Atlas Shrugs

Muslims Terrorizing Muslims in Jerusalem

I spent the morning in East Jerusalem which is mostly Arab. The differences between the Jewish areas and the Arab areas is to break your heart. It is inexplicable to me why the Arabs would live in such abject squalor, throwing their garbage in the streets when they could all work together with the Jews for a far better life. But Jihad Islam will never let that happen. FACT.  You can immediately tell what part of Jerusalem you are in, in a nanosecond, with a mere glimpse of your surroundings. The women, young and old, wore the burka and in many cases the chador in the hot summer  heat.

Watch this video. I am sorry for the wind. Muhammad is saying that all the Arab stores were forced to close today to "strike"  against the Israei acts of self defense in Lebanon. It made no sense to me as this hurts the shopowners and the Arab customer. But the Arab Muslim shop owners are threatened, their shops destroyed if they do not close. And who suffers?  The Arabs......... the Jews don't buy halal.

I had this encounter with an Arab Muslim when viewing  the top of Mount Olive. Mount Olive, the oldest Jewish cemetary in the world on Mount Olive. 68,000 Jews are buried there. (shown below)

The tragedy of Israel is the constant state of seige the Israelis live under. Going to meet Ari, an old LGF pal,  at a small cafe for lunch, I went though security check and iron doors. The level of security at every level of everyday life is staggering. Americans have no cluea dn the world is blackhearted to the what this country is enduring.

Checking my bag to have a simple salad.

There can be no cease fire. These people, their children are fighting for the lives, and the lives of this great nation. The miracle of Israel, IMAO, is that warriors could create such a magnificent jewel of a nation in such a malevolent cesspool. Everything in Israel is constructed, erected with such beauty, detail, respect and intelligence. All under constant threat. But this fight is different. It is existential. The thought of "peace," no longer is in the the Israeli delusional wishlist. They know now that after giving back Gaza and withdrawing from Lebanon they  gave the enemy unprecedented access. This is why while the consensus in Israel is unified to fight Hezb'Allah, there is a mood of complete sadness. They are letting go of something their  enemy would never allow - peace. If withdrawing from Gaza and Lebanon did not bring peace, BOTHING WILL BRING PEACE.

More signs of the tragic toll on Israeli daly life at an art gallery.

Later in the day I had the enormous pleasure of joining Rabbi David Wolpe on a walk to the wall to prayer. Check out our security just to walk to the wall.

More security at the Wall.

Rabbi Wolpe. What a Rabbi! If all of our shuls had a Wolpe, American Jewry would not be so disconnected, disaffected. In describing the Wall, the Rabbi said paraphrasing, there are people with hearts of stone and stones with the hearts of people (alluding to the centuries of Jews who have come here to pray and pour their hearts out.)

Returning to my room and turning on the news (No FOX!), I can not make it official, CNN (Crescent News Network) makes Goebbels propaganda look like childs play. At least then we knew it was Naza state propaganda but CNN is "independent" They are anything but. They are jihad TV. Their portrayal of events in Lebanon are such lies, such Jew hatred -- it is nothing short of frightening. Nothing is as they say it is.It is as if they are getting their talking points straight from Hezb'Allah. If I hear the "Israeli war machine" one more time, I'll scream. It's a handful of Jews fighting for their lives. Where are the news reports of the bombing of Nahariyah Hospital and the destruction of its fourth floor and the Department of Eye Diseases, in which Arabs and Jews have been treated,  and where Arab and Jewish interns wor?  All this whining about the Lebanese people not having enough money to leave their towns (as the benificent Israel has told them to do.) Tell Hezb'Allah to stop buying armaments and bombs and buyt their human shields a  one way ticket out.

CNN screaming all day for a HUDNA so that the jihadis can rearm. Sick, sick, sick. Why? For access as they did by covering for Saddams heinous acts of barbarism? These CNN dhimmis will be the first ones getting their pretty little heads chopped off if the savages they are supporting should win. A CEASEFIRE IS A DEATH SENTENCE FOR iSRAEL. 

"JEWS LOSE NO MATTER WHAT " so said a Lebanese Shia in a letter to the editor of the Berlin left-wing daily Die Tageszeitung (TAZ) explains how after Israel's withdrawal from South Lebanon, Hezbollah stored rockets in bunkers in his town and built a school and residence over it. hat tip Naomi Ragen

Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged

Just getting back and I have much to tell but running to a dinner I was graciously invited to by the most generous Rich R. with Rabbi David Wolpe and friends of the IDF. But I wanted to load this video of Muhammad. I didn't realize the audio was imperfect or I would have redid it. Mujammad was a powerful albeit quiet speaker for his people.

