I can go with that; ugly, corrupt, a liar, a muslim!
"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."Saturday, November 13, 2010
OBAMA IS TOAST
Muslim extremist Jalal Ahmed who yelled abuse at British soldiers back from Iraq is a baggage handler at Luton Airport
This man has been able to move around the security side of a British airport. This is not his first demo for these ugly racist supremacists. There have been many. This individual is no doubt well-known to the police.
But now his face is on the front page of a mainsteam media site, someone is acting. But not the police.
No doubt they enjoy the kickings they get from their islamo-commie student thugs too much!
MY WILLFUL "CULTURAL" BLINDESS - and the myth of the "global village"
I have never read a Harry Potter novel - or seen one Harry Potter Movie.
I have never seen a compete Seinfeld episode.
I have never heard a complete Elvis Costello song - or one by the Dave Matthews Band.
I have never watched an episode of Survivor, Amazing Race, Dancing with the Stars, or that remodeling show - whatever it's called. Or any "reality" TV show.
I have never watched a complete Olbermann show or Maddow Show or Ed Schultz Show.
I have never purchased a NEWSWEEK and though I may have bought one or two copies of TIME, haven't even touched one in over 15 years.
I don't own an IPOD or any APPLE product.
I haven't seen a complete SOPRANOS show either, come to think of it.
MY POINT?!
Many products the media elite hold up as essential, products that they chatter about each day are unknown or ignored by more people than not.
The average I LOVE LUCY episode had more viewers than the MOST watched SEINFELD episode.
The "culture" pushed by the mass media elites has never ever been less consumed.
What's interesting to me is that even though the media is more splintered than ever, the media elite still behave as if 90% of America listens to them, watches them and cares about them.
It just ain't so anymore.
More people bought tickets for GONE WITH THE WIND than that Cameron 3D anti-free enterprise commie eco-nutsie thing with blue creatures - which I didn't see --- nor care to see.
There is no Cronkite, no Lucille Ball, no Johnny Carson on TV. NO HOWDY DOODY.
There is no "global village" - not anymore.
The Internet and the vestigial leftiness of the media elites killed it.
More people may watch FOX than the other cable news outlets combined, but still: fewer watch FOX than watched Huntley and Brinkley.
This fragmentation - of media and culture - is one reason some parts of our political culture are fragmenting: the two big parties - like the media elites - no longer have a strangle hold on the attention of the public.
Hence the emergence of the citizen journalist and citizen politician and the end of the professional journalist and the professional politician.
To maintain power, the "pro's" need a media that can DICTATE the story of the day and the party lines.
The people need no such thing: the Tea Party movement proves that people's movements can swarm and coalesce within the new media, even a fragmented media because what unites these movements are transcendent values which forge new connection between otherwise disparate persons.
We don't live in a global village; we live in a world with the potential for a virtual issue-oriented and value-oriented coalitions of great and ever-burgeoning magnitudes.
And because of this, the potential for true human liberation has never been greater.
Statists, elitists, China, al Qaeda - tyrants & tyrannies of all forms - have never ever been more threatened than they are now.
They can't dictate the official narrative anymore.
We the people can vet them as never before. And ignore them.
They can push Harry Potter and AGW and Obama and deride FOX and teabaggers and Sarah Palin all they want.
It doesn't work anymore. It can't.
They're too easy to turn off, and it's too easy for us to unite.
Thank G-d.
I have never seen a compete Seinfeld episode.
I have never heard a complete Elvis Costello song - or one by the Dave Matthews Band.
I have never watched an episode of Survivor, Amazing Race, Dancing with the Stars, or that remodeling show - whatever it's called. Or any "reality" TV show.
I have never watched a complete Olbermann show or Maddow Show or Ed Schultz Show.
I have never purchased a NEWSWEEK and though I may have bought one or two copies of TIME, haven't even touched one in over 15 years.
I don't own an IPOD or any APPLE product.
I haven't seen a complete SOPRANOS show either, come to think of it.
MY POINT?!
Many products the media elite hold up as essential, products that they chatter about each day are unknown or ignored by more people than not.
The average I LOVE LUCY episode had more viewers than the MOST watched SEINFELD episode.
The "culture" pushed by the mass media elites has never ever been less consumed.
What's interesting to me is that even though the media is more splintered than ever, the media elite still behave as if 90% of America listens to them, watches them and cares about them.
It just ain't so anymore.
