In today’s attacks by World-AntiJewry, they came from Gaza on the continent of Asia, dominated once again after all these years, these centuries, these millennia by spiritual descendants of the Philistines whose champion Goliath our David son of Jesse was victorious over, but whose real, genetic descendants today have yet to vanquish.

Israel was also attacked from the port city of Goteborg, Sweden in Scandinavia; also from the continent of North America, specifically at United Nations headquarters in New York City; also from Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France on the continent of Europe.

Not that all the attacks were the same. What stood out was the micro-military act of firing mortars at Jewish villages east of Philistine Gaza; actual weapons that armies use in war. But really a micro-military-like attempt to physically murder Jews, which set it apart from the other attacks. The other barrages from other continents were verbal.

Accusations of crime, of guilt for crime against these very same Neo-Philistines in Gaza and the Neo-Canaanites in antisemitically misnamed in “East Jerusalem.”

That name never ceases to amaze, for its verbal purpose is to set apart, to deny it to Jews. When the Berlin Wall was torn down by Germans in 1989, the Free World wept and laughed and rejoiced for joy that that city divided by not just a wall but a security barrier thrown up by the enemies of freedom, the Commies in Russia and their East German Commie stooges. I remember when it went up around 1960 to keep people oppressed by the evil disciples of the evil Jewish apostate Karl Marx from escaping. And when it was torn down in 1989, the Free World rejoiced.

But after 1967 when Israelis had done the identical thing – tear down a wall that divided their capital city – World AntiJewry did not like that. In a way, 1967 was far more momentous than 1948 when Israel declared independence and fought and won the war, at least up to a cease-fire. Only in 1967 did the heart of the Biblical narrative come into Jewish hands. Judea and Samaria, and above all Jerusalem. Not since before the birth of Christianity had Jews been sovereign in Jerusalem, meaning over the heart of Jerusalem, the only reason for its existence: the Temple Mount.

It is illuminating that Jerusalem, this most contested piece of real estate on our planet that commands no natural resources; sits astride no vital artery of international commerce and business is so important; while its value has never been anything but in the realm of ideas, religious ideas. The heart of Jerusalem is the Temple Mount, site of the Binding of Isaac 3,687 years ago, when the seed of today’s Jewish people was just a nuclear family. And it is no coincidence that that story of the binding of Isaac was stolen and renamed and called Islam, when Ibrahim allegedly bound his son Isma’il at the Kaaba in Mecca.

And that is why the marauding first Muslims built over that site their Golden Dome of the Rock which Muhammed had allegedly mounted before he allegedly leapt to heaven to meet all the prophets who preceded him, before returning to earth the same night to lead his Arabs to Islam, a word meaning “submission” – a word for slaves – submission to Allah.

Jerusalem is the heart of the matter, and today out of UN headquarters in New York City this Korean guy, from the far, Far East speaking in the same of all the nations of Planet Earth accused Israel of planning to illegally destroy Ancient Palestinian dwellings in “East Jerusalem,” by which he and the whole world really mean the Temple Mount above all. Ban Ki-Moon, secretary of the world’s goyim said, “The planned moves are contrary to international law and to the wishes of the Palestinian residents.”

So, he basically called us criminals. Criminals who break the law, in this case international law which supports, he says, “the wishes of the Palestinians.”

And that is not the end of it. This textbook then continues to say that this barrier is a form of “surreptitious expansion.” Ooh, nice expression, conveying a) our aggression against the Ancient Ones while b) we carry it out underhandedly, behind the scenes in a kind of, what, conspiracy?

And as for the suicide bombers: well, these author-educators of young English minds explain that, “They have no government, no country, no army and few resources – so they resort to bombing to make their point.”

Not a word here about horny teenage boys believing suicide the way to an eternal orgy with not only women but virgins so that every coupling is a deflowering which commonly can be painful for the distaff. Thank G-d in her healthy relations with her husband she only has to go through the experience once.

While these young Arab males fantasize every copulation as a forcible deflowering.

Not that the British educators of this A-Level geography textbook see this. They see suicide bombing as making a point that the bomber has “no country, no army, no resources.”

There is a matrix of Arab myths here. That the Arabs no army, have no resources. Never mind the 21 states with 21 armies and resources of oil wealth unknown to all other peoples in the world.

“No resources”? The Arabs don’t have money, you see, to liberate Palestine. And that’s the point the suicide freak is trying to make.

AntiJewism comes in a variety of styles and flavors. Maniacs like Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Ladin have their shtick when it comes to trash-talking the Jews, and so do the British, albeit in a different manner. Think of the way the BBC covers our constantly being mauled by these brutal people. What happened on the Mavi Marmara was just the last episode in thousands of episodes over the entire span of Zionism in which crazed Muslims came at Jews to murder and mutilate. In the pogrom in Hevron in 1929, when a mob of these savages invaded a Haredi yeshiva and slew 69 young boys studying, they also slashed and mutilated lots more who survived but without toes and fingers, hands and eyes.

Jews don’t do such things. We can kill. We can and – G-d have mercy – have murdered. But this kind of grisly knife and ax-work is just not our style.

It’s not the style either of the educators in England. But they understand, don’t they, the motivation of Ancient suicide bombers: it’s because of the Jews denying them a government, a country, their army and resources…

There was also that report of a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships and one Israeli ship transiting the Suez Canal heading south in the direction of the Persian Gulf.

Which reminds yours truly of spring in Washington, D.C. in the year of 1801, which really was the second year that mostly swamp-like outline of a town was in operation as the capital of the United States, with the new occupant in the White House, the third president of the U.S. States, Thomas Jefferson who, as one of his first acts in office, ordered a squadron of four U.S. Navy warships to sail from the U.S. to Tripoli, Libya as a show of force because the pasha there at the time Yusuf Karamanli was threatening to start hijacking American commercial vessels in the Mediterranean to enslave their crews and passengers unless the Untied States paid more tribute.

But when the squadron got there many weeks later, it was already too late. The pasha had declared war against the United States, and as was the tradition on the Barbary Shore, his proclamation was made from a balcony of his inner city palace, which then licensed the crowd below to go wild, scream bloody murder and race off to the U.S. Consulate in the town to loot it.

The consul at the time, James Leander Cathcart, one of history’s more amazing people, a Scotch-Irish seaman who had spent 11 years a hostage-slave in Algiers, had the night before in secret sent his wife and two little girls over to the Danish Consulate for safety. So when the next morning the mob of howling Muslims swarmed toward his consulate, he at first tried to bribe them with cash but quickly saw the futility and raced up to the roof and jumped to the next roof and the next roof and fled across the city rooftops to the Danish consulate where he hid until he and his wife and little children were smuggled out of the city ten days later. That was the beginning of the War with Tripoli.

Anyway, today its was heart-warming to read of this flotilla not of death-obsessed Muslims heading for Israel but U.S. Navy warships and one little Israeli warship heading south through the Canal toward the Persian Gulf. Let’s hope for the best.

It was reported this flotilla belonging to the good guys and not today’s cousins of the legendary Barbary Pirates has the right to stop such a provocation vessel coming from Persia and inspect it for weapons.

Then Israel could put a UAV over the sucker to track it and make sure it takes on no new cargo…

And I say, no, because they don’t deserve to have their homes rebuilt. If they are living now among the ruins, tough. They deserve it. These people, this collective as a collective is as hateful of Jews as European Nazis were. And if they don’t like living in the ruins, they should not have applauded when their rocket-launcher boys fired all those thousands of rockets into Jewish apartments in Sderot and homes in the kibbutzim. Off the top of my head, like that poor fellow in Nir Am who created a popular Indian food restaurant which one day took a direct Qassam hit and was completely obliterated. And he never rebuilt.

The nerve, the chutzpa of these Arabs to whine about the rain of armaments the IDF let loose last year. All Israel was doing was returning some of the projectiles launched at us over eight years.

But don’t expect Baroness Catherine and Tony Blair to demand of the Hamas that they pay for the damage they did to us. We have to allow them to rebuild.

Why does Israel have to allow the enemy to rebuild? The enemy is suffering? The enemy brought it on himself.

By the first week in May of 1945, Germany was a landscape of rubble, ruined, bombed out cities and railroads and factories, and there was likely not one journalist in the West who wrote one column weeping over the surviving Germans living in the ruins.

Israel’s problem, Israel’s sin from Day One has been the opposite of the slander of the AntiJews. Israel’s sin has not been its cruelty to the Ancient Ones in Gaza but its mercy.

Israel has every right now to start bombing tomorrow and continue bombing until Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas surrenders, as surely as the German high command surrendered after that Archdevil Hitler killed himself.

The Washington Post today cited Sari Bashi, an Israeli, head of the pro-enemy Israeli NGO called Gisha, which means “approach” or “coming together.” She advocates an end to the blockade and she said, “The restrictions on goods into and out of Gaza was instituted not for security reasons, but rather as part of a declared policy to restrict the movement of people and goods as a means of applying pressure on the Hamas regime.”

She protested this and I ask, “Why?” Hers is an accusation, when there is nothing more normal than this age-old behavior. It is part of siege warfare. What’s the problem, Sari?

She went on kvetching, though I imagine an Israeli like her just hates the sound of Yiddish. She said, “The express purpose of this policy is to block all economic activity in Gaza.”

Of course. What’s the problem?

You know, there have been over the last year numerous items in the news about Europeans either already in clandestine talks with Hamas or gearing up for that soon, and that is what this Israel-bashing is all about. Tony Blair, Baroness Ashton, the Norwegians and the Swedes and the Irish antisemites are nothing these days if not backers of the people in Gaza who brought Hamas to power.

Sixty-five years after Hitler committed suicide, they have come to side with this generation’s Nazi-like Jew-haters and Jew-killers…

But the U.N., via the mouth of Ban Ki-Moon, is still not satisfied and will seek an international investigation on the premise that Israel cannot investigate itself.

