The View From Israel
Posted on December 21, 2009
Filed Under American President, Avigdor Lieberman, Barak Hussein Obama, Barak Obama, Bibi, Bibi Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, History, IDF, Mahmoud Abbas, PA, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism, Zionist Entity, construction freeze | 1 Comment
The peace negotiations between Israel and the PA have not been moving any closer to a signed agreement for quite some time. Actually, the sudden intransigence of the PA has driven them further apart than ever. In fact, with Obama’s witting or unwitting encouragement, the PA has painted itself into a corner. It had ample reason to believe that the American President would exert extra heavy pressure on Israel to present the PA with further and further gestures that would whittle away the structure and the resolve of the Jewish State. Obama, and Mahmoud Abbas, miscalculated! Netanyahu is not so ready to commit national suicide to please an American President who is regarded as a laughingstock throughout most of the world.
Obama extended his hand to Iran and was thoroughly rebuffed! He refused to meet with the Dalai Lama in order to please Communist China but it bore no fruit. He went to Copenhagen, fancying himself as the most powerful leader in the world, yet not only was most of his agenda rebuffed, but he often had to barge in to various meetings he was purposely not invited to. Chavez, that Venezuelan piece of malodorous Devil’s excreta, even started referring to Obama as the Devil. Same name he had used for… G.W. Bush! What has happened that an American President has become so irrelevant, so fast? The answer, to borrow a Bob Dylan phrase, is blowing in the wind. Obama and his closest advisors have shown not only a total lack of experience, but a total lack of understanding of both international as well as their national realities.
But… while President Obama continues to make himself more irrelevant every time he opens his mouth, not all’s well with Bibi in Israel either. His government agreed to a 10 months construction freeze in the west Bank, as if that would bring peace closer. The fact remains that Mahmoud Abbas had no problem negotiating with earlier governments without any freeze. And after the 10 months are up, what then? Will he extend the freeze? Will he allow construction again? How will either option advance peace? How will either option make him look better in the eyes of the hypocritical West?
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given orders, according to leaked documents, to apply paralyzing force against those who continue to build in spite of the freeze as well as against those who will be evacuated. One must ask, what moral imperative, what twisted logic would compel a Jewish Defense Minister, to use use a Jewish Army against Jewish civilians in a Jewish democratic state?!?!? If there are those who are defying the government that is a police matter, not something that an army whose purpose is to defend the Jewish State against its enemies, against terrorist infrastructures, should deal with. To send an army against Jewish civilians is far too reminiscent of horrendous events, the world witnessed 60+ years ago.
A soldier must serve the army unhesitatingly, or chaos ensues. An army must serve its government, or chaos ensues. Yet, to use the IDF to apply “paralyzing force” against one’s own civilians – instead of against the real enemy – is not only illogical but merely a first step into the country’s disintegration while it encourages further terror, further bloodshed.
What happened to Ehud Barak, once Israel’s highest decorated soldier? What happened to both Prime Minister Netanyahu and, supposed right winger, Foreign Minister Lieberman that they have never called Defense Minister Barak to task over such an outrageous order?!?
Will Israeli politicians acquiesce so readily to the whim of the West’s newest village idiot, when everyone else so pointedly laughs or ignores him?!?!?
David Waldman
[David Waldman is a good friend living in Israel, who is currently a consultant to Gelco Woodcraft, a manufacturer of unfinished furniture.]
Sphere: Related ContentThese Are a Few of my Favorite Things
Posted on November 17, 2009
Filed Under Charlie Bernhaut, FullBooks.com, International, The Kosher Scene, Uruguay, Webmuseum, onephoto.net, violin | 3 Comments
Yes, it’s true! I am a news junkie, the need to read the news and discuss politics is an intrinsic part of my mental makeup. Just like one needs the morning cuppa Java I need to look at, think and talk about the news. Having said that, however, I do have a few other – very strong – interests and, in any case, one has to take a break every once in a while, otherwise the ugly political realities can make you crack up!
I like photography, in my youth I used to eat, sleep and breathe with it. I still love it and while it’s no longer my main means of earning a living I very much indulge in that activity, which is why this Polish site – onephoto.net – is one of my favorites in its type. My parents only spoke Polish among themselves and in a whisper, because I was not meant to understand. Photography, however, is a universal language I understand it well even if I do not even know what the captions or titles mean. Their still life, architectural, nature and macro-photography sections are tops!
Fine dining is an activity I engage in far too often for my wallet’s health, nevertheless it’s part of what makes life fun and interesting. That’s why I like The Kosher Scene, a brand new blog that features photos and reviews of my favorite restaurants in New York City and environs. As an orthodox Jew, as someone who follows a strict kosher diet, it’s not always easy to find a top restaurant. In that blog I review the best kosher establishments in my immediate surroundings.
