Did you hear the one about the Gaza Jihad class? Teacher, strapped in a suicide belt, “Listen up, kids! I am only going to do this once.”

The long term problem Israel faces emanates from the demographic realities on the ground. With 65% of the Gaza population consisting of crazed teenagers, nursed on Jihad ideology from the crib, it is not possible for any leader in Arab occupied Israel to sue for peace. Read more >

Are you worried that a deeply disloyal soldier, who openly confessed allegiance to the Islamist enemy, managed to attain the rank of Major in the United States military? Chris Matthews isn’t.

Given the predisposition of the media against anything American, Christian or Israeli, it is not surprising that a Jihadi attack on an army base in Texas, by a devout Muslim, inspires (P)MSNBC to worry about rampant Islamophobia. It is impossible to miss Chris Matthews’ pandering to the Muslim overlords. The smirk on Nihad’s face, at the end, shows that he recognizes a subservient dhimmi when he sees one. Read more >

Prime Minister Netanyahu, speaking to a special session of Cabinet, recited a popular nursery rhyme.

The Jews of Gush Katif lived behind a wall,

The Jews of Gush Katif had a great fall.

All the Kadima traitors,

And all the Likud plans,

Couldn’t put the Jews in their homes again.

The forced removal of Jews from their homes in Gaza was a mistake, Netanyahu is really, really sorry, he promises to not do it again, but he can’t do anything about it now … life goes on, get over it. Read more >

Prime Minister Moussavi and the First Supreme Leader Khomeni

We haven’t written about events in Iran because we could not understand what the fuss was all about. The Butcher of Beirut vs. the Hitler of Our Time, and we are supposed to choose sides?

In all the excitement, highly respected Conservative bloggers lost their bearings. Stars like Michelle Malkin started posting in support of the “green revolution” led by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who in the 80s arranged the attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut and is widely known to be the founder of Hezbollah.

Bloggers pined for Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the first Ayatollah to come out in favor of nuking the Jews, to tip the scales in favor of the Butcher and his minions in their struggle to wrestle control from Hitler and his thugs. How one group of militant Shia Islamists would be better than another group of militant Shia Islamists is beyond us.

Of course, when the enemy has to expend energy suppressing uprisings in the rear it is a good thing by definition. Hopefully, fighting  each other will keep the Ayatollahs busy. So here is to chaos in the Islamic Republic of Iran! May the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader wannabe both suffer the fate they so richly deserve, in hell. What color should we display for that? Red?

Debbie Schlussel got it right and has been posting furiously on the subject. Read more >

From 1648 to 1649, Officer Bogdan Chmielnicki, with an army of Russian Cossacks, local peasants and the support of the Tatar Khan of the Crimea, killed more than 300,000 Jews in the Ukraine. That wave of destruction is considered the first modern pogrom. From 1939 to 1945, Corporal Adolph Hitler, with an army of Nazis, sympathizers, and the deafening silence of the whole world, exterminated six million Jews in Europe. From 2005 to 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, worked feverishly to build a couple of nukes with which to kill six million Jews in Israel. From 2008 to 2009, Comrade Carlo Strenger, Professor of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, with an army of local secularists, inspired pogroms in Ramat Aviv to scare away Orthodox Jews. (Added by Mordecai)

I would hereby like to nominate Professor Carlo Strenger, from the department of psychology at Tel Aviv University, for the Philistine of the Year Award.

Strenger is a far-leftist hater of Israel and Zionism who regularly explains to Haaretz readers why Israel is a horrible state unworthy of existence, but the Hamas is really misunderstood (A collection of Strengerism can be found here). But today Strenger goes beyond that to support hooligan violence against Orthodox Jews! Really!