O for an Israeli leader who will stand up and say there is nothing to investigate. Everything is out in the open as to who these antiJews were on this ship, and that Israel has had enough of these inquisitions every time we defend ourselves. Every one begins with the accusation of war crimes that must be investigated.

Enough already. This business of trying to placate irrational, delusional enemies of the Jewish people with attempts to prove our innocence has got to stop…

Nominally still Roman Catholic Spain and Roman Catholic Italy (officially Catholic until 1984) and mostly Catholic France condemned Israel for this “shocking” violence. And for sure this is not the first time such Catholic Europeans have condemned Jews for our allegedly evil behavior.

They said, “The whole world was shocked…” And I presume they included, what, hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants who couldn’t sleep that night; hundreds of millions of Hindu villagers.

Perhaps the whole of the Inuit/Eskimo community in Alaska couldn’t sleep in their igloos this past week due to the shock to their systems when they were informed of this shocking, unjustifiable behavior by Jews.

“The whole world.” I guess that means deep in the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon basin and among the headhunters in Africa; Africans living around the Serengeti Plain. “The whole world was shocked,” they said.

This is the voice of Antisemitism circa 2010. This is anti-Jew hostility in our generation.

In every generation antiJewism mutates; like an amoeba it changes shape. Like an actor in a play who wears one costume in Act I and in Act II comes out in a different costume, disguised, so the AntiJew goose-stepped off the stage of history in 1945 and after the Jews returned to rule in Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 1967 he re-emerged no longer in leather boots but a checked keffiya as an Ancient Palestinian Freedom Fighter.

Here is Miguel Angel Moratinos of Spain whose government rejects independence for the Basque people – that’s a real ancient people; rejects independence for the people in Catalonia. They would like their independence too; at least some would. Here were these three European foreign ministers devoting hours last week to the absence of statehood for the suffering Ancient Ones in the Gaza rectangle, victims of Israel’s siege

That flotilla was meant to bring supplies to the starving Ancient Ones. These European foreign ministers called it the Peace Flotilla. And they said that this “crisis shows that Israel must abandon the logic of violence.”

And never mind that NATO forces are being very violent against violent Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This is the post-Holocaust face of antiJew irrationality and hostility…

To which pseudo-demand, the AP said, Abbas replied, “I say in front of you, Mr. President, that we have nothing to do with incitement against Israel. And we’re not doing that. What we care about is to live in coexistence with Israel in order to bring about the independent Palestinian state that will live side by side with Israel.”

That’s three sentences and three lies. He says, “We have nothing to do with incitement,” number one. He repeated that; that’s two. And then said he wants to “live side by side with Israel.”

These Arabs are chronic, 24/7 liars. They go through their days dissembling, telling people what they want to hear.

This information, by the way, comes from PMW which issued its latest report just the other day on the chronic incitement in the PA media which the chairman of the PA does nothing out, the very same Dr. Abbas. It’s the same-old, same-old Jew-bashing.

When this antisemitic murderer Abbas told Charlie Rose yesterday that his people must have East Jerusalem, this liar was thinking of all of Jerusalem, namely, the old walled city in its entirety, which includes the Temple Mount in its entirety; which includes the Western Wall which was originally just a civil engineer’s retaining wall, because that’s the way it used to be, with the Muslims in control, before Zionism; and certainly before 1967.

The current arrangement in which Israel decides which Muslims may or may not ascend to Haram a-Sharif on Fridays to visit the Dome of the Rock Shrine and pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, that has got to go, according to Mahmoud Abbas. All of this land must return to full Muslim sovereign control. The Western Wall too.

This is the word game this murderer of Jews is playing when he asks just for East Jerusalem, making no claim to West Jerusalem, meaning the Zionist additions.

I think there is a consensus among Jews today, even willy-nilly among the non-comatose leftists, that the Oslo process obviously did not succeed. Its architects were hoping to realize the stated Arab goal of the Jews running from all the spoils of 1967 but this process failed, big time.

And so a reasonable person might contemplate starting over; returning to Space One, the status quo ante before Oslo because it failed big time.

A reasonable person might suggest returning to the way things used to be before Israel took this wrong turn, made a hard left turn in 1993 and got all bloodied and is still suffering the consequences of having made that wrong left turn.

And one way of returning, retreating from the wrong-headedness of Oslo might be revoking the tolerance/clemency afforded men like Dr. Abbas. An essential promise made by Israel in 1993 was that once PLO leaders had come into the country, Israel would not pursue them for their previous activities, such as their hundreds of murder attempts a/k/a terrorist atrocities. The slate would be wiped clean.

This was basic to the Oslo process. Without Israel’s signed commitment to write off these Arab atrocities, there could be no Oslo process.

So I suggest, let’s start all over and return to judging Mahmoud Abbas as good, post-Holocaust, Zionist Jews and Israelis used to judge him: as an evil murderer with whom you don’t break bread. You try to kill him.

For yours truly, nothing about Israel has been more immoral than wiping the slate clean for these people. Uncle Shimon and his partner the Communist-raised Yitzhak Rabin and their scientist colleague Dr. Beilin had no right to cleanse these evil people of their heinous, satanic murders of Jews; these murders that were every bit as reprehensible as any murder of Jews in every generation.

Nothing in Oslo to me was more revolting than that photograph of Shimon Peres kissing Arafat on the cheek.

This was the 49th no, the 50th level of tuma/of impurity.

And I’ve always held the belief that it is false for people to think that it is not enough to be right, one also has to be smart, as if there is a contradiction. On the contrary, the right thing to do is the smart thing to do; it is also the moral thing to do.

There is no clash there. In other words, dealing with Fatah and his sidekick Abbas is not only immoral; it is profoundly stupid because such low lifes simply cannot be trusted. What is the point of making a deal with such monstrous men when constitutionally they are wholly untrustworthy? Murderers are not likely to be the type of people who keep their word.

What is the point of negotiating with these cold-blood killers if the only thing trustworthy about them is their chronic untrustworthiness?

Words. They don’t keep their words. They don’t mean what they say…

Like Holocaust Deniers who constitutionally simply cannot tolerate conceiving of Jews as innocent victims of irrational, unjust baseless aggression, because they are creatures of evil incarnate, so Erdogan and Ahmadinejad. The latter must deny the Holocaust because he just can’t deal with it, while the former can accept the historical truth of the Holocaust but then he must paint the Jew as Nazi-like himself in order to diminish the moral impact of the meaning of the Holocaust. Haters like Erdogan can accept the historicity of the Holocaust but then must go on to see the Jews on a moral level today equal to Nazis, which mitigates their claim on the conscience of the world. What’s going on these days is nothing less than an hysterical wave of antisemitism the likes of which we have not seen since before the Holocaust. A Nazi-like hatred of Jews in the 1930s which was not confined to Germany or Austria. Make no mistake; it was all over Europe, as today’s Israel-bashing is likewise a global phenomenon.

It is simply a kind of mass hysteria, this international demand that the Jews be put on trial by an international court for their inhuman murder of nine innocent peace activists.

There is a craziness here, which the government of Israel, I believe, is mishandling to the extent it is unaware – is even in denial – as to the crazy antisemitism propelling this heating up of the atmosphere, this hysteria that the Arabs in Gaza are any poorer than they ever were.

Israel denies them building materials for experience has shown that they would not be used to re-build homes and hospitals but be stolen by Hamas and used for their operations of death against us Jews.

I don’t think Bibi and his defense minister, prince of the communes Barak fully understand what is being done to Israel these days. What was done to Jews throughout the Middle Ages. Accused of demonic crimes, tested in rigged trials. Tortured. Executed.

In Jerusalem, they’re just not thinking Jewish enough to my satisfaction…

There should be no doubt that the men of violence got what they wanted: a chance to draw blood from Jews and in the most tactile way.

And there is a connection between this style of violence and the history of Hamas.

Back in December 1987, when the first intifada erupted, Israelis like Bibi – I remember watching him on Ted Koppel – reflexively blamed the PLO when in fact by that time the PLO was a spent force. From the gitgo it was the PLO’s rival, the Islamists, who ignited that round of Hamitic violence in the Holy Land.

And what distinguished them, inter alia, was a preference for what in their slang they call “white weapons,” versus assault rifles and building and planting bombs in Jewish markets and movie theaters.

The PLO groups preferred that kind of terrorism versus the Islamists who consciously preferred using knives because of the greater horror they believe they cause; the up-close and primitive stabbing. It was the hands-on approach for Jew-killing which they believed horrified and terrified al-Yahud more than machine guns and bombs.

And there is something to be said for that: it is one thing to kill a man from twenty feet away with a pistol; it is another to plunge a dagger into his chest as was done on that ship.

Likewise the grisly business of suicide bombers of not only slaughtering Jews but deliberately, willfully blowing one’s own body to bloody pieces and smithereens is particularly horrifying.

When the navy boats last Monday morning contacted the Mavi Marmara, one reply was “F. U.” fully stated and another was “Go back to Auschwitz.”

Not the type of words one associates with sisters of mercy who provide food and drink to the homeless refugees after, say, natural disasters.

This reply made a statement not about their fantasized suffering but the Nazi-like hatred of Jews they harbor.

Not that Israelis like Bibi are yet capable to confronting this fact. Like Obama who has deleted Islamic terrorism from his bag of concepts, his vocabulary. Bibi too compared yesterday the civilized behavior of the people aboard the Rachel Corrie with the “violent extremists” on the Mavi Marmara. How noble he sounded in praising these antiJews for their proper deportment when captured versus those “violent extremists.”

Israelis constitute, I think, the first Jewish community history that cannot say the Yiddish words goyim and antisemitn…

This latest episode in the endless saga of the Jewish people, this reaction to the commando raid before dawn on Monday, gets stranger and stranger, in concentric circles of oddball thinking.

For example, Yediot in Hebrew yesterday referred to the “failed operation.” Today in the Wall Street Journal, its two apparently dejudaized American reporters Charles Levinson of the tribe of Levy, and Jay Solomon also wrote of the “bungled attempt.”