Since earliest childhood, having been brought up in an orthodox Jewish home, I’ve enjoyed listening to the voices of cantors. The nuances of each cantor’s phrasing, and particular interpretation of the specific prayer adds to my deeper understanding of the words. I was very pleased, therefore, when I stumbled upon Charlie Bernhaut’s web site, it has a superb archive with recordings of the greatest cantors of the 20th century. Mr. Bernhaut is a promoter of cantorial concerts, having produced Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgodt’s sold out concert at the Metropolitan Opera. He hopes to revive interest in the cantor’s art, once so popular in the Jewish world.
I started playing the violin when I about 7 years old and even gave a concert at age 12, back in Uruguay, as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal in Montevideo… just over half a century ago. I still get emotional when I hear a violin performing a classical piece, and far more so when I would play it myself. My parents, to my chagrin (but wisely, as I look back), took my violin away after that and never allowed me to play again. When I first got married I bought an expensive violin, when my wife told my parents, that violin also disappeared! I do, however, indulge my love of the violin by frequenting sites that feature such music. This Italian site is among my favorites for violin as well as classical music, in general: karadar.com
I like museums, whether they specialize in art or history. To look at the past whether that past is shown through art, artifacts or documents is fascinating to me, it connects me to other eras, other people. My favorite one on line is the Webmuseum.
As for books, there are quite a few sites. One that I like a lot is: FullBooks.com. It has thousands of full texts on line. From fiction and non fiction on just about every subject of interest to me.
Ahhh, the internet! What would we do without it?
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentThe Dangerous Incorrectness of Political Correctness
Posted on November 16, 2009
Filed Under Al Qaeida, Al-Qaida, Anwar al-Awlaki, Brigitte Gabriel, Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, For Hood army base, Fort Hood shooting, Infidel-o-Phobia, International, IslamoFascism, Jihad, Major Nidal Hasan, Muslims, Political Correctness, US Armed Forces, army psychiatrist, clash of civilizations, islam, palestinians | 2 Comments
For way too long this blog has decried the incorrectness, the lies and the myths of Political Correctness. We all agree that hate speech is despicable, regardless of its source; we fully agree that while a country’s majority should rule that country there must be respect, protection and representation for the minorities. Having said that, however, to use euphemisms for what should be stated outright will only confuse and obscure issues of true concern. That confusion will equally affect the majority and those whom the euphemisms seek to protect.
The fear of appearing politically incorrect has now infected the highest echelons of our armed forces, our State Department, and myriad pandering politicians in Washington DC and the rest of the country. Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan gave many signals that disturbed some of his colleagues of what he was to do on November 5th. The fact remains that Army intelligence and some of his superiors were aware of his making contact with charismatic imam and former American, Anwar al-Awlaki, a top Al Qaieda recruiter. At a gathering where he was supposed to discuss medical issues in his field of expertise, he instead spoke of Muslim American soldiers rights to leave the military because it brought war to Muslim lands. There is no conscription in this country, our military is made of volunteers, and nothing would have stopped the good Major of resigning his commission. Instead, he choose the path of jihad! You can watch the video and wonder what Army official decided to do nothing about the disturbing behavior Major Hasan was showing. What fear suddenly gripped those charged with defending this country that they ignored the obvious?!?
Brigitte Gabriel, whom we’ve shown on these pages before, puts into words what few others have the courage to express. Ms. Gabriel speaks with righteous indignation about this country’s descent into suicidal irrationality:
Political Correctness can not come at the cost of safety, to bury one’s head in the sand, to fail to recognize a problem, not only exacerbates that problem but it accelerates its dangerous outcome. Dr Nidal Malik Hasan, taking advantage of Political Correctness and of the unprecedented freedom and protection the US afforded him, willingly, in cold blood and in full accordance with the teaching of IslamoFascism murdered 13 and wounded 38. If as recently as the the Russian/American Cold War a communist had become an officer in the US Armed Forces the outcry from both the Republican and Democrat parties would have been loud and unequivocally against such a foolish step.
What has changed in almost 20 years, that the unthinkable has now suddenly become the routine? What is this rotting cancer within? What is this disease of political correctness that would endangers us all, rather than risk offending one person or even a minority group? What caused media analysts (and many an “expert”), to portray the shooter as a victim, rather than as the cold blooded terrorist he really is? Why are we bending over backwards, why are we offering excuses and protection for those to whom our lives, our values, are meaningless?
