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The whole world is against us, nevermind we'll overcomeRonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-16748306178794685732015-01-14T10:06:00.002-05:002015-01-14T10:07:18.313-05:00The most insensitive picture everHave you ever wondered what is the most insensitive picture ever? Well, according to the internet it's Mahmoud Abbas grinning like a jackass at the French anti-terror rally. Makes sense!<br />
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But yeah, it's official...even Google says so.<br />
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Check it out here:
<a href="http://bullyingisnottheanswer.org/bullying/insensitive-picture-ever/">http://bullyingisnottheanswer.org/bullying/insensitive-picture-ever/</a><br />
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And if you don't believe me, just type "most insensitive picture ever" into Google.
Can't say it could have happened to a better (worse) man.
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Keep grinning you asshole.RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-33527950032341561512012-03-01T21:39:00.000-05:002012-03-02T08:52:46.654-05:00Anti-Semitism on College Campuses?<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Weyb-MNPP14" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Much has been made in recent years of the distinction between "anti-Zionism" and anti-Semitism, legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and efforts to de-legitimize the state of Israel as an entity. <br /><br />These battles are raging all this week on college campuses across the United States as "Israel Apartheid" Week takes place at universities from New York to California. Many of the organizers claim they are simply calling attention to what they claim are discriminatory policies by the Israeli government and that this is a human rights issue - unmotivated by any hatred of Jews. <br /><br />They claim they have no problem with Jews, only the state of Israel as an entity.<br /><br />But lost in the recent hysteria about the NYPD's alleged religious profiling of Muslims in the New York/New Jersey area and renewed focus on "Islamophobia," was a <a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/%7b9314a74c-c58d-43ae-83f8-73a434f7d1ea%7d/2011-11_JEWISH_STUDENTS_INTERVIEW_SCHEDULENEW.PDF">survey</a> by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, that revealed a SHOCKING statistic.<br /><br />78% of Jewish undergrads have either directly experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism.<br /><br />This is on top of the <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses">annual FBI hate-crime statistic report</a> which again identified Jews as being the most targeted religious group in America - nearly 600% more hate crimes were committed against Jews than Muslims. More hate crimes were committed against Jews than Hispanics, gays and Asians.<br /><br />But statistics are not the same as real stories. So the people at <a href="http://www.jerusalemonlineu.com">JerusalemOnlineU.com</a> and <a href="http://www.stepupforisrael.com">StepUpForIsrael.com</a> reached out to students who participated in the AICE survey as well as students who were active in Israel activism on their campuses. <br /><br />This video was the result.<br /><br />Their words speak for themselves.<br /><br />This post was adapted from an article that originally appeared on <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/01/israel-apartheid-week-and-american-anti-semitism-video/">the algemeiner</a><br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=5046975347496222595&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-50469753474962225952010-11-16T23:39:00.005-05:002010-11-17T01:11:23.523-05:00Norman Finkelstein and the Holocaust Denial/Minimization Industry attacks us allThis is for Norman Finkelstein and by extension everyone who applauds him when he comes to speak on college campuses.<br /><br />I’m not here to debate his stance on <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/02/anti-zionist-anti-jewish.html">Israel and Zionism</a> – there is really only one thing that I want address within this post. My issue with Finkelstein and his supporters is nothing more than a simple number.<br /><br />No, it's not six million, as in <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nightmare.html">six million murdered Jews,</a> killed during the Holocaust – a fact that Finkelstein <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2204">casts doubt upon</a> by referring to "six million" in quotation marks. Finkelstein has also gone on record that Holocaust denier David Irving – who believes there were no gas chambers and that Auschwitz was a "tourist attraction" – is an "indispensable" historian. No, this isn’t some unbelievable fiction from George Orwell’s 1984; this is actually what this man thinks. <br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q7tupJRSi7M?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q7tupJRSi7M?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><i>Dr. F Stein in action</i></center><br /><br />Nor is the number 2,000, as in the nearly 2,000 years since Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jews were forced to flee their ancient homeland. The desire to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">return home</a> has been expressed during Jewish festivals, in Jewish prayers three times daily and in countless other customs, many centuries prior to the rise of modern Zionism. <br /><br />Finkelstein would have everyone that attend his rallies believe that the state of Israel is a modern colonial invention fueled by Holocaust guilt, rather than the truth which is the exact reverse – that the Holocaust was a disaster fueled by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">the lack</a> of an independent Jewish homeland/army.<br /><br />But no, that isn’t it either. The number I want to discuss is “43334.”<br /><br />“43334” is the tattoo my grandmother received courtesy of the real “Holocaust Industry” – that of the Nazi’s Final Solution for her, me and every other “undesirable,” whether we lived during the 1940’s or are descended from someone who did.<br /><br />Was she lying about how she got that number? Did she fake the anxiety she felt every time a dog barked because it reminded her of German Shepherds the Nazis used? Was she in on some <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/02/jewish-bankers.html">global conspiracy</a> when she was emotionally unavailable for her children?<br /><br />What about my grandfather? Did he invent stories about his first wife, infant daughter, mother, father, three of his four brothers and countless others he knew, that disappeared into the flames of Birkenau? Was he lying when he would talk about being nearly starved to death and beaten within an inch of his life? Was he plotting a Zionist conspiracy when he would often wake up in the middle of the night and jump out of bed in terror, forced back in time during yet another terrible Holocaust flashback? <br /><br />Why should survivors have to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerate</a> these efforts to de-legitimize their memories by Finkelstein, Irving and the rest of the Holocaust Denial/Minimization Industry? Whether you want to admit it to yourselves or not, de-legitimizing the survivors is precisely what Mr. Finkelstein does. <br /><br />This is what he is doing when he refers to Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel as a “clown” in the “Holocaust circus.” There is a reason why white supremacist sites like <a href="http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t684766/">Stormfront</a> and neo-Nazi darling David Duke cite Finkelstein regularly – his life’s work minimizes the suffering of survivors and actually makes it worse forcing them to live through the spectacle of seeing rooms full of college students cheering for his attacks on them.<br /><br />This isn’t an issue of questioning his right to criticize Israel – although a rational person would have to question why in order to criticize governmental policy someone would have to attack not the government but rather the historical, documented past itself. <br /><br />Or maybe it isn’t so irrational. Orwell did teach us after all that “he who controls the past, controls the future.” By “vaporizing” memories, by converting the victims of the Holocaust into “unpersons,” Finkelstein makes it easier for his fans to not deal with reality. This frees them to practice the kind of cognitive dissonance necessary for a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">"liberal"</a> American university student to support the actions of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">totalitarian</a> movements like Hamas, Hizballah and others who have sworn to erase a population of six million Jews. <br /><br />The fact that students gleefully welcome this distortion of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/living-on-thin-line-israel-and-world-in.html">history</a> as “scholarly” is a disgrace not only to the memories of Holocaust victims but also to legitimate historians everywhere. This isn’t about Zionism, it’s about preserving the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust – and respecting those who survived. <br /><br />It’s also about the stark realization that had the Nazis succeeded, I would not be here to write this post. And in this very real way, Finkelstein attacks us all.<br /><br /><i>This post was adapted from a letter to the editor at the Daily Targum</i><br /><br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=5046975347496222595&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-86390961366076686242010-10-27T17:40:00.008-04:002010-10-27T23:24:49.512-04:00Aid Flotillas: Save Haiti from a cholera outbreak, not Hamas from itselfRecently, Sean Penn was on the CNN news magazine program, AC360. Penn was on television to raise awareness for a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/26/haiti.cholera.sean.penn/index.html">cholera outbreak</a> that has rapidly been spreading across earthquake-torn Haiti. To date, over 250 Haitians have been killed and 3,100 people have been sickened by the disease.<br /><br />It is worth noting, that at this time the outbreak is still approximately 60 miles north of the capital of Port-Au-Prince – an extremely densely populated city with very poor water filtration. When cholera shows up there, the numbers of dead will skyrocket. It is also worth noting, that this kind of nightmare <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-news-tens-of-thousands-of.html">happens on a daily basis</a> with little to no reaction from people who refer to themselves as <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">"liberals"</a> or progressives. So this kind of apathy is less than surprising.<br /><br />But in Haiti we have a developing situation is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis – and it has all the makings of a humanitarian disaster.<br /><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5697/haiti1701877c.jpg" /></center><br /><br />Furthermore, as of this month, not even one cent of the United-States-pledged <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-schuller/unstable-foundations-huma_b_749924.html">$1.15 billion</a> that was supposed to help rebuild Haitian infrastructure (like water treatment plants that would prevent cholera contamination for example) has been spent.<br /><br />But you probably didn’t even know this was a problem, did you? Foreign aid news seems to be dominated by speculation on when the next <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-information-coming-to-light-about.html">Gaza flotilla</a> is going to try to force an unnecessary provocation with the Israeli Navy. Doubtless you have heard how there is a terrible “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza that needs to be solved with another dramatic confrontation with Israeli naval commandos.<br /><br />However, if you type in <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ie7&q=disease+outbreak+gaza&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ACAW_enUS367US367"><i>disease outbreak gaza</i></a> into a google search – the first response* talks about Haiti. Type in <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ie7&q=died+of+hunger+gaza&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ACAW_enUS367US367"><i>died of hunger gaza</i></a> into a google search and the second response (the first hit is a link to the tragic death of two zebras in a Gaza zoo) is a link to the following quote from June 5, 2010 - less than a week after the initial flotilla incident:<br /><blockquote><i>"There is no starvation in Gaza," said Khalil Hamada, a senior official at Hamas's ministry of justice. "No-one has died of hunger."</i></blockquote>The esteemed Mr. Hamada’s statements are indeed grounded in fact.<br /><br />With a population of 1.5 million people, Gaza receives approximately <a href="http://www.israel-palestine-conflict.com/post/The-Big-Gaza-Aid-Myth.aspx">16,000 tons of food aid</a> per month. This means that if every individual living in territory received an equal share of the food aid allocation, they would receive about 16 pounds of free food every month.<br /><br />Every single day, <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3864592,00.html">dozens of trucks that are full of foreign aid</a> (including aid that is donated by Israelis) stream across the Gaza border crossings with the full assistance of the Israeli military.<br /><br />This in itself should negate the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-states-of-confusion.html">mythical</a> need for these needlessly provocative flotillas – but let’s take a look if these numbers even make sense.<br /><br />Gaza is among the top 10 recipients of foreign food aid. Its closest neighbors in food benefits are Zimbabwe (17,000 tons of food), Somalia (19,000) and Afghanistan (19,000). On the surface this would appear to make sense since all of these places have rather serious poverty issues, right? Or worse, Gaza aid is even lagging behind! Hurry up and send another flotilla? Not so fast...<br /><br />Here are some particularly relevant population statistics on those other countries:<br /><br />Zimbabwe: 11.4 million people, Somalia: 9.8 million, Afghanistan: 28.4 million.<br /><br />Source: <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/">CIA Factbook</a><br /><br />This means that the average person living in Zimbabwe has access to less than three pounds of food per month, the average Somalian gets less than four pounds and the average Afghani must find some way to get by on a staggering 1.33 pounds of food. PER MONTH. Or to put it another way...<br /><br /><b>The average Gazan receives over 12,000% more food aid than the average Afghani.</b><br /><br />Is this fair? Is this justice? And when you think of the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/does-not-compute_15.html">scope of the tragedies</a> that take place in these countries, the injustice of the situation becomes even clearer. Lest you think that these are just arbitrary numbers that have no correlation to the actual reality on the ground, check out the average life expectancy for these countries:<br /><br />Zimbabwe: 45.8 years, Somalia: 49.6 years, Afghanistan: 44.4 years.<br /><br />What is Gaza’s life expectancy? 73.4 years. For even more contrast, the life expectancy in Haiti (even prior to the disastrous earthquake) is only 60.8 years.<br /><br />Want more contrasts? Check out some of the other countries whose life expectancies are WORSE than Gaza's:<br /><br />Thailand<br />Brazil<br />The Philippines<br />India<br />Russia<br />Fiji<br />The Bahamas<br /><br />That's right, the life expectancy in the tourist paradise of the Bahamas is 69.9 - a full three and a half years WORSE than in the "besieged" Gaza Strip.<br /><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3724/bahamasatlantis.jpg" /><br /><i>Free the Bahamas! Save Atlantis! Oh wait, it might be a little late for that...</i></center><br /><br />And how about little irony thrown into the mix? The chief antagonist against Israel and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/05/cnn-10-dead-as-israeli-forces-storm.html">organizer of these flotillas</a> has been the NATO-member and recent EU-reject - Turkey. Guess where they rank in the life expectancy game? 71.9 years.<br /><br />Well, luckily for Turkey they are better off than the hopelessly oppressed people of the Bahamas but still BELOW the elite fatcats of Gaza. Maybe the Turks should put the fire out in their own backyard before looking to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/living-on-thin-line-israel-and-world-in.html">start fires</a> elsewhere?<br /><br />Source: <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html">CIA Factbook</a><br /><br />Or at least they could look to help people that are worse off than them, like the Haitians - who as we've already established are about to deal with an imminent health catastrophe.<br /><br />To make it crystal clear: HAITI is in a state of EMERGENCY - GAZA is NOT.<br /><br />Furthermore Haiti is not currently governed by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/neighborhood-bully.html">Hamas,</a> a group that is an internationally recognized terrorist organization. Nor does the Haitian government make a habit of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html">hijacking foreign aid shipments,</a> selling them on the black market and then using the money to buy weapons that will be <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">fired indiscriminately</a> into civilian population centers, used to infringe on the rights of women and conduct <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/quick-follow-up.html">violent purges</a> of political enemies – as Hamas has a proven track record of doing.<br /><br />So perhaps another flotilla IS in order...<br /><br />However, the destination should not be Gaza where at best it will only be used for political purposes and at worst will actually be used to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/taste-of-whats-to-come.html">further oppress</a> the very people it claims to want to help. Instead, let's send a flotilla to the perpetually tragic population of Haiti (or Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, etc) where the situation is truly dire and the people have been neglected for decades.<br /><br />To focus our attention on Hamas propaganda at their expense and continue dumping aid to people whose own "leaders" say don't need it, would be an injustice of the highest order. And we will have no one but <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">ourselves to blame</a> for the results.<br /><br /><b>For information on donating to Haitian relief efforts (and others)<a href="http://www.israaid.org.il/"> click here.</a></b><br /><br /><b>*UPDATE:</b> As of now this blog entry is actually the first response on google.<br /> <br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=8639096136607668624&isPopup=true" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;">Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php" type="box_count" name="fb_share">Share</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share"></script><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-49168728426591838032010-09-21T00:01:00.001-04:002010-09-21T23:27:18.528-04:00BUILD THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUEGo ahead, build it. <br /><br />Build it wherever you want. Build it as high as you want. Call it the Cordoba House. Call it Park 51. Call it Area 51 for all I care.<br /><br />In fact, why don't you just build it 110 stories high, put a giant green crescent on top instead of an antenna and call it the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/09/911-have-we-overreacted.html">World Trade Center</a> Islamic Super Destroyer Victory (but our intentions are actually peaceful, we swear) Mosque. You think that's ridiculous? You think I'm out of line? Do you know what Cordoba is?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/6797/puenteromanocordobaespa.jpg"></center><br /><br />It's the name of a city in Spain that was overrun by the Islamic invaders in 716 AD. As is customary during Islamic invasions (google the Hagia Sophia, Ka'aba, Al Aqsa Mosque, Cave of the Patriarchs, Qutub Minar or The Great Synagogue of Oran for a few more examples), the main non-Islamic religious center of the city was converted into a mosque once it was captured. Lest you think that this is just ancient history, <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6087">here's an entry</a> from a 2005 edition of al-Fateh, the delightful Hamas children's magazine:<br /><blockquote>In the year 97 of the Muslim calendar, the ruler of Andalus (the Arabic word for Spain), Ayoub bin Habib al-Lahimi moved the Capital to my sister city, Cordoba… in the year 646 of the Muslim calendar, Ferdinand III besieged me and conquered me after a siege which lasted one year and five months, and that was due to the strength of my fortifications and my walls. This is when the Golden Age of the Muslims ended, and Asbilia (Seville) was lost by the Muslims.</blockquote>The fantasy continues...<br /><blockquote>I yearn that you, my beloved, will call me to return, together with the rest of the lost cities of the lost orchard [Andalus] to the hands of the Muslims so that joy and happiness will fill my land, and you will visit me because I am the bride of the country of Andalus.</blockquote>Interesting that the Imam of the congregation that will be praying at this site has refused to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization. Very interesting. Ponderous even.<br /><br />So when you want to build an "Islamic cultural center" within spitting distance of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/wish-you-were-here8-years-and-counting.html">two buildings</a> that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/wish-you-were-here8-years-and-counting.html">were destroyed</a> by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">Muslim invaders...</a>and then choose to name it after another "successful" Islamic invasion...if that's REALLY what you want to do...well, what's there really to say?<br /><br />And yet, I'm supposed to pretend that I don't get the reference or else I'M the ignorant one? I'm the hateful one? Whatever you say guys. I mean honestly, what does it matter what anyone says anyway? <br /><br />At the end of the day, you're going to do whatever it is you want to do anyway because I can't stop you...no one can.<br /><br />Because you see, in OUR country, we <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerate</a> people even when they <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/indifference-and-major-nidal-malik.html">abuse</a> us, even when their intentions are so obviously incendiary, even when they surround themselves with <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-done-research-and-it-was-arabs-get.html">9/11 truther</a> scumbags, even when they support terrorists. Even then, in this country, these people have their rights.<br /><br />So build the mosque. Build it tall, build it wide, build it as a the shrine to Muhammad and Allah that you feel they deserve, that you feel they want.<br /><br />Because in the end, it's all about what Allah wants isn't it? It doesn't matter who you upset. It doesn't matter who you hurt. It's all about the glory of Allah and what Allah wants...<br /><br />And this is what Allah wants, right Imam Rauf and mosque supporters?<br /><br />Allah wants you to offend 70% of the residents of the country you reside in.<br /><br />Allah wants to radicalize both sides so the only voices heard are those of screaming extremists.<br /><br />Allah wants you to cause strife and anger and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html">infighting in the streets</a> of Manhattan.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4503/103538726.jpg"> <img src="http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/7712/103538351.jpg"></center><br /><br />Right Imam Rauf?<br /><br />Allah wants you to be the subject of every stupid editorial that suggests we're all Islamophobic, every braindead talking head on television, every extremist rant, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">"liberal"</a> sob-fest and nightly talk show snooze-fest.<br /><br />Allah wants to be in everyone's face, everywhere, all the time.<br /><br />Right?<br /><br />So go ahead. Build the mosque. It's what Allah wants and the will of Allah surely supercedes the will of some secular, weak, directionless, motionless, powder puff, marshmellow society that doesn't even realize is on the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/living-on-thin-line-israel-and-world-in.html">verge of disaster.</a><br /><br />Show the world exactly who you are and what you want. Expose us all for the weaklings we are. Show everyone that your religion is SO rigid, SO fanatic, SO ridiculous that even an allegedly "moderate" leader would rather build a shrine than have some common decency for the community he purports to be a part of.<br /><br />And no, Imam Rauf, no...don't renounce Hamas. Don't renounce a group that <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=181786">bans women from smoking</a> and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=170400">receiving their inheritance,</a> that <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=188602">destroys water parks</a> because it is the will of Allah that men and women don't go swimming together. Because in the end, that's all that matters. The will of Allah.<br /><br />THE WILL OF ALLAH. The <a href="http://thereligionofpeace.com/">religion of peace.</a><br /><br />So go ahead, build the mosque and show us all how awful you and your congregation really are.<br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=4916872842659183803&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-59877729042168277422010-09-11T01:26:00.014-04:002010-09-11T18:28:53.810-04:009/11: Have we overreacted?On CNN the other day I awoke to the following headline:<br /><br /><b>Did the U.S. overreact to 9/11?</b><br /><br />It's <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/09/zakaria.september11.reaction/index.html?hpt=T1">an interview</a> with world renown Islamic fundamentalist apologist and student of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">Neville Chamberlain's Appeasement 101</a> course in totalitarianism-enablement, Fareed Zakaria.<br /><br />Here's what the Zak-Attack had to say on the subject...<br /><blockquote>CNN: You've written that we've overreacted to 9/11 and al Qaeda. In what way do you think that's the case?<br /><br />Zakaria: I mean it in two senses. We didn't spend a lot of time in the year after 9/11 -- once we had taken it on, once we had started chasing these people around the world, measures which I strongly supported then and still strongly support -- whether that had been effective and whether we had broken up the organization and made it far more difficult for them to operate. And therefore, what was the real nature of the threat going forward?<br /><br />I think it's clear that al Qaeda is a much-diminished force. It has the power to inspire a series of local organizations around the world, but it has very little power to direct these high-profile terrorist attacks itself. The reaction to my point that al Qaeda is weaker than we think has surprised me only because I've made this point since 2004, and I've made it repeatedly.</blockquote>Amazing. Al Qaeda is a "diminished" force - so...let's just let it be. He's "surprised" why people don't take that point of view seriously...<br /><blockquote>CNN: Why do you think many people have not agreed with that point?<br /><br />Zakaria: I do think we have a tendency in the United States to underestimate the evil intentions of our enemies, but overestimate their capacity, their capabilities.<br /><br />What we now know, based on all the declassified documents we have available is that in the 1970s and '80s, the U.S. was massively overestimating the military capacity of the Soviet Union...</blockquote>Oh yeah, that's right - it's the EXACT same thing as the Cold War. Question for you Fareed, how many times did the Soviet Union actually conduct a military strike on American soil? I'll give you a hint, the answer is less than one.<br /><blockquote>CNN: So what should be done now?<br /><br />Zakaria: This would be the right time for us to take a look and ask ourselves, in order to combat the actual threat that al Qaeda poses, which is real but which is limited in some senses -- what kind of intelligence apparatus do we need, what kind of homeland security apparatus do we need and how much can we do in terms in reallocating, reorganizing and reinventing these national security agencies rather than constantly piling up layer upon layer.</blockquote>Right, perfect. Let's just go back to chasing terrorists around the world and leaving it up to the intelligence agencies. Because THAT worked out for us REALLY well during the 90's.<br /><blockquote>CNN: Why do you think people have missed the change in al Qaeda's capabilities?<br /><br />Zakaria: We're not looking at trends within the Islamic world where al Qaeda has been politically discredited, trends that are taking place within the jihadi community, where prominent jihadis have broken with al Qaeda.<br /><br />The reality is that al Qaeda has been unable to organize a single attack [against a major target in recent years], the reality is that when smaller local groups plan terrorist attacks all they can attack are local targets like cafes or train stations and thus kill locals, further alienating the local population and discrediting and delegitimizing al Qaeda and its associated groups.</blockquote>EXACTLY Fareed. Why worry? The only really dangerous terrorism is the kind that blows up World Trade Centers (9/11), trains (3/11), tourist resorts (Bali Blast), invades downtown cities <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">(Mumbai)</a> and other massive operations. It's really no big deal if an occasional bus explodes, a shopping mall gets hit or a cafe gets bombed. That kind of stuff isn't dangerous. So if all the "jihadi community" does is go after locals, that's not a big deal at all.<br /><br />Can't you see, everybody? We already won! Nevermind the aftermath. Nevermind the fact that the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/living-on-thin-line-israel-and-world-in.html">world is roiling</a> all around us. Nevermind that the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">Iranian lunatics</a> are about to gain access to nuclear weapons. Nevermind that Egypt and Pakistan are on the precipice of being overrun by fanatics. Nevermind that thousands of lives are lost in Somalia, Darfur and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-news-tens-of-thousands-of.html">all over the world on a regular basis</a> - in the name of radical Islam.<br /><br />Go back to bed America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control again.<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eR3KwODDzeY?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eR3KwODDzeY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><i></i><center><i>(WARNING: potentially offensive language and imagery in that clip)</i></center><br />Sorry Fareed, not me.<br /><br />If you ask me we didn't react STRONGLY ENOUGH. 9/11 should have been to us what <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/12741.html">Pearl Harbor Day</a> was: A date which will truly live in infamy. When the United States was suddenly and deliberately sneak attacked by the forces of an imperialist, expansionist enemy whose tentacles surround almost the entire world. An enemy who has grown stronger as we have <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/goodbye-to-decade-from-hell-and-good.html">exposed our weaknesses</a> by refusing to unite against it and make the necessary sacrifices to defeat it - as we did during World War II. An enemy who is on the precipice of achieving nuclear power.<br /><br />So what if al Qaeda is "diminished" ? What about Iran? Hizballah? Hamas? Islamic Jihad? Taliban? Kashmiri Liberation Front? Chechen Mujahideen? Sudanese Janaweed? What about the unaffiliated terrorists who work and train together in a loose confederation? What about the underwear bomber? <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/indifference-and-major-nidal-malik.html">Nidal Malik al-Hasan?</a> The attempted Time Square Bomber? Doesn't Fareed (and everyone else that wants to go back to the good old days of burying our heads in the sand) realize that the ONLY REASON we haven't had two more catastrophic attacks in the past year ALONE is because of sheer luck? Don't these people realize that these instances have gone UP since we've adopted a kinder, gentler, scaled back operation?<br /><br />I haven't forgotten. Nor will I. I know what these people are capable of. I still remember.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4844/twintowers.jpg" /> <img src="http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/1470/twintowersfromempiresta.jpg" /><img src="http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9172/3950wtctwintowers1.jpg" /></center><br /><br />I still remember how I felt this morning...every time I watch a movie from the 80's or 90's that these buildings appear <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/lights-in-night-sky.html">it stings</a> a little bit. <br /><br />And no amount of ridiculous <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-done-research-and-it-was-arabs-get.html">conspiracy theorizing</a> or <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">threat minimization</a> will ever change that.<br /><br />The lessons of 9/11 live on as long as Islamic totalitarianism continues its attempts to expand and envelope the globe in its backward despotism. Whether it calls itself al Qaeda, Taliban, Hizballah, Islamic Jihad or something else.<br /><br />The saga continues...whether we want it to or not...<br /><br />NEVER FORGET<br /><br />NEVER UNDERESTIMATE<br /><br />NEVER GROW COMPLACENT<br /><br />As in the past, here are the top trending news headlines for this year's 9/11 from CNN:<br /><br />1. Florida reverend calls off Quran burning<br />2. Nine years after 9/11, photo provides peace<br />3. 'Prince of pot' gets 5 years in U.S. prison<br />4. Bodies ID'd in San Bruno explosion, fire<br />5. Actor: Stabbing girlfriend was a mistake<br />6. Police arrest man, then give him bike<br />7. 'Manhattan' ice island splits in two<br />8. Igor likely to become hurricane<br />9. 85 inmates escape from prison in Mexico<br />10. Utility also involved in 2008 gas explosion<br /><br />And as in the past 9/11 is still taking a backseat to all kinds of nonsense...<br /><br />More to come.<br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=5987772904216827742&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-48457209160101189782010-06-17T16:57:00.001-04:002010-06-21T14:07:34.789-04:00Living on a Thin Line: Israel, terrorism and the world in 2010...EXPLAINEDSo by popular demand, I'm going to do a line-by-line break down of the Living on a Thin Line video. If you haven't seen it yet (or would just like to rewatch it), you can check it out right here:<br /><br /><center><object width="580" height="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s1qaqbBqEb0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s1qaqbBqEb0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="480"></embed></object></center><br /><br />There's a lot packed in here and literally every image is there for a reason, so let's get right into it...<br /><br /><b>Part I: A brief history lesson</b><br /><br />*Opening music* - We open with three images, one is a map of the ancient kingdoms of David and Solomon, <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/8742/1221mapkingdomofdavidso.jpg"></center><br /><br />another is a picture of ancient Hebron and then old Jerusalem, with Psalms 137:5 <br /><br />If I forget thee, O Jerusalem - אִם-אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם<br /><br />superimposed on it. The rest of the verse says "let my right hand forget her cunning" - meaning that if as Jews we forget how important Jerusalem (the ancient capital of the Jewish Kingdoms of the 1st and 2nd Temple periods) is, we should lose the usage of our right hands. i.e. We must always remember the significance of Jerusalem to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/08/meek-shall-inherit-land.html">Jewish history</a> and heritage. <br /><br />The idea behind opening with these images is to establish the <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/History/Facts+about+Israel-+History.htm">HISTORICAL connection</a> between Jews and Israel. Even taking away the religious aspect...the old "God gave us the land" argument...there's no question that Jerusalem and Israel has been a part of Jewish heritage for at least 3,000 years. This counteracts the ridiculous assertions by the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14">Helen Thomas</a> wannabes of the world who claim that Jews are invaders on Palestinian land. <br /><br />In reality the post-Muhammad Arabs (as well as the Romans who preceded them) were the invaders and the Jews were the indigenous people who were displaced about 2,000 years ago. That it took a long time for many of the original original inhabitants to return does nothing to minimize their ties to the land.