Early tomorrow morning I will be joining Rabbi Wolpe's mission with the  Friends of the IDF  on a journey to the North. We will be visiting with beseiged families, bereaved families , and wounded IDF soldiers in the hospital Thank you and Gd bless you Rich. 

UPDATE: Check out Rich's post here

JIHAD CONGRESSMAN

Representative John Dingell, a Democrat (no surprise there right? ) from Michigan - no surprise here either with Hezb'Allah firmly ensconced in Dearbornistan  here and here)  appeared on a Detroit television program Sunday alongside Republican Congresswoman Candice Miller. After Dingell said he would not take sides in the current Israeli - Hezbollah conflict, the host asked “so you’re not against Hezbollah?” Rep. Dingell replied with a resounding “no.”

If the Democrats take control of the house in November, Dingell will be the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He's one of the jihad eight (Democrats of course) that did not vote for a resolution supporting Israel.  This potential committee chairman has despicably chosen a terrorist organization over a strong American ally.

Folks please pass this on to your neighbors, co-workers, anyone. We are in the fight of our lives. and the jihad is the defining issue of our times.

The Atlas Interview: Brigitte Gabriel

EXCLUSIVE! Before I left New York I conducted this riveting interview with Brigitte Gabriel, voice of the Lebanese Diaspora. Hear her expose the horror of the jihad in Lebanon and the media's role in the decades role blood libel against Israel.

More profound is the failure of the Jewish lay leadership in America in their reluctance to reveal these painful truths to the American Jewish community (and the communtiy at large.) As I have written here repeatedly the Jewish organizations in this country have done the Jews great harm clinging to their left wing dogma and politically correct dhimmitude. Read Jewish survival, the terrible question.

Here is the link: Download pamela-podcast-7-25-06.mp3 The audio is uneven ..........

 Brigitte Gabriel , blacked out by the Jihad media, speaks truth to power. She is in the pantheon of truth tellers Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Phyllis Chesler, Melanie Phillips, Nidra Poller, Youssef Ibrahim, Walid Shoebat,   Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina, Walid Phares among other brave souls. 

Life in an Orwellian Univere

Life in an Orwellian universe By Charles Krauthammer

Israel's moral scrupulousness is being paid in blood - and
yet they're still branded as evil personified

What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?

What other country sustains 1,500 indiscriminate rocket attacks into its cities — every one designed to kill, maim and terrorize civilians — and is then vilified by the world when it tries to destroy the enemy's infrastructure and strongholds with precision-guided munitions that sometimes have the unintended but unavoidable consequence of collateral civilian death and suffering? Read it all

Here is the surreal survival of one man and his family in the north;

It's Sunday night... I have not had much time on the computer as we are packing up our house, literally under fire, putting all of our belongings in storage at a neighbors and preparing for the next journey.[...]

  We are not sure where we are going to live next. Our plan is to travel to the States for the month on August and part of September, as I said to help my mom, and to hopefully have some exhibitions where I can sell some work to make up for the lost business due to the fact that Tzfat has become like a ghost town because of the bombings. It has been quite surreal these past few weeks. When we are in Moshav Amirim, where we have been living for the past 3 years, we hear, mostly distant, booms. It seems far away but then I find myself saying to myself, "Hmmmm...artillery? Katyushas?" Can you imagine...i can't hardly. On this past Friday afternoon, as we were preparing to go to my wife Nili's aunt's Moshav in the south, there was a very loud explosion, very close to us,,,like a really loud "CRACK!" and "BOOM!" all together...that scared me...then there was another one a few seconds later. Yeah, that was 2 Katyushas hitting close to Amirim. I didn't see any smoke or fire nor did I hear any "SHRIEK" before the explosion, so maybe they weren't as close as I thought, or it seemed. Anyway, I went into the secure room with Nili, Sanchez (our dog) and Issac (Nili's mom's partner). Pretty freaky...and after I went outside to look around for the smoke...A weird part of me is very curious to actually see the rockets, but the more rational part of me tells myself, "Are you nuts...get out of there!".

  We drove through the town of Afula on the way down south. I found out later that a few minutes before we got to Afula, one of the so-called "Fajr" rockets had landed just outside of town, thank G-d not causing any damage to life or property.

