Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (approval rating 3%) personally killed a father of four in Sderot yesterday, using 50 Kassam rockets launched from behind the fences of the Gaza zoo. Prince Ehud would rather please President Bush, his own pro-Arab lesbian daughter and crazy commie wife, than stop the Jew killing. On the excrement scale, the Prime Minister scores a 9, but only because 10 is reserved for the leadership of the religious Shas party who, for a fistful of shekels, are knowingly letting him destroy the Jewish state.

Roni Yahya, 47, was killed in Sapir College, home of Nizar Hassan who expels students for displaying the Star of David or IDF insignias, Arutz Sheva reports. Professor Hassan was not hurt in the attack. Read more >

The Olmert Government has decided to give this year’s Israel Prize to Israel’s worst academic leftist McCarthyist, Zeev Sternhell. That spelling of his name is not a joke, he really spells it like that.

Sternhell is a far-leftist political scientist at the Hebrew University. He has devoted much of his career to painting Israeli non-leftists as violent fascists who should be suppressed and denied freedom of speech.

Sternhell was one of the promoters of the leftist McCarthyism against anti-Oslo dissidents, especially after the Rabin assassination by Yigal Amir. Sternhell considers all non-leftist Israelis to be fascists. The fact that a leftist extremist is to be awarded the Israel Prize by the Olmert government states volumes. The committee that nominated Sternhell was headed by Shlomo Avineri, a one-time (??) hard-core Marxist from the same department as Sternhell who had been thought to have moved towards the Zionist center.

Aside from his McCarthyism, Sternhell is also known for some other things.
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In Star Trek, the original series, episode 23 – A taste of Armageddon, the planets Eminiar VII and Vendikar have been at war with each other for centuries. When the war first started it was destructive and messy but, being civilized, the combatants devised a way to clean it up.

By the time Captain Kirk arrives on the scene, the war is being fought entirely by computers, which simulate attacks and counter-attacks. The machines calculate the results of each action and publish a list of casualties. Those named as having been killed voluntarily report for disintegration. It is a clean war. There is no destruction of property and those not named as casualties hardly notice it. That is precisely why the war has been going on for more than 500 years.

Captain Kirk destroys the computers. Facing the prospect of real combat, the enemies sue for peace.

Compare this story with events on planet Gaza, where the enemy, planet Israel, is conducting highly sanitized attacks that kill only named targets, without collateral damage. On the other hand, Gazans terrorize Israelis with random shelling of homes and schools. Like the Star Trek Eminiars, the Gazans have no incentive to sue for peace.
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Seven years after 9/11 the Bush Administration has yet to name the enemy in the “war on terror”. Much has happened since the 2001 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. Americans invaded Iraq with army and marines. Islamists invaded America with mosques and money. American soldiers are fighting to bring freedom of choice and democracy to Arabia. Islamists are working to bring freedom from choice (Islam) to America. The Islamists seem to be making better progress. Ignoring the Jihad and political Islam, Americans may find themselves on the losing end of World War IV.

How is it possible to miss the elephant in the room? Or is it the two headed snake in the lunch box?

Unlike European elites, Americans understand that Iran is one head of the snake, the Shiite head. The Sunni head, Saudi Arabia, is far more dangerous. The Saudis lead the greater Jihad, an epic drive to intimidate, infiltrate, and assimilate the West. So why is President Bush calling them “our friends the Saudis”? Was Bush not briefed properly?

Back in 2002 Laurent Murawiec, then employed by Rand Corporation, gave a 24 slide presentation to the Defense Policy Board identifying Saudi Arabia as the enemy and exploring strategies for defeating them. The Saudis complained to their friend Bush and Murawiec was fired. How is that for a legacy? The slides are preserved at United States Action and replicated below.
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We always liked Senator Brownback. Now, we love him. Watch the video below and you will too.

Brownback also gave a great speech at the Jerusalem Conference.

Senator Sam Brownback (R – KS) gave a strongly pro-Israel speech at the Jerusalem Conference Tuesday, in which he advocated rethinking the idea of letting the PA administer itself. Instead, he suggested a confederation between the PA and Jordan, with the Arabs of Judea and Samaria enjoying limited self-rule. The current path to peace “isn’t working, wasn’t working, and will never work,” he said, drawing strong applause.

The PA, said Brownback, is not capable of administering its own territory. “After 15 years, billions of dollars in aid, massive international attention and unlimited diplomatic support,” he asked rhetorically, “what do the Palestinians have to show for it?”

“Nothing,” he answered.

Putting Jordan in the equation

“If our leaders want to talk in terms of a two state solution, it’s high time that we started thinking of Jordan as the second state in that equation,” Brownback told the audience at the Jerusalem Hyatt Regency Hotel auditorium. He cited a 2007 poll in which 42% of Palestinians expressed support for the idea of a confederation.

The senator from Kansas opened his speech with a clear statement of support for Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital. “A house long divided against itself cannot stand,” he said, echoing Abraham Lincoln.

Brownback argued that keeping Jerusalem united not only helps hold Israel together, it helps protect the religions which hold Jerusalem to be holy. He spoke of the freedom with which his wife toured the holy sites during their visit to Jerusalem, and said that he was sure this would not have been possible under Arab-Muslim rule.

Giving Hamas a haven

The senator expressed his strong belief that the Palestinians cannot be given their own state because “it would be giving Hamas a haven… and we simply cannot afford to do that.”

Brownback said that a Palestinian-Jordanian confederacy would work because:

Jordan is a country with good diplomatic ties with the international community.