<br /><br />Hebron is included because in addition to being it is believed to be the burial place of all the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs, it was actually <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/hebron.html">King David's first capital</a> before he moved to Jerusalem. Yet today, it is written off as nothing more than a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-settlements-stupid.html">"settlement"</a> by the vast majority of the planet. Hebron and Jerusalem also happen to be one of the cities in Israel that had a contiguous Jewish presence all through the Diaspora years. <br /><br />The only time this was interrupted was when it was the scene of an Arab pogrom in 1929 and again was the scene of violence during the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt. At this time the remaining Jewish families of Hebron were forcibly removed from territory that had been part of their tradition for literally thousands of years...today their descendants who have returned to Hebron after decades of Jordanian rule are treated as fanatic settlers holding back the country from making more <A HREF="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-states-of-confusion.html">Land for Peace</a> deals.<br /><br />Which of course brings us to...<br /><br />*Music picks up* - and we get to Land for Peace in the Middle East...a short montage of Israeli and Arab leaders who have either given or received land as part of the Land for Peace process. They're arranged as follows:<br /><br />Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Yitzchak Rabin, Yasir Arafat (with special guest appearance by our friend Saddam Hussein) and of course Ariel Sharon. Without exception everyone in these pictures are either dead or brain-dead. Half of them are dead at the hands of their own people.<br /><br />This montage is followed by the modern city of Tel Aviv as well the Old City of Jerusalem...juxtaposing again, the inseparable religious, cultural and historical ties of the Jews to the land of Israel. After this we see the security barrier in Bethlehem which surrounds the ancient burial place of Rachel, the Jewish matriarch. The barrier (which for the vast majority of the border between Israel-proper and the West Bank is a fence) here is a wall due to the frequent shooting attacks on Jewish civilians going to their holy site that took place when the border was a fence. Again the juxtaposition of past ties to history with (the rather sad) modern reality. <br /><br />The final image before the lyrics begin is of Masada, the ancient Jewish fortress that was the last bastion of the Jews that fought the Romans 2,000 years ago. For years, Israeli soldiers would be taken here where they would proclaim that <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/masada.html">"Masada shall never fall again"</a> - symbolizing again the juxtaposition of modern Israeli society and the ancient ties to the land that long precede any Arab invasions. This is something that is often forgotten when accusing <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/02/anti-zionist-anti-jewish.html">Zionists</a> of being "foreign" invaders. Or when people claim that the Bible is irrelevant when discussing the West Bank.<br /><br /><i>"All the stories have been told"</i> - the Dead Sea Scrolls. Again, archeological proof of the Jews' historic ties to the land. Often critics of Israel paint Zionists as religious fanatics who use the Bible as their deed to the land (the legitimacy of which these critics reject). However, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html">as the Dead Sea scrolls showed us,</a> the Bible (whether a divine "Word of God" or just an historical record of a Jewish society in ancient Israel ) has been around in a form similar to what it is today for at LEAST 2,000 years.<br /><br /><i>"Of kings and days of Old"</i> - King David and the ancient Jewish Temple of Jerusalem...self explanatory I think.<br /><br /><i>"But there's no England now"</i> - There's a shot of a group of British soldiers <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4303/picture20v.png"></center><br /><br />standing over an illegal Jewish immigration ship full of Jews waiting to disembark onto their ancient homeland. The British <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWhite_Paper_of_1939&ei=1ZcZTND-OIGdlgfi2dHVCw&usg=AFQjCNFiZSUdc_KBu63wwO6XITIbeM5X5g">prevented Jews from immigrating</a> into Mandate Palestine in an attempt to appease the Arab population after the Arab Revolt of 1939. This was painful, but especially painful during the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nightmare.html">Holocaust years</a> of WWII when literally millions of Jews could have been saved from the Nazi ovens if not for this policy. <br /><br />But there's no England now...after the next two images, first of <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=14&ved=0CE8QFjAN&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mfa.gov.il%2FMFA%2FPeace%2520Process%2FGuide%2520to%2520the%2520Peace%2520Process%2FThe%2520Balfour%2520Declaration&ei=CJgZTO_zPILGlQedp_D1Cw&usg=AFQjCNHyifI9ow3sP745Bzp9_hLDy-NBpA">Lord Balfour</a> and second of Jews <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">raising the Israeli flag</a> during the last days of the British Mandate. Never again will a foreign government prevent Jews from returning to their ancient homeland and never again will <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/catastrophe.html">Jewish refugees</a> have nowhere to go but to their death. Israel guarantees this.<br /><br /><i>"All the wars that were won - or lost"</i> - Photo of the victorious Israeli soldiers at the Western Wall in 1967 (as well as a reunion of the same three soldiers at the wall decades later)...followed by a photo of three Israeli soldiers returning from the 2006 Lebanon War. This war, while effectively securing quiet for Northern Israel for the past four years was widely perceived as <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-this-clown-out-of-here.html">failing</a> to achieve a tangible military objective. <br /><br /><i>"Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore"</i> - images of anti-Israel protests, very clearly calling for violence and rejecting Israel as a legitimate state. <br /><br /><i>"All the lies we were told, all the lies of the people running round"</i> - Images of the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2000 Camp David Summit. Both times involved lies from Yasir Arafat to two different Israeli prime ministers that he would curb terrorism. Also both images serve as fitting bookends between the beginning and end of Clinton's misguided attempt to force an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. <br /><br />This is followed by an image of current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embracing Arafat's wife and current President <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollow-hollow-words.html">Barack Obama</a> sitting with <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8145/obamasaid.jpg"></center><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=13&ved=0CEMQFjAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverthenetworks.org%2FindividualProfile.asp%3Findid%3D634&ei=65kZTJrFAsWblgfI5cnSCw&usg=AFQjCNGRioXmGYYNVC_jDOtw3CAcBWxLpg">Edward Said</a> - a noted pro-Palestinian advocate, rock thrower and proponent of Israel absorbing all Palestinians...effectively destroying Israel as a Jewish state. Both Clinton and Obama promised (lied) to Jews during their campaigns that they would be the best friend Israel ever had. They are turning out to be the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/unbelievable-is-obama-administration.html">most negative Administration</a> in regards to Israel in recent history.<br /><br /><i>"Their castles have burned"</i> - pretty self-explanatory. As the World Trade Center collapses, the video becomes increasingly grainy and distorted...as time marches on from <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/lights-in-night-sky.html">9/11/2001</a> our memory seems to become more grainy and distorted and more and more we forget the significance of the day.<br /><br /><i>"Now I see change"</i> - images of Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv. The ultimate symbol of change in Jewish culture...more than anywhere else, Tel Aviv represents the Zionist initiative to control the destiny of the Jewish people instead of just leaving it up to chance. Unfortunately for the Zionists...<br /><br /><i>"But inside we're the same as we ever were."</i> - ...with the most publicly well-known Jews like <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-real-jon-stewart-please-shut-up.html">Jon Stewart</a> bashing Israel and Zionists (and therefore the concept of Jewish self-determination) on a regular basis, are we really that different from our shtetl-dwelling (and ultimately Holocaust-bound) ancestors? Ironically, Stewart (and other assimilated, pacifist Jews) has much <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">more in common with his streimel-wearing grandparents</a> than he might be comfortable with.<br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line"</i> - Image of how close <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">Sderot, Israel</a> is to the Gaza Strip. Significant because...<br /><br /><i>"Tell me now"</i> - ...Qassam rockets have been fired into Sderot (and other Israeli population centers) on a daily basis for the past decade. The images of the wreckage should make it clear that these are not the firecrackers the media often makes them out to be.<br /><br /><i>"What are we supposed to do?"</i> - A religious Jewish soldier prays with an APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) in the background. An interesting juxtaposition of the old Jewish method of dealing with danger (prayer) with the new Jewish method of dealing with danger (self-defense). History has taught us that prayer alone will not save us...the time is <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/07/hard-times.html">rapidly approaching</a> where as a people we will have to choose between taking action and simply hoping for the best. What are we supposed to do indeed?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2673/picture5y.png"></center><br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line,"</i> - In 2005, Israel dismantled its settlements and left the land to the Palestinians as they demanded. The charts show Qassam rocket attacks which spiked tremendously after the disengagement from Gaza. The photos in between the two charts are of the heartbreaking disengagement process...<br /><br /><i>"Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?"</i> ...which as the second chart and map of rocket impacts in Sderot demonstrate, only served to make life significantly worse for even non-settler Israelis in Sderot, Ashdod, Ashkelon and many other cities all over the Western Negev desert. The fact that we're even in a position where we have to reminisce about the days when the number of daily rocket attacks on schools and houses in quiet suburbs was in the single digits or low 10's speaks to how absurd of a situation we're actually in.<br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line,"</i> - image of the potential threat to major Israeli population centers from the West Bank if Israel was to surrender the territory in a peace deal. Given the experience in Gaza, what nation/government could be expected to repeat the same behavior and put an additional 50% (if not more) of their population at risk for rocket-fire chaos?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7877/picture10zf.png"><img src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6977/davidvsgoliath.jpg"></center><br /><br /><i>"Living this way, each day"</i> - Despite the media portrayal of the conflict as a battle between a Palestinian David and and an Israeli Goliath...this ridiculousness fails to address the fact that in addition to the poor, rock-throwing (but now Surface=to-Surface-Missile-firing) Palestinians, there are almost 60 countries behind them that not only refuse to help them...but actually incite and supply them with weapons that actually worsen their misery. These 60 countries have exponentially more resources and land than Israel does as the "DAVID VS GOLIATH" image points out. This is followed by Palestinians camped along the border with Israel to again illustrate just how precarious of a position Israel is actually in.<br /><br /><i>"is a dream"</i> - Peace in the Middle East...still nothing more than a dream.<br /><br /><i>"What am I, what are we"</i> - What are we...who are we if we allow these indiscriminate rockets to continue to fall on innocent civilians everday? <br /><br /><i>"supposed to do?"</i> - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem...it's easy to get frustrated, throw up our hands and just hope and pray for help from above. But even religious people will tell you that God only helps those that help themselves.<br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line,"</i> - More images of the precarious situation Israel is in...first barbed wire in Hebron, then a settler family sits amongst the wreckage of their home after being evicted by the IDF. Again, Jews evicting other Jews in the name of peace and satisfying the demands of the other side. This is followed by images of Palestinian riots from the 1st and 2nd intifada...riots which the Palestinian government did nothing to prevent and in fact even encouraged. <br /><br />There's a thin line between doing the "right thing" and outright insanity. On the one hand you have a government (Israel) that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/difference.html">polices its own people,</a> dismantles what the other side claims are "illegal settlements" and is governed by the rule of law, no matter how painful it may be...whereas on the other hand (Palestinian Authority, Hamas/Fatah) you have a government that not only doesn't police its own people, actually <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-comments-necessary.html">INCITES them</a> to riot, encourages them to commit acts of violence and rules BY law as a dictatorship in democracy's clothing. A stark contrast indeed.<br /><br /><i>"Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?"</i> - FIGHT TERROR: SUPPORT ISRAEL. Self-explanatory.<br /><br /><b>Part II: Where we are today</b><br /><br /><i>"Now another century's nearly gone"</i> - Images showing some of the dour statements about the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/goodbye-to-decade-from-hell-and-good.html">"Decade from Hell"</a> - the 2000's. The first decade of the 21st century was undoubtedly one of struggle, turmoil and overall malaise as 9/11 was followed by what seemed like a perpetually up-and-down economy...finally ending in the spectacular housing and financial meltdown in the United States. By the time <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/indifference-and-major-nidal-malik.html">Major Nidal Malik al Hasan</a> turned his gun on his fellow American soldiers in November of 2009, it seemed like every naive belief about the future that we had in our Clintonian, post-Cold-War euphoria of the 1990's had been shattered by a nightmarish chain of events that just never seemed to end. <br /><br /><i>"What are we going to leave for the young"</I> - If we do not stand up to the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">Iranian nuclear program</a> now, how on Earth will we deal with them when they actually have a nuclear weapon? Or will we just do what we usually do, that is leave our problems to the next generation to solve?<br /><br /><i>"What we couldn't do, what we wouldn't do,"</i> - While the War on Terrorism was initially fought with wide, bi-partisan, popular support...setbacks in Iraq slowly turned the American public against the idea of preemptive strikes. This change in public sentiment was characterized by comedians (again like Jon Stewart - although by no means was he the only one) questioning the wisdom of the Bush Administration's handling of "The War Against Terror" (how can we wage a war against a tactic/idea like "terror", for starters) as well as the rather disgraceful practice of many <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/10/friend-of-my-enemy.html">Democrats</a> appearing to relish setbacks (or worse, pretending there was no need for a war at all as depicted in the hear/see/speak no evil cartoon) as opportunities to bash the Administration and mobilize their supporters to eventually retake Congress. <br /><br />To be sure, Republicans have politicized these wars as well but since they were the party in power for years the nature of their politics was to point to successes as compared to many Democrats' practice of pointing to failures. There has also been a disturbing trend in recent years of a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/donkey-flew-over-cuckoos-nest.html">dramatic reduction</a> in rank-and-file Democrats' support for Israel. No offense to the true believers, but that's just the nature of the (political) beast.<br /><br />In any case...as we stand today midway through 2010...even mentioning the dated phrase "War on Terrorism" will get you strange looks as if you're still stuck in some bygone, nostalgic, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">pre-Obama,</a> silly Bush-era, ultra-patriotism that doesn't really exist anymore. Syria, Iran and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/heros-welcome-hooray.html">several other states</a> still publicly support terrorist factions with very little tangible recourse from the rest of the world.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/4934/treatingterrorismasstre.jpg"></center><br /><br /><i>"It's a crime,"</i> - One manifestation of our society's lack of resolve in prosecuting the war against <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">Islamic fundamentalism</a> is the treatment of terrorists as criminals instead of enemy combatants. Closing Guantanamo Bay? Civilian trials on American soil for captured terrorists with full Constitutional rights? Mirandizing enemies that were caught on the field of battle? How irresponsible. We might as well just bury our heads in the sand and hope for the best.<br /><br /><i>"But does it matter?"</i> - And now to top it off, in an attempt to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-obama-cairo-speech-was-bad-for.html">appease the Islamic world,</a> the Obama Administration has stopped referring to a "War on Terror" (or more accurately, War on Islamic Fundamentalism) at all. So just like that, it's over. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell that to the guys that are still trying to kill all of us. Is it really that much of a big deal though? It's just semantics isn't it?<br /><br /><i>"Does it matter much to you?"</i> - An iconic photo of Obama shoving his finger into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chest (and Netanyahu's pained expression) has thus far encapsulated the difference in how this Administration has handled the war and its support for allies in the war like Israel. You can be sure this change in behavior is more than just semantics to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/just-what-doctor-ordered-for-unway-to.html">leaders like Netanyahu</a> who represent populations that suffer every day at the hands of terrorists.<br /><br /><i>"Does it ever really matter?"</i> - Hamas "diplomats" leaning back in their chairs, brandishing their AK-47's while Israelis worry about protecting their babies from the rockets that these "diplomats" fire at them everyday. How the War on Islamic Fundamentalism is fought is exceptionally important to both sides of the conflict. <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/104893">"We have no spare children"</a> is a common phrase used in Israel, often as a demand that the government not take unnecessary risks with Israeli soldiers who are drafted and still viewed as children by their parents (who they often still live with). This is why it is so exceptionally painful for the entire nation every time a soldier is wounded, captured or killed. <br /><br />It's also a phrase used as a demand that the government protect Israeli citizens from people like the aforementioned Hamas diplomats...who the rest of the world believes they should be trusting/rewarding by giving them more territory. Finally this Israeli slogan is in stark contrast to the oft-repeated claim from Palestinian mothers of terrorists that they are <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/all-mothers-should-sacrifice-their-child-for-palestine.html">proud of their "martyr"</a> children and have 10 more children that they would love to donate to the cause of destroying Israel.<br /><br /><i>"Yes it really really matters"</i> - Collage of pictures of destruction and heartbreak due to "Hamas diplomacy" (read: ROCKET ATTACKS) in Sderot, Israel. It really really REALLY matters to these people too. Cartoon depicting the absurdity of world condemnation of Israeli response to these attacks thrown in for good measure.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/6445/picture19p.png"></center><br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line,"</I> - <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/wear-white-for-gilad-shalit-4272010.html">Gilad Shalit</a> is still alive and in captivity! Another year comes, another year goes and still the longest running active kidnapping (where the perpetrators are publicly known) continues. He can never EVER be forgotten. If you'd like more information Shalit you should click here or here to read my previous thoughts on this subject. In any case, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/gilad-shalit-day.html">Gilad is most definitely living on a thin line.</a><br /><br />This is followed by President Obama's head superimposed on the body of Neville Chamberlain at the infamous Munich Pact signing. In the lead-up to World War II, rather than confronting Adolf Hitler's aggression in Czechoslovakia, Austria and against his own Jewish citizens, Britain and the rest of the world's democracies pursued a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">policy of appeasement.</a> This gave Hitler the the courage to pursue his brazen plans with impunity, plunging almost the entire world into war and killing 10's of millions of people. <br /><br />If Obama, Europe and even Jewish traitors like <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-dead-end-street.html"> J Street</a> likewise move to sacrifice Israel to the Arabs, Iran and their growing sphere of influence, the result (with today's nuclear weapons) will be even greater fireballs than those that rocked the world in the 1940's. The irony of a Black president ordering Jews out of the West Bank - essentially calling for segregation - as part of this policy of appeasement is brilliantly captured by the Dry Bones cartoon that follows the nuclear fireball:<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5351/nojewsallowed.gif"></center><br /><br /><i>"Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?"</i> - Which Middle East nation protects LBGT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender) communities? Which Middle East nation guarantees freedom of religion (or non-religion) for ALL of its citizens? Where in the Middle East can gays serve in the military? The answer to all of the above of course, is only in Israel. The idea that self-proclaimed <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">liberals</a> regularly rail against the only country to do these things in the name of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/06/put-up-or-shut-up.html">"social justice"</a> is ponderous to say the least. <br /><br />That there are so many LBGT JEWS (like the one pictured in the image that immediately follows those posters) that protest in favor of Hamas - an organization that would stone them to death so fast they wouldn't even know what hit them - is the peak of lunacy. Bonus points to anyone if you can tell me if this person is a man or woman because I honestly have no idea.<br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line,"</i> - Being gay in Iran sucks. Yes. Yes it does. The people pictured by the way are <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/death-sentences-for-juveniles-real.html">gay teenagers being hanged in Iran.</a> Keep supporting their right to nuclear weapons LBGT people, really...this can't possibly end badly for you.<br /><br />More pictures of Iran's nuclear weapons and missile program follow. There are two cartoons - one of Obama reminding a disinterested Prime Minister Netanyahu to stick to his "road map to peace" as an Iranian ICBM heads straight for their heads. This is followed by another cartoon that re-states my previous point about the danger of Obama following in Chamberlain's footsteps by pursuing an appeasement strategy with Iran.<br /><br /><i>"Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?"</i> - Stand up for Israel, STOP IRAN. Self-explanatory. <br /><br />The final graphic in this series is an image of Neda Agha-Soltan...a woman that was killed in last year's <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/in-endit-doesnt-even-matter.html">Iran election</a> riots. Her death, which was captured on video became a major rallying point for the "Free Iran" movement (who if you click on the previous link had questionable motives themselves). Her image was used in many posters like this one that rallied supporters to stand up to the Ahmedinejad regime. This is the only image in the entire video that fades out...just as the "Free Iran" movement - that so many people thought had so much potential - has faded away into irrelevancy. In fact, the anniversary of the riots <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=178228"> just passed</a> without a single major incident. Thanks for the memories. <br /><br /><b>Part III: Tell me now, what are we supposed to do...about the future?</b><br /><br /><i>"Now another leader says"</i> - Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey. Turkey, which was formerly Israel's strongest (and many would argue ONLY) Muslim ally has <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=178217">changed their tone</a> since Islamist movements were given more of a voice in the government after decades of forced-secular rule. Turkey, despite having a high percentage of its population identifying strongly with their religion has forced - sometimes even through military coups - a secular system on itself, with an even stricter separation of mosque and state than even exists in the United States. <br /><br />Not only was Islam separated from government affairs since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, but Turkish citizens were even forbidden to dress in clothes that were identified with Islam where they entered the public sphere. It was only natural then that the only two secular democracies in the Middle East would be drawn to each other and the relations between Turkey and Israel (going so far as training soldiers together during <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CCcQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defencetalk.com%2Fmilitary-cooperation-was-at-heart-of-turkey-israel-ties-26704%2F&ei=4qQZTIrsLIWBlAe7xMzFCw&usg=AFQjCNEHTu0EWvdgpCgcB_1-qDFnXvCbsg">joint-military</a> exercises) were often pointed to as an example of what could be possible for the rest of the Islamic countries with the right engagement program. However, since the ascent of Erdogan and the Islamist parties, decades of friendship and cooperation have been steadily replaced by...<br /><br /><i>"Break their hearts and break some heads."</i> - Images from the recent <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/05/cnn-10-dead-as-israeli-forces-storm.html">"Gaza Freedom Flotilla"</a> where Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish passenger liner that had been converted into a cargo transport for the Palestinians of Gaza. Unfortunately for everyone (including the Palestinians) the "aid" portion of this ship (as well as 5 others that made up the "flotilla") was really just a cover for 50 or so Islamic militants, Hamas supporters and even some al Qaeda members to make an attempt at running the Israeli blockade of Gaza. This blockade has been effect since the Hamas movement (I've written about them <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/still-more-palestinians-executed-by.html">numerous times</a> in the past) seized control of Gaza in a bloody coup and has been using it as a staging ground to fire rockets into Israeli cities like you saw earlier in the video. <br /><br />After numerous calls for the ships to turn around and even unload their cargo (which for some reason also included <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-information-coming-to-light-about.html">bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles</a> along with many goods that weren't even in shortage in Gaza) at Ashdod, Israel - where they would then be loaded up into trucks and transported to Gaza using an already established and functioning system designed to bring humanitarian aid to civilians - the militants on-board told the Israeli military to go [expletive deleted] itself and the Jews in general to go back to Auschwitz. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3430/picture12vn.png"></center><br /><br />At this point the Israeli naval commandos boarded the ships armed only with paintball guns and their sidearms and were immediately surrounded by the lynch mob which you see in the video. <br /><br /><i>"Is there nothing we can say" </i>- The Israelis, after being stabbed, beaten with poles, thrown overboard and apparently shot when the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say.html">"peace activists"</a> stole a few of their sidearms from them, eventually returned fire and killed several of them. This action has prompted world-wide outrage and demands that Israel end the blockade and that world leaders talk to Hamas, a known terrorist organization that has killed more Palestinians than Israelis in the past 3 years. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5180/picture20od.png"><img src="http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9862/picture19qm.png"></center><br /><br /><i>"or do?"</i> - Emphasizing the point of the futility in trying to work with this terrorist organization are several headlines about <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/quick-follow-up.html">Hamas executing Palestinians,</a> stealing from charities and then <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html">selling the supplies</a> to their own population, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/here-are-people-freedom-flotilla-was.html">ripping off the VERY charities that organized the Flotilla</a> and most brazenly - REFUSING THE AID FROM THE FLOTILLA after the Israelis delivered it right to them. <br /><br />What kind of government that is responsible for citizens currently living in a "humanitarian crisis" REFUSES food and medicine?! Are these REALLY the people we're supposed to work with? Is there nothing we can say or do to show the rest of the world how terrible these people really are? And WHY is it that the entire world seems to be so <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/does-not-compute_15.html">obsessed with Israel's behavior</a> when there are literally thousands of people being killed, raped, beaten, tortured and abused EVERY DAY all over the world? Is an <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/still-more-palestinians-executed-by.html">Israeli apartment building</a> REALLY that much more of a pressing matter than this never-ending chaos? Unfortunately these questions are answered with the bumper sticker at the end of this segment: "Peace in the Middle East, just kidding". Everyone talks about peace but no one can really be serious about it when one of the sides is represented by these kinds of insane ideologues.<br /><br /><i>"Blame the future on the past,"</i> - Three images, all have to do with <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCcQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.al-awda.org%2F&ei=q6YZTLUihIqXB_vmsa8K&usg=AFQjCNFcFIHGrUEbyZ2O1RqiLcmG5fyLJA">"Right of Return"</a> for Palestinians. A young girl holding a key, an older man holding a key and finally a map of Israel painted in Palestinian colors with the words "We Shall Return" and key prominently displayed on it. The girl is the future, the man is the past and the map is the end result. <br /><br />Palestinians often justify terrorism by pointing to the fact that they haven't forgotten their homes in British Mandate and Ottoman Palestine that they lost in their <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nakba.html">"Nakba"</a> (Arabic for Catastrophe)- the 1948 Israeli war of independence. The way they remember these homes is to keep the keys to them and so the key has become the symbol for what they claim is their right to return to those homes. Israelis refuse to bring these people (and their descendants) into Israel proper because due to demographics it would destroy Israel as a Jewish-majority state (which as you can see by the "We Shall Return" image of the map of Israel... <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/6673/rightofreturn.jpg"></center><br /><br />...drenched in Palestinian colors is exactly what they intend to do). This is a fundamental difference between Israelis and Palestinians, a zero-sum objective that will never be accepted by Israel and is a major reason why negotiations have broken down between the sides over the years. <br /><br />By teaching these <a href="http://www.zionism-israel.com/issues/return_detail.html">irreconcilable demands</a> to their children, Palestinians parents are only serving to ensure that there can never be a final agreement between both sides and that future Palestinian terrorists only need to look to the past for their justification.<br /><br /><i>"Always lost in blood and guts."</i> - The carnage from the Sbarro pizza restaurant bombing as well as two separate bus bombings. This (along with literally thousands of other suicide bombings, shootings, rocket attacks and other acts of terrorism) is the result of parents brainwashing their children into making unreasonable demands for Israeli national suicide that simply cannot be met.<br /><br /><i>"And when they're gone,"</i> - But then, why not just give them what they want? Why not just <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/israel-as-security-asset-for-united.html">get rid of Israel</a> as the next two images suggest and finally "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" ? This slogan, which is used by New Jersey Solidarity and the International Solidarity Movement (two groups amongst that call themselves "peace activists") by the way, refers to the Jordan river and as you can see from the image...actually refers to destroying all of Israel in its entirety...not just the settlements that they claim are all that they oppose. This slogan, coincidentally was used in 2001 by Faisal Husseini (nephew of father of Palestinian nationalism...and Nazi SS trainer Hajj Amin al Husseini) to <a href="http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to_now_oslo_war.php">describe the Palestinian ideology</a> behind the Oslo "Peace Process". According to him Oslo was:<br /><br /><i>a Trojan Horse . . . just a temporary procedure . . . just a step towards something bigger." Husseini said that something bigger is "Palestine from the river to the sea," i.e., from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, eradicating Israel. Oslo? Just a way of "ambushing the Israelis and cheating them.</i><br /><br />The phrase has also been used by Hamas leaders, Fatah leaders, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-sucks.html">Palestinian sympathizers</a> as well as "peace activists" at rallies that call for the destruction of Israel. <br /><br />You want to support them? You think Israel is the source of all your problems? If "they" (Israel) were gone, things would be better for everyone? Well...