  I had gone to Tzfat on Tuesday (I think it was Tuesday) to close up things at my gallery and check on the situation. While I was there, 4 air raid sirens went off, but no actual rockets landed where I was. The first siren was scary...imagine waiting for a rocket to hit...after that, not as scary. I took a bunch of pictures of some damage which I will post soon. THe most miraculous damage related weirdness was at my friend Avraham Lowenthal's Gallery of Mystical Art (kabbalahart.com). He created art based on Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticis, (to put it simply). I went to check on their house for them and found that bunch of the house and gallery windows were smashed from a nearby explosion. Upstairs in the gallery, in his work space, the 3 part windows were completely smashed yet a piece of art, based on the sounds of the shofar, which is framed completely in glass, on both sides and transparent, which was leaning up right on the smashed window, wasn't even scratched (I also will post a picture of that-stay tuned). It's amazing...and not one other piece of art was damaged...lots of originals and fragile pieces there.   Tomorrow I am off to Tzfat again to deal with some things at the gallery and document some of the relief efforts that volunteers with Livnot u'Lhibanot are organizing (livnot.com). Bringing people food, fixing things in shelters , playing music for people...

  It's 1 am now and there are stills distant booms.. We have a friend in New YOrk helping to set up a Tzfat Refugee Artist show in Manhattan in Sept. If anyone has any contacts, especially at the federation there, that could help out with covering expenses for getting art and artists over there, please let me know.

   Even in these dangerous times, there is a lot of good coming out...mostly about how people are being good to each other, really coming together and taking care of each other, just being nice, opening their homes and all kinds of things...

Tzfat Refugees Media Blog

Tzfat Community Support Fund.

Cedar Revolution Blames Hezb'Allah

HEZBOLLAH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE  MASSACRE

WORLD COUNCIL OF THE CEDARS REVOLUTION

[...]The Council, in view of the history of this conflict, which started by an irresponsible War launched by Hezbollah, without authorization by the Lebanese Government, and triggered harsh Israeli responses causing damages to the people and infrastructure of Lebanon, blames Hezbollah, its leadership and the Syrian and Iranian regimes for dragging Lebanon into the horrors of a suicidal War. The WCCR accuses Hezbollah and its regional allies of intentionally forcing the civil society of Lebanon, and in particularly the communities under the control of Hezbollah's militias, to become a shield for Hezbollah's military operations. By doing so, Hezbollah is breaching international law and must respond to international responsibility. Any military force, which is in control of the security of a civilian population in geographical areas, is responsible for their security. By maintaining that control over south Lebanon and the Bekaa valley, Hezbollah, even as a Terrorist organization is responsible for the safety and security of all civilians it has under its control. Hence the WCCR, representing the aspirations of millions of Lebanese inside the country and in its Diaspora, urges the United Nations to take immediate action by dispatching international troops to protect the civilian populations of Lebanon from the effects of the ongoing war on Lebanese territories. 

Click below for the entire statement and signators

SYRIA'S CHEMICAL MISSILES

Syria's Chemical Misslies
NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS

July 30, 2006: Syria may not have nuclear weapons, but it has created a force of ballistic missiles equipped with chemical (nerve and mustard gas) warheads. Syria is believed to have about 1200 ballistic missiles. About 85 percent of them are SCUDs, and most of these are improved designs from North Korea and Iran. The main improvement is a larger fuel tank, giving these missiles a range of about 700 kilometers. This allows them to reach anywhere in Israel. About 15 percent of their missiles are more modern (solid fuel) Russian SS-21s. But these only have a range of 70 kilometers. Thus the Syrians have about 600 missiles with a range of 700 kilometers, another 400 with a range of 300-400 kilometers, and about 200 with a range of 70 kilometers. All these missiles carry a half ton warhead. And some of these warheads carry nerve gas or mustard gas.

There are about 70 mobile launchers for the SCUDs, and about as many for the smaller SS-21s. The SCUD launchers, and support vehicles, are hidden in fifteen or more tunnel complexes. A major disadvantage of the SCUDs is that they take over an hour to fuel and get ready for firing. Some of the liquid fuel is poisonous, and the crews have to be careful while handling it. While there are some underground SCUD launching facilities, these are probably known to the Israelis, and likely to be bombed early in any conflict. That's why the 70 mobile launchers are so important. These will be much sought after by Israeli aircraft, UAVs and satellites.

Israel also has an anti-missile system (Arrow) that can knock down a few SCUDs at a time. If the Israelis can destroy most of the mobile launchers, and underground launch sites, that might be enough to avoid getting hit with chemical warheads.

These ballistic missiles are really the only reliable weapon Syria has. Poverty, and the end of Cold War era handouts from Russia, has led the 220,000 man Syrian army to decline in quality. The Syrian air force has sunk even deeper. The Syrian forces were never all that great to begin with. But now, all they can do is threaten Israel with chemical warheads carried on ballistic missiles. The United States has threatened to reply with nukes if anyone uses chemical weapons against U.S. troops or civilians. It's unclear if Israel would respond the same way. The Israeli armed forces could roll over the Syrian army and capture all of Syria in short order. The threat of Israeli war crimes trials against Syrian leaders (who survived the Israeli offensive), might be the ultimate deterrent. NBC via Stategy Page

The Eagle Has Landed in Israel

Just got to the hotel...............security insane (maybe because I am staying in Condi's hotel?) I stopped at Mini-Israel on my way in the Jerusalem. It is striking to me the respect and attention the Israelis paid to replicating in exact detail the mosques and the Muslims in prayer in these displays at Mini Israel. The Israelis duplicatd more mosques that temples. Oh, if the respect was mutual, what a wonderful world it would be.