It would halt talk of dividing Jerusalem, and because Jordan is largely a peaceful country.

It would strengthen Israel’s defense and security situation

He pointed out that Jordan fears falling into the same instability as Iraq is experiencing presently. If the Palestinian problem were to get out of hand, he explained, this would be a very real threat.

The senator ended on a strong note. “It is up to us,” he said, “to declare clearly and convincingly that Jerusalem is off the table… It is the capital of Israel!”

Sam Brownback for President!!!

Melanie Phillips responds to Rowan Williams‘ call for Sharia in the United Kingdom in this Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Report on Religion. If you have not heard it yet, you must listen now, then send the link to your friends.

Criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury was widespread. However, some Islamic spokesmen applauded the gesture and assured the cowardly weasel that adoption of Sharia law in the UK would please Muslims. Here is how some UK politicians and religious groups reacted to the comments.

Anjem Choudary, a former senior figure in the radical group al-Muhajiroun: “Some element of family law or social and economic law will not work, it has to be adopted wholesale. Sharia has been promised by the Prophet Mohammed and it will come either by embracing Islam because it is the fastest growing religion in the country or by an Islamic country conquering Britain or by elements embracing Islam and imposing it.”

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Is it that academics are more morally bankrupt than the population at large, or is it that they just get more Press?

25 German professors co-signed a manifesto published in the Frankfurter Rundschau calling on Germany to stop giving Israel “preferential treatment,” because, among other reasons, the country “helped” establish Israel by expelling Jews from Germany during the rule of the Third Reich. Approximately 160,000 Jews who were expelled from Nazi Germany ended up in the British mandate of Palestine and strengthened the Jewish presence here at the expense of the Arab population, they claimed.

Visiting in Israel as guests of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the Academic College of Netanya, four professors and co-signatories on the manifesto were debating their claims with Israeli academics who opposed them.

They claimed that approximately 160,000 Jews who arrived in mandatory Palestine enlarged Jewish control of the land from just six percent during the British mandate to approximately 60% after the War of Independence. Additionally, the Germans said their country has “paid off” its debt to the Jewish people by the sums it had given the Israeli government and survivors until today.

They admitted that the Holocaust was, nevertheless, an indelible stain in Germany’s history. (no kidding, ed.)

The professors called on the German government to improve its relations with Arab countries by adopting an “evenhanded” approach to both Israelis and Arabs.

The Conservative movement in the USA is the last great hope of Western Civilization. It is the only force able and willing to engage the Islamists. If Conservatives lose influence on US foreign and military policies, we may as well pack it in and start stocking up on Burkas. Unfortunately, Conservatives have lost the Republican Party to a cabal of Washington insiders, enlightened media types, and an assortment of other fakes, led by the “maverick” John McCain.

The war against the Jihad must now begin with the reconquista of the Republican Party. The process began last Tuesday when Conservative Andy Harris defeated uber-Liberal incumbent, Wayne Gilchrest, in Maryland’s first Congressional district Republican primary. The event went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, but future historians may view it as the most significant turning point of the 2008 elections.
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When you are on the wrong road, you will never get to the right place, no matter how fast you walk. Bush’s road map to peace in the Middle East is the wrong road. It only addresses the territorial aspect of a broader conflict.

Enlightened Westerners like to pretend that the dispute was caused by an Israeli land grab and compounded by economic exploitation of the poor Palestinians. The State Department’s mantra, “poverty breeds terrorism”, has convinced many opinion makers that bliss is just a few Israeli concessions and wheelbarrows of American cash away.

The Arabs never refuse the cash, which makes it appear, to the casual observer, that progress is being made. However, the money is never enough. Palestinian lust for Israeli wealth can not be satiated short of a hostile takeover.

The truth is that the territory, from river to sea, simply can not be divided into two separate states that are each both secure and contiguous. If one is contiguous the other is, by definition, insecure.

There is but one solution to the territorial dispute. One side must leave.

Arab nature and the Jihad will be much more difficult to tackle.

In an article posted on the CHABAD website before the Gaza withdrawal, Rabi Dov Greenberg provided an excellent analogy to illuminate the conflict.

We’ve been reading about the “road map” to peace in the Middle East for many years. Anyone can see it hasn’t taken us very far. It’s been like trying to get to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco using a map of Lower Manhattan. You can try harder, pray harder, and double your speed. But your efforts only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster. The fundamental problem has nothing to do with traffic jams, diversions or delays; it has everything to do with using the wrong map.

For over a decade, Israel has navigated tirelessly to achieve peace using the Oslo map, which was built on this premise: Assuage the other side’s grievances–end the occupation; give the Palestinians land, armed forces, their own state–and peace will follow. Hence in 1993, Israel brought the PLO out of exile and gave it recognition, international legitimacy, governmental autonomy and authority over 98% of the Palestinian population.

Where has this map brought us? In the past decade, terrorism has increased dramatically. Eleven years ago, Yitzhak Rabin, in his historic speech on the White House lawn, spoke of a future in which mothers no longer wept for sons lost in battle. But the weeping has not ended; it reached a deafening crescendo. Terrorists have killed more Israelis in the eleven years since Oslo began in 1993 than in the 45 years of Israel’s existence before that.

Obviously we’ve been using the wrong map to move us toward peace. Is there an alternative?
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John McCain wants to cure global warming. Somebody should advise him to say “climate change”. That way he will not sound foolish when the streets look like this.