Rained out on Nakba Day

Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under Antisemitism, Arabs, International, Palestine, Racism, Religion, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, prejudice | Leave a Comment

I just came back from a rally in the vicinity of the United Nations. Arabs and Palestinians were demonstrating against the Nakba (catastrophe) of Israel’s independence. The Almighty (OK… the elements, for you atheists!) collaborated tremendously by raining out their rally at Dag Hamarksjold Plaza by the United Nations. They were talking about having a massive rally with thousands of people… there were barely a couple of hundred…

Across the street on 2nd Avenue there was a very small contingent of Christians and Jews united in opposing terrorism and murder by the Palestiinians who truly excel at such deeds. As I was looking for the group of counter-demonstrators I happened to pass a few feet away from the “Palestinians” who were just warming up. As they recognized from my boyish looks, my beard, and my head covered with a black velvet kippah that I surely must be a Jew, a big group turned towards me and regaled me with these symphonically entoned love words: “Jew! Jew! Jew! I hope you die today!” Now, obviously I’ve been very naive… Have they not been saying that they have no problem with Jews, but only with Zionism? Oh, I’m sure I missheard!

While there I had the pleasure of meeting Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs, whom I did a radio show with on August 12, 2006

Pamela

I also run into Sammy from Yidlidwith, whom I’ve met quite a few times before:

Sammy

So where is my photo?!?!? Sorry, you’ll just have to go to Atlas Shrugs for photos of the rally and counterally. Oh, while there, be sure to watch the video!

Chaim

I’m at a Loss for Words…

Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under Arabs, Religion, islam, women, women's veil | 1 Comment

What do you make of this story, gentle reader, posted on May the 13th by Ibn Misr on his blog Sons of Apes and Pigs?

Saudi wants divorce after husband lifts her veil

Never showed her face in 30 years of marriage

DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping, local press reported.

For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of her native village near the south western Saudi city of Khamis Mushayt.

“After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake,” the wife told Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh, after she left the house in total disbelief.

She said the husband apologized and promised never to do it again.

This is not the first case of husbands who have not seen their wives’ faces in decades.

In the past Al Arabiya has reported the case of Ali al-Qahtani, whose wife had been wearing the face veil for the entire ten years of their marrage. When he tried to take it off, she threatened to leave and only decided to stay after he swore never to try again.

Hassan Al-Atibi threatened to marry another woman if his wife didn’t show him her face. The woman nominated one of her friends who doesn’t observe this tradition as a possible new wife for him, saying this would be better than her showing her face.

And neither the husband or children of Om Rabea al-Gahdaray, 70, have ever seen her face. Al-Gahdaray says it is a family tradition, also followed by mother and sisters, which her husband accepted and never tried to change.

When asked how she could have kids without her husband ever seeing her face, she replied: “Marriage is about love, not faces.”

I am beyond flabbergasted, for the life of me I cannot understand how it’s possible to live with a woman, produce offspring with her and never see her face. This must be a joke of some kind, right? The tragic truth is that it’s not a joke! What is even more appalling are some of the comments to the original report. Rather than condemning the ridiculous practice, Ibn Misr points out, some of the commenters on the original article find fault with the fact that it was published in English and thus easily accessible to non-Muslims:

aDNAN
Mr
shame on alarabiya.net, as news articles like this one present arabs to be not only close minded, but retarded as well, islam is a great religion, but people like that have set the worst example of Islam to the western world, the veil is a tradition used by arab bedouins in general, not by islam!!!!, and posting such news in english gives islam a bad name, but again, i wish this was the worst thing that was done in the name of Islam, as it isnt, oh and if you (alarabiya) have the tiniest drop of dignity, you would not post such news in english for the whole world to see as this only happens in very rare numbers, but then again, im not surprised to see such an article coming from Alarabiya!! and i wouldnt be surprised if you dont publish my comment as this website does not believe in freedom of speech, because this website is a tool to try and give the middle easterns a fake idea about the american so called “Democracy”

worst example of Islam
Tariq
shame on alarabiya.net because it always shows the worst example of Islam to the western world I’m not surprised !! because this article is from AlArabiya

dying with laughter!!!!
Iciasomali
This is so funny walahi, i don’t even know where to begin. And to the people talking about dignity and that alarabiya should not have posted this GET A FREAKING LIFE, for gods sake ever heard of freedom of speech. This doesn’t make arabs look stupid or retarded at all, it is just highlighting some stupid stuff which goes on in the Mideast. Next some of you will be saying don’t post anything which doesn’t put arabs in good light e.g. bombings, beheadings etc i guess the list can go on.

TRUE ISLAM
Tajalli
This is selective obscure instance of rarest of rare family custom being masquaraded as ISLAMIC pervasive custom by self-hating west worshipping Al Arabiya reportage.Why doesn’t he write about values

funny
abdikadir
its better to write some thing better than this its madness i mean they are sick you say she dont show her face to her children and her husband so you think they are normal ppl. alarabiya dont show the bad image to the west they think muslim are like this every country have sick ppl like this islam is the best religion

Could it be that the reason some of the Al Arabiya readers are so peeved is because they may practice some ridiculous customs themselves?!?!? And could it be the lady in question wears the veil to hide her ugliness?!?!? I wonder… I wonder…

I was married for 28 years, loved my wife dearly, to me she was the most beautiful woman alive but I saw her face, I constantly pictured it even when I wasn’t with her. I know I couldn’t have loved her if I hadn’t see her. I might have confused her with the neighbor or some stranger on the street. I… don’t know what to say, gentle reader, I just don’t know what to say AND THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN OFTEN!!!

Chaim

Religious Garment, or Criminal Disguise?

Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under Afghanistan, Arabs, Burqa, International, IslamoFascism, Muslims, Taliban, Terrorism, islam, violence, women | Leave a Comment

From Reuters:

Suicide blast kills 12 Afghan civilians, 6 police

Thu May 15, 2008 10:04am EDT
By Sharafuddin Sharafyar

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber disguised in a burqa blew himself up in a bazaar in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing six police and 12 civilians, officials said.

Twenty-two people were wounded in the blast, which happened near a police station in the Del Aram district of Farah province. The policemen were inspecting vehicles on the road outside at the time.

“So far, 18 people, including police and civilians, have been killed,” Farah’s governor Rohul Amin told Reuters by telephone.

