YAALON! [Meet Queen Condi...]

The main challenge I believe, is to create what I call an awakening in the West. The West is sleeping. In many terms it reminds of the situation before World War II. It's very clear, the threat is very clear. You just have to listen to them. You have just to read the textbooks, and Westerners prefer to ignore it because of many reasons, to postpone for tomorrow, for the next week, for the next year, for the next generation, not to confront it. So we need an awakening. Moshe Yaalon

My Saturday night dream date? Moshe Yaalon. This evening was off the record (water boarding couldn't get it out of me) but I can tell you that Israel needs a Yaalon -a tough, straight, precise warrior that understands the existential threats to Israel, the existential threat the global jihad presents to the West,  and the reluctance of the West to face  up to reality.

I hope he runs for Prime Minister. He is no light weight and they need a leader, a visionary with a set of brass ones.

I did a blogger interview with him here after hudna 1701 was passed at the UN. Much of what we covered tonight is there. His position(s) are the same, but more so.  Listen to the  Q&A, Download Yaalon830.wav Here ia an excerpt.

Yaalon: It is up to the Israeli democracy now to deal with the challenge, and as I said I see the last war in Lebanon as a failure in terms of mismanagement in the political level and the senior military level. The best way for those who are responsible is to resign and not to go to a long process, but it might be a longer process using the democratic means to deal with this kind of failure and responsibility, but Israel should be strong. Israel should be able to stand, and we are able to stand. Actually, one of the positive outcomes of this conflict is the civilians and the endurance of the Israeli society. Although the Israeli people in the North were attacked for about 33 days, in the end Israel is flourishing ..., economically. You can go now to the north. There is a lot of reconstruction, but the damage is not so significant like in Lebanon and we will be able to deal with it and to go now with our economical and civilian life, but at the end our ability to stand should consist of what I said in terms of what I said in term of understanding the situation, I call it clarity. In the last decade, I believe that we were confused, we were deluded by our leadership, by our media. We were deceived, we were manipulated, and we should understand, this is a challenge, we shouldn't be afraid of it, but in order to have the right solution we should agree about what is a problem and we need some clarity regarding understanding this challenge, and I believe that at the end-- we are actually-- At the end, we are a healthy, democratic society, and we will find a way to cope with it, to deal with it. I might be a longer process because of the political difficulties, but I believe in our strength and our ability to cope with it.

IMAO, Israel is rudderless and the actions of the people of late indicate a frustration, a "powerlessness." I thought they would have stormed the Knesset long ago. I was wrong. They were failed by their leadership and they are being sold out by the State Dept robot Condi Rice.

Check out this excerpt from Condi's  frightening interview with Cal Thomas here; hat tip Tom

QUESTION: You're all over the conservative Jewish blogs for remarks you made recently on the Palestinian state, your commitment to it, living side by side with Israel, and that's been the policy of the Administration since day one.

SECRETARY RICE: Yes.

QUESTION: I'd like to know what evidence you have — I read, and I know you do and a lot more than I do, the sermons, the editorials in the Middle East, the right of return idea, which a lot of people think is just basically overwhelming for a Jewish population with millions and millions of Arabs in the so-called Diaspora. What evidence do you have that teaching their schoolchildren at the ages of four and five to be martyrs, to show up in their little uniforms with plastic guns and their headbands, textbooks one grenade plus two grenades equals, you know, three grenades — what evidence do you have out there that if they had an independent state that they would lay down their arms and not complete the mission of killing the Jews and throwing them out?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, you can look at any opinion poll in the Palestinian territories and 70 percent of the people will say they're perfectly ready to live side by side with Israel because they just want to live in peace. And when it comes right down to it, yeah, there are plenty of extremists in the Palestinian territories who are not going to be easily dealt with. They have to be dealt with — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestinian territories — they're terrorists and they have to be dealt with as terrorists.

But the great majority of Palestinian people — this is — I've been with these people. The great majority of people, they just want a better life. This is an educated population. I mean, they have a kind of culture of education and a culture of civil society. I just don't believe mothers want their children to grow up to be suicide bombers. I think the mothers want their children to grow up to go to university. And if you can create the right conditions, that's what people are going to do.