<br /><br /><i>"it's me and you."</i> - Tell that to the Times Square bomber. Tell that to Nidal Malik al Hasan. Tell that to the people who blew up the trains in Madrid, the buses and subways in London, the hotels in Indonesia, the Muslims in Paris who rioted over the Danish Muhammad cartoons, who burn American flags and other American symbols (like Ronald McDonald), not to mention the Mumbai terrorists, the terrorists who massacred the children in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis">Beslan</a> (both not pictured here due to time constraints) as well as the sheikhs on Palestinian television and the Muslims at rallies held everyday all over the world threatening the West with Islamic domination, forced-sharia and calling on Allah to destroy democracy...<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/517/memri1761wmv.jpg"><img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6435/picture24o.png"><img src="http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1903/picture25w.png"></center><br /><br />What do any of these places have to do with the West Bank, Gaza, Freedom Flotillas or ANY OF THE NONSENSE buzz words they try to brainwash you with on a daily basis? None of these countries support Israeli settlements, none of them support the Israeli blockade and some (Russia and Indonesia especially come to mind here) have been OPENLY SUPPORTIVE of Palestinians as well as OPENLY HOSTILE towards Israel! And yet despite their <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">de facto tolerance</a> for these radicals, Russia, Indonesia and the supposedly more "balanced" European nations are STILL targeted along with Israel and America! You think it's bad now with Israel, just wait until they've eradicated the "invaders" from their backyards and can start REALLY focusing on restoring their caliphate to what they believe it should be. Appeasement didn't save Europe before WWII and it will NOT save you now.<br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line,"</i> - Headline from the Daily Mirror in the aftermath of the London bombings...is this how we must now live? In fear of terrorism, everywhere? After 9/11, 3/11, the Bali Blast, the London bombings...we, as well as Israel are now ALL living on a thin line. The trouble is that we were <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-done-research-and-it-was-arabs-get.html">ALWAYS</a> on a thin line...we just didn't realize it until it was too late.<br /><br />More photos follow of Islamic radicals demonstrating all over Europe, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/invasion.html">warning you all about a "real" Holocaust</a> coming. With Iranian nuclear weapons coming closer to reality as well as their demonstrated ability to reach European cities with their missiles - this may not be as far-fetched as you want it to be. Most ironic in these images is the sign that says "Liberalism go to hell". <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3366/behead1.jpg"></center><br /><br />Of course who are the biggest supporters of dialogue with these radicals? I don't think I even need to give the absurd answer that question at this point. National suicide is national suicide no matter what kinds of fluffy slogans you surround it with.<br /><br /><i>"Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?"</i> - Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might. What did you do today, for freedom? Two slogans, one a contemporary British slogan and one an American WWII slogan. Do not think that the threat to our freedom (no matter where we live) today is any less severe today than it was in the 1930's. <br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line,"</i> - More "peace activists" calling for the destruction of Israel. Of the thin line that separates us from the radical fundamentalists.<br /><br />This is followed (finally and for the first and only time in the video) by a pro-Israel demonstrator holding up a sign that says "Free Palestine is code for kill the Jews". Two other important slogans are here as well, one is "Am Yisrael Chai" (in Hebrew) which simply means the "Nation of Israel lives" - positivity in an overwhelmingly negative time. The other is: "Zionism is the answer" - you'll notice if you stop the video that this graffiti, <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8379/img0968gz.jpg"></center><br /><br />found in the perpetual flashpoint city of Hebron, originally said something else, most likely <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/Zionism_Is_Not_Racism.html">"Zionism is Racism"</a> (a reference to the 1975 UN resolution that stated the same thing - it was revoked finally in 1991). <br /><br />Someone, a Zionist presumably, painted over the "racism" part and replaced it with these words instead. This perfectly encapsulates how we all need to do our part to change the negative connotation of Zionism and bring it back to the positivity that it actually represents. Zionism is nothing more than Jewish self-determination. To say you are against Zionism is to say you believe that Jews must rely on other nations for protection. Which as we've seen over 2,000 years of Jewish history amounts to nothing but destruction. If you are against Zionism, you are FOR the subjugation of the Jewish people. Anyone who says differently is lying or misinformed.<br /><br /><i>"Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?"</i> - Despite outcries from hypocritical world leaders about "disproportionate force" we must still stand up to terrorism, confront it and fight it at all costs. There is still time, brother. <br /><br /><i>"Living on a thin line."</i> - Trying to destroy the Jews hasn't worked out well for the various nations that have tried it. Some of them succeed for a time...and all have succeeded in killing 10's of millions of us throughout history - which when extrapolated to how many descendants of theirs would be living today climbs into hundreds of millions of Jews that should be alive today. The only reason the numbers are so skewed towards Muslims, Christians and other religions (all in the billions) is because Jews (only about 14 million strong) have been <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/11/69-years-ago-today.html">regularly purged</a> throughout history by various nations and religions and therefore have never been able to expand the way other ethnicities have through natural birthrates. <br /><br />The amount of violence committed against Jews over the centuries is really staggering when you think just how many Jews would be alive today if just the Holocaust hadn't happened. Six million dead (the majority of which had massive 5-10 person families) in 1945...over two generations could easily turn into 20+ million alive - more than DOUBLING today's demographics. Now think about the fact that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews_in_the_First_Crusade">1,100 Jews were killed</a> in just one of hundreds of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/02/jewish-bankers.html">blood libel</a> attacks during the Crusades 1,000 years ago...extrapolate that over 50 generations and you start to get a sense of just how damaging the 2,000-year persecution of the Jews was before Zionism gave us a Jewish country and military to defend ourselves with.<br /><br />Think about that the next time sometime tells you that they're "anti-Zionist" not "anti-Jewish".<br /><br />And this is where the photographs end. The rest of the video is all text based.<br /><br />I sincerely hope you enjoyed watching the video and reading the explanation. Maybe you learned something new, maybe your opinion changed a little bit, maybe you'll be more open to taking some action and actively supporting our friends in Israel.<br /><br />Or maybe you think this is all propaganda and nonsense and will just ignore it and move on. If you think this way, I encourage you to voice your criticisms here and am willing to debate you on anything I have brought up here that you think is incorrect. If you have to stones to actually stand up for what you believe in, that is.<br /><br />If, on the other hand you liked what you saw here and are interested in using this video in any educational capacity, I may work on a Powerpoint presentation of the images (along with the explanation) that I can include with a copy of the video and send to you for usage in a classroom or wherever else you want to use it. Let me know.<br /><br />Thanks again for watching the video as well as reading the explanation. Long live the thin line that is the state of Israel and may REAL peace someday actually come to the Middle East.<br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=4845720916010118978&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-66161129614536774102010-06-08T15:42:00.014-04:002010-06-10T10:38:21.328-04:00The Kinks - Living on a Thin Line: Israel and the world in 2010Islamic terrorism at levels never seen before, "peace activists" armed with clubs and daggers, the resolve of the West to survive almost non-existent.<br /><br />We are truly living on a thin line...<br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s1qaqbBqEb0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s1qaqbBqEb0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="480"></embed></object></center><br /><br />I would encourage you to watch it in full-screen mode. I would also encourage you to click on the "Like" button (it's right above the comments section on the video's youtube page). The more people "Like" the video, the higher its rankings will be on youtube.<br /><br /><blockquote>The Kinks<br />Living On A Thin Line<br />Written by: Dave Davies<br />Published by: Dabe Music, 1984<br /><br /><i><br />All the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/08/meek-shall-inherit-land.html">stories</a> have been told<br />Of kings and days of old,<br />But there's <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">no England</a> now.<br />All the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/invasion.html">wars</a> that were won and lost<br />Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore.<br />All the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-states-of-confusion.html">lies</a> we were told,<br />All the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollow-hollow-words.html">lies of the people</a> running round,<br />Their <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/wish-you-were-here8-years-and-counting.html">castles</a> have burned.<br />Now I see change,<br />But inside <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">we're the same as we ever were.</a><br /><br />Living on a thin line,<br />Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?<br />Living on a thin line,<br />Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?<br />Living on a thin line,<br />Living this way, each day is a dream.<br />What am I, what are we supposed to do?<br />Living on a thin line,<br />Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?<br /><br />Now <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/goodbye-to-decade-from-hell-and-good.html">another century</a> nearly gone,<br />What are we gonna leave for the young?<br />What <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">we couldn't do,</a> what we wouldn't do,<br />It's a crime, but does it matter?<br /><a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/wear-white-for-gilad-shalit-4272010.html">Does it matter much,</a> does it matter much to you?<br />Does it ever really matter?<br />Yes, it really, really matters.<br /><br />Living on a thin line,<br />Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?<br />Living on a thin line,<br />Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?<br /><br />Now another leader says<br />Break their hearts and break some heads.<br />Is there nothing we <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/freedom-of-speech-and-savage-nation.html">can say</a> or do?<br />Blame the future on the past,<br />Always lost in blood and guts.<br />And when they're gone, it's <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">me and you.</a><br /><br />Living on a thin line,<br />Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?<br />Living on a thin line,<br />Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?<br />Living on a thin line.</blockquote><br /></i><br /><center><img src="http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6977/davidvsgoliath.jpg"></center><br /><br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=6616112961453677410&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-15968266571813555362010-06-04T01:27:00.011-04:002010-06-04T16:19:06.963-04:00These are the people that the Gaza "Freedom Flotilla" was supporting: Hamas raids, closes NGO officesThis story would be just unbelievable if it hadn't <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html">already happened</a> so many times in the past.<br /><br />From the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=177320">Jerusalem Post:</a><br /><br /><blockquote><b>Outrage in Gaza after group confiscates files, equipment.</b><br /><br />Hamas’s security forces on Monday and Tuesday raided the offices of several non-governmental organizations in the Gaza Strip and confiscated equipment and furniture, drawing sharp condemnations from human rights groups.<br /><br />The sources said the raids were carried out by agents belonging to Hamas’s Internal Security apparatus without court permission.<br /><br />The NGOs raid on Monday were: Sharik Youth Institution, Bonat Al-Mustaqbal (Future Builders) Society, the South Society for Women’s Health, and the Women and Children Society.<br /><br />They confiscated most of the equipment and other items, including computers, faxes, cameras, documents and reports, in addition to the keys to their doors. Thesecurity agents informed the directors that their organizations were closed. They did not provide any reasons behind this decision. </blockquote><br />Wow. You know there's an old saying in Israel that the Arabs "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" - even when they have the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-information-coming-to-light-about.html">whole stupid world behind them,</a> screaming at Israel. It's just amazing how Hamas just can't control themselves for 10 minutes in order to capitalize on their renewed sympathy. Like a pack of rabid dogs they just have to stealstealsteal and killkillkill. <br /><br />And who do they steal from? The very <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say.html">IDIOTS</a> who donate to their cause in the first place. How can anyone, even if you think the Israelis are the biggest scum in the world, actually trust these Hamas sewer rats with their money? Or with anything for that matter?!<br /><center><img src="http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7058/hamasdiplomats.jpg"><br /><i>After enjoying our bus bombing simulation come join us for an exclusive investment opportunity - we hear the Florida real estate market is about to EXPLODE! Hardy har har!</i></center><br /><br />This of course comes after Hamas spit in their naive faces earlier in the day by <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=177320">REFUSING THE AID</a> that Israel had delivered to them from the ships.<br /><br /><blockquote>“Hamas has refused to allow those trucks to go in,” the official said, “and if the aid is so urgent, my question is, why are they not allowing it into Gaza?”<br /><br />The official added that “we have conducted talks with the Red Cross [to try and get the aid in], but Hamas is still refusing. In the meantime, the rest of truckloads will wait in Israel until further notice.”<br /><br />The Hamas government’s social welfare minister, Ahmed Kurd, said the group “refuse[s] to receive the humanitarian aid until all those who were detained aboard the ships are released. We also insist that the equipment be delivered in its entirety.”</blockquote><br />Well yeah, who needs a bunch of wheelchairs when what Hamas was REALLY after were some hot new laptops and iPads to run their <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">"Qassam Launcher"</a> app. And where better to get them than from some idiot NGO's that for some reason are still shocked when a criminal organization of murderers and terrorists seizes things from them by force. Are they actually living in dreamland? Or do they <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">enjoy being abused</a> by the very people they're trying to help? Is that what it's really about here? Maybe I've been wrong all these years...it's not that these guys hate Israel...maybe they just hate themselves so much that they need terrorists to beat them up and take their lunch money.<br /><br />Truly, I've never seen a bigger bunch of idiots than these "peace activists" who hold rallies and sit-ins and protests in support of people who STEAL from them. Hell a whole shipload of these buffoons <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/05/cnn-10-dead-as-israeli-forces-storm.html">just risked their lives</a> to break a naval blockade for these gangsters. What's next, "Peace Flotilla for the Crips" ? "Freedom Ships for the Latin Kings" ? Oh don't worry...it's no big deal that they're robbing us the day after we get shot at for helping them or that they regularly use us as human shields, it's all about the apartheid wall that the Israelis built to keep these hoodlums out of their own cities.<br /><br />Hey thanks so much for the free sandwich, what do you say you give me your wallet too? Or I'll kill you. Who would <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerate</a> such treatment?<br /><br />Keep supporting them guys. Really, you're doing lots of good here.<br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=1596826657181355536&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-31882092540110697012010-06-02T01:45:00.010-04:002010-06-02T02:16:43.047-04:00More information coming to light about the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla"We all knew this story wasn't going away anytime soon. Well, some new details are emerging about the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" that the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/05/cnn-10-dead-as-israeli-forces-storm.html">Israelis attempted to search on Monday</a> when they were met with knives and metal rods to the face.<br /><br />From the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177165">Jerusalem Post:</a><br /><br /><blockquote>In a statement to reporters at the port on Tuesday, Colonel Moshe Levi, commander of the IDF’s Gaza Strip Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), said that none of the equipment found on board the three cargo ships was in shortage in Gaza.<br /><br />“We have been working non-stop for the last twenty-four hours examining the cargo holds of the three large cargo ships and I can say with great assurance, that none of the equipment on board is needed in Gaza. <b>The equipment that we found is all equipment that we have regularly allowed into the strip over the past year,”</b> said Levi. “This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the whole premise of the voyage was for propaganda and provocation and not for humanitarian purposes.”<br /><br />Among the equipment that the IDF agreed to show reporters were medical supplies, including electric vehicles for handicapped people, wheelchairs, stretchers, hospital beds and boxes of medicine. They also showed crates full of dry food products and children’s toys.</blockquote><br />Very important to note is the fact that this is all equipment that Israel regularly allows into Gaza every single day of every single week. There was NO NEED for this confrontation. There was NO NEED for this loss of life. <br /><br /><blockquote>“The cargo ships were loaded haphazardly, with all of the equipment mixed up in the large holds. Ships loaded in this way would not be accepted in any port. We are loading the equipment on the trucks far more carefully than it was loaded on to the ships,” he said.</blockquote><br />Unreal. But wait, there's more. <br /><br />Also from the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177169">JPost:</a><br /><br /><blockquote>According to the defense officials, the IDF has identified about 50 passengers on the ship who could have <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">terrorist connections</a> with global jihad-affiliated groups.<br /><br />During its searches of the Mavi Marmara on Tuesday, <b>the military also discovered a cache of bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles, as well as gas masks.</b> On Monday morning, at least nine foreign activists were killed during the navy’s takeover of the Mavi Marmara, which was trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.<br /><br />The group of over 50 passengers with possible terror connections have refused to identify themselves and were not carrying passports. <b>Many of them were carrying envelopes packed with thousands of dollars in cash.</b><br /><br />The military is working to identify the passengers and is looking into the possibility that some of them have been involved in terror attacks. Some of them are apparently known Islamic extremists.</blockquote><br />Bulletproof vests? Night-vision goggles?! What peaceful purpose are those used for, exactly? And I wonder what <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/invasion.html">Hamas could do</a> with envelopes packed with cash?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8508/20106202848717345.jpg"><br /><i>Hamas version of Woodstock, now with 100% less rock and roll</i></center><br /><br />Let's also keep in mind that Hamas regularly attempts to import weapons by sea and has been <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/iran-arms-ship-bound-for-gaza-downed-near-sudan-1.274854">caught in the act</a> by Israel in the past. There's a very legitimate reason why Israel needs to inspect everything before it goes in to Gaza.<br /><br />Here's the bottom line.<br /><br />FACT: Israel is currently in a state of war with Hamas which controls Gaza. <br /><br />FACT: The <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm">Hamas charter</a> outright calls for the destruction of Israel. <br /><br />FACT: Israel has the capability to flatten all of Gaza and all of Hamas within a span of approximately 2 hours.<br /><br />FACT: Hamas has fired thousands upon thousands of rockets at <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">Israeli cities</a> and has terrorized the Israeli population for over two decades now.<br /><br />FACT: In a state of war, a nation has no legal obligation to allow its enemy to receive goods by sea - especially when those goods are often used to KILL its own citizens!<br /><br />But you know all this already or you wouldn't be reading this right now. <br /><br />What you may not know is that Israel not only tolerates a hostile entity on its border but ALLOWS international donors to deliver all sorts of materials, food and medicine to this hostile entity on a DAILY basis. Had the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" gone about their business through normal channels and delivered their goods the way thousands of tons are delivered everyday, these 10 knife-wielding <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say.html">"peace activists"</a> would still be alive today. But it should be PAINFULLY clear by now that the goal here was not humanitarian aid, rather it was to provoke Israel into giving people something to yell about. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7168/gaza2r1506468x316.jpg"><br /><i>This is who gets fist dibs on your Gaza-bound humanitarian aid</i></center> <br /><br />And in case you don't believe me about the aid being delivered, you can follow <a href="http://twitter.com/idfspokesperson">@IDFSpokesperson</a> (note it's spokesPERSON not MAN - Israel is still the only liberal democracy in the Middle East) on Twitter and get updates like this:<br /><br /><i>99 truckloads (2,129 tons) of humanitarian aid + 300,000 liters of diesel fuel were imported into Gaza yesterday. 9:16 AM May 31st via web <br /><br />92 truckloads (1,897 tons) of humanitarian aid + 218,340 liters of diesel fuel were imported to Gaza on Thursday-May 27 10:53 AM May 30th via HootSuite <br /><br />2,405 truckloads (58,367 tons) of humanitarian aid incl. 5,278,798 diesel fuel transferred into Gaza during April 2010. 8:51 AM May 27th via HootSuite <br /><br />281 patients and accompanying indvdls exited Gaza for med treatment + 158 Int. Org. staff entered Gaza b/w May 16-22. 12:43 AM May 27th via HootSuite <br /><br />523 truckloads/13,517 tons of humanitarian aid + 938,127 liters of diesel fuel were imported to Gaza on May 16-22. 12:42 AM May 27th via HootSuite <br /><br />218 truckloads (5,629 tons) of humanitarian aid incl. 173,405 liters fuel entered Gaza on May 26th 8:49 AM May 27th via HootSuite <br /><br />88 patients and accompanying indvdls exited Gaza for med treatment + 37 Int. org. staff entered Gaza yesterday. 8:51 AM May 26th via web <br /><br />106 truckloads (2,089 tons) of humanitarian aid + 214,409 liters of diesel fuel were imported into Gaza yesterday. 8:50 AM May 26th via web </i> <br /><br />Wow! What a crippling blockade! Millions upon millions of tons of aid come in, medical patients come out. That's right kids, the brutal Israeli apartheid regime allows <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/down-with-sickness.html">dozens of Palestinians into their hospitals everyday</a> (that they supposedly discriminate against) where they toil endlessly to SAVE THEIR LIVES. They have an entire system whose purpose is to separate their Hamas enemies from the innocent Palestinians that Hamas <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/quick-follow-up.html">uses and abuses</a> in order to maintain their ACTUAL apartheid regime. You know what else Hamas does? They <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html">hijack these "aid" shipments, steal the medicine,</a> sell it to its own starving population and then USES THE MONEY to buy rockets that they then shoot at Israeli schoolchildren. You understand that? <br /><br />Why should Israel bother expending all this effort to avoid Hamas and help the Palestinian civilians if they're as bad as <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say-part-ii_30.html">everyone regularly makes them out</a> to be? Why let anything in at all to a population that democratically elected Hamas, if their goal is to just destroy destroy destroy? Oh and by the way, do you know who DOESN'T put up with Hamas? You know who DOESN'T allow millions of tons of aid into Gaza everyday? The Egyptians - anyone want to start a protest at Egyptian embassies? Free Gaza! End the Egyptian blockade! Ridiculous.<br /><br />I'm not asking these questions just for the sake of asking them. Everywhere around you there are people who don't read past the bloody headlines and make <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-real-jon-stewart-please-shut-up.html">uninformed comments and assumptions</a> based on the propaganda put out by the other side. I want someone from the pro-flotilla brigade to answer these questions. Who's going to step up and explain this to me? I'll debate anyone, anytime on this matter. Anyone, anytime. <br /><br />But more importantly - who among you is going to step up and answer the NONSENSE that's flying all over world about this? I will NOT accept that we have to just concede the media to the other side. I will NOT concede that truth will be defeated by lies...because anyone who condemns Israel over this is LYING to you. <br /><br />You get that? You are being LIED to.<br /><br />It is imperative that we do NOT allow them to control the public opinion, we ALL have to speak up and speak LOUDLY. <br /><br />There was NO NEED for a confrontation. <br /><br />There was NO NEED for violence - which was initiated by the passengers and NOT the Israelis. <br /><br />The ship was NOT delivering humanitarian aid, they were delivering toys, bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles. Anything else they had onboard was being delivered by land the same day with no incident, as it has been every other day for the past several years.<br /><br />The passengers were NOT humanitarians, many of them were terrorists or had ties to terrorist organizations. <br /><br />They held demonstrations on-board that called for violence against Jews, glorified the intifada and warned that the "army of Muhammad" would defeat the Jews.<br /><br />Anyone who tells you any different is LYING to you. Call them out on it EVERY TIME they open their mouths and shut them down. We do not have to sit quietly and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">play their impossible game</a> anymore. You've got the facts, you've got the videos, it's all right in front of you between this post and the one from Monday.<br /><br />Do NOT let them get away with it.<br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=3188209254011069701&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-47445784117501845012010-05-31T10:16:00.023-04:002010-06-01T15:31:05.547-04:0010 dead as Israeli forces storm "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" after soldier stabbed by peace activistHere's a great idea, why doesn't Turkey send a bunch of angry, Israel-hating <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say.html">"peace-activists"</a> - armed with knives, axes and cudgels - to force a confrontation with the Israeli Coast Guard in what they bill as a "humanitarian mission" to break the "seige" of Gaza. <br /><br />What could go wrong?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/31/gaza.protest/index.html?hpt=T1">From CNN:</a><br /><br /><blockquote>(CNN) -- International condemnation poured in Monday after Israeli soldiers stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid intended for Palestinians in Gaza, leaving at least 10 people dead in the resulting violence.<br /><br />Israel claimed it was defending itself, with the Israel Defense Forces saying the soldiers' lives were in danger after they were attacked with "severe physical violence, including live fire, weapons, knives and clubs."</blockquote><br />Jackpot!<br /><br />Let's see...<br /><br />More negative PR for Israel? Check. <br /><br />Jews <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">supporting their enemies,</a> thereby contributing to their own demise? Check.<br /><br />Demands from Hamas terrorists that the world rally to support their extremist dictatorship that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html">steals from its own population</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">conducts attacks</a> where it deliberately murders Israeli and Palestinian civilians? THAT'S a big check!<br /><br />European rush to support these terrorists and prove yet again they learned nothing in the 40's by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/02/jewish-bankers.html">blaming the Jews</a> as usual? Chickity check check check!<br /><br />Angry protests from clueless college students? Oh wait, nevermind it's Memorial Day - they're all at the beach or still drunk from the night before!<br /><br />You'll notice by the way that the CNN article I quoted didn't mention anything about the Israeli soldier being stabbed repeatedly by one of these idiots, only this <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/31/gaza.flotilla.israeli.raid/index.html?hpt=T1">"Israeli military version"</a> (Translation: PROPAGANDA) that included one quote and 2 out of 7 paragraphs talked about the dead activists and THEIR side of the account. Apparently CNN doesn't have anyone that watches the news in Israel because the stabbing was all over the place this morning over there.<br /><br /><center><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/buzOWKxN2co"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/buzOWKxN2co" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object></center></embed><br /><br />The video, short as it may be actually tells us a lot about the incident. Aside from the fact that this guy stabs the soldier what seems like 100 times you'll notice that there was no gun being fired and the stabber had enough freedom of movement to get behind the soldier in order to stab him. This suggests one of two things:<br /><br />1. This happened AFTER the initial raid/attack by the Israeli military during which, after opening fire on the ship, they inexplicably did not restrain and subdue the crew and passengers nor did they apparently search them for massive daggers before turning their backs to them. For this scenario to be accurate, the stabber would have witnessed at least some of his friends being shot and still decided to forfeit his life by attempting to single-handedly defeat a heavily-armed commando unit with nothing more than a knife of his own.<br /><br />OR<br /><br />2. The stabbing occurred BEFORE the Israelis opened fire, which is what prompted the soldiers - who no doubt had been taunted and threatened endlessly by the "peace activists" before boarding - to open fire in self defense. <br /><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8774/showimagev.jpg"><br /><i>Flotilla "Peace Activist" (photo from jpost.com)</i></center><br /><br />My guess is that it's option 2. <br /><br />Oh what's that you say, you're still unconvinced? Just WAIT - there's more!<br /><br />Here IS ACTUAL VIDEO from the time the FIRST SOLDIER was lowered onto the ship:<br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bU12KW-XyZE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bU12KW-XyZE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />You can see VERY CLEARLY that as SOON as the commando rappels down from the helicopter he is IMMEDIATELY surrounded and attacked in what several of the Israelis who were part of the operation referred to as a "lynching" - going so far as to compare it to the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/barbaric-idf-in-pictures.html">Ramallah lynching</a> of two Israelis in 2000. <br /><br />Furthermore, the Israeli Navy warned the flotilla to turn around - going to far as to offer an escort to the Israeli port city of Ashdod where they would be allowed to offload their materials and deliver them to Gaza by land as literally hundreds of thousands of tons of aid have been delivered in the past three years. In fact, after the commando operation - that's <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=176970">EXACTLY what happened.</a> Oh and I should also add that along with Israelis injured in the attack, their enemies who attacked them were ALSO airlifted to Israeli hospitals and treated by the same doctors who treated the soldiers. And the IDF is barbaric?! Unbelievable!<br /><br />This whole mess could have been avoided if the goal of this "peace" mission was to actually deliver goods to starving Palestinian children and the organizers had followed established protocol that is there to ensure that weapons are not delivered to people who try to kill Jewish civilians every day. <br /><br />But you see, this was no "peace" mission. It was a trap for the Israelis.<br /><br />Once more the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nakba.html">"plight of the Palestinians"</a> has been used to delegitimize Israel and support terrorism.<br /><br />And you're all falling for it.<br /><br /><br /><i><b>UPDATE:</b></i><br /><br />More coming in now from <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3896796,00.html<br />">eyewitness accounts</a> embedded with the Israeli commando unit - definitely mirrors what we saw in the second video. <br /><br />From the YNet:<br /><br /><blockquote>Navy commandoes slid down to the vessel one by one, yet then the unexpected occurred: The passengers that awaited them on the deck pulled out bats, clubs, and slingshots with glass marbles, assaulting each soldier as he disembarked. The fighters were nabbed one by one and were beaten up badly, yet they attempted to fight back.<br /> <br />However, to their misfortune, <b>they were only equipped with paintball rifles</b> used to disperse minor protests, such as the ones held in Bilin. The paintballs obviously made no impression on the activists, who kept on beating the troops up and even attempted to wrest away their weapons. <br /><br />One soldier who came to the aid of a comrade was captured by the rioters and sustained severe blows. The commandoes were equipped with handguns but were told they should only use them in the face of life-threatening situations. When they came down from the chopper, they kept on shouting to each other “don’t shoot, don’t shoot,” even though they sustained numerous blows.