This is the conventional perception now of this raid, and I, for one, want to know why? Who says it “failed”? Who says it was bungled”? Seems to me it was a successful mission.

What was the mission? To stop these enemy supply vessels from reaching the enemy in Gaza of the Neo-Philistines and that it is precisely what was done. They stopped that flotilla.

People are upset, though, because the Israelite warriors, at first equipped with paint ball guns and handguns, nonetheless, at the end of the day, that is, the pre-dawn operation, not one of our boys died, and they made 9 of the enemy die and wounded a whole bunch of other violent, menacing, Muslim madmen, these 9-11 loving cultists.

Our boys took injuries too, two of them serious. But in the end they were the victors. Mission accomplished. Flotilla stopped. No loss of life on our side.

What the world is hysterical about is the fact that unlike Jews thrown into the Coliseum in Rome as an amusement for the goyim, watching Jews get hacked and speared to death by gladiators or eaten to death by lions, our sons of the State of Israel, G-d bless it, not only fought back, they won. They survived. Mission accomplished, if not perfectly.

But the whole world is hysterical because 9 soul-mates of the 9-11 skydevils were killed by our soldiers. Everyone, especially among the dhimmi leaders of the West like William Hague in England and the vulgar Sarkozy in Paris have expressed their sympathies to the families of the dead.

Only Holocaust Deniers and other lunatics – and I do mean lunatic Jew-haters – do not know that that Muslims in Gaza for eight years had fired rockets into Sderot and environs before Operation Cast Lead put a stop to that. But what was the result? The Goldstone Report written by a corrupt publicity-hound who sold out the Jewish people by producing this report, like a man with only one eye and half a brain. It was an Israel-bashing report far more than a Hamas critique. This was the work of a sick man who had reversed the polarity between aggressor and self-defender; between good and evil.

And perhaps because this sin strikes so deep into the essence of what it means to be a human being – G-d’s ultimate creation – it is the first thing Adam and Eve learn after they eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, namely, there is good and there is evil, and there is no moral equivalence between them…

Back in the year 2001, I think, in January, when Ehud Barak as prime minister still, four months into the satanic massacres of the second intifada, ran against his challenger Arik Sharon, he was interviewed by Ari Shavit in Haaretz. And it was the most unusual interview I have ever seen anywhere because the interviewer did not ask one question. It was like reading a transcript of a monologue by Ehud Barak. Shavit just turned on his recorder and let him ramble. And his rambling thoughts on the situation at that time, and why he should remain prime minister, left a strong impression on yours truly. I read a train of thoughts which told me – to my horror – this supposed clever fellow who studied Systems Analysis, I think, at MIT for a bit, this most decorated fighter – had an uneducated and an untrained mind.

Which makes sense because I spent a few brief periods living in an Israeli kibbutz just like Ehud’s. I know the culture and I am not surprised he turned out the way he did.

These were communards, those who dominated the secular Zionist movement who junked thousands of years of Jewish culture and belief and saw themselves re-inventing not only the Jews but human society by their communal way of life; by first breaking up the nuclear family; taking new-borns from their mothers at six weeks and raising them communally. Mother and child would spend hours together during the day but not at night. The children slept in the Children’s House.

These were admirers of Karl Marx who was notoriously deficient when it came to human psychology, the way people really are by nature. The Marxists thought they knew better than nature.

And this is a major reason why Marxism failed because its inventor was an angry, ugly human being who did not understand mankind. These Marxists had so little appreciation of the human person and what the person naturally tends to and shies away from and can aspire to; and cannot reach.

Well, Ehud Barack was raised in a society whose wisest leaders believed in 1993, like Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, that it was possible to shake hands with Yasir Arafat and agree on a nice neighbor policy with conditions that he and his people would faithfully uphold and adhere to.

For Peres and Rabin; for Beilin, for Ehud Barak, Arafat was a man you could do business with.

And it is no coincidence that none of these idiots in their adult lives worked in business, ran a business, did business with other people. They were always on the public dole one way or the other.

In a nutshell, the entire edifice of the world-famous Oslo Peace Process rested on the judgment of these post-mitzvot Israeli men that Arafat was a man Israel could do business with.

And here is Ehud Barak, or so it seems, behind this shocking trap the IDF dropped into, which should not surprise. It seems not to have occurred to Barak & Co., who signed off on this mission, that our sons would be met as they were on the deck of Marmara by dagger-wielding, Jew-hating, homicidal Muslim maniacs…

One possibility is an ugly confrontation between Israeli warriors at sea and these deranged antiJews, some of whom surely would like to make their mark by attacking a racist imperialist and having a video of it on YouTube as a record of one’s heroism against some of the most evil people in the world, these Zionist oppressors of the Ancient Ones.

On the other hand, so far so good. What started out as nine vessels is now down to five; and by early evening they too seemed to be having mechanical difficulties.

There were also reports in the MSM this morning that the communications equipment aboard the ships was malfunctioning.

And the Cypriots refused to play along by denying Cypriot ports and coastal waters to the flotilla, which stopped them from taking on, as I understand it, some official E.U. antiJews, with analysts here explaining that Cyprus is doing this for economic reasons, which may reflect an Israeli threat that if it does not, Israeli tourists will just stop coming to Cyprus as they have stopped going to Turkey.

It also is an opportunity for the Cypriots to screw the hated Turks. Not because they love Israel but because of the Turks who are major backers of this flotilla.

Judging by these news reports it sounds like Mossad, Military Intelligence, GSS whoever, has been gainfully employed getting employees onto those vessels, mixing in with the crowd with some secret equipment to crap up their communications network and or any other computer stuff on board. Israelis know about computers.

I think it was back in the first intifada in 1988 when Arafat cooked up an imitation Exodus vessel carrying stateless Arabians to land in Israel as another media event. You know how they invented the Naqba to imitate the Shoah, another plagiarization of some Jewishly-owned intellectual property and used it to attack the Jews with it. And so Arafat wanted an Exodus-type vessel. And that single vessel was, I think, lying at anchor in Limossol port on Cyprus the night before it was to set sail, when for some reason some mysterious explosion blew a whole in its hull and it sank. So much for that ploy.

And it sounds as if Israel’s secret services may be having some fun with these nasty antiJews…

But, really, like 95% ran away in part because there were good reasons to do that. So many of them who fled were migrant laborers living in shanty shacks who owned nothing. And it was no big deal to leave behind one’s worldly possessions for what they assumed to be for a few days.

Most of these migrant workers had come from all over Araby. From Morocco to Yemen to Iraq and were illiterate, unskilled manual laborers who had no permanent homes and possessions in Mandatory Palestine.

But then there were other Arabs who did run away and did have homes and possessions; the crème de la crème really. Like Edward Said’s uncle who lived in Jerusalem in the Arab Christian neighborhood of Talbieh next to Jewish Rehavia, an Arab neighborhood for Christians, mostly Lebanese like the Saids, which neighborhood would not have existed without the Zionists first creating Rehavia. These far more sophisticated Arabs – especially those living in Haifa, because they had come recently from Lebanon to get in on the development of the Zionists – still had family in Beirut. And so it was not much of an ordeal when the war began to throw some clothes into a suitcase and drive the family car – an indication of their greater wealth – over the border into Lebanon to spend some time with family as the Arab armies overran developed Palestine and took it away from the Jews. What shameless thieves these Arabs are.

Yes, the first wave of 100,000 Arabs left Palestine even before the war began, following the U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 of 2 November, 1947 which called for – finally – creating a Jewish state on 12% of the original promise to the Jews.

(The Merchant of Venice, come to think of it, is also about doing business with a Jew and breaking one’s promise to him.)

So the first exodus from Palestine, after word came from New York in early November of ‘47, were these 100,000 richest and most sophisticated Arabs: the lawyers, doctors, pharmacists, successful merchants, Edward Said’s people, who simply picked up and left because they did not want to fight for Palestine – which made Edward Said’s career all the more, in my eyes, contemptibly disgusting.

In a way, the career indignation about the alleged theft of Palestine by us racist Jews was really for Said a masquerade meant to cover the truth that his people did not fight for Palestine. They were cowards.

And this goes for all of them. Mahmoud Abbas as well is on record remembering his flight from Tsfat as a young teenager, when teenage Jewish boys were helping with the war effort. Arafat as well was living in Gaza at the time when he fled to Cairo even before the IDF showed up.

So these first 100,000 Arab refugees were not driven from their homes. And the bulk of the rest weren’t either.

Yet this is the fairy tale of Jewish evil that is in the head, at this very moment, of hundreds of antiJews on nine small vessels having, I am sure, this evening a wonderful time partying aboard ship as they cruise toward Gaza to act out the fairy tale of Jews starving the Ancient Ones to death after having in 1948 stolen their country from them…

For example, in New York City in September, 1946, a new show debuted on Broadway that was called A Flag Is Born and it was all about the rightness of finally turning the Palestine created after World War I into a Jewish state. It was a social cause play whose cause was the rightness of having a Jewish state in Palestine finally – what with at that very moment hundreds of thousands of Jews still confined to Displaced Persons camps in Europe.

Two of the cast of this three-person drama were two of the finest actors at the time: Paul Muni and Celia Adler and a third one just making a name for himself, a young actor by the name of Marlon Brando.

This play was a plea for the creation of a Jewish state. It was written by Hollywood’s most successful screenwriter, Ben Hecht. It was directed by Luther Adler, also of the famous Adler family; with music by Kurt Weill. It was produced by the American League for a Free Palestine, an organization headed by Hillel Kook a/k/a Peter Bergson.

The play with its three-character cast concerned a husband and wife, Tevye and Zelda (Teyve is the Yiddish/Hebrew “Tobias”), two survivors of the death camp at Treblinka who are desperately trying to get to the Land of Israel. And they are traveling with their angry teenage son played by young Marlon Brando. He too survived the concentration camps.

