President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.

“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,” he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel “Qods (Jerusalem) Day” rally.

“Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that confronting Israel is a national and religious duty. A holy war.

From The New York Times:

In a speech to a pro-Palestinian rally, which also fell on the eve of the Jewish New Year, Mr. Ahmadinejad called confrontation with “the Zionist regime” a “national and religious duty,” news reports said.

Several reports quoted him as saying the Holocaust was false pretext for the establishment of Israel in 1948. “It is a lie” based on an unprovable and “mythical claim,” he was quoted as saying in the speech.

Mr. Ahmadinejad said the Israeli “regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,” Reuters reported.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel’s life has come to an end. An ultimatum.

From Breitbart:

Experts at the world’s top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

The document drafted by senior officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency is the clearest indication yet that the agency’s leaders share Washington’s views on Iran’s weapon-making capabilities.

The document says Iran has “sufficient information” to build a bomb. It says Iran is likely to “overcome problems” on developing a delivery system.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can build a nuke whenever he wants. All he needs now it to perfect his missile to deliver the nuke. Anyone want to guess where the first missile would be aimed?

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Ben Stein, a lawyer by training, and also served as a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon, has to date authored sixteen books (both novels and non-fiction efforts), and continues to write editorials and columns for a number of prominent publications. He is perhaps best known to the world at large, however, for his in-front-of-the-camera work as the dreadfully dull economics teacher in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (and his similar role as the monotonic science teacher Mr. Cantwell on the TV series The Wonder Years) and as the keenly competitive host of the Comedy Central game show Win Ben Stein’s Money.

Mr. Stein currently offers occasional commentaries for the CBS Sunday Morning news program, and the item quoted below, entitled “Confessions for the Holidays”, was delivered by Mr. Stein on that program on December 18, 2005, one week before Christmas. Here is the full version as broadcast, taken from a CBS News transcript of the program:

Here at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart. I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are.

I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I’m buying my dog biscuits. I still don’t know. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores who they are. They don’t know who Nick and Jessica are, either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they’ve broken up? Why are they so darned important?

I don’t know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I don’t care at all about Tom Cruise’s baby.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I’m a subversive? Maybe. But I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young? Hm, not so bad.

Next confession: I am a Jew and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish, and it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautifully lit-up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees.

I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are – Christmas trees. It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they’re slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. I shows that we’re all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.

It doesn’t bother me one bit that there’s a manger scene on display at a key intersection at my beach house in Malibu.

If people want a creche, fine. The menorah a few hundred yards away is fine, too. I do not like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way. Where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we used to know went to.

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How many of us are really just religious lightweights, happy to simply go to church every Sunday, attend church socials, knock back a drink or two every Christmas and not worry ourselves about the deeper implications of our faith?

Given the way most of us pay any real attention to the tenets of our faith, life really wouldn’t be that different if we were to exchange one faith for another. The prayers would be different, but we would recite them just as mindlessly as we do today. The sermons would in all likelihood be exactly the same, and we’d continue to snore through them.

Sure, there are a few people here and there who take religion seriously, but they are in such a small minority that their protests can be easily ignored.

All in all, converting to Islam would be a small price to pay for an end to the killing and maiming of our sons and daughters, not to mention the billions of dollars we could put to better use than fighting this perpetual war.

So let’s do away with our religious pretenses, adopt Islam as our new faith, add a few extra holidays to our calendar, and get down to the real business at hand: pumping oil.

Under this was a poll titled “Will you convert to Islam in order to stop the terrorist threat?”. Notice that there is no option to vote ‘no’.

It has always appeared to me that the more Liberal a person is the more they feel they are “above” simple religion, that they are “too smart and cosmopolitan” for faith. So “converting” from whatever they are now to Islam would take very little effort, and therefore the author’s proposal makes some sense.