</blockquote> <br />Paintball rifles!! You have to read the rest of that article, it's shocking.<br /><br /><B><i>UPDATE 2:</b></i><br /><br />More footage now of "peace activists" beating the Israelis as they are first rappelling down to the ship. <br /><br /><center><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gYjkLUcbJWo"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gYjkLUcbJWo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Again, please note that this is PRIOR to any shots being fired.<br /><br /><b><i>UPDATE 3:</b></i><br /><br />More video of the "peace activists" emerging from even before any encounter with the Israeli Navy shows what is basically a Hamas terrorist rally happening right on the boats.<br /><br /><center><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b3L7OV414Kk"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b3L7OV414Kk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object></center></embed><br /><br />Martyrdom, the "army of Muhammad" - wow these guys are just the pinnacle of peaceful coexistence.<br /><br />How are we letting the media spin this the way they are?!<br /><br /><b><i>UPDATE 4:</b></i><br /><br />One of the assertions all over the media is that because this raid occurred in international waters it somehow illegitimate or worse an act of "piracy." As if. Unfortunately for the Gaza Flotilla supporters, the ACTUAL laws of international waterways do not support this AT ALL. Also unfortunate for them is that <a href="http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/31/4442318-israel-the-flotilla-and-international-waters">Yaakov</a> over at newsvine.com has entirely dispelled this myth that Israel had no right to do what it did based on the location of the boats. From the article:<br /><br /><blockquote>I direct your attention to the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. Specifically, paragraph 67-68:<br /><br />67. Merchant vessels flying the flag of neutral States may not be attacked unless they:<br /><br /><i><b>(a) are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search or capture;</b><br />(b) engage in belligerent acts on behalf of the enemy;<br />(c) act as auxiliaries to the enemy s armed forces;<br />(d) are incorporated into or assist the enemy s intelligence system;<br />(e) sail under convoy of enemy warships or military aircraft; or<br />(f) otherwise make an effective contribution to the enemy s military action, e.g., by carrying military materials, and it is not feasible for the attacking forces to first place passengers and crew in a place of safety. Unless circumstances do not permit, they are to be given a warning, so that they can re-route, off-load, or take other precautions.</i></blockquote><br />Hmmmm. Breaching a blockade? Refusing to stop after being warned prior? Resisting visit, search or capture? I'm not international law expert, but would you say that based on what we saw in the videos above that the actions of the people on the boat would constitute "clearly resisting" a search??<br /><br />Based on the law, Israel would have not only been justified in boarding the ship which was CLEARLY suspected on reasonable grounds of carrying contraband (being that they refused inspection by the nation that still maintains responsibility for the territory they sought to enter), they would have actually been justified in attacking the ships and sinking them entirely. It is only because they showed immense restraint that no other country ever would that this did not happen. And yet, we are allowing ourselves to be painted as aggressors, as oppressors and as persecutors when it is we who are actually being persecuted.<br /><br />The fact that I have to contend with JEWS who parrot these ridiculous assertions just shows you how deeply ingrained our <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">need to self-deprecate</a> in order to please our not-so-gracious host countries really is. Disgraceful to say the least.<br /><br />Thanks also to ronmossad.com regular, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/00030960859038263923">The All Real Numbers Symbol</a> for coming through with another great link.<br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=4744578411750184501&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-42712550046298948872010-04-30T14:12:00.010-04:002010-06-16T22:43:12.530-04:00The sanction of the victim and the guiltiest man in the room - Ayn Rand and the Jewish State<i>That creed has lasted for centuries solely by the sanction of the victims—by means of the victims' acceptance of punishment for breaking a code impossible to practice.<br />--John Galt, chief protagonist of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged<br /><br />I think that Hizballah represents the hope. They are fighting to defend their homeland, they are fighting to defend the independence of their country...and I consider it to be genuinely to be an honor to be in their presence.<br />--Norman Finkelstein<br /><br />How can the foul taste of death become sweeter than honey? Only through conviction, ideology, and faith, through belief, and devotion.<br />--Hasan Nasrallah, head of Hizballah<br /><br />In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm<br />--Ernesto 'Che' Guevara</i><br /><br /><center> ____________________________________________ </center><br /><br /><b>ANTI-THESIS</b><br /><br /><br />Who is guiltier, the professional murderer or his sacrificial victim?<br /><br />Regular readers of this blog will recall a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/does-not-compute_15.html">previous article</a> where we explored the bizarre obsession of academics, journalists, self-professed <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">"liberals"</a> and even clergy to perpetually fault Israel and the Jews for the escalating rocket attacks and violence that ended up culminating in the Gaza War of last year. The conclusion we came to was that no matter how violent and barbaric Palestinian terrorists were in the pursuit of their goals, in the end it was irrelevant because the rest of the world viewed their cause as just. All the while Israel's right (or perhaps "struggle" would be a more accurate word) to protect its citizens and simply EXIST was secondary at best, unnecessary and unjust at worst.<br /><br />It didn't matter what was happening to the citizens of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">Sderot</a> and Ashkelon and Ashdod and all of southern Israel in the years since the disengagement just like it didn't matter what had happened to the residents of Acre, Haifa, Nehariya and all of northern Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war. Nor did matter what had happened to Jewish residents of the Galilee in the years preceding the 1967 war, the Jewish victims of the Palestinian Fedayeen in the years preceding the 1956 war, the Jews of Hebron, Jerusalem, Kfar Etzion and all of Israel preceding the 1948 war and the Jews of Iraq, Yemen and the whole of the Arab world AFTER 1948. And what about that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/wear-white-for-gilad-shalit-4272010.html">Gilad Shalit</a> guy? STILL in captivity but who cares about him anyway, right?<br /><br />Likewise irrelevant were the countless, unending (whether they be Jewish or not) victims of Palestinian riots, intifadas, knife attacks, bus bombings, airplane and boat hijackings, restaurant attacks, hotel massacres, disco infernos, highway shootings or <a href="http://www.onefamilyfund.org/article.asp?id=3158">other terror attacks</a> over a century of upheaval.<br /><br />None of this matters to the outside world because - as my earlier post argued - they believe that the Arabs are right and the Israelis are wrong. This has been the case at least since the <a href="http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/c758572b78d1cd0085256bcf0077e51a?OpenDocument">UN resolution</a> demanding the Arab refugees' "right of return" not just to the West Bank and Gaza but to Israel proper. Zionist experiment over, time to go back to the status-quo that existed before the Holocaust...sorry Jews, that was a nice run you had but who were you kidding trying to build a state and army of your own? How dare you try to ignore <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/08/meek-shall-inherit-land.html">2,000 years of historical dominance</a> over your miserable nation?<br /><br />Make no mistake, when you support people who support a policy that approves of the 4 million or so Arabs who today call themselves "Palestinian refugees" that is exactly what you are saying. When you support movements that have this as one of their stated (or unstated) purposes, regardless of what else these movements seek to accomplish - this is what you are getting.<br /><br />And make no mistake, this phenomenon is not limited purely to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It doesn't matter that the Communists had a great space program, Mussolini made the trains run on time or that the Nazis were lovely environmentalists...they were all murderers whose evil far outweighed their good.<br /><br />Yet today how many times do you see Americans and often Jews<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7793/cheguevara1242900104.jpg" /></center><br /><br />wearing a shirt with this guy on it? Or do you see posters of Che Guevara in their college dorm rooms? Who cares if he hated the exact system that allowed your parents to save up and pay for the college education that taught you about Cuban history and Marxism? What does is matter if that system is precisely what Che wanted to destroy? And that if given the power he would have gladly rounded your parents up and had them executed at one of his "revolutionary tribunals" as he did to <a href="http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.html">countless Cubans</a> before trying to export his revolution to Africa. Buy the t-shirts, wear them with pride. If it's anti-establishment it MUST be cool, right?<br /><br />Nor is this limited to long-dead, mythical, historical figures. Hugo Chavez must be totally wicked awesome if he denounces President Bush...nevermind the fact that he <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/25/iran.ahmadinejad.venezuala/index.html">supports insane, nuclear-obsessed lunatics</a> like the Iranian mullahs or that his government <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051504153.html">arms and funds FARC terrorists</a> that kill innocent Columbians or that he incites anti-Israel hatred and creates an <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/01/1002660/concern-criticism-follow-venezuelan-synagogue-attack"> escalating climate of hostility towards Jews</a> or that he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/world/americas/25venez.html">destroys freedom of speech,</a> shuts down <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=hugo+chavez+political+opponents&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">political opponents</a> and <a href="http://caracasgringo.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/terrified-hugo-chavez-threatens-mass-slaughter/">threatens them</a> with bloodbaths.<br /><center><br /><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zagcKHmFoW4"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zagcKHmFoW4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></center><br />Or that he apparently can't multiply...<br /><br />So with that in mind, what difference does it make that Yasir Arafat or Saddam Hussein were as likely to behead you as they were to embrace your support? Keep wearing your kefiyyahs and anti-Israel t-shirts. Keep supporting <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/heros-welcome-hooray.html">countries that treat murderers as heroes</a> and have parades for them. Keep demanding an end to the "occupation" and the installation of theocrats and dictators instead of the liberal democracy that is there today.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8494/img8547e.jpg" /></center><br />And is STILL the ONLY place in a 2,000 mile radius that guarantees the safety of ALL minorities, including gays.<br /><br />This picture, taken at an <a href="http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/">anti-Israel rally</a> during last year's Gaza war is essentially the ANTI-thesis statement for what must become the new focus of truly pro-Israel movements and movements that claim to espouse Jewish pride. This girl is the opposite of everything we need to be.<br /><br />When we pretend that the moral high-ground can be achieved by sympathizing with the forces that will hunt us down and destroy us, no matter how pathetic or mainstream they may appear to the rest of the world, we become our own enemy. We sanction our own destruction and we become guiltier than the murderer that seeks to kill us - whether in Israel, America, Europe, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">India</a> or elsewhere.<br /><br /><div>Therefore, in response to the original question of who is guiltier - the professional murder or his sacrificial victim, the answer is the victim because:</div><div><br /></div><div>a) if the victim didn't sacrifice him or herself , the murderer would not be able to succeed and</div><div><br /></div><div>b) one who makes a habit of murder reaches a point when he or she is not redeemable...the victim, on the other hand - should know better. And yet somehow, we Jews after all we've been through, apparently still do not know better.</div><div><br />This simply cannot continue.<br /><br /><center>____________________________________________</center><br /><br /><i>They are willing to bear nothing. You are willing to bear anything. They keep evading responsibility. You keep assuming it.<br />--Francisco D'Anconia<br /><br />If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner they please for the sake of whatever they deem to be their own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply because they need it—well, so does any burglar. There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act.<br />--Hank Rearden<br /><br />We will return to Jaffa, to Acre, to Tel Aviv, to Jerusalem, to Ramle. We'll play soccer, Saraa. I'll be happy when we go back there.<br />--Hamas puppet "Nassour" to young girl host of children’s program<br /><br />Until victory, always.<br />--Ernesto 'Che' Guevara</i><br /><br /><div><br /><center>____________________________________________</center><br /><br /><b>SANCTION</b><br /><br /><br />For a long time I thought that simple <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/goodbye-to-decade-from-hell-and-good.html">ignorance of reality</a> was what drove these people to embrace the paradox of their own demise, but it goes much deeper than that.<br /><br />Because you see, the Jewish lesbian who supports Hamas (who if they had their way would execute her, which eliminates her support for them - hence the paradox) in all her absurd irony, answers the life-changing question posed by Francisco D'Anconia to Hank Rearden about midway through Ayn Rand's epic, <a href="http://atlasshrugged.com/">Atlas Shrugged:</a><br /><br /><i>If the things I said are true, who is the guiltiest man in this room tonight?</i><br /><br />While it is hard to boil down a 1,000+ page book into a single sentence - for the purpose of this article - the Francisco/Hank exchanges say it all. If you haven't read the book yet, go now and read it. I'll wait right here, patiently until you return.<br /><br />While Atlas Shrugged is host to many themes, messages and subplots, the storyline that I always most identified with was that of Henry "Hank" Rearden. Rearden, a self-made, multi-multi-millionaire is a ruthlessly confident businessman and consummate professional with only one major weakness...he (like the entirety of the American society presented in the book) has been taught his entire life that it is his responsibility to support everyone who does not support themselves. His wife, family and the general public deride him as a greedy, selfish <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/neighborhood-bully.html">bully</a> whose only concern is the bottom line - all the while living off the fruits of his labor even as they abuse him at every opportunity. Rearden's personal life is a truly miserable one as he is bound by a morality whereby he feels that by suffering at the hands of his tormentors and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">appeasing</a> them, he is somehow a more virtuous person.<br /><br />Even as society and the economy is decaying around him as the "looters" and "moochers" seize more and more of his wealth, property and freedom, Rearden continues to suffer and work harder because he loves his work and is driven by a desire to produce and progress - even though by the end he is producing almost exclusively for the thieves and murderers that make up the government in the book. The irony of course is that the people condemning him as being greedy and selfish NEED him to continue to produce because THEY themselves are incapable of it and without him they would be lost. Since everyone around Hank lives off of his production, if he refuses to produce, refuses to be "greedy" and behaves in the way his enemies pretend to want him to behave, they would ALL starve to death.<br /><br />His willing subscription to their morality, his <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerance</a> of their evil, his continuing to play their game with their rules is the only way they can destroy him. His enemies cannot succeed without the sanction of their victim. And it is thus the same with our enemies.<br /><br />Since the first halutzim (pioneers) began working the fields and improving living conditions in what would become the modern state of Israel, Arabs against the Jewish state have demanded they vacate the land and <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134659">"return"</a> it to them.<br /><center><br /><img src="http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6175/53040787.jpg" /><br /></center><br />Really? Where were these claims when Israel was a barren, backwater desert administered by the Ottomans for half a millennium? All of the sudden the Jews bring irrigation, highways and Tel Aviv to Israel and Arab residents who for 1500 years of foreign Turkish domination never even knew how to spell "nationalism" became the world's greatest political refugee problem. </div><div><br /></div><div>You don't think the Jewish presence in Ottoman and British Palestine significantly improved conditions for the native Arab population? How else would you explain <a hrerf="http://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine"> 64,790 Arab immigrants</a> to areas that became part of 1948 Israel? From the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine">Middle East Forum:</a><br /><blockquote>The Arab Palestinian populations within those sub-districts that eventually became Israel increased from 321,866 in 1922 to 463,288 in 1931 or by 141,422. Applying the 2.5 per annum natural rate of population growth to the 1922 Arab Palestinian population generates an expected population size for 1931 of 398,498 or <b>64,790</b><b> less than the actual population</b> <b>recorded</b><b> in the British census. </b>By imputation, this unaccounted population increase must have been either illegal immigration not accounted for in the British census...</blockquote>That means that 14% of the ENTIRE ARAB POPULATION of British Mandate Palestine was made up of IMMIGRANTS from just the nine years between 1922-1931! If the Zionists were so bad for the natives, why move to be CLOSER to them? End the occupation? And do what? Turn the entirety of the West Bank into <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/taste-of-whats-to-come.html">Gaza City?</a> Or into the pre-Israel swamp and desert that the Galilee and Negev were, respectively?<br /><br />And lest you think that these migration patterns ceased in the 20's and 30's...every single day anywhere between <a href="http://www.btselem.org/english/Workers/">68,000 to 115,000 Palestinians</a> cross either legally or illegally into Israel to work for their supposedly racist Israeli employers...or <a href="http://www.netanyahu.org/ecrelbetisan.html">work for the very West Bank settlers</a> who they claim to seek to displace! Apparently Zionist occupiers and Jewish settlers pay much better than Arab "freedom fighters". Just to put this into perspective, this means that approximately 10-20% of the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/we.html#economy">ENTIRE West Bank labor force</a> is employed by Jews or Israelis.<br /><br />What happens when Palestinians work in Israel or for Israelis/Jews? They pay taxes on that income to the Israeli government...which then hands the money right back to the Palestinian government. When the 2nd Intifada broke out and when Hamas came to power Israel caused an international uproar by <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/876935.html">withholding</a> the estimated $50-$60 million a month that they transfer to Fatah and Hamas. For those mathematicians not named <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zagcKHmFoW4&feature=player_embedded">Hugo Chavez,</a> that works out to between $600 and $720 million per year.<br /><br />If you clicked the link that had to do with the West Bank labor force, you would have read on the CIA Factbook that the ENTIRE PALESTINIAN REVENUE COLLECTION for 2006 was $1.63 billion. That means that nearly HALF of the TOTAL Palestinian intake (which is then used to purchase guns that kill Israelis, print <a href="http://www.pmw.org.il/schoolbooks.html">schoolbooks</a> that talk about <a href="http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part7.html">eliminating Israel</a> and fund TV programs that <a href="http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part1.html">brainwash children</a> into thinking that they should throw rocks at Israeli tanks) is funded by the VERY PEOPLE they seek to destroy. And oh, by the way, in 2009 an additional $900 million was pledged to them by the <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/july/126440.htm">US and A</a> State Department.<br /><br />How about the case of <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/04/world/la-fg-israel-highway4-2010jan04">route 443,</a> a road that links central Israel to Jerusalem? Or any of the "Jewish-only" roads that I'm sure you've heard the people crying crocodile tears about for that matter. Since the 2nd Intifada, several roads through the West Bank have been closed to Palestinian traffic due to DAILY shooting attacks on Israeli civilian vehicles that left many innocent civilians dead or injured. My own cousin's car was firebombed while he was driving home from Jerusalem with his wife and baby girl.<br /><br />Since the closure, this has for the most part ceased to be an issue. Now the Palestinians are demanding that this road be open to their traffic and in fact, the Israeli Supreme Court has <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135254">ruled</a> in their favor. Soon, the new rule will go into effect and many Israelis will be avoiding this road out of fear that their families will be targets again. The road (like the rest of the infrastructure in Israel) by the way, was built by Israelis. What's that you say, Israelis shouldn't be able to drive through or live in the West Bank? But if Israel closes its borders to foreign Palestinians after a terrorist bombing, that's "apartheid" right? Interesting...<br /><br />Want more? Because we have it. Along with the "end the occupation!" refrain which we seem to have had since time immemorial, the newer, hipper catchphrase of the late 00's was the "end the seige!" mantra - referring of course to Israel's closure of Gaza in response to daily rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. From the <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/">Sderot Media Center:</a><br /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><blockquote>Most English dictionaries define siege as an “act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies...”<br /><br />Indeed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ website has reported that in the year 2009 alone, Israel allowed for 703, 224 tons of humanitarian aid and 105,600,128 liters of fuel to be delivered into the Gaza Strip following Operation Cast Lead.<br /><br />“The IDF invested major resources to enable the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip” stated Col. Moshe Levi, the head of the IDF’s Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, in November 2009. According to Levi, humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip increased by 900 percent compared to the previous year. Over 22, 893 humanitarian aid trucks entered into Gaza throughout 2009.</blockquote></span><br /></i><center><i><img src="http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/1729/nahal20oz20aid20041small.jpg" /><br /><br />Aid trucks ready to enter the Gaza Strip in the background. (Photo: Jacob Shrybman/Sderot Media Center)</i></center><br />Source: <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=602&q=3">Blockading the Truth: Getting the facts straight on the ‘Gaza Siege’</a><br /><br />Let's for now grant that "humanitarian aid" is just that (ignoring the propensity of Hamas to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html">seize medical supplies</a> in order to sell them and use the money for guns and rockets that kill civilians) and just think about those 100+ million liters of fuel.<br /><br />What basic thing do all militaries need in order to operate? The ability to move. What enables a military unit to move quickly, set up a rocket and then flee the scene before the return fire lays waste to it? An automotive of some kind, be it a car, truck, van, motorcycle, rocket sled, whatever. What do all of these things need to operate? FUEL. Who gets first dibs on all the fuel that comes into Gaza (as well as everything else)? HAMAS. What does Hamas do with their fuel? KILL ISRAELIS. Who provides Hamas with fuel? ISRAELIS. Who provides the vast majority of electricity and water for the population that put Hamas into power? ISRAELIS. What do <a href="http://pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=19&country=168">68% of Palestinians</a> think is a legitimate way to defend Islam? SUICIDE BOMBINGS AGAINST CIVILIANS. What people do <a href="http://pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=2&country=168&response=Unfavorable">77% of Palestinians</a> have an unfavorable rating of? AMERICANS. Who are the loudest supporters of Palestinians? <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-so-strange-bedfellows-rutgers.html">AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS.</a><br /><br />Who suffers for all of this? Israelis. Americans. Jews. Who allows it to happen? Israelis. Americans. Jews. Who, often FUNDS and ENCOURAGES their own suffering? Israelis. Americans. Jews.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2657/img8578n.jpg" /></center><div><br /></div><br />Sanction of the victim.<br /><br />Is it starting to click yet? In the end, it's not about Palestinian radicalism, Palestinian corruption, or ineffective <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-comments-necessary.html">Palestinian "leadership".</a> The guiltiest man in the room isn't Hasan Nasrallah, Ismail Haniyeh, Mahmoud Abbas or even Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.<br /><br />It's you. It's me. Like Hank Rearden WE are the ones that perpetuate this situation. WE are the ones that allow it to happen. And it is our fault because we should KNOW BETTER. And it isn't even that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">Barack Obama</a> or Hilary Clinton's or <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-this-clown-out-of-here.html">Ehud Olmert's</a> misguided policies allow the other side to succeed. Who put these in power? WE DID.<br /><br />And by we I mean Jews who overwhelmingly swept Obama into power by giving him <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollow-hollow-words.html">77% of their vote</a> and continue to defend their decision STILL TODAY, even as Iran continues to move towards <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">nuclear weaponization</a> and Israel's future hangs in the balance. This isn't to say of course that everyone who voted for Obama doesn't like Israel, but it's hard to claim you are a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-dead-end-street.html">pro-Israel activist</a> if you don't do the most basic thing you can do in a democracy if you care about something.<br /><br />That is to VOTE for the people who will support it as opposed to people who will <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-obama-cairo-speech-was-bad-for.html">throw it under a bus.</a><br /><br />This should be so obvious to us and yet still we pretend that it somehow makes us more virtuous to work (or at least vote) against our own best interests even as our actions directly or indirectly aid our would-be murderers.<br /><br />This HAS to change. The clock is ticking.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><center>____________________________________________</center><br /><i><br />However, we should recognize that the policies of Hamas are more forthcoming and more conducive to a peaceful settlement than those of the United States or Israel.<br />--Noam Chomsky<br /><br />Our main goal is to occupy all of Palestine and to push Israel to the sea or back to their countries. We are over 10 million refugees, but we will return home soon.<br />--Talal Nasser, Hamas PR Director<br /><br />It is the complete opposite; he [Ahmedinejad] wants peace and not to destroy the Jewish nation, that’s what he explained to us.<br />--Rabbi Yisroel David Weiss, Neturei Karta<br /><br />We have manufactured missiles that allow us, when necessary, to replace (sic) Israel in its entirety with a big holocaust.<br />--Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, Senior Iranian Official<br /><br /></i><br /><center>____________________________________________</center><br /><br /><b>PERPETUATION</b><br /><br /></div><div><br />There can be little debate on the fact that the Jewish nation as a whole has had a historically destructive habit of aiding the very people who seek to destroy it. However, this suicidal tendency was by no means invented by the state of Israel, assimilationist/secular Jews or godless Zionists. In fact secular Zionism - the movement that founded (and serves as a basis for) the State of Israel was arguably the first time victimized Jews refused to give their sanction to their destroyers and chose to take control of their own destiny since the Bar Kochba rebellion of nearly 2000 years earlier.<br /><br />Nor was Bar Kochba the first to stand up to his oppressors of his own volition. One needs only look at the stories of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/radio-hanukkah-broadcasting-live-from.html">Chanukah</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/03/purimfest.html">Purim</a> - the two holidays that were most recently added to the Jewish calendar - to see examples of Jewish heroes like Judah the Maccabee and Queen Esther.<br /><br />So we know that at some point, the perception of the Jew shifted from being that of a brave warrior-scholar...<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/134/03000471.jpg" /></center><br /><br />...like Judah the Maccabee, one of <i>The Nine Worthies</i> - who along with people like King Arthur and Alexander the Great were the historic <a href="http://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/28.217.2">exemplars</a> of chivalric code...<br /><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/3474/woodyallenimage4.jpg" /></center><br /><br />...and instead became the pathetic, docile, self-deprecating, Woody Allen nebbishes we are today. How (and why) did this happen? It if imperative that we answer these questions because if we are to ever change this suicidal docility, we must first understand the mentality that allows it to exist in the first place.<br /><br />What causes <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5334541/the-moral-inversion-of-richard-goldstone.thtml">Richard Goldstone</a> to devote so much time to destroying Israel's legitimacy? What causes the <a href="http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8494/img8547e.jpg">Jewish lesbian</a> to go out and protest in FAVOR of a regime that would have her beheaded, shot or stoned to death? Why do Jews all over the world like <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1666">Adam Shapiro</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-sucks.html">Peter Trainor</a> advocate for the destruction of Israel, the only hope Jews have had since Biblical times of protecting and defending their own interests, whether within Israel or without? What drives people like <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-real-jon-stewart-please-shut-up.html">Jon Stewart</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-do-not-speak-for-me.html">Sarah Silverman</a> to embarrass and attack themselves, their culture and their legitimacy? How can Jewish parents be "happy" when their child grows up to become a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-giving-your-children-strong.html">Muslim fundamentalist</a> and terrorist sympathizer? Why are Jews SO COMPELLED to always prove to the world that they aren't just looking out for other Jews or Americans or Israelis, that rather they are citizens of the entire world?<br /><br />Often these people are labeled as being "self-hating" Jews...an allegation they vigorously deny. After all, how can you be self-hating when Fiddler on the Roof is your favorite movie?<br /><br />Oh and don't be fooled into thinking that this suicidal tendency is prevalent only in the Jewish Left. Perhaps the worst offenders are the DECIDEDLY RIGHT WING Neturei Karta group.<br /><center><br /><br /><img src="http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1945/netureikarta.jpg" /><img src="http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/5277/netureikartas.jpg" /><img src="http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7563/ak04m.jpg" /><br /></center><br /><br />Basing their hatred for Israel on the Talmudic commandment not to re-establish the State of Israel without a God-sent messiah as <a href="http://images.e-daf.com/DafImg.asp?ID=2042&size=2">found</a> in the tractate Ketuvot, page 111a, <a href="http://www.nkusa.org/aboutus/index.cfm">the Neturei Karta site</a> states the following:<br /><blockquote>Jews shall not use human force to bring about the establishment of a Jewish state before the coming of the universally accepted Moshiach (Messiah from the House of David). Furthermore it states that we are forbidden to rebel against the nations and that we should remain loyal citizens and we shall not attempt to leave the exile which G-d sent us into, ahead of time.</blockquote>Nor is this approach to foreign policy limited to fringe lunatics like the Neturei Karta. Indeed several extremely conservative (but much more mainstream) Jewish groups are also extremely anti-self-determination. While the Neturei Karta are the most visible and most active (in several cases actually <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135369">CONSPIRING with Arab terrorists</a> against other Jews) other anti-Zionist/Israel or non-Zionist groups exist that take a more passive view. The hasidic Satmar group for example, along with many other long-peyos-sporting Jews, still to this day prefer the shtetl (be it in Williamsburg, Lodz or Me'ah She'arim) to the kibbutz.<br /><br />While they do not actively work against the state of Israel they absolutely reject its legitimacy. Few things in life are as paradoxical as the shtreimel-wearing haredi residents of some Jerusalem neighborhoods who refuse to vote or participate in Israeli society (often conducting massive protests against it) but still rely on the police and military to protect and defend them. It should be noted that not ALL haredim are anti-Zionist/Israel and that in recent years that there have even been <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=663109">signs of integration</a> between these groups and the State.<br /><br />Now, most secular Jews (especially those who voted for Obama) would never be caught dead hanging out with <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/south-park-and-revolution-muslim.html">religious fanatics</a> like the Neturei Karta. In fact, if she was caught being "queer" under a Neturei Karta regime, our Jewish lesbian friend from earlier would likely find herself in the same predicament as under a Hamas or al-Qaeda regime. That is, stoned to death.