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With another 9/11 anniversary approaching, I find myself thinking of just how far we’ve come, and not in a good way. I remember how, right after the attacks, people were so upset about what had happened, so resolved to prevent its recurrence. I remember how much people wanted the perpetrators punished, the organizations that backed them up and sent them destroyed, the leaders of those organizations made to pay.
But 9/11 seems to have gone the way of the Holocaust; people get brownie points and have photo-ops by attending and speaking at memorial services but no one is doing anything to prevent either from recurring, far from it. The recent release of the Lockerbie bomber and Qadaffi's visit to the Nations-United-Against-Israel-and-the-US (aka the UN) show just how uninterested people are in standing up to and fighting terrorism.
The only way to fight terrorism and terrorist acts is to fight. We can’t back off. We can’t allow any of the terrorist demands to be met. We can’t even appear wishy-washy. We need to stand up to the haters of freedom.
I’ve been reading Cokie Roberts’ book “Founding Mothers”, about the women who helped this country gain our freedom from British tyranny. I wonder what they would think, after being there for so many sacrifices by boys and men and girls and women to win our independence. I wonder what they would think about the world’s tacit capitulation to terror forces, forces we could easily defeat, forces that have proven they have only the “best interests” of a small group of despotic leaders at “heart”. I wonder if the spirits of these “Founding Mothers” are looking down on us from heaven and crying over the squandering of our liberties and the Western world’s autonomy and free-will.
The picture in Europe is bleak. Just about every country in Europe has regions where the Muslim minorities have taken over, suppressing the rights of women, violently suffocating the free will of Muslims and non-Muslims alike, not only in these districts but in their entire countries. People are losing their rights to a free press and free speech as Islamist extremists, who have taken over by spreading fear and panic, riot and murder at the slightest “insult”.
This picture will become even gloomier if we don’t prevent this from happening here in the US. We need to defend our freedom. We need to defend our way of life. We need to defend the free world, the Western world, the world of George Washington and Patrick Henry, of John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin, of Samuel and John Adams, and Eliza Pinckney, Deborah Franklin and Abigail Adams. We need to, as Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, “resolve that these dead [those of the World Trade Center attacks, Lockerby and other terrorist attacks] shall not have died in vain…. That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” We need to preserve our legacy to our children; we need to give them a world where their differences are celebrated, not suppressed. And we need to protect our bequest from our founding fathers and mothers. We need to maintain our oasis of freedom, the place where oppressed people can escape their subjugation; the country of liberty, the country of choice, the country of openness and opportunity.
As our forefathers and mothers learned, this freedom doesn’t come cheaply. And it isn’t defended by weakness and appeasement.
If we don’t prevent it, 9/11 could happen again. Memorial services don’t prevent attacks or genocidal holocausts. Memorial services don’t fight our fights or defend our children. We need to make these memorial services more meaningful by doing battle with our enemies, the perpetrators of these atrocities, and preventing the need for further memorial services. We need to be strong and remember that our children are worth fighting for. And we need to press our leaders to strike at the adversaries of freedom and liberty.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Pope Un-Pius
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I guess I was spoiled. The first pope I remember was a good guy. So I guess I expect the Pope, who is supposed to be a holy man, to be something like the Dalai Lama, a spiritual man who loves all humanity. I’m somewhat surprised when the Pope turns out to be a terrible person.
But I really shouldn’t be surprised. This man was a member of the Hitler Youth and no matter how much he puts on the "pope uniform" and no matter who holy he tries to look, he’s just an old Nazi in a Halloween costume.
Though his "visit to the Holy Land" (as the news media have been putting it) started off in less than holy Jordan (as Arab countries go, perhaps Jordan isn’t the worst, but the statement this Islam-loving Jew-hating practice Pope makes by going first to Jordan is very telling), and he’s bending over backwards to kiss the "you-know-whats" of the "ethnically and linguistically identical Arabs popularly referred to as Palestinians", I found something else more offensive than either.
Besides totally putting down Judaism and its role in working for a moral and civilized world (not to mention Judaism’s role in the creation of both Christianity and Islam), which is a slap in the face to Jews and our belief base, this statement implies (or, at least, I infer from it) that secularism is evil and that the Muslims are shining lights of morality in this world.
There are two parts to the world, Ruhniyut (spirituality) and Gashmiyut (the mundane). Without the gashmiyut (the day to day living, our jobs, our cars, our houses, etc.) there can be no ruhniyut. The Talmud says "Im ein Kemah, ein Tora" (if there is no "flour" -- food -- there is no Tora -- no time to learn). The pursuit of parnassa (making a living) is secular for most of us. This is something the Pope does not know. He also doesn’t understand that there are secular people who are good and "spiritual" people who are evil. He doesn’t comprehend the power of goodness to transcend belief in G-d.
Belief or trust in G-d can be the basis of a good life. But so can a strong secular sense of morality. There are many people in this world who live very good, moral lives, treating people with respect, helping others, living their lives by a strong moral code.