But most Conservatives not only have a strong faith but are, many times, proud of it. To renounce one’s faith, and to freely convert to another, would take great effort and strength, and an absolute reversal of many philosophies. Therefore the author’s proposal is preposterous.

No, if the Intifada comes to the US I will take up arms against radical Islam. not bow to it.

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“This is an open war launched against Hamas. All options are open, including martyrdom operations,” Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for the organisation’s armed wing, said.

What has evil Israel done to provoke such a defensive response from Hamas?

Israeli planes launched air strikes against the militant Palestinian group in Gaza.

The three aerial attacks destroyed a Hamas compound, hit a car carrying two senior commanders and a trailer used by the Islamist group, killing three people and wounding scores of others.

Israel confirmed all three air strikes.

See, just as the UN, most of Europe, most of the world media and news organizations, and practically every Arab in the world have been telling us for years, Hamas is only acting in self-defense.

Except that the UN, most of Europe, most of the world media and news organizations, and practically every Arab in the world always seem to leave out a small detail of what’s really been going on over there. You see, the reason Israel launched air strikes against the militant Palestinian group in Gaza was:

A high school in the Negev was directly hit by a Qassam rocket Thursday. Two people were lightly wounded in the attack, and several others suffered from shock.

Earlier Thursday, three Qassam rockets landed in Sderot. Another two rockets landed in open fields in the western Negev.

And those don’t even count the more than 50 rockets that have fallen on the Israeli town of Sderot in the last three days. All of the rockets came from Palestinian-controlled in Gaza, and all were fired by Palestinian terrorists.

“We have had enough. Israel will take all defensive measures to protect our citizens from these Hamas rockets,” Miri Eisin, a spokeswoman for the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said before the air strike.

An official statement released Wednesday following a security meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office said that “Israel will operate against Hamas’ Qassam launchers, their commanders and the terror perpetrators.”

Sderot is a city in the Southern District of Israel. Sderot lies a kilometer from the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada in October 2000, the city has been frequently attacked by Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants using homemade rockets known as “Qassam rockets”. Although they are very inaccurate, these attacks have resulted in a number of deaths and injuries as well as causing psychological distress among the residents. Hundreds of Qassam rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip since Israel removed all permanent Israeli presence in the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank in September 2005.

That’s right: As an overture to peace Israel volunteered to remove all permanent Israeli presence in the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank back in 2005. Hamas is showing their overture to peace by filling Gaza with crude rockets and bombarding Israeli civilian areas … including schools. And yet Hamas has the gall to call the Israeli defensive response to this bombardment “an open war launched against Hamas”?

And to make this painfully clear to those of you that were educated in America’s government schools, Israel’s defensive response was aimed as the rockets, the rocket launchers, and militant leaders. Hamas’ offensive response was aimed at innocent civilian areas. There is stark contrast in this conflict, and if you cannot see it for yourself then either you aren’t very bright or you’re just as anti-Israel as the Palestinians.

• On July 7, 2006, two Qassam rockets fired from Gaza hit the city. One of the Qassams fell in the city’s central market, wounding seven civilians. Three people were hit by shrapnel from the rocket, while four were in shock. The second rocket landed in an empty soccer field. Three of the wounded were evacuated to Barzilai Hospital.
• On November 15, 2006, Islamic Jihad and militants associated with Hamas fired fifteen Qassam rockets from Gaza into the Western Negev, eleven of which landed in Sderot, killing a 57-year old woman, Faina Sloutsker, and seriously wounding several people, among whom were a high school student.
• Recent research has found that one out of every three Sderot children suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Qassam rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza by Palestinian militants on almost a daily basis. If 89 rockets fell on your town in one month alone, and if around 300 rockets fell in your town since 2005, and if most of these rockets hit civilian population centers like schools, what would you expect your government to do? What would you expect your media to say?

