It's a beautifull day in the Tehran neighborhood. A beautifull day in Iran's neighborhood. A beautifull day for a neighbor. Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...

Iran: Man sentenced to have eyes surgically gouged out for crime he committed decades ago when he was 16

Former Iranian hostages say new President of Iran was among those who took them hostages at the American embassy in Tehran

Victorious new Iranian President pledges to go Nuclear continuing with Iran's nuclear program

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. So, let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, Won't you please?P lease won't you be my neighbor?

What's in a word anyway? Hat. Apple. Color. Jew. Palestine. Homosexual.

We define the world using words. When we think about concepts whether it is Torah or secular ideas we most often must do so in terms of words. The choice of words we use colors our understanding of a given situation. Propaganda consists not only of defining what a word means or choosing the right words to frame its message but at its most successful redefines and recontextualizes the subject under discussion so that it is impossible to think of it except in their terms.

Two examples. Palestinian. Homosexual.

What the two have in common is that they redefine a subject with the use of a single word that carries with it an entire worldview with devastating effect on Jews who have done an utterly poor job of defending against it.

Palestinian creates a false national identity and is the linchpin of the transition from the true narrative in which the surrounding Arab states for reasons of ethnic and religion hatred refused to allow Jews to live there in peace to the propaganda narrative of the dispossession of an entire Palestinian people from their homeland by the Jewish colonists. Once this was accomplished and came into use as a propaganda tool, the struggle shifted hopelessly from a story of Jews defending their country to Jews stealing a country until the Jews came to believe it themselves.

Homosexual creates a false identity by making a particular perversion itself an identity thus recreating a person who performs homosexual acts or is tempted to commit them into a homosexual. One is an aspect of a man's character. The second defines a man by that weakness in him. Once a tendency becomes an identity it becomes inescapable. We can tell a man who has a desire for other men to control his tendencies. But once he has defined himself as a homosexual, he can respond; I was born this way, I can't change.

Chazal tell us of the power of a word. Life and death hang on the tongue. The world was created with a word. The world too can be uncreated with them. Mightier than atomic bombs the right words in the right place turn day to night and darkness to light. They redefine the reality of those who use and accept them. The danger of allowing someone else with an agenda to define reality for you is that you will find it increasingly difficult to reject that reality. Once you use 'Palestine' or 'Homosexual,' you find the words increasingly hard to divorce from the propaganda narrative that accompanies them. When we accept the definitions of our enemies then we often find we have lost the argument before it has even begun.

In an attempt to deprogram the 'warmongering' public the media both in America and Israel and the usual academic elites have been trying to sell us 'Heroes of Peace' in place of 'Heroes of War.'

Gandhi who beat his wife and made her clean other people's toilets to teach her humility while he stole money from his father, asked Japan to invade India, told Churchill to surrender to Hitler and the Jews to walk into the gas chambers is considered a 'Hero of Peace.' A secular saint for the liberals and atheists though he himself was neither liberal nor atheist except when it came to collaborating with Muslims against his own people.

There's Yitzchak Rabin who the left tells us is to be considered despicable for his military achievements in 'colonizing and oppressing arabs' or when in the 80's he announced a policy of 'breaking their bones' to deal with the infitada but became a hero when senile and barely functioning he signed away his country to Yasir Arafat.

Today we have a third hero of peace to add to this noble pantheon. In Ra'anana an adult man attacked a 5 year old girl at a booth opposing the evacuation. Having seen rallies where courageous Peace Now activists were instantly attracted to shouting and threatening 65 year old grandmothers this is no great surprise for me. A 5 year old girl makes an even easier target for a 'Hero of Peace.'

"Heroes of Peace" you see are too courageous to fight adult males. They consider this to be an act of warmongering and contrary to their peaceful ideals of non-violence. As Gandhi's heroism came from beating his wife and betraying his people to the Muslims. As Rabin's heroism came from singing away Israel and betraying his own people so he could give in to the Arab terrorists; so too this Hero of Peace too 'courageous' to fight the Arabs found a worthy opponent in a 5 year old girl.

We salute you unknown Hero of Peace. You are truly a worthy addition to the ranks of the Heroes of Peace who undermine their own countries, collaborate with the enemy and display the cowardice and despicable traits that make a man a 'peace activist' in the first place.

