Israel captures live Arab disembowelers, plotters, and murderer wannabes of Jews, and other Jews have to pay to keep them alive in Israeli jails.

That is, until the inevitable happens, and Arabs later capture some more live Jews. They then offer a swap in exchange for hundreds of their comrades. If the Jews are lucky, they get back a live prisoner or so. In just one example, in 1985 they exchanged almost 1,200 Arabs for three of their own. In January 2004, Israel handed over more than 400 Arabs in return for one Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers abducted along the Lebanese border in 2000.

Usually, the deal involves a few dead Jews for hundreds of Arab killers and collaborators–who are soon back in the Jew-killing business.

And I bet you thought Jews were smart…

Well, guess what? Here we go again.

This time, the potential swap is for a few more Israeli soldiers kidnapped from within Israel by Hizbullah in another cross border raid. Recall the war that this triggered back in 2006.

Among the other prizes Israel holds alive is Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese who the Jews have supplied room and board to for almost three decades. Good way to spend Jewish Diaspora funds, heh?

Kuntar’s relevant bio is educational–and only emphasizes how dumb Jews really can be.

On April 22, 1979, Kuntar led a team who entered Israel from Lebanon by boat. All were members of the Palestine Liberation Front.

Around midnight they reached the coastal town of Nahariya. After killing a policeman, the team entered a building and split into two groups. One of these next broke into the apartment of the Haran family. Danny Haran was taken hostage along with his four-year-old daughter, Einat. Danny’s wife, Smadar, hid in a crawl space with their two-year-old daughter, Yael, and a neighbor.

Kuntar’s group next dragged Danny and Einat down to the beach, where a shootout with Israeli forces erupted.

Kuntar shot Danny at close range in front of his daughter and drowned him in the sea to ensure that he was dead.

Next, he smashed the four year old girl’s head on beach rocks, crushing her skull with the butt of his rifle.

Meanwhile, back in the crawl space, 2-year-old Yael Haran had been accidentally suffocated to death by her mother’s attempts to quiet her whimpering so as not to reveal their hideout…a story right out of the Holocaust.

While Kuntar’s exploits rank “up there” with Arabs as far as his heroics against Jews go, he is by no means an exception to the rule.

Back in May 2004, Arabs gunned down a pregnant Jewish mother and her four terrified little daughters in their station wagon.

After spraying the car with gunfire, they next ran up and blasted each of their victims’ heads to make sure they had finished the job.

One of the Arab heroes next deliberately shot the swollen belly of the eight-months pregnant mother, Tali Hatuel, at point-blank range. Rescuers found Tali’s dead baby still strapped in her car seat.

Note, please, that all of these Jewish victims were/are deliberately targeted–not accidentally caught in the middle because their own folks used them as human shields–a favorite tactic used by so-called Arab “militants.” And Jews don’t throw Arab children out of school windows, blow them up on buses, in pizzerias, ice cream parlors, shopping malls, and restaurants, murder them in their beds, and so forth.

Now, combine the above lunacy (knowing the costly predictable blackmail that awaits, the Samir Kuntars should never be taken alive, and if they are, after a quick trial, should be executed soon afterwards) with the additional death wish of still too many Israelis who believe that if they just keep on making concession after concession to Arabs on crucial security issues (checkpoints, territory, etc.), the Arabs will finally let their microscopic Jewish rump state live in peace.

Peace alright…peace of the grave. And it’s that obvious.

That others pressure Israel to act against its own basic needs and interests is no surprise–the American State Department, Dhimmi Europe, and so forth. So the Jewish State should be used to this by now.

That Israel allows itself to be bullied this way–regardless of the aid issue and such–is beyond pathetic. It truly borders on suicidal, and such behavior should not be repeatedly rewarded.

Why is Olmert still in power, for example? Why can’t the selfish portions of his fragile coalition not see the forest of their miniscule State’s survival and existence for their own individual trees?

How much longer must it take before a new Israeli leadership arises which will not behave like someone else’s collective stooge and fool?

Olmert now seeks to appease Baby Assad–the late Butcher’s son–with the gift of all the territory Syria has repeatedly used to attack Jews from –the Golan.

Think of how borders constantly have changed all over the world due to such aggressive, murderous behavior as Syria’s…not to mention the fact that the Golan was to be part of the original 1920 Mandate Of Palestine after World War I until the Brits and the French did some imperial trading. Or that numerous peoples besides Arabs ruled the Golan Heights over the centuries…including Jews.

And what of Syria’s oppressive shenanigans in Lebanon, burying the hopes of those who wanted a better, independent, and more peaceful path for their country? Or their continued murderous suppression of millions of Syrian Kurds?

Should Israel also simply ignore all of this too in its quest to become a state like all others, with no friends, just interests? That’s where it’s anti-Jewish, post-Zionist path has been leading it.

So, how to get the message across that such consistent self-destructive behavior cannot continue?

Think about it…

Perpetually victimized and demonized Jews waited for millennia to finally live to see the Hebraic Prophetic resurrection of Israel, only to see spineless leaders with head-in-the sand Jewish supporters undo the dream.

Perhaps the time has come to send a real wake up call…and it will indeed be a hard one for Diaspora Jews to deliver.

Yet I do believe that such things as the refusal to enact the death penalty for the deliberate butchers of innocents (and please don’t sing me the tune about allegedly stooping to their level) and the refusal to demand the reasonable territorial compromises which were allowed by UNSC Resolution 242 require drastic action at this time.

Diaspora Jews have poured many billions of dollars into Israel for well over a century now.

While this doesn’t give them the right to tell Israel what its policies should be, on the other hand, the Diaspora does not have to continue to support policies which are obviously dead end, both figuratively and literally.