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In a country where many high school students cannot even correctly identify the century in which the American Civil War was waged, at least students in Andover High School in Massachusetts may become very familiar with the historical term “ethnic cleansing,” and how the world’s most egregious example of its continued practice is, of course, found in the “Jewish privileged state” of “apartheid Israel,” to quote Ron Francis, a physics teacher at the school.

At Andover High School in Massachusetts, Ron Francis, the physics teacher is stirring up controversy once again. In the past he has paid his students to work for his anti-Israel political organization, defended the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, and joked about becoming a suicide bomber.

Now he is stirring up more attention with his latest brainwashing attempt, and getting the ACLU involved to boot. He invited the group Wheels of Justice, a pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel group to speak at the high school. Now that the school refused due to no opposing ideals being presented, the ACLU threats have appeared.

By bullying their high school into playing host and giving academic legitimacy to influence-peddlers and propagandists. Francis put himself beyond the pale of academic honesty. A high school should stick to its curriculum and its teachers should teach what they were hired to teach, not improvise lectures to fit their personal philosophical predilections. Francis is a physics teacher! He is neither trained, nor was he hired and paid by the Town of Andover to preach or teach morality, ethics, Palestinianism, or Christianity at school.

It is one think to support Francis’s freedom to express his opinions and personal agendas, restrictive and reductionist as they might be. But it is another thing entirely should he dare continue to impose on the children his breathtaking ignorance of Middle East history as fact.

The Wheels of Justice preaches a one-sided message that all the woes of the Palestinians are singularly the result of Israel’s “colonization, occupation, displacement, apartheid and the denial of the right of Palestinian refugees.”

The Wheels Of Justice believe that “one must recognize that the Israeli military occupation continues a legacy that began in 1947 with the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make room for the State of Israel.”

First, there is no Israeli military occupation. The United Nations, by a 2/3 majority, created what is known as Israel. Israel has simply defended their ancestral home – their home for the last 5,000 years. Second, there has never been any ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Rather groups like Hamas have publicly stated that they have a single desire of driving every last Jew into the sea.

There is, of course, no mention in the group’s language of the intractability of Hamas and other Palestinians in not recognizing, even now, the right or reality of Israel’s existence; the Arabs’ aggression beginning with the founding of the Jewish state; the Hamas charter which calls for a jihad against Zionism and for killing Jews; the continued Palestinian assault on Israel with Qassam rockets and suicide bombers, and the anti-Semitic teaching throughout the Arab world.

Groups such as Wheels of Justice conveniently describe themselves as human rights activists, even though they seem singularly obsessed with the failings and moral lapses of Israel — and only Israel — among all countries in the world, in many of which civil strife, actual genocide, ethnic purging, enslavement, mass murder, and totalitarianism prevail.

And yet this is the group that a high school physics teacher thinks is the best choice to visit his students? It was Francis who originally contacted the Wheels of Justice to speak at his high school’s social studies conference. Despite the impropriety of a teacher turning a school-sponsored conference into a de facto political rally, Francis has never been publicly reprimanded by the school’s administration. Just one more shining example of why you should be honored to pay income taxes.

More important in the context of exposing high school students to current events is the fundamental question about what role teachers should have, if any, in promoting personal ideology, and in exposing students to one-sided, historically inaccurate, and debatable views of difficult political issues. Why this particular issue to shove down students’ throats among all the incendiary geopolitical situations on earth? Is an agenda-driven teacher a good teacher?

The Constitution protects the right of people to express their views, no matter how reprehensible, in what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes termed the broad, public “marketplace of ideas,” but nowhere is it incumbent on any institution, and certainly not public schools, to be forced to sponsor, or provide a public platform for, the ravings of any outside individual, merely because that individual has a message he or she is eager to express. Yes, both you Liberals and Conservatives, you have a right to speak, but you have no right to be heard a distinction most cannot comprehend.

The high school administration, scared by an ACLU lawsuit, has now agreed to host the Wheels of Justice. According to a statement by the school principal, Peter Anderson, Wheels of Justice will come to Andover High for one in a series of three forums, each of which will allegedly offer varying perspective on Middle East conflicts. But something inside of me really doubts there will be true varying perspectives.