On the heels of a controversy in which Democratic politicians have compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol Pot and the KGB, accusations are once more flying over comparisons by Democratic Senators of Dunkin Donuts to Nazi Germany.

Earl Gerbereich, CBS News, Monday 2:27 AM

"I went inside the Dunkin Donuts and right away it hit me. There were men in some kind of uniform behind the counter following orders from their commander," Senator Dick Durbin said, "it was just like seeing one of those Nazi movies. It felt like the Third Reich to me."

Matters grew worse for the Senator as he was asked to wait on line to get his donuts.

"Wait on line," Durbin protested, "what is this Nazi Germany? Why are we being herded into lines? This is fascism! Millions of American soldiers gave their lives to stop Hitler only to import fascism onto our own soil!"

After pledging to liberate the Dunkin Donuts from the manager whom the Senator called, Hitler and warning the workers they would be subject to war crimes tribunals, he was finally thrown out of the shop but that did not put a stop to his campaign.

"Dunkin Donuts is the modern Hitler," Durbin proclaimed, "and Mengele's and Goebbels' and Goering's work there behind every counter. This administration has allowed the Dunkin Donuts to thrive on our soil endangering our liberty and making America hated throughout the world for exporting a jelly filled menace. I demand immediate hearings."

Some Jewish groups condemned the comparison to Dunkin Donuts as frivolous and trivializing the Holocaust, however Democrats continue to stand by Durbin's remarks.

"Senator Durbin was attempting to use rhetoric to alert the public to a very grave matter," Senator Hillary Clinton said. "While we have become preoccupied with the so-called 'War on Terror, Dunkin Donuts has snuck up on us and laid siege to our cities. No one does anything about Dunkin Donuts because of their sizeable contributions to the Bush administration while the right wing attack machine goes after a patriot like Senator Durbin."

"Donuts, evil, sweet evil delicious donuts," Congressman Nadler said gobbling a handful of Dunkin Donuts in what he claimed was research. "The government must mffff make every effort to confiscate all mmfffff to be only used by qualified government personnel. Mmmmm Pol Pot had nothing on these."

Howard Dean as head of the Democratic party took the lead in making the rebuttal.

"The Republicans who spend all their time drowning babies and setting fire to black churches think they have America fooled! Yeeaaargh," Dean roared, "but we know better. Nazis are inside the Dunkin Donuts. Hitler is everywhere. We're gonna mobilize. We're gonna stop this whitewashing of Dunkin Donuts. And then we're gonna go get some all american fallafel from Ahmed around the corner to show our american patriotism or I'm moving to Canada."

The gay parade will be going forwards in Yerushalayim under the rainbow flag which the courts have demanded will be hung officially by the city municipality. Of course to Jews, as opposed to secular perverts, and for that matter many non-Jews, the rainbow actually represents G-D's covenant with Noach not to drown the world again. It is ironic that the rainbow which was a sign of Hashem's covenant not to destroy the world has become a sign of those repeating the perverting of the world that helped bring about the mabul.

Unintentionally homosexuals and the far left who march under the rainbow flag are advertising that they are only here because of Hashem's mercy of the rainbow and if not for that he would drown the world again; perhaps unconsciously aware of their crimes they are holding up the rainbow flag to remind Hashem of his covenant not to drown the world again for their sins

Liberals are bemoaning the right wing, as they call it, out to create an ammendment to protect the American flag from being burned. Their position is that freedom is more important than protecting the flag and the flag really isn't that important after all. To them those who oppose the desecration of a flag are far more of a threat to america than those who do desecrate it.

Meanwhile supposed rumors of a Koran desecrated is greeted by those same liberals with hysterical outrage. When was the Koran desecrate? Where was it desecrated? Who knew about it being desecrated? If indeed the Koran was desecrated they proclaim, it's a terrible atrocity. American soldiers, whom the left claims to support about as sincerely as they claim to dislike terrorism, are unfavorably compared to Nazis.