Conversely, there are people who claim to believe in G-d who treat others like second-class citizens. Many in the Muslim world treat women, gays and non-Muslims, for example, as subhuman, as not worthy of existence. In the Muslim world, honor killings (murder of daughters, sisters, mothers, nieces, etc. for not following their strict code of subservience or murder of gays just for being gay) are common and rarely punished. Non-Muslims (Jews of course, but Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and any other non-Muslim) are regularly murdered for no reason other than their continued existence. And those who aren’t murdered are stolen from, beaten, cheated, arrested, jailed, tortured. Any Muslim who sells land to a Jew, writes articles condemning honor killings or terrorism, "fraternizes" (romantically or platonically) with non-Muslims, for example, is harassed, beaten, arrested, murdered. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist, is being tried for treason. His crime? Defending Israel in his newspaper and wanting to visit Israel.
This is not unusual in the repressive Muslim world. We in the United States take it for granted that criticizing the government or anyone else, for that matter, won’t land us in prison and certainly won’t end with us on trial for our lives. But in the demagogic world of Islamists, you never know what could cause the "police" to arrest you or just shoot you. You never know, especially if you are a woman or girl, what word you say, what outfit you might wear, what deed you might do that will wind up with you in jail, tortured or dead.
This is the world the Pope is defending, supporting, kissing up to. This is the evil that the man who represents one billion plus Catholics worldwide and, by extension, two billion plus Christians thinks will be his bastion of religiousness, his ally in G-dliness. These are the suppressive regimes and terror mongers that the Pope has hitched his star (or should I say "black hole") to.
We need to see the Islamist world for what it is. We need to see the Pope for who he is (and not blame the people he purports to represent). We need to fight his unholy alliance. We can’t allow the cowards of the world, the kowtowing governments, media outlets and so-called religious leaders, to put us in any more danger than we are. Just by our existence we anger the Islamists. Sitting back and allowing them to come in and kill us and destroy our way of life is not the answer. We are in a war, a war of words, a war of ideals, a war of ethics. And it’s a war we can’t afford to lose.
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[Disclaimer: What I'm saying here should not be interpreted as a "dig" against all Catholics, all popes or the papacy. Just the opposite, I have an enormous respect for Catholics and the papacy. I am reacting to the current pope who has shown his true colors by hobnobbing with the enemy.]
I guess I was spoiled. The first pope I remember was a good guy. So I guess I expect the Pope, who is supposed to be a holy man, to be something like the Dalai Lama, a spiritual man who loves all humanity. I’m somewhat surprised when the Pope turns out to be a terrible person.
But I really shouldn’t be surprised. This man was a member of the Hitler Youth and no matter how much he puts on the "pope uniform" and no matter who holy he tries to look, he’s just an old Nazi in a Halloween costume.
Though his "visit to the Holy Land" (as the news media have been putting it) started off in less than holy Jordan (as Arab countries go, perhaps Jordan isn’t the worst, but the statement this Islam-loving Jew-hating practice Pope makes by going first to Jordan is very telling), and he’s bending over backwards to kiss the "you-know-whats" of the "ethnically and linguistically identical Arabs popularly referred to as Palestinians", I found something else more offensive than either.
"Benedict was full of praise for Islamic faith and culture," wrote Father Raymond J. de Souza for an article in the National Post. Father de Souza added, "Benedict argues for open religious worship and witness precisely because he thinks of Islam as an ally of Christianity in resisting secularization. Religious practice and the role of religion in public life are much more robust in the Arab world than it is in largely secularized Europe." (Quoted in the National Post)
Besides totally putting down Judaism and its role in working for a moral and civilized world (not to mention Judaism’s role in the creation of both Christianity and Islam), which is a slap in the face to Jews and our belief base, this statement implies (or, at least, I infer from it) that secularism is evil and that the Muslims are shining lights of morality in this world.
There are two parts to the world, Ruhniyut (spirituality) and Gashmiyut (the mundane). Without the gashmiyut (the day to day living, our jobs, our cars, our houses, etc.) there can be no ruhniyut. The Talmud says "Im ein Kemah, ein Tora" (if there is no "flour" -- food -- there is no Tora -- no time to learn). The pursuit of parnassa (making a living) is secular for most of us. This is something the Pope does not know. He also doesn’t understand that there are secular people who are good and "spiritual" people who are evil. He doesn’t comprehend the power of goodness to transcend belief in G-d.
Belief or trust in G-d can be the basis of a good life. But so can a strong secular sense of morality. There are many people in this world who live very good, moral lives, treating people with respect, helping others, living their lives by a strong moral code.
Conversely, there are people who claim to believe in G-d who treat others like second-class citizens. Many in the Muslim world treat women, gays and non-Muslims, for example, as subhuman, as not worthy of existence. In the Muslim world, honor killings (murder of daughters, sisters, mothers, nieces, etc. for not following their strict code of subservience or murder of gays just for being gay) are common and rarely punished. Non-Muslims (Jews of course, but Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and any other non-Muslim) are regularly murdered for no reason other than their continued existence. And those who aren’t murdered are stolen from, beaten, cheated, arrested, jailed, tortured. Any Muslim who sells land to a Jew, writes articles condemning honor killings or terrorism, "fraternizes" (romantically or platonically) with non-Muslims, for example, is harassed, beaten, arrested, murdered. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist, is being tried for treason. His crime? Defending Israel in his newspaper and wanting to visit Israel.