Chaim
Political Correctness and Multicultural Madness
For the Sake of Multiculturalism and Political Correctness
Women Should Know Their Place! – Along the Road to Eurabia
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Sphere: Related ContentIt Happened on Facebook…
Posted on November 9, 2009
Filed Under Allah, America, Antisemitism, Black Muslims, Egypt, Ellis island, Europe, Germany, HIV, Henry Ford, Hitler, International, James Miller, Jews, Kemetans, Khazaria, Middle East, Nubians, Racism, Russia, US, arrogance, bigot, bigotry, hatred, historical revisionism, ignorance, ignorance of facts, islam, judaism, religion of peace, rewriting history | 2 Comments
I received the following email, yesterday, on Facebook. Please note the lovely sentiments expressed by the writer. Isn’t his lack of any bigotry, touching? His grasp of truth monumental?
James Miller November 8 at 6:50pm
i hope all you fake imposter jews have another holocaust and this time they get all of you greedy bloodsucking leechs lol….you have the nerve to call yourselves a chosen race….you were crawling around the caves of Germany and Russia when indigenous nubians and kemetans were ruling the world…..the moors came up to europe for 700 years and brought ur people out of the dark ages….you stole their religions and customs and came to America calling it your own….Hitler knew you weren’t Jews that’s why he tried to exterminate you!!! Quit telling people that he killed 6 million of you….that proves you people are of the beast because you use his number too much……6 million imposter jews supposedly died in concentration camps, the number 6 million has 6 zeros, and you use a 6 pointed star…..you are the 666 people spoken of in revelations….It was written that Allah knows the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not!!! I’m sick of you people trying to corner the market for sympathy….You people are filthy parasites!!! You brought ur diseases to america through Ellis Island in the early 20th century…..and now ur evil doctors have created the biological warfare that exists upon us today….injecting black babies with the HIV virus…..now you have us in this recession because you have hijacked the banking system!!! You try to walk around like ur meek and innocent but you people are the most corrupt…..you are wolves in sheeps clothing!!! You white devils could never be the original Jews….you don’t even speak the ancient language….Yiddish is not an ancient language!!! If you were the chosen people shouldn’t you be able to speak the ancient language??? You always want to holler anti-semitiscm and ur not even semitic people…..The semites were black nubians not white europeans…..make up your minds!!! You want to be semitic and european??? that’s contradictory!!! you were never in Egypt because we all know you don’t have enough melanin to survive the Sun and the heat….so quit telling people that……the hieroglyphs clearly depict dark-skinned people not pale european jews!!! Get ur facts straight!!! Imposters!!!! The truth is coming to the surface and you will be revealed for who you are just as Henry Ford revealed that you people come from Khazaria and not the middle east or northern Africa….you’re not Jewish or Hebrew at all but Khazarian Germans impersonating Hebrews lol….I know more of ur wicked history than you do….
I could comment for many pages on the venom this viper has spewed, I could remind him that were it not for Jews in medicine he would probably be dead by now or perhaps he would never have been born. But… as I already said on Facebook, the individual has done a far better job than ever I could dream of in showing us WHO and WHAT he really is! His spelling prowess, his expletives, all show an exquisitely superior intellect. Don’t you agree, gentle reader?
He obviously thought that by emailing me he’ll get his 15 minutes of fame, but I’ve done better for him I just immortalized what passes for his hatred filled “brain.” Hitler must be writhing in his grave with envy!
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentWaking up to Reality
Posted on October 29, 2009
Filed Under Chicago tribune, GOP, House Ways and Means Committe, International, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Obamacare, Pelosi, President Obama, Representative John Shadegg, Representative Paul Ryan, Representative Roy Blunt, Senator Jim DeMint, US, US House of Representatives, US Representative Mark Kirk, US Senate, Us Representative Tom Price, democrats, healthcare, republicans | 3 Comments
The Chicago Tribune, who less than a year ago would wax poetic – as almost every other member of the MSM did, at the time - in its endorsement of candidate Obama, wrote the following yesterday:
A GOP health plan
Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate have spent the spring, summer and fall grappling with how to fix the health care system. They’re still trying to craft a bill they can sell to Americans — or even explain in plain English.
And the Republicans? Well, as the minority party, they’re mainly on the sidelines. They’ve become the party of “no,” sniping at every Democratic health care reform idea without promoting any of their own. Right?
Not entirely.
Wooow!!! What a surprise to those whose only defense of Obama is calling the Rebups the “party of no.” One of their staunchest members is actually acknowledging the Republicans have something to say, something far different and infinitely better than merely “No.”
Over the summer and fall, Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced six — yes, six — health care reform proposals. You didn’t hear? Well, those plans didn’t produce much of a ripple because Democrats dominate the Congress.