Citing officials near the site, Amin said the bomber was wearing the all-enveloping burqa robe commonly worn by Afghan women.

President Hamid Karzai who has been leading Afghanistan since the Taliban’s removal in 2001, condemned the attack and said it was “obscene” that the bomber had used a burqa as a disguise.

“The enemies of Afghanistan, by misusing the women’s veil, put on display their unmanliness,” a palace statement quoted him as saying.

A Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, told Reuters the attack was carried out by a member of the group, which is leading an insurgency against the government and foreign troops. He said the bomber was a man and was not wearing a burqa.

[...]

The burqa is clothing that women wear because of their extreme modesty and piety we’ve been told… It is not the first time that a male has disguised himself in woman’s dress among the IslamoFascists, I guess if you can’t hide behind your wife, sister or mother’s skirt you just wear it yourself… hmnnn… Ah… but… but… a Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, told Reuters… bomber was a man and was not wearing a burqa. Hmnn…. why can’t I believe him?!?!?

The fact remains, gentle reader, that until recently hardly any women in the Islamic world wore a burqa - it is not part of religion, it is a merely a political, in your face, statement! It would not bother me much, were it not for the crimes committed by some of those using it as a disguise. It would not bother me did the wearing of a burqa not betray the idiotic arrogance and contempt of the wearer for all things pertaining to the West. And yet there are plenty of those fools who will insist we become tolerant and hail multiculturalism, when the said minority wants nothing more than to take vile advantage of that very multiculturalism and will never themselves embrace it!

Chaim

Now we Know the Truth…

Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under Afghanistan, Ahmedinajad, Arabs, Ayatollahs, Europe, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Human Rights, International, Iran, Islamic Jihad, IslamoFascism, Israel, Jews, Middle East, Muslims, News, Palestine, Terrorism, United States, Zionism, defeatism, politics | 1 Comment

As Israel Today reports:

Palestinians conflicted: Claim mall missile, or accuse Israel

The Palestinians seemed conflicted on Wednesday over whether to claim credit for the successful missile attack on an Israeli mall, or to promote a conspiracy narrative accusing Israel of having attacked itself in order to gain the sympathy of visiting world leaders.

Soon after the Katyusha missile fired from northern Gaza slammed through the roof of Ashkelon’s only shopping mall wounding more than 30 people, an official Hamas website carried a statement praising the group’s “armed wing” for having carried out the attack.

Hamas’ allies in the Islamic Jihad also hailed the attack as a “gift” to the millions of foreign born Arabs who claim to be Palestinians and whom Israel refuses to open its gates to.

At the same time, however, the Palestinian news agency Firas Press carried a story citing Palestinian sources in Gaza who insisted their forces had not fired any missile toward southern Israel. The unnamed sources said the missile that struck the mall must have been fired by the Israeli army in some cynical attempt to enlist international support for a military invasion of Gaza.

No doubt, the “Palestinians,” as is their want, are telling the truth. Don’t you think? I am convinced the Israelis did it while Bush was in town so as to send him a message, or… was it that the Palestinians realized the message they sent was the wrong one, at the wrong time?!? We all know that the denial of responsibility by the Palestinian News Agency Firas Press will be picked by many left wing sheep and the other imbeciles as proof of how horrible the Zionist Entity is. Let me, however, remind the world at large that the only people so repugnant, so inhuman, as to kill their own are… IslamoFascists like Hamas, Hizbullah or the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan - all under the direction of the putrid little maggot Ahmadinejad and his handlers the Ayatollahs. You don’t believe me? Read the news, use your own brain (for a change!) instead of those of bought and paid for shills for the “Palestinian” cause. Think a little before the gray matter in your own head corrodes from sheer lack of usage, please!

Now, obviously, Firas Press is telling the real story - the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! So why has an official Hamas website carried a statement praising the group’s “armed wing” for having carried out the attack? Why has Islamic Jihad also hailed the attack as a “gift” to the millions of foreign born Arabs who claim to be Palestinians and whom Israel refuses to open its gates to? Well… the answer… the… answer… is… is… You can smell a rat as well as I can, gentle reader!

Reality and truth have no resemblance to reality and truth, at least not, when terrorists have to justify themselves or when they realize their actions were not fully thought out. Ah, the murderous vermin!

Chaim

Extra, Extra, Dead Man Alive!

Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under Arabs, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Human Rights, International, Israel, Jews, Left, Liberalism, Middle East, Military, Muslims, News, PHR-I, Palestine, Physicians for Human Rights, Terrorism, War, Zionism, doctors, health, medicine, politics, prejudice | Leave a Comment

ynetnews.com reported on Tuesday:

‘Dead Gazan’ alive and kicking

Rights group got it wrong: Gaza cancer patient who ‘died while waiting for permit’ still alive

Meital Yasur-Beit Or

Stayin’ alive: Muhammad al-Harrani, a father of six from Gaza diagnosed with cancer who reportedly died while waiting for a permit to enter Israel, miraculously “came back to life.” This was not the result of a miracle, but rather, just part of the tactics used by al-Harrani’s family in a bid to secure a permit for him.

Al-Harrani is currently awaiting an entry permit into Israel, so that he can undergo head surgery at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment. At the end of April he was summoned to a questioning session at the Erez Crossing as part of the permit process, but the session was postponed by a week.

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, al-Harrani’s story was published. His family reported to the “Physicians for Human Rights” organization that he died. “The sick man could not withstand the wait for the permit,” claimed Ran Yaron, Director of the Occupied Territories Department who blamed the Shin Bet for adopting cruel policies against cancer patients.

While it is possible that the “Physicians for Human Rights” organization may have been so enraged at this apparent lack of care, of compassion… such is not likely the case… They’ve been cited already for distorting the facts, always taking the anti-Israeli side, and never (as again proven in this case!) fact checking when the accusation makes Israel look bad.

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, al-Harrani’s story was published. His family reported to the “Physicians for Human Rights” organization that he died. “The sick man could not withstand the wait for the permit,” claimed Ran Yaron, Director of the Occupied Territories Department who blamed the Shin Bet for adopting cruel policies against cancer patients.