This is not unusual in the repressive Muslim world. We in the United States take it for granted that criticizing the government or anyone else, for that matter, won’t land us in prison and certainly won’t end with us on trial for our lives. But in the demagogic world of Islamists, you never know what could cause the "police" to arrest you or just shoot you. You never know, especially if you are a woman or girl, what word you say, what outfit you might wear, what deed you might do that will wind up with you in jail, tortured or dead.
This is the world the Pope is defending, supporting, kissing up to. This is the evil that the man who represents one billion plus Catholics worldwide and, by extension, two billion plus Christians thinks will be his bastion of religiousness, his ally in G-dliness. These are the suppressive regimes and terror mongers that the Pope has hitched his star (or should I say "black hole") to.
We need to see the Islamist world for what it is. We need to see the Pope for who he is (and not blame the people he purports to represent). We need to fight his unholy alliance. We can’t allow the cowards of the world, the kowtowing governments, media outlets and so-called religious leaders, to put us in any more danger than we are. Just by our existence we anger the Islamists. Sitting back and allowing them to come in and kill us and destroy our way of life is not the answer. We are in a war, a war of words, a war of ideals, a war of ethics. And it’s a war we can’t afford to lose.
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
The Pope "heart" s Palestinians
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The first thing the Pope said when he entered Israel was that a Palestinian state should be established. HUH????? I guess he hasn't seen what the "Palestinian Authority" aka the murdering terrorists known as "Hamas" have done to the former Gush Katif (aka the present launching site of explosive shells on population centers for Israel, most notably, but not exclusively, Sderot). Gush Katif was a beautiful area. The Israelis had turned it into a garden spot, literally. This desert community was growing hydroponic organic produce for use all over Israel. And now?????
Haven't the "ethnically identical Arabic people generally referred to as Palestinians" proven beyond a shadow of a doubt (not the trial point of beyond a reasonable doubt, but even further into the "no doubt" area) that they are NOT ready for self-rule, that they are NOT ready for their own country? Haven't these people proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the sole, singular and only reason they want a "Palestinian" state is that they want it instead of Israel?
Really? Wow. What a concept. A group of people totally identical in language, culture (and I use that term VERY loosely), ethnicity, religion, etc. to every other group in the region (EXCEPT for the people in the tiny, eensy-weensy country of Israel, smaller than the state of New Jersey, which is, BTW, 46th in area of the 50 US states, which is peopled by Jews of every race and creed, Christians, Muslims, and other Gentiles also of every race and creed) want to be the ONLY ethnic group in the region, want to remove the ONLY group, tiny as it is, from what they have decided is their land (read: the entire earth.....). So they make up a name using the geographical area's old colonial name, making it seem as though they, not the current residents, are the "True" residents of this ancient land and guess what? The world (especially Europe and the Pope) fall for their c**p hook, line and sinker.
Come on, people, think about it..... Tell me about those "ancient Palestinians" -- Did they speak "Palestinian"? If so, can you tell me a few words of this language??? What did this "once proud" people do? Tell me about their history, literature, way of life.....
What, you can't???? Could that possibly be because the existence of the "Palestinian people" as an ethnically separate people is a myth! That's right. It's a myth.
So stop feeling sorry for these people (except for having their brains and their lives controlled by demagogues who want to keep them in refugee camps so they can use them as a tool to destroy Israel). Stop recommending, calling for, demanding a "Palestinian State". It will only lead to Israel's destruction, and the subjugation of these people by their own leaders. It will also lead to the destruction of the free world as the enemies of peace and freedom become emboldened to complete their "final solution" (which doesn't stop with the Jews) which is the subjugation of the entire world as the world becomes one big Sharia State.
G-d forbid.
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The first thing the Pope said when he entered Israel was that a Palestinian state should be established. HUH????? I guess he hasn't seen what the "Palestinian Authority" aka the murdering terrorists known as "Hamas" have done to the former Gush Katif (aka the present launching site of explosive shells on population centers for Israel, most notably, but not exclusively, Sderot). Gush Katif was a beautiful area. The Israelis had turned it into a garden spot, literally. This desert community was growing hydroponic organic produce for use all over Israel. And now?????
Haven't the "ethnically identical Arabic people generally referred to as Palestinians" proven beyond a shadow of a doubt (not the trial point of beyond a reasonable doubt, but even further into the "no doubt" area) that they are NOT ready for self-rule, that they are NOT ready for their own country? Haven't these people proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the sole, singular and only reason they want a "Palestinian" state is that they want it instead of Israel?
Really? Wow. What a concept. A group of people totally identical in language, culture (and I use that term VERY loosely), ethnicity, religion, etc. to every other group in the region (EXCEPT for the people in the tiny, eensy-weensy country of Israel, smaller than the state of New Jersey, which is, BTW, 46th in area of the 50 US states, which is peopled by Jews of every race and creed, Christians, Muslims, and other Gentiles also of every race and creed) want to be the ONLY ethnic group in the region, want to remove the ONLY group, tiny as it is, from what they have decided is their land (read: the entire earth.....). So they make up a name using the geographical area's old colonial name, making it seem as though they, not the current residents, are the "True" residents of this ancient land and guess what? The world (especially Europe and the Pope) fall for their c**p hook, line and sinker.
Come on, people, think about it..... Tell me about those "ancient Palestinians" -- Did they speak "Palestinian"? If so, can you tell me a few words of this language??? What did this "once proud" people do? Tell me about their history, literature, way of life.....