Exactly! While doing little of value on their own the Dems couldn’t allow anyone to know that the Republicans were actually doing the job, the job of they got voted in to do, the job which the Dems too capriciously refused to do.
But now Republicans are weighing a shift in strategy. Instead of taking more potshots, some Republicans say their party should present a coherent alternative to whatever final Democratic plans emerge in the House and Senate. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee reportedly are drafting legislation the GOP could introduce when Democrats bring their proposals to the floor.
Here’s hoping they do. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who sponsored a health reform bill, said recently: “The job of the opposition is not just to point out all the flaws in legislation coming to the floor, but to offer ideas for how you would fix it.”
Here’s hoping they do. Is this coming out of the pages of a Democrat publication? Are they experiencing buyer’s remorse? The job of the opposition is not just to point out all the flaws in legislation coming to the floor, but to offer ideas for how you would fix it. Now, that’s really rad! Under Dubya, the Dems kept on attacking and attacking without ever proposing anything constructive instead. Nobody in the MSM seemed to care either.
He’s right. Others offering proposals: Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
We don’t agree with everything in these bills. But the GOP proposals contain smart ideas to increase choice and competition in the health insurance market — a powerful Republican counterpoint to the Democrats’ expensive plans.
But the GOP proposals contain smart ideas to increase choice and competition in the health insurance market — a powerful Republican counterpoint to the Democrats’ expensive plans. “Smart ideas,” “powerful Republican counterpoint,” I guess they are finally recognizing that the Republicans in Congress are far from mere obstructionists as some Dems would like us to believe. I’m truly impressed by the candor!
The ideas include:
–Let insurers sell policies across state lines. That would loosen the strangling state-by-state regulations and unleash competition to drive premium prices down.
–Give people who buy insurance in the private market the same tax breaks as those who get it through employers. Now, employers that offer coverage get a tax break on the premiums they pay for employees. And employees don’t pay taxes on the value of the coverage they receive. People who want to buy insurance in the individual market should get the same tax breaks. That would help millions of people acquire coverage.
–Expand the ability of small businesses, trade associations and other groups to set up insurance pools to offer coverage at more attractive rates.
Control health costs in part by reining in the medical malpractice system that raises insurance premiums and forces doctors to order tests to protect themselves from lawsuits. Limiting certain kinds of damage awards would reduce spending on health care by about $11 billion in 2009, or about one-half of 1 percent, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. Think about that in human terms: Reform would save millions of patients the expense and trauma of unnecessary tests and procedures.
would reduce spending on health care by about $11 billion in 2009, or about one-half of 1 percent, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. I fully realize that in these age of trillion dollar deficits, $11 billion is barely a drop in the bucket. But as former Democrat Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, once famously quipped: “A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you are talking real money.”
These excellent ideas could expand coverage for the uninsured without cratering the federal budget or curbing the competition and innovation that drive the U.S. health care system. Republicans should keep pushing them — and ruling Democrats need to give them a full and fair hearing.
Hear, hear! Republicans should keep pushing them — and ruling Democrats need to give them a full and fair hearing. But Pelosi and company, won’t give them a fair hearing, it’s against her partisan principles. It isn’t America the Dems care about, it’s the wish to perpetuate their party grip on power that drives them and America be damned, as far they are concerned!
The Chicago Tribune wholeheartedly endorsed Obama in the last elections as did the overwhelming majority of the MSM. Now, they just join that illustrious list of White House enemies. In fact, I expect Anita Dunn might denounce them any moment now.
Meanwhile far too many knee jerk libs, far too many Obama “right or wrong” can do no wrong worshipers, will insist on blaming Obama’s predecessor, or will claim that anyone who dares question or oppose THE ONE, is spitting on America. They’ll claim that even their dogs know how dastardly the Republicans are. Some of the sweet kids are actually making these very statements on digg and on propeller, among others. Perhaps it would behoove them to remove their heads from their dogs’ rear ends, look at and smell the real world for a change. The President has to stop building straw men, he has to stop playing the blame game. It’s wearing too thin already (look at his ratings!!!) When will he take responsibility and get down to work? He was elected to fix what’s wrong, will he ever try?!? Or will he rather spend the rest of his mandate blaming anybody in sight?
Overall I’m pleased with the Chicago Tribune, even when I more often than not disagree with them. But… I feel compelled to ask… has hell frozen over? Or are some staunch Democrats, some former Obama worshippers waking up to reality and smelling the stench of the old, stale, political coffee? So much for hope and change!
