A.I.S.H. is against the uprooting of Jews from the Land
Carter Debunked
Asia Times' acerbic columnist Spengler has slammed former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter over his latest book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid".
From www.israelnationalnews.com
Long, but very worthwhile.
In a scathing column titled "Heart of Dorkiness," Spengler raises
numerous issues about how the Georgia peanut farmer has misunderstood
the complexities of the Arab-Israeli because of his perspective stemming
from the U.S. Civil War and the defeat of the Confederacy.
Calling Carter "the most egregious dork in US politics," Spengler
eviscerates him.
"Jimmy Carter's timing is dorky, as always. The same sanctimonious
ineptitude that made him the least successful president in US history
prompted him to wager the remains of his reputation on advocacy for the
Palestinians, precisely when the Palestinians have shown themselves to
be their own worst enemies. Carter's obsession with justice in Palestine
has the same source as George W Bush's obsession with democracy in Iraq:
horror in the face of the alternative has overwhelmed their better
judgment."
Joel
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The Gathering Storm: N. Ragen on AFSI
From AFSI.org:
The Gathering Storm
Naomi Ragen
As I sit in my little study in Jerusalem, overlooking the rolling hills where David once fought Goliath, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness as day after day the news gets worse and worse. There is a line from I, Claudius, the mini-series on ancient Rome based on Robert Graves’ wonderful book, that keeps going through my head. It is spoken by Claudius, the reluctant emperor who wishes to bring back the Republic and end the corrupt monarchy. He says: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out."
What Claudius means is, let the horrors brought about by perversions and lies and corruption come to fruition, so that people will clearly see what a state their world is in, and work for change.
We are definitely in the mud. Israeli leadership is the most incompetent and corrupt in her history. Everyone from our Prime Minister to our president is under investigation for everything from bribe-taking to rape. After all the bitter lessons of the fake Oslo Accords, that had our children dying in the streets, we have learned nothing, as Olmert goes once again to the Americans with yet another deadly plan to give our enemies more land, and with it, more opportunity, to kill us.
WND: How Israel Causes Mideast Conflict
In the past I have defended the Jewish state from this charge. I have made the case that, if anything, Israel has bent over backward to make peace. But in doing so, could Israel actually be making things worse?
I believe so. The truth is that Israel has compromised too much. It has not retaliated strongly enough. And its Arab population is the freest in the Arab world.
Ironically, I'm not the only one who believes this. Israel's most ardent adversaries – the very people who want to destroy the Jewish state at any cost – agree with me. And I can prove it to you.
WSJ: Kofi and the kidnapped Israeli soldiers
Hostage Crisis
What is Kofi Annan doing for the kidnapped Israeli soldiers?
BY JUDEA PEARL AND RUTH PEARL
Monday, August 28, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
As the parents of Daniel Pearl, The Wall Street Journal's reporter who was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Pakistan in 2002, we share the anguish of the families of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers, and their frustration with the international community for failing to secure the release of their loved ones. For more than six weeks now, these soldiers and their families live each day tortured by unimaginable fears and shattered hopes, praying desperately for the nightmare to end; we relive this nightmare each time an innocent person falls victim to the inhumanity of terrorist abduction.
Whatever success the U.N. Security Council would presume to claim, it cannot be said that Resolution 1701 has effectively addressed the direct cause of the fighting--the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser, 31, and Eldad Regev, 26, by Hezbollah, and the earlier abduction of Gilad Shalit, 19, by Hamas. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call for the unconditional release of these soldiers has been ignored. Moreover, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, the terrorists have not only seized the soldiers as hostages for political blackmail, they have not allowed the Red Cross to visit them. Their families do not know their physical condition; they have no proof they are even alive.
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FrontPage magazine.com :: A Spirit of Absolute Folly by Ari Shavit
A Spirit of Absolute Folly
By Ari Shavit
Haaretz.com | August 16, 2006
In the difficult summer of 2006, the State of Israel is declaring in astonishment: They surprised us. They surprised us in a big way. They surprised us with Katyushas and they surprised us with the Al-Fajr rockets and they surprised us with the Zelzal missiles. They surprised us with anti-tank missiles. And they surprised us with the operational skill of the anti-tank squads. They surprised us with the bunkers and the camouflage. They surprised us with the command and monitoring. They surprised us with strategy, fighting ability and a fighting spirit. They surprised us with the astonishing power that a small death-army with low technology and high religious motivation can have.
However, more than they surprised us in Summer 2006 with the strength of Hezbollah, they surprised us this summer with our own weakness. They surprised us with ourselves. They surprised us with the low level of national leadership. They surprised us with scandalous strategic bumbling. They surprised us with the lack of vision, lack of creativity and lack of determination on the part of the senior military command. They surprised us with faulty intelligence and a delusionary logistical network and improper preparedness for war. They surprised us with the fact that the Israeli war machine is not what it once was. While we were celebrating it became rusty.
FrontPage magazine.com :: A Spirit of Absolute Folly by Ari Shavit.
JWR: The Convert
The Convert
By Cal Thomas
During the Cold War, American intelligence loved getting its
hands on defectors from communism. The reasoning was that
these people had the best information about the plans of the
other side, information that would help America defeat them.
In the present war against what President Bush has properly
labeled "Islamic fascism," defectors are just as valuable.
Glick re UN 1701: An unmitigated disaster
The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST
Aug. 13, 2006
There is a good reason that Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between his jihad army and the State of Israel.
The resolution represents a near-total victory for Hizbollah and its state sponsors Iran and Syria, and an unprecedented defeat for Israel and its ally the United States. This fact is evident both in the text of the resolution and in the very fact that the US decided to sponsor a cease-fire resolution before Israel had dismantled or seriously degraded Hezbollah's military capabilities.
Movie about the falsified news photos
If you haven't heard yet, Reuter's, The New York Times, and AP have been caught falsifying photos of Lebanon to make Israel look bad. See a short film here.
The simple truth
From my friend Bernardo Scheinkman:
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel's part for whatever reason, the following two sentences really say it all:
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.
If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.
650 French Jews immigrate to Israel in one day
Despite the Re-Engagement War, 650 French Jews arrived on Aliyah (immigrating to Israel) Tuesday - the largest number to arrive in a single day since 1971.