Lores Rizkalla, who fights against the ignorance and irresponsibility of the September-10-mentality, is a rising star of talk radio on KRLA 870. Her insight, gained from her Christian parents who escaped Dhimmitude in Egypt to find a safer life in America, should be widely circulated.

Iranian boy arrested for “lost puppy” poster, multicultural religious foot baths in America, and much more.

Here’s the thing. Some problems, like squaring the circle and perpetual motion, are simply not solvable. Other problems, like Fermat’s last theorem, remain unsolved for 350 years until a hitherto unknown mathematician, laboring for 7 years in the Math Department’s basement, solves it.

Then there is the Middle East problem.

Everybody is working to solve it. The UN, the EU, the US, the Quartet, the New York Times, Bush, Bush’s Poodle, Condi, everybody! With all that diplomatic brainpower, have you ever wondered why the war continues unabated?

Bush is not a member of the loony Left, but his “big picture” was painted by a Liberal artist, Condoleezza Rice, with lefty State Department paintbrushes and pinkish colors from Academia. He appears to believe that the Middle East conflict can be settled through Israeli territorial concessions and large infusions of American cash. Concluding the Annapolis Conference, Bush affirmed his faith in a peaceful Palestinian state.

We meet to lay the foundation for the establishment of a new nation — a democratic Palestinian state that will live side by side with Israel in peace and security. We meet to help bring an end to the violence that has been the true enemy of the aspirations of both the Israelis and Palestinians.

Will the creation of a Palestinian state bring peace to the Middle East? Not very likely!
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The religion of eternal war failed in its first attempt to assassinate Benazir Bhutto on October 18, 2007. Western elites in academia, media, and politics consistently fail to grasp that the Jihad is continuous and eternal. One failed attack does not signal the end of the holy war. The Jihadis just move on to the next battle plan.

Today, a second attempt succeeded. Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s opposition leader, was assassinated in a suicide attack at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi. After shooting Bhutto, the attacker blew himself up, killing more than 20 bystanders.
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Update: more posts on this subject at World Reacts to Israel’s No Rape Strategy and Complete Story of “No Rape = Racism” Essay.

I wish I were making this up as some sort of a pre-Purim joke. But it seems that the latest anti-Israel outrage coming out of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem is its awarding a prize to a graduate student for an essay in which the student claims that Israel is abusing and oppressing Palestinians by not raping their women.

Really.

Had it not been awarded a prize by a panel of the Hebrew University’s distinguished professors, the whole matter could be dismissed as just another idiotic essay by a moonbat grad student, not something worthy of any attention being paid to it. But according to news reports, the essay in question has now been published by the Hebrew University’s “Shaine Center,” at the enthusiastic recommendation of a Hebrew University professors’ committee headed by Dr. Zali Gurevitch. The latter is a leftist anthropologist who taught for several years at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Don’t worry, I never heard of it either. His web page is here. Gurevich runs the Shaine Center, which awarded the prize. His fellow perps in this atrocity are listed here.

I wonder if the Shaine family knows what is being done with their contributions to the university!

The essay indicting Israeli soldiers for not raping Palestinian women was the product of the crayon of an MA student named Tal Nitzan. Tal is a she.

Her main theme is that the “lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.” The “political purpose” is that Israel fears the Palestinians demographically and so IDF soldiers do not rape the women to avoid creating new Palestinians and little intifaders.

Here is Nitzan at her finest: “In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences – just as organized military rape would have done.” Israeli racism has resulted in suppressed Jewish-male sexual desire for Palestinian women, just another manifestation of Zionist racism. Since the absence of rape of Arab women by Israeli soldiers has no parallel in any other human army in wartime anytime in history, the only conclusion must be that Jewish soldiers are far more racist and intolerant than the others.

Now Nitzan and her guru Gurevitch rule out automatically all other alternative explanations for why Israeli troops do not rape Arab women.

The possibility that Israeli troops are simply civilized humans is ruled out as an imponderable. Ditto for the possibility that Jewish ethics serve to deter such abuse of Arab women.

Instead, Nitzan claims that Arab women in Judea and Samaria are not raped by IDF soldiers because the women are “de-humanized” in the soldiers’ eyes. I guess that means they are not rape worthy. You know, unlike Shulamit Aloni, Yael Dayan, and Tamar Gozansky.
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In 1933, Hitler did not bother going to the voters. Instead, the freely elected Reichstag appointed him dictator.

On Sunday, voters went to the polls in two strategically important oil producing nations. In both Russia and OPEC member Venezuela, the people were asked to voluntarily forfeit their liberty.

In a victory for democracy and human dignity, Venezuelan voters rejected Hugo Chavez’s attempt to become a legally elected “president for life”. The vote was 51% to 49% against the Chavez proposal. However, Venezuela is not out of the woods yet. The wannabe dictator is likely to find some other way to get “appointed”.
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A funny thing happened to Hugo Chavez on the way to unlimited perpetual power. The wannabe dictator of Venezuela made the mistake of asking the people … and the people said NO. The vote was close, 51% – 49% against forfeiting individual liberties. Still, it was a setback to the power hungry madman. Unfortunately, he can hold another referendum next year and the year after that, until he wins.

The New York Sun reports that Chavez was defeated in bid to expand power.

Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Chavez said today he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.

“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51% to 49%.

Opposition activists were ecstatic as the results were announced shortly after midnight — with 88% of the vote counted, the trend was declared irreversible by an elections council chief, Tibisay Lucena.

Some shed tears. Others began chanting: “And now he’s going away!”

Without the overhaul, Mr. Chavez will be barred from running again in 2012.

The BBC has the same story with a headline Chavez defeated over reform vote. Reform?

There are two types of entrepreneurs. For sharper focus, lets call them entrepreneurs by choice and entrepreneurs by necessity.

Entrepreneurs by choice deploy skills and money to experiment with new ideas. They choose to be entrepreneurs and focus on developing and executing a plan. They may risk everything they have, but don’t expect to starve. They start with computer programming skills and an idea for a search engine. Next thing you know, Google is a household name.

Entrepreneurs by necessity have no money or particular business skills. They act anyway. Why? Fear! They haggle over price, buy a carton of strawberries with their last $20, sell individual fruits on a street corner and make $10 profit so they can feed the kids. Next thing you know, they own a chain of grocery stores. They grow their business in an eternal struggle to survive.
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