The Muslims who responded to the false reports in the usual way Muslims respond to anything from a soccer victory to a national defeat to a sale on goats milk, with yet another killing spree. Liberals, nor conservatives, for that matter condemned Muslims for an utterly demented response. Most people expect Muslims to go on killing sprees every time their feelings are hurt and view it as a legitimate part of their culture and religion which we have no right to judge. Had Americans responded by killing and looting every time Muslims burned an American flag or even once, liberals would have been in an uproar. When a Vietnam vet merely spit in Jane Fonda's face it provoked reams of outrage.

But as usual liberals excuse Muslim violence. The palestinian suicide bombers are only depressed because Israel forces them to wait too long at checkpoints before they get the chance to enter a cafe and blow up some Jews. Osama Bin Laden was upset because female US soldiers were driving jeeps while protecting their holy places. The terrorists of Iraq go too far with their headchopping but it's only because Bush took away their dictator's palaces. When a liberal goes so far as to condemn Muslim violence there will usually be a caveat explaining 'but' they're only violent because someone wasn't nice to them today or last week or last year or last millenium. Poor muslims. It seems as if no one likes them and the only explanation they can find for it is that Zionists are running the world.

Even as liberals are fighting a constitutional flag burning ammendment tooth and nail, American police are treating case of Koran desecration as hate crimes. We have become a nation whose flag can be burned with impunity but on whose shores the laws of Islam are now being enforced.

Is this a nation in victory or drifting towards defeat?

Conservatives are regularly accused of being in the pay of big buisness, yet in the Supreme Court decision over 'condemning' houses and buildings that are in perfectly good condition so a company can acquire and redevelop the land it was the liberal justices who supported it as constitutional and the conservatives justices who opposed it.

Of course it is no surprise that the icon of liberalism, the New York Times, itself acquired its office space this way by having the city of New York condemn and seize the property of a building owner and then demolish it to make way for its new building. Liberals have always liked the idea of redistributing property and despite a lot of chatter of doing it on behalf of the poor, it usually benefits those in power whether it was the commissars in the USSR or the commissars of Political Correctness in the US, the New York Times.

The conservative justices led by Reagan apointee Sandra Day O'Connor argued for the individual right to private property showing that this sets a precedent that allows any property to be condemned. And indeed as it stands if a company decides it would like a piece of land, all it needs to do is make some campaign contributions to the right local politicos and shazam, your house or buisness has been 'condemned' and turned over to the company.

What this does is essentially remove the right to have private property and replace it with 'private property at the discretion of the authorities.' If the authorities decide they have a better use for your house, they can and will take it. The applications of this under eminent domain have always been limited but by having local governments act as agents for companies in seizing private property for their own uses; we have a state of affairs in which as under the USSR the entire country becomes subject to a redevelopment campaign with the capitalist twist that it takes place under the aegis of companies looking to make a buck.

Liberals campaigned against Bush with the alarmist cry that if Bush is reelected, he will appoint conservative supreme court justices that will deprive us of our freedom. It is clear that we need more conservative justices on the supreme court if we are to keep any vestiges of our freedom.

Sharon, hero of gay Jerusalem.

The Israeli prime minister made history yeasterday by becoming the first leader of that country to meet with the local gay community.

Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon yesterday met with a delegation from the local gay community at his offices in Jerusalem. It was the first time ever that an Israeli leader met with gay leaders. The delegation spoke to Sharon about equal rights for homosexuals and other issues. Prime minister Sharon was in good spirits and the meeting was conducted in a very friendly atmosphere, according to a delegate .The Jerusalam Open House quotes him as saying "I think everybody should live their lives as they choose to."

Once upon a time Sharon was the Hero of Israel. Sharon was the hero of Sinai. Once upon a time his supporters sang, Sharon Melech Yisrael. Sharon King of Israel.

Today Sharon has sunk lower than ever. Now Sharon is the Hero of Gay Jerusalem. The Hero of the Men's Room.

Indeed Sharon's coalition is now composed not of his own party but of the opposition. Of the rabid secularists and atheists of Shinui and Peres and the Post-Zionists of the Labor Party. Now Sharon is not the hero of Israel, he is the hero of the deviants and the perverts. Today the true heroes of Israel are persecuted by Sharon and the worst elements embraced. Today we can sing, Sharon Melech Sodom.