What, you can't???? Could that possibly be because the existence of the "Palestinian people" as an ethnically separate people is a myth! That's right. It's a myth.
So stop feeling sorry for these people (except for having their brains and their lives controlled by demagogues who want to keep them in refugee camps so they can use them as a tool to destroy Israel). Stop recommending, calling for, demanding a "Palestinian State". It will only lead to Israel's destruction, and the subjugation of these people by their own leaders. It will also lead to the destruction of the free world as the enemies of peace and freedom become emboldened to complete their "final solution" (which doesn't stop with the Jews) which is the subjugation of the entire world as the world becomes one big Sharia State.
G-d forbid.
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Popularity Contest
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Imagine you're a teenager. In your class is this very popular young woman. Everyone wants to be like her, everyone wants to be in her circle of friends. People dress like her, people sit near her in classes and at lunch.
She, on the other hand, doesn't even realize how popular she is. Even though she dresses like she just walked out of a Vogue pictorial, she asks her circle of friends every day, "how do I look? Does this outfit look good on me?" She is always looking for validation.
There are a bunch of people who want to be like her, but they don't like her. So whenever she asks one of her inferiority complex questions, they purposely lie to her. They purposely play on her insecurities. They tell her her clothes don't match, they tell her she looks fat, they tell her she's ugly and stupid. And, because of how badly she's been abused over the years by people who were jealous of her brains, beauty and style, she believes them and thinks she's stupid and ugly.
Have any of you known a popular young woman like that? Well, I know two: The US and Israel.
If you go around the world, in just about every country, what do you find? People trying to live like "Americans". Between the jeans, the McDonalds and other fast food restaurants, the elections (that try to emulate our elections here in the US but never quite make it), you can see people want to live like "Americans". But the governments of these countries, from Europe, to South America, to the Middle East and other areas, people criticize every step our government takes. We deserved the 9/11 attacks, these people claim. HUH?????
It's the same with Israel. People come to Israel from Europe to use the mud and swim in the Dead Sea (it's good for their skin). People come to Israel from Christian countries on pilgrimages to Christian shrines and places of interest (which the Israeli government protects, but the PA destroys). People from eastern Asia come to Israel for jobs. And people from other Middle Eastern countries envy Israel's standard of living and freedom and equality for all citizens.
So why are the US and Israel trying to please the world? They are already trying to emulate us. They already think we're the best. Their actions should speak louder than their words.
Why are the US and Israel putting up with the United Nations and their one-sided sanctions? Why doesn't the US kick the UN out of NY? Why is Israel trying to please a world that will never be pleased by her actions?
Let's stop listening to the anti-American crowd. Let's stop listening to the people trying to hide their anti-Jewish feelings behind anti-Israel lies. Let's stop caring what the world thinks of us. They're too envious of our way of life to ever admit they want to be like us.
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Imagine you're a teenager. In your class is this very popular young woman. Everyone wants to be like her, everyone wants to be in her circle of friends. People dress like her, people sit near her in classes and at lunch.
She, on the other hand, doesn't even realize how popular she is. Even though she dresses like she just walked out of a Vogue pictorial, she asks her circle of friends every day, "how do I look? Does this outfit look good on me?" She is always looking for validation.
There are a bunch of people who want to be like her, but they don't like her. So whenever she asks one of her inferiority complex questions, they purposely lie to her. They purposely play on her insecurities. They tell her her clothes don't match, they tell her she looks fat, they tell her she's ugly and stupid. And, because of how badly she's been abused over the years by people who were jealous of her brains, beauty and style, she believes them and thinks she's stupid and ugly.
Have any of you known a popular young woman like that? Well, I know two: The US and Israel.
If you go around the world, in just about every country, what do you find? People trying to live like "Americans". Between the jeans, the McDonalds and other fast food restaurants, the elections (that try to emulate our elections here in the US but never quite make it), you can see people want to live like "Americans". But the governments of these countries, from Europe, to South America, to the Middle East and other areas, people criticize every step our government takes. We deserved the 9/11 attacks, these people claim. HUH?????
It's the same with Israel. People come to Israel from Europe to use the mud and swim in the Dead Sea (it's good for their skin). People come to Israel from Christian countries on pilgrimages to Christian shrines and places of interest (which the Israeli government protects, but the PA destroys). People from eastern Asia come to Israel for jobs. And people from other Middle Eastern countries envy Israel's standard of living and freedom and equality for all citizens.
So why are the US and Israel trying to please the world? They are already trying to emulate us. They already think we're the best. Their actions should speak louder than their words.
Why are the US and Israel putting up with the United Nations and their one-sided sanctions? Why doesn't the US kick the UN out of NY? Why is Israel trying to please a world that will never be pleased by her actions?
Let's stop listening to the anti-American crowd. Let's stop listening to the people trying to hide their anti-Jewish feelings behind anti-Israel lies. Let's stop caring what the world thinks of us. They're too envious of our way of life to ever admit they want to be like us.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Cartoon Insurance
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When did cartoons become so nasty? When did it become ok to project the worst prejudices and the worst lies by hiding behind "art"?
