The Miracle Continues - An Israeli Hero

Not too many people have heard of Haran Wolfovitz Yaffe. To us at the Inconvenient Truth, Haran epitomizes the partnership between Israel, the Jewish People and Israel's supporters the world over. Haran was hit by an anti-tank missile during the last Lebanese War while on a rescue mission. The medics had given him up for lost, but his team refused to give him up. His legs were gone and a gaping hole was where his stomach was. They stuffed his intestines back into his stomach and rushed him to Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa. And so begins a story of bravery and heroism that embodies the miracle that is Israel.

Dear Islamist.....While you are sitting in a cave, smoking hookah, plotting the downfall of the infidels and dreaming of all those virgins, please consider the following. Haran Wolfovitz Yaffe grew up in Amirim, a vegetarian community situated in the Upper Galilee in Northern Israel. Like all Israeli's he served in the IDF for 3 years, and like all Israeli's he worked for a living and continued to serve his country. I would tell you that he created a web based start up company in 2005 with more than 70 employees. However, out of respect for your limited ability to comprehend, will avoid details. What I will tell you, is that he recorded a music album in Hebrew. An ancient language spoken by the palestinians three thousand years ago and stolen by Zionist trickery.  

In the summer of 2006, the Second Lebanon War started and Northern Israel was bombarded by your relatives, most of whom today are enjoying the pleasures of paradise. The village where Haran grew up was showered by rockets and when a rocket hit his neighbor's house, he joined the front lines as a part of a rescue mission. On August 10th, 2006, the pursuit of Haran’s music career was abruptly put on hold. That morning as he was returning to the Israeli border, he was hit by an anti tank missile after a night of battle. Are you paying attention mr. islamist? Take another puff, we're getting to the good part.

Rushed by helicopter to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Haran was near death and lapsed into a coma. While in a coma, his first single, “Boker Tel Aviv” was released in an attempt to wake him up. On the 10th day of his coma, the song was played for the very first time on Israeli radio and miraculously, Haran opened his eyes. Doctors gave him no chance of survival due to the extent of his multiple injuries. These injuries damaged his vascular and nervous systems and he had suffered from a substantial loss of muscle mass of his abdomen wall.

Armed with humor and vigour, Haran faced his injuries fearlessly with an unwillingness to give up. While recovering at Beit Halochem, Haran was visited by his army unit. After moments of discomfort, Haran turned to them, glanced at what was left of his body and said "I've always wanted my d-k to reach the ground!" After spending two years in recovery and rehabilitation, he became the voice of disabled veterans.


But that was not enough for Haran. He studied Liberal Arts at Columbia University, while serving at the Israeli Consulate in New York. Today he is back in Israel and has re-launched his music career. At the same time he is working on a new venture aimed at the way music is being published and distributed. Whoops, lost you there mr islamist. I know....you despise stories with unhappy endings or where the bad guy wins. Get used to it. It will be coming to a theatre in your area soon.


Sincerely Yours


Another Jew

We are aware that this blog is read by many of Israel's enemies. Our new years message to them is simple. Israel is a country of heroes. As long as there is one Haran standing, you will never succeed. 

People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within - Elizabeth Ross


Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.


In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.


Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.


It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


William Ernest Henley

Israel - The Miracle Continues....

1.Demographic threat? Not according to statistics


The common perception that in a few years there will be more non-Jewish Israeli newborns than Jewish ones appears to be detached from reality. According to Immigration Authority data published by the Yedioth Ahronoth daily on Wednesday, the number of Jewish newborns in Israel has increased by nearly 20% since 2001, while during this time the number of Muslim and Christian newborns has dropped by five and 10%, respectively. 



2.Israeli wins gold at World windsurfing Championship


Lee Korzits is the only Israeli to win 2 world champion titles. For the second time in her career, she won a gold medal in the ISAF World windsurfing Championships in Australia. President Shimon Peres told Korzits that if he had long enough arms he would reach out and hug her all the way in Australia. Calling Korzits's achievements unprecedented, Peres told her, "You're amazing, the nation loves you."


3.Anobit nears Apple takeover for $300-400m


Flash memory storage developer Anobit Ltd. is expected to announce soon that Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) will acquire it for $300-400 million. "Globes" named Anobit one of Israel's most promising start-ups for 2011. Apple's first major investment in Israel. 


COMMENT: Once upon a time, a deal this size would make headlines in every Israel/Jewish media outlet. Today its pretty ho-hum.


4.Apple to set up Israel development center


Aharon Aharon will head Apple's first ever development center outside of its California headquarters. Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) has decided to open a development center in Israel focusing on semiconductors. The decision was taken even before the company entered into talks to acquire Herzliya-based flash storage solutions provider Anobit Ltd..


Comment: Looks like Apple has made a decision as regards Israel.


5.'Israel to export natural gas to India'


Israel has offered to export natural gas to India, according to a Monday report in the Indian daily Economic Times.  Negotiations for the gas deal are set to intensify when India's foreign minister visits Israel in January, according to the report. India currently receives most of its natural gas from Gulf countries such as Qatar and Oman, but the country is still experiencing gas deficiencies.  Plans for a major India-Iran gas deal soured following a recent Indian condemnation of the Iranian nuclear program at the UN. 


COMMENT: And the People of Israel were upset with Moses for choosing this area....


6.US earmarks $235 million for Israel's defense systems


Washington is to allocate an unprecedented sum for the development of anti-missile safeguards, including David's Sling and Arrow systems. This unprecedented sum comes at an unexpected time, while the American government is dealing with large budget cuts, including at the Pentagon. This budget, however, is not considered to be part of the American aid to Israel, but rather, goes towards military cooperation between both countries, with each one allocating a similar amount in developing anti-missile systems. 