A hymn fitting enough to inspire the Midat Sodom, the acts characteristic of Sodom, of throwing out thousands of Jews from their homes. After all Midat Sodom was an enmity to hospitality. Like the men of Sodom, the men of Sharon gather around the houses of their victims demanding that they be handed over. Shinui, Labor, Meretz, Peace Now all gather around crying for the settlers to be thrown out and it is Sharon who heads the mob of Sodom that demands their expulsion. The deviants who molest children, do not serve in the army, support left wing groups and deface the holy city of G-D, Sharon proclaims should be allowed to live their lives as they should. The settlers who serve in the army and who have spent decades risking their lives to claim this land Sharon proclaims must be expelled.

Truly Sharon has become Melech Sodom and he is doing his best to turn Israel into Sodom, a corrupt kingdom fit for an utterly corrupt king.

As the Democrats stage mock hearings on Bush's impeachment and left wing activists chant that Bush staged a war under false pretenses, we might consider the war under false pretenses that Clinton staged in which US troops worked with Al Queda and Iranian terrorists to destroy parts of Yugoslavia and create terrorist states for Kosovo Albanian Muslims and Croats in Bosnia.

Frontpage Magazine has a good article on the attempt to maintain the fraud in Milosevic's war crimes trial by people who ought to be on trial themselves. Meanwhile the papers are full of the search for Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader accused of genocide for shooting a few thousand adult muslim males in what has been dubbed the "Massacre of Srebenica."

Of course when Muslims kill people, it is because they are justifiably outraged by their victims or because a magazine reported that someone flushed a Koran. However when people defend themselves by shooting said Muslims it instantly becomes an atrocity, a massacre and a genocide. This is the usual order of affairs in the West where Muslims are deemed the center of morality and every barbarity of theirs is defended and praised while we trip over ourselves to apologize for having the temerity to offend Islam with our continued existence.

Clinton led us to war in Yugoslavia under the banner of stopping genocide, a genocide that never happened. The UN has admitted it. The mass graves supposedly filled with the Albanian and Croat victims of the Serbs turned out to be frauds. The lurid tales of horrors that were being inflicted on them turned out to be as real as the raped Belgian nuns that were part of the propaganda that helped drag America into the disastrous first world war.

The KLA though and the Muslim terrorists who fought by them proved all too real as we found out when they went on to kill Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq. Al Queda and Iranian terrorists operated with us against the Serbs and then with a terrorist state secured for themselves in Europe, they moved on with their other plans including 9/11 and the murder of those same US troops.

Recovered at an Afghanistan al Qaeda training camp was an Albanian Kosovar’s application reading, “I have Kosovo Liberation Army combat experience against Serb and American forces. ...I recommend (suicide) operations against (amusement) parks like Disney.”

Democrats have never ceased to blame Bush for 9/11 though it happened barely into his term. The real villain are the Democrats and Bill Clinton. Clinton collaborated with Al Queda and Iran in Yugoslavia. Bill Clinton ignored and failed to act despite repeated Al Queda attacks. Bill Clinton cultivated terrorists from Arafat to the KLA to the IRA. He made the White House a flophouse for Marxist and Muslim terrorists.

Clinton pushed Oslo and kept Arafat in power for a decade resulting in thousands dead in Israel and a situation in which Israel is on the brink of extermination. Bush has plenty to answer for in his failure to fight the War on Terror but it was Clinton who embraced terrorism and turned America into a partner with Terrorists.

Clinton lied. Countless died.

Even as America is praising Abbas for his progress, Israel has captured yet another suicide bomber sent by Fatah, which had endorsed Abbas for President and Zakariya Zubeidi, the head of Al Aqsa in Jenin is joining the PA police force.

Zubeidi is one of the terrorists on Israel’s most-wanted list for coordinating attacks on Israelis. He claims that as a PA police officer he will not have to change any of his behavior. “Even a Palestinian police officer serves the Palestinian people,” he said. “He protects their safety, property and rights. There is no difference whether I’m a field agent [sic] fighting for the Palestinian people or if I’m a man of law.”

Palestinian arab terrorists continue to murder Israeli soldiers and civilians and we are seeing a repeat of Oslo as America pressures Israel to arm the Palestinian terrorists and give them 'breathing room' to fight terrorism, something they not only have no intention of doing, but in fact we see them rebuilding their terrorist infrastructure. Over 500 wanted terrorists have joined the ranks of the PA police force which they will use to continue carrying out terrorist attacks on Israel with weapons and training provided by America.