Israel doesn’t have to continuously prove how much “better” it is than much of the giant dung heap which surrounds it. Yet it continues to act this way…not that it makes any difference to the world’s hypocrites. If Samir Kuntar was a Jew, Kurd, Berber, Copt, Black Sudanese, etc. and committed these acts against any of those “Arab” states in which those non-Arab people live or have lived, he would not have lived to see the light of day.

Yet as I write this, Islamist student organizations are intimidating Jews on Israeli college campuses, Jews are being attacked by Israeli Arab neighbors, treasonous Arab members of the Israeli Parliament side with Hamas against Israel and so forth. Again, imagine any of the almost two dozen Arab countries allowing anything like this…

The Diaspora does not have to continue to pump money into a post-Zionist state which insists it’s going to out Christian the Christians by turning cheek after cheek after cheek to enemies which will never accept a permanent Jewish neighbor, regardless of size. Forget about those Arab Knesset members…The actions of recent Israeli leaders who have played along with the Arabs’ well-known destruction in phases plans borders on treason itself–regardless of who is tightening the screws from abroad.

Something is needed to open up the eyes of too many in Israel who have forgotten what life was like for Jews all over the world before the miraculous Phoenix arose from the ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Perhaps a severe shock is what’s really needed right now to bring the forest back into vision…and one long enough to drive home the message.

I realize it’s controversial. It’s hard to say “no” to the many worthy charities and such pulling at Diaspora heartstrings.

But if business stays as usual regarding current Israeli behavior, Iran’s Ahmadinejad will be correct regarding his death forecast for the Jewish State. And the Jews will largely have done it to themselves.

If Israel can no longer count on Diaspora money to fill the many gaps in society which depend upon it, and it then has to use funds targeted for defense and elsewhere to cover those costs, perhaps the message will finally get through.

The heirs of Ben-Gurion, Jabotinsky, Golda, Begin, and a younger Arik must now come to the fore and take their rightful place. And an Israeli public finally awoken from its slumber must know how to respond.

How’s a game of poker sound?

Deuces wild, you say?

Alright, let the game begin…

Nice–I’ll bet a hundred bucks on my hand.

You’re seeing me and raising me another hundred?

We’ll, hey…I’m just a Florida teacher, with three of my four kids in college at the same time, and the other not far behind. Two ’Gators and a Seminole so far…

Okay… I’ll pay to see you.

Full House, Queen high?

Ugh…

I have two pair, King high.

Hey, Wait a minute!

Where’s the Full House, Chum?

I just see two Queens, two sixes, and a two of hearts…

What…You say deuces are wild?

Since when? Who says?

What…I agreed to that?

Well, that was before you drew the deuce…

Forget about all the legal gobbledygook that went on until recently regarding the Florida and Michigan primaries. It all comes down to a poker game.

Were deuces wild or weren’t they?

Well, all parties indeed knew the rules of the game prior to play time. If there were any questions, the time to have debated them was prior to the primaries.

Sour grapes doesn’t cut it afterwards. And if they do, then we’re all in for trouble down the road.

I get a charge out of alleged liberals crying about disenfranchisement in the aftermath.

Where were their worries when the rules were being expressed loudly and clearly to all parties prior to the vote? How about the folks who played by the rules and didn’t even show up because of them…candidates and voters alike?

The time to question or change the way the game is to be played is prior to its start–not when you don’t like the hand you’re dealt afterwards.

The main issue here is not disenfranchisement (as real as it is), but chaos…and it doesn’t take a lawyer to figure that one out.

If expressed rules and laws set up by legitimate representatives are allowed to simply be tossed aside by disgruntled parties after the fact, then watch out for any and all other types of agreements arrived at as well.

Even I know that precedent is important in law.

And the precedent even the compromise decision recently arrived regarding these two states, which knowingly and deliberately disobeyed the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee, stinks like a rotten egg.

After all of the negative publicity that Agri-processors has received for abusing animals and people, it’s sad that some members of my faith are only concerned about whether or not they will be able to have meat. As God’s chosen people, we can surely do better than this. We can live according to our religious principles by choosing plant-based foods, which are naturally kosher.

Vegetarian foods are plentiful, delicious, healthy, and humane. Check out www.HumaneKosher.org for vegan recipes and product picks, as well as information on the horrific animal abuse at Agri-processors.

He used the example of Hitler’s attack on Poland in 1939, which ushered in World War II in Europe, and the words of an American senator who expressed that if he’d only had the chance to chat with Hitler, things might have been different.

Another time, another place, perhaps Bush’s words would have sounded more sincere and had more meaning.

Iran, North Korea, Syria, and other aggressive dictatorships must indeed be confronted unabashedly…much better than the world is doing right now. Witness the pitiful response to what’s happening to those who truly sought independence for Lebanon.

But this was the wrong analogy for the President to bring up before the Knesset.

You don’t have to be the best student of history to know what the appropriate analogy was/is regarding Israel and those who would see her destroyed. Many of us have written about it, and the President has undoubtedly seen or heard of this more accurate comparison one way or another himself. So, why bring the subject–appeasement–up if your choose to ignore your own advice?

Judea (land of the Judeans–Jews) and Samaria–also known, as a result of British post-World War I imperialism, as the “West Bank” (in contrast to the Jordan River‘s east bank)–are roughly Israel’s Sudetenland. They have thousands of years of Jewish history and presence connected to them…including in modern times, until the Arab massacres.

Forced expulsions, forced conversions, horrendous wars, repeated conquests, and such took their tolls, but until the 1920s and 1930s–and after 1948 when Transjordan, created itself in 1922 from the lions’ share of the original 1920 Palestine Mandate on the “East Bank,” grabbed Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) and made it Judenrein, the Jews never renounced their claims.

The Arabs themselves ruled, colonized, and settled the land earlier after their own imperial armies burst out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century C.E. and spread in all directions…conquering and forcibly Arabizing (going on to this very day) millions of non-Arab peoples and spreading the Dar ul-Islam. Those who did not consent were slaughtered.