COMMENT: Note the subtle change in emphasis. No longer aid but now "military cooperation". Why the change, one may enquire? Elementary my dear Watson - The US is now INVESTING in the Israeli arms industry, for the same reasons that Apple, Intel, Google and others are investing in Israel. Its an excellent investment for them! US aid to Israel amounts to $ 3 billion per annum, of which $2.5 billion is immediately invested back in the US. So please take note Ron Paul and Co., you need to be clear on who is aiding who.


He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he that loses his courage loses all - Miguel De Cervantes

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant. 


1.The New America -- "We are heading into what may be the dirtiest presidential campaign in history. The Obama campaign is planning to use the one billion it hopes to raise to portray the Republican nominee as a dangerous, heartless radical. That nominee is sure to respond with a withering counter-assault." - The Week magazine.


2. New York Times columnists Tom Friedman and journalist Roger Cohen, both Jews, as well as journalist Nicolas Kristof have been leading the charge in castigating Israel and unabashedly praising the Arab Spring. In a recent column, Kristof  postulated that "conservative Muslims insisted that the Muslim Brotherhood is non-discriminatory and the perfect home for pious Christians – and a terrific partner for the West." PG: Amazing that these guys are still singing Kumbaya. What usually happens when these journalists are proven wrong and the catastrophe is upon us, they crawl back into a hole and disappear from sight.


3.Hillary Clinton: "This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people," Clinton was quoted as saying in a speech at Washington's Georgetown University. PG: A woman in Saudi Arabia was recently decapitated for "sorcery". Imagine Hillary making the same type of statement about US ally Saudi Arabia. (Who contribute millions to the Clinton Foundation).


4. President Obama had the option of leaving a small force of Americans in Iraq. By doing so, he could always have claimed to have done his best to prevent a complete breakdown of law and order in that country. By ordering a complete withdrawal from Iraq he has taken ownership of the decision to withdraw, so whatever happens in 2012, will be his responsibility. PG: Finally he is showing some form of leadership in a country starved of leadership. For his sake we hope this does not backfire, placing his election chances in the hands of the Mullahs.


5.Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters: "It's now clear to me that Obama lacks the background, the experience and the courage to be president. Left to Obama, the government would run everything -- and probably run everything into the ground -- current example, the US Post Office. I was excited about Obama at first, but the more I see of him the less the excitement. He's very passive and worse, he's usually wrong."


6.When Obama took over for Bush in January of 2009, America was only $10.6 trillion in debt. In less than three years, the nation’s debt has ballooned past the $15 trillion dollar threshold.To put it in perspective, as National Review notes, the national debt has grown by a stunning $48,994.12 per second that Obama has been in office. PG: They say if you stick your head in the oven and your feet in the refrigerator, on average you will feel comfortable. Another way to look at the above is that during George Bush's presidency the debt grew from $5.7 T to $10.7 trillion, jump of 88%. During Obama's presidency only 40%. Bush was president for 8 years, while Obama only 3 years and counting. Go figure.


7.In the annals of coalition disputes, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s government is setting new standards: In the space of three days, his government leaked plans to arrest Vice President Taqiq Al-Hashimi on charges of terrorism, caused a key ally to begin boycotting parliament and sought permission to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al-Mutlak. Maliki is a shiite and the "terrorist" and the deputy prime minister are both Sunni Muslims. PG: And so it begins....


8.A rash of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 63 people in the first big attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis between its Shi'ite Muslim-led government and Sunni rivals erupted days after the US troop withdrawal. Most attacks were in mainly Shi'ite Muslim neighbourhoods. PG: And so it continues....


9.The Simon Wiesenthal Center asked UNESCO’s director-general Wednesday to suspend its sponsorship of a Palestinian children’s magazine, saying the magazine applauded Hitler for murdering Jews. The PMW report references an essay in the magazine by a teenage Palestinian girl. The girl wrote about meeting Adolf Hitler in a dream, who tells her that he killed the Jews “so you would all know that they are a nation who spreads destruction all over the world.” In the essay, Hitler tells the child to be patient regarding the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of the Jews. PG: The SWC does tremendous work weeding out the planet's anti- semitic scum. Read more http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=250462


10.NEW YORK (Newswise) – The Wildlife Conservation Society tracked a southern elephant seal for an astonishing 18,000 miles – the equivalent of New York to Sydney and back again. WCS tracked the male seal from December, 2010, to November, 2011. The animal – nicknamed Jackson swam 1,000 miles north, 400 miles west, and 100 miles south from the original tagging location, meandering through fjords and venturing past the continental shelf as he foraged for fish and squid. PG: Now thats impressive!


Snowflakes are a fragile thing individually, but look at what they can do when they stick together - Fernando Bonaventura

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant. 


1.Time Magazine man of the year Tayyip Erdogan: "Peace will not appear in the Middle East as long as state terrorism continues; as long as peace efforts are thwarted, and as long as bombs keep dropping on innocent children and people who are trapped in an open field, like prisoners in a penitentiary," he said, without mentioning Israel's name. PG: Perhaps the reason he does not mention Israel, is that he is talking about how Turkey systematically bombs the women and children of Kurdistan. The man is an ocean of morality.


2.The death toll from a blast in an Iranian steel factory has increased to eight, an Iranian news agency reported on Monday. Foreign media reports suggested earlier that the mysterious explosion was the result of sabotage in the plant, which is said to be processing North Korean steel used for uranium enrichment centrifuges. Iranian explanations for the explosion change by the day. PG: Third explosion in as many weeks. Fourth of July....


