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Thursday, July 31, 2008

WAS THE MUCH TOUTED ISRAELI AIR RAID ON THE ALLEGED "SYRIAN NUCLEAR SITE" THE MANIFESTATION OF AN OLMERT HOAX?

There is only one lauded "success" in the entire history of the Olmert legacy: the annihilation of an alleged Syrian nuclear facility. This event recalled former Israeli glories in that it represented a daring, pre-emptive strike against an alleged nuclear threat and did so under the noses of Russian radar and Russian missile defense systems.

The alleged success of this air raid stands out in stark contrast to the great failures and disasters Israel has suffered ever since KADIMA took power. Here is a partial list of those failures and disasters:

* The unilateral GAZA surrender set an ugly historical precedent for ethnic cleansing in which Israel ethnically cleansed itself from GAZA.

* The GAZA surrender split Israel apart and demoralized Israel, as well as caused untold suffering to the Arabs living in Gaza, undermined Israeli sovereignty and security, undermined Israeli and Arab economics, destabilized Arab relations, led to the incessant daily missile firings terrorizing Sderot for years, and led to the captures of Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev (may they rest in peace) and Gilad Shalit (may he be returned home safely) and the disastrous 2005 Lebanon War.

* The 2006 Cossack-like police action against the Jews of Amona was unconscionable.

* The successes of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon (under the "HECHSHER" of United Nations Security Forces) as they consolidate power with Syrian, Iranian, and Russian assistance "feather" Olmert's cap.

* There have been increases in bold terrorist actions against Israel, tunnelling infrastructures and advanced weapons smuggling throughout Gaza.

* There have been political and propaganda advances by the Arabs and their supporters towards chopping Israel into smaller pieces (talks already are aimed at extorting Israel to make certain "hard choices": surrender the strategic Shaba Farms to Syria, Lebanon, or to the U.N.; surrender the Golan to Syria; surrender Judea-Samaria to Fatah or to Jordan; surrender East Jerusalem to Fatah or Jordan or even to Hamas; surrender the southern border crossings to Hamas so that Hamas may overrun Israel).

* One project that deserves special note is the Red Sea - Dead Sea Canal Project the French have piloted (and pledged serious money towards building) jointly with Israel, Jordan, and with the Palestinian Arabs to create a corridor along the Dead Sea geological fault that will provide a channel on the Jordanian side of the Fault to replenish the Dead Sea with sea water from the Red Sea, to build a highway and a railway connecting Gaza with Jordan and with Judea-Samaria, and to build cities and hotels and tourist facilities along the way. This smacks of an expensive plan to build the Arabian equivalent of a "Security Fence" surrounding Israel.

* The Israeli poor have suffered greatly during the Olmert tenure, and corruption has flourished to unprecedented levels including the drive-by daytime murder of an innocent civilian on an Israeli beach this week (collateral damage of a botched mafia hit).

My point in bringing out the most salient failures and disasters occurring to Israel under Olmert's Watch as Premier is that the succession of failures calls into question the credibility of the aerial attack against the alleged Syrian nuclear threat. There is no question that both Israeli morale and Olmert's standing were bolstered -- for a short while. Yet, Israeli morale has not been high and Olmert has just today announced that he will resign in September (if he can be believed).

There is an ugly air of inevitability in the world and amongst many in Israel that sooner rather than later, Israel will lose the Shaba Farms, Golan, Judea-Samaria, and East Jerusalem to the Arabs, and that it is not a question of who will make the deal as it is a question of when the deal will be made. Looking to Kadima, Labor, Likud, or any other Party or movement to defy this sense of fatalism successfully at the ballot box and in the arena of international opinion has been stultifying.