I find it amazing that the "Ethnically/Culturally/Linguistically Identical to every other group of Arabs" commonly referred to as "Palestinians" have managed to pump up the propaganda machine to such an extent that a previously respected in my mind political cartoonist like Oliphant actually believes that Israel protecting her citizens from murdering terrorists is equal to Nazis murdering innocent people (6 million of which were Jews). Personally, I wish that Israel had such a find propaganda machine. I wish Israel could even get people to believe the truth, never mind how well the "Ethnically/Culturally/Linguistically Identical to every other group of Arabs" commonly referred to as "Palestinians" (led, now, by Hamas, but, to be honest, Fata is no better and Abbas is just Arafat in a suit) has gotten the world to believe that:
I have news for you, phony "Liberals" out there. The terrorist conglomerate of the world won't spare you simply because you defend them and hate Israel. The terrorist conglomerate of the world won't spare you simply because you send them extortion money. The terrorist conglomerate of the world won't leave you alone because you create and the support the creation of anti-Jewish anti-Israel political cartoons or op-ed pieces. You will be swept up too if you don't fight back. You will be put in the position of having to defend your body from their invasion. And you will be next.
We Jews are the "canary in the coal mine". We are the ones who get attacked first, but, mark my work, just like Hitler started with the Jews and moved on to other groups (gays, gypsies, political enemies, etc.) the terrorist conglomerate of the world will too. Oh, wait, they already have. They've moved on to Movie goers in Mumbai, night club patrons in Bali, British diplomats in Istanbul, train riders in Madrid, school children in Beslan, Russia, and, of course, World Trade Center and Pentagon workers and hijacked airplane passengers in New York and Washington.
When are the people of the world going to wake up to the threat posed by the media's continued attacks on Israel and support of terrorists? When are the people of the world going to realize their lives are in danger? When are the people of the world going to stand up and be counted for democracy, freedom and equality?
I don't know when that day will come. Oliphant and his anti-Jewish cartoon, perpetuating the myth that Israel is like Nazi Germany in any way, is just another nail in the world's coffin. Please don't allow yourself to be an accessory to the murder of Western culture and Democratic society.
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When did cartoons become so nasty? When did it become ok to project the worst prejudices and the worst lies by hiding behind "art"?
I find it amazing that the "Ethnically/Culturally/Linguistically Identical to every other group of Arabs" commonly referred to as "Palestinians" have managed to pump up the propaganda machine to such an extent that a previously respected in my mind political cartoonist like Oliphant actually believes that Israel protecting her citizens from murdering terrorists is equal to Nazis murdering innocent people (6 million of which were Jews). Personally, I wish that Israel had such a find propaganda machine. I wish Israel could even get people to believe the truth, never mind how well the "Ethnically/Culturally/Linguistically Identical to every other group of Arabs" commonly referred to as "Palestinians" (led, now, by Hamas, but, to be honest, Fata is no better and Abbas is just Arafat in a suit) has gotten the world to believe that:
- They and not the Jews are the true heirs of Abraham, and, therefore, the true guardians of Israel
- Israel, "tiny little 14 million in population vs. 1 billion Muslims" Israel, is the aggressor
- The world needs to send them money so they can build an infrastructure (when all of the money the world is sending them goes NOT to building an infrastructure or helping their lied to, inculcated, death loving, oppressed people to survive but to murdering still more Jews and Gentile Israelis)
I have news for you, phony "Liberals" out there. The terrorist conglomerate of the world won't spare you simply because you defend them and hate Israel. The terrorist conglomerate of the world won't spare you simply because you send them extortion money. The terrorist conglomerate of the world won't leave you alone because you create and the support the creation of anti-Jewish anti-Israel political cartoons or op-ed pieces. You will be swept up too if you don't fight back. You will be put in the position of having to defend your body from their invasion. And you will be next.
We Jews are the "canary in the coal mine". We are the ones who get attacked first, but, mark my work, just like Hitler started with the Jews and moved on to other groups (gays, gypsies, political enemies, etc.) the terrorist conglomerate of the world will too. Oh, wait, they already have. They've moved on to Movie goers in Mumbai, night club patrons in Bali, British diplomats in Istanbul, train riders in Madrid, school children in Beslan, Russia, and, of course, World Trade Center and Pentagon workers and hijacked airplane passengers in New York and Washington.
When are the people of the world going to wake up to the threat posed by the media's continued attacks on Israel and support of terrorists? When are the people of the world going to realize their lives are in danger? When are the people of the world going to stand up and be counted for democracy, freedom and equality?
I don't know when that day will come. Oliphant and his anti-Jewish cartoon, perpetuating the myth that Israel is like Nazi Germany in any way, is just another nail in the world's coffin. Please don't allow yourself to be an accessory to the murder of Western culture and Democratic society.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
"Perfect 10"??????
B"H
When I was growing up, I used to read Olameinu (Hebrew for "Our world"). Olameinu is an Orthodox Children's Magazine that makes learning fun. They used to have Tora theme riddles and one of those riddles was about a Judge in the Sanhedrin (Jewish Court) – the judge, as part of the Sanhedrin, was judging a capital case. If this judge votes "guilty", the man is set free, if the judge votes "not guilty" the man is put to death. How can this be?
The answer to the riddle is that if all 70 judges agree that someone is guilty, it means the case is too perfect and there must be some problem (for example, the defendant wasn’t adequately represented). (Noto bene: the voting is done secretly so no one knows what the other 69 judges will vote.)