3.Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseyni Khamenei has ordered the arrest of a number of senior members of the Revolutionary Guards he suspects of planning to assassinate him, pan-Arab news Channel Al Arabiya reported Tuesday.  "Some of those" detained had invited Khamenei to come and visit the same weapons depot near Tehran where a large blast killed 17 people, among them the head of Iran's ballistic-missiles program. PG:We wonder how these folks are sleeping at night?


4.DUBAI - Rights group Amnesty International has described as "deeply shocking" Saudi Arabia's beheading of a woman convicted on charges of "sorcery and witchcraft", saying it underlined the urgent need to end executions in the kingdom. Saudi national Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was executed on Monday in the northern province of al-Jawf after being tried and convicted for practicing sorcery, the interior ministry said, without giving details of the charges. PG: "Informed sources" say she was caught in possession of Harry Potter books. Potter is banned in Saudi Arabia.


5.Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Friday that Turkey's recent, firm policies in the Middle East "have brought Israel to its knees" and isolated the Jewish state both regionally and internationally. PG: Leon Panetta seems to think that Israel isolated itself in the region. Obviously the Turks vehemently disagree with him. Even more obvious now is that the Mavi Mara incident that created the Israel/Turkey crisis was a deliberate Turkish provocation.


6.Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is refusing to pen an op-ed piece for The New York Times, signaling the degree to which he is fed up with the influential newspaper’s editorial policy on Israel. This might have something to do with the the fact that 19 of the paper’s 20 op-ed pieces on Israel since September were negative. And this after NYT columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that the resounding ovation Netanyahu received in Congress when he spoke there in May had been “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.” PG: We are of the opinion that Thomas Friedman is a paid agent of the far left/Islamic coalition. NYT Shares are traded at the moment @ $7.50 a share, down from about $26 a while back. Looks like NYT will be joining CNN on that ride into the sunset. 


7.It has already been established that Fox News has 4 times the viewers than CNN. The top 5 newspaper circulations are 1.Wall Street Journal 2.2 million 2.USA Today 1.8 million 3.New York Times 1.2 million 4.LA Times 600,000 5. San Jose Mercury 600,000. PG: The numbers speak for themselves.


8.The cracks are starting to appear in the Syrian army. Some Sunni members of the army have broken away and are inflicting casualties on the Assad forces. These are still small groups but are growing by the day. Hate to be the party pooper, but this civil war is going to be vicious. Even if the rebels are eventually victorious, best case scenario is a government run by the Muslim Brotherhood. 


9. Before anyone gets too excited over the Russian election, the numbers tell a not too optimistic story. First of all, they show a strengthening of the right if one considers Putin to be the centre. Secondly, the minorities voted almost as one for Putin's United Russia Party. Consequently the "Russia for the Russians" parties strengthened. There appears to be a split between the Russian and non-Russian populations. So the demonstrations are from the left, but the electorate moved to the right. PG: This should be familiar territory to this administration. The Islamic spring had a similar format. Same mistakes...different day.


10.Time magazine person of the year was the "protestor". The Islamic spring, Occupy Wall Street and now the Russian Left. As it turns out, none of these protestors represent the majority of their populations (not even close). In fact, they do not and  did not represent the so-called 99%. PG: The question now is crying out to be asked. Why do/did the Obama administration support all these groups. Are they stoking the fires of revolution? Maybe mismanagement? Possibly long term brilliance? Any ideas?  


Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut - Ernest Hemingway

Shadow Wars

A shadow war is exactly what the name reflects. Usually this combat takes place far from the public eye, and generally is not reported in the media because it is so difficult to confirm any of the facts. On occasion a relatively insignificant incident creates a situation whereby, if closely watched can set in motion events that are similar to a mystery novel.


One such event took place recently. Midnight, on the 26th of November, soldiers manning a Pakistan Army post on the Afghan border,  detected a movement in a valley below. The checkpoint is 2 km inside Pakistani territory and located on high ground. After identifying the movement as armed individuals via night vision devices, spot light and flares, the soldiers opened fire. Shortly, they came under attack of an AH-64 US Apache helicopter, resulting in the loss of 24 lives. What caused a US helicopter gunship to attack a friendly outpost? More importantly, the events that follow will place the American war effort in Afghanistan under a cloud.


As it turns out, there are two types of Taliban operating in this region. A Pakistani Taliban and an Afghani Taliban. Who would have known? Pakistani intelligence is fighting a covert war against Pakistani Taliban while supporting their Afghan counterparts against the US. This might explain  how bin Laden lived a few kilometres from Pakistan Intelligence headquarters, right under their noses. Anyway, back to the incident. Remember, its midnight and pretty dark in those mountains. The Pakistani's assumed that the movement was Pakistani Taliban and opened fire on US forces conducting a search and destroy mission in Pakistani territory. The Americans, always accompanied by air support called it in, and hence the tragedy.


A quick survey of the bigger picture reveals the following. American forces in Afghanistan are supplied via three main arteries. By air, via the Khyber Pass in Pakistan and the Northern Distribution Network through Russia. Pakistan, outraged by the mistake closes the Khyber Pass, and keeps it closed, in spite of US apologies. Supply by air is horrendously expensive and not a solution. NATO’s absolute reliance on Russian cooperation to keep the landlocked Afghan war going — has given the Kremlin a powerful bargaining tool.