IT IS MY CONJECTURE THAT THE ISRAELI AIR RAID ON THE ALLEGED SYRIAN NUCLEAR FACILITY WAS NOTHING BUT A PROPAGANDA STUNT OF SMOKE AND MIRRORS DESIGNED TO MAKE OLMERT LOOK LIKE THE WARRIOR HE IS NOT, TO CREATE A FALSE PERSPECTIVE OF STRENGTH IN OLMERT'S LEADERSHIP, AND TO FACILITATE ADDITIONAL CAPITULATIONS TO THE SYRIANS, THE LEBANESE, HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS, AND FATAH.

IT IS MY CONJECTURE THAT ISRAEL BOMBED NOTHING MORE THAN AN EMPTY WAREHOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF SYRIAN NOWHERE -- A "PEACENIKS'S DREAM" -- TRICK THE WARRIORS INTO THINKING THAT APPEASERS ACTUALLY WAGED PRECISE, SUCCESSFUL, SURGICAL WARFARE, EVEN ON THE HEELS OF THE 2005 DISASTER OF THE LEBANON WAR; AND, MAKE POLITICAL MONEY IN THE PROCESS BY EXPENDING EXPENSIVE WEAPONRY THAT MUST NEEDS BE REPLACED, WITHOUT ACTUALLY KILLING ANY ENEMIES OR DESTROYING ANY ENEMY RESOURCES OF VALUE.

IT IS AS IF OLMERT HAD CALLED UP ASSAD AND SAID TO HIM, "LISTEN, BASHAR, I HAVE A GREAT IDEA; NO ONE HAS TO GET HURT AND WE CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AND MAYBE EVEN WIN NOBEL PRIZES; YOU WILL LOOK SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED IN THE MEDIA FOR A SHORT WHILE; BUT, IT WILL ALL WORK OUT AND THEN YOU WILL LOOK VERY GOOD. INTERESTED? TELL ME, DO YOU NEED A LITTLE DEMOLITION WORK DONE, THAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU FROM THE AIR AT NO CHARGE TO YOU? WE'LL GIVE OUR FLY BOYS A LITTLE EXERCISE, TARGET PRACTICE IN SYRIA, IF YOU WILL; WE'LL LEVEL WHATEVER SITE NEEDS LEVELING WITH A FEW WELL PLACED BOMBS, WE'LL INFLATE THE FACTS IN THE MEDIA TO SUGGEST THAT WE TOOK OUT A SECRET SYRIAN NUCLEAR FACILITY THAT WAS IN THE MAKING, ISRAELI'S WILL FEEL SO GOOD THAT THEY'LL BE READY TO GIVE YOU BACK THE GOLAN...."

Thursday, July 24, 2008

IS BARRAK HUSSEIN OBAMA TOO GLIB , TOO PLAGIARISTIC, AND TOO DANGEROUS?

In Deutschland today Barrak Obama made a platitudinous speech drawing on the respective liturgies of Martin Luther King and Ronald Wilson Reagan, melding idealistic aspects of King's famous "I have a dream..." speech with Reagan's "Tear down these walls..." speech. Even as a metaphor, Obama's words about "tearing down of walls between peoples", including for example between Muslims and Jews, sent forboding chills up and down my spine, as I immediately thought of Barak Hussein Obama, sitting in the White House, pressuring Israel to tear down Israel's Security Fence, ushering in a new era of terror to the Holy Land.

Obama's speech-making in Europe ensues his week in Israel, where he visited with Israeli leaders and with Arab leaders, where he visited the Western Wall and Yad Vashem and Gaza, and where he of course did some speech-making. [If Obama visited in the Dome of the Rock, the press did not broadcast it loudly or ubiquitously.]

As Obama drew into his own speech-making from such illustrious sources as Reagen and King, we must ask two questions: 'Would either Ronald Reagan or Martin Luther King call for Israel to tear down the Security Fence? Would either Ronald Reagan or Martin Luther King analogize Israel's Security Fence to East Germany's Berlin Wall [even by inference]?'

Both Ronald Reagan and Martin Luther King would roll over in their respective graves, should anyone presume that they would answer those two questions in the affirmative!