The play opens as the older couple halts for the night in the journey and Zelda lights Shabbos candles on a broken tombstone. And Tevye recites the Shabbath prayers. And then he dreams of the town where he was born, as it was before the Nazis destroyed it.

He dreams of King Saul at war in Gilead and dreams up a conversation with King David after which, in his dream, he addresses the Security Council of the United Nations – England, France, the United States, the Soviet Union – and pleads for the creation of a Jewish state. Of course in his dream they all ignored him.

Then he awakes to find wife Zelda has died during the night. He says Kaddish, and welcomes the Angel of Death who has come for him too, he believes. He too wants to die.

And his angry young son David also ruminates on suicide, but then three Jewish soldiers appear and promise to take them them to the Land of Israel to fight for Jewish independence.

As Wikipedia has it, in the play’s stirring finale David (Marlon Brando) delivers a moving Zionist speech and marches off to fight for Jewish freedom holding a Zionist flag made out of Tevya’s prayer shawl.

Well, that was 1946, and today is today…

On Friday JPost headlined the story: “Next week’s civil defense drill to simulate attack on water infrastructure.”

What happens when our water supply is damaged? What will we drink?

How will we turn on lights when our electrical plants are bombed?

What happens when Ben Gurion Airport is hit and all airlines, save for Israel’s three or so, stop flying here? What happens to our tourist industry?

What happens to the ports of Ashdod and Haifa being made incapable of handing cargoes?

And in thinking these thoughts today, they led to this longish excursion into the life of Karl Marx because it appears that as Israeli Marxist philosopher Shimon Peres was the genius who thought bringing Arafat & Co. into our tiny country was a good idea, it was the Marxist philosopher Shimon Peres who more than any other Israeli is responsible for Israel’s notorious refusal to admit to having nuclear bombs.

One could argue that the miserable strategic situation we are in today derives from this policy of nuclear ambiguity connected with this man.

It would have been a different world if instead of the history of the last half-century here in which Israel has refused to relate to its nuclear potential, and I don’t mean actively but as a threat.

Imagine a world in which Israel as soon as it got the bomb held it over the heads of the Arabians and gave them the excuse to make peace; to be docile.

Imagine a world in which the first day Israel got wind that Iran was fixing to build a bomb, Israel publicly threatened to bomb it with our own unless they stopped.

I can’t help thinking that our miserable strategic crisis today is all the product of the mind of Shimon Peres, HaShem Yirakhem, G-d have mercy…

No, John. That’s not America’s job. I’ll tell you what America’s job is: it is to kill Hezbollah, destroy it. It was Hezbollahi suicide freaks, basically agents of the same crowd that overran the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979, who in Beirut four years later in April 1983 blew up the U.S. embassy and killed 60 people inside, including – John Brennan, if you are listening, you moron – the whole CIA station; wiped out.

And then more Hezbollahi six months later in October 1983 killed 241 U.S. military personnel, most of them U.S Marines, in that same chaotic, rotten Arab country.

John Brennan is typical of too many CIA and State Department Gentiles who get posted to the Arab Middle East and often have an eye, while still in service, on their retirement when they can look forward to making big bucks negotiating deals for American and other investors with acquaintances they made while working in these oil countries.

What Obama and his Jewish clown sidekick Rahm Emanuel and James Jones and John Brennan and Zbigniew Brzezinski are doing is forfeiting America’s right to protect its own interests which cannot possibly include a nuclear Ian.

Since when did U.S. foreign policy and the decision to go to war slip from the hands of America’s democratically-elected officials in the government and fall into the hands of the U.N. Security Council?

Was there an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that passed when I wasn’t paying attention that awarded the decision to go to war basically to the Russians and the Chinese and the French and Brits and the rest of the nations of the world – except for Israel, of course, which is kept out of this exclusive club? You know, the U.N. which denies Israel the right to be included in the Security Council, uniquely so, is the same organization that has voted on literally thousands of resolutions to smear Israel for its exclusivist, racist exclusion of the Ancient Ones and for its outrageous owning and governing of historic Palestine of the “Palestinians.”

On one of the conservative websites, Fouad Adjami, one of the last of the sober south Lebanon Shiites, at Johns Hopkins, says there are only two people in the world who can stop the Iranians from going nuclear and they are Obama and Netanyahu; and Obama is not going to do it.

How true. This wicked disciple of Wright and Farrakhan is doing nothing serious to prevent the Iranians from going nuclear; and he will do this by supporting this timid resolution at the U.N. while smiling at gullible, dejudaized American Jewish politicos. And at Elie Weisel.

What should be done is for the United States of America to re-take control of its own foreign policy and project its power at Iran by declaring war on that country. The U.S. Constitution does provide for that.

And there is no shortage of legitimate justifications for declaring war like the aforementioned assault on American sovereign soil at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Invading it in 1979 was legally identical to invading New York City or Boston or L.A.

Blowing up the embassy in Beirut was the equivalent of blowing up the State Department.

Iran has killed other U.S. military personnel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and aboard the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen.

The U.S. should declare war and give the Iranians an ultimatum: 72 hours to start dismantling their nuclear enterprise or America is going to bomb not only the installations themselves but power plants all over Iran; bomb the parliament, bomb whatever it takes to make the Iranians surrender and agree to American terms which should include an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

All this turning to the U.N. is a symptom of the decline of the West before the rising power of a renascent Muslim caliphate.
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And Steinitz said, “It is intolerable and unforgivable that in the State of Israel there are Arabs, and also a small group of Jews, that oppose Israel’s existence and mourn its establishment. In my opinion, we have to find a way to limit these people, and maybe even revoke their citizenship. Whoever opposes the State of Israel’s existence, whoever cries over its establishment [that’s what Nakba Day is] is raising a question mark as to his own citizenship in this state.”

There are a couple of things here: First of all, while countries like the United States do not allow the government to deprive people of their citizenship if they are born in the territory of the U.S., the U.S. has no power to send people outside the country, but others do. The Russians exiled Solzhenitsyn.

In any case, it is not written in granite that all countries must have laws which forbid exiling natural-born citizens. Why not make exile from the country a possible punishment for certain behaviors?

Though at the outset I would stipulate that there be here, if we go in that direction, complete inequality in this matter between Jews and non-Jews. It should be much harder to exile a Jew, if at all.

And of course Israel, by making that distinction, the Enlightened would howl and shriek “Racism! Making a distinction between Jews and non-Jews?” And never mind that there are 21 Arab states – officially Arab states – which make every non-Arab within their borders outsiders. And there are 56 officially Muslim states. Same thing goes for that.

But when the one, tiny Jewish state proclaims itself as exclusively Jewish as these others are exclusively Arab or Muslim, the Jews are tongue-lashed as racists and bigots…

Well, that may be the linguistic history of that word, but it was hardly the first time in Jewish history Jews were told where in a town or city they could and could not live. In Marrakesh, Morocco decades earlier, the Jews were confined to what in Moroccan Arabic is called a mellah, from the word for “salt” (melakh in Hebrew and Arabic) and it referred to, I believe, salty ground not good for planting, bad land where the Jews had to live.

Next door in what became Algeria and Tunisia the Jewish ghetto – before the word ghetto appeared in Christian Europe – was called “hara”. In Yemenite Arabic it was “qaa”. Qaa-al-Yahud, the Jewish area.

And in 20th century America Jews were not allowed to buy homes in such places as Greenwich or Wilton, Connecticut, or Grosse Pointe, Michigan. And in the wealthy buildings of Manhattan’s Upper East Side there are co-ops and condos that are Judenrein, no Jews allowed.

In the tony town outside of New York where yours truly grew up, Jews were denied residence in certain areas. The one country club in the incorporated village would not admit Jews as members.

And now we are in the 21st century after the Jewish people have resurrected Jerusalem, with their money, their efforts, their sacrifice, pain and blood being told there are also areas in Jerusalem that must be Judenrein. No Jews allowed, for the land is rightfully the property of the Ancient Palestinians, and Jews have no right either to build homes there for themselves or destroy standing Ancient Palestinian buildings built without Israeli building permits. “Who is Israel to be handing out or not handing out licenses to the Ancient Ones in “their” ancient city?”

Bibi acquitted himself well yesterday in a special Knesset session commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and expulsion of the Jordanian aggressor-occupiers of two decades. He gracefully dismissed those Israelis who “lament the day that Jerusalem was liberated and freed from its stranglehold.” He likely had Yossi Sarid in mind whose opinion piece yesterday morning in Haaretz did just that.

Could there be a more antiJew, antiZionist sentiment than Yossi Sarid’s? Regretting the return to the real Zion, meeting the Temple Mount? Yossi Sarid & Co., the Israeli and Jewish left, are nothing but the Neturei Karta without the beards…

Palestinian Nationalism is a fancy term covering up the hunger of these Hamitic Arabs for our property, for what rightfully belongs to us. Palestinianism is the justification for their insatiable appetite for Jewish wealth.

I think that is what jihad is all about too. These Muslims believe that they have the right, the religious obligation even, of getting the whole world to be Muslim. And as Believers they have the right to do anything, including leave a car bomb on 45th Street in Manhattan. They have the right to conquer the world – and wind up with all the world’s wealth. That is the unspoken part of the deal.

What an odd turn of events, historical events really. A generation ago in 1967, the Jewish liberation of Jerusalem was kind of a supernatural moment in time, an electric moment.

Today, though, “Who do these Jews think they are building in Ancient East Jerusalem of the Palestinians?” and never mind that Jerusalem is a Jewish word. It is a Hebrew word…

Miliband too, like Yitzhak Rabin, evidently came from a radically dejudaized family. Sometimes it seems as if the Jewish people is in a state of eternal civil war between lovers of HaShem and His commandments on the one hand and the rebels who want to be normal on the other.

It turns out now too that the head of the French imitation of J Street called JCall is an Israeli “yored,” one who “went down” from the country, left the Holy Land, David Chemla, which means “compassion,” which he has little of for his former countrymen. He settled in France and is the chairman of Peace Now in France.