<br /><br />And yet, it is this VERY POLICY - as quoted by the Neturei Karta and enacted by the post-2nd Temple rabbinic authority - that was based on a desire to appease the Romans and whoever the conqueror-du-jour of Judea was, that has been an accepted Jewish way of life for almost TWO THOUSAND years. All through the centuries of persecution, pogroms, Inquisitions, crusades and Holocausts there was NEVER an organized movement to re-establish a Jewish homeland in Israel or anywhere else for that matter. Since the Bar-Kochba revolt there were almost no examples of Jews even so much as FIGHTING BACK against persecution until the very height of it, the Holocaust. And even then it was <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tragedy-and-glory-resistance-of-yom.html">far too late</a> by the time we took up arms.<br /><br />For thousands of years we were taught to be docile, to be pacifists, not to upset the balance and to be good citizens of the world wherever we went. This pragmatic, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/02/jewish-bankers.html">"man-without-a-country"</a> mentality has allowed Jews to succeed in ways few other minorities have been able to in the United States and Europe but it also created a victim-mentality that still pervades Jewish culture to this day.<br /><br />It really isn't about an emotional feeling of self-hatred...it's that this self-PRESERVING, pacifist behavior is so completely ingrained in our collective psyche that we don't even realize it's there anymore. And up until <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-birthday-israel-yom-haatzmaut.html">fairly recently</a> in historical terms, this behavior was necessary - how else were we to survive in a world where we were always at the mercy of our host countries?<br /><br />Why else do we constantly hear from Jews that they don't vote for <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/12/shmuel-rosner-likes-obamaronmossad-not.html">"Israel's interests"</a> but rather for the good of whatever country they live in? Why is there this need to constantly demonstrate our loyalty to our host countries even though (with the exception of the United States) they have committed unspeakable atrocities against us in basically 100% of them? Whereas at one time this was the only way for our people to survive, today it is something akin to national suicide.<br /><br />Why is there such an aversion to demonstrate real Jewish pride and support for ZIONISM - which is essentially nothing more than a Jewish <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/02/anti-zionist-anti-jewish.html">self-protection</a> movement? Why does every other minority in the United States claim "minority" status, while Jews are listed simply as Caucasians? The Jewish experience has absolutely NOT been the same as the Spanish, French, English, German or other European nationalities. Why do we allow ourselves to be lumped in with them?<br /><br />You Jews who are reading this...ask yourself these questions. Can you answer them? Does it bother you that you are thought of as a pushover by the rest of the world? Do Jewish stereotypes bother you? What have you done to break them down? Why do you behave the way you do? Do you like the fact that the most well-known Jews are self-hating, embarrassments like Woody Allen, Sarah Silverman, Noam Chomsky and the rest of the bagels-and-lox brigade who thrive on the image that you're just a kvetching, oy-vey spewing, no-tipping cheapskate whose cousins steal land from Arabs? Does that define you? If not, then WHY do you accept it?<br /><br />I'll tell you why - it's because you've been indoctrinated to accept and perpetuate it by 2,000 years of <a href="http://www.bubbygram.com/zenjewishhumor.htm">self-deprecation</a> in the face of anti-Semitism. Whether you're Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Humanist or completely secular you all share a common foundation and that is page 111a in Ketuvot - the part where your ancestors <b>decided on your behalf </b>that it was best to grin and bear it and wait for God to forgive us and bring us out of exile.<br /><br />Then when your great-great-grandfather crawled to America in search of streets paved with gold, he found a place where he could cross the street without being trampled to death by some angry Cossack and wow, was it nice. So what if they wanted him to work on Saturdays, as long as they didn't send him back to Lodz or Oddessa or Kiev and burn down his synagogue he would grin, bear it and provide for his family.<br /><br />This is what he taught your great-grandfather, who taught your grandfather, who taught your father who TRIED to teach your mother - who was born a Catholic and got a Reform conversion to make your grandmother happy - but she didn't quite understand what all the fuss was about. Hey at least she likes pastrami from Katz's deli just like your father does, so she's like 99% Jewish anyway, right?<br /><br />Right?<br /><br />And so today, you think the the main purpose of Judaism is <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/06/put-up-or-shut-up.html">tikun olam</a> (fixing or improving the world) which in your mind means voting for social justice programs that benefit the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/whats-right-is-right.html">"real" minorities</a> who didn't have the benefits of your father's NYU law-degree-assisted salary. All those rules and regulations are just outdated mysticism that doesn't apply in the 21st century and besides, you're never giving up your grandmother's delicious chicken parm that she makes every year for <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/happy-holidays-from-ronmossadcom.html">Christmas/Hanukkah.</a><br /><br />Certainly no JEWS need any help anywhere in the world because their fathers are also all accountants or lawyers or doctors or investment bankers like you and your friends are. And if you look at the Middle East, you see a bunch of white Israelis on CNN (and they MUST be white because there was no "Jewish" or "Israeli" option on your FAFSA form) living in beautiful apartments and working in huge skyscrapers surrounded by a bunch of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nakba.html">starving Arabs</a> who live in mud huts.<br /><br />Obviously the Israelis must be <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/neighborhood-bully.html">the oppressors</a> and the Arabs must be the oppressed because the Jews have it all and the Arabs have nothing. Therefore the Arabs need our help and besides weren't they there before the Zionists came and stole their lands? After all, you DID learn in your Arab-Israeli conflict class (that you only took to impress that cute Egyptian girl that you met at the interfaith mixer the weekend you moved into your dorm) that there weren't any Jews in Israel before the 1800's, right?<br /><br />Right?<br /><br />And your grandfather always told you that the only way to survive was to fit in...you wouldn't want anyone to think you support ISRAELI interests over AMERICAN interests. That's what makes everyone hate us. Our job isn't to fight it's to stay quiet and go with the flow. Who even needs a Jewish state anyway? It just makes people hate us even more with their crazy wars and apartheid. And besides, we have America! We have Sandy Koufax! We have matza balls and gefilte fish! Who needs Israel?? <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/gilad-shalit-day.html">Gilad</a> who? <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/catastrophe.html">Forgotten Refugees</a> what? End the occupation! End the seige! Free Palestine!<br /><br /><center><br /><img src="http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6770/handshake.jpg" /><br /></center><br /><br />Congratulations you're a Neturei Karta.<br /><br />You may THINK you're bravely choosing to fight for the oppressed or Tom Joad or whatever other nonsense Zach De La Rocha told you you're doing but really you're just acting the way you've been trained to act by 2,000 years of oppression, massacres and beat-downs. You've perpetuated the most right-wing, conservative interpretation possible of the culture your <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/donkey-flew-over-cuckoos-nest.html">Democrat-voting,</a> liberal father always told you was silly mysticism. Grow out your sideburns and put on a black hat. And then stone yourself for having pre-marital sex.<br /><br />You idiot.<br /><br /><center>____________________________________________</center><br /><i><br />If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.<br />--Hasan Nasrallah<br /><br />I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.<br />--John Galt<br /><b><br />וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם אֶת-חֻקֹּתַי וְאֶת-מִשְׁפָּטַי, אֲשֶׁר יַעֲשֶׂה אֹתָם הָאָדָם וָחַי בָּהֶם<br /></b>Ye shall therefore keep My statutes, and Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them:<br />--Leviticus 18:5<br /><br />Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.<br />--Ernesto 'Che' Guevara</i><br /><br /></div><div><br /><center>____________________________________________</center><br /><br /><b>ANTHEM</b><br /><br /><br />So now we know the issue, we know the how and we know the why.<br /><br />The <b>ISSUE</b> is the perplexing, self-defeating behavior of Jews throughout history, the <b>HOW</b> is the aid given to our enemies that gives them the ability to fight and kill us and the <b>WHY</b> is because we have been hard-wired by 2,000 years of oppression, pain and sorrow to be docile and think that it is righteous to not resist our enemies.<br /><br />The big question now is <b>WHAT</b> do we do about it? Because there is only so far a culture of acceptance and quiet kvetching can take you...and the result is a malaise that has been steadily creeping over Jews for the past several centuries.<br /><br />It is that which cannot be said. Everyone knows it's there, but no one dares to speak openly about it.<br /><br />We all try to <a href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/evasion.html">blank-out,</a> to pretend it's nothing but an uneasiness about us. We banish the feeling to the backs of our minds, to fill our heads with American Idol and Dancing with the Stars and Tiger Woods...trying ever harder to <a href="http://www.orwelltoday.com/doublethink.shtml">doublethink</a> it away...but we can't, deep down we know it's there. You know what I'm talking about...that quiet, unsettling feeling of something being somehow...incorrect...that you can't quite put your finger on...something uncomfortable...almost as if there's something you're doing that you're not really proud of, even when you're not really doing anything at all.<br /><br />We ignore the reality that it is this very same unspoken feeling of melancholy and emptiness that has <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/revolution-muslim-vs-south-park-updates.html">driven young Jews to seek Islam</a> or Buddhism or Christmas trees or Marxism or pathetic attempts to emulate hip hop culture or blind pursuit of hedge fund success at the expense of their pride and heritage. And it makes sense that this would happen...because WHO could be attached to a culture that glorifies docility?<br /><br />This is why early Zionists changed their last names, forced everyone to learn Hebrew and mocked Yiddish as a language of the oppressed. It was a clean break from the embarrassment of 2,000 years of abuse at the hands of our hosts. This is also why today it is so hard for Israelis to clarify the justification for going to war to protect themselves...to them it should be self-evident to anyone reads history!<br /><br />And this is why Che Guevara and Yasir Arafat are so attractive to misguided "liberal" American youths. For years I thought that it was simple ignorance that caused college students to follow these barbarians but it actually goes much deeper than that. While they often are ignorant of what their heroes are actually guilty of, even when the truth is brought to them they often STILL follow them...because even a flawed hero is still a hero.<br /><br />Who are the modern Jewish heroes? Where are they? Ask the average American Jew and what would they say? Jon Stewart? Steven Spielberg? Adam Sandler? Ari Gold?<br /><center><br /><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tcwS3GSDOrc"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tcwS3GSDOrc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></center><br />Famous? Sure. Successful? Filthy rich? Absolutely. But you're not exactly going to be studying them in college as revolutionary figures or instruments of social change, are you? In fact the only one among them you could perceive as "strong" or "brave" or "intimidating" is a completely fictional character! You're not going to get young Jews excited to emulate these people. When children and teenagers have no one to emulate, they're going to look outside the box for them and they're going to be ripe targets for missionaries, demagogues and worse.<br /><br />They're going to leave their culture and idolize other cultures instead. And all the money their parents spent on Hebrew schools and bar mitzvah lessons will be wasted when <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/gadahn_a.htm">Adam</a> comes home with a beard and tells his family he's going to "study" to Pakistan. Or <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30313">Rachel</a> decides to go on a "humanitarian mission" to Gaza and doesn't understand why her parents are so upset when she tells them. This is of course assuming the parents even bothered to care about the cultural identity of their children...a trend that has been distinctly on the negative side for the past three generations at least...which not-so-oddly also coincides with the declining size of the community.<br /><br />The future certainly looks grim for non-Orthodox Judaism.<br /><br />As if this wasn't enough of an issue there is still the <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/Anti-Zionism.html">Talmudic prohibition</a> against re-establishing a state and army in the absence of the messiah. Because we sinned and have been exiled, the rabbis who survived the disastrous Bar Kochba revolt surmised that we had best sit quietly and try to get along with our new overlords.<br /><br />And so it goes...we continue to tread water...doing just enough to get from one generation to another...taking unimaginable losses all along the way...paralyzed by our own <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/indifference-and-major-nidal-malik.html">indifference</a> and just hoping not to finally get swept under a tide that gets higher and more dangerous with every passing day.<br /><br />What is the answer to this malaise? How do we break out from 2,000 years of docility? Or do we give up? Accept our own victimhood and impending doom? Sanction our own destruction?<br /><br />No my friends, this is not the answer. The time has come to put this policy to bed once and for all.<br /><br />First on the religious level. While Judaism's docility has been well-established over the years, there is a very strict RELIGIOUS prohibition against suicide or suicidal behavior. There also exists a concept in Judaism of פיקוח נפש (transliterated as pikuach nefesh) - literally "saving a soul/life" which overrules almost all other commandments...even many of the 10 Commandments themselves.<br /><br />There is no QUESTION that the State of Israel has saved the lives of thousands, if not millions of people who would otherwise be doomed to persecution, oppression, starvation and. And lest you think that this service provided by Israel is limited to just Jews - ask yourselves this question...why would a cash-strapped Jewish state that is embroiled in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors spend resources to assist with <a href="http://www.uja.org/page.aspx?id=75515">tsunami</a> and <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3835327,00.html">earthquake</a> search and rescue efforts? Please note the earthquake link was about a specific team of ULTRA-ORTHODOX Israeli Jews who had voluntarily travelled to Haiti and were violating the sabbath to save the lives of people that under normal circumstances should never have even come across.<br /><center><br /><object width="416" height="374" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="ep"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=world/2010/01/18/dnt.cohen.haiti.patients.dying.cnn"><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=world/2010/01/18/dnt.cohen.haiti.patients.dying.cnn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="374"></embed></object><br /></center><br />In fact, it was widely reported that for days, Israel's field hospital was the only one able to perform at any acceptable level in Haiti. So Israel saves lives, both Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and non-religious. That alone should be enough of a reason for all Orthodox Jews (and everyone else for that matter) to embrace a state that everyday provides a literal life-saving function for people all over the world as well as a cultural, religious and spiritual life-saving function for Jews who would otherwise be lost to the tide of assimilation. It may not be the religious, messiah-driven state they crave, but for now it sure serves a purpose that they should rush to embrace (and many - but not all - do).<br /><br />Furthermore, our pact with the nations we were exiled to was supposed to be a two-way street. We were supposed to behave like good little refugees and they were supposed to let us be. It's time to face the facts (as early Zionists did in the 1800's) that they <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nightmare.html">did NOT hold up their end</a> of the deal. Not taking steps to protect ourselves is a violation of the commandment against suicide. Giving up our lives to adhere to a rabbinical decree from 2,000 years ago is not only insane, it is a DIRECT VIOLATION of Jewish law. This is FACT. In a post-2nd Temple world this decision made sense...in a post-Holocaust world it no longer does. The Neturei Karta, for all their black hats, white beards and Talmud-quoting signs and pamphlets are WRONG. This is also FACT.<br /><br />So religiously we can follow God and take inspiration from the Bible. But what to do about the secular Jews? Where do they get their inspiration from? How do we replace Guevara and Chavez and Arafat if all we have are Sandler, Spielberg and Stewart? Or worse, total useless wretches like Chomsky and Finkelstein. Where are our revolutionaries? Where are our <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/barbaric-idf-in-pictures.html">warriors</a> and heroes? And what can we do about the perception that we're all nerdy accountants?<br /><br />Well, first we start out by pointing out that the perception is WRONG.<br /><center><br /><img src="http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4840/42361502prayap416709298.jpg" /><img src="http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2325/israeliforcesgirls02.jpg" /><img src="http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5668/idfisraelisoldiersvicto.jpg" /><img src="http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1861/yaninetanyahu.jpg" /><br /><i>We're not ALL Woody Allen clones</i></center><br />You see we DO have our own strong heroes, revolutionaries and role models. They're just currently labeled as "Zionists" rather than Jews and are part of "Israeli history" instead of Jewish history. Theodore Herzl. David Ben-Gurion. Golda Meir. Why wear a Che Guevara t-shirt when <a href="http://www.jabotinsky.org/Site/home/default.asp">Vladmir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky</a> was twice the warrior he was with none of the communist dictatorship baggage? </div><div><br /></div><div>And furthermore, why do we need to continue to behave as if we just sprang up out of the earth in the United States? We came from somewhere just like every other immigrant group. We might have taken some detours before we got here but all of us have common roots in Israel. Just like Italians have Italy, Brazilians have Brazil...we Jews have ISRAEL. Even if we don't live there or have never been there, why can't we idolize these Zionists, these Jews, these non-victims? You don't see Italians being shy about hanging Italian flags from the rearview mirrors - why shouldn't we do the same with Israeli flags? Why be shy about where we come from?<br /><br />Unabashed, unafraid, unapologetic ZIONISM is the answer to our Jewish malaise problem. Real JEWISH nationalism, an impossible 2,000 year old dream that has <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">actually been REALIZED</a> is the answer. We don't need to be victims anymore. We don't need to play their game anymore. We don't need to play by their rules anymore!<br /><br /><i>"If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!"<br />--Hank Rearden</i><br /><br />I will no longer be a victim.<br /><br />I will no longer apologize for my success, nor feed into the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say-part-ii_30.html">myth</a> that my success somehow comes at the expense of someone else.<br /><br />I will no longer be <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/09/snake-in-road-less-traveled.html">afraid</a> to stand up for myself and defend the Jewish homeland, MY homeland, Israel.<br /><br />I will no longer feel that I have to prove my loyalty to whatever country I live in by going against my homeland of Israel.<br /><br />I will support Israel because it is my ancestral home AS WELL as because Israel has brought <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/israel-as-security-asset-for-united.html">substantial gains to the United Sates</a> as well as the rest of the world.<br /><br />I will no longer allow the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-news-tens-of-thousands-of.html">hypocrites</a> around me to make me feel as if I need to prove my docility.<br /><br />I will no longer abide by everyone else's <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-states-of-confusion.html">nonsensical,</a> politically correct definitions of right and wrong or their expectations for Jews, for Israel and for me.<br /><br />I am NOT a Jewish American who is pro-Israel.<br /><br />That is a passive statement similar to saying that you're pro-freedom or <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-this-program.html">pro-money</a> or pro-food or pro-happiness. Of course I am in favor of a Jewish country...that should be a given for EVERYONE regardless of who they are or what their political ideology is.<br /><br />What I am, is a JEWISH AMERICAN ZIONIST.<br /><br />I believe that Jews are no longer the world's victims, to be used and abused as they were throughout history. I believe that the Jewish homeland is Israel even if I don't live there and never intend to. I believe that just as the Italian national home is Italy regardless of where an Italian lives, so to is Israel the Jewish national home regardless of where a Jew finds him or herself. I believe that I must actively take steps to prevent myself, my family and my friends from being abused. I believe that I control my own destiny and no one has a right to choose my path for me, but me.<br /><br />And I believe that it is not my responsibility to clean up the messes created by others. It is not my fault that other ethnic groups have also been beaten down over time. I will have solidarity with them, empathy for them and do whatever I can to help them to reach the levels of success that I have achieved.<br /><br />But it is not my obligation and it will NOT achieved at my expense. I will NOT sacrifice my own future for a <a href="http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/scorpion.html">parasite</a> that will end up destroying both of us. And I am finished with allowing others to guilt me into believing that there is something wrong with this way of thinking. I will no longer be the guiltiest man in the room because I know better and I will act on that knowledge.<br /><i><b><br />אִם אֵן אַנִי לִי מִי לִי<br />וּכשְׁאַנִי לְעַצְמִי מָה אַנִי<br />וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו אֵימָתַי </b><br /><br />If I am not for myself, then who will be?<br />When I am only for myself, what am I?<br /><b>And if not now, then when?</b><br />--Ethics of our Fathers</i><br /><br />This is my belief. This is my pledge.<br /><br />And this applies to Israeli Jews as well as non-Israelis. Just because the Palestinians got the short end of the stick after the British and French carved up the Ottoman Empire and created a bunch of artificial states that were doomed to failure from the start, does not mean that the residents of Sderot need to live in a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/invasion.html">perpetual state of terror.</a> Just because the Palestinians were abandoned and sold out by their disorganized Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian, Lebanese and Iraqi cousins does not mean that a Jewish family should not be allowed to live in <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-settlements-stupid.html">Hebron.</a> Just because a Palestinian's great-great-grandparents didn't think to hold onto their land deeds under the Ottomans or that their grandparents thought they'd be better off trying to push the Jews into the sea doesn't mean that I should sacrifice my capital to atone for it. Just because they couldn't live next to the Jews and instead started THREE wars that they lost doesn't mean that I need to allow the creation of yet another <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/and-beat-goes-on.html">terrorist, dictatorial regime</a> that wants to eliminate a liberal, pluralistic democracy.<br /><br />It's not my problem. Just because I am successful, it does not mean that I deserve to be sacrificed to those who are not so that they should live and I should not.<br /><br />It is only if the Jewish community of the Diaspora adopts this same mentality, this anthem, this pledge to leave the shackles of victimhood behind that it will be able to reverse what appears to be an inevitable decline and disappearance into the irrelevance of assimilation. If not now...when?<br /><br />These rules that we think we've set for ourselves but really have been set FOR us by faceless ancestors are impossible to follow. This game we've engaged ourselves in is impossible to win and if we continue to play it we are doomed to fail.<br /><br />But the beauty of life is that we always, always have a choice.<br /><br />Like Hank, I finally choose NOT to play their game.<br /><br />And neither should you.<br /><br />Spread the word, we shall be victims no longer.</div></div><br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=4271255004629894887&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Like what you read? Check out the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ronmossad">RONMOSSAD store</a> on cafepress!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-80128026377840469472010-04-28T21:48:00.015-04:002010-04-29T09:00:51.205-04:00UNBELIEVABLE: Is the Obama Administration REALLY trying to eliminate/overthrow the Benjamin Netanyahu government?!Welcome to regime change, Obama style:<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Bibi be gone: Obama team plotting overthrow of Israel's Netanyahu</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><blockquote>Sources in the administration and Congress asserted that the White House and State Department have sought to destabilize Netanyahu's government by forcing him to agree to an indefinite freeze on Jewish construction in the West Bank and most of Jerusalem as well as the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2012. They said the campaign sought to replace Netanyahu with opposition leader and former foreign minister Tsipi Livni. </blockquote>No way.<br /><blockquote>"Bibi is extremely vulnerable to pressure," a source familiar with the White House effort said. "We know this from his first term in office and believe he will collapse this time as well." </blockquote>No freaking way.<br /><blockquote>The sources said the administration's strategy aimed to de-legitimize Netanyahu in his government and right-wing constituency. They said Obama and his aides have sought to portray Netanyahu as a weak and unstable politician who will destroy relations with Washington as Israel seeks U.S. support for a military option against Iran. </blockquote>What the hell!!!!!!!!<br /><blockquote>The sources said the administration's campaign has included invitations to Defense Minister Ehud Barak to the White House, where he met with Obama on April 26. Barak has been regarded as the most pro-U.S. minister in Netanyahu's Cabinet and has been lobbying ministers to accept Obama's proposals.</blockquote>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_israel0350_04_28.asp">the World Tribune</a> if you don't believe me.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4630/1244840373obamanetanyah.jpg" /></center><br /><br />Look, I'm not big on <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-done-research-and-it-was-arabs-get.html">conspiracy theories</a> - BELIEVE ME I'm not. But is it really so out of the question that this administration would try to sort of push a guy they don't like out of the way? It would certainly explain the astonishingly <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-news-tens-of-thousands-of.html">bizarre behavior</a> coming out of the Obama camp, since <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-obama-cairo-speech-was-bad-for.html">very early on</a> in the presidency. It would also explain why there is such a close alliance between President Obama and "just because we like Israel doesn't mean we like Likud" traitors like <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-dead-end-street.html">J Street.</a><br /><br />And by the way...say what you will about Bibi, but "weak and unstable? Really? Take a look at this clip of Netanyahu on the Bill Maher show:<br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oN3K1Wsd-I0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oN3K1Wsd-I0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />You tell me if Netanyahu is anything resembling "unstable" on a show that generally IS NOT on his country's side. This isn't Hannity, it's Bill Maher for Christ's sake. Even BILL MAHER knows better!<br /><br />It's gotten to the point that in addition to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/israel-as-security-asset-for-united.html">retired generals</a> feeling the need to remind Obama who his real friends are, you have several DEMOCRATIC Congressmen and women publicly speaking out against their boss.<br /><br />Steve Rothman (D-NJ) recently published an article entitled: <a href="http://www.rothman.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1228&Itemid=1">The Dividends of U.S. Support for Israel</a><br /><br />Anthony Weiner (D-NY) chimes in with his opinion piece: <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/43340">Enough Already, Mr. President: Time to Start Treating Israel Like the Ally It Is</a><br /><br />Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says Obama's "terrible" treatment of Netanyahu <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Enough%20Already,%20Mr.%20President:%20Time%20to%20Start%20Treating%20Israel%20Like%20the%20Ally%20It%20Is">has to stop.</a><br /><br />Former Democratic NYC mayor Ed Koch: <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/29/never_again_will_we_be_silent_104961.html">Obama's Treatment of Israel is Shocking.</a> In fact, Koch is on record telling Fox News that he has...<div><br />...been a supporter of President Obama and went to Florida for him, urged Jews all over the country to vote for him saying that he would be just as good as John McCain on the security of Israel. I don't think it's true anymore.Congresswoman Shelly Berekely (D-NV) castigates Obama for his <a href="http://berkley.house.gov/legis/otr/press_releases/2010/pr_2010_04202010.htm">recent public humiliation of Israel’s Prime Minister</a><br /><br />And of course, <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/18/c_13256362.htm">hundreds of Democratic Senators and House Representatives</a> all signed a letter to Hillary Clinton and Obama about their disgraceful treatment of Israel.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/188/340xf.jpg" /></center><br /><br />This is ASIDE from the Republicans who take every opportunity to bash Obama, especially on Israel and foreign policy issues. These people are ALL very <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">liberal,</a> anti-Bush, anti-neo-con, anti-right wing, anti-whatever-name you want to pick for why so many leftists seem to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/02/anti-zionist-anti-jewish.html">hate Israel.</a> The fact that even they are starting to speak out against what is going on here CANNOT be a coincidence. It cannot.<br /><br />So it may not be that far of a stretch to say that this <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning</a> administration is more concerned with getting rid of Netanyahu than getting rid of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">Ahmedinejad.</a> And yet there are still a majority of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollow-hollow-words.html">Jews who voted for Obama</a> that STILL will TODAY tell you that it was the right decision for Israel.<br /><br />How naive. How <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">self-destructive.</a> How deluded.<br /><br />WAKE UP ALREADY JEWS!!! THIS GUY IS NOT - <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/12/shmuel-rosner-likes-obamaronmossad-not.html">NOR HAS HE EVER BEEN</a> - OUR FRIEND!!!</div><br /><br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=8012802637784046947&isPopup=true" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;">Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-21475702127625247792010-04-26T22:28:00.011-04:002010-04-27T10:28:07.325-04:00Wear white for Gilad Shalit 4/27/2010Tomorrow in Israel is official <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/4272010-everyone-will-wear-white-for-Gilad-Shalit/105323642840783?v=wall">"wear white for Gilad Shalit"</a> day.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9443/mar26ejp.jpg" /></center><br /><br />For those of you unaware of who <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/gilad-shalit-day.html">Gilad Shalit</a> is, he is an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped from Israeli soil by Hamas terrorists FOUR years ago. To this day he is still in captivity where he has been subjected to starvation, torture and God knows what else. Hamas refuses to let him go home unless Israel releases approximately 1,000 of their <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/and-beat-goes-on.html">terrorists,</a> many with innocent blood on their hands and who have vowed to kill again, in exchange for him. Hamas will not let the Red Cross examine him and generally refuses to give any information on him to his parents Noam and Aviva Shalit.<br /><br />The capture of Gilad is hailed as a tremendous victory in Gaza, where murals depict him in jail as if kidnapping a human being were something to be proud of.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8175/israell.jpg" /></center><br /><br />The following video was released by Hamas about 6 months ago to prove that he was still alive at the time. In order for the video to be released Israel was forced to hand over 20 of its prisoners. FOR A VIDEO.<br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/edwwLIjSWR8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_detailpage&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/edwwLIjSWR8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_detailpage&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Not much to editorialize there...the man's pained voice and face speaks for itself. Note the difference between the picture of Gilad before his abduction to the man in the video.<br /><br />The Gilad Shalit saga has been a very painful one for Israel and Israelis. His parents have become semi-celebrities after all their appearances on Israeli television begging for the government to do something to get their son released. Demonstrations calling for his release happen often. This past <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/happy-passoverchag-pesach-sameach.html">Passover</a> in Israel and around the world, <a href="http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Strategic+Partnerships/Makom/Gilad+Shalit+at+Your+Seder.htm">Jews left an empty chair</a> at their holiday feasts as a quiet reminder that Gilad had yet another Passover in hell.<br /><br />And still the time goes by...and still Gilad Shalit waits. And waits. And suffers. And waits.