Listenng to Kofi Enema right now speak on the Crescent News Network -CNN (no FOX- ugh.) He is spewing his vitriol at Israel and holding both responsible parties for the deaths in the war the jihad is exacting on Israel. This is the height of moral equivalence. It is sickening. Hezb'Allah is solely responsible for today's incident. Where is the world outrage at Hezb'Allah for using women and children as human shields? This is the issue.

The building fell 7 hours after the IDF bombed it.  Why were all of those people still in there? Check out the IDF video here. The innocent civilians in all this are the Israelis livving under a rain of  rockets - unguided weapons of terror. Here's more on Hezb'Allah's depraved use of civilians.

Here in Israel, they are of one mind. They will not falter. Their existence depends on it. I STAND WITH ISRAEL.

NO HUDNA!

Gotta eat something. I will tell you I have some extraordinary coverage coming in the next couple of days. Not at liberty to say right now though.

UPDATE: from NAOMI RAGEN;

1. Tonight, an IDF spokesman showed aerial photos of rockets being fired from residential areas in Qana.  It showed the portable rocket launchers being parked beneath residential buildings.  The spokesman said that the bombs dropped on Qana were dropped at 1 a.m. The reports of the building collapse took place at 7 a.m.  Also, no bombs actually hit the building.  So,  who was responsible for the collapse of that building?  Could Hezbollah weapons have exploded, destroying the building?   Was it deliberate, a way to pressure Israel into a ceasefire the same way they did last time, in exactly the same spot? And why is no one in the media picking up on this time gap and asking questions?

2. The number of those injured is being supplied by Lebanese sources, and being quoted by all the news stations. So far, only 26 bodies have been recovered.  But news reports are saying the number was twice that, and half are children.  That too is supplied by unknown sources and repeated by the major media.

3. At 7 a.m. a barrage of Hezbollah rockets hit the shopping center and buildings of Kiryat Shmona, unlike anything else the town has experienced. Altogether 1500 kilograms of bombs have hit the area's approximately 25,000 residents remaining in their homes. Where is the outrage over that?

NO HUDNA!

In related news; IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD HARDENS ITS NUCLEAR STANCE

The Guardian reported that Iran warned the west that attempts to broker a Lebanon peace deal at today's Rome summit are destined to fail and that the West ignores Iran "at your peril."

UPDATE: Israel agrees to suspend air operations over southern Lebanon for 48 hours to investigate strike on Qana, a U.S. State Dept. spokesman said.

UPDATE: SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL IN POLAND, Pro-Israel rally in Poland

COUNTDOWN KICKOUT KOFI CALENDER!

KOFI ANIMAL, Where is your shock! outrage! to this?

Kofi Annan has been stoking the flames of Jew hatred. His own blinding hate for the Jews has rendered him incapable of performing his duties in even the most basic capacity. He is a luxury a world spinning madly out of control can ill afford. He has got to go. He can not be fair or impartial. You could not have forgotten his rush to judgement to blame the Jews on the Hamas Gaza killings;

UN NOT DELIBERATELY TARGETED

Retired Canadian Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie told Canada's CBC radio last week that the Canadian officer Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, killed by IDF fire at a UN post in Lebanon last Tuesday, had complained in e-mails that Hizbullah fighters were all over his position. "They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it," said MacKenzie

Where os Kofi' outrage? Where is Kofi's condemnation of Hezb'Allah terrorists using the UN, women. children, as shield to kill innocent Jews?

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan slammed Israel for the attack, which killed three other UNTSO observers, claiming that it had been intentional. Israel apologized asserting that UN post had been targeted accidentally.

Israel is always apologizing. Ugh.

Hess-von Kruedener observed, in e-mails to MacKenzie, his former commander in the Canadian army: "We have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from both artillery and aerial bombing. The closest artillery has landed within two metres of our position and the closest 1,000 [pound] aerial bomb has landed 100 metres from our patrol base.

"This has not been deliberate targeting," Kruedener said, "but has rather been due to tactical necessity."

That last line has been read to imply that Hizbullah fighters used the UN posts as cover from which to launch their rocket attacks and Israel had tried to target them.

Mackenzie noted that the IAF's strikes have resulted in an extremely low number of casualties given the amount of ammunition fired.

Kofi should be arrested. Conspiracy to murder.

