|  | | As the new year 2013 begins, it's worthwhile to look back a bit regarding what the humanly imperfect-- yet still amazing-- reborn state of the Jews is all about. | | | | | |  | | Israel must circle its wagons at this time. It must have its new, minimal security lines solidly drawn... lines which will not simply turn Tel Aviv and Haifa into the next Sderot and Ashkelon | | | | | |  | | Airplanes are not the only things Arafat's virtual progeny have liked to hijack over the years. They've also tried to turn themselves into the old/new Jews. | | | | | |  | | While too many Arabs still lust for the blood of Jews, the hope still remains that someday- sooner rather than later- Arabs will want to build better lives for their children on Earth rather than end the lives of others' children. | | | | | |  | | Disappointing is a generous description for the last debate which focused primarily on foreign policy - despite the spins both parties put on the results. | | | | | |  | | It is no accident that the inscription on America's Liberty Bell comes right out of Hebrew Scripture… | | | | | |  | | The Jews must let it be known quietly - but firmly, without their usual blowing hot air, that there will be no repeat of Yom Kippur 1973. | | | | | |  | | A nation some 3,000 miles wide, with over 300 million inhabitants, and two vast oceans separating it from its most-likely enemies should not be telling another nation what it ought to do to defend itself against nuclear enemies who repeatedly call for its destruction. | | | | | |  | | It's always easier to point fingers elsewhere, but there really is much wisdom in the saying that those who live in glass houses should not be throwing stones. | | | | | |  | | Invading Arabs have as much claim to the land of the Jews as they do to that of, ironically, the Jews' ancient allies and liberators - the Iranians. | | | | | | | | | Why is it that, of all the nations in the world, only Jews have to consult with others as to where their capital should be located? | | | | | |  | Is it any wonder why Israel is rarely taken seriously these days in its neighborhood? It's time for Israel to simply do whatever it takes to save Jewish lives.
| | | | | |  | | While some may not vote for Obama, they will also not be able to get themselves to vote for Governor Romney either. | | | | | |  | With Steven Spielberg's classic film in mind for the title of this essay's virtual namesake, I decided to take a break today from my usual focus - the tumultuous Middle East.
| | | | | | | | Since a now comatose Prime Minister Sharon announced plans for a unilateral disengagement from Gaza eight years ago, adjacent towns in Israel proper have come under increasing attack. The hundred projectiles recently fired were among thousands which preceded them.
| | | | | |  | | Armistice lines are not borders. They merely mark where fighting officially stops in wars. Those in question here designated where fighting ceased after the invasion of Israel by a half dozen Arab nations in 1948. | | | | | |  | Even with Arabs continuously slaughtering each other by the tens of thousands in the region, the attempt by many--both in and out of the so-called "Arab" world--to redirect the focus of scrutiny onto the Jews remains ever vigilant
| | | | | |  | All of us have regrets in life. Some have more than others.
| | | | | |  | Had Arabs granted any of the scores of millions of non-Arab peoples in the region just a tiny slice of the very justice they demand solely for themselves, their own “nakba” would have never occurred.
| | | | | |  | | One does not have to be a General Patton or Napoleon to see that Israel could be severed in half at its minuscule waist, where most of its population and infrastructure are located. | | | | | |  | In introducing Obama, Wiesel asked why "world leaders," presumably including Obama, have not "learned anything" from the Holocaust.
| | | | | |  | As is even more typical today, while Israel was constantly selected for "special treatment" and placed under the high power lens of scrutiny, the far more real and gruesome sins of the Arab/Islamic worlds were and are more often than not ignored.
| | | | | |  | | Is a victim any less a victim because his victimization has been among the oldest in recorded history? | | | | | | | | Now that the truth about the so-called Arab Spring is beginning to unfold more and more each day--revealing the likely rise of fascistic, intolerant, Islamist states taking the place of more secular varieties of the same that they replaced--shifting the focus onto Israel is actually a wise move from their perspective.