And now the plot thickens. The U.S. government recently worked out agreements with its counterparts in Romania and Turkey to set up new missile defense systems — supposedly to protect Europe from a hypothetical attack by Iran. But the Russian regime is not happy about it, arguing that it would alter the nuclear balance of geopolitical power, and has become increasingly vocal in recent weeks. In addition, the Americans are in the process of negotiating and signing ballistic missile defence (BMD)  agreements with countries in central Europe, much to the anger of Russia who have there own ambitions in the area. Don't forget that Russia supplies most of Europe and Turkey with energy.


It is doubtful that the Russians would go so far as to strangle NATO in Afghanistan, but there must be some nerves jangling at the Pentagon. A test of the new found Russian leverage will be in the coming days as Russia attempts to join the World Trade Organization. The American position will be of interest. 


With all of this as background, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on Thursday, openly admitted the US had encouraged protests in Russia after Vladimir Putin's United Russia party held on to power in the most recent elections. "Human rights is a part of who we are. And we expressed concerns that we thought were well founded about the conduct of the elections," she said. The unfortunate timing of these public comments when she has the possibility of expressing her displeasure through other channels, certainly adds a little more spice to the brew. 


Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things - T.S. Eliot

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant. 


1.Egypt's top reformist leader Mohammed el Baradei said Sunday the liberal youth behind the country's uprising have been "decimated" in parliamentary elections dominated by Islamists and expressed concern about the rise of hard-line religious elements advocating extremist ideas such as banning women from driving. "The youth feel let down. They don't feel that any of the revolution's goals have been achieved," ElBaradei told The Associated Press. PG: He is absolutely correct. He is in good company together with Obama, Hillary and CNN. 


2.Hamas in Gaza also came to power via "democratic" elections. So did Hizbullah in Lebanon. According to Poodle Panetta, US Secretary of Defence, Israel is responsible for its isolation. Obama initiated this Islamic Spring shaking hands with the same snake and then beat a hasty retreat (note that he hasn't taken the same track with the Saudi's and the Gulf States).  Now he expects Israel to shake hands with the snake. 


3.Growing panic in Iran? International schools in Iran have shut their doors after hardline students stormed the British embassy last week, stoking ordinary Iranians' fears that foreigners are about to pull out of the Islamic Republic ahead of a US or Israeli-led attack. Closure of foreign schools in Tehran prompts fears among Iranians; 'I and all my friends have stockpiled goods at home,' local resident says. PG: Ahminedejad threatened Israel with an atomic bomb and might have thought that Israel was terror-stricken. He needs to think twice before threatening the holocaust generations with another holocaust.


4.OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian imams plan to condemn the "misguided notion" of so-called honor killings in their Friday sermons this week, responding to the high-profile trial of a father accused of murdering his three teenage daughters, allegedly because they shamed his Afghan family.  Sikander Hashmi: honor killings have absolutely nothing to do with Islam," PG: Then please explain why are there no laws against honour killings in the majority of Islamic countries? For example in the West Bank and Gaza, supposedly the most educated arabs in the Middle East? Save this fiction for the naive.


5.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton co-chaired a "High-Level Meeting on Combating Religious Intolerance" with the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Mrs. Clinton invited the OIC to Washington for a conference to build "muscles of respect and empathy and tolerance." Its charter commits it "to combat defamation of Islam," and its current action plan calls for "deterrent punishments" by all states to counter purported "Islamophobia". PG: This from the champion of woman's rights. Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that the Saudi's donate tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. 


6. Hillary is on a roll. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on Thursday, openly admitted the US had encouraged protests in Russia after Vladimir Putin's United Russia party held on to power in the most recent elections. "Human rights is a part of who we are. And we expressed concerns that we thought were well founded about the conduct of the elections," she said. PG: Obviously Hillary has learnt from her boss. She runs to the press at every opportunity. One would have thought that by now she would have understood the old maxim "Choose your wars carefully" . As for "human rights is a part....", that's correct but only applied by a selective flapping of the lips.


7.SELIGER, Russia -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of acting as a "parasite" on the world economy by accumulating massive debts that threaten the global financial system. "The country is living in debt. It is not living within its means, shifting the weight of responsibility on other countries and in a way acting as a parasite," Putin told a group of pro-Kremlin youth in central Russia. PG: The lips are a-flapping.


8..George Friedman on Egypt: The most interesting thing that came out of this election is the fact that the Western media’s candidate for power in Egypt really lost, which were the secular democrats. The street protesters did not represent all of Egypt. They were a few hundred thousand. So the idea that that crowd spoke for Egypt, as was frequently said, was fairly preposterous. Right now I am still betting very much on the military holding power. PG: Time to say it out loud and clear. This US administration, supported by the Western media  misinterpreted the situation in Egypt and are the direct cause of misery and hunger for untold millions. Applying leftist western ideology to this part of the world has unleashed the forces of darkness.


9.A senior Hamas source told the London-based Arabic-language al-Hayat newspaper on Saturday that the Palestinian organization has joined the global movement of the Muslim Brotherhood. PG: Clearly they have a better understanding of the "Islamic Spring" than do the the western media.


10.Japan intensified its rhetoric against China's military, accusing Beijing for the first time of "assertiveness" and saying it needs to keep a closer watch on how China views the contested waters between the two countries. China has bumped heads with Vietnam and the Philippines over territorial claims in the South China Sea. PG: Interesting to note that the US, Philipines and Vietnam are holding joint military exercises in the South China sea.


It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce - Voltaire

Brainless

1.Obama's first election campaign add: " The 2012 election campaign is underway. This election will be decided not by what I do but by what you do". COMMENT:  Wow! Really? I kid you not.