In other words, it is the same-old, same-old crowd forever coming up with new groups to bash Israel under different names. Being chairman of Peace Now was not enough for David Chemla: he had to create JCall as well with the identical mission of telling the government of Israel elected by the people of Israel it is wrong not to give in to the legitimate demands of the Ancient Palestinians.

This is akin to what we heard last week from Nick Clegg is London. How much he respects the Jewish people, if not the government of Israel – and never mind the implicit insult. Since Bibi was elected in a democratic election with 60% of the voters voting on the right, these Israelis, according to Clegg, don’t know how to choose politically correct leaders. They may have a genius for a thriving economy – note the implied, subtle connection between Jews and money – but when it comes to choosing their leaders, they don’t know what they are doing, but Nick Clegg (like Barack Obama) knows better than the Israeli electorate. When it comes to foreign politics, the Jews are not the geniuses they are in other endeavors.

Worse, Clegg is on record against Israel’s “unjust abuse” of the Ancient Ones, as is, in another story, National Geographic. Did you see that on YNET yesterday? It seems there is photo exhibit in Los Angeles produced by National Geographic magazine and it blatantly accuses Israel of stealing water from the Arabs.

The title of the exhibit is “Water – Our Thirsty World”. It is evidently mostly environmental stuff, non-political, but there are 9 photos taken in Judea and Samaria, on the Kinneret/Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea; and the captions inform the visitor to the exhibit of Israel’s water crimes. According to a caption referring to the Sea of Galilee, “Since 1967 Israel has blocked Syria’s access to the shoreline” – which is a perversion of historical truth worthy of Obama’s Cairo speech. I was on that shoreline in 1965 and remember it well. Between 1949 and 1967, the Syrians never had access to the even one meter of lake-front shoreline. It was all Israeli territory according to the cease-fire agreement.

Now some may be surprised to read of National Geographic being involved in such a nasty bit of antiJew dishonesty but not yours truly. I remember them from 20 years ago running articles on the Ancient Ones and on the horrors they suffered at the hands of Israelis. National Geographic has been one of the most antiJew publications around.

There is no end to the sinister creativity of antiJews when it comes to insinuating themselves into every nook and cranny of our lives…
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Interesting word “scapegoat,” invented, if memory serves, by William Tyndale, who was put to death for translating the Christian bible into English so that people could understand it. What a difference between Christendom and Jewishness until the age of Tyndale and subsequent translators. In the Catholic Church, the Latin Vulgate Bible was forbidden most believers because they couldn’t read Latin.

Versus Yiddishkeit which demands not only that our rabbis but all Jewish men read and study all the holy texts. The Jewish rabbinate has no monopoly on what’s written in the Bible and Talmud. And because of that rabbis, when they cite a passage to make a point, if it is inaccurate and/or poorly argued, his listeners will not hesitate to tell him and challenge him.

Versus the Reform rabbis I knew in my youth who were never asked questions because there were no texts, so whatever the rabbi said was unchallengeable. Reform Jews simply do not read let alone live by what’s in the holy books.

But I digress. Roman Catholicism was in a way akin to the Druze religion which is known fully only to their priests; the laity is in the dark. And as part of the evolution of history leading up to the Protestant Reformation was the translating of the Latin Bible into a language Catholics could understand. It was a capital offense to do that, though, which is why Tyndale lost his life.

And when it came to the passage we just read on Shabbat the other day concerning the two goats sacrificed on Yom Kippur by the High Priest in the Temple in Jerusalem on land now in the hands of Ishmaelites who hold it captive as surely as their brethren in Gaza are holding poor Gilad Shalit, William Tyndale in 14th century England translated the term se’ir laazazel, the goat spiritually laden with all the sins of the community chosen to be sent into the desert away from the community to be pushed off a cliff and killed… Tyndale came up with the word in English, he made it up, “scapegoat.”

Later on in history when Israel sank in sinful failure, and the nation of Greece arose, the Greeks too, descendants of Esav, had yearly rituals of expelling from the community a goat who carried the evil spirits. In Biblical Hebrew goat is se’ir and in Greek it’s tragos, whence cometh the word “tragedy.” Today, “tragedy” is misused to stand for misfortune or sad occurrence or accident; originally it was connected to this ritual of expelling bad feelings.

And over time the religious rituals of early Greece led to the composing of poems and stories and dramas which were acted out as part of the ritual. And these early dithyrambs evolved into the theater of Greek tragedy, which commonly concerns man and fate/divinity in conflict.

Aristotle the great theorist of art defined tragedy as a story leading to, in the audience, the purging or expelling of the emotions of pity and fear.

So Tyndale gave the English language the word “scapegoat,” which is directly rooted in the Torah miSinai. It comes as a concept from the Jews, and historically the Jews have been mankind’s scapegoat people who are laden with the community’s – in this case, the international community’s – worst sins. Leastwise it is one way to understand the current moment in the news in which we in Israel are being bashed from all sides…

As for the Sodomites, “Gay Liberation” it was called, and “Palestinian national liberation both emerged within weeks of each other, the former before man landed on the moon that year and the latter afterwards, but still in the same satanic year when the Rolling Stones sang of their sympathy for the devil and a member of the audience one evening in a Stones concert was stabbed to death.

This was the age as well of the feminists who burst upon the scene in 1966, not coincidently when the birth control pill and other devices became publicly available. Until then, society had scorned sodomites as hedonists for whom sexual pleasure had nothing to do with procreation, the creating other human beings, the next generation. After 1966, when sexually more normal people adopted the revolution in birth control, the gays laughed in the face of proper society by pointing out that now “We are all equal.” If “straights” could separate the unique pleasure of sexuality, why not Sodomites?

And this led to the opening of the flood gates of appetite for all kinds of desires, including making mountains of dollars one would never spend and not be above killing the goose that laid the golden egg of the capitalist system to do that, by wrecking the banking and financial system, milking it to death.
The 1960s was a time when conventional morality collapsed in a variety of ways. Sex, money, and the Arab-Israeli conflict which was turned on its head and transformed into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the Jews became once again the villains.

As we have been in every generation for millennia…

Supporters of the building freeze that fellow PhD, the famous moral philosopher Dr. Mahmoud Abbas is calling for, he who presided over one ghastly Jew-massacre after another as satanic as any the Nazis resorted to, are now joined by these two famous “philosophes”.

I think I am less angry with them than sad for them. I think they are simply pathetic, actually all 3,000 of them. My guess is that many are simply frightened by the recrudescence of violent and menacing Jew-hatred. Some Jew in France yesterday was brutally beaten.

Fortunately, the head of the French CRIF, the national Jewish organization created by Napoleon, Richard Prasquier sharply rejected this petition by the 3,000 which is going to the European parliament tomorrow in Brussels when JCall makes its debut on the stage of world antiJewry.

Good for le president du consistoire. If these two philosophers don’t know the world is ganging up on Israel, and no true friend of Israel joins in the bullying as they have, they are as blind as that other jackass of a French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre the Stalinist immoralist.

Leave it to the French to worship such a moral reprobate and adulterer as Sartre the philosopher, a profession that these two French philosophers of Jewish extraction proudly claim.

Well, they may be French philosophers, but in Jewish eyes, they are cowards and traitors…

But the modern city of Jerusalem built by the Jews…well, they have to share it.

Modern Jerusalem was launched in the year 1855 when the first development outside the walls, the building of a windmill to grind flour for kosher bread, was constructed outside of Jaffa Gate.

And that was a revolution in history: for century after century there was nothing outside those walls, and photography shows that to be true. Photography by 1855 had been around for a couple of decades. Black & white, grainy, there are photographs of Jerusalem in the middle of the 19th century.

And then there are the painters who painted Jerusalem at the time. One painting was done in 1859 by Edward Lear, the famous English poet of light verse, who was also a painter, and he came to the Holy Land. Starting in 1840, a pivotal year in the Middle East, the Turks, threatened by Russia, wanted support from the West and got it but for a price. The Ottomans agreed to allow, for the first time since the Crusades, the freedom of Christians to come on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

And came they did. Thomas Cook & Sons, the famous travel agents wrote their first tourist guide to the Holy Land in the 1860s. The Land was flooded by tourists and pilgrims…to the extent the Land was capable of absorbing them. Painters came, photographers came.

And looking at this painting by Edward Lear, one sees the visual record – not filtered through the artist’s inner torment or his impression or expression that modern artists are involved in. In those days painting was recording what the eye saw. And this Lear painting makes clear that at that point Jerusalem sat as an island in a sea of desolation. No habitations outside the walls. Jerusalem was an oasis of human settlement in a desert of barrenness.

Thus, hence and ergo, all human settlement outside those walls today are the result of the Jewish nation spending its own money, sweat, tears and blood to restore civilization, city-life to Jerusalem and over all the Land of Israel.

And that this myth of a Palestinian Nation with a valid claim to ownership of the Land and Jerusalem is nothing but a lie as big as Islam itself…

What with Yossi Beilin behind the Oslo Abomination and the continuing abomination of Beilin’s association with the Jew-killer Yasir Abed Rabbo in their Geneva Initiative, it sometimes seems as if the Arab-Israeli conflict is as much an internal Jewish civil war as a struggle between Jew and non-Jew. The Jewish people returned to their homeland are still fighting for peace and quiet and a life without threats of national annihilation, and Israel must still defend itself not only from Arabs and their Gentile supporters but Jewish antiJews too.

Beilin, Indyk, Roger Cohen, LTF, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Danny Kurtzer, Gerald Kaufman in England, Stephen P. Cohen at Harvard; there is no shortage of Israel-bashing Jews in the world, in Israel in the Exile, who energetically offer their services as Stephen P. Cohen did for Obama when he sent him a first draft of that Cairo speech.

There has to be something very wrong with the internal Jewish identity of such people, the 80% of self-identified American Jews like Stephen P. Cohen who voted for this guy…

What these maniacal Muslims did to the little town of Sderot, they can do to Eilat with even fewer projectiles launched before the thousands of tourists flee and turn the hotels and restaurants and other attractions into ghost facilities.