The good news, at least, is that at Andover High School, Mr. Francis teaches physics and not history. I wonder if either he or the ACLU would fight this hard to have a group from the Billy Graham Crusade organization speak to his students?

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OK, so I took a few days off from reality. I had a simple medical procedure done Monday, and I’ve been “offline” (both mentally and physically) for the last couple of days while this blog has been running on autopilot.

And I “come back to reality” to discover that, according to quite a number of people around the world, the Holocaust never happened.

Wow. At first I thought I simply had too many narcotics still running through my veins. But, alas, not so, for this is the state of world events today.

• The conference has 67 participants from 30 countries.
• Iran banned any dissenting voices from Holocaust conference by not issuing visas to them.
• Former US Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke attended Iran’s Holocaust conference.
• French writer Georges Thiel, who had been convicted of Holocaust denial (a crime) in France, attended.
• An Israeli Arab lawyer, Khaled Muhammed, was denied permission to attend the conference by Iran after the discovery of his holding Israeli citizenship.

An insane leader, leading a group of insane people, in an insane quest: welcome to modern Islam.

The goal of the conference was to discuss the reality of the Nazis’ extermination of Jews during the World War II. My question is “why?” Why is it so necessary for someone that detests Israel to hold a conference concerning something that happened to the Israelis 60 years ago?

David Duke gave a speech in which he said: “In Europe you can freely question, ridicule and deny Jesus Christ.” “The same is true for the prophet Muhammad, and nothing will happen to you. But offer a single question of the smallest part of the Holocaust and you face prison.” Actually this is not quite true. Sure, people have been mocking Christianity with impunity for generations. But by drawing a few cartoons about Muhammad you get riots and bloodshed across Europe and the Middle East. Just being accused of flushing a copy of the Quran down the toilet (even though the act never actually happened) and you get riots and bloodshed across Europe and the Middle East. Has anyone heard about Salman Rushdie and the accompanying death threats and fatwa by Islamic leader Ruhollah Khomeini (ironically the Big Boss of Iran for many years)? And don’t forget that Islam is the only faith that includes death as the punishment for leaving the faith.

But this conference is not simply to make headlines. Ahmadinejad does not recognize the 1967 borders – or any borders – for a Jewish state. He has said that the Holocaust was a myth and has called for the destruction of the State of Israel. He uses Holocaust denial to eradicate the moral basis for Israel’s existence, and even says so openly. That was the explicit explanation that the Iranian foreign minister gave for why it is necessary to discuss the “myth” of the Holocaust right now. Iran is helping make clear that the “Arab-Israeli conflict” is not about borders, settlements or refugees, but about the radical Islamist refusal to accept the right of a Jewish state to exist in any shape or form. The Iranian conference illustrates the linkage between Holocaust denial and Israel denial. But don’t be too angry at either Ahmadinejad or Iran – they simply have the courage to say and do openly what millions of other Arabs are saying and doing quietly, as well as millions of Europeans and Americans.

In 1922 a policy was ratified by a vote of the League of Nations, which gave the British a mandate over Palestine with the express purpose of creating a “Jewish national home.” The justice of this – decades before the Holocaust – became more obvious as the world came to recognize more than a dozen new Arab states at about the same time it accepted one Jewish state, Israel. While most of the new Arab states had no national historical antecedents, the Jewish state, of course, did. The capital of Israel became Jerusalem, the city that King David established as his capital some 3,000 years before, where the First and Second Temples had stood for approximately 1,000 years, and toward which Jews had prayed for 2,000 years. The point of Iran’s “study conference” is to argue that Israel is an alien colonial implant. Actually, the Jewish state could not be more indigenous to this area, and its revival represents perhaps the greatest example of restorationist justice in history.

