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Another week draws to a close. A week filled not with the grand crash of great events or the flame and death of war so much as with a purposeless drift toward entropy. Partisanship in the US Congress has reached a new low as Democrats violated their own regulations to hijack a vote on illegal immigrants. An increasingly clueless Condoleeza Rice and Livni are leading Israel and America to disaster in the War on Terror in their latest round of negotiations. In other words Ein Chadash Tahat Hasemesh is the watchword. Meanwhile I've learned that Noah Feldman , the target of a previous article on this blog majored in Islamic Thought in college and volunteered 75,000 dollars worth of his services as a lawyer to resist the placement of an Eruv in Tenafly, New Jersey. This makes his article unsurprising except it is no longer the vicious scrawlings of a rejected member of an Orthodox Jewish community but someone who actively hates Jews, religious and otherwise and seeks to do them harm. I ...

The Hebron Massacre which happened at the end of August 1929, 78 years ago, has been all but displaced in popular memory with the Baruch Goldstein shootings. It is as if Auschwitz had been obscured in historical memory by the revenge killings of Nazis by the Jewish Brigade. The horror of the Hebron Massacre though remains, it serves as a reminder of the savage animalistic brutality of the Arabs in their deeds. It reminds us that there is no moral equivalence between Arabs and Jews. It testifies to the lie that Jews lived in peace as minorities in Arab lands. In Hevron where Jews had caused no harm to Arabs, mobs gathered and burned, tortured, looted, raped and committed atrocities too hideous to name. And in Tsfar too, the hands of orphaned children were cut off, already dead bodies were eviscerated and castrated. The synagogue was smeared with the blood of a student and the stones of Hevron again ran with Jewish blood. But most of all it serves as a warning for what is happening and w...

" Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand " Mark Twain Anyone who seriously believed after 9/11 that victory against the ongoing Islamic conquest would be accomplished by military force has by now been steadily disabused of that illusion after 5 years of political correctness, passivity and misguided campaigns to bring democracy to the Muslim world. The war against Islam is not going to be won with guns or bombs. Force is merely the final solution to settling conflicts but Islam's violence is for now only the tip of the iceberg of a much larger campaign to make the world into an Islamic domain. While we fight with police actions and holding elections, Islamists are seizing control of governments by force or by democratic elections. They are conquering African nations and staging civil wars in pacific ones. They are importing millions of Muslims to Europe and America as Europe's 'Palestinians' for a coming European Intifada. They are rewriting...

As the war in Iraq drags on, the fundamental problem in the whole modern strategy of American politicized warfare continues to take its toll. The United States boasts the best military in the world but the political leadership increasingly lacks the courage to use it. Entering a war requires knowing and defining a course of action which your forces can take to achieve victory. In Iraq, the American government has refused to adopt any such course of action. Victory or defeat in Iraq is dependent on a philosophy that places responsibility on Iraqis rather than on American troops to win. Politicized militaries lose the ability to win wars, instead becoming locked in by political goals that rely on winning over a hostile population and trying to prop up a local government fighting an insurgency. Such approaches handcuff the military and doom a war. The US could not win in Vietnam because victory had become defined as the survival of a corrupt government unwilling to fight for itself. By de...

What ties together the immigration bill controversy, Chinese poisoned products, the outsourcing of American jobs and the destruction of entire sections of American industry and the decline of small business and family farms? It's sales in the end. We want everything cheaper. We want it now and we want it for as little as possible. But the cost of cheap turns out to be pretty high. To get something as cheaply as possible you have to reduce the cost of manufacturing, distributing and selling it as possible. To manufacture products as cheaply as possible, you need to pay employees as little as possible. That inevitably means one of several possibilities. 1. Outsourcing jobs by moving American factories overseas where the labor is dirt cheap. 2. Buying from overseas companies that employ dirt cheap labor 3. Using illegal aliens in America to do the work dirt cheap Either way the result is that Americans lose jobs. When jobs are outsourced, American companies move abroad. When you use i...

This is the Yahrtzeit of Lena Bosinova who died during the Disengagement, the expulsion of Jews from their home. Her life and death has gone generally unreported in the media, much as it has quickly rushed to bury the victims of Olmert's policies beneath mounds of frivolous newsprint. She died a victim of the policies of a government and the apathy of a public. She died also because the right has too many men willing to give interviews and too few willing to lead by example. Too many ready to counsel moderation and to fight each other for a seat at the table. She had passion and a knowledge of what was to come and could not think of what she could do to stop it. The following is a brief translated excerpt from a remembrance of her life. She was born in a city of shining acacias ina Russia only still recovering from war. Jews were returning there, where once their relatives had lives. Lena remembered the daughter of her mother's neighbor who had returned from Moscow to search f...