Cry to those Using Babies as Sheilds
By Naomi Ragen

My son is in the army.  He is not the type at all, believe me.  Quiet, studious, a writer, a lover of Jewish history, Talmud, ethics.  He spent two years in a pre-army program in the Galilee called Karmei Chayil. He made many good friends there from all over the country, and now he and all his friends are in the army.  One of them I know well.  A bit chubby, with payot, and a great laugh.  He and my son have become like brothers.  While both of them tried out for the elite paratroopers unit, only he made it in.  He and his unit a  re the ones  in Lebanon.  They were there over a week, fighting under horrific conditions, running out of food and water.  Even though the Israeli airforce dropped tons of leaflets warning civilians to flee because they were in terrorist territory and likely to be injured, they still encountered civilians.My son spoke to his friend yesterday,and this is how he described it:

"The village looked empty, and then we heard noises coming from one of the houses,  so we opened fire.  But when we went inside, we found two women and a child huddled in the corner of the room.  We were so relieved we hadn't hurt them.  We took up base in one of the empty houses.  And then all of a sudden, we came under intense fire.  Three rockets were fired at the house we were in. Only one managed to destroy a wall, which fell on one of us, covering him in white dust, but otherwise not hurting him.  I spent the whole time feeding bullets to my friend who was shooting non-stop.  We managed to killed 26 terrorists.  Not one of us was hurt.  Our commanding officer kept walking around, touching everybody on the shoulder, smiling and encouraging us: "We're are better than they are. Don't worry."  It calmed us all down.  And really, we were much better then them.  They are a lousy army.  They only win when they hide behind baby carriages."

Please remember this when you hear about the "atrocity" of the Israeli bomb dropped on Kfar Cana, killing many civilians, a place from which Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.  Unlike previous administrations, Mr. Olmert has my respect when he says: "They were warned to leave.  It is the responsibility of Hezbollah for firing rockets amidst civilians."

Terrorists and their supporters have lost the right to complain about civilian casualties, since all they have done this entire war is target civilians. Every single one of the more than 2,500 rockets launched into Israel, is launched into populated towns filled with women and children. Just today, another suicide belt meant to kill civilians in Israel was detonated harmlessly by our forces in Nablus.  So don't cry to me about civilian casualties.  Cry to those using your babies and wives and mothers; cry to those who store weapons in mosques, ambulances, hospitals, and private homes.  Cry to those launching deadly rockets from the backyards of your kindergartens and schools.  Cry to the heartless men who love death, and however many of their troops or civilians die, consider themselves victorious as long as they can keep on firing rockets at our women and children.

Save your sympathy for the mothers and sisters and girlfriends of our young soldiers who would rather be sitting in study halls learning Torah, but have no choice but to risk their precious lives full of hope,  goodness and endless potential, to wipe out the cancerous terrorist cells that threaten their people and all mankind.   Make your choice, and save your tears. 

That terrorists have been unsuccessful in killing more of our women and children is due to our army, God and prayers, not to any lack of motivation or intention on their part. If you hide behind your baby to shoot at my baby, you are responsible for getting children killed. You and you alone.

Deadlier than Bullets, The War of Words

The Vocabulary of Untruth Victor Davis Hanson

Words take on new meanings as Israel struggles to survive.

A "ceasefire" would occur should Hezbollah give back kidnapped Israelis and stop launching missiles; it would never follow a unilateral cessation of Israeli bombing. In fact, we will hear international calls for one only when Hezbollah's rockets are about exhausted. "Civilians" in Lebanon have munitions in their basements and deliberately wish to draw fire; in Israel they are in bunkers to avoid it. Israel uses precision weapons to avoid hitting them; Hezbollah sends random missiles into Israel to ensure they are struck.

"Collateral damage" refers mostly to casualties among Hezbollah's human shields; it can never be used to describe civilian deaths inside Israel , because everything there is by intent a target.

"Cycle of Violence" is used to denigrate those who are attacked, but are not supposed to win.

"Deliberate" reflects the accuracy of Israeli bombs hitting their targets; it never refers to Hezbollah rockets that are meant to destroy anything they can. "Deplore" is usually evoked against Israel by those who themselves have slaughtered noncombatants or allowed them to perish - such as the Russians in Grozny , the Syrians in Hama , or the U.N. in Rwanda and Dafur.

"Disproportionate" means that the Hezbollah aggressors whose primitive rockets can't kill very many Israeli civilians are losing, while the Israelis' sophisticated response is deadly against the combatants themselves. See "excessive."

Anytime you hear the adjective "excessive," Hezbollah is losing. Anytime you don't, it isn't.

"Eyewitnesses" usually aren't, and their testimony is cited only against Israel .