The two Arab Caliphal empires based in Damascus and Baghdad had replaced the Byzantine Empire which had succeeded the Roman Empire. And there were others later on in between as well. The last of Israel’s imperial conquerors were Turks, who ruled for over four centuries prior to the Brits’ victory in World War I.

The land was thus conquered by a series of imperial powers upon the fall of Israel/Judea to Rome. I like to cite two quotes from key contemporary Roman sources themselves related to this, one dealing with the first major revolt of the Jews for their freedom (66-73 C.E.), and the other dealing with their second major revolt (133-135 C.E.).

Tacitus Vol. II, Book V, The Works of Tacitus:

Vespasian… succeeded to the command…. it inflamed his resentment that the Jews were the only nation that had not yet submitted…Titus was appointed by his father to complete the subjugation of Judaea… he commanded three legions in Judaea itself… To these he added the twelfth from Syria and the third and twenty-second from Alexandria… amongst his allies were a band of Arabs, formidable in themselves and harboring towards the Jews the bitter animosity usually subsisting between neighboring nations.

Dio’s Roman History (Dio Cassius):

580,000 men were slain, nearly the whole of Judaea made desolate. Many Romans, moreover, perished in this war ( 133-135 C. E., the Bar Kochba Revolt against Hadrian ). Therefore Hadrian, in writing to the senate, did not employ the opening phrase commonly affected by the emperors, ‘ I and the legions are in health.’

After that last major revolt, in order to further pour salt on the wound, Hadrian renamed the land itself after the Jews’ already well-known historic enemies, the Philistines–the “Sea People” from the area around Crete. Iudaea (Judea) thus became known–at least in some circles–as Syria Palaestina.

Towns such as Bethlehem (Matthew 2:1-4, Bethlehem–not West Bank, not Palestine–of Judea…King of the Jews{not “Palestinians”}; 1 Samuel 16, Samuel anoints David; etc.), Hebron, Bethel, Schechem, Jericho, Gilboa, and so forth should ring a bell.

Here’s the real analogy both the President and the Foggy Folks purposely ignore…

After World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was defeated and fell apart. Among the various peoples yearning to gain political freedom were Czechs and Slovaks, bringing about a very imperfect–but necessary–union (until relatively recently) for the good of both.

Czechoslovakia was created in 1918. While other peoples also lived in various parts of the new country, those folks (Germans, Poles, etc.) already had ethnic national homelands of their own.

But the fact that many ethnic Germans had earlier spread elsewhere within the Austro-Hungarian Empire would come back to haunt the new nation. Much of its Bohemian and Moravian border regions–the Sudetenland in German–was occupied by Germans. Furthermore, much of the area’s important industry was controlled by them as well.

Indeed, Czechoslovakia was constantly plagued by problems involving its large number of Sudeten Germans having “other plans.” After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938 in the Anschluss, he turned to other “German” areas as well.

Again, as has been often referred to, by threatening war in September 1938, Hitler cowed Czechoslovakia’s “friends” to force it to agree to give up its rich and strategically important Sudetenland to the Nazis…with Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain claiming in Munich that he had thus gained “peace for our time.” Czechs were expelled from the border regions. The irony is that the Czechs had a good army, and backed by the Allies could have put up a good fight. They were shafted instead.

Now, that’s appeasement.

Before long, Hitler grabbed what was left of Czechoslovakia, bombed Poland, and the world was at war again anyway.

So, again, why did the President–with the whole world watching–skip over this and begin his lesson with Poland instead?

Why? Because the real analogy here stinks to High Heaven…

Substitute Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) for the Sudetenland. .

Yet, from the getgo, a hostile American State Department–which rejected Israel’s rebirth in the first place–has sought to force Israel to accept armistice lines artificially imposed upon it in 1949 which turned the nation of the Jews into a 9-mile wide rump state. Those lines merely represented the points at which the combined Arab assault from a half dozen different countries was halted. Having failed–thanks to President Truman and the sacrifice of the Jews themselves–in nipping Israel in the bud, the Foggy Folks tried their best to see it go belly up afterwards.

The State Department routinely employs hypocritical double standards along with an absurd moral equivalency and routinely acts in ways which endanger Israel’s very existence.

After Israel was once again forced to fight for its life in the 1967 Six Day War, the Arab goal of annihilation backfired big time, and Israel ridded itself of those Auschwitz lines. The only thing the latter temptation had achieved was to constantly invite yet more Arab aggression.

As I and others have written before, this conflict has never been about how big Israel is, but that it is…

A reading of the U. N. ’s Ralph Bunch’s ’49 armistice line dealings would help understand this better as would those of Under Secretary of State Eugene Rostow, U. N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, Britain’s U. N. Ambassador, Lord Caradon, and other architects of U. N. Security Council Resolution # 242. The latter all explained why Israel was not expected to return to the status quo ante after ‘67 and was entitled to secure and recognized borders–not indefensible armistice lines. Yet that’s what the Foggy Folks, Presidents Carter and Clinton, and even President Bush (on again/off again) have expected and pressured the Jews into doing.

Here’s Lord Caradon…

It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of 4 June 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial. After all, they were just the places where the soldiers of each side happened to be on the day the fighting stopped in 1948. They were just armistice lines. That’s why we didn’t demand that the Israelis return to them.

A bit earlier, here’s what a few other fellas had to say about this…

President Lyndon Johnson, June 19, 1967:

A return to the situation on June 4 (the day before outbreak of war) was not a prescription for peace but for renewed hostilities. He then called for… new recognized boundaries that would provide security against terror, destruction, and war.

President Ronald Reagan, September 1, 1982:

In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely 10-miles wide…the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Secretary of State George Shultz, 1988:

Israel will never negotiate from or return to the 1967 borders.