I have no doubt that publishing the story on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day was merely a coincidence… Don’t you agree, gentle reader? You don’t?!?!? But, read on…

However, the next day, the organization discovered that al-Harrani was still alive. Members of group estimated that his brother, who reported the death, “killed” him so he does not report to the questioning session.

After the damage was done, after the story had been reported worldwide…

“This is a rare case where a family member knowingly provided false information to the organization,” Physicians for Human Rights said. “Usually, the organization receives information from the families and from the hospitals, but in this case the information was received from the family and was not confirmed by the hospital.”

Again, had they only bothered to check the facts… obviously, the true facts could not be allowed to get in the way of a good story!

Meanwhile, the Shin Bet sent the organization an angry response: “We view these harsh accusations on your part with great severity; not even a minimal inquiry into the facts was conducted.” The Shin Bet noted that due to the suspicion of his involvement in terror activities, al-Harrani was indeed called in for a security check, and it was indeed postponed by a week.

Since al-Harrani did not arrive at the questioning session, “he will have to bear the consequences or future damage that may be caused to him, in line with his refusal to cooperate in the procedure,” the Shin Bet said.

Al-Harrani did not arrive at the session for he feared those ruthless Israelis, dem accursed Jooz would find out the truth… about his “activities.” Do you, gentle reader, blame the Zionist Entity, for daring to protect itself?!?!?

Allow me to provide a little background on Physicians for Human Rights:

PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - ISRAEL (PHR-I)

52 Golomb St.
Tel-Aviv 66171
Israel
Phone :972 3 6873718

* Israeli health-care organization
* Consistently condemns Israeli military reprisals against terrorists, but does not denounce the Palestinian terrorist attacks

Opposing “the subjugation of medical care to political considerations of any kind,” Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) was established in 1988 by Israeli and Palestinian doctors as “a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the right to health care [for Palestinians] in Israel and in territories under Israel’s effective control.” “It was apparent,” explains PHR-I, “says that human rights violations in the form of systematic and official denial of access to medical care, the intentional infliction of bodily injury, torture and neglect of prisoners, grossly substandard medical care and facilities in the occupied territories and East Jerusalem, administrative detention and solitary confinement were issues that demanded attention. Therefore, PHR-Israel was founded to address these very issues.”

PHR-I has adopted a consistently biased stance against Israel, prompting the Israel Medical Association to sever all ties with the organization. For instance, PHR-I regularly condemns “the Israeli Occupation,” drawing no moral distinction between Palestinian terrorist attacks targeting civilians, and Israeli military reprisals targeting those terrorists. Moreover, the organization contends that “the State of Israel has no authority to erect checkpoints or roadblocks as a form of total control of the movement of Palestinian residents within the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”

PHR-I also opposes Israel’s security fence, constructed in the West Bank for the purpose of preventing Palestinian terrorists from reaching Israeli population centers. On January 29, 2004, PHR-I took part in a demonstration “tour” (organized by the NGO Ta’ayush) in the area of Abu Dis, East Jerusalem. According to PHR-I’s press release of February 1, 2004, (titled “PHR-Israel tour of the Jerusalem Stranglehold”), “The wall is just the latest step in Israel’s policy of separating the East Jerusalem hospitals from the communities they serve.”

PHR-I was a co-endorser of a May 19, 2004 advertisement that appeared in the newspapers Ha’aretz and Al-Quds, depicting the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah (located in Gaza) as unconscionable violations of human rights — making no mention of the fact that the homes in question were being used as terrorist bases. Co-sponsors of this ad included such Palestinian NGOs as Adalah, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Al-Haq, HaMoked, I’lam, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

Denunciations of Israeli policy constitute the dominant theme of PHR-I literature. An August 16, 2004 report on the Rafah Crossing (in the Gaza Strip) criticizes restrictions (which it terms “collective punishment”) on Palestinians attempting to enter Israel through this point. However, PHR-I makes no attempt to define this concept, or to distinguish it from legitimate and necessary security measures. Similarly, a May 2004 report titled “The Bureaucracy of Occupation,” produced jointly with Machsom Watch, impugns the District Coordination Offices responsible for issuing travel permits to the Palestinian population. Without mentioning Palestinian terrorism, the report states that “[t]he denial of freedom of movement is a human rights violation.”

PHR-I literature also asserts that Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot at Palestinian civilians despite the existence of clear rules governing the use of live fire and a well-defined legal system to deal with any abuses of those regulations. For example, an August 31, 2004 press statement claims: “According to information given … by Palestinian medical organizations in Gaza … the soldiers suddenly, and with no prior warning, opened fire” on a Palestinian ambulance.

In an October 3, 2004 statement, PHR-I condemned IDF operations in the northern Gaza Strip, virtually ignoring the fact that the operation was intended to prevent the firing of Qassam missiles into Israel.

PHR-I receives funding from Christian Aid, the Ford Foundation, the European Union, and the New Israel Fund.

This profile is adapted, with permission, from the NGO Monitor.

Opposing “the subjugation of medical care to political considerations of any kind,” Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) was established in 1988 by Israeli and Palestinian doctors as “a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the right to health care [for Palestinians] in Israel and in territories under Israel’s effective control.” A medical organization that stays above politics is absolutely necessary and its work is truly commendable. When that purportedly humanitarian medical organization does mix its own biased politics with its supposed healing functions one must then wonder if its true agenda consists of demonizing Israel rather than truly heal… But, such is the modus operandi of left wing organizations who operative under many guises and whose sole purpose it is to demonize the Zionist Entity.

Chaim

Radio Guest

Posted on May 15, 2008
Filed Under Arabs, History, International, Israel, Jews, News, Palestine, Zionism, politics | 1 Comment

Tomorrow May 16, I’ll be on The Gathering Storm (at 1:00pm - to 1:30pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time or 4:00 - 4:30pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time) here is the announcement as it appears on The Gathering Storm and on Always on Watch - SEMPER VIGILANS:

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which Always On Watch and WC co-host. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Friday, May 16 (90 minute Show): Our guests this week are Ibn Misr of Sons of Apes and Pigs and Chaim of Freedom’s Cost.
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Ibn Misr, who will be with us for the first hour, is a Coptic and a real firebrand who knows Islam inside out. According to information at his web site, his blog was launched in an effort to blow away the barrier of the Arabic language for Westerners, and give the proofs, from none other than Mohammad himself in his Koran and Hadiths.