The background to this is the continuing campaign of intimidation and violence by ultra-secularists in Ramat Aviv, where Strenger lives and where his Tel Aviv University is located, against Orthodox Jews. The ultra-secularists claim there is a cabal by the Orthodox to “take over” the neighborhood. You know, like the Elders of Zion. Read more >

The Pope’s recent visit to Bethlehem was one of the most blatant displays of capitulation to terrorism that has been seen in recent years. How well I remember the way Christians were treated by Arafat’s henchmen, including Mahmoud Abbas his right hand man, during the Intifada. The Christian community was decimated, and is now only twenty percent of the population, when it was once the majority. Christian girls were kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert to Islam. Christians were kicked out of their homes by gunmen, who used Christian neighborhoods to set up sniper nests from which they shot into Jewish homes in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood, and passing cars on the road (Dr. Shmuel Gillis, on whom I patterned the hero of my book, The Covenant, was killed on his way home from treating cancer patients at Hadassah Hospital by such a sniper.)

And then there was the siege of the Church of the Nativity. The priests and children held hostage by Arafat’s gunmen. The church desecrated. Priests holding up signs at the windows to Israeli soldiers “Please help us!”

The Pope, standing side by side with Abbas, chose to forget these things.

His words:

“Mr. President, the Holy See supports the right of your people to a sovereign Palestinian homeland in the land of your forefathers, secure and at peace with its neighbors, within internationally recognized borders.” Read more >

Spain has been fighting against Basque separatist terrorism for decades and especially against the “ETA” organization, which seeks secession of the Basque territories from Spain. ETA is considered responsible for the deaths of more than 800 people in Spain, a number that pales in comparison with Palestinian barbarism. (And Spain has a population almost six times that of Israel.)

Spain’s anti-terror campaign made a mockery out of any concern for human rights. Collateral damage and injury to innocent bystanders were regular and common features of the campaign. Anti-terror paramilitary fighters and forces routinely engaged in torture of captured terrorists. Numerous death squads sought out the terrorists and their supporters, quietly exterminating them behind the scenes. The government pretended to have no knowledge of their actions. Government anti-terror personnel kidnapped terrorists and held them without any regard for habeas corpus. Anti-terror militias routinely crossed the borders and snatched terrorists hiding in neighboring countries or killed them there. Bombs were planted in order to kill the terrorists. Many of those killed or tortured were in reality not even members of or connected with any terrorist groups. Many of the anti-terror operations took place in violation of international law and even of national laws. To suppress the terror, the government threatened and pressured other countries to crack down on the refugees and to deport them. Read more >

Life is short, but art is enduring. If it is true that artists have special insight and that art opens a window to the soul, then this piece is a Rembrandt. It is a simple plot, great character development, unexpected twists and then the climax.

To belabor the point of our previous post, Chosen Idiots of Academia, check out these Jewish-American dolts. They so desperately want to be NICE Jews that they are prepared to sacrifice the Jews of Israel to the Islamofascist  sword. That is their peace plan. They are right, in a way. Surrender and prostration is the fastest path to peace. If these schlemiels’ scheme hatches, there will be Islamic peace in the Holy Land. There will be no Jews to slaughter. No Jewish children to traumatize. Peace. Read more >

Great analogies take many paragraphs to develop so here is a peak at the end.

For 16 years now, Israel’s elites have been living in a make-believe world in which Jews are to blame for nearly everything and Arabs are merely expressing “frustration” at being “mistreated” for so many years by Jews.

And the psychological war mounted by Israel’s elites against national pride, dignity and self-respect – indeed against national existence – has been accompanied by a set of diplomatic policies expressing little more than self-loathing – policies that in effect allow no act of Arab violence to go unrewarded.

A TALE OF TWO BEGGARS

Steven Plaut

Once upon a time, somewhere in the steppes of Eastern Europe, in the Pale that contained many a Jewish village, there roamed two beggars. One of the hobos was a Jew, the other a gentile.

The two transients were friends and far too lazy to hold any job or do any real work. So they wondered carefree, aimlessly and uselessly from village to village, begging for food, sometimes collecting discarded things to sell, here and there stealing some eggs or fruits off farm trees. It was a hard life and they often found themselves on the brink of starvation.

One day, as the two were looking for someone from whom they could shnorr some food, they came upon a shtetl whose residents were all buzzing about, hurrying, scouring pots and pans, cleaning their homes and cooking.

The Jewish beggar suddenly realized it was but a few hours before Passover was to begin.
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