The unfortunate reason Bush conveniently left out the model of appeasement–the ‘38 Munich travesty–is because it’s too close to what America (Israel’s best friend) has recently been pressuring the Jew of the Nations to do unto itself.

As Hitler had designs far beyond a Czechoslovakian (but heavily ethnic German) Sudetenland, if you believe that all the Arabs wanted/want is Gaza and the “West Bank,” I have not one but ten bridges to sell you. As the President was delivering his speech in Israel, Arabs were blasting Jews shopping in a mall in Ashkelon. A bit earlier another one was massacring students in a yeshiva with weapons Secretary of State Rice insisted that the Jews provide for Abbas’s “moderates” themselves.

Knowing full well that southern Israel got nothing but thousands of mortar and rocket attacks launched from Gaza in exchange for its full withdrawal, Rice & Co. (with Bush on again, off again) insist that the same thing happen to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and elsewhere in Israel’s narrow waist (adjacent to Judea and Samaria) where most of its population lives. That, indeed, is the more-than-likely scenario if Israel caves in to what its “friends” have been pressuring it to do regarding the heavily Arab-populated “West Bank.”

Any observer of this conflict with functioning neurons knows the post-’67 Arab destruction in stages game plan for Israel. They also know–by even the alleged Arab “ good cops’ ” own words–that their hudnas (ceasefires) are only designed to gain strength and time in order to deliver the final blow later on down the road. Arafat called this tactic the “Peace of the Quraysh,” copying what Muhammad did to his Meccan enemies some fourteen centuries ago. Abbas’s Fatahniks are Arafatians in suits and have stated the same thing. Abbas “the moderate” ran on a platform for Israel’s destruction–but by more “acceptable” means. Blown buses bring bad press.

Think about what Iran and Syria have done to Lebanon via Hizbullah, and you’ll get a glimpse at what’s in store for a “West Bank” in which Israel has not been granted a meaningful territorial compromise a la 242.

Israel’s great air force won’t do it any good when it has to bomb itself because there was no adequate buffer preventing a massive Arab invasion (as occurred in 1948 and was attempted later as well).

And would America permit enemies sworn to its destruction to set up missile bases and such within a stone’s throw of its own borders?

Who will stop Iran from doing this–as they’ve supplied Hizbullah and Hamas already?

Keep in mind that thirty-eight Israels fit into just the President’s home state of Texas…not to mention a comparison to all of America.

The President was indeed correct about appeasement.

But now…

Teacher–Teach thyself.

Perhaps the following will help explain…

The lunar Hebrew calendar date for Israel Independence Day (May 14, 1948) falls on May 8th this year. The resurrected nation of Christianity’s alleged Deicide People, the “Wandering Jews,” and the Arabs’ kilab yahud (“Jew dogs”) and myself both turn sixty, G_d willing, on the exact same day.

Shortly after the festivities, the world will face another “celebration” of sorts…the Arabs’ “Nakba” day, on May 15th of each year. That’s what the Arabs call their catastrophe…Israel’s rebirth, placing a guilt trip for their own post-’48 predicament on Jews.

They’ll demonstrate all over–including in Israel itself–and assorted media will give them as much if not more coverage than they did for Israel Independence Day.

While I don’t deny Arabs attention, would the same protests of scores of millions of black Africans (in the Sudan and elsewhere), Copts, Imazighen (Berbers), Kurds, Assyrians, Jewish refugees from Arab/Muslim lands (and the few Jews still remaining there), and other non-Arab victims of Arab imperial conquest, forced Arabization, murder, expulsion, and so forth over years get the same media publicity?

Of course not.

None of the Arabs’ multitudes of victims dare to even demonstrate without placing their own lives on the line. And when they rarely do, few–if any–people elsewhere in the world usually get to see or hear about such things anyway. It takes Arab mass murder of such folks as in the Anfal campaign in Iraq or in the Sudan before anyone even notices. So forget about what Arabs are doing to Kurds in Arab Syria right now without anyone saying a word. The murdered aren’t numerous enough yet, I guess…forget about their on-going subjugation.

All right…but, still, didn’t Arabs also suffer because of the Jews’ insistence on casting off their perpetual victim and statelessness condition?

Yes, some did, but here’s the main point…

The Arab nakba was a catastrophe which didn’t have to be.

Arabs were mainly victims of self-inflicted wounds which occurred due to their own subjugating, racist attitudes towards all others daring to stake a claim, no matter how small, after the break up of the four century-old Ottoman Turkish Empire in what Arabs proclaimed to be–as a result of their own earlier imperial conquests–purely Arab patrimony.

While no one is squeaky clean once hostilities erupt, the post-‘48 Arab predicament was sired overwhelmingly by themselves.

When bullets and bombs start to fly and comrades start to fall, too often all Hell breaks loose.

But if Arabs had not repeatedly attacked Jews and invaded a reborn Israel in 1948, the Arab nakba would not have come to pass. Massive non-Zionist contemporary evidence (including from Arabs) testifies to this. And some Arabs (most new-comers themselves into the Palestine Mandate) would have come to live (as many now do) in one Jewish State–which made Arabic a second official language and where Arabs who side with Hamas sit in Israel’s Parliament–as millions of non-Arabs (including many Jews) have lived in almost two dozen “Arab” states. Contrast the Israeli Arab example with many non-Arabs who had their own languages and cultures outlawed in “Arab” lands.

In the State Department’s current darling, Mahmoud Abbas’s, own words, as quoted in March 1976…

The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians…but instead they abandoned them, forced them to leave…and threw them into prisons (refugee camps) similar to the ghettoes in which Jews were earlier forced to live ( Falastin a-Thaura ).

So, then, when is a catastrophe not so?

When it is–or was–totally avoidable and brought about primarily by oppressive attitudes and actions of the alleged victims themselves.