While Bush and his administration fawn on Abbas, a terrorist in a suit Jews are being murdered day by day.

Thousands came to the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. Construction workers and ordinary people worked among untiringly among the rubble. The health consequences they would suffer would go on to haunt them as the protection they were provided was inadequate and medical followups were sorely lacking. When the ruins were cleared, what remained was a great pit and the question rose of what would fill it.

Much of the public wanted to see the towers rise again but that was not what the architects wanted. The public wanted the towers rebuilt as a symbol of determination. Architects had no use for the towers. Both Libeskind, Governor Pataki's architect and Childers, the developer's architect, had come out in print describing the WTC as awfull. Their goal was not to rebuild anything but to replace it with a building that would make their reputation based on their own aesthetic tastes.

From the beginning the rebuilding of the WTC had been grotesquely mishandled. Days after 9/11 Governor Pataki handed an aid request to the Federal government full of pork barrel projects for his home territory upstate rather than for New York City. The Bush administration bounced his request. Nothing has changed as this month the Federal government is pulling hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that New York City failed to spend by the proper time. This kind of incompetence has characterized the rebuilding project.

Governor Pataki has been the prime villain in this regard allowing cronyism to overrun the public interest time and time again. The architect whose selection he strongly influenced was the german Daniel Libeskind. He had never designed a skyscraper before. His previous buildings looked like piles of broken rubble. His design featured lower stories of glass and entirely impractical features. But what he lacked in ability, he made up for in a common sense approach to knowing how politics really works and how buildings get built, not on their merits but on their politics. So Libeskind went ahead and hired the same law firm as Governor Pataki used (themselves major Pataki contributors) and promoted his ugly construction as the 'Freedom Tower' undoubtedly inspired by a European's wry contempt for Americans renaming french fries, freedom fries, certain that Americans would go for anything with the tag name, Freedom.

Public opinion polls repeatedly showed support for a British design for the towers by a noted architect that featured two tall towers suggestive of the original twin towers. However the LMDC was not controlled by the public despite the outwards appearance of public meetings and sessions. The Governor of New York and the Mayor were in charge as was the developer, whose actual attentions were spent on a bogus lawsuit against his insurance company attempting to claim the attacks of 9/11 as two separate attacks thus netting him double the money for the buildings. He failed at this but not before spending millions on the lawsuit, that would itself limit his rebuilding capacities.

Libeskind was the original winner with a design that looked something like Krypton on the original Superman movie. He was the ultimate loser though as the Mayor and developer teamed up to push him out and replace him with Childers whose brilliant idea involved putting a windmill on top of the tower. Four years later a security review by the police finally cut through the noise and pointed out that a tower whose lower stories were made of glass was an utterly unfeasible design. And so the rebuilding of the World Trade Center continues to go nowhere. Millions have been wasted. Millions more will be wasted.

The American left though neither sleeps nor slumbers going to and fro across the earth. The 'International Freedom Center', part of Libeskind's original master plan, will be a museum of freedom that will dwarf the actual museum memorializing the attacks. This museum, even before its built shows every sign that it will be used to attack America featuring lectures on how American overreaction to 9/11 undermined freedom. Having hijacked the rebuilding itself, this will be the final insult on a project that has radically diverged from anything that can be called a rebuilding.

Osama Bin Laden destroyed the Twin Towers but demonstrating in microscopic form the same elements that have made the War on Terror a failure, it was our own leaders who have prevented them from being rebuilt instead squandering the money on absurd projects (Mayor Bloomberg has pushed for a 3 billion dollar tunnel from downtown Manhattan to JFK airport), guided by cronyism and devoid of vision. Instead of pushing ahead, we have gone nowhere and failed without even trying.

The ADL is wondering why the government is spending all this energy to prosecute two AIPAC staffers. Why use a Pentagon employee to create a sting aimed at AIPAC that exploited basic human sentiments by offering to provide information about upcoming terrorist attacks? You don't have to be Jewish or loyal to Israel for such a situation to create a compelling appeal.

The usual conclusions have involved complaining about the anti-semitic structure of the FBI but the reality is that this goes much higher up.