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentFor the Furtherance of Women’s Rights
Posted on October 28, 2009
Filed Under Doha, International, Iran, Muslim women, Muslimas, Muslims, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, islam, women, women as chattel, women's clothing, women's rights, women's veil | Leave a Comment
Cat in the Gulf writes:
The joy of tennis
Can someone tell me why end of season women tennis championship is held in Doha?? Ah yes, that is to “further women’s rights” in Qatar and supposedly in the Middle East in general.For the uninitiated, the girl on the left is Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis star. On the right is a lady whose rights are about to be furthered by the said event.Utterly ridiculous.
posted by Bravecat @ 2:27 PM
2 Comments:
- At 28/10/09 22:52,
Snake said…
- At 28/10/09 22:59,
Yep. Although in this case, the only alternative to “choice” is “social suicide”.
The alternative, unfortunately, may also entail an “honor” killing! I happen to be a devout Orthodox Jew, orthodox married women cover their hair (with a snood, wig, or scarf), since they are little girls they are taught to dress modestly. Having said that, NO orthodox woman would be “honored” killed or would commit “social suicide” for not adhering to the dress code or for any other reason. And dressing modestly does not mean that a woman’s femininity is to be denied.
Many will argue that “honor killings” are really more a tribal custom rather than one prescribed by the Qur’an… Wasn’t Islam supposed to root out anything from the idolatrous past? Haven’t 1400 years of Islam been enough to civilize these tribal minds? In any case where does the Qur’an prescribe a woman wearing a burka?
The Qur’an in Sura 24:31 says:
And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known[..]
Nowhere in the above or in any other Surah is such a commandment made. It sounds more like something demanded by a patriarchal society.
Apparently, today, some Muslims must consider themselves far more religious than their ancestors, since never in history have there been so many Muslimas – even throughout western lands – covering themselves from head to toe. Frankly, it does not show women’s emancipation at work it merely shows their men’s need to lord it over them! Look at Saudi Arabia or Iran’s morality police…
Chaim
Misogyny and Racism! In Paradise?!?!?
Women in Islam – Educating the West’s “Progressives”
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part VII
The Islamist World View – Part II, Women
The Cost of Being a Muslim Woman in a Muslim World
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part VI
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part V
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part IV
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part III
Men are Human, Women are not! Got That?!?!? – Part II
Men are Human, Women are not! Got That?!?!?
Women in Islam, From a Muslim Woman’s Perspective
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Sphere: Related ContentThe Real Truth Behind the Rioting in Jerusalem
Posted on October 27, 2009
Filed Under International, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Jooz, Joseph Farah, Palestina, Palestine, Political lies, Romans, Rome, Temple Mount, Terrorism, Wailing wall, appeasement, appeasing Islam, historical revisionism, palestinians, political hypocrisy, political myths, terror, the Temple, violence | 4 Comments
Arab American journalist, Joseph Fara, writes:
Truth about the Middle East
by Joseph FarahI’ve been quiet since Israel erupted in fighting spurred by disputes over the Temple Mount. Until now, I haven’t even bothered to say, “See, I told you so.” But I can’t resist any longer. I feel compelled to remind you of the column I wrote just a couple weeks before the latest uprising. Yeah, folks, I predicted it. That’s OK. Hold your applause.
After all, I wish I had been wrong. More than 80 people have been killed since the current fighting in and around Jerusalem began. And for what?
If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right?
Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I’ve got to tell you that these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing.
Isn’t it interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland?
“Well, Farah,” you might say, “that was before the Israelis seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem.”
That’s true. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn’t capture these territories from Yasser Arafat. They captured them from Jordan’s King Hussein. I can’t help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war.
I can’t help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war. Simple answer, gentle reader, it is a great way to de-legitimize the despised Jooz. And the hypocritical West bought it all with nary a sound in protest.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The truth, gentle reader is that there is/there was no “Palestinian people” historically, unless you mean the name given to the area and its JEWISH population by the Romans. Fact remains that for a couple of thousands of years, antisemites would taunt the Jews by telling them to “Go back to Palestine!”
Palestine has never existed — before or since — as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
Fact remains that most of the “Palestinians” arrived in the area (which already had an indigenous Jewish majority dating back to biblical times, though augmented during the height of the Spanish Inquisition) after 1920, when France formed the entities called Syria and Lebanon. The Syrians wanted to flood the area with their own to later claim the land as part of Greater Syria. Winston Churchill spoke about it, in his writings, extensively.
Before Churchill wrote on the subject, Mark Twain visited the Holy Land – in the 19th century – and described it as a barren, impoverished land with a Jewish majority.
What about Islam’s holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem.
Shocked? You should be. I don’t expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It’s just not politically correct.
I know what you’re going to say: “Farah, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock [Haram es Sharif] in Jerusalem represent Islam’s third most holy sites.”
Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.
So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled “The Night Journey.” It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night “from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. …” In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that’s as close as Islam’s connection with Jerusalem gets — myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.
And yet the western world, for the sake of oil, will deny anything about the despised Joo’s history, even if that means Christianity’s own premises are put in doubt! Have they forgotten that Jerusalem is the holiest site (not the questionable third!) to Judaism and Christianity? Do they care?
The latest round of violence in Israel erupted when Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon tried to visit the Temple Mount, the foundation of the Temple built by Solomon. It is the holiest site for Jews. Sharon and his entourage were met with stones and threats. I know what it’s like. I’ve been there. Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?
Heyyy, Israel has no known oil deposits, the Jooz have always been despised throughout Europe! Here’s a chance to get rid of a burdensome lot! Got a problem with that?!?!?
So what’s the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don’t think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name.
The solution can only come about when the lies are exposed, when the West stops bowing and kowtowing to Arab oil. The solution won’t come about just because an American President shamelessly curtsies to an Arab despot, regardless of what holy titles the latter chooses to give himself! In fact that simple bowing only encourages the intransigence, the intolerance, the lies.
For two thousand years the despised Joo lived, prayed, cried, hoped and died with the word “Yerushalayim” (Jerusalem) on his lips. No Muslim myth, no Western hypocrisy, no historical revisionism will disengage the Jew from his patrimony this time around. NEVER AGAIN!!!
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentThe Deity Undeified
Posted on October 26, 2009
Filed Under Ariana Huffington, Barak Hussein Obama, Barak Obama, Chávez, Devil's Excreta, Fox News, Freedom of the Press, George Soros, Harry Reid, International, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, POTUS, Racism, Rahm Emanuel, Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The Washington Independent, United States, Venezuela, bigot, bigotry, bigots, democrats, divisivness, economy, finances, partisanship, political arrogance, political fumbling, political incompetence, political ineptitude, political naivete, politicians, politics | 1 Comment
Jay Leno on Obama (H/T: USS Neverdock):
Jay Leno, above, is laughing at Obama’s attack on Fox News. The President and his administration are showing the citizenry, at large, how vulnerable, how thin skinned they really are.
As the San Diego Union Tribune says:
Not only is it dangerous and wildly inappropriate for the White House — any White House — to start compiling enemies lists, it’s also not very smart. Government should not make a habit of insulting and isolating a major news organization. Better to just ignore whatever bothers you. Otherwise, people might get the idea you have a thin skin and that you have something against being asked tough questions.
And the next thing you know, there are tough questions coming from all directions. Earlier this week at the White House press gaggle with reporters, ABC News’ Jake Tapper tore into White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Tapper wanted to know why the administration thought it was appropriate to single out a specific news organization as inauthentic and then invite everyone to pile on in an attempt to marginalize critics. Gibbs couldn’t come up with a good answer, and he frankly seemed surprised at the question. After all, isn’t ABC News part of the club? Why would one of its reporters defend the opposition instead of just going along? The best that Gibbs could do was to insist that this was the White House opinion and it was sticking by it.
Gibbs couldn’t come up with a good answer, and he frankly seemed surprised at the question. After all, isn’t ABC News part of the club? Even “members of the club” are getting fed up with the cardboard Messiah they themselves created.
Bravo to Tapper. But shame on the White House. It’s behavior is outrageous and petty. It can’t win this battle, and it should never have engaged the fight. It’s time to stop picking on Fox News, and start showing some maturity. Freedom of the press is not something to be trifled with — especially when it makes the powerful uncomfortable.
Freedom of the press is not something to be trifled with — especially when it makes the powerful uncomfortable. Ah, but these bunch are learning from Hugo Chavez how they should treat the Press. Freedom of Speech is something this administration has no use for, just like that malodorous piece of Devil’s excreta down in Venezuela!
Did GWB attack ABC, CBS or NBC over the many unfounded attacks? About their warped opinions passed off as facts? No, neither did Presidents before Dubya. They took their lumps and continued with their work. Obama, however, needs to distract us from his failures, he needs to hide the important issues. The Great Unifier is nothing more than a Great Divider. Why? By creating diversions, by dividing the country into factions, by reopening old wounds, he hopes we won’t notice his ineptitude, his lack of any ability that may qualify him for the job he holds. All the while his puppet masters – Pelosi, Reid and especially Rahm Emanuel (under the direction of George Soros) – continue destroying the country with their elitist (but utterly bankrupt) ideas of what is best for us. “Best” for us, but not for them!