Martin Luther King vociferously declared that those claiming to be anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, yet not anti-Jewish were in fact blatantly anti-Israel, anti-Israeli, and anti-Jewish. Reverend King would not have failed to distinguish between Israel's Security Fence, which was successfully built to dramatically decrease acts of terror against Israelis by Arabs, and the Berlin Wall, which was built by the Soviets with the intent to isolate and ghettoize West Berlin into submission, surrender, and incorporation into Soviet occupied East Germany (West Berlin was under Allied aegis after WW2). The famous Berlin Airlift maintained the freedom of West Berlin.

Ronald Reagan, too, would have understood that there was no similarity between Israel's Security Fence and the Berlin Wall. During the 'middle game' of the Cold War, an earlier American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, spoke famously in Germany, saying, "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ("I am a Berlin resident!"); years later President Reagan was able to challenge the Soviet leadership into the 'end game' of the Cold War, saying at his most famous speech in West Germany, "Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down that Wall!"

President Reagan's leadership led to the demise of the Soviet Union and to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The tearing down of the Berlin Wall harbingered Germany's reunification and symbolized the demise of the Soviet Empire. Tearing down Israel's Security Fence would not reunite a divided nation; but,it would dramatically facilitate a resurgence of violence against Israelis by Arabs from the geographical territories of Judea and Samaria.

There is no analogy between the Berlin Wall and Israel's Security Fence. But, in the context of Obama's visits to Israel and Gaza and then on to speech-making in Europe, one has to wonder, if Obama does not in fact falsely analogize Israel's Security Fence to the Berlin Wall. Setting aside the Obama glibness and his tendency to build up his own image by quoting truly great men [a form of 'name dropping' by which to gain favor by association with great men], the World must ask Obama, whether or not he is calling for the destruction of Israel's Security Fence. Unlike John McCain, who does not speak enigmatically and who speaks clearly and simply, Barrak Obama is given to puffery, ambiguity, and floweriness of speech; he does not like to be pinned down to specific views, to definite statements, to policy committments.

Yet, Obama is not without a record.... just go to "Google" and search "Obama, Israel Security Fence"; this one issue leads to many issues. As President, Barrak Hussein Obama is likely to be glibly dangerous to Israel, to Arabia, to Persia, to the USA, and to the World.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

BONES, DRONES, DOMES, ROCKS, MISSILES, AND DRAMATIC BREAKTHROUGH OF ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE (SATIRE)

NEWS: And so the bones of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser have been returned home to Israel, even as the bones of 200 Hezbollah/Lebanese are being returned to their homes for final rest, and a new round of wars can commence, once Gilad Shallit is returned home in one piece (happy, healthy, and alive?) to Israel from his captivity in Gaza by Hamas, may it be soon! Of course to make the deal for the dead with Hezbollah, Israel returned Samir Kuntar and four other Hezbollah terrorists alive and well to their homes. (The more things change, the more things stay the same....)

NUUUZZ: More miraculous is the Saudi sponsored "Religious Tolerance Conference" decision to build replicas of the Beth-HaMikdash and St. Peters Cathedral alongside the Kaba in Mecca and to invite viable communities of Jews and Catholics to move to Mecca and become full, equal Saudi Arabian citizens and to worship according to the Jewish and Catholic faiths in their respective new worship houses. In keeping with this extraordinary new initiative by the Arabs -- in particular by the Muslim Brotherhood with the full support of all the Muslim nations worldwide -- every capitol and major city in the Muslim world will do the same, inviting Jews they had expelled half a century ago to return, and setting up a compensation fund to make up for the hardship caused to these Jewish refugees, and committing to cease the present persecutions of Jews and Christians and Hindus and Buddhists, etc., to cease burning the holy texts of non-Muslims, and to allow the teaching and proselytization of other religions in accordance with democratic principles. Construction is to commence on 17 Tammuz this year and to conclude on 9AV next year (bli-neder).

Drone aircraft operated by the Allied Coalition Forces confirm that even in Iran all of these construction activities that indicate huge supply depots of anything and everything could well be intended for the Holy Construction Project.