Chaim will be with us at the top of the second hour for thirty minutes. According to information at his web site, his blog counters the revisionism, the lies and the ignorance (whether real or purposeful) of what is written about world events.

If you are unable to listen live to the radio show, you can listen later by CLICKING HERE.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

I’ve been on their show before, it always was fun, lively and informative. Be sure to listen in and call!

We will be discussing the real history of Palestine, from the moment the Romans named it Palestina to insult the Jews and to further disassociate the area from Judea. We will disprove history’s revisionism and show that today’s “ancient Palestinians” did not come into the area until the 1920s in search of the new economic opportunities the Jews had brought into the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Chaim

A True Heroine

Posted on May 13, 2008
Filed Under Antisemitism, Europe, Freedom, Freedom of Religion, Germany, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Human Rights, International, Irena Sendler, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Justice, Liberty, Poland, Racism, Religion, War, World War II, Yad Vashem, prejudice, violence | 1 Comment

In this day and age when the average person’s idea of a hero is a successful highly paid athlete, football, baseball, or soccer player, when the definition of real heroism has long lost its true meaning for so many, it is heartwarming to read the story of Irena Sendler:

Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who organized the rescue of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis and was later honored by Yad Vashem memorial, has died.

Sendler’s daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, told The Associated Press her mother died at a Warsaw hospital Monday morning. She was 98.

Sendler had lived at a Warsaw nursing home run by the Catholic Brothers of St. John of God since 2003, but had been in the hospital since last month with pneumonia.

Sendler was born Irena Krzyzanowska in Warsaw on 15 Feb. 1910. As a social worker with Warsaw’s welfare department, Sendler masterminded risky rescue operations of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany’s brutal World War II occupation.

Records show Sendler’s team of some 20 people saved almost 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps.

Under the pretext of inspecting the ghetto’s sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, Sendler and her assistants entered in search of children who could be smuggled out and be given a chance to survive by living as Catholics.

Babies and small children were smuggled out in ambulances and in trams, sometimes wrapped up as packages. Teenagers escaped by joining teams of workers forced to labor outside the ghetto. They were placed in families, orphanages, hospitals or convents.

In hopes of one day uniting the children with their families - most of whom perished in the Nazis’ death camps - Sendler wrote the children’s real names on slips of paper that she kept at home.

When German police came to arrest her in 1943, an assistant managed to hide the slips - which Sendler later buried in a jar under an apple tree in an associate’s yard. Some 2,500 names were recorded.

“It took a true miracle to save a Jewish child,” Elzbieta Ficowska, who was saved by Sendler’s team as a baby in 1942, recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2007. “Mrs. Sendler saved not only us, but also our children and grandchildren and the generations to come.”

After World War II, Sendler worked as a social welfare official and director of vocational schools, continuing to assist some of the children she rescued.

In 1965, Sendler became one of the first so-called Righteous Gentiles that the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem honored for wartime heroics. Poland’s communist leaders at that time would not allow her to travel to Israel, and she collected the award only in 1983.

Despite the Yad Vashem honor, Sendler largely remained forgotten in her homeland. Only in her final years, confined to a nursing home, did she finally become one of Poland’s most respected figures, with President Lech Kaczynski and other politicians backing a campaign that put her name forward for the Nobel Peace Prize. [...]

Without any attempt to minimize their tremendous accomplishments, while fully recognizing the work, the hardship, the concentration and iron will it takes to achieve their athletic distinctions there is nothing heroic about athletes. True… their resolution, their tremendous drive, are to be envied and emulated but their achievements are nothing compared with those of simple, unassuming folks who will risk all and everything to shield another from oppression and certain death.

The Jewish Sages said that he who saves even one life has saved a whole universe. What then can be said about someone who endangered herself to save 2500 lives? How many universes, how many advances in the sciences, etc… will be made by those she rescued and their descendants?!?!? Who can say how many tens of thousands of lives those 2500 really represent? Mrs. Sendler acted not for personal glory, she did not expect the multitudes at a stadium to stand up and cheer… and they didn’t. She didn’t get paid millions for her deeds, in fact she didn’t get paid at all! She was arrested by the German murderers and would probably have perished in their claws as an immediate reward for her deeds, had the war not ended with the Nazis defeat two years later.

It took a long time for Poland to recognize Irena Sendler’s quiet greatness, it took a long time for Poland to acknowledge its own sometime complicity with the Nazi crimes against Jews. But… even in that bleakest of times, even surrounded by the almost general hatred of Jews, there were quite a few courageous individuals who put the welfare of those threatened with death above their own wellbeing. Many Poles have been recognized as Righteous Gentiles by the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem for saving Jews during WWII. They acted unselfishly and at great peril at a time when in German-occupied Poland, all household members were punished by death if a hidden Jew was found in their house. This was the most severe legislation in occupied Europe. Out of 22,211 people recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, for their efforts in saving Jews, 6,066 were Polish. No other country came close to that number!

Who is a true hero, gentle reader? Only someone who will defy danger, someone who will stand up against overwhelming odds, someone who will not concern him or herself with one’s safety nor will look for glory and huge financial rewards while saving a universe!

As a child of Holocaust survivors, as someone who was never held by any of his grandparents, never met most of his uncles and aunts, as one who never saw his own older brother, all murdered by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi hordes… as the emotions take over… I humbly thank you Irena Sendler!

Chaim

Hizbullah, Occupying Lebanon

Posted on May 9, 2008
Filed Under Ahmedinajad, Arabs, Assad, Freedom, Hezbollah, International, Iran, Iraq, IslamoFascism, Lebanon, Michel Aoun, Muslims, Nasrallah, News, Political murder, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Shiites, Sunnis, Syria, Terrorism, Wallid Jumblatt, islam, politics, prejudice, putrid little maggot Ahmedinajad, violence | 1 Comment

Nasrallah, the Lebanese patriot, spoke on TV and immediately the Trouble started. The BBC reports:

Gunmen from the Shia group Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut in a third day of fighting between opposition and government supporters.

The Western-backed governing coalition has described it as a “bloody coup”. At least 11 people have been killed.

The gunmen, who also back Hezbollah’s Shia opposition allies, have forced the closure of pro-government media.