And don’t forget that the League of Nations mentioned above was the precursor to today’s Turtle Bay joke: The United Nations. So what did UN boss Kofi Anan have to say about the conference?

[crickets chirping]

Hmmm, maybe they will issue a couple dozen tersely worded statements that will surely accomplish much. No, wait, this is a conference against Israel – the UN will therefore more likely send Iran another $1 billion in “humanitarian aid” while once again pushing Israel to completely surrender and go away.

In opening remarks, Manouchehr Mottaki said: “If the official version of the Holocaust is thrown into doubt, then the identity and nature of Israel will be thrown into doubt. If… it is proved that the Holocaust was a historical reality, then what is the reason for the Palestinians having to pay the cost of the Nazis’ crimes?”

Wow, what a win-win situation for the Islamists. (1) No Holocaust, then no reason for Israel to exist, or (2) If Holocaust, then OK but ship them out of the Arab area since they don’t belong there.

Let’s turn this around just a bit for all you cross-eyed anti-Israel Liberals here in the US: let’s create a a win-win situation for Americans. (1) No Slavery, then no reason for blacks to exist, or (2) If Slavery , then OK but ship them out of the US since they don’t belong here. See, we can have as much fun as Herr Ahmadinejad.

There are more historical documents describing the Holocaust than there are any existence of Muhammad. Hmmm, maybe Muhammad never really existed either? After all, the true reason the Holy Lands were conquered by Muslims was to liberate them from Scientology’s servants of Xenu, as commanded in the most sacred book of Dianetics, Surah 9:5.

Tony Blair, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, denounced the conference as “shocking beyond belief” Blair also said that is was “a symbol of sectarianism and hatred toward people of another religion. I mean, to go and invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust … what further evidence do you need that this regime is extreme?”

Extreme? Nah. More like business as usual in the Arab States.

UPDATE: Here’s your Extra Credit Question for the day:

Ahmadinejad said in 2006 that if the holocaust really happened “why don’t you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel,” and, “why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?”

Uh, maybe because the Jewish people didn’t originate in Europe, the United States, Canada, or Alaska, but instead originated in the very place they’re sitting today?

On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted with a 2/3 majority to partition an Arab area into a Jewish and an Arab state. Israel proclaimed itself a nation on May 14, 1948.

The Jews had already begun mass immigration into the Palestine area in the 1880’s in an effort to rid the land of swamps and malaria and prepare for the rebirth of Israel. This Jewish effort to revitalize the land attracted an equally large immigration of Arabs from neighboring areas who were drawn by employment opportunities and healthier living conditions. There was never any attempt to “rid” the area of what few Arabs there or those Arab masses that immigrated into this area along with the Jews.

The use of the term “Palestinian” for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact – and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.

“Palestine” has never been the name of a nation or state. It was a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there. In the twelve and a half centuries between the Arab conquest in the seventh century and the beginnings of the Jewish return in the 1880’s, Palestine was barren.

The current claim that Arab-Muslim “Palestinians” are “emotionally tied” to “their own plot of land in Palestine”, based upon a “consistent presence” on “Arab” land for “thousands of years”, is nothing more than myth. So this place that is today so hotly contested was, for centuries, a wasteland with few inhabitants. This area would only become “remarkable” after Jews began settling there – such is the level of hatred that Arabs have for Jews.

Therefore what really is “the innocent nation of Palestine” that Ahmadinejad mentioned?

That’s correct: it’s a political ghost created as a nothing more than a rallying cry among those that want Israel destroyed – no matter whether those people using the word “Palestine” are Arabs, or academics, or journalists, or Americans.

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Is he a threat to world peace, a God-fearing patriot, or a yokel? At home and abroad, people are asking about Iran‘s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad … Who is this man?