| | | | | |  | | It is long past time for those who truly care about fairness and justice in the region to stand up and be counted. | | | | | |  | As some of us have pondered for quite some time, how many nations would simply put up with hundreds - or thousands - of such murderous, destructive, and terrorizing attacks before soon acting decisively to stop them?
| | | | | |  | | Some things change while others do not. Instead of an Iranian emperor's wicked prime minister (Haman) plotting their demise some twenty-five centuries ago, Jews now face attack and extermination by Arabized Iranian Islamists. | | | | | |  | While the religiously-inspired, age-old anti-Semitism of the masses was regrettable, it was the virulent Jew-hatred which remained even after the so-called Age of Enlightenment among the educated classes which became the most troubling.
| | | | | |  | In a world in which there is really no such thing as perfect justice among the realm of man, the most we can strive for is the relative variety.
| | | | | |  | Sure, I want to see "democracy" prevail. But democracy in Syria will very likely be far different than what we in the West come to think of by the meaning of that word.
| | | | | |  | I really wanted to see Steven Spielberg's movie, War Horse. Unfortunately, after what I've recently learned, I won't.
| | | | | |  | Ask people which empire in all of recorded history was the largest, and see if they know…
| | | | | |  | | If the Arabs (whoops, excuse me, "Palestinians") can claim Jesus, then Ruth, Naomi, and David were theirs too... And I'm the Passover Bunny. | | | | | |  | | As promised, President Obama has pulled all American troops out of Iraq before the end of the year…for good or for bad. Washington's war in Mesopotamia is now officially over. | | | | | |  | "If you have a country that is a sliver and you can see three sides of it from a high hotel building, you've got to be careful what you give away and to whom you give it to."
| | | | | |  | In a post-Auschwitz age, people may grudgingly cry false crocodile tears of sympathy for dead Jews (a la the Holocaust and such), but still have no room for empathy for live ones.
| | | | | |  | | Long before there was a Great Britain, Jews were living, making history, and changing the world forever in the moral and spiritual legacy they left behind in Judea and Samaria. | | | | | |  | America's very soul is at stake here.
| | | | | |  | While the Obama Administration deserves serious criticism regarding its approach to Arab-Israeli peacemaking, the reality is that new folks simply took their cues from their predecessors.
| | | | | |  | | While Israel's leaders claim they won't go back to the Auschwitz lines, Arab building goes on full speed ahead at the same time that Israel bulldozes the homes of Jews wanting to live beyond the Greenline. | | | | | |  | | Why is a Jewish State "silly" but calling North Africa part of the Arabs' self-proclaimed "purely Arab patrimony" not a disgraceful, cowardly, outright lie? | | | | | |  | I don't blame Hamas or Abbas for any of the problems that are now unfolding. When will the Jews learn?
| | | | | |  | | It has become common these days to hear Arabs and their assorted sycophants and anti-Semitic choirs vilifying Jews. What did the Islamic world's preeminent scholar of all time had to say about such things centuries ago? | | | | | |  | Regardless of the internal competition going on between the Arabs’ various groups and sub-groups, they have no right denying other peoples their own rights because of all of their own subdivisions and internal differences.
| | | | | |  | Among other fictions Abbas included in his speech was his purposeful neglect to mention any historical Jewish figures connected to the land. While mentioning Muhammad and Jesus, he deliberately left out the people of whom Jesus was a part of.
| | | | | |  | | The current American President now wants Judeans - Jews - to consent to making Judea Judenrein. This goes hand-in-hand, of course, with the Arabs' own vision. | | | | | |  | | It doesn't take an Einstein clone to realize that if billions of tons of carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic man-made compounds are unleashed into the very environment which supports life itself, then a rise in cancers, mutations, birth defects and such should not come as a shock. | | | | | |  | | There is no doubt that, for quite some time now, Turkey has wanted to have it both ways with Israel. | | | | | |  | | When will the UN session be scheduled that will vote on independence for some 35 million truly stateless Kurds? One is scheduled for the creation of the Arabs' 22nd state just several weeks from now. | | | | | |  | | A nation like Israel loses when it adopts a reactive instead of proactive policy. And given the special predicament that the Jews undoubtedly face, the results of such foolishness will only bring more hardship in their wake. | | | | | |  | | Arabs inside Israel fear that they might be caught up in a land swap placing them under Arab control instead of Israel. | | | | | |  | Who gives a _ _ _ _ if the Arabs officially call Israel a "Jewish" State? Yes, I "get it," but is that worth a withdrawal - given their taqiyya intent - to the Auschwitz Lines?