"Grave concern" is used by Europeans and Arabs who privately concede there is no future for Lebanon unless Hezbollah is destroyed - and it should preferably be done by the "Zionists" who can then be easily blamed for doing it.

"Innocent" often refers to Lebanese who aid the stockpiling of rockets or live next to those who do. It rarely refers to Israelis under attack.

The "militants" of Hezbollah don't wear uniforms, and their prime targets are not those Israelis who do.

"Multinational," as in "multinational force," usually means "third-world mercenaries who sympathize with Hezbollah." See "peacekeepers."

"Peacekeepers" keep no peace, but always side with the less Western of the belligerents.

"Quarter-ton" is used to describe what in other, non-Israeli militaries are known as "500-pound" bombs.

"Shocked" is used, first, by diplomats who really are not; and, second, only evoked against the response of Israel , never the attack of Hezbollah.

"United Nations Action" refers to an action that Russia or China would not veto. The organization's operatives usually watch terrorists arm before their eyes. They are almost always guilty of what they accuse others of.

What explains this distortion of language? A lot.

First there is the need for Middle Eastern oil. Take that away, and the war would receive the same scant attention as bloodletting in central Africa .

Then there is the fear of Islamic terrorism. If the Middle East were Buddhist, the world would care about Lebanon as little as it does about occupied Tibet .

And don't forget the old anti-Semitism. If Russia or France were shelled by neighbors, Putin and Chirac would be threatening nuclear retaliation.

Israel is the symbol of the hated West. Were it a client of China , no one would dare say a word.

Population and size count for a lot: When India threatened Pakistan with nukes for its support of terrorism a few years ago, no one uttered any serious rebuke.

Finally, there is the worry that Israel might upset things in Iraq . If we were not in Afghanistan and Iraq trying to win hearts and minds, we wouldn't be pressuring Israel behind the scenes.

But most of all, the world deplores the Jewish state because it is strong, and can strike back rather than suffer. In fact, global onlookers would prefer either one of two scenarios for the long-suffering Jews to learn their lesson. The first is absolute symmetry and moral equivalence: when Israel is attacked, it kills only as many as it loses. For each rocket that lands, it drops only one bomb in retaliation - as if any aggressor in the history of warfare has ever ceased its attacks on such insane logic.

The other desideratum is the destruction of Israel itself. Iran promised to wipe Israel off the map, and then gave Hezbollah thousands of missiles to fulfill that pledge. In response, the world snored. If tomorrow more powerful rockets hit Tel Aviv armed with Syrian chemicals or biological agents, or Iranian nukes, the "international" community would urge "restraint" - and keep urging it until Israel disappeared altogether. And the day after its disappearance, the Europeans and Arabs would sigh relief, mumble a few pieties, and then smile, "Life goes on."

And for them, it would very well.

Over my dead body but Hanson nails it. Bless you VDH.

"Israel is SKYPE"

Anyway, I am blogging form the plane. hOO ah. How white hot is that? Incredible people. They come right over and speak to you as if you are already in the middle of a conversation to check out your connection, tinker with your settings and voila? Access.
I say but on this configuration, will I be able to get SKYPE is Israel?
SKYPE is Israel, he shot back. I loved that, I don't think I'm coming home.

Atlas Embarks for Israel

I am off! - woot. Posting will be erratic but I will be cramming and covering as much territory as the law and IDF permit. Stay tuned. Atlas is on it.

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN DENMARK

It appears that for the Danes, Israel is already history. Eddy in Israel made this pic in Copenhagen last week

Mel Gibson's Jew Hating Screed

The Mel Gibson DWI bust hardly seemed worth a mention. But there is more, much more. Apparently Gibson went on a vile Jew hating rampage  when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. It seems the apple does not fall far from the tree.

So I guess all those hooked noses on Jewish punims in the movie The Passion of the Christ might not have been an accident after all. His harsh portrayal of the Jews in that movie notwithstanding.

Harsh story here,  Mr. Gibson. Image the outrage if he had said what follows about Muslims or Black Americans. Ouch. From TMZ

Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you." The report also says "Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."

The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"

The deputy became alarmed as Gibson's tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed the camera and then said, "What the f*** do you think you're doing?"

A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"

We're told Gibson took two blood alcohol tests, which were videotaped, and continued saying how "f****d" he was and how he was going to "f***" Deputy Mee.

Gibson was put in a cell with handcuffs on. He said he needed to urinate, and after a few minutes tried manipulating his hands to unzip his pants. Sources say Deputy Mee thought Gibson was going to urinate on the floor of the booking cell and asked someone to take Gibson to the bathroom.