America has reacted all the wrong ways post 9/11 and at the heart of the assumptions of neo-cons, paleo-cons, liberals and leftists is the presumption that we must come to an arrangment with the arab and muslim world. Of these only neo-cons believe that this arrangment requires force which is why they are accused of militarism but their idea of force is only a leverage to remove tyrranical regimes and democractize the arab world. Their vision is essentially a liberal one and it requires selling America to the muslim world.

At the heart of it, though neo-cons may display contempt for liberal notions of appeasing the arab world post 9/11, their agenda requires collaboration with arabs and muslims just as much. Liberals believe the arab and muslim world is fine as it is and whatever flaws in it are produced by our actions and it is we who need to change. Conservatives believe the arab and muslim world is a mess and that it is up to us to convince them to change. With the war in iraq having ground to a halt while demonstrating the limitations of the military to impose regime change, the Bush administration is increasingly embracing an approach that appeals to the arab and muslim world. As always the first casualty is Israel.

From England's Blair to the Arab world, the first priotity has always been sold as 'Palestine' and creating 'Palestine' is what the Bush administration has been told will buy it favor and credibility on the Arab street. To that end there is an understanding that pressure must be used against Israel. Targeting AIPAC as an example is the first step to silencing any Jewish protest by returning to the nativist paleo-con slur of Jews as disloyal citizens betraying America. Like Pollard, AIPAC is meant to serve as a warning to Jews while discrediting Jewish protests against America's betrayal of Israel to Americans as a whole. In this sense it could represent another Dreyfuss case which ironically enough helped inspire Zionism to begin with.

Newsweek magazine has published yet another gripping expose of American military abuses reporting that US military personnel have been responsible for flushing Koreans. The names of the Koreans being flushed have not yet been released not have their identities been named or confirmation achieved but with the brutal american atrocities around the world, we can be sure they're true.

Civil rights groups have reacted with predictable outrage to the allegations of Korean flushing.

"The US war machine which has oppressed people of color across the world has now descended to the toilet by flushing Koreans," Amnesty International declared.

"Flushing Koreans down the toilet is a clear insult to Islam," Imam Sheikh Al-Quzadi of Egypt's Al-Quazar Mosque stated, "we will declare a holy war against the American infidels and drink their blood out of china saucers. We have no idea why Americans are flushing Koreans down the toilet but we are certain that this is meant as an insult to Islam and as soon as we figure out how and why, we will begin drawing up the papers for a Jihad."

Few know it but the Institute for Historical Review, America's top Holocaust denial center and most legitimate outgrowth of the Neo-Nazis, is Scientology influenced. Its founder who was edged out by Scientologist staff members has stated that the Church of Scientology was behind the takeover. For over a decade the director of IHR has been a Scientologist. Indeed court documents showed that around 75,000 dollars from IHR went to Scientology.

The overlap is little surprise since Scientology's doctrines have things in common with those of Nazi Germany. The 'Thetans' that Scientology believes attach themselves to us fit in well with Nazi attempts at paganism. But more compellingly is Scientology's elitism and belief in a master race of the enlightened, themselves. Their denial of charity and mercy and an embrace of emotional brutality and self-centeredness that is the hallmark of the 'Enlightened Scientologist'

Now Scientology which has been banned in Germany, because Scientology cult members have the funny habit of stealing classified and personal government documents and turning them over to Scientology's internal secret service (yes they have one and a navy too), is comparing their ban to the Holocaust. They followed this up by taking a line from the PETA handbook and comparing psychiatry to the Holocaust.

Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard had of course himself been hospitalized in an institution leading to a compulsive hatred of psychiatry. Typical of Scientology's hatefull tactics and contempt for any kind of decency, they launched an exhibit in Germany that claims Freud who was Jewish and himself a target of the Nazis, was responsible for the Holocaust.

It seems Scientology's Holocaust denial is getting less subtle.

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As Jews prayed at the Kotel, Arab stone throwers began once again their ritual of hate. They threw stones.

In the west arab stone throwing has been portrayed as a heroic act of resistance against the Israeli colonialist oppressor. The image of the stone throwing arab has been celebrated along with t-shirts of che as left wing icons of heroism.