While tragedy occurred, it was born of subjugating, racist attitudes and mindset which declared that none besides Arabs were worthy of political rights in the region. For Arabs, colonialism and imperialism are nasty only when someone besides themselves are the perpetrators.

Unlike Arabs, who were offered repeated compromises over the land, no such accommodations were ever offered to the Arabs’ national competitors. Think hundreds of thousands of murdered and gassed Kurds, even greater genocide in the Sudan, burned down Egyptian Coptic churches, what the real struggle is largely about in pre-Arab Lebanon (King Solomon built the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem from his Phoenician ally, King Hiram’s, famed cedars in Lebanon), and so forth.

In 1922, Arabs were handed over three quarters of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine when they received all of the east bank of the Jordan River from the Brits. In 1947, they were offered about half of what was left in a second partition.

Arabs rejected the above because dhimmi Jews –as “People of the Book,” one of the protected peoples who, after paying Mafia-style “protection money” via a special poll tax (the jizyah), were at least usually not massacred and forcibly converted en masse like others were with the spread of the Dar ul-Islam–were entitled to no political rights whatsoever in Arab eyes.

Had Arabs accepted the ‘47 partition, they would have wound up with two Arab states covering about 90% of the original territory of “Palestine.” Thirty-five million truly stateless Kurds are still struggling to have the world recognize their own plight, with America’s State Department Arabists–key proponents of Arab State # 22–leading the opposition.

The very name “Palestine” came to be only after the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, got so fed up with the Jews after their second major revolt for freedom and independence that he renamed Judaea “Syria Palaestina” after the Jews’ already well-known, historic enemies, the non-Semitic “Sea People” originally from the area around Crete, the Philistines, in order to pour salt onto the wound. Rome’s own contemporary historians wrote much about this themselves–Tacitus, Dio Cassius, etc.

Check out Dio…

580,000 men were slain, nearly the whole of Judaea made desolate. Many Romans, moreover, perished in this war ( 133-135 C. E., the Bar Kochba Revolt). Therefore Hadrian in writing to the senate did not employ the opening phrase commonly affected by the emperors, ‘ I and the legions are in health.’

Hadrian was so enraged that, in the words of the esteemed modern historian, Bernard Lewis, Hadrian made a determined attempt to stamp out the embers not only of the revolt but also of Jewish nationhood and statehood… obliterating its Jewish identity.

Despite all the whitewash, Arabs–Abbas’ Fatah Arafatians, Hamas, etc.– still insist that their new State (again, second, not first, in “Palestine”) will arise in place of Israel — not along side of it — as a quick look at any of their maps, websites, and such shows. Or try listening to or reading a sermon given by one of “moderate” Abbas’ imams. He simply plays the Jew-baiting game better…i.e., with more dishonesty. Say one thing to the West, and another thing to your own folks in Arabic…although nowadays, much if not most of dhimmi Europe usually doesn’t even expect that.

Would that Jews possessed some two dozen other states like Arabs have, perhaps, one could argue, there would have been no need for the rebirth of Israel.

But the Jew did not possess even one state, let alone two dozen. And, unlike Arabs, the plight of the Jew prior to 1948 was a nakba not of his own making–despite the unfortunate “theological” claims of some.

The sad reality is that the Arabs’ misfortunes occurred because they insisted that the millennial nightmare of the Jews should continue into perpetuity. No compromise was feasible with “their” dhimmi Jew dogs in the Dar ul-Islam. And this goes beyond “merely” religious stuff…as fellow Muslim–but non-Arab–Kurds, black Africans in Darfur, Berbers, and others know only too well.

Summing it up, had Arabs been willing to grant Jews a miniscule slice of the same human dignity and justice that they so forcefully demand for themselves, the Arab nakba could have been resolved decades ago.

The day Arabs confess their own much greater original sin for all the above is the day they gain the right to protest others’ imperfect struggles to obtain a modicum of justice for themselves.

Until then, regardless of how politically incorrect it sounds…

Nakba crapka.

The first was written by a journalist whom I have long admired–and I don’t admire many in the mainstream media.

I met Tom Teepen, now a syndicated columnist for Cox News, some three decades ago. I was visiting Cincinnati for a few days out of my Columbus office and had assorted media, university, and other visits, lectures, and televised debates scheduled. We have, on occasion, briefly touched base afterwards over the years.

Tom was editorial editor, I believe, for either the Cincinnati Post or Enquire. We spent a good deal of time reviewing the Middle East. Unlike too many others in the liberal camp, Tom still has maintained clear vision when it comes to Arab-Israeli politics. The real surprise was that my local newspaper published his op-ed. After many years of batting heads with the paper brass (first on my own, then with others), I’m finally noticing a bit more balance.

So, Tom’s Blaming Israel, Freelancing On Hamas–What Is Jimmy Carter Thinking? made it into the Daytona Beach News-Journal. He recapped Mr. Peanut’s recent hot date with Hamas in Syria, where Carter tried his best to make the deliberate disembowelers of Jewish babes and other innocents look good by getting it to provide him with some foggy cover for his non-stop assault on Israel, but Hamas–to its credit–wouldn’t let him. Headlines soon claimed, anyway, that Mr. Peanut achieved a breakthrough, with Hamas offering to ‘accept’ Israel.

When will they learn? Tom exposed Carter’s nauseating comedy act.

While an allegedly ‘born again’ Carter evidently doesn’t put much value in honesty, Hamas does. It has no–and will never have–any intention of granting Jews in one tiny state what Arabs demand for themselves in some two dozen others on over six million square miles of territory…including one already created from almost 80% of the original 1920 borders of Mandatory Palestine renamed ‘Jordan.’ The new state Arabs insist on creating on the ashes of Israel, not along side it, would be their second–not first–in ‘Palestine,’ the name the Roman Emperor Hadrian gave to Judaea after the Jews’ second costly revolt for freedom in 133-135 C.E. He renamed the country after the Jews’ historic enemies, the Philistines–a non-Semitic sea people from around Crete. Contemporary Roman historians such as Tacitus, Dio Cassius, and others wrote extensively about this themselves.