At the beginning nearly a thousand people arrived in Homesh with around 700 remaining in Homesh. They ascended the hill and shortly after midnight, the various police and undercover personnel had departed. People who had remained in hiding began to emerge from hiding and though Kol Yisrael reported that there were only tens, in fact there were hundreds. During the day more people began arriving. Yassam Police beat them with rubber batons and threw around 80 people into buses and arrested them. Law enforcement had also seized control of the reservoir cutting off the protesters and activists from a water supply in the heavy heat. MK Aryeh Eldad was allowed to enter the area but his daughter was forced to leave the vehicle. A tower was constructed on the hill from the bricks that had been brought. After a short amount of time, Yassam police smashed the tower and aborted the attempted reconstruction of the synagogue. Arabs from the local village Burkah, which had celebrated Hizbullah's...

A few days ago I walked into my bathroom and stopped short. There clinging to the side of the sink was a bug. Not just any bug but a giant waterbug. A bug trying to grow to the size of a small aircraft carrier. It was a clearly unworkable situation. I had no intention of sharing my bathroom with something that looked as if it belonged in a Jules Verne story or should have been rampaging across a Hollywood B-Movie set. After a few minutes consideration, I grabbed a bag and tried to non-violently evict him from my bathroom. Waterbugs though it turns out are quicker than humans and much harder to catch, so off I went to the yellow pages. I began leafing through to Exterminators. But extermination seemed too violent. So I kept on leafing until I reached Political Solutions. The first number I called was for Ariel Sharon. I thought he was in a coma but as it turned out he had recovered nicely and set up an exterminating business locally. Except he wasn't exterminating anymore. "Wha...

Sultan Knish has passed his 100,000 visitor mark. He has been blogging for a short while but in that time has gained a loyal and steady readership who faithfully read his blog. This blog is more than just passing on links and rewriting stories from the news outlets. There are tons of blogs like that out there. No, Sultan Knish has a difference, he tells you the story and the background behind the news in today's headlines. He takes things apart down to the root and shows you the in depth truth behind the world situations. This is something rare in blogs and its not easy to do. Something you might not know is that Sultan Knish has a exceptional grasp of history and of the psychology behind people and nations. His knowledge of geo-politics is well renowned among those who know him. He is a published author and accomplished ghost writer!, psychologist and journalist and you may even have seen his book cover art on several publications! Congratulations Sultan and may we all see many ...

In Israel things are going from bad to worse. With Ahmadinejad talking openly about a summer war and Syria and the Palestinians preparing for one, the Olmert government continues its disastrous reign over Israel. Their latest concession is to allow the terrorist Badr Brigade to enter Israel from Jordan. Jericho and Kalquiya, which had to be recaptured once, have been turned over to Fatah. The Badr Brigade will enter Israel to hold it. In Hevron 10 IDF soldiers consulted Rabbi Dov Lior and Rabbi Levanon and Rabbi Melamed over orders to replace border guards who were to be dispatched to hunt Zionist youth who were returning to Homesh. Rabbi Levanon and Rabbi Melamed told them to register a protest but fulfill their duties. Rabbi Dov Lior asked them for time to study the issue and after several hours informed them that they should refuse. After registering their protest, the soldiers eventually complied. From blogs Over at Israpundit, Ted Belman has a disturbing post on Bush and the Saud...

When an Episcopalian priest in Seattle announced that she considered herself both a Muslim and a Christian and worshiped at a Mosque, all the while remaining with her congregation, conservative Christians expressed outrage and disgust at the Reverend Ann Holmes Redding, pointing out that the beliefs are incompatible and that you can't be a member of two religions. Of course you can't. " The idea that a person can become a Muslim while remaining an Episcopal priest in good standing trivializes both faiths ", Ralph Webb, Director of the IRD's Anglican Action program said. Yes it does. But here's the problem. Many Evangelical Christian and particularly Baptist Churches have been insisting that you can. For decades they funded and promoted Christian Ministers who called themselves Rabbis and set up Churches which they called Synagogues and pushed a brand of Christianity called "Messianic Judaism". Ralph Webb is right. Insisting that a person...