More people bought tickets for GONE WITH THE WIND than that Cameron 3D anti-free enterprise commie eco-nutsie thing with blue creatures - which I didn't see --- nor care to see.
There is no Cronkite, no Lucille Ball, no Johnny Carson on TV. NO HOWDY DOODY.
There is no "global village" - not anymore.
The Internet and the vestigial leftiness of the media elites killed it.
More people may watch FOX than the other cable news outlets combined, but still: fewer watch FOX than watched Huntley and Brinkley.
This fragmentation - of media and culture - is one reason some parts of our political culture are fragmenting: the two big parties - like the media elites - no longer have a strangle hold on the attention of the public.
Hence the emergence of the citizen journalist and citizen politician and the end of the professional journalist and the professional politician.
To maintain power, the "pro's" need a media that can DICTATE the story of the day and the party lines.
The people need no such thing: the Tea Party movement proves that people's movements can swarm and coalesce within the new media, even a fragmented media because what unites these movements are transcendent values which forge new connection between otherwise disparate persons.
We don't live in a global village; we live in a world with the potential for a virtual issue-oriented and value-oriented coalitions of great and ever-burgeoning magnitudes.
And because of this, the potential for true human liberation has never been greater.
Statists, elitists, China, al Qaeda - tyrants & tyrannies of all forms - have never ever been more threatened than they are now.
They can't dictate the official narrative anymore.
We the people can vet them as never before. And ignore them.
They can push Harry Potter and AGW and Obama and deride FOX and teabaggers and Sarah Palin all they want.
It doesn't work anymore. It can't.
They're too easy to turn off, and it's too easy for us to unite.
Thank G-d.
London Police to allow muslim police to wear hijabs!
The London Daily News
They will NEVER enter my house! It's against my religion: no Jew-hating racists!
They will NEVER enter my house! It's against my religion: no Jew-hating racists!
THE BURSTING OF THE OBAMA BUBBLE: OBAMA BEING "BLAIRED" BY THE LEFT AND "ATTLEED" BY THE RIGHT AND "CARTERED" BY THE MIDDLE
The bursting of the Obama Bubble doesn't make Obama a centrist; it proves his administration's utter incompetence and his inexperience as a politician that he has angered the right, ANGERED AND DISAPPOINTED the left, and angered the centrist independents.
In record time.
ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT: when you use policies that have always failed - and they fail again, your popularity goes down and each group finds its own reasons to explain the failure.
BOTTOM-LINE: Only the right predicted it correctly.
In record time.
ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT: when you use policies that have always failed - and they fail again, your popularity goes down and each group finds its own reasons to explain the failure.
BOTTOM-LINE: Only the right predicted it correctly.
Friday, November 12, 2010
The idea Israel should have to act alone against Iran's nuclear warheads is shameful
As told by Mark Steyn in a recent speech covered by the Jewish Tribune in Canada:
LONDON, ON – Iran’s development of nuclear weapons is “one of the great tragedies of the age” and it would be shameful to expect Israel to act alone to stop it, said author, journalist and radio guest host Mark Steyn.How so. For all we know, Iran could be planning to launch their missiles of death against North American and Europe as well, and even against the far east, and there's no telling if even early warning systems and other defense mechanisms there will be able to stop them, and they don't think it's a problem? Steyn's right, it's very bad.
[...]
“Israel has the toughest job,” Steyn said. “The idea that the defence of the West has come down to this little county-sized state, because all the big, rich countries were not prepared to do anything, will tell our enemies something profound. So even if Israel were to bomb it, the fact that there are no Americans, no British, no French, no Germans, no Canadians along for the ride, tells our enemies something very profound about Western will.
“The ‘nuclearization’ of the Iranian regime is one of the great tragedies of the age. It’s not like the Pakistanis, where they did it in the dark; they've [Iran) done it in full, open view of the world and so they’ve told the world something about Western will. Israel is on the front line of that battle and in that sense should not have to shoulder the burden all by itself. But we have condemned Israel to live at Code Red now....
“This is the most profound change in geopolitics since the Second World War: Iranian nuclearization changes everything. And the idea that it’s an Israeli problem and not an American and Canadian one, too, is shameful.”
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Breaking News: Israelis in Sinai advised to leave immediately
From JP:
Travel warning issued by PM's office; information received suggests plans to kidnap Israelis vacationing in the area.