To most Arabs, the whole region is simply purely Arab patrimony…in their own words. As for the scores of millions of non-Arabs who have been conquered, massacred, and suppressed, Egypt’s past Uncle Tom Copt Foreign Minister, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, perhaps said it best…accept forced Arabization and /or dhimmi status (like he did) or else. Copts were the native Egyptians conquered by Arabs after the 7th century C.E. along with numerous others.

As Mr. Peanut also knows, regarding the above, Hamas is no different than the alleged moderates of Abbas’s latter day Fatah Arafatians–regardless of how much whitewash he, Washington, and others throw upon them both. In order to force the Jews to play ball, a supposed Arab good cop had to be created to counter the State Department’s Arab bad cop.

Fatah (with as much, if not more, blood on its hands than Hamas) is simply more willing to play the Arabs’ well-known destruction in phases ‘diplomacy’ game vis-à-vis Israel to use petrodollar greased-international pressure to force Israel back to its pre-’67, 9-mile wide, armistice line–not border–existence to set it up for a combined Arab/Iranian final blow…something that UNSC Resolution 242 expressly stated was not to happen in the aftermath of the 1967 War.

But, Honigman, you say, you keep repeating these same points in many of your articles.

Yes, I do.

And as long as Arabs keep on repeating their lies and distortions, and morons or deliberate accomplices like Mr. Peanut do the same, those of us who care must repeatedly answer them. Their approach is if they repeat a lie often enough (and it goes unanswered), it will be accepted as truth.

Teepen did a good job with his short op-ed, especially since he has been a fan of Carter in the past. But let me continue to pick up yet a bit more where he left off.

With a new Presidential election approaching, I’ll never forget the last televised Democratic National Convention featuring ‘Apartheid Israel’ Mr. Peanut chasing ‘Israel is one of the top three evils in the world’ Michael Moore all over the convention floor. Closer soul brothers do not exist–unless you want to throw in a more slick Obama and the company he keeps to make a trio.

It was befitting that Carter visited Hamas in Syria, for Syria–not ‘Palestine’–was indeed the birthplace of Hamas’s patron saint, Sheikh Izzedin al-Qassam (for whom its ‘militant’ wing and rockets are named )…Latakia, to be exact. Of course, back then, many if not most Arabs in the area considered themselves to be southern Syrians, espousing one version or another of a Greater Syria plan. ‘Palestinians’ were the Jews.

Along with scores (if not hundreds) of thousands of others who poured into the Palestine Mandate (after the break up of the over four century old Ottoman Turkish Empire) due to its economic development by Jews, the Sheikh joined numerous other ‘native Palestinians’ who entered relatively recently from the latter 19th century onwards from Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere in rejecting the rights of Jews to do the same thing in any part of the ‘purely Arab patrimony,’ the Dar ul-Islam. Recall that half of Israel’s Jews were refugees from so-called ‘Arab’ and /or Muslim lands.

Moving on.

Article # 2, in the same paper, quoted Mahmoud Abbas complaining that, in his recent Washington visit, no one was talking about forcing Israel back to the ”67 borders.”

I do admit, that was a pleasant surprise.

While the State Department (and President Clinton and President Bush off and on) has tried its best to ignore 242’s call for the establishment of secure and recognized borders to replace Israel’s absurd 1949 armistice lines (which simply marked the point where Arab invading armies were halted upon Israel’s rebirth in 1948), Israel, despite the weakness of Prime Minister Olmert and his crew, has evidently made it clear that it took President Reagan’s words seriously when he stated on September 1, 1982:

In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely 10-miles wide…the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Not only were there mostly no Arab-Israeli ‘borders’ back then, but the Abbas/Arab claim that Israel is setting up settlements on Palestinian land has the same amount of truth in it as does the ‘67 border claim.

When Transjordan (army led by British officers)–created from most of the Mandate of Palestine in 1922–attacked Israel along with a half dozen other Arab states loaded with arms left over by the Allies in World War II in 1948, it seized Judea and Samaria…British imperialism’s west bank (of the Jordan River) as opposed to the Trans(’across’)jordanian east bank. Sir Alec Kirkbride, the Brits’ East Bank rep, wrote extensively about this in his A Crackle Of Thorns: Experiences In The Middle East.

The Arab land grab was illegal, only two nations recognized it. Still, Transjordan renamed itself Jordan, since it now held both banks, and saw to it that no Jews could reenter lands where their ancestors had lived and owned land for thousands of years until their massacres by Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s.

At the same time, huge numbers of Arabs continued to pour in…more Arab settlers setting up Arab settlements.

All together, so many Arabs were recent arrivals themselves into the Palestinian Mandate that the United Nations Relief Works Agency–UNRWA–had to adjust the very definition of the word ‘refugee’ from its prior meaning of persons normally and traditionally resident to those who lived in the Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948 when counting those who fled the fighting Arabs started upon Israel’s rebirth.

Contrary to the Arabs’ claim that these were ‘occupied Palestinian lands,’ Judea and Samaria were non-apportioned parts of the Mandate, and leading international legal authorities such as Eugene Rostow, William O’Brien, and others have stressed that these areas were open to settlement by Jew, Arab, and other residents of the Mandate alike.

How could you occupy lands taken from an illegal occupier?

The territory in question is indeed disputed…not occupied Arab lands a la Abbas, Hamas, and Mr. Peanut.

When Israel captured Judea and Samaria in the ‘67 War as a result of a bad decision by Jordan to join Egypt’s Nasser, Syria, and others in the Arabs’ latest attempt upon its life, it came to hold territory of the Mandate officially apportioned to no one…not ‘Palestinian’ land. The Arabs themselves rejected a proposed 1947 partition of the remaining 25% of the Mandate left over after the creation of Transjordan in 1922.

