Bush the father and former Secretary of State James Baker were open anti-Semites. Bush the son and Condoleezza Rice, the current Secretary of State, are much more dangerous. In 2006, the Iraq Study Group (ISG), headed by James Baker, proposed a grand strategy of improving America’s prospects in the Middle East by sacrificing the Jews. At the time, Bush Junior vetoed the idea. Baker’s proposed Madrid-2 conference did not take place. Condi has now revived it as “The Annapolis Conference”. Is Bush too dumb to notice how his veto has been overridden by the State Department?

In December 2006, Cale Hahn wrote about Bush’s Middle East policy going up in smoke.

Iran’s – rather than America’s – vision of the Middle East is taking shape. It is a vision of a confederation of Islamic states working in tandem and coordinating policy with Iran as the power center, cleansed of Jewish and American influence and whose resources do not benefit the West.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad borrowed a line from John Lennon’s peacenik song Imagine and added a distinctly Islamic twist: “Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You had best know this slogan and this goal are attainable and surely can be achieved.”

This is the environment that birthed the Iraq Study Group (ISG). America is dangerously low on ammunition and, before firing its last shot, it has hastily assembled a delegation to sue for peace before the enemy forces surge into its weakened lines. America’s leadership on both sides of the aisle understands the stakes: America could lose access to Mideast oil. To lose Mideast oil is to be destroyed.

The ISG is America’s delegation for peace talks. Whatever else it is purported to be, this is its true function. Page One, Chapter 1 of the report presents its interests plainly: “It (Iraq) has the world’s second-largest known oil reserves.”

The ISG is headed by former Secretary of State and Bush family friend James Baker, senior partner of Baker Botts Law Firm. Baker Botts is currently employed by Saudi Arabia to defend it against lawsuits brought by the families of 9/11 victims.
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In 2004 the following article appeared when the Israeli government released hundreds of imprisoned murderers as a “peace gesture.” The result was a wave of new murders. A direct result was also the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers in the summer of 2006, triggering the make-pretend “war” that Israel then “fought” against the Hizbollah. Now, as Ehud Olmert prepares to release hundreds of imprisoned murderers, I thought it is timely to re-post this.

I Am Ashamed to Be an Israeli

14 Kislev 5768, 24 – November 07 10:51

by Steven Plaut

(IsraelNN.com) I have spent most of the past 12 years being ashamed to be an Israeli. Israeli governments made me ashamed, and they did so by abasing, disgracing and humiliating me as a Jew and as an Israeli.
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Q: Why does a snake not bite a lawyer?

A: Professional courtesy.

As the Roman empire declined, the number of lawyers in the capital grew exponentially. The provinces discovered that they could sue for favors in Rome and the Romans learned that they could get rich pleading cases. Did the preponderance of lawyers cause the collapse of the empire? We’ll never know, but a similar thing seems to be happening today in the United States.

The instant share-prices of a company decline, for any reason whatsoever, the vultures swoop down to feed. They advertise for shareholders to join class action lawsuits designed to enrich the lawyers. Each individual action may or may not be frivolous, however, cumulatively, these lawsuits create a massive overhead cost to society. The end result is that billions of dollars are transferred from consumers, who buy the products and services of the target companies, to the lawyers.

As if Countrywide Financial Corporation does not have enough problems (caused primarily by macro economic forces), now the company has to defend a class action lawsuit filed by Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah LLC.
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A search on the NBC website for “Iraq War Victory” or “Victory in Iraq” yields the following response:

There were no documents that contained all of the words in your query.

People who get their news from NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC are going to be very surprised when General Electric’s media conglomorate can no longer hide the fact that we are winning in Iraq. Meanwhile, a good place to learn the truth about the war is this excellent article by Orson Scott Card.

Word from a Soldier in Iraq

On Monday I got a letter from a friend of mine who is a sergeant in the U.S. Army. With permission of his commanding officer (he does not reveal any classified information), I’m sharing it with you.

He writes: I’ve been on the ground in Iraq for a few weeks now, and thought I’d chime in with a grunt’s-eye view.

In Sadr Al-Yusifiyah, an area to the East of Anbar province (just across the Euphrates from Anbar, actually), things are moving in a very interesting and hopeful direction. About six months ago, something happened that the Americans are calling “The formation of the CLC,” and the locals are calling “The Awakening.”
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Last time, they did it in Camp David, with Bill Clinton. Is doing it with George W. Bush in Annapolis next week be any more satisfying? What is it with failed lame duck Presidents that they feel compelled to solve the Palestinian “problem” on the last day of their last term? The following two BBC articles foretell the shame we are about to witness.

That was then.

Monday, 22 January, 2001

Clinton’s Mid-East peace plans

By BBC News Online’s Tarik Kafala

The United States’ compromise proposals for ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict seem to offer the best chance of reaching an agreement in the near future, despite the serious reservations of both sets of negotiators.

Against a background of months of violence, many observers have been surprised that the plan has got anywhere at all.

The mood among Palestinians and Israelis is not for compromise, and even if a settlement is reached, it is far from clear that leaders on either side will be able to sell it to their sceptical supporters.