It’s interesting how some of those who shielded Obamessiah, who overlooked and hid his faults, who slanted their “reporting” to pushed him as a candidate are now coming out against him. The New York Times has started to show some discomfort with their hero Obama – as did various other prestigious members of the MSM – it’s becoming all too obvious that disenchantment is starting to set in.
Even someone as left wing a publication as The Washington Independent noticed:
…the President has made lots of hopeful promises about a new transparency and accountability in government. He has yet to follow up on them.
The President has made lots of hopeful promises about a new transparency and accountability in government. The sad reality, however, shows this administration as the most secretive in recent history. No transparency exists and every loophole that might allow something to be hidden is readily used.
His big chherleader, Ariana Huffington, over at The Huffington Post writes:
tragic for the rest of us — both in terms of what hasn’t been accomplished, and in terms of how much more misery it will lead to down the road. Misery that is avoidable — if only Barack Obama would stop acting like a pundit, egging on change from the sideline, and start acting like the president, dictating the game from the middle of the field.
if only Barack Obama would stop acting like a pundit, egging on change from the sideline and start acting like the president. Actually Ariana, he’s merely paying lip service to change, as The Washington Independent noted, the promised transparency hasn’t been delivered. His plans so far can only bring further misery. And that will only make Pelosi and company that much more powerful while Soros can only get richer on the backs of lowly taxpayers like you and I, gentle reader.
Americans, in general, are deserting the Democrats in droves. From the UK’s Telegraph:
Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years
The decline in Barack Obama’s popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.
Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from April.
His current approval rating – hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle – is close to the bottom for newly-elected president. Mr Obama entered the White House with a soaring 78 per cent approval rating.
The bad polling news came as Mr Obama returned to the campaign trail to prevent his Democratic party losing two governorships next month in states in which he defeated Senator John McCain in last November’s election.
Jeffrey Jones of Gallup explained: “The dominant political focus for Obama in the third quarter was the push for health care reform, including his nationally televised address to Congress in early September.
“Obama hoped that Congress would vote on health care legislation before its August recess, but that goal was missed, and some members of Congress faced angry constituents at town hall meetings to discuss health care reform. Meanwhile, unemployment continued to climb near 10 per cent.”
Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey is in severe danger of defeat while Democrats are fast losing hope that Creigh Deeds can beat his Republican opponent in Virginia. Twin Democratic losses would be a major blow to Mr Obama’s prestige.
Campaigning for Mr Corzine in Hackensack on Wednesday night, Mr Obama delivered a plea that almost seemed as much for himself as the local candidate: “I’m here today to urge you to cast aside the cynics and the sceptics, and prove to all Americans that leaders who do what’s right and who do what’s hard will be rewarded and not rejected.”
Mr Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs executive and multi-millionaire, is currently running even in New Jersey, which is normally comfortably Democratic, while Mr Deeds is trailing badly in Virginia, a swing state that was key to Mr Obama’s 2008 victory.
Mr Obama is also facing widespread criticism for his drawn-out decision-making process over what to do next in Afghanistan.
Republicans sense Mr Obama is in a vulnerable position and this week saw the return to the public stage of his perhaps most vehement opponent – Vice-President Dick Cheney.
In a blistering speech on Wednesday night, he accused Mr Obama of failing to give Americans troops on the ground a clear mission or defined goals and of being seemingly “afraid to make a decision” about Afghanistan “The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger,” Cheney said at the Center for Security Policy in Washington.
“Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries.”
He hit out at Obama aides who suggested that the Bush administration had failed to weigh up conditions in Afghanistan properly before committing troops.
“Now they seem to be pulling back and blaming others for their failure to implement the strategy they embraced. It’s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity.”
The People are starting to open their eyes, beginning to realize the new deity is not divine. He’s merely a very flawed individual devoid of ideas, lacking in qualifications and simply a charlatan who can’t even get his facts or his numbers straight. Just another politician. Pity!
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentIncompetence and Blame
Posted on October 26, 2009
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It’s a standard move, in the game of politics, for each new administration to blame its predecessor for whatever ails the country. Conversely, it is just as standard to take credit for anything that may alleviates existing problems even when the time-frame of such cure makes it obvious that whichever the new administration it had little or nothing to do with it.
The blame game, however, can only stretch so far and only for so long. At a certain point people expect solutions. The most pressing problem right now, the one that affects the average man on the street regardless of political affiliation is the economy. Instead of offering any remedy, this administration – under skillful puppet masters, Pelosi, Reid and especially Rahm Emmanuel – is still engaged in finger pointing, using Obama’s charming smile and teleprompter skills as its public face. The charm of that cardboard smile, however, is starting to wear…
One could blame our economic woes on Clinton’s administration for creating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and letting them be overseen by the likes of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, in the House and the Senate respectively. Or one could obfuscate the issue and blame it all on GWB. Frankly, at this stage who may or may not be at fault is hardly important. Only what will, or will not, be done about it counts!