2.CAIRO - Egypt's elections commission on Monday lowered its turnout figure for the first stage of a parliamentary election, blaming a counting mistake that skewed numbers published last week. "The accurate percentage of attendance in the first round was 52 percent, not 62 percent," Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of the elections body, told reporters. He said members of the commission's secretariat made the error, adding that he "was very tired" when he gave initial figures at a news conference last week. COMMENT: Abdel baby, you get an "A" for honesty and  an "A+" for naivety.


3.Standing next to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House, Obama rejected an effort by Republicans in Congress to tie support for the $7 billion project to a payroll tax extension and insisted a final decision would follow a "rigorous" review process apart from politics. COMMENT: And the decision not to decide until after the elections is what exactly?


4.Syrian President Bashar Assad has denied responsibility for the killing of thousands of anti-government protesters. During the interview, the beleaguered Syrian ruler said that although he is president he does not “own the country, so they're not my forces.” COMMENT: And this fella is an educated doctor.....


5.Russian president Medvedev claims his twitter account was hacked. Whatever the case,  Medvedev's Twitter shocker reads: "It has become clear that if a person writes the expression 'party of swindlers and thieves' in their blog then they are a stupid sheep getting f****d in the mouth". The tweet was deleted soon afterwards. COMMENT: I was wondering whether sheep in Russia have to be married to commit such inappropriate acts? 


6.Saudi arabia has an anti-witchcraft unit.The unit, established in 2009, is charged with apprehending sorcerers and reversing the detrimental effects of their spells in the Gulf country.
When the severed head of a wolf wrapped in women's lingerie turned up near the city of Tabouk in northern Saudi Arabia this week, authorities knew they had another case of witchcraft on their hands, a capital offence in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom. Saudi Arabia takes witchcraft so seriously that it has banned the Harry Potter series by British writer J.K. Rowling. Abdullah Jaber: "In accordance with our Islamic tradition we believe that magic really exists. The fact that an official body, subordinate to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, has a unit to combat sorcery proves that the government recognizes this, like Muslims worldwide." COMMENT: What's to comment?


7.From Occupy Wall Street: "The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future". COMMENT: They must be applying for membership of the Muslim Brotherhood.


Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses - George Washington Carver

Politically Incorrect

Quite a few people might be upset by this blog. However, I need to say things as I see them. Most analysts would be careful of saying these things lest they be labelled as racists or bigots or whatever. Lets start with a challenge. I challenge anybody to show me a public speech made by any Arab leader of any arab state or entity, calling on his people to make peace with the Jewish State of Israel. The condition would be that the speech must be in Arabic. To be frank, if such a thing exists one could count the instances on the fingers of one hand.


Then of course there are three different words for peace in arabic. The three Arabic words translated as "peace" in English are salaam, hudna, and sulh. Two of these words are phony substitutes. Salaam is the peace of submission. It is the arabic word for submission and obedience and the peaceful intent is only for moslems or those who submit to Islam. Therefore salaam, Moslem peace, is not the absence of violence as it is for us, but the absence of disobedience.  But then who would know that? (probably about 1.3 billion Muslims).


Hudna, the second Arabic word translated in English as "peace," means cease-fire, a temporary truce.The word most commonly used by Hamas.So when they propose a Hudna with israel, it's hailed in the Western media as a peace proposal. It is instead a tactical, temporary break in hostilities, giving Moslems time to re-organize, re-arm, then renew the Jihad against the infidels (non believers) when they can be most caught off-guard.


Sulh or Sulha the third Arabic term for "peace," means reconciliation and is the word they always refuse to use. The Encyclopedia of Islam describes sulh as a concept of Islamic sharia law: The purpose of sulh is to end conflict and hostility among believers so that they may conduct their relationships in peace and amity....In Islamic law, sulh is a form of contract (aqd), legally binding on both the individual and community levels. That these words matter is shown by Arab resistance to signing an agreement that makes it a binding contract using sulh. Even Sadat refused the word in the Camp David accords, and in spite of this, he was assasinated for his efforts.


Interesting that every arab on the planet understands the language but the Sean Penns and the Oliver Stones of the world, even if they are aware (not quite sure they are aware of anything...) of the nuances, continue to sprout their cockeyed belief that Israel is the source of all evil. Even more interesting are arab and muslim attitudes to people of colour, even though they (the people of colour) are muslims. Bare with me and we shall reach our politically incorrect conclusion.


It is true that the population of most North African countries is mixed, but it is not a secret that in these countries there is a gradation of human valuation that corresponds directly to skin color, with the most privileged status being accorded those perceived rightly or wrongly as being of "pure" Arab stock while those with the darkest skin and curliest hair are located on the lowest rung of the social hierarchy. 


Arab racism is so deep it is inscribed in the fundamental semantic structure of the Arabic language. Till this day, the generic word or for a black person is the preface "abd," which translates as "slave," as in "Abd"-allah (slave or servant of God). This linguistic norm, among many other racially-charged ones, is an expressive constant which holds true for the entire Arab-speaking world regardless of dialect and orthography.


Arabs still generally regard the Darfur genocide as a public relations disaster rather than as a barbaric racist war against black people. I have not heard one word from all these foreign policy experts in Hollywood on this painful truth. Obviously it would be politically incorrect. We have yet to hear unequivocal condemnation of the Sudanese government's racist practices from Arab states.  In Morocco, Tunisia, and throughout much of the Arab world, the only ticket to social visibility for blacks is soccer. Becoming a soccer star gives a black person access to coveted corridors of society and enables them to "marry up", racially speaking.