A travel warning was issued late Thursday by the Israeli Prime Minister's office, calling on Israelis in Sinai to leave and return to Israel straight away.
The warning quoted "reliable and current intelligence" about a kidnapping plot and called on "all Israelis in Sinai to leave immediately and return to Israel."
Citing credible intelligence, the Israeli Counter-Terror Bureau (CTB) sharpened its advisory against traveling to the Sinai Peninsula also on Thursday evening.
According to the bureau, Israeli intelligence agencies have received information regarding plans by the Army of Islam – a Palestinian terror group affiliated with al Qaida and based in the Gaza Strip – to kidnap Israelis currently vacationing in the Sinai.
Last week, the Israei Air Force – acting upon intelligence provided by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) – bombed a car in which 27-year-old Mohammed Namnam, a top operative with the Army of Islam, was sitting. According to the Shin Bet, Namnam, from the Shati refugee camp, was responsible for a number of attacks against Israel in recent years.
The CTB said on Thursday that the assassination of Namnam was part of Israeli efforts to foil the Army of Islam’s plans.
On Wednesday, Time Magazine claimed that the intelligence on Namnam was provided to Israel by Egypt whose security forces recently rounded up a number of Army of Islam operatives in the Sinai.
FRANCE DISRUPTS ISLAMO-TERROR CELL IN PARIS
BBC: Suspects held in French raids 'plotted terror attack'
NOTE: IN THE WEST, THERE HAVE BEEN MORE ATTACKS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS UNDER THE ISLAMO-APPEASING OBAMA, THAN DURING THE PREVIOUS 8 YEARS UNDER BUSH.
French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux listens as a soldier speaks at Montparnasse railway station in Paris, 10 November Mr Hortefeux was inspecting security forces on patrol in ParisBECAUSE OBAMA HAS DEGRADED OUR INTEL GATHERING, A SUCCESSFUL ATTACK IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME...
Five suspects arrested in and around Paris were French Islamists planning a terror attack, French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has said.
NOTE: IN THE WEST, THERE HAVE BEEN MORE ATTACKS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS UNDER THE ISLAMO-APPEASING OBAMA, THAN DURING THE PREVIOUS 8 YEARS UNDER BUSH.
FATAH'S AND HAMAS INTERNECINE WAR CONTINUES: Arafat memorial disrupted by Hamas
WHAT A CREW: ONE SIDE HONORS A PEDOPHILE/TERRORIST/THIEF; THE OTHER SIDE ATTACKS THEM FOR BEING WEAK:
FATAH AND HAMAS DESERVE EACH OTHER.
The Free World deserves to be free of them both!
Private screening of film about late PA chairman disrupted by Hamas police who arrest attendees, threaten to seize media equipment.
A Palestinian lawmaker on Thursday said that Hamas police broke up a private screening of a film about Yasser Arafat on the sixth anniversary of the late Palestinian Authority chairman.
Ashraf Jumma reported that police threatened to seize a screen and a VCR and arrested some of the more than two dozen attendees. Police also detained journalists, watched footage from the event and made them promise not to air it.
Hamas officials could not be reached for comment.
In the West Bank, Abbas addressed thousands of flag-waving supporters near Arafat's grave, calling for national unity.
On Monday Hamas announced its decision to ban Fatah supporters from holding a rally in the Gaza Strip to mark the anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death.
Hamas has done this every year since taking control of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007.
FATAH AND HAMAS DESERVE EACH OTHER.
The Free World deserves to be free of them both!
VETERANS DAY
Photo of soldiers in the United States Army taken in Afghanistan in 2005 and on display at our local VFW post:

These four soldiers are home now!
The sonnet below was written a few years ago by then tenth-grade homeschool student "A.M."
A Soldier’s Farewell
Belovéd, do not weep for me today,
Nor sigh on the morrow when I depart.
For though I am from thine eyes far away,
My thoughts dwell on thee as the battles start.
Death’s cold embrace might appear a relief
From this hellish battlefield’s roiling sand,
Yet then I dream my death writ on a leaf
And with renewed spirit protect my land.
I shirk not my duty to my country
And will strive to bring liberty to all;
When peace and hope shine through the night ‘round me,
Homeward shall my steps delightedly fall.
For one’s heartstrings in his own country lie
And calls him with more force than battle’s cry.
--Contributed by A.M.
More poetry, some old and some new, for this solemn day
On this Veterans Day 2010, remember to thank a veteran for his service to our nation.