The US has restated its support for Lebanon’s government and says Hezbollah is killing innocent civilians.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington was committed to helping the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

“We will stand by the Lebanese government and peaceful citizens of Lebanon through this crisis and provide the support they need to weather this storm,” she said in a statement.

The opposition has said Hezbollah and its allies will maintain roadblocks around Beirut until there is a solution to the political crisis.

The fighting was sparked by a government move on Monday to shut down Hezbollah’s telecoms network.

Lebanon’s governing coalition said it was a coup aimed at restoring the influence of Syria and Iran.

“The armed and bloody coup which is being implemented aims to return Syria to Lebanon and extend Iran’s reach to the Mediterranean,” it said in a statement.

It is Syria’s pretext to come back with greater strength than before, it is Iran’s tug at Nasrallah’s leash that precipitated this clash. Hizbullah is trying to impose itself, together with Baby Assad and the putrid little maggot Ahmadinejad, on the people of Lebanon and destroy Lebanese sovereignty. Without its telecommunications, Hizbullah would find hgard to spread its words, to spy on and destroy its opposition and the putrid little maggot in Iran, Ahmadinejad may face serious opposition at home over his failed and expensive foreign adventures. The government moved on Monday to asserrt its authority against an illegal

Civil war fears

The UN Security Council has urged the rival parties to stop fighting amid fears of civil war breaking out.

Lebanon was plunged into civil war from 1975-90, drawing in Syria and Israel, the two regional powers.

Analysts say the key to avoiding such a conflict this time may be the neutrality of the army, and its ability to withstand the sectarian tensions.

The Lebanese army command has warned its unity is at risk if the crisis in the capital drags on.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose country long dominated neighbouring Lebanon, said on Friday that the political crisis there was an “internal matter”.

Having withdrawn its army from the country in 2005, Syria denies meddling in Lebanon’s internal politics.

But Damascus has been accused of involvement in the assassination over the past three years of several anti-Syrians, including Rafik Hariri, a former prime minister.

Lebanon has been without a president since late 2007, amid deadlock between the ruling coalition and Hezbollah-led opposition over the make-up of the government.

As residents of west Beirut fled on Friday, the Italian government was reported to be drawing up an evacuation plan for any of its nationals wanting to leave the city.

Earlier, media offices owned by Saad Hariri, a leader of the governing coalition, were shut after being attacked by militants loyal to Hezbollah.

The army moved in after gunmen besieged TV station Future News and partially set fire to the offices of al-Mustaqbal newspaper. Mr Hariri’s radio station was also silenced.

‘Save Lebanon from hell’

A compromise was reached for the premises to be taken over and protected by the Lebanese army at the price of going off the air.

Besieged offices of television station

Several Sunni neighbourhoods in west Beirut, considered strongholds of Lebanon’s ruling bloc, have reportedly been over-run by militants from Hezbollah and its Shia ally Amal.

A rocket-propelled grenade hit the fence of the heavily protected home of Mr Hariri in western Beirut’s Koreitem neighbourhood, officials said.

Mr Hariri - Lebanon’s top Sunni politician - was thought to have been inside at the time.

Mr Siniora was reportedly holed up in his heavily guarded offices along with several ministers in downtown Beirut.

The urban warfare has shut down Lebanon’s seaport and all but closed the international airport, with burning barricades on major roads in Beirut.

The BBC’s Jim Muir in the city says it all amounts to a humiliating blow to the government.

It appears to have badly overplayed its hand in moving to close Hezbollah’s telecoms network on Tuesday, he says.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has called the move a “declaration of war”.

Mr Hariri said it was a “misunderstanding” and urged gunmen from both sides to withdraw “to save Lebanon from hell”.

How bad are things in Lebanon? As From Beirut to the Beltway writes:

The dark age of Hizbullah is upon us

Hariri’s Future TV is off the air after being threatened by the Hizbullah militia. Hizbullah is in control of much of West Beirut, spreading a reign of terror.

Hariri and Jumblatt are being surrounded by the Hizbullah orcs, who also set fire to the al-Mustaqbal newspaper building.

Hizbullah has also occupied the headquarters of Ali al-Amin, the Tyre Mufti who is against Hizbullah.

Aoun is gloating. He thinks it’s a coup that will deliver him the presidency.

Saudi Arabia has called for an emergency Arab League meeting.

The rest of the world watches as Iran’s proxies occupy Beirut.

Bassita, as they say. This is not over. Hizbullah will not win.

Update. Syrian regime lackey is trying to move the conflict to the Chouf, threatening to occupy Jumblatt’s PSP offices. Jumblatt, meanwhile, is still in his Beirut residence, protected by the army and ISF. Gunshots are being heard in the area, and pro-Syrian SSNP militia members were seen near his residence.

Update 2. The Future TV building in Raouche was burned down by SSNP thugs.

Update 3. March 14 MP Musbah Ahdab: if the Lebanese army does not intervene to protect Tripoli, because of alleged fear of division, then there are officers in the army who will not accept that their institution does not intervene to protect Tripoli and other [Sunni] areas.

Update 4. The Lebanese army is watching these violations, and chasing pro-March 14 gunmen, and allowing Hizbullah to do whatever they want. Meanwhile, Berri’s NBN is reporting that Siniora will resign tonight. Jumblatt however told New TV that the government’s resignation is out of the question.

Update 5. March 14 strategy so far: hand over everything to Lebanese army.

Aoun is gloating. He thinks it’s a coup that will deliver him the presidency. Michel Aoun. once bravely defended the Baabda Presidential Palace against the then superior Syrian Army. When he could no longer fight them, he surrendered under the French ambassador to Lebanon and abandoned his forces to Syria. Because of his ambition to become the next Lebanese President he joined forces with Hizbullah. In what has by now become typical behavior, and in the time hallowed tradition of Middle East politicos, General Aoun has abadoned all semblance of principle by allying himself with none other than his once hated Syria and the putrid little maggot Ahmedinajad.

Meanwhile Blacksmiths of Lebanon reports:

What Now?

Shiite gunmen from the Amal group rest during clashes in a newly seized neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 9, 2008. Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of neighborhoods in the Lebanese capital’s Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday following sectarian clashes reminiscent of Lebanon’s bloody 15-year civil war. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)[...]

As of now, there is no indication of what is to come. What is clear is that Hizballah has effectuated a Gaza-like takeover of Beirut and is now preparing to leverage this new status quo in return for the same goals it could not achieve through [non-violent!] legal and constitutional means.