And I could go on and on. I have spent many evenings in conversation with arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and they discuss the above truths without blinking an eyelid. I could go on for hours. We could discuss Durban 1,2 and 3. The zionism is racism BS. What about Israel the Apartheid State? Canadian universities are full of these enlightened morons. However, all of this pales compared to the above. Clearly this is a culture where dishonesty, racism and deception are deeply inbred. The pot calling the kettle black (Excuse the pun). All we have to do is listen to what they are saying in arabic.....and believe them. One morning, North America will wake up and the coffee will be cold.


The upside to all this? Islam is hostile to all religions. You know what they say about fooling all the people....


Dedicated to Thomas Friedman of the New York Times whose coffee is cold and he is asleep at the wheel!


Life's a bitch.You've got to go out and kick ass - Maya Angelo

It's not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame - Anonymous

Israel - The Miracle Continues....

1.Canada forging stronger defence ties with Israel



Canada and Israel are about to complete a number of defence co-operation agreements that will significantly tighten military bonds between the two countries as tensions grow over Iran's nuclear ambitions. And Defence Minister Peter MacKay refused Wednesday to rule out a mutual-defence agreement that would oblige Canada to come to Israel's defence should the latter be attacked.  MacKay and his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak said they anticipate negotiations will be completed by the end of the year. "Israel needs strong, reliable partners, which Canada is certainly one," MacKay said. "I would argue they could not find a more supportive country on the planet." COMMENT: This is powerful and the stuff history is made of. God Bless Canada! Genesis 12:31 "And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed."


2.Chinese, Israeli firms building water industrial park



A joint Israeli and Chinese team is building a huge Sino-Israeli International Water Industrial Park in southern China, a representative from the team told The Jerusalem Post at the WATEC water technologies exhibition in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. “Israeli companies have the most advanced technologies in the world and the purpose is to invite Israeli water companies into China and to explore the market in China,” said Victor Zhao, Chinese-based director of Ness Ziona firm Shirat Enterprises. 


3.US, Russia and UK back Israel at Mideast meeting


In a boost to Israel, Russia joined the US and Britain on Tuesday in backing Israel's view that the Middle East cannot be turned into a nuclear arms-free zone without progress on regional peace. In a boost to Israel, Russia joined the US and Britain on Tuesday in backing Israel's view that the Middle East cannot be turned into a nuclear arms-free zone without progress on regional peace. The three nations – who are charged with registering new members to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty – also blunted Arab efforts to get them involved creating such a zone, telling an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting that was the sole responsibility of countries in the region. (AP) COMMENT: The times they are a'changing...


4.iPad app lets patients watch angioplasties live


Thanks to technology developed at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus, the relatives – and even the alert patient in the operating theater – will be able to view the whole process on their iPad screens. “This is the beginning of a new medical era,” said Kornowsky, who initiated the project. “Instead of [doctors] explaining to the patient and his family what catheterization is and telling them [after the procedure] what was done, they can now see it for themselves on their iPads in a totally visual, clear and professional manner. This is a different kind of experience that enables the performance of medicine at eye level.” 


5.Israel, China Team up For New Auto Brand


Shalom Life: On November 28, Chinese auto maker Chery Automobile Co. along with Israeli holding company Israel Corp., announced their intent to launch a new automotive brand which will focus on the western European and Chinese domestic markets. According to a statement released by Qoros Automotive Co. - the name given to the joint effort between the two firms – Qoros plans to introduce a new compact sedan in Western Europe and China in 2013. The two corporations have invested $500 million in Qoros since it was founded in 2007.


6.Albanian PM: Ahmadinejad is the new Nazi


He may be a Muslim country's leader, but that doesn't stop him from voicing pro-Israel opinions. Albania's PM Sali Berisha views Iran as biggest threat to world peace, opposes Palestinian statehood bid. "Iran and its leader, Ahmadinejad, are the new Nazis, and the world must learn from the Holocaust and stop them before it's too late," Berisha says in an interview to Yedioth Ahronoth. "The Holocaust taught the free world's conscience not to let such a scenario repeat itself." COMMENT: Miracles never cease....


7.Israel Receives Award from South Korea


South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday will award Dr. Ya'akov Cohen of the Hebrew University's East Asian Studies Department a top award for his work in advancing relations between Israel and his country. The award, called the Order of Civil Merit - Order of Magnolia, will be present to Cohen for “his contributions in advancing knowledge of Korea among students and his strengthening ties between Israel and Korea – as a Holocaust survivor, as former Israeli ambassador to Korea, and as a senior lecturer at Hebrew University.” Cohen is the first and only Israeli so far to receive this award.


When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant. 


1.Did you know that congressmen are not liable to insider trading laws? Any congressman or woman can receive valuable information about something about to happen to a stock. This is why so many congressman enter service and leave it millionaires. The gift of legal insider information has rendered the majority of congressmen millionaires. Congressmen, in effect, ARE the rich and they are simply protecting themselves and guarding their insider trading millions. PG: hard to believe http://www.marketwatch.com/story/congressional-insider-trading-the-story-sticks-2011-11-16

2.DURBAN - The world is getting hotter, with 2011 one of the warmest years on record, a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday. Russia experienced the largest variation from average, with its northern parts seeing January to October temperatures about 4 degrees C higher in several places, it said. UN scientists said in a separate report this month an increase in heat waves is almost certain, while heavier rainfall, more floods, stronger cyclones, landslides and more intense droughts are likely across the globe this century as the Earth's climate warms. Read more http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=247497

3. Bret Stephens (WSJ) disagrees. "A funny thing happened on the way to the climate apocalypse. Namely, the financial apocalypse. The U.S., Russia, Japan, Canada and the EU have all but confirmed they won't be signing on to a new Kyoto. The Chinese and Indians won't make a move unless the West does. The notion that rich (or formerly rich) countries are going to ship $100 billion every year to the Micronesias of the world is risible, especially after they've spent it all on Greece." PG: We humbly admit being unqualified to evaluate. The only certainty is that the weather is changing, our kids are facing a massive debt challenge and in times like these it is good to remember there have always been times like these. 