| | | | | |  | | In 1977, PLO executive committee member Zuheir Mohsen admitted to a Dutch newspaper that the Palestinian people does not exist. "The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity." | | | | | |  | | Nonie Darwish is a Christian convert from Islam, daughter of a prominent Egyptian army officer involved in Arab terrorist activity against Israel in Gaza decades ago. One journalist lumps folks like her - Muslims who had problems with their own faith and so chose to leave it - with folks like me... | | | | | |  | | As America approaches its own birthday, what would over three hundred million Americans, in a three thousand mile wide America, do and demand given the nature of the beast a minuscule Israel faces? | | | | | |  | | So, another flotilla of pusillanimous hypocrites is about to set sail to support Arabs whose sole aim is the destruction of the sole Jewish state in existence. | | | | | |  | | Where are the editorials demanding a roadmap for Kurdistan? | | | | | |  | | I expected more from the Gladiator. | | | | | |  | | At first glance, Abyei, Kirkuk, and Jerusalem may appear as if they have very little in common. But take another look. There is at least one common thread, in particular, which is revealing indeed… | | | | | |  | | In 2003, PETA's president wrote a letter to Yasser Arafat urging that the Arabs not use donkeys when murdering Jews. While no people nor culture has a monopoly on saints or sinners, one would be hard-pressed to find Jews doing these sort of things... | | | | | |  | | What is it with you guys… at least, most of you? I mean, if a Jew wants to live a semi-normal life outside of the ghetto, you have a bloomin' fit.. | | | | | | | | | I refuse to sob because Arabs tried to slaughter all of Israel's Jews in 1948 and destroy their sole, miniscule nation and their attempt backfired on themselves. | | | | | |
|  | | The State Department refuses to add Israel, after Jerusalem, on official birth documents, despite a law passed by Congress almost ten years ago directing it to do so. | | | | | |  | | The Middle East is erupting all around the Jewish State, and the uncertainty of the devils unknown replacing those known throughout the neighborhood is of course a great concern. | | | | | |  | | There is no conflict in which there are not at least two sides to any given story. In this case, the problem is that the events upon which Miral is based are told solely in their Arab version. | | | | | |  | | To anyone observing the turmoil and upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, there is little doubt that - unless it is determined to commit suicide - Israel must make some politically incorrect decisions. | | | | | |  | | Forget about the excuses for outside intervention in Libya that you've heard of… On the scale of relativity in his general neighborhood, Qaddafi is surpassed big time by far worse tyrants. | | | | | |  | Qaddafi is first and foremost an Arab nationalist par excellence - and, like others of his ilk, sees the entire region as simply purely Arab patrimony… regardless of some nice words spoken to gain support at summits and such.
| | | | | |  | The barbaric slaughter of innocents in Itamar should have yielded an outcry of rage. It did not.
| | | | | |  | The Kurdish leadership has accomplished too much to help bring about real progress... only to allow itself to be recalled later in history as yet simply more regional despots who needed to be deposed so people could obtain justice.