While I do not advocate Israel holding on to the entire area, certainly a reasonable territorial compromise which corrects the travesty of the ‘49 armistice lines–a la 242–is a must. And Judea–land of the Jews–must never become Judenrein again…unless Arabs are prepared to see the one-fifth of Israel itself who are Arabs–many hostile–get the boot as well. Such population transfers have indeed already occurred elsewhere. Consider those involving Turks, Greeks, and Bulgars, Israel’s Jewish refugees from ‘Arab’ lands, and India and Pakistan for starters.

Now, about those Jewish settlements Abbas complains about in that second article.

If Jews are to return to Judea and Samaria in the context of a 242-type territorial compromise, then how and where else will this come about if not by establishing/reestablishing Jewish towns and so forth–”settlements?” Without the latter, Israel doesn’t get the former.

Article # 3…

The News-Journal finally gave the genocide in Darfur some of the attention it deserves…large front page article with maps and big pictures.

Unlike the Arab-Israeli mess, however, the perpetrators might as well have come from Mars. No where was the word Arab mentioned.

After the Arabs burst out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century C.E. and forcibly Arabized millions of non-Arab peoples in the process, the Sudan (Nubia, etc.) held out for quite some time. In other parts of North Africa, native Jews aligned with Imazighen (’Berbers’) to resist this conquest as well. We’ll revisit this a bit later.

Back in the ’60s, the first modern civil war broke out between the non-Muslim black African south and the Arab and Arabized (remember Dr. Boutros-Ghali’s comments above?) north in the Sudan.

Sudanese President Nimeiry’s stated during the slaughter of over a half million blacks at this time (and over a million more ever since) that…

‘the Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust into…black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission (Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, #2, 1973, pp. 177-78).’

Rudyard Kipling’s late 19th century poem, ‘The White Man’s Burden,’ supposedly typifies Western colonialist and imperialist attitudes towards the Third World. If that’s the case, then what does Nimeiry and the other example below, expressed in the Syrian Arab Constitution of the Ba’th, typify?

‘…The Arab fatherland belongs to the Arabs. They alone have the right to direct its destinies…The Arab fatherland is that part of the globe inhabited by the Arab nation which stretches from the Taurus Mountains, the Pacht-i-Kouh Mountains, the Gulf of Basra, the Arab Ocean, the Ethiopian Mountains, the Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.’

Yet, the more recent full scale outbreak of violence in the Sudan in the 21st century has an even more revealing twist.

While earlier bloodshed there and elsewhere could largely be seen as modern extensions of the fourteen century-old clash between the Dar ul-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, the one in the Sudan’s Darfur (as those in Arab-occupied Kurdistan and much of the rest of North Africa) is mostly about Arab racism and chauvinism…pure and simple. You know, those folks who like to scream about ‘racist Zionism.’ Over a thousand years earlier, this led to the overthrow of the Syrian-based Arab imperialist Umayyad Caliphate.

So, in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, it’s Arab and Arabized versus black Africans…regardless of religion. Ditto for Arab versus Kurd, Amazigh, and so forth. These victims are mostly Muslims.

In Sudan’s largely non-Muslim south, it’s a combination of both Arab racism and the conquest of the Dar ul-Islam–as exemplified also in the expected subjugation and dhimmitude of Egyptian Copts, Lebanon’s Christians, Near Eastern Assyrians, and Israel, Jew of the Nations, and home to whom Arabs call ‘their’ kilab yahud…Jew dogs.

An Amazigh (Berber) publisher friend ( http://www.north-of-africa.com/ ) recently sent me a video produced by the highly respected Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Its contents http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XROAu1cTcQ8 showed a debate on Al-Alam TV (Iran) on July 21, 2007over a new Berber-Jewish Friendship League set up in Morocco. Even more recently, Morocco has outlawed the creation of an Amazigh political party…especially since it espoused good relations with Israel.

Keep in mind that Morocco has had, relatively speaking and as an ‘Arab’ country, reasonable relations with Israel itself. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews had their roots there. But the prospect of former and current fellow victims of forced Arabization getting together has implications for Arabs that even the Moroccans can’t allow. Much if not most of North Africa is of Amazigh–not Arab–descent.

Among other comments in that debate, the Amazigh spokesman pointed out that both Jews and Berbers predated the Arab conquest by thousands of years, fought long and hard against that conquest, and want nothing to do with Arab identity and forced Arabization. Keeping in mind that in modern times many Berbers have already been killed by Arabs for less, very brave words indeed.

To sum things up, those three news articles on April 26th were loaded with important material.

The problem is that, without further extensive explanation such as what I’ve attempted here, the issues are too complex for many readers to grasp.

Having said this, journalists and folks like ex-Presidents shoulder huge responsibilities and should therefore dig much deeper before commenting and pontificating a la Carter on such issues.

By the way, when’s the last time anyone heard Carter comment on any of the above non-Arab civil, political, and humanitarian issues?

If they don’t involve Arabs, he doesn’t want to know. And a look at the contributors to his library and such may explain at least some of Mr. Peanut’s Arab-colored vision.

After sending this correspondence to the man I’d like to vote for’s office (and I’m still a registered Democrat, though vote Independent), and again, prior to his trip, I then released the article, Dear Senator McCain, for wide-spread publication…including in the Middle East.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7816

More recently, I’ve learned about the Senator’s latest comments regarding James Baker during an interview in Los Angeles on March 26th, some two weeks after McCain’s visit to the Middle East and our initial correspondence http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=708

Perhaps I’m reading a bit between the lines, but I do believe that the Senator now has his eyes open a bit more about Baker–a man whom earlier he was considering as point man for the Middle East. Lots of other informed and caring Jews and non-Jews alike must have also made contact with his office.

And for the good.