With the International Tribunal coming into effect later this summer, a violent takeover of Lebanon seems to have been the route the group has chosen for itself to protect it, and its assassin-allies from justice. And rest assured, the shift in balances of power due to this coup will provide Hizballah’s [and Hamas'] primary backers [Iran, primarily, and Syria] with the needed fodder and leverage in their own negotiations with Israel and the West.

In what has by now become behavior, and in the time hallowed tradition of Middle Eastern politicos, General Aoun has abadoned all semblance of principle by allying himself with none other than once hated Syria and the putrid little maggot Ahmedinajad. But can Hizbullah, even if it wins this round, hold on to Lebanon for long? As an earlier post on From Beirut to the Beltway says:

[...]So Hizbullah takes over the capital, then what? The rest of the country? Hizbullah has spent much of the last year farming militias in other areas. Are “East Beirut” and Mount Lebanon next? Anybody who knows the history of the Lebanese civil war knows how impossible it is to win in those places.

So what are their long-term options here? So far, it looks like a stupid show of power. No wonder Jumblatt in his interview today didn’t express the need to even fight Nasrallah.

[...]What will this create? Unity around Hizbullah? Or public anger that has to blow up in their faces, whether today or tomorrow?

Aoun will not save Nasrallah. Nor will his friends in the pro-Syrian camp, or even the poor people who went to Barbir on Wednesday thinking there would be a strike, to find out that the union bosses hadn’t bothered to show up, and were replaced by thugs burning tires. Nasrallah didn’t even mention their plight in his declaration of war against the state.

Lebanon is an easy target for a militia Hizbullah’s size. It won’t fight back, except through a few gunmen and leaders with no imagination or might to fight back. The Lebanese army, you say. Rumor on the street says that the army commander said he would refuse to implement a state of emergency. There is no army that can stand against Hizbullah, whether we like to admit this or not. Not because there aren’t good men in the army. But because the institution is also governed by the same delicate fabric that makes up the country, and that Hizbullah has been messing with for years. The Shia council, which they hijacked after Shamseddine’s death, was used to create a Shia cover. The anti-Hizbullah Shia voices have been systematically marginalized by the party.

But at the end of the day, there is no divine victory for Nasrallah, even if Beirut falls. You cannot win a war against your own people in the name of resisting an enemy outside your border.

Hizbullah has already lost the battle, even if they win this episode. As for our families, may God protect them.

No one no matter how much support they get from without, or even traitors from within can for long have the upper hand in a country like Lebanon. It has known civil strife for decades and still managed to come out a democracy, it will again rise above those forces within and without that would throw it to the dogs.

As blacksmiths of Lebanon says in a later post:

Nothing justifies what is going on today. There is no going back now, and the only way forward will entail the disarming of the militia that has taken over our capital and [once again] drawn blood between the Lebanese.

Nasrallah and his puppet masters are nothing more than blood thirsty, ambitious vermin intent on power regardless of the consequences, regardless of the cost of achieving their goals. At least now they finally exposed themselves for what they are: Iran’s occupation army in Lebanon!

But why would Iran want this action at this particular time? Certainly it will help distract the West from its arms and personnel being sent to the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan… but…. as Lee Smith writes in Michael Totten’s Middle East Journal:

David Wurmser, formerly Vice President Cheney’s Middle East adviser, writes in to comment on Iran’s role in the Beirut crisis.

“Iran has suffered some pretty serious defeats in Iraq, foremost is that the Shiites there kind of turned on Iran. May they not need to pull back and focus on their role as the champion of the Shiites right now, even at the cost of compromising their efforts to jump the Sunni-Shiite divide? They may actually be in no better a shape among Lebanon’s Shiites as they are among Iraq’s. Second, there were these really odd nasty exchanges between Zawahiri and Iran, which may have been born of Iran’s desire right now to solidify its own role as Shiite champion.

“Ahmadinejad himself has presided over a fairly turbulent few weeks, as the principalist faction, of which he and the speaker of the Majlis are both part. That faction has descended into caustic bickering – probably as a result of the traditional clergy of Qom’s resisting his increasing militarization of government – over a number of matters from ministerial resignations to constitutional wrangling to banking and fiscal independence, while his own mentor had one of his papers unusually slam him for meeting with former nationalists associated with Mossadeq. He may even face a no confidence move if the Majlis maneuvers to force another cabinet resignation. And all this while faces a chorus of response from the traditional clergy of Qom, who are horrified about his claims to be informed by the 12th imam.

“And there’s something else, too: In that press conference Walid Jumblatt held about the airport security, he also called for the expulsion of Iran’s ambassador. That could be a redline for Iran. And if it happened, it would deal a heavy blow to the Iranians.”

I asked David if Jumblatt’s request might signal that Washington is fully aware of, and behind, March 14’s actions at this point.

“It may be part of our effort to push back on Iran right now. As far afield as Afghanistan you find the Afghani government saying that Iran is sending weapons. So, across the board, we are pushing back against Iran. But the thing with the Iranians is, if you push you had better be ready to take it to the next level with them, because they will push back hard.”

While countless US, European and Israeli policymakers, analysts and journalists counseled that diplomacy would manage to “wedge” Syria away from Iran, there was really only wedge issue between them: Iran wanted to avoid sectarian warfare while the Syrians were willing, eager, to set fire to Lebanon – again. If this crisis is different, as David Wurmser says, different from the rest of the various crises that have plagued Lebanon the last three years, ever since the April 2005 withdrawal of Syrian troops, it is because there no longer is any difference between Tehran and Damascus’ Beirut strategy.

If this crisis is different, as David Wurmser says, different from the rest of the various crises that have plagued Lebanon the last three years, ever since the April 2005 withdrawal of Syrian troops, it is because there no longer is any difference between Tehran and Damascus’ Beirut strategy. Ahmedinajad may be fighting for his political life, if he pulls it off he’ll say it was the will of the 12th Imam, if he looses as eventually he must… he just might be hanged as his judiciary does with homosexuals… when they get caught. Or, the Iranian people just might rise from their lethargy and do the job themselves! Meanwhile, he has no compunctions about using Hizbullah to embroil in war yet another part of the Middle East.