Deputy Mee then wrote an eight-page report detailing Gibson's rampage and comments. Sources say the sergeant on duty felt it was too "inflammatory." A lieutenant and captain then got involved and calls were made to Sheriff's headquarters. Sources say Mee was told Gibson's comments would incite a lot of "Jewish hatred," that the situation in Israel was "way too inflammatory." It was mentioned several times that Gibson, who wrote, directed, and produced 2004's "The Passion of the Christ," had incited "anti-Jewish sentiment" and "For a drunk driving arrest, is this really worth all that?"

We're told Deputy Mee was then ordered to write another report, leaving out the incendiary comments and conduct. Sources say Deputy Mee was told the sanitized report would eventually end up in the media and that he could write a supplemental report that contained the redacted information -- a report that would be locked in the watch commander's safe. hat tip ed the wolfman

Click here to see original report. More on this from Editor and Publisher.

Audio link and story here. Geez, I guess rich jew hating celebrities are different.

UPDATE: An Atlas Observation: In one brief  moment this Jew hater destroyed his entire rep, cred and word.  Remember how he fought tooth and nail every accusation of antisemitism. He was outraged! shocked! horrified! What a loser. His word aint worth shit now. To the Jew haters of the world he is their new idol. Congrats Mel.

UPDATEL En Vino, Veritas.

Kerry Lied, His Brain is Fried

Jason At Texas Rainmaker, says That’s Gonna Leave a Mark… via Gateway Pundit

 

Ambassador John Bolton totally outclassed Senator John F. Kerry in the Senate hearings on Thursday,
DANEgerus has the Video HERE

John Kerry was really no match for UN Ambassador John Bolton:

Democrats like John Kerry have vowed to fight the nomination (of John Bolton). Kerry showed up at the very last minute of today's hearing and it turned into a barbed exchange between the Bush Administration's attempt to engage North Korea in 6 party talks:

John Kerry: This has been going on for five years, Mr. Ambassador.

John Bolton: It's the nature of multilateral negotiations, Senator.

John Kerry: Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done? That's what the Clinton Administration did.

John Bolton: And, very poorly since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.

Ouch!.. It's pretty painful to watch.

And, talk about a flip flop... Isn't John Kerry the presidential candidate who slammed Bush for going it alone?

(Kerry in a 2004 debate:

"But this president hasn't even held the kind of statesman-like summits that pull people together and get them to invest in those states. In fact, he's done the opposite. He pushed them away.")

The CSPAN video of the hearing is even more devastating for the Massachusetts Senator (minute 3:20 of the clip)

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Terry Harris sent this related news earlier in the week:

Mr. Bolton has stood up for America....He has stood up for one of our greatest allies, Israel.....and against the terrorist animals. Bolton has pointed out the UN's failings instead of playing the get along at any cost game.

Democrats Vow to Fight Bolton Nomination

What does he get for his trouble? The following:

While appearing on CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd was asked whether he could now support Mr. Bolton's nomination.

"No, this is going to be a bruising fight," said the Connecticut Democrat and Foreign Relations panel member. "I regret this. I'm sorry the administration wants to go forward with this. The problems still persist. ... Many ambassadors at the U.N. feel that he hasn't done a good job there. He has polarized the situation."

"Many ambassadors at the UN..." Like who, for instance? Iran perhaps? Maybe Syria? Maybe some of the countries that profited from Saddam's "Oil for Money" shenanigans?

Korea Liberator says pompous-yet-shallow is not an endearing combination.

Also pathetic were those little interns whispering in Kerry's ear (a la Charlie McCarthy). You could could hear them urgently whispering, WMD! You just know that these little rich limo lib spawn were up all night searching through ancient Bolton remarks and speeches. Pathetic I tell you.

OBSESSION

Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really About (hat tip Terrence)

WATCH IT NOW!

Israel, Iran and August 22nd

From the inestimable Dr. Jack at To the Point (PAID Only);

On July 20, Iran said it would reply on August 22 to the Western package of incentives for ending its nuclear program.  For Westerners, the only thing peculiar about this is the length of time Iran is taking to respond, since for us, the date August 22 has no special meaning.

[...]  August 22 corresponds to Rajab 27 on the Muslim calendar, the date this year when the festival of Lailat al Miraj will be celebrated.  The festival commemorates the (alleged) ascension of the Prophet Mohammed into heaven from the al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem.

Mr. Ahmadinejad is a devotee of the Hojatieh sect of Shia Islam, which believes the return of the 12th Imam (the Mahdi), who disappeared as a child in 941 AD, is imminent, and can be hastened by increasing global chaos.

Mr. Ahmadinejad has called frequently for the destruction of Israel, declaring in an April 14 speech "the Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm." 

Iran has been venomous in their promise of annihilation, more of Ahmaddinerjacket's promises here.

Was he planning that storm for August 22?

