, and the people of Gaza who suffer far less from what is, essentially, a self-inflicted wound."

The fact that so many Israelis are advocating medical and other assistance to Gaza, certainly supports this latter theory. Has any other country in the history of the world ever provided medical and other assistance to a people with whom it is at war - to people who continue to support rocket attacks and other forms of terrorism against its own civilians? Again, a double standard.