Nu??

(And long may the Dome of the Rock look out in peace and harmony over all Israel....)

Monday, July 14, 2008

AS THE "THREE WEEKS" COMMENCE ....

As the "Three Weeks" commence upon Israel this coming Motzeh Shabbath, what can be said of the imminent prisoner exchanges with Hezbollah and Lebanon? That the hearts of Israel will be broken with tears of "closure", as the bones of soldiers are laid to rest in the Israeli homeland? And three weeks later will there be the rending of garments in joy, Gilad Shallit having been returned whole, healthy, and safely to his family, his home, and his country (even by Hamas)? Shall there be comfort in Menachem Av such that in Elul there will be reconciliations leading to Shalom v'Ahavas within Israel? Will there be a true peace between Israel and it's enemies? Or will these coming Three Weeks be laced with incomprehensible, evil, deadly "surprises"? Will the World press Israel into the "peace" of humiliation, territorial surrender, and even more advanced corruptions? When Israel blows the Shofar on Rosh HaShannah, what will The Holy One, Blessed Be HE, Write at the "Head of the Year"? Whom will HE inscribe in HIS Book of LIfe? How will HE Seal HIS Book on Yom Kippur?

Friday, July 11, 2008

IMMINIENT " PRISONER" EXCHANGES, FALSE IDEAS OF PEACE WITH SYRIA AND LEBANON, AND A CONSIDERATION OF STRATEGY WITH RESPECT TO IRAN'S NUCLEAR THREAT.

BONES AND BLOOD

There can be no doubt of the value of the prisoner exchange with Hezbollah that will return the bones of dead Israeli soldiers to Israel and to Lebanon. Even the handful of live enemies returned to Lebanon including Samir Kuntar do not mitigate the psychological and emotional need for closure with respect to the dead in both Israel and Lebanon. We may hope and pray that a successful exchange of bones and blood with Hezbollah will quickly inspire some good will in Gaza, despite the more immediately urgent strife and tension there. Perhaps in the workings of HaKadosh BaruchHu, the return of Samir Kuntar alive to Lebanon will result in the return of Gilad Shalit alive to Israel from Gaza. May it be so, and soon, and we may say, "AMEN".

HAR DOV (SHEBA FARMS), GOLAN - AND SINAI AND GAZA

Two articles in the July 12 issue of the Jerusalem Post address peace prospects with Syria and Lebanon and speak specifically to the return by Israel of Mount Dov (Shaba Farms) and the Golan, speaking even to the possibility of a promise of a warmer peace from Syria towards Israel (by return of the Golan) than the cold peace Israel has with Jordan and Egypt. Har Dov might conceivably be turned over to the United Nations according to a Plan conceived by the French. According to Nicholas Sarkozy, President of France, the UN would be Caretaker to this parcel until Lebanon and Syria settle their ownership dispute. Israel won this parcel from Syria during the famous Six-Day War of 1967, just as Israel won the Golan then in some of the bloodiest of necessary war. It is suggested that in following the French Plan Israel would send a positive signal to both Lebanon and Syria.

(Setting aside issues such as current Israeli settlements on Har Dov, whether or not it is Syria or Lebanon from whom Israel won Har Dov, how safe Israelis would be there if the UN became Caretaker, how quickly Hezbollah would infiltrate Har Dov....)

(Setting aside the ludicrous suggestion of warm peace with Syria overnight or anytime soon....)

The question must be asked, "When it comes to "land for peace", why is it that Israel, the perennial victim of Arab and Muslim aggression, must return parcels of land -- land that once belonged to Ancient Israel itself -- land won in our time in defensive warfare -- in order for a semblance of peace, warm, cold, or otherwise? When Israel returned the entirety of Sinai to Egypt, Israel won a cold peace with Egypt and set a precedent that Arabs and indeed Any Nation can wage war on Israel and expect no tangible consequences. This is the basis on which the lopsided, one-sided "land for peace" policy has dogged Israel for decades -- decades of decadence, violence, loss of face, loss of faith, loss of trust, and deep corruption. There is no greater example of this than the unilateral withdrawl from Gaza, which devastated the Jewish residents of Gaza, which set an additional precedent that ethnic cleansing against Jews is acceptable realpolitik, and which has led to incessant Intifada in Gaza and Judea-Samaria.