One of the things I’ve always liked about Judaism is that our heroes aren’t perfect. Look through the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) and you will see that nobody, not Avraham, not Yitzhak, not Yaakov, not even Moshe, was perfect. They all made mistakes. Other religious groups don’t have that. They portray their heroes as perfect, flawless, someone not to be questioned. From the perspective of a former Yeshiva girl, that seems ridiculous. In Judaism, only G-d is perfect (and even G-d can be questioned, even argued with – Avraham and Moshe both argued with G-d and won).
The consequence of the "Our Heroes are Perfect" syndrome, in my opinion, is that people spend too much time trying to bury their mistakes and never giving their lapses a chance to teach them anything. Most Millionaires have in common that they failed in business (often multiple times) before they succeeded. They learned from their fiascoes.
Georges Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I would add to this "Those who cannot admit their mistakes are condemned to repeat them." If you cannot admit that Neville Chamberlain made a mistake in handing over land to the power hungry Adolph Hitler, if you cannot admit that Ariel Sharon with his unilateral, "no concessions asked" withdrawal from Gush Katif (Gaza) made a huge misstep, if you cannot understand that ending the Gaza War without surrender from Hamas was an error of magnificent proportions, then you will continue to make the same mistakes over and over and over again.
Placating terrorists doesn’t work. Whether the terrorist you’re talking about is head of a governmental body of a sovereign nation (like Hitler) or an organization that co-opted its people’s election to get voted in as their leader, despite their lack of a country (like Hamas) terrorists aren’t looking for logic or negotiations. Terrorists aren’t reasonable people. Terrorists haven’t even thought through what things would be like if they got their demands met. For example, what would Hitler have done if he had, G-d forbid, succeeded in killing every Jew on the planet? Do people really think he would have left his job, bought a nice little house in the country and retired there with Eva Braun? That’s highly doubtful. More likely he would have turned to Catholics or Baptists or Quakers or homosexuals or disabled people or _________ (fill in the blank with your idea of a group). Hitler’s thirst for blood would never have been quenched.
Because the Muslim faith looks at Muhammad, "The Prophet", as perfect and infallible, Islamists can never admit that something they did was wrong or bad. They have to continue along their road believing they are totally right and totally good, no matter how many people they murder. And why should they question their deeds when most of the world lauds them and condemns Israel?
Why indeed. Yet there are some Muslims who are beginning to question. In addition to high profile people like Salmon Rushdie, Nonie Darwish, Irshad Manji and Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community, there are organizations of anti-terror Muslims like Muslims Against Sharia at http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com and American Islamic Forum for Democracy at http://www.aifdemocracy.org/. These organizations and others like them are beginning to be heard.
Many anti-terror Muslims and Muslim organizations are trying to spread the word about the dangers the West faces from pro-terror Muslims and Muslim organizations. We need to listen to them. We need to realize that we are not perfect and that we need to learn from our mistakes (and the mistakes of European governments). We need to stand up for our freedom and our democracy. We need to fight the tyranny, despotism and oppression left in the wake of terror activities. We need to fight for ourselves and the rest of the world, including the people under the rule of the terror organizations. We need to find a way to reeducate people who live under these regimes, who feed them a steady diet of hate. We need to plan our future and the future of Western civilization. If we don’t, that civilization will cease to exist.
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When I was growing up, I used to read Olameinu (Hebrew for "Our world"). Olameinu is an Orthodox Children's Magazine that makes learning fun. They used to have Tora theme riddles and one of those riddles was about a Judge in the Sanhedrin (Jewish Court) – the judge, as part of the Sanhedrin, was judging a capital case. If this judge votes "guilty", the man is set free, if the judge votes "not guilty" the man is put to death. How can this be?
The answer to the riddle is that if all 70 judges agree that someone is guilty, it means the case is too perfect and there must be some problem (for example, the defendant wasn’t adequately represented). (Noto bene: the voting is done secretly so no one knows what the other 69 judges will vote.)
One of the things I’ve always liked about Judaism is that our heroes aren’t perfect. Look through the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) and you will see that nobody, not Avraham, not Yitzhak, not Yaakov, not even Moshe, was perfect. They all made mistakes. Other religious groups don’t have that. They portray their heroes as perfect, flawless, someone not to be questioned. From the perspective of a former Yeshiva girl, that seems ridiculous. In Judaism, only G-d is perfect (and even G-d can be questioned, even argued with – Avraham and Moshe both argued with G-d and won).
The consequence of the "Our Heroes are Perfect" syndrome, in my opinion, is that people spend too much time trying to bury their mistakes and never giving their lapses a chance to teach them anything. Most Millionaires have in common that they failed in business (often multiple times) before they succeeded. They learned from their fiascoes.
Georges Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I would add to this "Those who cannot admit their mistakes are condemned to repeat them." If you cannot admit that Neville Chamberlain made a mistake in handing over land to the power hungry Adolph Hitler, if you cannot admit that Ariel Sharon with his unilateral, "no concessions asked" withdrawal from Gush Katif (Gaza) made a huge misstep, if you cannot understand that ending the Gaza War without surrender from Hamas was an error of magnificent proportions, then you will continue to make the same mistakes over and over and over again.