<br /><br />Hamas, not content with simply <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">shooting rockets</a> into Israel, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-mayhem-in-gaza.html%22">starving</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/still-more-palestinians-executed-by.html">killing their own people</a> and sitting on this prisoner for FOUR YEARS recently put out this video, essentially mocking the captive's father by throwing it in his face that he'll most likely never see his son alive again.<br /><br /><center><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W1xLuEus4Og"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W1xLuEus4Og" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><br /><br />The video is clearly designed to get an emotional reaction out of him and other Israelis in order to get them to pressure the government into caving into <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">appeasing</a> Hamas. Ironically in the video, even though Noam is still wandering the streets of Israel for 30, 40 years or so waiting for his son, the signs and advertisments are still in Hebrew, the newspapers are the same as today, the prime ministers are still Israelis - the country is clearly still ruled by Jews! Even the Erez crossing into Gaza is still intact and maintained by Israeli soldiers.<br /><br />I think that it's EXTREMELY telling that even in this Hamas fantasy they're STILL not ruling over Israel (which is their <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm">stated purpose</a> for existing). It really speaks to the fact that deep down they know they're never actually going to win, nor do they particularly want to...but I digress...<br /><br />Noam Shalit, in response to this video has this to say:<br /><blockquote>Hamas leaders would do better if instead of producing films and performances, they would worry about the real interests of the Palestinian prisoners and the ordinary citizens of Gaza who have been held hostage by their leaders for a long time.</blockquote>Right on Noam.<br /><br />So wherever you are tomorrow, I urge you all to wear white in solidarity with Gilad and his family - and if anyone asks you why you're dressed in white make sure you tell them...<br /><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2124/giladshalitsfathernoam3.jpg" /></center><br /><br /><br />...that it's for Gilad. And his family.<br /><br /><script src="http://www.clocklink.com/embed.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">obj=new Object;obj.clockfile="9002e-blue.swf";obj.TimeZone="EST";obj.width=320;obj.height=20;obj.From="2006,06,24,22,01,48";obj.Title="Gilad%20Shalit";obj.wmode="transparent";showClock(obj);</script><br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=2147570212762524779&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-16965033733757797192010-04-24T21:22:00.009-04:002010-04-26T08:32:29.561-04:00Revolution Muslim VS South Park update: converts, tolerance, Ibrahim Hooper and self-responsibilityA few updates and additional thoughts on the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/south-park-and-revolution-muslim.html">Revolution Muslim VS South Park</a> saga which is still continuing to develop and still getting no real reaction from anyone important.<br /><br />First from <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/23/road-radicalism-man-south-park-threats/">foxnews.com</a> there is some background information on the group and the guy who allegedly made the threat against Matt Stone and Trey Parker.<br /><br />From the article:<br /><blockquote>By all appearances, Zachary Adam Chesser was the boy next door. He played football and was on the crew team at one of the best high schools in the country. He even studied Japanese. He was hardly the sort of boy you'd expect would suggest on a radical Islamic website that the creators of the edgy cartoon series "South Park" will be targeted for death...<br /><br />Two years later, Chesser is literally a changed man. He now uses an alias and has a new set of hobbies. He now likes to be called Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, and his primary interest in this world appears to be Islamic radicalism.</blockquote>Excellent! Another lost soul who converted to Islam because he probably didn't get enough of an education in his own religion/culture from his parents. In fact, if you look at the other public members or former members of the group, they're ALL converts from various religions.<br /><br />Take this story from <a href="http://thebrooklynink.com/2010/04/23/11041-yousef-al-khattab-man-behind-virulent-islamic-website-grew-up-jewish/">The Brooklyn Ink</a> on the founder of the site, a man named Yousef Al-Khattab - born Joseph Cohen:<br /><blockquote>Born Joseph Cohen, Khattab says he converted to Islam after coming across a Muslim from the United Arab Emirates in a Jewish chat-room while in Netivot, Israel in 1998. Their to and fro on religion lasted two years, and for Khattab, the exchange confirmed previous doubts about Judaism and eventually prompted him to embrace Islam after reading an English translation of the Quran. The exchanges, he says, reaffirmed his belief that rabbis use deception to keep Jews subservient to them...</blockquote>Ok, terrific! According to <a href="http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/561/">Khattab's bio</a> on an Islamic website he was "born to a Secular Jewish family, and at the age of 18 years old decided to look 'deeper' into belief in God," eventually he "entered a Yeshiva and started [his] journey into the Orthodox Rabbinical racist cult." I would highly encourage you to check out the rest of his post before it's inevitably taken down - it is quite the trip. In fact, I'll copy/paste it into the comments section of this article to ensure it never goes away.<br /><br />As for the guy in the video seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jb3Hewabf4">berating people on the streets of New York</a> from the last post, Younes Abdullah Muhammad, there were several references all over the internet to his being a convert as well. For better or worse though, he's done a better job of keeping his pre-terrorism life private.<br /><br />So what we have here is yet another example of people who were seemingly normal Americans growing up to become significantly ABNORMAL pro-al Qaeda extremists. This is not the first time this topic has been covered here. Back in 2007, I wrote about <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-giving-your-children-strong.html">Daveed Gartenstein-Ross</a> and his journey from secular Jew to radical Muslim to Christian anti-terrorism consultant. And of course by now you're familiar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Yahiye_Gadahn">Adam "Yahiye Gadahn" Pearlman</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh">John Walker Lindh</a> - both Americans, who came from seemingly normal homes but ended up being sucked into al Qaeda. <br /><br />These (along with the Revolution Muslim guys) are obviously extreme examples the American melting pot gone terribly wrong, but let's be honest with ourselves, you only need to go as far as your nearest <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-so-strange-bedfellows-rutgers.html">college campus</a> to see thousands of young Americans protesting against the very country that gave them the ability to protest it. Obviously, it's not the same thing - but there is this tremendous undercurrent of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-person.html">self-hatred</a> in this country that if left unchecked can turn into outright extremism and death threats against cartoons.<br /><br />Without exception every single one of these extremists absolutely shatter the absolute <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say-part-ii_30.html">myth</a> that in order to become a terrorist you must grow up in a closed, poverty-stricken society. Sorry Chomsky, sorry ANSWER Coalition, sorry International Solidarity Movement, sorry Daily Kos, but none of these guys had their land "stolen" by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_26.html">Zionists.</a> None of these guys were the subject of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-obama-cairo-speech-was-bad-for.html">"evil" American foreign policy.</a> None of these guys were disenfranchised minorities. They were people who were raised in exactly the type of environment you WANT them to be raised in and look what it got them. Look what it got all of us.<br /><br />Why does this happen? What causes people to go from being normal, often very liberal Americans and turn into something like this?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7716/id725x1342sitepibillwar.jpg" /><br /><i>Declaring jihad against the "Joos" - executives at Tropicana and Minute Maid express serious concerns</i></center><i></i><br />It all comes down to the fact that we simply do not prepare our children to deal with the people that would seek to convert and take advantage of them. While it's very good to accept people of different faiths, religions, ethnicities - if you do not make it very clear to your children what <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/radio-hanukkah-broadcasting-live-from.html">YOU believe</a> and what YOU feel they should believe in as well, they're going to be open to someone ELSE who will make it clear to them what THEY think your child should believe in. It's all about the foundation you lay for your children. If you don't provide a strong example for them, someone or something else will. Education starts at the home because the minute your children walk out that door there are literally thousands of people, groups, companies and movements competing for their attention.<br /><br />You see, there is a limit to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerance,</a> that when reached it begins to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/indifference-and-major-nidal-malik.html">foster intolerance.</a> By tolerating the ability of groups like Revolution Muslim to target your children and convert them to their cause you are allowing the most INTOLERANT people in the world to succeed. And believe me, once that line is crossed, once your child has turned into an Al-Amrikee or a Gadhan not only will you weep for your child that you've lost...you will bear the responsibility for anyone your child's intolerance has brainwashed or <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">assaulted.</a><br /><br />The problem with accepting these kinds of groups is that THEY will NOT accept YOU. They will NOT accept the television shows you watch. They will NOT accept your inter-faith dialogues and marriages. The only thing they will tolerate is their own <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-just-in-fatah-no-better-than-hamas.html">extremist viewpoints</a> and the only time they will accept you is when you've been converted to their cause as well.<br /><br />We as private citizens cannot do anything about al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, that's a job for the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/02/so-one-of-things-we-hear-about-war-on.html">military.</a> We need to do our part here at home by taking responsibility for ourselves and our families. We must provide a strong alternative to extremism by showing our youth that we too have a culture that's deeper than just "Dancing with the Stars" and Walmart.<br /><br />Finally on the subject of responsibility, at the same time we are taking ownership of our own communities, it is imperative that we call out those people who continually to refuse to do the same for their own communities.<br /><br />From the original Fox News article on Al-Amrikee:<br /><blockquote>Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, characterized Revolution Muslim as a loosely-organized group with such outrageous beliefs he believes it may be a "setup" to smear Islam.<br /><br />"They say wild and irresponsible things periodically," Hooper told FoxNews.com. "There's a <b>strong suspicion that they're merely a setup to make Muslims and Islam look bad.</b> They say such wild and crazy things that you have to wonder."</blockquote>THIS. Right HERE is where as a society we LOSE. Really Ibrahim? They're "setup" are they? Setup by whom? Why can't Hooper, along with the rest of the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-dead-end-street.html">terrorist apologists</a> just accept the fact that there are a LOT of Muslim extremists? If Islam is as peaceful a religion as you say it is - then why not CONDEMN these extremists in ISLAMIC terms. <br /><br />Recently in my non-blogging life, I've come across quite a few Muslims who have presented compelling ISLAMIC cases for why the terrorists are wrong. In fact, just recently the highly respected, internationally-known Shaikh Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri issued a <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1969662,00.html">FATWA AGAINST TERRORISM.</a> <br /><br />Why do people like Hooper and the Council on American-Islamic Relations insist on making excuses instead of following ul-Qadri's example and CONDEMNING people like Revolution Muslim for what they are? I myself have no problem <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_2072.html">calling out members of the Jewish community</a> that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-real-jon-stewart-please-shut-up.html">I disagree</a> with and have <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-sucks.html">done so</a> on <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-do-not-speak-for-me.html">numerous occasions</a> in the past. What's this guy's problem? Does it have something to do with the fact that like Revolution Muslim, Hooper is himself a convert?<br /><br />You know how you shut up a religious extremist? You find an even MORE religious guy who disagrees with their views and uses their own religious logic AGAINST them. You certainly don't apologize and make excuses for them or worse ignore responsibility completely by acting as if this is some kind of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">bizarre conspiracy</a> to defame you! It is very telling and disappointing that a Pakistani cleric is more solid on anti-terrorism than Americans like Hooper. <br /><br />In fact it is exactly this kind of tolerance of terrorism by people like Hooper that fosters the malaise that drives people like Zachary Chesser and Joseph Cohen to morph into Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee and Yousef Al-Khattab respectively. Actually it's probably what turned "Doug" Hooper into "Ibrahim" Hooper as well. So of course he doesn't know how to handle the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/difference.html">extremists</a> - he is a product of the same society that created them and is basically one himself!<br /><br />In the end what needs to happen if we are going to put a stop to this extremely disturbing trend in our society is the following:<br /><br />1. We must take responsibility for ourselves and our communities by presenting a very clear vision of what we believe and why we believe it. And if you aren't sure what you believe in yet...don't have children and bring them into your world of confusion.<br /><br />2. We cannot have any tolerance for <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">nations,</a> communities or people who do not respect our right to live in the way we choose to. Simply saying "it's their culture" provides a justification for their actions and gives extremists like Revolution Muslim the ability to be intolerant towards us.<br /><br />3. We must DEMAND that other communities take the same responsibility for their actions and police their own the way we are expected to police our own. The same way that it's wrong for a non-Muslim to say "all Muslims are terrorists" is the same way that it is wrong for a Muslim to say "all non-Muslims are must be terrorized". Furthermore, any member or self-declared <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">leader of their community</a> who attempts to justify this position or shirks responsibility for it is no better than the person making that statement.<br /><br />This is a very basic, very simple concept...you can say and think whatever you want, but the minute you begin forcing your beliefs on others - that is where you cross the line and lose your right to do so. If we do this, if we train our youth to do this we will be arming them against these fanatics and giving them the tools to build the kind of life we wish for them.<br /><br />But if we don't do this...<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7730/image060n.jpg"></center><br /><br />Well, the results pretty much speak for themselves.<br /><br /><center>________________________________________________________________________</center><br /><br />That's what I think...what's YOUR reaction?<br /><br /><a href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5797868361228039776&postID=1696503373375779719&isPopup=true' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, "bloggerPopup", "toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450"); return false;'>Post a Comment</a><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-37328232539353437662010-04-22T16:27:00.015-04:002010-04-23T01:25:53.215-04:00South Park and Revolution Muslim: Freedom of Speech suicide bombed by Muhammad againWow.<br /><br />There sure have been a lot of changes in this country over the past couple of years. We have nationalized banks, nationalized car companies, nationalized health insurance and pretty soon it looks like nationalized stock trading as well. We have an administration that has significantly <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-obama-cairo-speech-was-bad-for.html">altered the USA's approach</a> to the Middle East...in a way that they now regularly <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-news-tens-of-thousands-of.html">make demands</a> of sovereign, democratic allies while giving <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-just-in-fatah-no-better-than-hamas.html">hostile, terrorist entities</a> a free pass. The America we live in today is a vastly different place than it was just two years ago.<br /><br />And now we have entered the realm of speech as well.<br /> <br /><i>If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.<br />--George Washington </i><br /><br />One week ago, the creators of South Park aired their 200th episode. In the episode they attempted to poke fun at the ridiculous idea that you can make fun of every topic, every human being, every leader, every celebrity, every religious figure...everyone except for the Prophet Muhammad. <br /><br />South Park's relationship with the Prophet goes back a while...he actually appeared in an<a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/504"> episode from nine years ago</a> that involved many major religious figures or gods (think Jesus, Moses, Krishna) teaming up in as Power Rangers-style super heroes and fighting crime. Then, in a rather brilliant statement on censorship and Muhammad, the created a storyline where <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">al Qaeda</a> threatens to attack the United States if an image of Muhammad is aired on Family Guy. In the end, the terrorist "retaliation" turns out to be one of the most insane segments of television ever aired, as Jesus, George W. Bush and several stereotypical Americans are shown performing some pretty disgusting acts.<br /><br /><center><br /><I>WARNING: THE FINAL MINUTE OF THIS IS PRETTY GRAPHIC AND DUE TO ITS CONTENT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE</I><br /><br /><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:southparkstudios.com:103667" width="480" height="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" flashVars="autoPlay=false&dist=www.southparkstudios.com&orig=" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000"></embed></center><br /><br />Personally, I thought it was a very funny and poignant statement on how absurd we'd gotten in this country when one religious figure (as well as the president and the American flag) can be the subject of some (literal) toilet humor while another one isn't even allowed to be shown at all.<br /><br />At the time, the scene with Muhammad did not air. Instead the screen went dark and said that Comedy Central (the channel that airs South Park) refused to allow an image of Muhammad on their network. At the time it aired - which was in the wake of the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4684652.stm">Muslim cartoon riots</a> - it looked like an elaborate joke. Unfortunately though, it wasn't...Comedy Central gave into intimidation. Furthermore, it appears at this time that they've forced South Park to take down the streaming access to the original "Super Best Friends" episode from 2001 that had the Muhammad character.<br /><br />Well, last week South Park was at it again. This time, to get around the censorship issue, they decided to hide Muhammad in a giant bear costume. Unfortunately for our old lunatic friends from revolutionmuslim.com this wasn't good enough and they responded with the following statement:<br /><br /><i>"We have to warn [South Park creators) Matt (Stone) and Trey (Parker) that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show,"</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/theo_van_gogh/index.html">Theo Van Gogh</a> for those keeping score at home, was murdered by an Islamic extremist for speaking out against the awful treatment of women in majority-Muslim countries. Essentially, the Revolution Muslim people were telling Parker and Stone that if they followed through with showing Muhammad in the next episode, bad things would be visited upon them, Allah-willing. To further drive the point home, they included an address where you could find the duo. <br /><br />Also for those keeping score at home, this is the second time this site has had to deal with these Revolution Muslim fanatics. These are the same people that applauded <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/indifference-and-major-nidal-malik.html">Nidal Malik al-Hasan</a> as a hero for blowing away his friends and co-workers during the Fort Hood terrorist attack.<br /><br />So, all eyes were on South Park this week to see what would happen. Would Comedy Central again give in and try to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">appease</a> a bunch of radical Muslims?<br /><br />Unfortunately, when this week's episode aired, not only was Muhammad's image not shown but <a href="http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/22/south-park-gets-modified-by-comedy-central/">any mention of the word "Muhammad" was bleeped out.</a> And at the end of the episode, an entire speech from one of the characters about the situation was also bleeped out.<br /><br />This<br /><br />is<br /><br />a<br /><br />DISGRACE.<br /><br />What has happened to us? How isn't the entire country in a massive uproar today? This is not a matter of South Park being "Islamophobic" or somehow targeting Muslims...their entire M.O. is to satirize anything and everything in society. Religious figures, political figures, celebrities, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-dead-end-street.html">silly fads</a> and social issues of every possible type have been targeted over the show's 14-season run. Even MUHAMMAD HIMSELF was playfully mocked before the pre-9/11 fear-fest that has descended upon the world. <br /><br />In fact, here in no particular order is a non-comprehensive list of the topics South Park has mocked in the past that have not resulted in barely-veiled death threats:<br /><br />Jesus. Moses. Mormons. Scientologists. George W. Bush. Bill Clinton. John McCain. <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">Barack Obama.</a> Saddam Hussein. The devil. God. Heaven. Hell. The war in Iraq. Osama Bin-Laden. <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say.html">The anti-war protesters.</a> The pro-war protesters. Rednecks. Mormons. Tom Cruise. Rosie O'Donnell. Movies that deal with time travel. 80's movies. Action movies. Japanese people. Pokemon. Catholics. Santa Claus. The Pope. The Catholic League. <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-person.html">Jews.</a> Judaism. Jewish mothers. Black people. Former cast member Isaac Hayes. Women. Men. Old people. Gay people. Straight people. Metrosexual people. Republicans. <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/donkey-flew-over-cuckoos-nest.html">Democrats.</a> Mexicans. Americans. Canadians. Orphans. Paris Hilton. Girls who like Paris Hilton. Mel Gibson. Child molestation. Chinese people. Young people. Michael Richards. Gary Condit. Steroids. The Special Olympics. <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">Religious fanatics.</a> Ethiopians. Sally Struthers. And on. And on. And on...<br /> <br />But Muhammad isn't allowed to be even just be shown on-screen??<br /><br />What is going on here?! Honestly...how can we let this happen to our country and our society? How can we let one group, just one group dictate to us what we are and aren't allowed to talk about? Where is the outrage? Where are the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">liberals?</a> Where is the ACLU? Moderate Muslims? Congress? <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollow-hollow-words.html">The President?</a> Anyone???<br /><br />Several months ago, I wrote about <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/freedom-of-speech-and-savage-nation.html">Michael Savage being banned in Britain</a> also as a result of some controversial things he has said and as far as I know, to this day still no one of any real importance has come to his defense. Here is another example, this time of Americans being censored IN AMERICA due to THREATS of VIOLENCE by OTHER AMERICANS. <br /><br />This too adds a whole different dimension to the issue - the Revolution Muslim guys are AMERICANS. They live and operate in the New York area where they frequently terrorize locals (especially people who they perceive as moderate Muslims) with their rantings and ravings against the United States, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">Israel,</a> Jews, Christians, unbelievers, Obama...you know, maybe they have more in common with South Park than they think...<br /><br /><center><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZY_VKHCqQus"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZY_VKHCqQus" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><br /><br />...or maybe not. This is what we are <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerating</a> everyday on our streets. This is what is dictating our television shows to us now. Are we really going to live like this? Are we really letting this happen?<br /><br />It is entirely unacceptable and we cannot allow it to continue. But I've already weighed in several times on where this censorship road is taking us...there are only so many ways to say that this is a disgrace without being repetitive.<br /><br />So here's what I'm going to do - and I encourage everyone else to do the same:<br /><br /><center><br /><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><br /></center><br /><br />That's an image of Muhammad from the 2001 episode of South Park.<br /><br /><center><br /><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><br /></center><br /><br />Here it is again.<br /><br /><center><br /><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><br /></center><br /><br />And again.<br /><br /><center><br /><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><br /></center><br /><br />And again.<br /><center><br /><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"> <img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"> <img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"> <img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5168/muhammad.jpg"> <br /></center><br /><br /><i>"The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law."<br />--Declaration of the Rights of Man, Article 11<br /><br />Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.<br />--The First Amendment to the United States Constitution</i><br /><br />This is AMERICA for God's sake. We cannot let a bunch of fringe religious fanatics dictate our lives to us.<br /><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-76238255467113711142010-04-20T23:05:00.004-04:002010-04-20T23:35:56.514-04:00Happy Birthday Israel! Yom HaAtzmaut 2010Hope everyone had a nice Yom Haatzmaut. It's nice for one day to reflect on what an amazing <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">triumph</a> the rebirth of the Jewish sovereign state is.<br /><center><br /><img src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/7807/91297296.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/6734/66075368.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/3540/75356394.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/59/israelatzpic5.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6509/isryouthind.jpg"><br /><i></center><br />Israel's Independence Day celebrates a double miracle in the life of the Jewish people.<br /><br />The first miracle is the restoration of Jewish sovereignty. There is no other example that I know of in the history of nations in which a scattered people, practically left for dead, has been able to re-assert its national life.<br /><br />The second miracle is what we've done since the establishment of the Jewish state. Israel is fact becoming a regional economic power and one of the world's leading technological powers.<br /><br />All the powers of creativity and genius in the Jewish people are bursting forth in every area: in science; in technology; in medicine; in the arts. This incredible burst of creativity promises a great future for the Jewish people and for all mankind.<br /><br />This double miracle is a testament to the life-force of the Jewish people. It's a testament to the deep wells of hope we carry inside us and to the deep connection that we have both to our past and to our future. The two miracles that have already occurred are only the beginning. If we stand together, if we remain committed to our common destiny, there's nothing we cannot achieve.<br /><br />Chag Sameach!<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Benjamin Netanyahu<br /><br />Jerusalem, Israel<br /></i><br /><br />Ironically, Israel's Independence Day can fall on Hitler's birthday...as it did today...<br /><br /><center><br /><img src="http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6335/getimageyh.jpg"></center><br /><br />But we beat him in the end, like we beat <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/08/meek-shall-inherit-land.html">everyone that came before him</a> and will continue to beat everyone that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">comes after</a> him. Hope you the view of Tel Aviv is nice in Hell, Adolf!<br /><br />Chag sameach everyone, here's to another 62 miraculous years!RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-6242514119590277242010-04-18T22:43:00.008-04:002010-04-19T01:39:25.586-04:00We will remember you all | Yom HaZikaronEvery year in Israel, on the day before their <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">Independence Day</a> an air raid siren sounds across the country. This day is known in Hebrew as "Yom HaZikaron" - Memorial Day. Unfortunately for Israelis, this is not a day for BBQ's and beaches.<br /><br />Everyone, no matter where they are or what they're doing, stops. Traffic comes to a standstill and people often get out of their cars to observe a nationwide moment of silence in memory of all the young men and women who have died in the line of duty, defending the Jewish nation from those that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">threaten to destroy it. </a><br /><br /><center><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ausdb6xAuxM"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ausdb6xAuxM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object></embed></center><br /><br />Also remembered in the next 24 hours are the innocent men women and children who have been shot, stabbed, blown up and beaten to death by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">terrorists</a>...their only crime being that they were Jewish residents (or Israeli citizens of a different religion) of a small patch of desert that lies between the Jordan river and Mediterranean sea.<br /><br />As of publication, the number of <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=173453">soldiers killed</a> in the line of duty stands at 22,684. <br /><br />The number of <a href="http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisraelsum.html">civilians killed</a> during terror attacks stands at 3,270 (including about <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/usvictims.html">700 American</a> victims), with an additional 14,002 injured.<br /><br />Sadly these numbers continue to go up year over year. But while our brothers and sisters are gone - they are never forgotten. This day is just a reminder to keep them in our hearts...<br /><br /><center><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qzxJT47xkAU"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qzxJT47xkAU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object></embed></center><br /><i><br />על הנגב יורד ליל הסתיו<br />ומצית כוכבים חרש חרש<br />עת הרוח עובר על הסף<br />עננים מהלכים על הדרך.<br /><br />The autumn evening descends on the Negev (desert)<br />And it lights up the stars in silence<br />The wind blows upon the doorway<br />As clouds move along the way<br /><br />כבר שנה לא הרגשנו כמעט<br />איך עברו הזמנים בשדותינו<br />כבר שנה ונותרנו מעט<br />מה רבים שאינם כבר בינינו.<br /><br />It's been a year but we almost haven't felt it...<br />How the times passed in our fields<br />It's been a year and few of us remain...<br />There are many that are no longer among us<br /><br />אך נזכור את כולם<br />את יפי הבלורית והתואר<br />כי רעות שכזאת לעולם<br />לא תיתן את ליבנו לשכוח<br />אהבה מקודשת בדם<br />את תשובי בינינו לפרוח.<br /><br />But we'll remember them all<br />The beauty of their hair and appearance<br />Because this kind of friendship is forever<br />Our hearts won't allow us to forget<br />This love that is bound by blood...<br />You'll return to be between us and blossom<br /><br />הרעות נשאנוך בלי מילים<br />אפורה עקשנית ושותקת<br />מלילות האימה הגדולים<br />את נותרת בהירה ודולקת.<br /><br />Oh this friendship was carried without words<br />It was grey, persistent and silent<br />Through the terrible nights<br />You remained bright and lit<br /><br />הרעות כנערייך כולם<br />שוב בשמך נחייך ונלכה<br />כי רעים שנפלו על חרבם<br />את חייך הותירו לזכר.<br /><br />This friendship is like all your youths<br />Again in your name we'll smile and go<br />Because friends who fell on their swords<br />Your life was left to their memory<br /><br />אך נזכור את כולם<br />את יפי הבלורית והתואר<br />כי רעות שכזאת לעולם<br />לא תיתן את ליבנו לשכוח<br />אהבה מקודשת בדם<br />את תשובי בינינו לפרוח.<br /><br />But we'll remember them all<br />The beauty of their hair and appearance<br />Because this kind of friendship is forever<br />Our hearts won't allow us to forget<br />This love that is bound by blood...<br />You'll return to be between us and blossom<br /><br />אך נזכור את כולם<br />את יפי הבלורית והתואר<br />כי רעות שכזאת לעולם<br />לא תיתן את ליבנו לשכוח<br />אהבה מקודשת בדם<br />את תשובי בינינו לפרוח.<br /><br />But we'll remember them all<br />The beauty of their hair and appearance<br />Because this kind of friendship is forever<br />Our hearts won't allow us to forget<br />This love that is bound by blood...<br />You'll return to be between us and blossom</i><br /><br />Finally, in addition to our brothers and sisters who fell...at the time of publication, the number of Israelis currently missing in action stands at 1.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7408/shalitgcp10305214.jpg"></center><br /><br />Let's not forget about <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/gilad-shalit-day.html">Gilad Shalit</a>...still trapped in some Hamas hell-hole...still being tortured and abused everyday.<br /><br />Who would like nothing more than to be free to participate in a memorial service instead of worrying that he'll be a statistic at the next one. Who would like nothing more than an end to this <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">warfare</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">bloodshed</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/indifference-and-major-nidal-malik.html">hatred.</a> Who would like nothing more than to just be normal.<br /><br />But then...don't we all?