Chaim

Realpolitik and Israel’s 60th

Posted on May 9, 2008
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Yesterday, Israel celebrated its 60th year of independence. In spite of being surrounded by murderous forces that never ceased to plot its destruction, the Zionist Entity managed to excel in the fields of science making advancements in medicine, computer technologies, agriculture, etc, etc. All the while its more numerous, resource rich neighbors, produced very little in any of those fields. The eradication of Israel was obviously a bigger priority in their lives… Yet, against all odds, they did not succeed. That anomaly of history, the ancient Jew that refuses to die is here to stay and will again outlast its sworn enemies!

The US has historically been Israel’s best friend… but… at what cost? Writing in The Washington Post, Richard Holbrooke speaks thus, of Israel’s recognition by the US:

In the celebrations next week surrounding Israel’s 60th anniversary, it should not be forgotten that there was an epic struggle in Washington over how to respond to Israel’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. It led to the most serious disagreement President Harry Truman ever had with his revered secretary of state, George C. Marshall — and with most of the foreign policy establishment. Twenty years ago, when I was helping Clark Clifford write his memoirs, I reviewed the historical record and interviewed all the living participants in that drama. The battle lines drawn then resonate still.

The British planned to leave Palestine at midnight on May 14. At that moment, the Jewish Agency, led by David Ben-Gurion, would proclaim the new (and still unnamed) Jewish state. The neighboring Arab states warned that fighting, which had already begun, would erupt into full-scale war at that moment.

The Jewish Agency proposed partitioning Palestine into two parts — one Jewish, one Arab. But the State and Defense departments backed the British plan to turn Palestine over to the United Nations. In March, Truman privately promised Chaim Weizmann, the future president of Israel, that he would support partition — only to learn the next day that the American ambassador to the United Nations had voted for U.N. trusteeship. Enraged, Truman wrote a private note on his calendar: “The State Dept. pulled the rug from under me today. The first I know about it is what I read in the newspapers! Isn’t that hell? I’m now in the position of a liar and double-crosser. I’ve never felt so low in my life. . . .”

Truman blamed “third and fourth level” State Department officials — especially the director of U.N. affairs, Dean Rusk, and the agency’s counselor, Charles Bohlen. But opposition really came from an even more formidable group: the “wise men” who were simultaneously creating the great Truman foreign policy of the late 1940s — among them Marshall, James V. Forrestal, George F. Kennan, Robert Lovett, John J. McCloy, Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson. To overrule State would mean Truman taking on Marshall, whom he regarded as “the greatest living American,” a daunting task for a very unpopular president.

Beneath the surface lay unspoken but real anti-Semitism on the part of some (but not all) policymakers. The position of those opposing recognition was simple — oil, numbers and history. “There are thirty million Arabs on one side and about 600,000 Jews on the other,” Defense Secretary Forrestal told Clifford. “Why don’t you face up to the realities?”

Beneath the surface lay unspoken but real anti-Semitism… Even after the recent Holocaust, the good ole boys network at Foggy Bottom still were imbued with antisemitism and probably regretted Hitler’s failure to finish the job he started. In all fairness, however, by the normal rules of history, anyone could have predicted that 600,000 against 30,000,000 was a somewhat uneven match… 60 years later those 600,000 have become 5 million plus! As usual, the practitioners of Realpolitik underestimated the Jews while they overestimated their Islamist paymasters.

The Jewish Agency proposed partitioning Palestine into two parts — one Jewish, one Arab… In March, Truman privately promised Chaim Weizmann, the future president of Israel, that he would support partition — only to learn the next day that the American ambassador to the United Nations had voted for U.N. trusteeship. President Truman, against the advice of his state department was ready to recognize the Zionist Entity that had on paper been recognized by the British in 1917 and the League of Nations in 1922. Dem Jooz were ready for two independent (Jewish and Arab) states, the Arabs were not! If the “Palestinians” truly wanted their own sovereign country, they could have had it in 1948, without shedding one drop of blood. Peace with Israel was never their goal!!!!

On May 12, Truman held a meeting in the Oval Office to decide the issue. Marshall and his universally respected deputy, Robert Lovett, made the case for delaying recognition — and “delay” really meant “deny.” Truman asked his young aide, Clark Clifford, to present the case for immediate recognition. When Clifford finished, Marshall, uncharacteristically, exploded. “I don’t even know why Clifford is here. He is a domestic adviser, and this is a foreign policy matter. The only reason Clifford is here is that he is pressing a political consideration.”

Marshall then uttered what Clifford would later call “the most remarkable threat I ever heard anyone make directly to a President.” In an unusual top-secret memorandum Marshall wrote for the historical files after the meeting, the great general recorded his own words: “I said bluntly that if the President were to follow Mr. Clifford’s advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the President.”

After this stunning moment, the meeting adjourned in disarray. In the next two days, Clifford looked for ways to get Marshall to accept recognition. Lovett, although still opposed to recognition, finally talked a reluctant Marshall into remaining silent if Truman acted. With only a few hours left until midnight in Tel Aviv, Clifford told the Jewish Agency to request immediate recognition of the new state, which still lacked a name. Truman announced recognition at 6:11 p.m. on May 14 — 11 minutes after Ben-Gurion’s declaration of independence in Tel Aviv. So rapidly was this done that in the official announcement, the typed words “Jewish State” are crossed out, replaced in Clifford’s handwriting with “State of Israel.” Thus the United States became the first nation to recognize Israel, as Truman and Clifford wanted. The secret of the Oval Office confrontation held for years, and a crisis in both domestic politics and foreign policy was narrowly averted.

…this is a foreign policy matter. The only reason Clifford is here is that he is pressing a political consideration. And I suppose Secretary of State, Marshall “delay”, wasn’t a political consideration?!?!? Arab oil had nothing to do with it?!?!? Was he, then, confessing an inbred hatred for dem Jooz?

Clifford insisted to me and others in countless discussions over the next 40 years that politics was not at the root of his position — moral conviction was. Noting sharp divisions within the American Jewish community — the substantial anti-Zionist faction among leading Jews included the publishers of both The Post and the New York Times — Clifford had told Truman in his famous 1947 blueprint for Truman’s presidential campaign that “a continued commitment to liberal political and economic policies” was the key to Jewish support.