These four soldiers are home now!
The sonnet below was written a few years ago by then tenth-grade homeschool student "A.M."
Belovéd, do not weep for me today,
Nor sigh on the morrow when I depart.
For though I am from thine eyes far away,
My thoughts dwell on thee as the battles start.
Death’s cold embrace might appear a relief
From this hellish battlefield’s roiling sand,
Yet then I dream my death writ on a leaf
And with renewed spirit protect my land.
I shirk not my duty to my country
And will strive to bring liberty to all;
When peace and hope shine through the night ‘round me,
Homeward shall my steps delightedly fall.
For one’s heartstrings in his own country lie
And calls him with more force than battle’s cry.
--Contributed by A.M.
More poetry, some old and some new, for this solemn day
On this Veterans Day 2010, remember to thank a veteran for his service to our nation.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
9-11 MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN COMPLETED
The New York Post reports about 2 new man-made waterfall style fountains that have been built at Ground Zero as a memorial for the victims of 9-11, and even the attack that took place before it, in 1993. It's called Reflecting Absence.
5 REASONS A PALESTINIAN STATE WILL HAUNT THE WEST
Seth Mandel at Big Peace presents at least 5 reasons why a palestinian state will only cause harm to the western world, including how it'll give Iran a bigger foothold.
"GRAPHIC NOVELIST" DIDN'T LIKE ISRAEL BEFORE, DOESN'T NOW EITHER
There's this very saddening item in recent news of an American Jew named Sarah Glidden who put together a graphic novel called "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less", and it didn't surprise me that it reeks of hostility to the Jewish state, and a weird obsession with "palestinian" Arabs. In this Haaretz article (via Newsarama) about little miss Glidden, it may say she "stopped worrying" and "started loving Israel" but if this is any suggestion:
(Notice how she doesn't mention Orthodox Judaism in her allusion to religious sects? Does that suggest she's got a problem with them, or even dislikes Hasidics?)
Here's another interview on Comics Alliance, and looking at it, it seems like she's repeatedly hinting that she wants the "palestinians" to be brought into focus (hence, her obsession), and thinks Israeli guides like Yad Vashem's are constantly leaving it out. Plus, there's this to consider:
One more telling thing is a little revelation made by the Huffington Post Monitor blog, whose blogmaster also noticed what I did about young miss Glidden believing so strongly - or obsessively - in the palestianian narrative, yet that doesn't keep commentors on Arianna's site from coughing out hate.
And what does that tell us? That Glidden, clearly a leftist, has succeeded brilliantly in brewing up a masterpiece of moral equivalence. No need to bother about this tripe then. She's got to choose one side only, research more carefully what's right or wrong, and decide whether she supports Jewish identity or not. Otherwise, I don't think she's got a leg to stand upon. And her bizarre attitude is so galling, that's one more reason why I want nothing to do with her work.
One more thing worth noting from the article in leftist Haaretz:
The author doesn't try to conceal her critical attitude toward Israel, but admits that she has developed an obsession about the country.Okay, I think this is all we need to know that she tries...and fails to convince she's really on Israel's side, and doesn't buy into the libel that Britain if anyone started several decades ago. The problem is that it's just so jumbled and ambiguous, like the woman can't decide where she stands. If anything, I do think she's got a problem with moral equations.
"I think there are a lot of American Jews who are similarly obsessed. Part of the reason, I think, is that if you are an American Jew, whether you are secular, Reform or Conservative, you are raised being told that Israel is your country too, and you can move there, and be a citizen, so it is a place that somehow is important to you. I always had this feeling that I have to have a relationship with Israel, and sometimes I didn't want to have this relationship, when I would hear the news and get upset, or people would be talking about Israel and I was wanting to defend it, and I would be ashamed about what the government there was doing, much in the way that I'm ashamed about the United States sometimes, when it does things I don't agree with."
When Glidden visits the Golan Heights in the book, she is shocked by the Zionist propaganda awaiting her in a visitors center there; she visits Kibbutz Degania and is angry that the stories of the pioneers' heroism ignore the Palestinian residents who were there before them; she is rescued by the skin of her teeth from the frightening crowds at the Purim parade in Holon ("Stereotype No. 142: Israelis love to push. Status: confirmed" ); and in Jaffa she is angry that the tour guide prefers to present the mixed city's history via entertaining tales, rather than by discussing difficult incidents in its past.