Instead of attacking the problem, instead of bringing in real experts to suggest and implement solutions, this administration – taking its direction, behind the scenes, from George Soros – is using diversionary tactics. At a time when our economy is about to collapse, they are trying to saddle us with a Healthcare Bill the country can ill afford even in the best of times.
I personally do not have any health insurance, can’t afford it. I should have been out there screaming, at the top of my lungs, for the passage of HR 3200. However, unlike the Prez, unlike our Congress people I read all of its pages a few times over. I was appalled that such a disgusting proposal could be passed off as “healthcare.” While I believe that reform is necessary to make the system more affordable, the proposed bill only will result in less healthcare for a considerable higher price! To make things worse it does not allow anyone to opt out of the system… except… Congressmen and the ruling elite! They get and will continue to get their Healthcare at our expense but their options are NOT offered the likes of us! Would it not be fair, would it not make more sense, that those who make our laws should have to live under the exact same laws as you and I?
Meanwhile, instead of offering us solutions to the economic meltdown we are getting further into debt (bailouts, anyone?) and when that doesn’t doesn’t create jobs, we get more excuses and further blame. The Great Unifier, the Promoter of Hope, the Obamessiah who would miraculously cure all our national ailments, is only succeeding in burying us deeper in the muck, dividing the country and destroying hope! When will this administration stop the games and take ownership of the situation? When will they do something that the country actually wants and badly needs.
As Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal and reprinted in yesterday’s New York Post:
At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. From that point on, the presidency – all his decisions, all the credit and blame for them – was his. The American people didn’t hold him responsible for what led up to 9/11, but they held him responsible for everything after it. This is part of the reason the image of him standing on the rubble of the twin towers, bullhorn in hand, on Sept. 14, 2001, became an iconic one. It said: I’m owning it.
[...]In these atmosphere, Obama excuse-begging and defensiveness won’t work.
Everyone knows he was handed horror. They want him to fix it.
At this point, you own your presidency. At some point it’s your rubble. At some point American people tell you it’s yours. The polls now, with the presidential approval numbers going down and their disaproval numbers going up: That’s the American people telling him.
But will the administration listen, or is that beyond the power of their courage?!?!? The people’s message to Obama and those behind him is clear: Stop apportioning blame, stop the diversion (such as foolishly and unnecessarily attacking Rush, Beck, Fox News – or anything else you can grasp at to divert attention from the administration’s bumbling) and start governing!!!
Chaim
An Updated Fable for Our Times
Posted on October 25, 2009
Filed Under ABC, Aesop, CBS, International, It's Not Easy Being Green, John Kerry, Kermit the Frog, Larry King, NBC, Nancy Pelosi, PBS, ant, grasshopper, legal immigrants, taxes | 1 Comment
[I received the following in an email. It's an ancient fable - attributed to Aesop - that someone updated to reflect the sad new realities of America's internal policies, the unfortunate prevailing conditions that threaten to destroy this country and turn it from the "land of opportunity," into a third world entity ripe for tyranny! Read'em and weep!]
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
In the America we knew, hard work, sweat and tears were always rewarded. That is how the West, in general, was able to advance from a barbarian past to a prosperous present.
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant ’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry proclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-At Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
Since 1776, as America threw off the colonial yoke, this country – in spite of its myriad problems, in spite of some serious injustices, in spite of some strong prejudices, has indefatigably striven to overcome them as it welcomed legal immigrants from almost every corner of the globe. The ideas and ideals brought by these individuals, individuals who came here in search of freedom, in search of opportunities, in a quest for better lives for their families, made the US into a superpower.
The liberal elites (in a witting or unwitting effort to have this country become everything those immigrants fled from), so as to transform our society into their own private fiefdom, want us to feel guilty and give up our freedoms, our rewards, our opportunities, our strength and love of liberty. Will America stand for it? Will we rebel and restore our country, our glory, our power in 2010? Shall we be the worthy heirs to the ideals of the founding fathers or will go quietly into the darkness of diminished freedom, increased taxes, and the nightmare of remembering what once was?
Be careful how you vote in 2010. Be careful how you vote in 2010. Be careful how you vote in 2010.
Chaim
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UPDATE
I did not succeed in my efforts to find out whom to give credit for this retold fable. I got the email on the night of October 24th, from a friend who received it from someone who sent it to him on 23rd, who received it on the 22nd and so on, having started its round on the 17th. I did, however, just find a blog of someone who posted this fable with his own very insightful comment on October the 23rd here.
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