QUESTION: Do you think this or do you know this?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, I think I know it.

QUESTION: You think you know it?

SECRETARY RICE: I think I know it.

QUESTION: Is it because — do you think you know it because you want to believe it or do you think you know it because of conversations with tens, scores, hundreds

SECRETARY RICE: Well, lots of conversations with Palestinians. But also it's — look, if human beings don't want a better future, don't want their children to grow up in peace and have opportunities, then none of this is going to work anyway. But I really believe that the people of the Middle East — not the extremists — want the same things that everyone else wants. I haven't seen a society yet where it wasn't true. Let me put it that way. I haven't seen a society yet where ordinary people, given an opportunity, wouldn't opt for a better life and for peace.

QUESTION: But then you have this incredible religious component which says, you know, your guarantee for heaven is if you blow somebody up.

SECRETARY RICE: Yeah, except for those leaders who don't seem to be so anxious to lead the surge and go to paradise.

QUESTION: Oh, of course they don't. No, they have plenty of recruits.

SECRETARY RICE: Yeah, they do have plenty of recruits. But the ideology, that kind of ideology of hatred and hopelessness does not have a chance against an ideology of hope and a better future. We just have to realize that because of the way that the politics of the Middle East has developed for the last 60 years, that ideology of hope and a better future has not been there.

I don't believe that most people in the Middle East really want to blow themselves up and believe in this ideology any more than most Russians actually wanted to believe in international communism. There are always extremists who are going to do that. There are always ideologues who are going to believe and they are always going to recruit from a pool of disaffected people. So you both have to lessen the pool of disaffected people, give them alternatives, and people choose other paths. I just don't see a society yet where that hasn't been the case.

Hey Condi, Palestinians Embrace Terrorism - Strategy Page

UPDATE: Rick points to this poll;

Percentage of Palestinians who endorse a two-state solution in the September 2006 poll conducted by the Palestinian Jerusalem Media & Communication Centre: 46.6%.

UPDATE: Carl points to The Augean Stables. Richard Landes says that Condi is a master of what he calls cognitive egocentrism

 

Comments

[WARCHICK]

OUTSTANDING, PAMELA!

I love this guy...I wish I lived closer so I could meet him. Why can't we hand Condi over to the Middle East and keep him?
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SO SAYS WARCHICK, Resa LaRu Kirkland
Columnist/Writer/Speaker/Military Historian/The Anti-Feminist!
Agree with RESA at: http://www.warchick.com
Hippies, commies, and femmies opinions altered here!!
STAND WITH ISRAEL! FREE NORTH KOREA!!
POW/MIA: Bring them home or send us back!

[Rick Richman]

“SECRETARY RICE: Well, you can look at any opinion poll in the Palestinian territories and 70 percent of the people will say they're perfectly ready to live side by side with Israel because they just want to live in peace.”

Percentage of Palestinians who endorse a two-state solution in the September 2006 poll conducted by the Palestinian Jerusalem Media & Communication Centre: 46.6%.

http://www.jmcc.org/publicpoll/results/2006/no60.pdf

[Shy Guy]

I've posted this before:

The New Messiah is a Boogeyman.

Keep looking.

[Richard Davis]

Atlas is right, Moshe Yaalon looks like he'd be a terrific Prime Minister.

I hope he runs.

I mainly like him because he's bald.

[Shy Guy]

Jihad Watch links to this Washington Times article: Rice's dangerous delusions.

[Joseph]

He's too old for you Pamela! Just kidding...
True, Israel needs new leadership. I had such high hopes for Binyamin Netanyahu. I couldn't believe how he turned out.

Maybe Moshe Yaalon could have an impact. He certainly sounds right on the money! I don't know much about him but I trust your assessment. Shy Guy's first post was troubling though.

[Joseph]

btw, you look beautiful in that picture (I'm so jealous):)

[Joseph]

.... of Moshe, that is!

[Underzog]

A premier Yalon would still have to have the guts to kick the Arabs out as Rabbi Kahane, Z"tl advised, and, also, write a Constitution for the Jewish State so it's not ruled by a combination of Socialism and krinocracy.

"There's no need to fear; UnderZog is here!"

[WARCHICK]

Hey! Pamela ALWAYS looks beautiful!