At the same time, however, Glidden is also surprised to discover that the Israeli guide is willing to answer tough questions too and to deal with criticism; indeed, she conducts conversations with Israelis that often surprise her. When she sees a group of soldiers up close, she is astonished to discover how young they are. And in the middle of the trip, in Tel Aviv, without advance warning, she has a sort of emotional breakdown.
"When I came here I wanted to receive confirmation of the fact that Israel is the bad guy in the story. I wanted to know that I could remove it from my life once and for all," her comic incarnation confesses in the book, under the monument built by sculptor Yigal Tumarkin in Rabin Square, to one of the Israelis accompanying the group. "But now I don't know any more. Suddenly I understand why Israel did some of the things it did. You're good people. At least some of you. Or maybe I'm simply getting brainwashed here, just as everyone warned me would happen!"
(Notice how she doesn't mention Orthodox Judaism in her allusion to religious sects? Does that suggest she's got a problem with them, or even dislikes Hasidics?)
Here's another interview on Comics Alliance, and looking at it, it seems like she's repeatedly hinting that she wants the "palestinians" to be brought into focus (hence, her obsession), and thinks Israeli guides like Yad Vashem's are constantly leaving it out. Plus, there's this to consider:
...it was incredible, but that was the strongest example of actual propaganda and, you know, like Gil says, it is actually propaganda, because it was used during the '90s when Israel was considering giving back the Golan Heights. It was a movie made to make people reconsider that and turn against that idea. It was almost like a historical document of Israel in the '90s."So she's in favor of giving it back to an enemy, Syria, with no respect for Israel? And I assume she doesn't support the Jewish bible and history either?
One more telling thing is a little revelation made by the Huffington Post Monitor blog, whose blogmaster also noticed what I did about young miss Glidden believing so strongly - or obsessively - in the palestianian narrative, yet that doesn't keep commentors on Arianna's site from coughing out hate.
And what does that tell us? That Glidden, clearly a leftist, has succeeded brilliantly in brewing up a masterpiece of moral equivalence. No need to bother about this tripe then. She's got to choose one side only, research more carefully what's right or wrong, and decide whether she supports Jewish identity or not. Otherwise, I don't think she's got a leg to stand upon. And her bizarre attitude is so galling, that's one more reason why I want nothing to do with her work.
One more thing worth noting from the article in leftist Haaretz:
"I thought there was no way DC Comics was going to be interested in someone like me. I'm a beginner; [I thought] they only publish comics about superheroes and fantasy. But I told him what it was all about and he bought a book and went away. Two days later, I got an e-mail saying that he was an editor at Vertigo publications [a division of DC specializing in comics for adults], and that they wanted to publish it. Only then did I realize that Vertigo does many things that are political. It was a dream come true."Yeah, if you're a leftist. For this is also a company that's been making its politics clearer in recent years, and it's getting disgusting. That's why it's not really surprising that they've agreed to publish such a peculiar item.
Religion of Peace Welcomes German Police -
- with stones and Nazi insults. According to the local police chief, this represents a new level of violence. Three police officers were injured badly.
Gates of Vienna: Soros Group wants Obama to be Dictator!!
Soros Group Wants Obama to Rule by Executive OrderOrganization cites mid-terms, claims progressives registered victoryNEW YORK — It was progressives who won the mid-term elections, particularly incumbents in a socialist-founded congressional caucus that emerged from last week’s ballots virtually unscathed, boasted an article published by the George Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies, a Marxist-oriented think-tank in Washington, D.C.The article recommends that President Obama govern from executive order to push through a progressive agenda.“Progressives won in the 2010 mid-term elections,” wrote Karen Dolan, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, and director of the Cities for Progress and Cities for Peace projects based at the radical organization.“The Congressional Progressive Caucus, the largest caucus in the House Democratic Caucus at over 80 members, emerged virtually unscathed, losing only three members,” she wrote, in the piece published on the IPS website[…]
She went on to recommend that progressives “throw our support unabashedly behind the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and let’s push Obama to finally do the right thing through as many Executive Orders as we can present to him.”
| — Hat tip: JD More here. |
Andrew Gilligan'sExpose of Islamist School Inspectors UK.
Andrew Gilligan has a pretty eye-opening account of the infiltration of school inspectors with links to far Right Islamist organisations into the school inspectorate. I’m not going to summarise the article – it bears reading in full.One particular case is worth a little further comment:
Among the schools directly inspected by Ofsted was the Madani Girls’ School, a private Islamic school in London’s East End.