4.The Iranian government calls it the Family Protection Bill, but activists call it the “Anti-Family Protection Bill.” It would give men the right to take a second wife without the permission of the first, and it would enshrine a man’s right to have an unlimited number of temporary marriages, which can last from 10 minutes to 99 years. Those arrangements come from Shariah law and have always existed in Iran, but the Family Protection Bill would make them official. PG: These guys are obsessed with spreading their seed, on earth and in heaven.


5.The Times reported on Wednesday that the mysterious explosion that rocked the city of Isfahan two days ago struck the uranium conversion facility located just outside Iran's third-largest city. According to the British newspaper, satellite images clearly show billowing smoke and destruction, despite Iran's claim that no such blast had taken place. The Times quoted Israeli intelligence officials as saying there was "no doubt" that the blast struck the nuclear facilities at Isfahan and that it was "no accident."


6.There is a large quantity of disinformation with regards to Iran and its nuclear facilities. Contrary  is no need for an Iragi type strike against the nuclear facilities in Iran. Unnoticed by the majority of the media, Israel, the US and the UK are waging a full scale war against Iran. This includes sanctions (which by the way are working) and cyber warfare in the form of the Stuxnet, and now the Duqu viruses. This is accompanied by a covert warfare machine (explosions and asassinations) which is wreaking havoc in the nuclear and missile facilities in Iran. Iran is also very aware that Israel leads the world with a technology known as EMP (Electromagnetic pulse). So if Adolf Ahminedejad thinks the Jews will go quietly, good luck with that.  


7.US Secretary of Defence, Leon Panetta is once again scolding Israel. According to Panetta it is Israel who is isolating itself in the region and it is up to the Israeli's to get with the program and reconcile differences with Turkey and Egypt. As for the so-called peace process with the Palestinians he said "Get to the damned table!" PG: Election time in the US, so Obama will talk about how dedicated he is to Israel's security, and send his poodle, Panetta, to prepare the groundwork for after the elections. Don't shoot the messenger, he is only doing as instructed by his boss.


8.PG: We cannot ignore the hypocrisy of the above statements. It was Panetta himself, as the then head of the CIA, who warned Obama of the consequences of throwing Mubarak under the bus and thus kick-starting the Islamic Spring. Since then, under the guise of democracy we now see the non-democratic Muslim Brotherhood winning elections in Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt. All of them aligned with Hamas. Definitely springtime for them. As for Abbas (the palestinian) to quote him at the UN "we will not recognize a Jewish State in Palestine, not now...not ever". So to compound the foreign policy mismanagement by this administration, they are now blaming Israel for the isolation. Pathetic.


9.And the poodle is now being followed by the other kowtowing ingrate, Hillary. She picked on several Jerusalem buses, used mainly by hareidi religious passengers who prefer separate seating for men and women as a matter of modesty. Although the courts have ruled that the seating is legal only if it is accepted by the passengers, and although the number bus lines involved represent a tiny fraction of Israel’s transportation system, Clinton pounced on the issue.
It's reminiscent of Rosa Parks," she said, referring to a black woman who refused to give up her seat to white passengers in the United States in the 1950s. PG: The tactic is becoming clearer. Get a life Hillary!


 Be delighted that the future is unsure. Thats's the way it should be - Unknown

It's not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame - The Anonymous Politician

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant. 


1.Reuters: Medical sources in Cairo report rising death toll as police and military forces charge activists calling on ruling generals to hand power over to civilian gov't; military rulers say violence will not delay elections. At least 45 people are said to have died. PG: The majority of protesters were Muslim Brotherhood. We repeat: What is happening in Egypt has nothing to do with democracy. Its a face-off between the MB and the military, who have no intention of releasing the reigns of power.


2.A retired New York City police officer living in Florida has been ordered to take down his flag commemorating September 11 by his homeowners’ association, WPLG reports. 
Wentz said he ran into Tower 1 and started pulling out people before the building collapsed. He said he lost 43 friends and colleagues that day. Wentz says he now has cancer, from breathing in all the particles during the cleanup of Ground Zero. "I will not take that flag down. That flag will remain up. I don't care how many fines they want to give me, I refuse to take that down," Wentz told the station. PG: I don't know whats happening to the US, but its time for Americans to take their country back. 
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/20/retired-police-officer-reportedly-told-to-remove-flag-honoring-victims-11/?test=latestnews#ixzz1eI3ySXD5


3.BEIJING—China had its first monthly outflow of foreign currency since 2007 in October, signaling that global investors are pulling out money on fears over the global economy and reduced expectations that the yuan will appreciate. Inflows of capital into China have been slowing in recent months as enthusiasm about the Chinese economy has cooled and as many global investors repatriate funds to meet liquidity squeezes in their home markets, economists say. PG: An important indicator


4.A new iPad app developed in Israel lets patients watch angioplasties live. Thanks to technology developed at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Israel, the relatives – and even the alert patient in the operating theater – will be able to view the whole process on their iPad screens.From now on, family members anxious about a patient undergoing a coronary catheterization or angioplasty with the insertion of a stent do not have to wait until the procedure is over to find out how it went. PG: We need to start a new blog "Only in Israel..."