But to this day, many think that Marshall and Lovett were right on the merits and that domestic politics was the real reason for Truman’s decision. Israel, they argue, has been nothing but trouble for the United States.

I think this misses the point. Israel was going to come into existence whether or not Washington recognized it. But without American support from the very beginning, Israel’s survival would have been at even greater risk. Even if European Jewry had not just emerged from the horrors of World War II, it would have been an unthinkable act of abandonment by the United States. Truman’s decision, although opposed by almost the entire foreign policy establishment, was the right one — and despite complicated consequences that continue to this day, it is a decision all Americans should recognize and admire.

Gentle reader, there was a time, there were occasions, when moral positions actually won out. That was around the same time that America was most highly regarded around the world. That was before State’s unrealistic practitioners of Realpolitik slowly created and abated today’s IslamoFascism.

How did the US continue its policy towards Israel? More often than not and unto this day the Realpolitik practitioners continued their disastrous policies. I’ll give only a few notable examples.

Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower was often swayed by ARAMCO (Arabian American Oil Company) as to what his policy vis-a-vis Israel should be… and let’s face it, gentle reader, ARAMCO’s vested interest lay not with the Zionist Entity.

Henry Kissinger, a Jew, was Secretary of State under Richard Nixon. Although Nixon, had a somewhat visceral dislike of dem Jooz, ( remember his calling Kissinger Jewboy?) he did more for Israel than any American president. Kissinger was very reluctant about helping Israel with needed weaponry to defend itself after being attacked by Egyptian and Syrian forces during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It was General Alexander Haig, who secretly arranged for the first of what was to become the biggest American series of military airlifts in history. Kissinger eventually acquiesced, but forced Israel to abandon its ambitious plans of totally destroying the enemy armies, by giving it an ultimatum when the Zionist Entity only had enough ammunition left for a mere 48 hours of fighting.

James “F… the Jews” Baker was instrumental in President Bush Sr. reneging on his promise of loan guarantees after Israel did its part as promised, after Israel made all the concessions the Americans had exacted on behalf of the “Palestinians.” To this day his influence is still felt in Washington. Remember his infamous gratuitous insertion of the line linking the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to the problem in Iraq?!? Remember his proposition of having a regional conference about Israel, minus the Zionist Entity (of course!)?

General Colin Powell, current President Bush’s first Secretary of State refused to acknowledge that terrorism in Israel was no different than terrorism by the same class of IslamoFascists in New York, Pennsylvania or Washington DC. Of course, his judgement was hampered by Foggy Bottom’s Arabist Realpolitik practitioners.

Some of these Arabists were even Jews, notably Daniel C. Kurtzer - US Ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005 - whose doctoral thesis at Columbia claimed that the creation of the State of Israel was a mistake. No doubt, such a thesis found him a welcome home at Foggy Bottom and allowed him to rise fast in his career.
As well as his predecessor Martin Indyk, also a Jew, he often intervened unfairly in Israel’s internal politics.

Current Secretary of State, the once brilliant Dr. Condoleeza Rice, was seen by many as the one who would finally clean up Foggy Bottom from the pernicious influence of Royal House of Saud’s Chief Consigliere James “F… the Jews” Baker and his toadies. Instead, she herself fell under their sway. Prior to the Annapolis Conference, she consulted heavily with the likes of Joo lovers like James Baker and Jimmy Carter. One can only wonder what emoluments (present or future!) cloud her once truly brilliant mind…

Examples abound and to list them all would be impossible in the scope of this post. The point, however, is that Israel at 60 - in spite of never having known a moment of true peace - has accomplished more for its denizens and the rest of the world than all the Islamic countries combined! And yes, gentle reader, Israel will still be around long after Foggy Bottom’s unrealistic Realpolitik will be universally despised and denounced for the disastrous policies it wrought upon the free world. And Israel will still be around for a long time in spite of the strong ghetto mentality that seems to pervade in Israel’s government circles these days.

Chaim

Deligitimizing Israel

Posted on May 7, 2008
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From Italy’s ANSAmed.com:

BOOK FAIR: WHO BOYCOTTS ISRAEL DELEGITIMIZES US, AMBASSADOR

(ANSAmed) - ROME, MAY 6 - The right-wing or left-wing extremists who come to Turin “to boycott the Book Fair, dedicated this year to Israel, wish to delegitimize the state of Israel”. This was the comment of the Israeli Ambassador in Rome, Gideon Meir, to the protests carried out these days with the burning of Israeli and U.S. flags in the administrative centre of Piedmont region. At the end of the presentation at Vittoriano, in Rome, of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, Ambassador Meir also pointed out that the presence of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano at the Book Fair in Turin, where Israel is guest of honour, “represents a very important moral position”. (ANSAmed).

Arabs and Arab lovers cannot come to grips with the fact that Israel is here to stay. 60 years of terror and murder have not driven the Zionist Entity away. No Palestinian Authority whether Fatah or Hamas led, will either! They can’t regardless of Baby Assad ’s and the putrid little maggot - Ahmedinajad’s - support.

The sooner the surrounding Arab nations forget the perceived slight, to their collective pride, of there being some Jooz in their midst living in their own independent country, the sooner peace and prosperity will reign in the region… except that… by boycotting the book fair the Arabs are revealing their true colors. Peace with Israel is not what they are really after, total obliteration of the Zionist Entity is their one and only goal. If they craved peace they would quickly engage Israeli authors, for some of these are more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli… but it is dem Jooz these Arabs abhor! Like Hitler they recognize no difference, any is accursed according to their extremist Imams!

In spite of the war, in spite of the terror attacks, tiny little Israel produces more original books of fiction and non-fiction - in any given year - than do all Muslim countries combined. Why is that? Is it because Israel stubbornly refuses to be driven out? Is it because Israel reminds them time and again how they, the Muslims, have regressed in the sciences, in math, in medicine, in the arts, in everything worthwhile? Perhaps, but there is more…

Muslims are more preoccupied - these days = about the rewards of 72 virgins in the after life, than they are about living normal everyday life enjoying the goodness of this planet of ours? Without professing any expertise of Islamic theology, but having a vague idea of what might appeal to the feminine spirit (I must further confess that as a male my understanding of such is no easy feat!) I’m willing to wager that the 72 heavenly hourys just might be more impressed by real men… with real achievements!

Chaim

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