Read the rest here.Its Ofsted report, written by Mrs Messaoudi, said it made pupils “aware of their future role as proactive young British Muslim women” and left them “well-prepared for life in a multicultural society”.However, the Madani Girls’ School’s own website openly states: “If we oppose the lifestyle of the West, then it does not seem sensible that the teachers and the system which represents that lifestyle should educate our children.”It says that under western education “our children will distance themselves from Islam until there is nothing left but their beautiful names”.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
WHICH FAMOUS ANTISEMITE IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE "INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S" FAILURE TO ACCEPT JERUSLEM AS THE UNDIVIDED CAPITOL OF ISRAEL?
JIMMY CARTER - IN 1980.
- YUP. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE.
- DHIMMI CARTER HAD THE USA ABSTAIN WHEN AN ANTISEMITIC UNSCR CALLING ISRAEL'S ANNEXATION OF EAST JERUSALEM ILLEGAL CAME UP FOR A VOTE IN AUGUST OF 1980. SO IT PASSED.
- NOW, DHIMMI'S BASTARD CHILD OBAMA HAS CONDEMNED ISRAEL'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT IT WILL BUILD ANOTHER 1300 APARTMENTS IN THE EASTERN PART OF JERUSALEM - AS IF JERUSALEM WAS A SETTLEMENT!
- ISRAEL HAS NEVER EVER PROMISED TO SUSPEND BUILDING WITHIN JERUSALEM.
- THAT FATAH AND OBAMA ARE NOW MAKING IT AN ISSUE IS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS ANTI-ISRAEL.
- OBAMA IS NOT FOR PEACE: HE'S ON THE OTHER SIDE.
- OBAMA IS MAKING THE POSSIBILITY OF A DEAL LESS LIKELY BECAUSE HE IS GIVING ABBAS AND FATAH COVER FOR THEIR INTRANSIGENCE.
- REMINDER: ARAFAT TALKED TO ISRAEL'S PM'S WHILE CONSTRUCTION WENT ON IN JERUSALEM AND THE SO-CALLED WEST BANK.
- YUP: OBAMA AND FATAH ARE NOW TAKING A HARDER LINE AGAINST ISRAEL THAN THE FILTHY MURDERER, PEDERAST AND THIEF - ARAFAT.
It is the Dutch Government's Fault!
In Holland, they refuse to set rules for muslim immigrants to abide by. They let them follow their own "culture" and then wonder why the country is in chaos and going up in flames!
They wonder why Holland is looking like Pakistan, Iraq and Judea and Samaria(otherwise known as the West Bank) Islam in Europe: Netherlands: Minister proposes ban on troublemakers, Mayor wants the all family out
SYRIA EXPLOITS TERROR FOR POLITICAL GAIN
Here's an interview with Prof. Eyal Zisser on Israeli Girl/Giyus about how Syria has been using terrorism for political gains in the middle east.
Monday, November 08, 2010
BARBARA BUSH: DUBYA WAS FIRST JEWISH PRESIDENT
Bush writes positively about the importance of the US relationship with Israel and the Jewish state’s justified concerns over its security, relating how a helicopter ride he took with Ariel Sharon, “a bull of a man,” in 1998 while he was governor of Texas made him “convinced that we had a responsibility to keep the relationship strong.”
At one point his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, even referred to him as the first “Jewish president” after his landmark speech in 2002 calling for a democratic Palestinian state run by a new leadership, i.e. not by then-president Yasser Arafat.
“Shortly after the speech, Mother called,” Bush relates. “‘How’s the first Jewish president doing?’ she asked. I had a funny feeling she disagreed with my policy. That meant Dad [former president George H.W. Bush] probably did as well.” Even so, Bush “laughed off the wisecrack,” though he knew he was in for criticism for taking a position his vice president, secretary of defense and secretary of state opposed.
BUSH WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO CALL FOR A JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL, THEN - AND LATER IN ANNAPOLIS. AT THE TIME, ABBAS ACQUIESCED; ABBAS NOW OPPOSES IT.
WHY HAS ABBAS BOW ADOPTED A HARDER LINE?
BECAUSE ABBAS HAS AN ALLY IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
ABBAS CAN'T BE EXPECTED TO BE MORE ACCOMMODATING TO ISRAEL THAN THE POTUS.
ERGO: I BLAME OBAMA.
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