By Margaret Coker
Cox International Correspondent

ITEM #1: At the start of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Ahmadinejad (ah-mah-dih-nee-ZHAAD) was a civil engineering student, but he left school to become a street activist for the cause. Several former U.S. hostages have identified Ahmadinejad as one of their most fanatical interrogators after the American Embassy in Tehran was seized on Nov. 4, 1979. He has denied his involvement in the hostage-taking, but other student leaders at the time have said that Ahmadinejad was involved in planning the takeover. Iranian extremists held 52 Americans for 444 days, and U.S.-Iranian diplomatic relations have been severed ever since.

Later, Ahmadinejad became an officer in the elite Revolutionary Guards during the bloody eight-year war with Iraq, serving first in a combat role and then in intelligence during the conflict that left an estimated 300,000 dead and another 1 million wounded.

In October 2005 Ahmadinejad gave a speech that contained antagonistic statements about Israel. According to widely published translations, he agreed with a statement he attributed to Ayatollah Khomeini that the “occupying regime” had to be removed, and referred to Israel as a “disgraceful stain [on] the Islamic world” that would be eliminated.

In June, 2006 Guardian columnist and foreign correspondent Jonathan Steele cited several Farsi speakers and translators who state that the phrase in question is more accurately translated as “eliminated” or “wiped off” or “wiped away” from “the page of time” or “the pages of history”, rather than “wiped off the map”. New York Times deputy foreign editor Ethan Bronner observed that “all official translations” of the comments, including the foreign ministry and president’s office, “refer to wiping Israel away”.

Ahmadinejad repeatedly made controversial statements questioning the Holocaust, and criticized European laws against Holocaust denial. he stated that “they have invented a myth that Jews were massacred”. In an interview with Der Spiegel, he was asked, “Are you still saying that the Holocaust is just ‘a myth’?” Ahmadinejad responded, “I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.” In the same interview, he later stated, “We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not. [...] If it did not occur, then the Jews have to go back to where they came from”.

A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world — for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a “war on terror.” We are fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise. Ahmadinejad desperately desires to lead the Arab world in this jihad.

ITEM #2: The origin of the Jews is traditionally dated to around 1800 BCE with the biblical account of the birth of Judaism. Judaism is the first recorded monotheistic faith and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. Their Hebrew Bible is an account of the Israelites’ relationship with God as reflected in their history from the beginning of time until the building of the Second Temple.

Jews trace their religious lineage to the biblical patriarch Abraham, who established a covenant with God and moved to Canaan with his followers around 1800 BCE according to the Bible, through Isaac and Jacob, and they consider Abraham to be the starter of Judaism.

The Jews have always had a special relationship with God. For a very long time the Jews have been considered to be God’s Chosen People.

ITEM #3: Now that I’ve posted facts about both the man and his words, let’s return to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline of the day: “Is he a threat to world peace, a God-fearing patriot, or a yokel?”

If Jews are chosen by God, and if Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, then how can one ask if Ahmadinejad is God-fearing?

Also, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group is the very definition of genocide. So how can someone be considered God-fearing if they espouse genocide?

With this in mind how in the world can a serious journalist even ask the question “Is he a God-fearing patriot”? How can those words be printed in bold on the cover of a major US newspaper for millions to see? Forget rhetorical – this was offensive.

Ahmadinejad, in his elusive climb to the top as the Voice Of All Things Arab and succeeding where Saddam failed, is stoking the anti-Semitic furnaces found in both the streets of the Middle East as well as the pages of the Quran. The Middle East, once the Cradle Of Civilization, is now relegated to Third World status – and who better to blame for this than Those Evil Jews™. And who better than our own Liberal Media to carry his torch?

Ahmadinejad and the Liberal Media: the only marriage consecrated in Hell.

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Sometimes, when for the last 4000 years all your neighbors have unchangingly and invariably tried to kill you, it’s fun just to take a break from the battlefield and buy a Coca-Cola.

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WILLisms should be a daily read of everyone in the blogosphere. Sometimes they get a bit deep and geeky but it’s only because that get in-depth in their articles and back everything up with facts and data. If you detest taxes, and if you realize that Social Security is one big Ponzi scheme for which you will never received the monies you paid in, then WILLisms is for you.