If Israel's enemies want a real and a warm peace with Israel, it is their turn to offer their land for true peace! If a precedent is necessary here, then let Egypt show the way by selling or even gifting ten percent of the Sinai to Israel! Let Syria offer to sell or gift the Golan to Israel! Let Syria and Lebanon together "settle" their own dispute over Har Dov by together either selling or gifting Har Dov to Israel! And this should not be perceived as a remarkable suggestion! If there is anything remarkable at all, it is the blinded eyes by which the World has brought so many, even in Israel, to find Israel to be at fault, Israel as Occupier, and Israel as Agressor -- all this, when History proclaims exactly that it is Israel that has fought again and again and again defensively for it's very life! That Israel transformed from Victim to Victor does not change the reality Israel fought defensively against massive aggression seeking to annihilate Israeli life from the face of the Earth. Nor does reasonable assertion of Victory by Israel make Israel the source of wrongdoing. Lebanon and Syria waged multiple wars on Israel, seeking Israel's destruction -- and they lost! Israeli victory was contingent on taking and holding specific strategic parcels of enemy territory, and there is no reason that any enemy should even have the chutzpah to think that such territory be returned! If Israel's "friends" favor such territorial returns, then Israel should question their alleged friendships! If Israelis favor that these strategic parcels be returned to Lebanon and Syria, then the drunken self-absorpiton of these Israeli's is no excuse for Israel itself to surrender!

IRAN'S NUKES: TO BOMB IRAN, OR NOT TO BOMB IRAN -- IS THAT THE QUESTION?

In another story in the July 12 Jerusalem Post it is pointed out that the video footage and photographs of this week's Iranian missle launching exercise were doctored, using "photoshop" or some such similar computer method, just as similar doctoring techniques were used by Hesbollah and Hamas to distort events within the past several years, such as the falsification of the reality of an Israeli aerial bombing in Beirut during the 2006 Lebanon War and such as the hoax at Netzarim Junction in Gaza in September of 2000, when the shooting death (allegedly by Israeli soldiers) of an Arab boy in the arms of his father proved in fact to be a fake and a fraud.

Despite Iran's military advancements, it is not yet likely that Iran is the threat it boasts itself to be. This cannot be taken for granted; but, it is the likely reality. One is reminded of the Israeli tactic during the 1947-48 War of Independence to bomb the Arab troops with empty coca-cola bottles from the handful of Piper Cub aircraft that made up the Israeli Air Force at that time of Israel's inception. It seems Israel's enemies have learned this tactic and has used it with extraordinary result in the media.

Not that real missiles equate to empty coca-cola bottles -- except to the extent that their capabilities are exaggerated and cause over-reaction of one kind or another, be that over-reaction fear and withdrawl, or fear and engagement.

It is inevitable that many Arab countries will have nuclear capabilities in the next decade or two. European nations, especially France, are already engaging with Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan to build nuclear reactors for the production of electrical power. We know Russia is behind the Iranian nuclear effort, which is the superpower thorn in the side of bringing about a regime change in Iran. And this is the truth of it! It is inevitable that, sooner or later, Iran will have a nuclear power capability. For that matter it is not at all unlikely that sooner or later Iraq will also have a nuclear power capability, either under American aegis or under European aegis.

So the Iran question really boils down to the need for regime change in Iran that will cease military nuclear objectives, and to the need for this regime change to occur quickly enough so that the nuclear capability and the missile capability are not sufficiently refined to be a real threat to the Middle East Region. This means Russia must be dealt with one way or another, not merely Iran....