The intelligence community drew the easy conclusion that the rocket boys in the Sinai wilderness were al-Qaida types, not necessarily Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Which makes sense. As the PLO varied from 12-to-18 separate murder gangs, so the so-called Islamists are as fractious.

The Sinai Peninsula is about half the size of England and is largely uninhabited, but is known to be a place for adventurous jihadis these days, this plague of barbarians who use their religion to legitimize their barbarism. How many of them are holed up in the Sinai Peninsula is an estimate for the intelligence community to make but for sure they are there. Every vacation time Israelis go down the Gulf of Eilat coast to the hotels and beaches that we developed and handed over to the Egyptians. And every time the GSS emits warnings, that there are homicidal antisemites on the loose planning to murder Jews. And just this Passover there was a swarm of Jewish vacationers who hustled back over the border.

This is our fate. We have not known a day since May 14, 1948 when Israel declared independence without some Arabs somewhere plotting and carrying out plots to murder us. In this regard, World War II never ended for us…

Which homicidal fever then infected other Spaniards in the south, in Cordova and Granada and eventually, over the spring and summer that year, jumping from town to town like a forest fire, one Jewish community after another was invaded and the goyim brought their Christian version of hell for Jews to infernal life. That summer in Spain, thousands of Jews were slaughtered, raped, dismembered, burnt to death. It was such a tsunami of blood and terror, some scholars estimate that in the ensuing ten years, half of the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Spain converted to Roman Catholicism. Scared out of the minds with what that goy had just done, half of them converted.

For sure, some percentage of them threw in the towel on being Jewish. They did not want to die for it, and they converted and left it behind.

But no less many chose to go underground. They converted and lived as Catholics in public in every way; in private they lived their Jewish lives.

Think of Anne Frank and other Jews hiding in those attics in Amsterdam. Here legions of Jews became actors living double lives. The term marrano came into use, its origin in doubt. Scholars agree it’s basically a synonym for pigs/swine. In doubt was its genesis as name for these Jews. Was it the invention of real Spanish Catholics in their hatred of these phony, insincere Christians? Or was it the invention of Jews who did not convert and were contemptuous of those who did?…

And, in any case, at Camp David ten years ago this summer, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered just that: a shared Temple Mount. The Ishmaelites would keep the top with the mosque and the shrine and Israel would keep the Wall, basically freezing the current peaceful relationship, which is as peaceful as it is because Israel exercises exclusive police powers. The idea of splitting authority so that there are two police powers must inevitably at some point lead to disagreements, argument, friction and clashes.

How ironic. King Solomon the Wise appears in Tanakh – the builder of Jerusalem – and in short order after we meet him he is judging between two women fighting over a baby, which dispute the great psychologist Shlomo ben David solved by imagining the cutting in two of the baby, which idea provoked two different responses in the women. And he knew who the real mom was.

Well, one lesson from this tale might be that there are some things in life that you can’t divide, that are nor shareable. When in history has there been such a shared capital between two nations whose entire history is that of abuse by one side, the Ishmaelites of the Israelites, on the other?

Two peoples whose relationship began in the generation of a problem child, Ishmael, who was denied his birthright because he was such a wild guy.

And ever since, the seed of Ishmael has envied and begrudged the seed of Yitzhak, his baby half-brother who got his inheritance.

The Arabs facing the Jews are a bitter and resentful people because the Jews are so far above them in so many ways.

And so they must have Haram as-Sharif; it is essential for their self-esteem. And it cannot be shared with al-Yahud. Al-Yahud must give it up.

And not only that say the Arabs: they want to take it from them. Al-Yahud is lying. That is what Arafat said to Clinton ten years ago at Camp David. “When the Israelis say the Temples stood on Haram as-Sharif, they are lying because they want to steal it from us.”

Of course he would say that, this primitive punk Arafat, who put the Thief of Baghdad in his pocket as a thief, with two-thirds of the PA aid in his own private bank account.

He accused Israel of wanting to steal Haram as-Sharif from the Muslims…

The Iranians, for they are the principle enemy here operating behind Syria and Hamas and Hezbollah, also remember all too painfully their own experience with terror missile bombings in their cities; in their capital of Teheran during the Iraq-Iran War 1980-1988. Saddam Hussein, that monster father of two psychopathic sons, figured at the time that with his revolutionary neighbor Iran in turmoil, he could just barge in and steal some of Iran. Like the legendary Thief of Baghdad. He wanted to steal Iran’s oil fields on the other side of the border between them, the Shatt al-Arab, which incursion lasted for 8 years. Eight years of hell in which a million people died that ended only because Saddam, who lost the initiative early on and was mostly on the defensive, was still able to keep launching missiles into Teheran and making life hell for the people there, which ultimately forced Khomeini to sue for peace. Khomeini was determined to fight until Saddam was vanquished, but those volleys of rockets were intolerable, which led Khomeini to agree to a cease-fire. He said it was like drinking poison, but he agreed to it because of those terror rocket barrages.

Ergo, this is what the Iranians might enjoy doing to us.

G-d forbid…

Finally, I want to go back to that mention of Rashid Khalidi, Obama’s friend, writing in today’s snooty, antiJew Foreign Affairs magazine online, who is positively delusional when it comes to Israel. He whines, for example, that 40 generations of Palestinians are buried in a central Jerusalem Muslim graveyard.

Forty generations? Assuming a generation is forty years, that’s like 1,600 years.

And he complains about “pushing settlers into Arab areas in Jerusalem” “Pushing settlers”? Nobody is pushed. All are volunteers. He says this is “part of a tactic of the Zionist movement for over a century to obtain control over more and more of Palestine.”

A century ago, it was the year 1910 and Jews were building on barren land outside the walls of Jerusalem, that’s true; and in any case in 1910, Palestine did not exist except in the minds and in the books of Jews and Christians. Arab Muslims had no conception of it.

I read this charlatan’s book, Palestinian Identity: The Making of a Modern National Consciousness. It was such rubbish. There was not one line in it concerning the content of this “Palestinian National Consciousness.” What it was about was a search for the time when Arabs began to call themselves “Palestinians” which is a very different matter. And his earliest, inconclusive find was the year 1908, when two Christian brothers in Jaffa became publishing a four-page newspaper using the name.

Which happened four years after Herzl had died and had already set in motion the creation of the first modern bank in the Holy Land whose purpose was to facilitate the purchase of land by Jews. That’s when the Arabs began to discover “Palestine”.

But even then – aside from this exception – the Arabs continued calling the land “southern Syria” for decades to come.

This guy has a PhD and writes in this prestigious magazine on foreign affairs. He occupies a fancy chair at Columbia. What has happened to the world?

Rashid Khalidi is yet another crackpot charlatan – who does deserve to sit in a chair named for Edward Said at Columbia University.

Like Obama, yet another fantast of a past that never existed concocted to justify hating and murdering Jews in the present…

She looks to be a not particularly happy person based on pictures of her now in the media taken before the current mess.

She could be prettier than she allows her herself to be, and perhaps she turned out this way seemingly bitter, resentful, aggressive, revengeful because she was brought up so far from what she might have become already had she been raised in a Jewish, not an Israeli home: already a warm and nurturing mother of children and a husband.

The thought arose that her betrayal of the symbol of secular, post-Jewish Israel, the IDF, her assault on the IDF, has meaning. Some press reports had acquaintances of hers remarking on her failure as a pilot and unhappiness with serving as clerk/secretary.

Well, I suspect that before her time in the army she was embittered because somewhere deep in her being as a Jewish woman she sensed that she has been raised the wrong way, to have aspirations and feelings alien to her as a Jew and a woman.

Maybe this accounts for other leftists in Israel angry at the state, the culture so stripped of the best that Jewishness has to offer.

These leftists are on the surface furious with the state and patriotic and religious Jews, but underneath, one suspects, they are energized by a profound envious resentment for having been denied the right to be raised as Jews…

Men not only like Albert Einstein but a whole battalion of Jewish physicists who dominated the field in the 20th century and built the first bombs.

The United States of America’s greatest defense during the Cold War was its undersea fleet of nuclear subs very much the handiwork of Jewish engineers.

Jews have been prominent in the nuclear programs of France, England, Argentina, Russia, and in a word, Your Excellencies in your medieval kingdoms and Islamic Republic dictatorships must know that if Israel had wanted over many decades to build, say, 20 bombs and drop them on Teheran, Ankara, Baghdad, Damascus, Amman, Riyadh, Mecca, Medina, Cairo and Algiers, etc. all in one morning’s work, Israel could have done it.

And that we have not is evidence of just who we are, which is the opposite of your medieval, nay, Dark Age, demonic fantasies of evil Jews.

You should all go home now and get down on your knees facing Mecca and thank Allah that we Jews are such nice people.

We Jews don’t have to sign any NPT treaty because we have proven ourselves over decades of being no nuclear threat even when it comes to our hate-filled neighbors. We have proven ourselves as responsible, civilized, humane people.

Versus the homicidal priests in Teheran who publicly make jokes about dropping an atomic bomb on tiny Israel at the same time as they move full-steam ahead toward making this bomb.

All of you leaders here in this assembly today should thank the kind people of Israel who have let you live, who are not at all like the violent Muslims of this world with their terror-bombing daily in Iraq and Pakistan and Afghanistan and Moscow and Chechnya and New York and London and Arlington, Virginia, Bali Indonesia.

You Iranians have murdered our people via your front organizations of Hezbollah and Hamas. You murdered hundreds of U.S. soldiers and marines in Beirut and Iraq and Saudi Arabia in terror attacks. You have proven you are not to be trusted to have in your possession nuclear weapons.