Placating terrorists doesn’t work. Whether the terrorist you’re talking about is head of a governmental body of a sovereign nation (like Hitler) or an organization that co-opted its people’s election to get voted in as their leader, despite their lack of a country (like Hamas) terrorists aren’t looking for logic or negotiations. Terrorists aren’t reasonable people. Terrorists haven’t even thought through what things would be like if they got their demands met. For example, what would Hitler have done if he had, G-d forbid, succeeded in killing every Jew on the planet? Do people really think he would have left his job, bought a nice little house in the country and retired there with Eva Braun? That’s highly doubtful. More likely he would have turned to Catholics or Baptists or Quakers or homosexuals or disabled people or _________ (fill in the blank with your idea of a group). Hitler’s thirst for blood would never have been quenched.
Because the Muslim faith looks at Muhammad, "The Prophet", as perfect and infallible, Islamists can never admit that something they did was wrong or bad. They have to continue along their road believing they are totally right and totally good, no matter how many people they murder. And why should they question their deeds when most of the world lauds them and condemns Israel?
Why indeed. Yet there are some Muslims who are beginning to question. In addition to high profile people like Salmon Rushdie, Nonie Darwish, Irshad Manji and Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community, there are organizations of anti-terror Muslims like Muslims Against Sharia at http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com and American Islamic Forum for Democracy at http://www.aifdemocracy.org/. These organizations and others like them are beginning to be heard.
Many anti-terror Muslims and Muslim organizations are trying to spread the word about the dangers the West faces from pro-terror Muslims and Muslim organizations. We need to listen to them. We need to realize that we are not perfect and that we need to learn from our mistakes (and the mistakes of European governments). We need to stand up for our freedom and our democracy. We need to fight the tyranny, despotism and oppression left in the wake of terror activities. We need to fight for ourselves and the rest of the world, including the people under the rule of the terror organizations. We need to find a way to reeducate people who live under these regimes, who feed them a steady diet of hate. We need to plan our future and the future of Western civilization. If we don’t, that civilization will cease to exist.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
I hate to say "I told you so" but.....
B"H
I try not to be the sort of person who says "I told you so". But there are just some times that I feel the need to remind people that I warned them.
In one of my previous blog entries (The Fault Lies Not in our Stars) dated April 23, 2008, I gave an analogy to what happens with Israel in the press and in the world.
Interestingly enough, this analogy is precisely what happened during the recent Gaza War. Israel is required, by public opinion and the opinion of the world press (including some of Israel's own journalists) to endure every attack on her people -- every homicide bomber, every falling missile, every soldier kidnapping/torture/murder, every personal attack/murder, every school or Yeshiva attack/mass murder -- without a preemptive strike, without a defensive attack, without a complaint or a whimper. All this is required of a people who comprise such a tiny percentage of the world population. (Jews make up about .2% of the world's population -- Muslims make up somewhere around 17% to 23% of the world's population, depending on whose estimate of the Muslim population you take.)
It seems rather ironic to me that people feel that, to be open-minded and politically correct, they need to bend over backwards to a group that makes up 17% to 23% of the world's population while criticizing and lambasting the group that makes up .2% of the world's population (mind you, this means, basically, that there are around 100 times as many Muslims as Jews).
So, keep in mind whenever you read those articles saying what horrible people the Israelis are and how they are overreacting and how the numbers of "Palestinians" killed is disproportionate (notice how they never count in this total all the Israelis murdered during the two intifadas or the difference between Israeli civilians, who are easily separated from the military, and Palestinian civilians, who are used to protect their cowardly leaders from harm because they know the Israelis don't want to kill civilians -- but I digress....) that Israel is defending herself and her citizens and her visitors from the hatred and murder of a racist, xenophobic, militaristic, misogynistic regime that keeps it's own people in squalor so that they can feed on hatred and death, so they can be their willing sacrificial lambs marching to slaughter, their own slaughter and that of their victims. Keep in mind when you are bombarded with anti-Jewish (masquerading as anti-Israel -- make no mistakes, anti-Israel is anti-Jewish -- if it weren't, people wouldn't be criticizing Israel for defending herself and they would be much more concerned about Darfur and other places where Muslims are killing Christians and other non-Muslims) Israel-criticism in the media that Israel would be the first to live in peace if her neighbors would stop attacking. Israel would like nothing more than to not lose the best and bravest of her people. Israel would like nothing more than to be left alone. But that's not the reality Israelis live in. That's not the reality we in the US live in. This is not the reality of the world as it is today in the 21st secular century in a post 9-11 world.
When the paradigm shifts and peace is beloved by all, then Israelis can lay down their guns. But, while I pray for this paradigm shift, I don't expect it in my lifetime. So I act accordingly.
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I try not to be the sort of person who says "I told you so". But there are just some times that I feel the need to remind people that I warned them.
In one of my previous blog entries (The Fault Lies Not in our Stars) dated April 23, 2008, I gave an analogy to what happens with Israel in the press and in the world.