| | | | | |  | | What the Obama Administration really demands is not that Israel soul search about peace, but that Israel renounce any claims that it has of its own. | | | | | |  | | While the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements, President Obama's appointed representative to the UN lashed out at Israel while doing so. | | | | | |  | | How anyone could give support to Iran's current rulers is a truly disgusting thought. Yet, Ahmadinejad and the ayatollahs have their fan club… Hamas. | | | | | |  | | How will democracy change things for these people when an Arab majority, with its non-egalitarian elitist ruler and ruled mindset, still prevails? | | | | | |  | | While Arabs blow other Arabs apart, the one thing they all agree upon is that no one but themselves has any rights in "their" region. It is this reality, one totally ignored by Mr. Obama and his above friends over the years, which largely prevents peace in the region. | | | | | |  | | How does a nation like Russia, which conquered vast territories and peoples, making it the largest country, geographically speaking, in the world today, dare tell Israel that its desire for a territorial compromise is "expansionist colonialism?" | | | | | |  | | The same countries that demanded that the sole nation of the Jews do all but slit its own throat for the sake of creating Arab state # 22 have stood by watching the subjugation and murder of millions of black Africans by Arabs for decades. | | | | | |  | | It is time for an old piece of Middle Eastern wisdom to finally sink in... the enemy of my enemy is my friend. | | | | | |  | Arabs claimed that a woman died as a result of Israeli tear gas aimed at Arab demonstrators/rioters in Samaria, aka the "West Bank." It turns out Jawaher Abu Rahma, the alleged victim, was not even present at the demonstration.
| | | | | |  | | For 14 centuries before the rise of modern political Zionism, Jews had to tread very carefully in the Dar ul-Islam. It's no accident that among the staunchest Zionists are Jews whose origins are in the so-called "Arab"/Muslim World. | | | | | |  | Ehud Barak makes headlines again, repeating his offer to divide Jerusalem with Arabs who, by their very own, exact words, only see such moves in destruction-in-stages, Trojan Horse terms. And they're the "moderates."
| | | | | |  | The American State Department has been in bed with ARAMCO since its creation...Does its historical animosity towards Israel now become a bit clearer?
| | | | | |  | At a time when the Jew of the Nations still has to fight for its right to take its place on the world scene, the story of Chanukah and its message of rededication is as important today as it was when Judah the Hammer took on his pagan rulers.
| | | | | |  | | Ms. Thomas simply cannot give a fair and objective assessment of anything having to do with Israel--the Jew of the Nations. | | | | | |  | | Only an Israeli leadership acting as true leaders of Israel reborn can save the nation from the nastiness being planned right now. | | | | | |  | Israel, so far, has refused to totally cave in to enormous American pressure to simply reward repeated Arab aggression and rejectionism, and, in doing so, gets branded as the obstacle to peace.
| | | | | |  | Israel will be rebuked from the international community of hypocrites regardless of what it does… short of committing suicide. So it must stop playing soft ball with those playing hard ball.
| | | | | |  | I have no doubt that NPR will continue to place Israel under the high power lens of moral scrutiny while usually acting deaf, dumb, and blind to the far greater sins of the so-called 'Arab World' which surrounds it.
| | | | | |  | | What the Arabs failed to achieve in 1967, they aim to accomplish in 2010…and this time with an American President's help. | | | | | |  | | In recent history, the mistakes have been many on Israel's part - not that others did not force its hand, repeatedly, and especially those calling themselves 'friends.' | | | | | |  | | Who warns Arabs that for them to have security, they must first grant political, cultural, and basic human rights to tens of millions of North Africa's true natives--and independence, too, if so desired? | | | | | | | | | The current so-called "peace" negotiations are simply the latest chapter in the Arabs' perpetual campaign to delegitimize Israel and to deny Jews their one, sole, resurrected, miniscule state. | | | | | |  | Since Israel reunited Jerusalem in '67, the city has been open to all peoples. I keep on wondering... if no Jews are allowed to live in Judea, then why--pray tell--should any Arab be allowed to live in Israel?