John McCain, flawed like us all, is still–no doubt–the best all around candidate in the upcoming presidential election. And he appears to be very electable, if he doesn’t let such things like Baker set him back.

So, what’s “like Baker,” you ask?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made no secret that she’d love to be McCain’s Vice President.

Putting it bluntly…this would be like anointing James Baker III, in a skirt, to the second most powerful position in the world.

While not openly embracing the crude anti-Semitism of Baker, Condi indeed personifies the typical State Department (and also petrodollar-greased) animus towards the Jew of the Nations http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefpolitics22gah150.htm .

And she displays the same oil-tainted blinders over her eyes as Baker (of The Iraq Study Group, etc.) when it comes to the plight of over thirty million truly stateless Kurds in the region as well…all while demanding that Arabs have their state #22.

While pursuing a war against Islamic extremism is supposedly on her agenda, she nonetheless insists on shoving it down Israel’s throat anyway. When real truth proves inconvenient, make up your own…typical State Department policy when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Foggy Folks have whitewashed their so-called Fatah Arab good cops for decades, hiding Abbas’s colleague and predecessor, Arafat’s, direct connections to Black September, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the murder of American officials, and so forth. And they’ve repeatedly covered and made excuses for their darling, Abbas, and the rest of his still murderous crew as well.

The actions of Condi–the Secretary of State, not the oil tanker named after her–are cut from the same mold, a pea in the same pod, as former Secretary of State, f_ _ k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway, James Baker, whose law firm represents Saudi and other Arab interests on a huge ($$$$) scale.

She insists that Israel itself arm –and watch America arm and train–those whose prime target will be/have been Jews and Israel itself. No doubt about this. Any argument Fatah has with Hamas is not about accepting a permanent Jewish neighbor…and they’re both honest about this while Condi & Co. play deaf, dumb, and blind. Again, invent your own when the real truths are inconvenient.

Recent polls conducted by Abbas folks themselves show 85% of “moderate” P.A. (not Hamas) Arabs supporting the wanton slaughter of Jewish students in a Jerusalem yeshiva by an Arab armed with one of those weapons Condi insisted upon. And most still reject an Israel’s–of any size–right to exist.

Like most of her earlier Foggy predecessors, Condi is intent on forcing Israel to return to its 9-mile wide, 1949 armistice line–not border–existence…something Presidents, like Reagan and Johnson, and Secretary of State George Shultz (a rare exception to the Foggy mold) swore would never happen in the wake of the ‘67 Six Day War.

Secure and Recognized borders–a la UNSC Resolution 242–were to replace those Auschwitz lines, and any withdrawal was to take place in the context of real peace treaties, not hudna ceasefires, designed only to strengthen Arabs for the ultimate kill. Arafat called this “the Peace of the Quraysh,” akin to the lull before Muhammad delivered the final blow to his Meccan enemies in the 7th century C.E.

Abbas and his Fatahniks are simply Arafatians in suits, sweet-talking an all-too-cooperative and gullible West while openly still endorsing the vilification and destruction of Jews and Israel among their own folks.

Arafat’s Swiss bank accounts, largely filled with pusillanimous dhimmi Western cash, are indeed legendary. Billions of similar dollars are now, or soon will be, at stake. And, as in Gaza, what Fatah gets now in Judea and Samaria (aka the “West Bank”), Hamas will likely get later anyway.

Subsequently, if Condi’s Crew get their way, the Jews will be left holding the bag–with an American trained and armed rejectionist enemy within a stone’s throw of all of Israel’s main population centers.

Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem will become the next Sderots, and nothing will be able to stop that independent new, sovereign, Arab state from setting up whatever it wants on its side of the American-imposed border. Think Iranian supplied missiles or whatever. And Israel will once again be left, thanks to Condi, President Bush, and so forth, a mere 9-16 miles wide (where most of its population lives), with the Mediterranean Sea to its back.

Despite the weak leaders it now has, Israel needs to resist this unreasonable pressure with all of its strength and hope a more sane, less nasty American administration will soon be on the world stage. Don’t expect this to happen with a Clinton or Obama victory, so.

As I discussed in my original correspondence with Senator McCain, as a military man who fought for America’s national interests thousands of miles away from home, and who calls for an adequate response to a militant Islam intent on furthering the Dar ul-Islam vs. the Dar al-Harb all over the world, it’s hard to imagine him not understanding what a miniscule Israel–on the very front lines of this fight–is facing.

How dare the Arab’s dhimmi kilab yahud–Jew dogs–demand in one state what Arabs insist they must have two dozen of–at mostly non-Arab Kurd, Amazigh/Berber, black African, Copt, native, pre-Arab Lebanese, and others’ expense.

As can’t be pointed out too often, the desires of any 22nd Arab state–and second, not first, in the original 1920 borders of post World War I Mandatory Palestine–must not come at the expense of the basic needs, security, and national interests of the sole Jewish State, one half of whose Jews are refugees from the so-called Arab/Islamic world.

Senator McCain will need to grasp these points and set himself apart from the powerful, over half-century old, Condi and Baker petrodollarly-connected, anti-Israel click. Many will be watching his choices very closely…including a good portion of the seventy million Evangelicals in this country.

There’s a lot of talent out there to choose from regarding such choices.

Some of McCain’s former fellow Republican contestants come to mind, as do others such as Senator Joseph Lieberman, Newt Gingrich, Alan Keyes, academics like Thomas Sowell, and so forth…many of whom are also good conservatives, backing McCain’s own credentials as well.

And talk about an attractive Independent to grab the Independent vote–whom McCain also appeals to–think of the Lieberman connection–taking on his own fellow Democrats big time…assuming America can get over the Jew thing as it largely has the black thing with so many folks now endorsing Obama.

I’m convinced that John McCain deserves to be our next President. He needs to surround himself with others who truly deserve his endorsement.

The likes of Baker and Rice don’t.