<br /><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-61102113503555114182010-04-15T17:47:00.013-04:002010-04-19T01:55:39.171-04:00Israel as a Security Asset for the United States: Statement by 50 retired U.S. Flag & General OfficersIn response to the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-news-tens-of-thousands-of.html">recent ridiculous treatment Israel</a> has gotten from the Obama administration, a group of about 50 retired United States generals and admirals put together the following letter urging him as well as Congress and the general American public to recognize how truly intertwined Israel's success is with America's. Here, is the unedited letter, directly from the officers:<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="font-size:+1;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Israel as a Security Asset for the United States</span></b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"></p><p><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">We, the undersigned</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">,</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">have traveled to Israel over the years with The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). We brought with us our decades of military experience and, following unrestricted access to Israel's civilian and military leaders, came away with the unswerving belief that the security of the State of Israel is a matter of great importance to the United States and its policy in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. A strong, secure Israel is an asset upon which American military planners and political leaders can rely. Israel is a democracy - a rare and precious commodity in the region - and Israel shares our commitment to freedom, personal liberty and rule of law.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Throughout our travels and our talks, the determination of Israelis to protect their country and to pursue a fair and workable peace with their neighbors was clearly articulated. Thus we view the current tension between the United States and Israel with dismay and grave concern that political differences may be allowed to outweigh our larger mutual interests.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As American defense professionals, we view events in the Middle East through the prism of American security interests.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The United States and Israel established security cooperation during the Cold War, and today the two countries face the common threat of terrorism by those who fear freedom and liberty. Historically close cooperation between the United States. and Israel at all levels including the IDF, military research and development, shared intelligence and bilateral military training exercises enhances the security of both countries. American police and law enforcement officials have reaped the benefit of close cooperation with Israeli professionals in the areas of domestic counter-terrorism practices and first response to terrorist attacks.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Israel and the United States are drawn together by shared values and shared threats to our well-being.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The proliferation of weapons and nuclear technology across the Middle East and Asia, and the ballistic missile technology to deliver systems across wide areas require cooperation in intelligence, technology and security policy. Terrorism, as well as the origins of financing, training and executing terrorist acts, need to be addressed multilaterally when possible. The dissemination of hatred and support of terrorism by violent extremists in the name of Islam, whether state or non-state actors, must be addressed as a threat to global peace. </span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the Middle East, a volatile region so vital to U.S. interests, it would be foolish to disengage - or denigrate - an ally such as Israel.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;">__________________________________________________________</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Mark Anderson, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Charles Beers, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General William Begert, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Stanley W. Bryant, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Anthony Burshnick, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Paul Cerjan, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Admiral Leon Edney, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brigadier General William F. Engel, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Bobby Floyd, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General John Foss, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Paul Fratarangelo, USMC (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General David Grange, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Tom Griffin, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Earl Hailston, USMC (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General John Hall, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General Alfred Hansen, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral James Hinkle, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General Hal Hornburg, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General James T. Jackson, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Admiral Jerome Johnson, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Herb Kaler, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vice Admiral Bernard Kauderer, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General William F. Kernan, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Homer Long, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Jarvis Lynch, USMC (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General Robert Magnus, USMC (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Charles May, Jr., USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vice Admiral Martin Mayer, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General James McCombs, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Fred McCorkle, USMC (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral W. F. Merlin, USCG (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Mark Milliken, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Riley Mixson, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General William Moore, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Carol Mutter, USMC (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Larry T. Northington, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Tad Oelstrom, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General James D. Parker, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vice Admiral J. T. Parker, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Robert Patterson, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vice Admiral James Perkins, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Brian Peterman, USCG (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Alan V. Rogers, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Richard Rybacki, USCG (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General Crosbie Saint, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Norm Saunders, USCG (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General Lawrence Skantze, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Sid Shachnow, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Jeremy Taylor, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Major General Larry Taylor, USMCR (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Lanny Trapp, USAF (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vice Admiral Jerry O. Tuttle, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">General Louis Wagner, USA (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Thomas Wilson, USN (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lieutenant General Robert Winglass, USMC (ret.) </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rear Admiral Guy Zeller, USN (ret.)www.jinsa.org </span></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">— signatures as of April 7, 2010</span></p></span><p></p></blockquote><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></p></span><p></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.jinsa.org/node/1342"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">JINSA</span></a></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Not surprisingly NO ONE is talking about this letter, almost no media is reporting on it and this is most likely the first you're hearing of it. So please spread the word on this because it debunks two of the myths most commonly thrown around to justify voting for candidates who clearly attack Israel rather than support it.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Myth number 1: That supporting Israel hurts the United States by inflaming hatred against Americans. As if this was an acceptable position anyway - when you do the right thing, how relevant is it if the people doing the WRONG thing like you or not? But I digress...</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Myth number 2: That by denigrating Israel and not standing behind their right to exist and defend themselves it somehow magically makes Israel stronger by showing that the United States is an "honest broker" (which it will never be seen as) and therefore the Arabs will be more open to following its lead on Middle Eastern Affairs. Rather than them seeing these actions as the </span><a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">appeasement</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> that it actually is, which will of course only make them demand more.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">So the next time someone tries to throw the nonsensical argument that sometimes Israel just needs some "tough love" (a view espoused by </span><a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-dead-end-street.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">J Street</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> and other </span><a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-real-jon-stewart-please-shut-up.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Jewish sellouts</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> with no shame) to get it "back on track" or that treating the Jewish state like an immature child that needs be made to sit in the corner, is somehow beneficial to ANYONE - tell them to go argue with these 50 retired admirals and generals.</span></p><p><i>UPDATE: In other news...almost perfectly timed to throw this letter right back in the faces of these admirals and generals, the Obama Administration is signaling an even <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/world/middleeast/15mideast.html">greater shift away</a> from the historically close US/Israeli relationship. Wow! Hope and CHANGE indeed!</i></p><i></i><p><i>Thanks to the <a href="http://dialr4infinity.blogspot.com/">All Real Numbers Symbol</a> for the heads up</i></p><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-44841604610664045512010-04-15T00:12:00.009-04:002010-04-15T08:33:19.074-04:00BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of people murdered, raped and displaced all over the world - overshadowed by new apartment building in Israel...<i><div style="text-align: left;">...Western governments, including <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">Obama</a> administration officials had no comment on the continuing violence in dozens of nations throughout the world but were quick to condemn the new building. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>United States Vice President Joe Biden stated emphatically that the new building was "an impediment to world peace," adding later that "if only the Israelis would stop building schools, roads, farms and electric grids the smoke monster would be imprisoned forever on the Lost island and we would finally get an answer as to why Walt was so important to the Others. Also, settlements are an impediment to world peace, did I mention that yet?"</div><div><br /></div><div>Experts calculated that in the time it took Biden to make that statement an additional 139 Darfurians had their houses burned down by pro-Sudanese government militias, 54 Congolese people starved to death due to war-induced famine and 11 Rwandans were killed in tribal warfare.</div><div><br /></div><div>Obama administration officials would not comment on any of these <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/does-not-compute_15.html">ongoing international conflicts</a> but indicated that they would be happily discuss the newest snow removal laws passed in Jerusalem.</div></i><div><br /></div><div>Has there ever been a more ridiculous rift between two allies than the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-gerson/tripping-in-jerusalem-the_b_503111.html">recent scuffle</a> between the Obama administration and Netanyahu over the new housing project announcements in Jerusalem? In all sincerity, I'm serious - historically, have two friends fought SO PUBLICLY over something as absurd as a new housing unit that it becomes an international incident, discussed by pundits at every level of the political spectrum? Think of the town you live in...can you imagine if anytime you wanted to widen a road or build a new community center or pass a new littering ordinance, that the leaders of 95 different countries would weigh in and gave you their opinion on what they thought about it? It would be crazy!</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Regular readers will recall that I'm a firm believer that until the Israelis have <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-states-of-confusion.html">someone legitimate</a> to actually sit down at a negotiating table with (that isn't plotting their destruction as soon as the class is dismissed for the day and the teacher's back is turned), that they shouldn't alter any of their settlement plans for anyone. </div><div><br /></div><div>I also am in firm agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Jerusalem (that's the Israeli CAPITAL for those keeping score at home) is NOT a settlement, is NOT negotiable and should NOT be treated in the same way as a random trailer park in the middle of a sea of Gaza or West Bank Arabs. And I've also made it very clear that even these "illegal outposts" are just <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-settlements-stupid.html">used as scapegoats</a> anyway by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/02/anti-zionist-anti-jewish.html">anti-Zionists</a> and as excuses for why the Palestinians just can't resist the urge to shoot rockets at innocent men women and children in <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">Sderot</a> and Ashkelon.</div><div><br /></div><div>But to even discuss this issue and the public spectacle Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have made of it in this context is lending too much credence to it. This isn't a core conflict issue at all. The Israelis haven't changed their housing policy in Jerusalem since the <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63129">Johnson administration</a> - including all through the Oslo Accord negotiations! Hillary's husband never had a problem with Jews living in Jerusalem...why does she? </div><div><br /></div><div>By the way, here's another reminder that a few thousand people senselessly died today between Congo, Rwanda, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Somalia, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">Iran,</a> Mexico and the Philippines due to starvation, drug wars, ethnic cleansings, communist insurgencies, Islamic fundamentalism, sectarian violence and other ills of society that all the wonderfully <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerant</a> idealists were supposed to have solved back in the 20th century. Maybe it's time we started spending our time/resources fixing these problems instead of telling Jews where they are or aren't allowed to live? Oh wait, nevermind - none of those countries threaten to shut off our oil faucets if we don't do what they say.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, doesn't anyone else see it as more than just a little racist that there is all this uproar when Jews want to build new houses or expand old ones in this part of the world? Can you imagine if you wanted to expand your attic in order to add another room to your house but were told you couldn't...not because of safety or occupancy issues but rather because you were Italian or Irish or Mexican or whatever and the United Nations had zoned your street as an "immigrant-free" zone? Ignore for a minute the Biblical or <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">historical ties</a> to the land that Jews claim...strip away for a minute the conflicts and the talking points and whatever side you're on. </div><div><br /></div><div>You have a group of people who LEGALLY PAID for property but are being told "sorry, you can't live here because you don't celebrate Christmas or Ramadan" - I'm pretty sure that's the kind of completely institutionalized racism entire <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">liberal</a> civil rights movements have been based on. Think about it, would that attitude be acceptable in ANY other part of the world that isn't a complete fascist cesspool?</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, who are the ones screaming to keep the Jews out of Jerusalem (along with the West Bank and elsewhere)? You guessed it...</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><center><img src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9027/img8560r.jpg" /></center></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><div style="text-align: center;">Discrimination against Jews: not just for southern country clubs anymore</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>People who call themselves "liberals" or progressives. Also known as the same people that demanded equal rights for Blacks in the 60's...so why the double standard when it comes to Jews living in their historical homeland?</div><div><br /></div><div>As if that wasn't enough, anti-Semitic violence was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/12/anti.semitic.study/index.html?hpt=T2">up over 100%</a> in 2009 - good thing we elected a hope and change president who was going to make us all much safer than his cowboy predecessor the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">through dialogue</a> instead of action. And lest you think that this only about the president, here's some <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/donkey-flew-over-cuckoos-nest.html">additional</a> less-than-startling news from <a href="http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rosner/entry/the_old_israel_consensus_is">Rosner</a> about the widening divide in Washington between Republicans and Democrats on the topic of Israel:</div><div><i></i><blockquote>In a poll commissioned by the Arab American Institute last month, respondents were asked whether Obama should "steer a middle course" in the Middle East - code for not clearly supporting Israel. <b>"There is a strong divide on this question," Zogby reported, "with 73 percent of Democrats agreeing that the President should steer a middle course while only 24 percent of Republicans hold the same opinion."</b></blockquote></div><div>Can you honestly consider yourself <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/j-dead-end-street.html">"pro-Israel"</a> and call for moral-equivalence between Hamas and Israel? </div><div><br /></div><div>So fellow Jews, I ask again, is it time yet to start admitting what a terrible mistake approximately <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollow-hollow-words.html">77% of us</a> made? Or are we going to keep pulling the wool over our own eyes and pretending we aren't completely <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">burying ourselves</a> like we always do? I mean hey, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-koch/a-dangerous-silence_b_534809.html">Ed Koch</a> is willing to man up and admit it, can you?</div><br />Because admitting our problem is step 1 on the path to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_26.html">rectifying</a> it.<br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-3591459202778617712010-04-12T09:30:00.002-04:002010-04-13T00:12:06.234-04:00At My Bar Mitzvah – and HisI've always found this poem to be very poignant and powerful...especially on Yom HaShoah.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At My Bar Mitzvah – and His</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dedicated to the memory of a thirteen-year-old hero of the Resistance<br /></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By Rabbi Howard Kahn<br />A responsive reading<br /><br />When I was thirteen, I became a Bar Mitzvah.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When he was thirteen, he became a Bar Mitzvah.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />When I was thirteen, my teachers taught me – to put Tefillin on my arm.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When he was thirteen, his teachers taught him - to throw a hand grenade with his arm.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />When I was thirteen, I studied – the pathways of the Bible and roadways of the Talmud.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When he was thirteen, he studied – the canals of Warsaw and the sewers of the Ghetto.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />At my Bar Mitzvah, I took an oath to live as a Jew.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, he took an oath to die as a Jew.<br /></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At my Bar Mitzvah, I blessed G-d.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, he questioned G-d.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />At my Bar Mitzvah, I lifted my voice and sang.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, he lifted his fists and fought.<br /></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At my Bar Mitzvah, I read from the Scroll of the Torah.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, he wrote a Scroll of Fire.<br /></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At my Bar Mitzvah, I wore a new Tallit over a new suit.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, he wore a rifle and bullets over a suit of rags. </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />At my Bar Mitzvah, I started my road of life.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, he began his road to martyrdom.<br /></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At my Bar Mitzvah, family and friends came – to say “L’chayim.”<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi Akiba and Trumpeldor, Hannah and her seven sons – came to escort him to Heaven.<br /></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At my Bar Mitzvah, they praised my voice, my song, my melody.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At his Bar Mitzvah, they praised his strength, his courage, his fearlessness. </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />When I was thirteen, I was called up to the Torah – I went to the Bimah.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When he was thirteen, his body went up in smoke – his soul rose to G-d. </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />When I was thirteen, I became a Bar Mitzvah – and lived.<br /></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When he was thirteen, he became a Bar Mitzvah – and lives now within each of us. </span></em></span><br /><br />My own offerings on the Holocaust can be found <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tragedy-and-glory-resistance-of-yom.html">here</a> and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nightmare.html">here.</a><br /><br />Never forget.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-26570591985082684802010-04-11T20:10:00.005-04:002010-04-11T22:56:30.814-04:00Tragedy and Glory: Resistance and Remembrance on Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day<i>אַל-תִּירָא, מִפַּחַד פִּתְאֹם; וּמִשֹּׁאַת רְשָׁעִים, כִּי תָבֹא<br />Be not afraid of sudden terror, neither of the holocaust of the wicked, when it cometh<br />--Proverbs 3:25<br /><br />עֻצוּ עֵצָה, וְתֻפָר; דַּבְּרוּ דָבָר וְלֹא יָקוּם, כִּי עִמָּנוּ אֵל<br />Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.<br />--Isaiah 8:10<br /><br />וְעַד-זִקְנָה אֲנִי הוּא, וְעַד-שֵׂיבָה אֲנִי אֶסְבֹּל; אֲנִי עָשִׂיתִי וַאֲנִי אֶשָּׂא, וַאֲנִי אֶסְבֹּל וַאֲמַלֵּט<br />Even till old age, I am he; and even till seniority, I shall suffer and endure. I created and I shall bear; I shall suffer and endure and rescue<br />--Isaiah 46:4</i><br /><br /><br />On today's anniversary (which will be observed tomorrow in Israel due to calendar quirks) of Yom Hashoah I thought it would be interesting and a little more uplifting than my usual Holocaust or <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/11/69-years-ago-today.html">Kristallnacht</a> posts to explore the full meaning of this day. No matter how much it hurts to think about it, we can never <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/burging-bridges.html">"move on"</a> from the Holocaust. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2908/jews20being20deported20h.jpg"></center><br /><br />Everyone knows that we are to remember the <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36337443/ns/health-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1">victims</a> of the Nazi insanity that rampaged across Germany and Europe for over a decade (1933-1945)...but many are not aware that the full Hebrew name of "Holocaust Remembrance Day" is:<br /><br />יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה<br /><br />Which translates into English as "Day of Remembrance for Destruction (referring to the Holocaust) and for Heroism." We always mourn the victims of this horrible time period but EQUALLY as important is to remember the heroism of those Jews (and people who were not Jewish) who refused to go quietly, who recognized that there was no <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">appeasing</a> the Nazis, and who stood up to take control of their own destiny. In fact, the original date chosen for this day was the anniversary of the <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005188">Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</a> which took place the day before Passover. <br /><br />So with that in mind, it would be appropriate on this day to remember that unlike <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/08/meek-shall-inherit-land.html">previous horrors</a> which befell the Jewish people, the Jews of the Holocaust DID NOT simply go like sheep to the slaughter. There were many amazing stories of defiance in the face of Nazi death...but none greater than the Jewish partisans of the Warsaw ghetto.<br /><br />The rebellion of the Jews in Warsaw was not simply a moral victory...it actually succeeded in forcing the Nazi war machine to divert entire battalions in order to quell it. They had no choice but to bring in tanks and flamethrowers to flatten a city that they had already conquered four years earlier - a FIRST in Nazi Europe. <br /><br />Urban uprisings, whether organized by Jews or not, simply DID NOT HAPPEN to the Nazis before the Warsaw ghetto and it showed everyone (including Polish resistance units who started their own uprising about a year later) how truly precarious their situation had become. This an <a href="http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/documents/part2/doc143.html">excerpt from the diary</a> of German Major-General Jürgen Stroop - the SS Commander of Warsaw:<br /><blockquote>After a few days it was already clear that the Jews would under no circumstances consider voluntary resettlement, but were determined to fight back by every means and with the weapons in their possession. Under Polish-Bolshevik leadership so-called fighting units were formed which were armed and paid any price asked for available arms....<br /><br /><b>...While at first it had been possible to capture the Jews, who are ordinarily cowards,</b> in considerable numbers, the apprehending of the bandits and Jews became increasingly difficult in the second half of the Grossaktion. Again and again, fighting units of 20 to 30 or more Jewish youths, 18 to 25 years old, accompanied by corresponding numbers of females, renewed the resistance. These fighting units were under orders to continue armed resistance to the end and, if necessary, to escape capture by suicide.<br /><br />During the armed resistance females belonging to the fighting units were armed in the same way as the men; some were members of the He-Halutz Movement. It was no rarity for these females to fire pistols with both hands. It happened again and again that they kept pistols and hand-grenades (Polish "egg" grenades) hidden in their bloomers up to the last moment, in order to use them against the men of the Waffen-SS [military unit of the SS], Police and Wehrmacht.<br /><br /><b>The resistance offered by the Jews and bandits could be broken only by the energetic, tireless deployment of storm-patrols night and day...</b><br /><br />Not rarely, the Jews stayed in the burning houses until the heat and fear of being burned to death caused them to jump from the upper floors after they had thrown mattresses and other upholstered objects from the burning houses to the street. <b>With broken bones they would then try to crawl across the street into buildings</b> which were not yet, or only partially, in flames. Often, too, Jews changed their hiding places during the night, by shifting into the ruins of buildings already burned out and taking refuge there until they were found by one of the shock troop units....<br /><br />Only as a result of the unceasing and untiring efforts of all forces did we succeed in capturing altogether 56,065 Jews, i.e., definitely destroying them...<br /><i><br />The SS and Police Leader<br />in the Warsaw District<br />Stroop<br />SS Brigadefuehrer<br />and Major General of Police</i></blockquote><br />[emphasis added]<br /><br />In the end however, a few poorly armed/trained civilians who had been starved, beaten, malnourished and abused for 4 years could not hold out forever against the military that ran over almost all of Europe.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/415/warsawghetto.jpg"></center><br /><br />The uprising was crushed, the commanders all killed and what little remained of the ghetto was liquidated. Before he died, the leader of the rebellion, Mordechai Anielewicz (himself an astonishing individual who should replace <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-person.html">clowns like Che Guevara</a> as the role model for oppressed minorities) wrote <a href="http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/documents/part2/doc145.html">this letter</a> to his friend and fellow rebel Yitzhak Cukierman:<br /><blockquote>April 23, 1943<br /><br />It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. One thing is clear, what happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans ran twice from the ghetto. One of our companies held out for 40 minutes and another for more than 6 hours. The mine set in the "brushmakers" area exploded. Several of our companies attacked the dispersing Germans. Our losses in manpower are minimal. That is also an achievement. Y. [Yechiel] fell. He fell a hero, at the machine-gun. <b>I feel that great things are happening and what we dared do is of great, enormous importance....</b><br /><br />Beginning from today we shall shift over to the partisan tactic. Three battle companies will move out tonight, with two tasks: reconnaissance and obtaining arms. Do you remember, short-range weapons are of no use to us. We use such weapons only rarely. What we need urgently: grenades, rifles, machine-guns and explosives.<br /><br />It is impossible to describe the conditions under which the Jews of the ghetto are now living. Only a few will be able to hold out. The remainder will die sooner or later. Their fate is decided. In almost all the hiding places in which thousands are concealing themselves it is not possible to light a candle for lack of air.<br /><br />With the aid of our transmitter we heard the marvelous report on our fighting by the "Shavit" radio station. <b>The fact that we are remembered beyond the ghetto walls encourages us in our struggle.</b> Peace go with you, my friend! Perhaps we may still meet again! <b>The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.</b><br /><i><br />M. Anielewicz<br /><br />Ghetto, April 23, 1943</i></blockquote><br />[emphasis added]<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/7756/anielewicz.jpg"></center><br /><br />If only he had lived through the horror and made it to Israel to see the miraculous extension of his efforts. Unfortunately it was not to be.<br /><br />And this is the real tragedy - and paradoxically also the glory - of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Not that it failed or that the world watched and did nothing to help these heroes...that happened everyday during the Holocaust. The real tragedy was that it even came to this. That the Jewish people were so unprepared for the evils of the Holocaust that it came down to a few isolated, broken people desperately (albeit gloriously) fighting for just a few extra hours of life. <br /><br />That after almost 2,000 years of pogroms and Crusades and Inquisitions and ghettoes, that we as a people still believed that deep down inside human beings weren't capable of becoming Nazis. That the Germans took advantage of our good nature and our <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">innocence</a> and reduced us to the point that we were closer to animals than to human beings. <br /><br />That these uprisings didn't happen in every ghetto that was created or shtetl that was occupied because we simply had no historical precedent or training for it. That by the time these uprisings happened it was just simply far too late in the game. The enemy could not be overcome by Mordechai Anielewicz because the enemy had an entire state and military while he had a few revolvers, some molotov cocktails and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-cities-sderot-music-rockets.html">no backup</a> from anyone. And as tragic of an end (and beginning) there was to the Jewish martyrs of Warsaw, there is an even greater glory in their memory.<br /><br />You see the GLORY of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is that it showed the world that Jews COULD and WOULD fight back. This is no simple "moral" victory...this is very real. Because in the end we <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/03/purimfest.html">withstood</a> the Nazis like we withstood everyone who came before them and allowed Anielewicz's glory to live on. <br /><br />It is no small coincidence that next week we will be celebrating the continuation of Warsaw fighters' legacy in the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/triumph.html">establishment of the state of Israel</a> and with it a Jewish army that ENSURES that never again...NEVER AGAIN...will there have to be "isolated pockets" of Jewish fighters unsupported and cut off from the rest of the world. <br /><br />NEVER AGAIN will we have to look around at each other, stuffed into cattle cars, our homes in ruins behind us and wonder just how it was that we were brought to this point - how it was that we could be so easily <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/donkey-flew-over-cuckoos-nest.html">abandoned by our friends</a> and neighbors. <br /><br />NEVER AGAIN will we be caught unprepared by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">a menace who seeks to annihilate</a> us all. <br /><br />And NEVER AGAIN will any nation have the ability or audacity to even <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/02/anti-zionist-anti-jewish.html">THINK that they can goose-step</A> all over our backs with impunity.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/5885/merkava4israeliarmywikf.jpg"></center><br /><br />Because the glory of Mordechai Anielewicz lives on in in the Israel Defense Forces, in the state of Israel and within all of us who <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_26.html">refuse to submit quietly</a> to the forces that seek to reduce us to the point that they reduced our grandparents and their families. <br /><br />It is for these reasons that we must never forget what happened to us... and why we must focus not only the tragedies of the Holocaust but the rare glories as well.