| | | | | | | | | Soon, Israel will once again be expected to give away the entire store because Arabs have merely agreed to discuss the giveaway. | | | | | | | | | How can one demand the birth of the Arabs' 22nd state, and second--not first--one in "Palestine" while denying Jews their one, sole state? | | | | | | | | | Things were supposed to be different once Bibi was elected... | | | | | | | | | Syria has never recognized the independence of Lebanon, and considers it along with at least Jordan (eastern "Palestine"), Israel, and itself to simply be part of Greater Syria. | | | | | | | | | To say that such things as Jerusalem, Abraham, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and so forth are as important to Arabs and other Muslims as they are to Jews is to simply tell a lie. | | | | | | | | | Israel will have to depend on the integrity, courage, and fortitude of its own leaders, expecting them to act as the leaders of any other nation faced with the same circumstances would act. | | | | | | | | | Iran will try its very best to destroy the entire Jewish State and will primarily and deliberately target Jewish population centers | | | | | | | | Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind.
| | | | | | | | "The problem" is racism, pure and simple, being perpetrated by those who call Israel and Zionism racist... a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black to deflect attention away from the Arabs' far more horrendous sins.
| | | | | | | | Recently, a chief Hamas honcho received his admission slip to meet his 72 virgins via a visit to Dubai. Since then, the world is determined to find out who this poor disemboweler of Jews' dispatcher was.
| | | | | | | | Perhaps it is time for Israel to cut itself off from American aid if it means it must agree to simply become a puppet on a string, ignoring its own minimal security needs.
| | | | | | | | Real peace will never come by forcing a minuscule Israel to forsake its minimum security needs in return for promises by Arabs which can (and will) be broken tomorrow.
| | | | | | | | Hey--If anyone thinks that the current fight between Netanyahu and the various Obama Administration mouthpieces is about apartments, please watch out for bridge salesmen...
| | | | | | | | Those of us who try to expose the politically correct "poor, abused Arabs/nasty Zionist " take regarding the Middle East for the lie that it is are silenced in our attempts in a wide variety of ways.
| | | | | | | | Regardless of the global warming debate, there are oodles of good reasons to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels, especially petroleum and coal.
| | | | | | | | it's no secret that Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere long for the freedom and rights that Arabs in Israel have.
| | | | | | | | Israel's blockade is totally legal in international maritime law, and is like others that have been used by nations against enemies.
| | | | | | | | | To this day, Abbas and the rest of his "moderates" will openly tell you that they will never recognize a Jewish State of Israel--while demanding a 22nd Arab one. | | | | | | | | Meet the man behind the blog.
| | | | | | | | | With the collapse of the over four century old Ottoman Turkish Empire after World War I, Arabs proclaimed themselves, in the relatively new nationalist age emerging in the region, to be sole benefactors and political heirs to the entire area. | | | | | | | | | The Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque represent a major victory of Islam over the very people whose religion gave to the world the very knowledge of God in the first place. | | | | | | | | | I have always been a firm believer that God did not place man on this planet to trash the place nor to abuse others which God placed here as well. | | | | | | | | | America can grab lands thousands of miles away in the name of its own interests, but no Jew may live in Judea or Samaria. | | | | | | | | | Today's discussion: a contrast between how Jews and others who have not become vegetarians view the worth of God's other creatures. | | | | | | | | | Recently, at a Good Friday service, a major Vatican priest compared the scrutiny the Catholic Church is now under due to its long history of protecting child molesters to the persecution Jews have suffered. | | | | | | | | I am in favor of an alliance between Turkey and Israel... but one based on an equality in that relationship and the highest moral standards of behavior humanly possible by both parties towards others.
| | | | | |  | The day the Presbyterian Church (and other Jew-baiters of its same ilk) addresses the much greater sins of the "Arab" world which has millions of non-Arabs living in various states of true subjugation and intimidation, is the day when such an organization will have a right to point its finger at Israel.
| | | | | | | | | Obama's close associations with well-known anti-Israel politicos, friends, and advisors are beyond coincidental. | | | | | |  | | The search for historical truth is tedious, exciting, and often leads us in directions unknown before. An open mind is always essential if truth is indeed what is sought. | | | | | |  | My aim now is to showcase the differences between what Israel faces relative to its terrorist enemies and what Turkey faces regarding those whom engage in terror against it as well.
| | | | | | | | The reason that there has not been progress with Fatah is not because of Israel's stubbornness; it is because Fatah's idea of "peace" is Israel caving in to all of its demands.
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