Interestingly enough, this analogy is precisely what happened during the recent Gaza War. Israel is required, by public opinion and the opinion of the world press (including some of Israel's own journalists) to endure every attack on her people -- every homicide bomber, every falling missile, every soldier kidnapping/torture/murder, every personal attack/murder, every school or Yeshiva attack/mass murder -- without a preemptive strike, without a defensive attack, without a complaint or a whimper. All this is required of a people who comprise such a tiny percentage of the world population. (Jews make up about .2% of the world's population -- Muslims make up somewhere around 17% to 23% of the world's population, depending on whose estimate of the Muslim population you take.)
It seems rather ironic to me that people feel that, to be open-minded and politically correct, they need to bend over backwards to a group that makes up 17% to 23% of the world's population while criticizing and lambasting the group that makes up .2% of the world's population (mind you, this means, basically, that there are around 100 times as many Muslims as Jews).
So, keep in mind whenever you read those articles saying what horrible people the Israelis are and how they are overreacting and how the numbers of "Palestinians" killed is disproportionate (notice how they never count in this total all the Israelis murdered during the two intifadas or the difference between Israeli civilians, who are easily separated from the military, and Palestinian civilians, who are used to protect their cowardly leaders from harm because they know the Israelis don't want to kill civilians -- but I digress....) that Israel is defending herself and her citizens and her visitors from the hatred and murder of a racist, xenophobic, militaristic, misogynistic regime that keeps it's own people in squalor so that they can feed on hatred and death, so they can be their willing sacrificial lambs marching to slaughter, their own slaughter and that of their victims. Keep in mind when you are bombarded with anti-Jewish (masquerading as anti-Israel -- make no mistakes, anti-Israel is anti-Jewish -- if it weren't, people wouldn't be criticizing Israel for defending herself and they would be much more concerned about Darfur and other places where Muslims are killing Christians and other non-Muslims) Israel-criticism in the media that Israel would be the first to live in peace if her neighbors would stop attacking. Israel would like nothing more than to not lose the best and bravest of her people. Israel would like nothing more than to be left alone. But that's not the reality Israelis live in. That's not the reality we in the US live in. This is not the reality of the world as it is today in the 21st secular century in a post 9-11 world.
When the paradigm shifts and peace is beloved by all, then Israelis can lay down their guns. But, while I pray for this paradigm shift, I don't expect it in my lifetime. So I act accordingly.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
NY is the UNcity....
B"H
Someone commented on one of the comments I made on the Muslims Against Sharia blog (I mostly agreed with what (s)he had to say, (see the comments on the bottom of this page) but I felt the need to comment anyway...) and this is what I answered:
I personally think the UN has outlived its usefulness as a peace keeping organization. I'm beginning to understand the wisdom of the US not joining the League of Nations (Wilson to the contrary notwithstanding) after WWI.
The problem, as I see it, with the UN is that blocs of nations (such as the former Warsaw bloc and the current Arab/Muslim bloc) can easily co opt the organization and, together with other blocs that are afraid to "anger" them, the business of the UN becomes trying to get the one country that would live in peace without anyone else's intervention, condemning that country and forcing her to make unhealthy (from a security perspective) concessions (like freeing murderous criminal terrorists from prisons so they can kill again and allow an avowed enemy to get the government to agree to force brave, peace loving people from their homes).
IMHO, the UN should be disbanded, kicked out of New York (I'm sure New York City could use the extra revenue that would provide) and change its name to the "union of Arab/Muslim and Muslim-fearing states" to actually reflect what it truly IS.
European governments cower from the Arab and Muslim people living in their lands. What they fail to realize is that these people are doing what they can do anyway -- angering them isn't going to change anything. They are perpetually angry. As a Jew, I know I'm a target anyway, just by existing. I realize that means I don't have to kowtow to them. By doing what they want, we are showing them weakness, in their eyes. Fight for what you believe in. Fight while there is still something to fight for. If things keep up the way they are going, there will be nothing left to fight for all to soon.
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Someone commented on one of the comments I made on the Muslims Against Sharia blog (I mostly agreed with what (s)he had to say, (see the comments on the bottom of this page) but I felt the need to comment anyway...) and this is what I answered:
I personally think the UN has outlived its usefulness as a peace keeping organization. I'm beginning to understand the wisdom of the US not joining the League of Nations (Wilson to the contrary notwithstanding) after WWI.
The problem, as I see it, with the UN is that blocs of nations (such as the former Warsaw bloc and the current Arab/Muslim bloc) can easily co opt the organization and, together with other blocs that are afraid to "anger" them, the business of the UN becomes trying to get the one country that would live in peace without anyone else's intervention, condemning that country and forcing her to make unhealthy (from a security perspective) concessions (like freeing murderous criminal terrorists from prisons so they can kill again and allow an avowed enemy to get the government to agree to force brave, peace loving people from their homes).
IMHO, the UN should be disbanded, kicked out of New York (I'm sure New York City could use the extra revenue that would provide) and change its name to the "union of Arab/Muslim and Muslim-fearing states" to actually reflect what it truly IS.
European governments cower from the Arab and Muslim people living in their lands. What they fail to realize is that these people are doing what they can do anyway -- angering them isn't going to change anything. They are perpetually angry. As a Jew, I know I'm a target anyway, just by existing. I realize that means I don't have to kowtow to them. By doing what they want, we are showing them weakness, in their eyes. Fight for what you believe in. Fight while there is still something to fight for. If things keep up the way they are going, there will be nothing left to fight for all to soon.
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