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5. SHE DIDN'T FREE WILLY HORTON.

4. SHE WANTS TO BOMB NORTH KOREA WITH GUNS, GUNS, AND MORE GUNS SO THEY CAN KILL KIM JONG IL--TWICE.

3. SHE'S CHUCK NORRIS--WITH BOOBS.

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1. SHE'S NOT HILLARY.

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[turn]

Please, WARCHICK #3 reason.

I can't imagine Chuck Norris without that beard; you're really f*ckin' with my head!

[rocketsbrain]

1938 Deja Vu!

Super Babe,

Yaalon, is right on the mark,

... The West is sleeping. In many terms it reminds of the situation before World War II. It's very clear, the threat is very clear.

The MSM is failing to educate and alert the American people to this serious danger because they're too delusional with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

History is a good teacher. Perhaps today's jounralists unlike they're WWII counterparts, were either asleep or too stoned in junior high to learn much in world history.

See my last several posts:

If Todays Press covered the “Battle of the bulge”

Iraq and Iwo - First Marine Nominated for Medal of Valor

LIVE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST! It's The Dark Ages Again....

'Flags of Our Fathers' by Scott Malensek

RBT

[yonason]

B"H

And I thought we were rid of Colon Powel. Instead, we've gotten Colon Powel with PMS.

Keep after "Condi." She's about as delusional as they get.

(And I thought Cal Thomas was excellent BEFORE this. Little did I realize just how excellent till now.)

[Thomas Carney]

I thought W. was making the right move in letting Colon Bowel go and put Rice in his place. I now see we've gone from bad to worse!!!

"I think I know". She sez?? For crying out loud, she's got access to classified reports out the ass and CIA info and she's THINKS SHE KNOWS the Palestinians are being straight???? What a moron. What the hell she's got her PhD in political science... yeah, I remember so many poli-sci students when I was at UIUC... they were lazy, they didn't want to get a real degree....

[yonason]

CONDI: - "I haven't seen a society yet where ordinary people, given an opportunity, wouldn't opt for a better life and for peace."

ME: - Yes, Condi, but these are NOT "ordinary people." They are EXTRAORDINARY SAVAGES.
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2000/oct/ber2.htm
and despite decades of "opportunities" "for a better life and for peace." THEY HAVE CONSISTANTLY OPTED OUT!!!

How she could ignore that is beyond ridiculous, especially in light of what they say themselves.
http://www.jtf.org/israel/israel.there.is.no.palestine.conclusion.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=72993

And, they think you are a fool.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Static/Binaries/Article/ricearafatabbas_0.jpg

And, I hate to say it, but in your case, I think they are right.

And, if this next story is true, she is not only NOT a diplomat, but she IS a fishwife.
http://www.crisisisrael.com/display_commentary.php?cid=439

(if she's scanning the conservative blogs, I hope she reads this - though I doubt it will penetrate her rationalizational defenses)

[yonason]

"...she's got access to classified reports out the ass and CIA info and she's THINKS SHE KNOWS the Palestinians are being straight????" -- Thomas Carney

Why shoul d she read classified reports, when she already "thinks she knows" what's in them?

Sheesh!

[Thomas Carney]

yonason: You're right. This is one of the biggest reasons that academics, for the most part, can't function worth a rat's @$$ in the real world.

"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." comes to mind.

I remember what a total f_ck-up Les Aspin was as SecDef. He was an accounting professor.

[WARCHICK]

Remember a while back when she said we should "bomb our enemies with Visas so they could all come here?"

I'm starting to think I was right...the anti-Christ IS a woman!
--
SO SAYS WARCHICK, Resa LaRu Kirkland
Columnist/Writer/Speaker/Military Historian/The Anti-Feminist!
Agree with RESA at: http://www.warchick.com
Hippies, commies, and femmies opinions altered here!!
STAND WITH ISRAEL! FREE NORTH KOREA!!
POW/MIA: Bring them home or send us back!

[Richard Davis]

WARCHICK - just went to Glenn Beck's site to find your name on the ballot.

What "region" are you in?

I wanna vote for you, most definitely.