<br /><br /><i>For more thoughts on the Holocaust please read last year's Yom Hashoah entry: <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/nightmare.html">Nightmare.</a></i><br /><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-49444011928095148312010-04-07T00:13:00.001-04:002010-04-07T10:44:49.780-04:00A Tale of Two Cities: Sderot, music, rockets and you<i>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...<br />--A Tale of Two Cities<br /><b><br />3/18: 2, 3/19: 1, 3/20: 4, 3/21: 2, 3/22: 2, 3/23: 1, 3/26: 1, 3/27: 2, 4/1: 1, 4/2:1, 4/3:1, 4/5:1, 4/6:6</b><br />--number of rockets fired into Israel by day from Gaza in the past two weeks<br /></i><br /><br /><b>My town:</b><br /><br />It's beautiful, quiet Spring morning in the Northeast. The rivers are receding after the recent Old Testament-style floods. The recent cold snap has ended, the sun is shining and the skies are blue. As I lay in bed with the sun streaming in through the windows and hear the Easter weekend traffic motoring along slowly, it's easy to be almost hypnotized at how peaceful it is. What should I do today? Whatever it is, it has to be outside and on a day like today it seems as though anything is possible...<br /><br />***********<br /><br /><b>Your town:</b><br /><br />It's beautiful, quiet Spring morning in Sderot. The heavy rains of the winter and desert flooding are fading into distant memory, the sun is shining and the skies are blue. As I lay in bed with the sun streaming in through the windows and hear the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/happy-passoverchag-pesach-sameach.html">Passover</a> weekend traffic motoring along slowly I think to myself how lucky I am to wake up in such a beautiful town. What should I do today? Whatever it is, it has to be outside and on a day like today it seems as though anything is possible...<br /><br />***********<br /><br /><b>My town:</b><br /><br />...something occurs to me as I get up to pour myself a bowl of cereal, something in the back of my mind...but I push it away...I don't want anything to disturb my quiet haze...what should I do? Walk to the park? Hike along the river? But something keeps nagging me and I can't ignore it...something I forgot...but I really don't want to think about it I'd much rather think about how to spend this beautiful day...<br /><br />***********<br /><br /><b>Your town:</b><br /><br />...something occurs to me as I get up to go make myself a cup of coffee...something in the back of my mind...no I don't want to think about that...I won't on a day like today...so what SHOULD I do today, anyway? Go to beach? Ugh, with all the holiday travelers it's going to be packed. Was that what was bothering me? No that's not it...and I'm not going to think about it anymore today...I'm not going to let it disturb this beautiful, peaceful day...Still it's nagging me, but in my just-woken-up haze I can barely remember what it is...<br /><br />***********<br /><br /><b>My town:</b><br /><br />Taxes! TAXES! That's what it was! I forgot to do my taxes and they're due in just a few days! Well no matter I'll just do them later tonight - no way I'm wasting a day like THIS to look at some boring forms! Thank God I remembered though, it could have been a disaster if I had forgotten!<br /><br />***********<br /><br /><b>Your town:</b><br /><b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED </span> AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED </span> AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN AIR RAID SIREN </b><br /><br />Oh that's what it was, I almost forgot...I haven't had a quiet, peaceful day like I was imagining in OVER EIGHT YEARS. Why should today be any different? Back into the bomb shelter for another game of "dodge-rocket" with my family.<br /><br /><br />***********<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7129/img0951d.jpg"><br /><br /><br />Welcome to Sderot, Israel, population approximately 20,000. The scene you just read is one that has been repeated basically on a daily basis since March, 2002. Not-so-surprisingly, up to <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35691">94% of the children</a> who live in Sderot suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). But in addition to holding the dubious title of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-514681/Code-Red-Sderot-Living-heavily-bombed-place-world.html">"most bombed city on earth",</a> Sderot has been an incredible <a href="http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/213">musical and cultural</a> center for all of Israel. An incredible amount of singers and songwriters hails from this hard-scrabble town, including Kobi Oz of the band Teapacks. You may have heard of them during the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6405457.stm">"Push the Button" controversy</a> at the 2007 Eurovision contest.<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DyiLSZavS4U&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DyiLSZavS4U&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />But Sderot isn't just a thumbtack on a google map showing the latest rocket strike in the perpetual hell of Middle East reality. It's a real city with real people that I had the privilege of visiting this past January. Palestinians fired four mortars at us while I was there. Luckily their aim was off and the mortars all landed in their own territory - no code red for me. <br /><br />The tension while walking in the street however, was palpable and I couldn't help subconsciously looking around for somewhere within <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22EEbiCWDzo&feature=related">15 seconds</a> to take shelter if the alarm did go off. Most of the bus stops in the area have been converted into bomb shelters and many buildings have them built-in but there were several stretches when it was clear I would not be able to get anywhere indoors within 15 seconds. <br /><br />Knowing that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/does-not-compute_15.html">thousands upon thousands</a> of rockets and mortars have crashed into the very streets I was now walking made me think about the people who stood on the same ground I was now on. Someone, probably several people, had been standing where I was now during a Code Red and had to hope to God or whatever higher power they believed in that they would be spared. This was a sobering thought indeed.<br /><br />Eventually I arrived at the <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/">Sderot Media Center</a> where I met several residents of the town and spoke to them about life in the shadow of Gaza. Without realizing it, the tension I felt when I was in the street left me the whole time I was in their presence. Despite the unbelievable living conditions these people are forced to endure, I was mesmerized by the charm and overall quiet of the city. <br /><br />The people I spoke to, while obviously upset about the situation, didn't act like they were jumpy or nervous or miserable...the whole place just seemed so NORMAL. Being there reminded me of the sleepy New Jersey town I grew up in...which made it all the more frustrating to know that this quiet calm had just been shattered the day before by a rocket attack and unbeknownst to me at the time had almost been shattered four times while I was there. <br /><br />If you follow Israeli news you read a lot about traumatized residents of Sderot with PTSD or children that have developed panic attacks as a result of incessant Code Red alerts...but in a way, seeing how relatable the people were, affected me more than reading about <a href="http://www.zionism-israel.com/vic/sderot1.htm">victims</a> of attacks. These people aren't superheroes, they're just regular human beings like you and me who want nothing more complicated than to be able to get out of bed in the morning WITHOUT BEING SHOT AT BY A BUNCH OF <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-i-ran-irans-so-far-away.html">IRANIAN-FUNDED,</a> OVERSIZED BAZOOKAS. <br /><br />They have jobs, they drink tea, they send their children to school, they go out drinking (a local pub was <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018285.html">selected by Haaretz</a> as serving the "best cocktail" in Israel), they even produce the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissli">Bissli</a> snacks - popular with so many American Jews - at the Osem plant right outside town. In short, this could be quiet rural town in South Jersey or Pennsylvania or Michigan or Kansas or Oklahoma or wherever. You could have had the luck of being born here instead of wherever you grew up. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3516/img0946f.jpg"></center><br /><br />The only difference is that if you had been born here, this what would be falling on your head on a nearly daily basis for the past eight straight years. This is what would have been raining down on you 20, 30, 50, A HUNDRED times per DAY before your government <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/invasion.html">finally decided to act</a> against the perpetrators. This is what the rest of the world would expect you to endure falling on you as you drove to work or waited with your child for the bus or lay in bed considering what to do with your holiday weekend. <br /><br />By the way, these rockets don't just fall from the sky, they EXPLODE on impact and send shrapnel (in addition to ball bearings, nails, screws and other potential projectiles that our Palestinian friends pack into these explosives) flying in every direction. These rockets, "crude" as they may be described in <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-say-what-to-say-part-ii_30.html">Palestinian mythology,</a> are specifically designed to injure or end as many human lives as possible. That they don't kill more people is a testament to the preparedness of the townspeople to react to these attacks.<br /><br />For example, take this playground that I saw while I was there...<br /><center><br /><img src="http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/1050/img0950.jpg"><br /><img src="http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/7774/img0947x.jpg"><img src="http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2619/img0948w.jpg"><img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2091/img0949l.jpg"><br /></center><br />This is the "Heritage Legacy Park of Good Wishes" - built with money that was donated by Americans. It sure looks like a fun place for kids to play, with colorful caterpillars and castles and everything else an imaginative child could want. In the setting sun it all seemed so peaceful...so normal...until it was pointed out to me by my friend that these caterpillars and castles were actually built as BOMB shelters. This project was part of a <a href="http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=155527">$9 million campaign</a> to create bomb-proof places for children to play. Park of "good wishes" indeed...<br /><br />And this is really a perfect illustration of what's wrong with the attitudes of pretty much everyone who doesn't actually live in Sderot. Everyone I talked to was (understandably) at the point of infuriation that even well-meaning people who are trying to help are actually <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_2072.html">perpetuating</a> the problem. <br /><br />After all, rockets rain down on an innocent civilian population and the answer is...to build prettier bomb shelters? Better early warning systems? Teaching people how to manage their lives more effectively as they live under bombardment?? This isn't an earthquake or hurricane zone or an area that's somehow prone to regularly occurring meteor showers! This isn't some <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=621&q=3">natural disaster</a> that people need to learn how to live with better! Just STOP THE ROCKETS. <br /><br />Imagine if your home was repeatedly the target of armed robberies. You call the police to tell them that your home is being invaded on a daily basis and instead of them coming to arrest the perpetrators they tell you get a stronger safe to keep your jewelry in, so as to discourage the bandits from coming back. Would you <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">tolerate</a> that? Of course not! It's INSANE to expect people to live like this.<br /><br />No more bomb shelters. No more early warning systems. No more Code Reds. No more fake condemnations by the outside world. No more SILENCE from the Obama administration. <br /><br /><i>And the announcement of the settlements the very day that the vice president was there was insulting.<br />--Hillary Clinton</i><br /><br />Oh my mistake, maybe we're better off when you don't say anything. Do you know what's really insulting though? All this controversy from the entire world that is directed at Israel over...building an apartment building...but while Biden and Hillary were STILL in the process of scolding the Israelis over their evil real estate plans there was <a href="http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/50999/Rocket-Attack-During-VP-Biden%27s-Visit-Silence-Is-Deafening.html">yet another rocket attack</a> into non-settlement, Israel-proper.<br /><br />But hey, no one got killed so no harm, no foul right? ISRAEL on the other hand...how DARE they exercise their sovereignty over territory that they annexed over 40 years ago. And as world leaders raced each other to condemn Israeli architecture in ever more flowery and grandiose language, poor <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=630&q=3">Manee Singmueangphon</a> had the misfortune of working in a greenhouse that a random Qassam crashed into, killing him and injuring dozens other Thai workers.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5086/manee1.jpg"><br /><i> Singmueangphon had children back in Thailand that he was working in Israel to support</i></center><br /><br />Really though, what other country in the world is expected to endure daily attacks on its own citizens...yet a new housing project becomes an INTERNATIONAL incident? Oh and God forbid if Israel actually eliminates a terrorist mastermind...nevermind rocket attacks, the Mossad stands accused of the high crime of PASSPORT FORGERY. What a joke! <br /><br />In other news, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/03/27/congo.massacre/index.html">over 300 people were slaughtered</a> in the Congo over a span of 3 days in December and you didn't even know about it. Oh and <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/article389216.ece/700-children-die-a-day-from-hunger--D-R-Congo-minister&ei=uAG8S97XA8SqlAfSw4HZBw&sa=X&oi=news_article&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CDIQqQIoATAA&usg=AFQjCNHPiOGuS4VxQZbdn7HmY50A-XyPAA">700 children died there today</a> (and yesterday and the day before that...) of starvation due to the fighting. But ISRAEL is on the front pages of every newspaper because they stopped a murderer from killing more people and built an apartment building in their capital! It's complete insanity and yet we all are <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">complicit</a> in it by our silence. <br /><br />Thankfully the residents of Sderot are imaginative, creative and resourceful enough to take care of themselves. My friends at the Sderot Media Center told me about the innovative programs they have to help the Sderot residents who suffer from PTSD. There are <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=438&q=6#sctt">theater, movie, music and poetry programs</a> that encourage children and adults to express their feelings through art. It's not much of a surprise that a city with such a rich musical and cultural history would produce such beautiful art about a decidedly un-beautiful situation. There's also a documentary called <a href="http://sderotmovie.com/about.php?x=film">Sderot: Rock in the Red Zone</a> about how the Sderot youth are finding ways to express their pain and suffering to the rest of the world.<br /><br /><center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N5rinTJXs8w&border=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N5rinTJXs8w&border=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />But why should this be? Why do we need awareness concerts and social media therapy and playground bomb shelters? Why does this situation even need to exist? How can we <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-this-clown-out-of-here.html">abandon</a> these human beings...these mothers, fathers, sons, daughters...and allow them to be victimized like this? <br /><br />We, all of us, need to stand up and make it clear that we will not play by the rules our <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/hollow-hollow-words.html">"friends"</a> try to impose on us as long as these people are subjected to this daily hell. What are we arguing about here, honestly? Apartment complexes? Passport forgeries? These people have been subjected to a DAILY state of terror for over EIGHT YEARS. This is ridiculous already!<br /><br />You want Israel to sit down at the table and talk with <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">murderers</a> like Hamas? Get them to stop the rockets. You want less restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank? Stop the rockets. You want settlement freezes and "confidence-building" measures? STOP THE ROCKETS. Oh and how about releasing <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/gilad-shalit-day.html">Gilad Shalit</a> (after his 4th Passover in captivity) too? <br /><br />No progress should be made, no concessions offered, no goodwill gestures, nothing done until they STOP THE ROCKETS. No one should be able to guilt-trip you into feeling bad for the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hani-almadhoun/not-for-profit-how-hamas_b_518386.html">(self-imposed)</a> terrible situation the Palestinians are living under in Gaza either. Even the frequently Israel-bashing Human Rights Watch places the blame for the rockets SQUARELY on Hamas "leadership's" shoulders. I'm sorry that innocent Palestinians suffer in Gaza on a daily basis but you know what? It's not my problem. <a href="http://www.qassam.ps/news-2597-Palestine_is_our_country_from_sea_to_Jordan.html">THEIR government</a> which THEY elected and therefore represents THEM allows this situation to continue.<br /><br />But if they just STOPPED THE ROCKETS - none of this would happen. Action/reaction, cause/effect, behavior/consequence. Enough with the complaining, the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">apologies,</a> the demands and the excuses...just STOP<br /><br />THE<br /><br />ROCKETS.<br /><br />And to the people of Sderot...keep making your movies and your music and know that even though we're very far away, WE DO HEAR YOU.<br /><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-5775986773693261142010-03-29T08:59:00.005-04:002010-03-29T09:32:10.959-04:00Happy Passover/Chag Pesach Sameach!<i><b>שמחה רבה, שמחה רבה,<br />אביב הגיע, פסח בא! <br />שמחה רבה, שמחה רבה, <br />אביב הגיע, פסח בא! <br /><br />תפרו, תפרו, תפרו לי בגד עם כיסים. <br />מילאו, מילאו, מילאו כיסי באגוזים. <br /><br />שמחה רבה... <br /><br />שאול אשאל, שאול אשאל ארבע קושיות <br />שתה אשתה, שתה אשתה ארבע כוסות. <br /><br />שמחה רבה... <br /><br />וכוס גדולה וכוס גדולה אימי תכין<br />לאליהו, לאליהו הנביא<br /><br />שמחה רבה...<br /></b><br />Lots of joy, lots of joy<br />Spring is here, Passover is coming!<br />Lots of joy, lots of joy<br />Spring is here, Passover is coming!<br /><br />Sew, sew, sew me clothing with pockets<br />Fill, fill, fill my pockets with nuts<br /><br />Lots of joy...<br /><br />I'll ask...I'll ask the four questions<br />I'll drink...I'll drink the four cups (of wine)<br /><br />Lots of joy...<br /><br />And a big cup...and a big cup my mom will bring<br />For Elijah...for Elijah the prophet<br /><br />Lots of joy...<br /></i><br /><center><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-CqgK45zT80&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-CqgK45zT80&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /></center><br /><br />Sorry that it's not the complete song, the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/give-shoulderclose-your-eyes-happy.html">last time</a> I posted a Jewish holiday song (on Purim) I almost got sued for copyright infringement! Who knew folk songs were "intellectual property" jeez!<br /><br />But in all seriousness, to all my readers have a great Pesach/Passover and if you celebrate Easter have a nice one next week too. Just remember on this annual celebration of our freedom that <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/gilad-shalit-day.html">not all of us are free</a> today. Please do something to remember <a href="http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Strategic+Partnerships/Makom/Gilad+Shalit+at+Your+Seder.htm">Gilad Shalit</a> at your seder tonight or tomorrow. He needs all the help/awareness we can give him.<br /><br />Hopefully this Pesach will be the beginning of a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_26.html">new attitude</a> for all of us...where we stand up to our enemies and deliver ourselves from the oppression of others instead of waiting for someone else to do it for us. Remember, in the story of Pesach that not ALL of the Jews thought it would be wise to leave Egypt. Even after the miraculously destructive 10 Plagues, many were content to maintain the <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_2072.html">status quo</a> and stay <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in.html">dependent</a> on foreign rulers. There's a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-person.html">lesson</a> in there somewhere for all of us today.<br /><br />Have a great Passover everyone!<br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797868361228039776.post-79063338946010417722010-03-09T00:10:00.000-05:002010-03-09T10:52:00.006-05:00And I ran... Iran's so far away...Right now, as you are reading this, there is a group of <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/in-endit-doesnt-even-matter.html">religious fanatics</a> who are actively and aggressively seeking nuclear weapons. Right now this second, as these words are entering your brain there is a country whose government regularly interferes with oil prices...driving them up and with them the price of what you pay to fill your car with gasoline. Then they complain that they don't have enough access to cheap energy.<br /><br />This same government has <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/death-sentences-for-juveniles-real.html">violently and ruthlessly</a> suppressed any internal opposition to itself. This government has regularly made threats against you, your family, your country and your soldiers. This same government has already been indirectly (and sometimes directly) responsible for the deaths of scores of your soldiers. This same government has and will continue to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2008/11/y-m-t.html">target</a> you at home and abroad. Furthermore this government has the CAPABILITY to reach you even as you go to work or school or take a bus or go to the mall.<br /><br />You already know that I'm talking about Iran but what if I told you that the target I'm referring to isn't Israel?<br /><br />It's America. It's you.<br /><br /><center><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CUezKsBCRbk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CUezKsBCRbk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Well hey, at least there is some good news...apparently Ahemdinejad has discovered the cure for AIDS! Unfortunately it means destroying all of us...<br /><br />Meet <a href="http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/">United Against Nuclear Iran</a> or UANI for short. My friends over there are very serious about the Iranian threat to the entire Middle East and beyond. And they have very good reason to be concerned right now as everyday there seems to be a new article about how <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/03/07/ahmadinejad.afghanistan/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn">crazy Ahmedinejad</a> is or that Iran has achieved another step toward producing a nuclear weapon or now an <a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=170329">actual ICBM!!</a> What peaceful purpose could an ICBM have? Only the ayatollahs must know the answer to that question.<br /><br />But even if you're not worried about a new Cold War on the horizon (this time with a government run by <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-done-research-and-it-was-arabs-get.html">truthers</a> and suicidal lunatics) or doubt that Iran would ever actually use their nuclear device (that they spent decades of time and hundreds of billions of dollars developing) UANI wants you to know that the threat to America is not only very REAL but very CURRENT. Here is a summary from UANI of some of the ways Iran has ALREADY been attacking Americans:<br /><blockquote>• Iran has provided <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24311124/">material and financial support</a> to anti-U.S. forces in Iraq (as well as Afghanistan).<br /><br />• According to U.S. State Department, Iran is already a major proliferator of conventional weapons and it has exported <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/01/invasion.html">rocket and missile technology</a> to terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. Hezbollah has taken U.S. citizens hostage and caused the deaths of hundreds of civilians and military personnel through its various campaigns—including the 1983 <a href="http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2008/1008_beirut/">Beirut barracks bombing</a> that took the lives of 241 American servicemen<br /><br />• Iran already has the <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/05/21/iran_fires_missile_tests_us/">ballistic missiles</a> necessary to hit U.S. and allied troops stationed in the Middle East and parts of Europe. If Tehran were allowed to develop nuclear weapons, the threat to American military personnel would increase dramatically.<br /><br />• During the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran violated two of the most sacrosanct principles of international relations: 1) by invading the American embassy, a violation of basic state sovereignty, and 2) by taking hundreds of American diplomats hostage—a violation of the principle of diplomatic immunity.<br /><br /><img src="http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2307/70s20iranian20hostages.jpg" /><br /><br />• “Death to America” rallies are a common sight in the streets of Iranian cities.<br /><br />• A nuclear-armed Iran <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/07/hard-times.html">poses a threat</a> to America’s allies in the Middle East.<br /><br />• A nuclear-armed Iran would spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. </blockquote>And lest you think it's all about nuclear doom and gloom, here are some fun facts about how Iran deals with its own citizens:<br /><blockquote>• The Iranian regime persecutes members of a wide range of minorities, social, and religious groups, including Christians, Bahais, homosexuals, women, labor activists, and student groups.<br /><br />• Under Iran's strict apostasy laws, conversion to <a href="http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11576814/">Christianity is a crime</a> punishable by death.<br /><br />• Since 1979, Iranian authorities have <a href="http://iran.bahai.us/2010/02/24/human-rights-watch-calls-on-iran-to-end-persecution-of-bahais/">killed</a> more than 2,000 Bahai leaders, arrested and imprisoned thousands more, and dismissed more than 10,000 Bahais from government and university jobs. (By the way, guess which Middle East country <a href="http://www.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Articles/Attractions/The+Bahai+Gardens.htm">loves</a> the Ba'hai)<br /><br />• Homosexuality is illegal in Iran, and gay sex is considered a capital crime. The Iranian government <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297982,00.html">targets gays</a> with beatings, lashings and execution.<br /><br />• The June 2009 presidential elections in Iran were marked by a fierce and massive campaign of government repression...hundreds of thousands of Iranians participated in the initial protests against the disputed results of that election. The ensuing crackdown killed at least 20 people, and some protesters claim that the actual death toll was closer to 250...over a thousand students and other protesters were detained, and many have yet to be released.</blockquote>So if today the world is unwilling to stand up to this horrendous behavior, how will we do so when Iran can threaten us with nuclear reprisals? Think about it, any country with nuclear weapons can essentially guarantee that they CANNOT lose a war without their enemy (and/or its allies) losing a massive portion of their own population - if not all of it, as was the case during the Cold War. You think there are any Western leaders that would <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-fight-in-defense-of-preemptive.html">take action</a> to defend gay Iranians if they knew they could lose a few million of their own civilians in the process? You think there's even one?<br /><br />How many Russians were purged by Stalin for not being in line with Soviet ideology? How many free European nations fell behind the iron curtain? How many millions of Asians, Arabs, Jews, Christians, Cubans and others on every continent and in every hemisphere were enslaved by the horror of communist dictatorships while the West was powerless to stop the nuclear-armed Bolsheviks in Moscow?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/364/iran20a.jpg" /></center><br /><br />How many innocent people will find themselves enslaved under the harsh ideology of the Supreme Leader of Iran?<br /><br />This is what we are talking about here. It's not just about Israel...it's not just about nuclear fireballs...it's about anyone and everyone that would fall under Iran's growing, nuclear-powered sphere of influence. It's about the millions of people who do not subscribe to the extremist, <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolerance-breeds-intolerance.html">intolerant</a> Shi'a ideology of the ayatollahs and would be trampled under the boots of these oppressors. As we have seen, this applies to women, homosexuals, Ba'hais, Jews, Christians, "impious" Muslims, people who like rap music...in other words roughly 95% of the living, breathing world.<br /><br />And make no mistake, the plan for Iran does not end with Iran. Or even Israel. We are talking about a movement that is very aggressive, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">very expansionist</a> and has a very long memory that dates back to the times of the Crusaders. As we have seen, Iran has killed Americans in the past and is rapidly progressing towards building an ICBM. That's an Inter-CONTINENTAL Ballistic Missile by the way. The only reason you need one of those is to be able to hit a target on another CONTINENT.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9324/icbm.png" /></center><br /><br />Suddenly doesn't seem so far away does it?<br /><br />Iran is also engaged in a massive disinformation campaign about its intentions. Despite the protestations from Ahmedinejad (and <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-hell-for.html">certain naive people</a> who think he can be talked to) that ICBMs and long-range Shahab missiles are actually going to be used to rain flower petals over their targets instead of death and detruction, the evidence mounts everyday that Iran's facilities are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6235547/Defiant-Iran-insists-theres-no-secret-as-inspectors-invited-to-Qom-nuclear-site.html">too small for civilian use</a> and too large to simply be research facilities.<br /><br />Then, in addition to the usual dog and pony show about its nuclear program being only for peaceful purposes - that even the IAEA <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/IAEA-Chief-Cannot-Confirm-Iran-Nuclear-Program-Peaceful-85812527.html">isn't buying</a> anymore - Iran, through fronts like the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601206&sid=aA6SZIk_JW04">Alavi Foundation,</a> regularly funds <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/02/alavi-foundation-clinton-oped-cx_re_0105ehrenfeld.html">politicians</a> and <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2009/11/ny_post_iranian_regime_front_g.html">universities</a> all while raising charitable donations for - you guessed it - the Iranian government and by extension their nuclear program.<br /><br />If you clicked on the <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2009/11/ny_post_iranian_regime_front_g.html">universities link</a> you would have read a CAMERA article about the Alavi Foundation giving over $100,000 to Columbia University and $351,600 to the Rutgers University Persian language program. This isn't the first time that we've reported on this site that Rutgers has been involved with <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-so-strange-bedfellows-rutgers.html">questionable charities</a> either. The $100,000 was only handed over to Columbia after they agreed to host Ahmedinejad for his 2007 exercise in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance"> cognitive dissonance</a> (he declared at Columbia that there were no gays in Iran despite his regime regularly hanging them) - I wonder what Rutgers had to agree to in order to receive their donation. Aside from the obvious lunacy of a <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-liberal.html">liberal</a> college campus playing host to the biggest violator against liberal ideals alive in the world today, there is the disgrace of giving such a hate-monger a public forum to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2010/02/sanction-of-victim-and-guiltiest-man-in_2072.html">perpetuate</a> his lies and infect the minds of students who likely have little to no background on the history of the region.<br /><br />So what can we do about it? Well, for one thing if you are a student at one of these universities (or any college for that matter) you can form a local UANI chapter like <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=305925466394&ref=ts"> they are doing at Rutgers</a> as we speak. You can also write a letter to your university demanding an explanation for why they would accept funding from a terrorist regime like Iran.<br /><br />If you're not a student you can join UANI's boycott of corporations that do business with Iran or accept funding from them. UANI has something they call the <a href="http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/ibr">Iranian Business Registry</a> - a list of these companies (some of which have received taxpayer handouts during the recent economic nuclear meltdown!) that you can stop buying from and tell your friends/family to do the same. You can demand answers from your representative in Congress about why you are funding the Iranian nuclear program with your taxes. Make sure you VOTE for politicians who recognize how dangerous of a crisis this really is...and if you choose NOT to vote for someone based on this issue - make sure they (and everyone else) know it. There's a lot you can do, but there's not really very much time to do it.<br /><center><br /><a href="http://unitedagainstnucleariran.com/behind-the-bomb-technical-talking-points"><img src="http://unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/themes/uani/images/atomicticker.gif" /></a><br /></center><br /><br />Check out the <a href="http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/advocacy-kit">UANI site</a> for additional ideas about how to raise awareness on this crisis. Remember, it may seem like it's too big of a task for an individual but so was the Berlin Wall and South African apartheid! Make enough noise and you'll be heard.<br /><br />The alternative may seem like it's too horrible to even consider, but you must consider it and you must act on it. The people of Iran and the Middle East need you to <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/freedom-of-speech-and-savage-nation.html">speak up</a> for them because they get killed for doing it themselves. But perhaps most importantly, your soldiers who <a href="http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/05/memorial-day.html">fight, bleed and die</a> everyday to defend your rights need you to speak up for them. Your children need you to speak up for them. YOU need to speak up for yourself. What are you waiting for?<br /><br /><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>RonMossadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16815747509862087759noreply@blogger.com6