We are to be trusted. We have proven that. You are barbarians, antisemitic barbarians, and we give you an ultimatum: start dismantling immediately your nuclear program or pay the consequences…

What is so revolting in all of this is the insulting refusal to allow us Jews in our own democratic state to choose our leaders and commonly on the basis of what they say and do and plan to do. Ehud Barak in 2000was run out of office by Ariel Sharon for having presided over the collapse of the leftists’ fantasy of decades by giving life to the insane Oslo years. He and his leftists brought down murder and mayhem on the Land in terrorist atrocities the likes of which the country had never suffered from in such intensity.

And so Ehud Barak was voted out as in his last weeks he frantically tried to come up with some agreement with the PLO, but they kept refusing. He offered more and more, but in the end failed.

And now these antiJews in Washington, these viziers to Emir Barack Hussein, want to return to those failed efforts, and in so doing tell the Israeli electorate, “We don’t care what you think. We know better. We have a higher standard of justice than you Jews in your eternal crucifixion of the real Jews in this conflict, the real victims, the Ancient Ones.”

Men like Obama and Malley and Scowcroft and Obama are on the side of the barbarians…

In the days of the Shoftim/the Judges whose history is recorded in the seventh book of the Bible of that name, a period spanning 440 years, one of them was Samson who is remembered for saving Israel by bringing the Philistine temple down on his head in Gaza and in atonement for his dalliance with Delilah in the year 931 before the Common Era. A long time ago.

Twenty-four years after he did that, David the son of Jesse the Bethlehemite was born, and what catapulted him toward kingship at age 30, inter alia, in the year 877 before the Common Era was his slaying of the Philistine giant, Goliath.

In other words, the Children of Israel crossed over Jordan in the year 1273 before the Common Era, and here we are some 400 years later, in the age of Saul and David, when they were finally ready for kingship after contending with the Canaanites and Philistines for control of this Land.

And here we are 2,864 years after David slew the Philistine giant, and the top story in the Israel morning was of the Neo-Philistines in Gaza calling for a Strip-wide end to rocket fire into the villages and towns and cities of the Children of Israel that they built – versus the history of Ishmaelites in this land who built nothing. They built goornisht, nada, klum in this Land, but as true, ravenous Hamites they are shameless in claiming that what we created is theirs.

A few days ago around Shabbos, Salam Fayyad said there will an Ancient Palestinian state in two years with Jerusalem as its eternal capital.

I heard that and wanted to call a lawyer and sue this son of a female canine for stealing our slogan…

So, unlike the good rabbi in Salt Lake City, I guess, who was not insulted by the Mormons running a seder, I am insulted by Barack Hussein Obama messing around with my religion. I don’t like his interpretations of the Passover Haggada, which word means “the Telling,” the telling of the story of G-d rescuing the Children of Israel from a nightmare because He wanted to install them in the Land He promised to their forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – but not to Ishmael.

And I don’t like it that there were Jews at that table in the White House, as I imagine there were. Passover is not about “slavery” and “discrimination” and “persecution” in the abstract as a human behavior mankind must overcome. “We shall overcome…”

No. It is about the seed of Shem enslaved to the people of Ham and the promise to them of the gift of Eretz Canaan which they were commanded to transform into Eretz Yisrael…

And never mind the idea of a committee of rabbis all agreeing on one meaning for every verse. The Talmud, for those who don’t know, is eighteen volumes of rabbis arguing with one other.

Anyway, Prof. Robert Wright commenting on world affairs objected to a recent opinion peace by the Christian Zionist and religious conservative Gary Bauer who wrote that “the East Jerusalem settlements are entirely within the city of Jerusalem and Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.”

Said Prof. Dr. Robt. Wright in reply, “That’s artful wording, but it doesn’t change the fact that East Jerusalem, far from being part of ‘the capital of Israel,’ isn’t even part of Israel. East Jerusalem lies beyond Israel’s internationally recognized pre-1967 borders. And the common assertion that Israel ‘annexed’ East Jerusalem has roughly the same legal significance as my announcing that I’ve annexed my neighbor’s backyard. In 1980, the United Nations explicitly rejected Israel’s claim to possess East Jerusalem. And the United States normally vetoes U.N. resolutions that Israel finds threatening, this time chose not to do so.”

This is a guy I feel who has never read one serious book on the Israel’s War of Independence and its denouement or the Six-Day War. Every writer regardless of political slant knows that in 1967 Israel had no “internationally recognized borders.” On the contrary, in 1949, Israel and all its neighbors had signed cease-fire documents which explicitly, in black and white, said these lines are not borders.

And when he mocks Israel annexing East Jerusalem and likens it to annexing his neighbor’s backyard, here is a PhD who is no more thinking than those earlier bloggers; he is just emoting. In addition to not knowing that there were no borders in 1967, he seems not to know Israel did not annex a place called “East Jerusalem.” The term was not in use, and Israel rightly saw itself reuniting a city that had been split by a wall even uglier than the Berlin Wall.

And as for the 1980 vote against Israel by the U.S., he is right: the U.S. normally did not do such things, and the only reason for the anomaly in 1980 was the fact of the president being James Earl Carter who we now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is a lying antisemite.

So here is the much classier Herr Doctor Editor-in-Chief of the Progressive Realist and Professor of Religion at the University of Pennsylvania thinking like the yahoos we first looked at; that is to say, he is an ignoramus with a woefully cracked version of the situation here.

And I fear it is a narrative like the one in Robert Wright’s head that is found as well in the brain of Prince Barack Hussein.

This morning in Israel, Yediot ran a small piece on an anonymous member of Bibi’s team in Washington last week who sounded just hysterical in his view of Obama as a “security catastrophe” for Israel precisely because he is now, unlike all other U.S. presidents, firmly on the Arab side in his grotesque distortion of the truth.

In his mind, Obama’s mind, we Jews in Israel are the villains and will be treated by him as such.

Oy Gevalt…

Demand of Bibi No. 1: Israel will not build in the settlements even after Bibi’s 10-month moratorium ends. This is a very basic demand of the mass murdering antisemite Mahmoud Abbas which Obama and Hillary have made their own. It embodies the principle that Israel recognize that it is in occupation of what the whole world today calls “Palestinian Territory.” Israel must recognize this from the outset even before negotiations are re-started; that this land is “Palestinian” land and that is why Israel must cease immediately any building on it. And never mind that the Arabs in Judea and Samaria have not stopped building either.

Indeed, they build at will without any licenses from the legal government here since 1967. They build with money sent from Arab states; homes and apartments that stand empty. What matters is just more building at will.

And for the life of me I have never figured out why Netanyahu does not go public and tell Obama & Co. that Israel will stop building, all building, when the Ancient Ones do so too. But since they don’t, this double standard is a variety of age-old Jew-hatred and Jew-oppression…

Bibi spoke of the removal of hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank and how he helped spur a fantastic economic boom in an attempt to make Israel look good in the face of the slanderers that he himself referred to vaguely.

But at no time has he ever dismissed the rubbish that pours out of the Arab mind when it comes to us Jews here in this little land we brought back to life.

Hillary Clinton, exactly like Sheikh Barack Hussein, spoke of Israel’s “security and long-term success.” And course when it comes to making the right choices as a state from a security point of view, Hillary and Barack know better than Israelis, who in their right-wing majority don’t want to share Jerusalem and don’t want to retreat from the hills in back of Tel-Aviv.

That’s why these promises about Israel’s security are mostly meaningless. For the Saracen in the White House who clearly is the puppet master to his puppet the strident Hillary, Israel will only increase its security by handing over Judea and Samaria to the Ancient Ones because “when you do, they won’t hate you anymore and they will live next door as good neighbors”…

“Saracen” is a name we find in material on the Crusades referring to the Muslim enemy. And Wikipedia provides the following information: “Saracen was a term used by the ancient Romans to refer to people who inhabited the deserts near the Roman province of Syria who were distinct from Arabs. The term was later applied to Arab peoples, and by the time of European chroniclers during the time of the Crusades came to be synonymous with Muslim.”

One school of thought says that the term “Saracen” comes from the Greek Σαρακηνός… in Ptolemy’s Geography, the Sarakenoi people refers to those living in the north-western Arabian peninsula, distinct from Arabs. The term spread into Western Europe through the Byzantines and Crusaders. After the rise of Islam, and especially at the time of the Crusades, its usage was extended to refer to all Muslims…”

Now check this out: “In Christian writing, the name was interpreted to mean ‘those empty of Sarah’ or ‘not from Sarah’ (See…John of Damascus. Both Christians and Muslims adopted the extra-biblical Jewish tradition that Arabs descended from Hagar’s son Ishmael. Christians also called them the Hagarenes (Ἀγαρηνοί) or Ishmaelites.”

Indeed. That is one way to describe the Arabs: “not of Sarah.” Of the seed of Avraham, but not of Sarah, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Avraham ben Terach was, for want of a better word, the greatest philosopher in human history and arguably the greatest scientist as well, who preceded Albert Einstein by thousands of years. When Avraham looked up at Creation, he understood – like an Einstein who said “G-d does not play dice with the universe” (no Darwinian he) – that all of Creation was one and therefore was created by One. Avraham against the whole world that believed in thousands of gods said, “No. There is only One.” Avraham saw meaning and order and intelligence in life. He was the perfect man of faith who let the G-d he heard lead him with total faith because G-d is good and wants the best for him.

Avraham ben Terach brought eight sons into this world but only one was the chosen, the one chosen to bear his spiritual legacy.

He had these eight sons with three different women, and what distinguishes the chosen one was his mother, his father’s legitimate wife.

Six sons came from a woman named Ketura after Sarah had passed, and the Midrash teaches she was Hagar who reformed herself, did teshuva. And so too would her son eventually reform himself and do teshuva.

But in the meantime – history – until the miraculous end times, the world has to confront his second son who came from Avraham and Sarah.

Avraham’s first son was Ishmael who came from Hagar daughter of Egypt son of Ham, and so the major difference between Ishmael and Yitzhak son of Sarah was just that: they had different mothers. Same father. Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch zatsal in 19th century Germany described beautifully how different these two women were and consequently their sons.