Jay Tea over at WILLisms posts this gem on the current conflict in the Middle East:

I have written at length about the [Geneva] Conventions, and how they are no longer relevant to the situation in the world today. I still stand by those criticisms, but they are of the Conventions’ current application and interpretation. I harken back to the basic precepts of the Conventions, and one principle in particular:

It is the obligation of the combatant to protect the innocent from harm. [emphasis mine]

This is being applied to Israel to denounce their strikes, but there is a further application. It is the duty of the combatant to protect the innocent by absenting themselves from civilians. To get away and stay away from those who are not actively involved in the fighting.

The Geneva Convention is explicit on this matter: civilians are never to be used as human shields. To willingly endanger civilians thusly is explicitly forbidden, and the responsibility for any casualties is solely upon those who seek such shelter — and not upon their enemy who fires the fatal shots.

He goes on to describe how if organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Palestine Authority were granted “state” status as far as the Conventions go then they could be held accountable to such Conventions and accountable to higher international standards. No one ever applies the Geneva Convention to Islamofascists. Why?

I disagree with granting such status because it will accomplish nothing within the international community. So what if Hamas and Hezbollah were convicted of the war crime of intentionally targetting innocent civilians? Would France suddenly grow a spine if al Qaeda detonated a dirty nuke in a US city? Would Russia be shown to be complacent in supplying arms to “soldiers” that hide behind UN observers and old women while firing unguided missiles into shopping centers?

NO.

They don’t “play by the rules” now, and signing an out-of-date document is going to make absolutely no difference to them. Nevertheless I do agree that tt is the obligation of the combatant to protect the innocent from harm – that is both legal and moral, and is a delineation of civilized versus barbaric.

The rest of the world (including large sections of the US) are just too “Jew-angry” to care. To them Israel can do nothing good, and even with the mountains of data showing these militant Islamists to be nothing more than godless thugs way too many people, people that would sit on international tribunals, would appease and excuse, making a mockery of supposed “holy” Conventions. A great idea, Jay Tea, but I have no hope it would actually work – and it makes me sad.

I have a better idea:

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From a Kos “diary” by Hanyost entitled “Why the US can impose a one-state solution on Israel-Palestine” [editor's note: I do not link to Kos; I will not drive traffic to them. You find it on your own.]

In my diary of yesterday, I proposed that our party support the creation of a single secular democracy in the area now controlled by Israel, and I was impressed by the quality of responses. Based on this tiny sample of 100 or so Democrats, I’m thinking that maybe the average Democratic voter might be open to taking a more impartial role in the Middle East – and thus making our country less of an object of hatred by Muslims everywhere.

The most common objections to such a proposal is that the two sides hate each other too much to stop the killing and that outside forces, like the USA, cannot impose a solution.

However, I think that the US, as the prime, and virtually the only, supplier for the Israeli Defense Force for the past many decades has the capacity to force a settlement simply by cutting off that support.

What I am proposing for discussion is that our party break with this decades-old policy and formally announce that we will no longer provide any military aid to Israel so long as that government refuses to work toward the one-state solution which I proposed in a previous blog. Even a return to the pre-1967 borders would not be sufficient, since that still allows Israel to keep the indigenous peoples of the area in subjection.

As to the much reviled Syria and Iran, we should make it clear that they are no real threat to Israel, since the whole world knows that Israel possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.

In summary:

- “Create” a singular secular state, neither Israel nor Palestine, out of what is now referred to as Israel.
- “Force” this option by withholding support of Israel’s defense.
- Don’t worry about Syria or Iran because they’re not real threats.

And yet the Jews overwhelmingly vote year after year for Liberal Democrats. That’s like hiring your sworn enemy to be your healthcare provider and wondering why you’re suddenly feeling ill.

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