[..]On the other hand, while he was the mayor of Tehran, Mr. Ahmadinejad reportedly ordered the refurbishment of a major boulevard because the Mahdi is to travel along it upon his return.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who shares Mr. Ahmadinejad's apocalyptic vision, said there is a "surprise" in store for Israel. This could be bluster, of which Mr. Nasrallah has plenty.  But might he mean an attack with weapons of mass destruction?

IRAN'S OBSESSION

This is the piece to read. Amil Imani is an Iranian born American citizen and pro-democracy activist who resides in the United States of America. His website is  Amil Imani.
This is column at The American Thinker.

The Iranian Mullahs' Aim

The world is presently at its most wicked. It is beyond human help. It requires only a nudge to implode and prepare for the divine ruler, the Saheb-ul-Zaman (the Mahdi, the Lord of the Age) to come and set it aright. It is the sacred duty and privilege of every Muslim to do all he can to hasten the death of the old world and the birth of the global Islamic Ummah. Thus goes the thinking of Iran’s ruling mullahs and their hand-picked president Mahmood Ahmadinejad.

It seems like the old millennialism thinking, a belief held, in one version or another by several major religions. Indeed it is, with one terribly alarming difference. This time around, a group of believers with tremendous resources is intent upon forcing the issue, making the conditions so dire that the reluctant Saheb-ul-Zaman is left no choice but to appear and assume his universal reign.[...]

Hence, it is shortsighted to dismiss the mullahs as a bunch of lunatics who are out of touch with reality and that they have no intention of doing catastrophic mischief to compel the Mahdi’s coming. Maybe some arming of the Iraqi Shiites, a little support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine—but no, no major idiocy. After all, they are rational people and in touch with reality. Any large scale troublemaking spells their doom as well. Thus goes the rationalization—the greatest risky tranquilizer of the mind.

Rationalization, compounded by complacency and denial, can be deadly, particularly when the adversaries have different realities. To the fanatic mullahs ruling Iran Sahaeb-ul-Zaman is an absolute reality and his promised advent is irrevocably ordained. This is their reality and their belief and they have every intention of leading their life according to them.

It is foolish for the non-Muslims to dismiss the mullahs and the Bin Ladens as a bunch of fringe lunatics who are going to go away simply by wishing it. The Islamist reality is that the non-Muslims are the ones who deserve to be done away with; they are the ones who have refused to submit to the summons of Allah for much too long; and, it is time for the faithful to get rid of them. This makes for a lopsided contest. The non-Muslims are passively wishing that the nightmarish surge of Islamism is only a temporary fringe phenomenon doomed to die on its own, while the other side is marshalling its huge destructive power to accomplish its aim by eradicating the non-Muslims.

The cabal of fanatical mullahs ruling Iran has lost its patience, not only with the unbelievers, but also with the Mahdi as well.  They aim to force his arrival. The mullahs believe they have the means to make it impossible for the Mahdi to tarry any longer by causing unprecedented death and destruction—conditions deemed essential for his coming. The world must hit the very bottom, before the Savior of the world comes to the rescue, so they firmly believe.

The question is: What does prudence demand? Clearly wishing the problem to go away is not a very effective solution in the same way that wishing for the Saheb-ul-Zaman to come has not been. Reasoning and negotiating with the mullahs and their ilk hold very little, if any, lasting promise. There are always the easy ways of denial and appeasement. We are very good at both practices. No, the Muslims have been around for ages. They make some troubles from time to time. But they really are not all that bad and dangerous. We’ll get along. If we have too, we’ll even let them live by the Sharia—their stone-age laws— in our midst. We’ll be reasonable and they will come around. We’ll just have to get along. So goes the line.

One problem: The other side doesn’t think this way. The Islamofascists don’t believe in the notion of “Live and let live.” They believe that the earth is Allah’s and it has been sullied by the heathens, the unbelievers and the kafir for far too long. Now that they have the means, they aim to make the world to their design and bring about the final solution—a nasty reminder of not too long ago Nazism.

Is this alarmist, or even hatemongering? You don’t believe Muslims can be that intolerant and hostile toward non-Muslims and that they’ll never go to the extremes? You know Muslims personally in your neighborhood or your work place and they are nice people?

TRUTHTELLER GILLERMAN

Gillerman was highly critical of the current U.N. peacekeeping force, deployed in a buffer Zone between Israel and Lebanon since 1978, saying its facilities had sometimes been used for cover by Hezbollah militants and that it had not done its job.

"It has never been able to prevent any shelling of Israel, any terrorist attack, any kidnappings," he said. "They either didn't see or didn't know or didn't want to see, but they have been hopeless."

Gillerman even mocked the name of the force ? the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

"Interim in U.N. jargon is 28 years," he said. More here (hat tip Ford via Captains Quarters)