BBC News Online looks at what is known of the proposals put forward by former President Bill Clinton as he made his final bid to broker a deal in the Middle East.
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Seraphic Secret has a post about Muhammad Al-Dura, the boy actor who played dead in a September 30, 2000 France2 TV production. The video, shown around the globe, catapulted Muhammad into an icon of the Palestinian uprising. Despite the bad acting, the entire population of planet Earth believed that Al-Dura really died. Masterful editing by Charles Enderlin, a Jew-hating French Jew, did the trick. Enderlin simply erased the weak scenes, like the one showing the boy move moments after an Arab chorus dramatically pronounced him dead.

Muhammed Al Durah is alive. My guess is that he’s in a madrassah somewhere in Pakistan or Sudan. Meanwhile, his father makes a nice living traveling about the Muslim world signing pictures of his “dead son” much like O.J. Simpson signing memorabilia at sports conventions.

Unlike Al-Dura, Yuval Abedeh and Dorit Benisian are dead, victims of a Kassam rocket fired by Al-Dura’s relatives from Gaza. Their death did not induce global outrage, no UN resolutions, but the very fact that they existed illuminates the greatness of the Jewish soul and the magic that is the state of Israel.

In the early 1990s when our wife was studying Hebrew in an Ashdod Ulpan, the place was swarming with newly arrived Ethiopians. The kids urinated in the washing machine, confusing it with a toilet. Today those kids are engineers in the the factory that produces washing machines. That is the miracle of Israel. In less than a generation, a mere ten years after their parents escaped a primitive life in Ethiopia, Yuval and Dorit could look forward to life as scientists, engineers, or artists. We mourn their loss and cry with the Jews of Sderot.

Yuval Abebeh

Sept 29, 2004 – On the eve of the Sukkot holiday, Yuval Abebeh, 4, and Dorit Benisian, 2, both of Sderot, were killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza.
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Al Gore’s lust for power and money is distorting reality. His climate change cult will not survive as long as Islam, but it already has more believers. It will, most likely, flame out quickly, like communism, leaving the human species poorer in its wake. Gore is using his newly discovered powers as cult leader to collect tithe from the believers (mostly Hollywood idiots with lots of money). Like Constantine, who used Christianity to unify the empire, the UN is muscling in on Gore’s cult and using it to control the world.

The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of extinction for some species.

After five days of sometimes tense negotiations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted its fourth and final report this year, along with a summary, on the science of climate change and the effects of human-produced greenhouse gases.
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In Saudi Arabia getting gang raped is a crime almost as severe as complaining about it. Recently, a rape victim was sentenced to six months in jail and 90 lashes. She appealed and won a retrial. In the second trial, the court doubled the number of lashes. Evidently, the “judges” were upset that she whined to the press. The rape victim will now receive 200 lashes.

Riyadh – A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 19-year-old woman – whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms – was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for “being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape”, the Arab News reported.

But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.
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On October 2, 2001 we wrote about Muhammad Al Dura, the 12 year old boy actor who played dead in a France2 TV video production. PajamaMedia has a blow by blow report by Nidra Poller on the Paris courtroom proceedings in the case of France2 and Charles Enderlin versus Philippe Karsenty.

In response to an order issued by the Appellate Court for handover of the unedited raw footage shot by France 2 cameraman Talal Abu Rahma on the 30th of September and 1st of October 2000, the state-owned TV network produced an 18-minute CD, a certificate of conformity, and its Jerusalem Bureau Chief Charles Enderlin. This is the first time monsieur Enderlin has stood before the court since a series of lawsuits for defamation was initiated in September 2006. Enderlin said, in interviews and on his France 2 blog, that he was pleased to have the opportunity to display the raw footage and bring an end to years of unfair, unfounded accusations. French media have shunned the issue, but an array of international journalists and concerned citizens came to see the evidence and judge for themselves. The hearing was scheduled for 1:30 PM.
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Of the many lame decisions President Bush has made in the fraudulently named “war on terror” the top ten would definitely include the shameful treatment of Ahmad Chalabi after the conquest of Iraq. Instead of appointing him ruler of the conquered country, Bush listened to the CIA and State Department. He chose to transfer power to the humane globalist Collin Powell. Powell and his State Department schemers managed to turn a smashing military victory into a politically correct mess.

Via Hot Air we linked to a Los Angeles Times report that the US military is talking to Ahmad Chalabi, again.

Ahmad Chalabi sits in the conference room of his compound in the Green Zone preparing to meet with Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. military officer in Iraq.

Sunlight streams over expensive Persian carpets and modern Iraqi furniture. Chalabi wears a sober charcoal suit, but there’s a touch of the dandy in his lime-colored polka-dot tie.

Chalabi professes not to even know what the meeting is about. The general, he says nonchalantly, requested it.

As advertised, an imposing figure sporting fatigues and a shaved head strides through the door a few minutes later. “Thank you for seeing me,” Odierno says.

Ahmad Chalabi, it would appear, is back.