So there was more rioting today, and yesterday rioting. It has been a few years since a cohort of teenage Saracens has been throwing stones like this at us Jews. Burning tires, cat-and-mouse games with the Border Police and army, keffiyas around their faces.

And course in the general rising of temperature precipitated by the Muslim mujahid in the White House and his Wellesley girl sidekick attacking Al-Yahud, the “natives” have taken this as a signal to riot again…

But now Obama, Hillary and the Enlightened expect us to do the same thing and agree to hand over the hills of Judea and Samaria overlooking not only Ben Gurion Airport but Tel-Aviv but the whole of coastal, developed Israel.

The demand is inhuman because it asks us not to learn from experience.

Obama and Hillary already have blood on their hands today. A human being, a migrant worker from Thailand was slain by a Qassam rocket that fell just north of the Gaza rectangle. There have been three of these now in the last two days, and no doubt they have been launched in the heated atmosphere created by Obama and Hillary over the past week, which these savages react to as encouragement for more Jew-killing.

What is happening is like some Hollywood script, a cousin of the Manchurian Candidate which was about a communist plot to get a communist stooge into the Oval Office, only this real-life scenario we are living through is not about Obama the Stooge but Obama the Louis Farrakhan clone.

And we in Jews in lifeboat Israel have to deal with that…

That is exactly what was done in Jerusalem in August 1929 when Haj Amin al-Husseini spread the word the Jews had already slaughtered 500 believers and torched Al-Aqsa Mosque. This was the lie that ignited the rampage in Hevron that saw the slaughter of 69 Jewish boys studying the Talmud, and 69 other Jews struck down elsewhere in the country that week in response to the rumor of damage to Al-Aqsa.

We’ve got a situation on our hands the likes of which we have never faced: the president of the United States is a lunatic antisemite in the mold of the lunatic preacher who converted him to Christianity. Barack Hussein Obama is underneath as flakey about Jews as Louis Farrakhan…

For example, yesterday the AP gave us these two sentences: “Netanyahu has apologized for the timing, though not the substance, of the announcement to approve 1,600 new homes for Jews in east Jerusalem. The international community does not recognize Israel’s annexation of east Jerusalem – captured in the 1967 Mideast war – and the Palestinians see that part of the city as their own future capital.”

Listen again: “…The international community does not recognize Israel’s annexation of east Jerusalem.”

Israel has to make clear the double error here. Bibi needs to return to Bar Ilan University for a second major address in which he addresses the double error here. Israel did not annex a place called “east Jerusalem.” That was not the name in use. What Israel did was not annex but reunite Jerusalem, exactly as Berlin was reunited in 1989 when the Communist wall came down. West Berlin did not annex East Berlin, and Israel 22 years earlier did not annex east Jerusalem, because there was no east Jerusalem. The term was not in use. It was called “the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem” and the people living there at the time were called “Jordanians” and “Arabs.” They were not called “Palestinians”…

For me the most important image of the last 48 hours of this brouhaha ignited by Eli Yishai’s ministry announcing approval of 1,600 more homes for Israelites in Northern Jerusalem (not fantastical East Jerusalem as misreported everywhere in the world) was the footage yesterday of the 47th Vice-President of the United States of America Joseph Biden in Ramallah, with his arm around the antisemitic mass murdering terrorist Mahmoud Abbas, the two of them walking and smiling and joking, with Joe displaying affection and support. He had his arm around Abu Mazen’s shoulder.

And what came to mind was my most significant image from the onset of the Oslo Delirium Years: Shimon Peres kissing Yasir Arafat on the cheek. To my mind, that self-abasement by Peres before that mass murderer of Jews symbolized the essential horror of Oslo which included the cleansing of this devil of his evil; of all these PLO-Fatah terrorists. Shimon and Yitzhak and Yossi had no right to do that. They were not the high priests of the Jewish people…

Hamas has been at least up front about its philosophy of wanting to destroy Israel, G-d forbid, with delusionists of the Left believing that Fatah, by contrast, doesn’t want to do that.
Here was this latest Haaretz leftist arguing that Israel just had to open a dialogue with Hamas because they too are part to the conflict.

It is significant in the MSM here in recent days that more than one leftist is whining that Israel has never been in such bad repute in the world; never have so many countries been against Israel – because these leftists cannot tolerate the Torah prophecy that Israel is a “people that dwells alone.”

And what reeks of Jewish antisemitism in these Israeli leftists is their whining that the hostility to Israel in the West (never mind the East) is the fault of the Jews themselves, and that is because they are just too inconsiderate and selfish. All they care about is their own nation. They’re too Jewish, and thereby cruel to the victims of Zionism.

For these people, Jews demanding their rights is evidence they are pushy, greedy, criminal and cruel Jews…

It might not be so bad if Erdogan and his ilk would say, “Yes, they used to belong to the Jews but the Jews lost the special covenant, we got it, and so they belong to us now.”

But no. These Muslim meshugeners say that these have always been Muslim shrines. This is the same craziness as Arafat telling Bill Clinton to his face that the Temple Mount is not the Temple Mount.

We here in Israel are faced with national leaders in Turkey, in the P.A., in Syria, in Iran who are as flakey about us Jews as Hitler was, if not in the same details.

And you may have noticed that in recent webcasts I have said little about the political situation vis-à-vis these neighbors of ours in part because I have no inside information about the political and military situation, but also because I have chosen to look away; look away from a scenario that is not pleasant to contemplate.

I’m referring of course to the rumblings of war, so-called, more violence from our savage neighbors. Think of the recent war councils, the meetings between Ahmadinejad and Assad and Nasrallah and Mashaal in Damascus and Tehran, with their arsenal of tens of thousands of powerful and accurate rockets now.

In 2006 our neighbors – our blood-thirsty Muslim maniac neighbors – reveled like sharks smelling blood in the water at the sight of a million Jews in the north terrorized by them, their lives made hell for 34 days. And these barbarians are not beyond wanting to fire off all the rockets they have amassed in three years, G-d forbid, joined by the rockets now in Gaza smuggled in from Iran over the last year.

So this is not a pleasant prospect. And this behavior of these low-level hominids Ahmadinejad and Bashaar the geek sultan of Damascus, and that fat, turbaned lunatic Nasrallah; and their daily, verbal nastiness smells of wanting to foment a second round for the sheer fun of tormenting Jews in Israel again and to draw attention away from Iran as it continues to build an atomic bomb, they hope the first of many.

I would not be unhappy if tomorrow morning when I awake to hear the first news of the day on Kol Israel, I learn that over night some country, some unknown country, dropped an atomic bomb on Teheran which city is no more and has entered the history books alongside Hiroshima and Nagasaki…

In any case, as a Jew, I have no problem with the notion of life not appearing in a flash as it is exists today but over time, in stages of evolution, because that is exactly what the story of the first ten verses of the Bible is: a story of the evolution of existence starting with light beams and celestial bodies, the simplest of compounds, H2O water, and marine life, terrestrial, stationary vegetation progressing to mobile creatures on land and in the air, finally culminating with the creation of the most complex and complicated and freest creatures, man. The Torah is the story of the evolution of life from its simplest forms to its most complex.

There is also in the holy writings of our mystics who, long before Darwin, believed that before HaShem created man, He created 972 varieties of hominids, man-like creatures, yet without a soul.

So I have no problem with evolution as a concept. I do have a problem with post-Jewish ignoramuses who think ultimate wisdom is to be found not only among the goyim but goyim whose universe has no place for HaShem…

Nablus is the same name as Naples, the English corruption of the Italian Napoli (you can even hear the “b” there) which is the Italian corruption of the Greek Neapolis. Although the Romans built this New City, they didn’t give it a Latin but a Greek name probably for the same reason English Quakers named their principle colonial city Philadelphia, to give it some class. The Romans looked up to the Greeks…

The details of his biography and the operations he was involved in are at the heart of this piece – a book he has written is now being published – but for our purposes, I recommend checking out this article and in particular its last few paragraphs, its last few columns, starting with the question, “Aren’t you afraid now after exposing all this?”

He of course admits to his fear but is proud of having served not Israel but his G-d and thereby saved so many lives on both sides.

And then he hits the nail on the head about terrorism. Of course, he says, it must be fought, but terrorism per se is not the problem. And neither, he says, is the occupation, as he still calls it. “The root of the problem does not lie in security or politics. It is a war between two gods, two religions. Between the God of the Torah and the God of the Koran…There will be no peace in the Middle East. Israel’s problem is not with Hamas or with any other organization, nor with the interpretation Hamas reads into the Koran. It is with the God of the Koran. After all, even a moderate Muslim who reads the Koran must read that the Jews are sons of apes and that the infidels must be killed. The Palestinians must stop blaming Israel, or the West, for all their problems. If they want true freedom, they must free themselves from their God.”

Thus did Jews, the Judaeans, enter history. And here is Haim Oron pointing to Judea and insisting it belongs to the seed of Hamitic Canaan and the Hamitic Philistines.

And as mentioned at the outset: notice the rape of history in his referring to the “borders” of Israel, meaning the 1949 cease-fire line which cease-fire the Arabs never honored. They just changed tactics. They had learned a bitter lesson in the ‘48-‘49 fighting that the Jews could run circles around them as fighters in uniform, soldiers. So they returned their soldiers to their barracks and supported men in civilian dress who would cross the cease-fire line to murder Jews at random…

But beyond this, because Sharansky himself is not truly religious, he has no real message for the Diaspora Jews he urges to maintain their Jewish identity. What he misses is that the indispensable core identity of Jews is the religion and all other variations are by definition defective.

The Zionists, like the Reform Jews, like Theodor Herzl who was raised in the second generation of Reform Jewish children, believed that like Gentile nationalism which is independent of religion, Jews too could be nationalists and patriots for their land.

The Reform Jews thought they could turn Jewish thought into a Gentile-style philosophy, when Jewishness has no philosophy, which means the love of wisdom.

Jews don’t love wisdom. Jews love G-d…