As Jews prayed at the Kotel, IDF soldiers went to defend them and were injured. Because in real life the stones that are thrown hurt, maim and kill. In real life a young IDF soldier will never be able to see as he once did again.

In the US teens who have thrown stones at passing cars and injured or killed the drivers or passengers have gotten hefty sentences but when IDF soldiers respond to stone throwing with rubber bullets they are castigated as monsters.

Israeli and western peace activists and Arab members of parliament move upfront bringing children with them to showcase the brutality of Israelis to photographers while from behind them palestinian arab men hurl rocks and sometimes fire live ammunition. The media sees through the lie but print the lies.

They are blinded and today one of our soldiers was blinded.

It's a cliche to point out that the Labor party has advanced the interests of arabs as having a higher priority than Jews. But now as after the latest registration drive Arabs are shown to form nearly a quarter of the party membership, it is time to wonder if Labor will not soon become an Arab party.

Traditionally left wing parties attempt to position themselves as defenders of minorities against the exploitationist elites. However the Labor party has always represented the exploitationist elite to begin with. Theirs was the party of socialist secular elite who thought they had a mandate to eternally govern Israel. Each new wave of immigration was an irritant to them as they realized the new immigrants were different and had their own character and way of life and could not simply be ground under to their hegemony.

As each wave came, Holocaust survivors, sefardim, russian Jews; Labor attempted to assimilate them the hard way alternating between brutality and neglect only to find that the new immigrants preffered the right. Holocaust survivors were angered by Labor's deal with post-nazi Germany, sefardim by attempts at forced assimilation and exploitation and russian Jews by discrimination and labor's weakness on national defense and fighting terrorism.

The only minority that the labor party has a hold of, is Israel's non-jewish minority, the arabs. They are the one minority they have a solid hold of and they are the future of the labor party. The militant secularists Shinui, the extreme left have Meretz\Yahad and Labor has the arabs which they have hung as a bloody anchor around the necks of the state of israel.

The government made a mistake in annexing all of east Jerusalem following the Six Day War, Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres said at the Labor Party's Jerusalem Day celebration at the capital's Gerard Behar Center on Sunday.

"Whoever thinks that 240,000 Arabs from East Jerusalem could be annexed while Jerusalem stays a Jewish capital is as mistaken as those who say the city can be divided with fences and walls," Peres said. "If there isn't peace in Jerusalem, there won't be peace in the country, and if we don't leave the Gaza Strip, there won't be peace in Jerusalem," he said.

And the concessions are only beginning...

Of course now that the Labor party has an unheard of 22 percent Arab membership, Peres is scrambling for their votes by being the most radically pro arab and anti-israel.

According to White House Spokesthing Scott McClellan, the White House still sorta has problems with terrorists who kill Israelis, though not nearly as much as terrorists who kill other people, but he wants to make an important distinction.

There is “a big difference” between people who “may be members of organizations, but are not terrorists, versus terrorists, people who have blood on their hands,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in March.

In recent Palestinian elections, “you saw that there may have been people elected that may have been members of Hamas, but they weren’t terrorists,” he said.

Undoubtedly McClellan will keep this distinction in mind when members of Al Queda who were not directly involved in military operations run for Congress. Funny how the Bush administration which once upon a time declared war on terror is now fighting congress to fund palestinian terrorists and legitimize them.

Is there a difference between terrorists with blood on their hands and their enablers?

Israeli special forces killed 15 Palestinians, including police, in 2002 to avenge comrades slain in a West Bank ambush. Two former commandos, their names withheld, told Maariv that after Palestinian militants killed six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah in February 2002, they were told to attack Palestinian-run checkpoints elsewhere in the West Bank.

They had been "instructed...to change the mode of operation and adjust it to the harsh reality on the ground - Hunting down all those involved in terror activities."

"'We are going to liquidate Palestinian policemen at a checkpoint in revenge for our six soldiers that they killed'," one ex-commando, quoted his commander as saying. He added that "the feeling was that this would be 'an eye for an eye."'

The other interviewee described taking part in a raid on a group of Palestinian policemen drinking coffee at a checkpoint near where the Israeli soldiers had been ambushed.

He said that after the first volley felled the Palestinians, he delivered a coup-de-grace to one of them, a man in his 50s.