[WARCHICK]

I live in Washington state, Enlightenment party...here's the link:

http://www.glennbeck.com/glennate/region09-enlightenment.shtml

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[john jay]

pamela:

condi just doesn't get it.

this is all the more amazing because the muzzi's make no secret of what they are doing.

politicians explain what islam is up to. clerics explain what islam is up to. the brotherhood explains what it is up to. suicide bombers explain what they are up to. muslim immigrants in europe and elsewhere openly proclaim that they have no intention of assimilation in the "foreign lands" they live in, and proclaim their intentions to rule. they all proclaim their intention to rule.

only c.a.i.r. indulges in outright lies and duplicity to hide the background of its leaders, its/their ties to terrorism, its/their funding of terrorist activities, and their ultimate aims. this will end soon enough when and if muslim numbers go up in the u.s. sufficiently, so that they feel emboldened to drop the pretense.

if europe is to have any hope, they must fight them, e.g., civil and religious war, and the euro's must evict them. i think this highly unlikely, for reasons so eloquently set out in your blog today. they are confessed cowards.

brilliant blog, btw.

we face the same decisions as the euro's. we must fight them, e.g., civil and relgious war, and we must evict them. there is no coexistence with them, even if we desired it, and for condi rice to believe otherwise, proves that she is either ignorant or deeply delusional. i vote clinically delusional.

john jay

[john jay]

pamela:

may i add.--

i am so bitterly disappointed that c. powell and c. rice have turned out to be such insubstantial lightweights, and i am so disappointed in my own judgment in them, because i originally thought them capable, and dedicated to serving our country.

they turn out to be careerists, interested in advancing only their peronal interests, to the detriment of our country and the betrayal of a good president and vice president.

that they have overtly and covertly worked to subvert bolton's appointment to the u.n. post is tantamount to treason, and "w" such disavow both of them, and sack condi right now. this is only their most egregious sin, they have other purposeful misconduct for which they bear personal responsibility.

i view both of them as persons without much wisdom, and totally without honor.

it is a said commentary that they have risen to such prominence, only to betray it. i might add, to such detriment to our country.

thom. carney & rich davis.--right on, my friends. when is that shoot down your neighborhood?

john jay

[WARCHICK]

Me too, John Jay...me too!

[Shy Guy]

The emporess is naked.

[allen]

sharp,

re: Cal Thomas, Pamela, Dr. Rice

While I’m sure Cal Thomas and Pamela were grossly unfair to Dr. Rice, she did say,

“SECRETARY RICE: Well, you can look at any opinion poll in the Palestinian territories and 70 percent of the people will say they're perfectly ready to live side by side with Israel because they just want to live in peace.”

Dr. Rice provided no citation of the poll(s) she relied upon for her claim. I am not surprised. No such poll(s) exist. Therefore, Madame Rice was being disingenuous, duplicitous, and/or delusional.

If anyone can cite a poll corroborating Madame Rice, please do.

I will now add Pamela and Cal Thomas to the fast growing list of former Republican icons. At the present rate of burn, soon only the President and his inner circle will be left.

8:40 AM, October 30, 2006

Allen v True Believers

[Thomas Carney]

john jay wrote, "i am so bitterly disappointed that c. powell and c. rice have turned out to be such insubstantial lightweights, ......and dedicated to serving our country......they turn out to be careerists, interested in advancing only their peronal interests, to the detriment of our country and the betrayal of a good president and vice president."

jj, I can assure you that WITH VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS, one cannot be a 4 star officer and a Chief of Staff in the military without being a careerist. Norman "Bear" Schwarzkopf wasn't a careerist and that's why he was never Chief of Staff but he did get 4 stars.

As for Rice, she's an academic... she's never had to function in the "real world." The State Department, unfortunately has an entrenched bureaucracy that rivals the Pentagon and the Vatican Curia.

It is unfortunate that W. has too much loyalty to the friends he appoints to key positions in his administration. What Rice and Powell have done deserves nothing short of a good, public firing.

Reagan and Bush 41 had the same problems.

[Thomas Carney]

john jay: If you're talking about Shootin' Fest, it's early April and I've moved it to late October twice a year at my place in Loudoun County, VA.

Sorry to take it off thread here, Pamela, but I don't have these guys' email addys.

I'll put a site up with info.