"It was the first time I had killed and the first time I saw someone die. It was simply a pleasurable day," the former commando said.

While you sit at your Shabbat table think of those who have no table or place to sit and soon no home as well.

Israel's new IDF Chief of Staff appears to be taking a leaf from the playbook of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Like Rumsfeld, Halutz wants to refocus Israel's military to be more flexible, lighter on its feet and technologically integrated. Like Rumsfeld Halutz may be focusing on the reality of a battlefield saturated with guerrillas and terrorists but ignoring the threat of a large scale ground war.

Rumsfeld's cuts of systems such as Crusader weaken America's abilities to face down large scale armies in the field where heavy artillery and tanks and conventional armaments are needed. America faces the possibility of such a war with China or Putin's Russia but neither of those are likely possibilities. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Rumsfeld's changes while risky may be pragmatic at least in the short term.

No Iron Curtain however has fallen for Israel and the Arab armies remain an ongoing threat. While Israel is currently fighting terrorists, those terrorists themselves are merely feints used by the Arab nations to weaken Israel in preparation for a repeat of the Yom Kippur War. Too much readjustment to the kinds of tactics needed to fight terrorism will leave Israel vulnerable in the event of a regional war. Changes such as the abolition of the Central Command are reasonable in dealing with a decentralized patchwork war but leave vital weaknesses in Israel's defense strategy in the event of a repetition of the Yom Kippur War.

Israel cannot allow present dangers to blind it to future wars.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you. Mr. Chancellor, it is my honor to welcome the democratically elected leader of the German people to the White House.

We meet at a time when a great achievement of history is within reach, the creation of a peaceful, democratic Europe. Chancellor Adolf Hitler is seeking that goal by rejecting violence and working for democratic reform. I believe the German people are fully capable of justly governing themselves, in peace with their neighbors. I believe the interests of France, England and all of Europe would be served by a peaceful German state. And I believe that now is the time for all parties of this conflict to move beyond the old grievances of the first world war and act forcefully in the cause of peace.

Chancellor Hitler's election is a tribute to the power and appeal of democracy, and an inspiration to the people across the world. The German people voted against violence and for a stable government that cares for workers and seeks peace with its neighbors.

Mr. Chancellor, the United States and the international community applaud your rejection of violence. All who engage in violence are the enemies of the German people, and must be held to account. We will stand with you, Mr. Chancellor, as you combat corruption, reform the German security services and your justice system, and revive your economy. Mr. Chancellor, you have made a new start on a difficult journey, requiring courage and leadership each day -- and we will take that journey together.

As we work for peace, other countries must step up to their responsibilities. European states must take concrete measures to create a regional environment in Europe conducive to peace. They must offer financial assistance to Germany -- to support the peaceful efforts of Chancellor Hitler, his government and the German people. And they must refuse to assist or harbor anarchists, Communists and Jews.

France, Poland and Czechoslovakia must take concrete steps to improve the lives of ethnic Germans as well as take no steps on their territory that would prejudice any final status agreement with Germany. All French, Polish and Czech towns built on territory claimed by Germany must be dismantled.

Any final status agreement must ensure that Germany receives all the territory it controlled before the First World War and that this territory must be contiguous within Germany itself. This is the position of the United States and the international community and we call on France, Poland and Czechoslovakia to abide by it. Czechoslovakia has agreed to withdraw from portions of territory inhabited by ethnic Germans, Volksdeutsche, and we call upon them to continue this process as it opens up many opportunities for peace.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler has implemented many new ambitious programs intended to fight poverty and unemployment and for this reason he has the support of the German people who seek a peaceful life for themselves. The United States supports him in these efforts.

The people of Europe have endured a long period of challenge, and now, we have reached a moment of hope. Leaders from around the world have made a moral commitment: We will not stand by as another generation in Europe grows up in an atmosphere of violence and hopelessness. With concrete actions by the United States, France, Germany, Italy, England and other nations, we can transform this opportunity into real momentum.

Mr. Chancellor, we will work with you to help realize the dream of a free and democratic Germany, to bring greater freedom, security and prosperity to all peoples in the region, and to achieve the lasting peace we all seek.

Welcome back to the White House.