5.Parliamentary elections in Egypt hailed by the media as historical. For the record Egypt has always had parliamentary elections under the watchful eye of the President. The only difference is that the Muslim Brotherhood is now participating and will likely win a majority. The MB have just won a majority in Morocco and the Islamists also control Tunisia. PG: There must be a trend here somewhere.....Looks like the Islamic Spring is on track.


6.Stratfor:  How exactly the Egyptian parliament turns out is, of course, the main question on everyone’s mind. But the military regime does appear so far to have the controls in place to shape the results and allow for a largely weak and ineffective civilian face to be put on the government while keeping that core regime structure in place. PG: There are 18 million inhabitants in Cairo alone. The demonstrations in Tahrir Square numbered at most, 100,000. Despite CNN trying to create a different impression, it appears that the Egyptian street is sick and tired of the BS.



7.A large explosion rocked the western Iranian city of Isfahan, semi-official FARS news reported Monday afternoon. According to the report, the blast occurred shortly after 2:00 p.m. FARS did not reveal the cause of the explosion, which was large enough to be heard throughout Iran's third largest city. PG: The Iranians have since denied it. Within a week the Iranians have threatened Israel with 30,000 suicide bombers, 150,000 missiles, the targeting of Israel's nuclear arsenal and now are threatening NATO defences in Turkey. Meantime the bombs seem to be exploding in Iran. We are well aware that Iran's intelligence services follow this blog (most blogs that discuss Iran). So the Peanut Gallery can confirm for them that an explosion did take place in Isfahan and it wasn't an accident.


8.A Norwegian newspaper is reporting Anders Breivik will not stand trial for July's mass shooting and bombing attack in Norway. A psychiatric assessment out today concludes he is insane, and thus, not fit to stand trial. Instead he'll be sentenced to treatment at a psychiatric hospital. PG: Israel's jails are full of these lunatics, maybe Norway would take care of some them......


9.WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices are falling again in most major cities after posting small gains over the summer and spring, the latest evidence that the troubled housing market won't recover any time soon. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index released Tuesday showed prices dropped in September from August in 17 of the 20 cities tracked. Atlanta, San Francisco and Tampa posted the biggest monthly price declines. Prices in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Phoenix fell to their lowest home point since the housing crisis began four years ago.
Prices rose in New York, Portland and Washington.


Some days you're a bug. Some days you're a windshield - Price Cobb

Brainless

1.U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was deeply concerned about the continued euro zone crisis, blaming it on a lack of political will, and that market turmoil would continue until Europe has a concrete plan to deal with its debt woes. COMMENT: Look whose talking.....

2.Iran's armed forces chief of staff denies explosion that killed 17 Revolutionary Guard troops had any link "to Israel or America." Hassan Firouzabadi, quoted by the student news agency ISNA said "This recent incident and blast has no link to Israel or America but the outcome of the research, of which the incident happened as a consequence, could be a strong smack to the mouth of Israel and its occupying regime," he said. COMMENT: Israel needs a few more smacks in the mouth like that. Excellent research technique. Keep it up.

3.He was caught with his pants down. A pilot who accidentally locked himself in the bathroom of his LaGuardia-bound plane caused a terror scare last night when a helpful passenger with an accent tried to come to his rescue by banging on the cockpit door. The embarrassing comedy of errors began when the captain of a Chatauqua Airlines flight from Asheville, N.C., decided to take a bathroom break before landing. Read more www.nypost.com/p/news/local/flight_scared_tless_NCATGVoOq9V6WgWjVwszRJ

4.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal hailed a new Palestinian partnership Thursday when they met in Cairo to discuss a reconciliation pact signed seven months ago, AFP reported. Mashaal said the two had turned a new page in relation to the Palestinian nation while Abbas, who heads Fatah, explained that "there are no more differences between us now." COMMENT: Give them five minutes........


5.A senior military advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warned Saturday that Tehran would retaliate against an Israeli military strike by hitting back at nuclear facilities in Israel. Former head of the Guards' Political Bureau Brigadier Yadollah Javani said, "If Israel fires [a] rocket at one of our nuclear facilities or vital centers, it should know that any point of Israel, such as its nuclear facilities, would be a target for our rockets and we have [that] capability," Iranian news agency ISNA reported. COMMENT: If they have this ability then why do they need to build a bomb? 


6.Hamas Politburo chief Khaled Mashaal:"Why should we be afraid? The Israeli enemy is trampling over the Palestinian people's rights on a daily basis, Israel continues to exercise its aggression and is hurting the Palestinian people's rights," he said. COMMENT: So what are Palestinian rights according to Hamas? Trample Israel....keep on trampling their rights!


7.Miley Cyrus is throwing her support behind the Occupy Wall Street movement with a video for a remix of her tune “Liberty Walk.” The singer used footage of real Occupy protests to create the clip.  “This is dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in…” read the words that flash across the screen at the beginning of the video. COMMENT: A modern day Robin Hood with a twist. Stealing from the poor little rich kids and lining her pockets at the same time, using technology created by the 1% (or 15%). This kid makes American banks look look like Hannah Montana.....


The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them - Queen Victoria



It's not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame - Anonymous politician 

Dear Mr. President.....

This article from March has received thousands of hits...clearly it has struck a chord

MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011

Dear Mr. President....

Dear Mr. President,
                            Many people are blaming you for the fire sweeping the arab world, and for the position the US finds itself today, both economically and politically. To be honest, you inherited a difficult situation. And to be brutally honest, you have mismanaged nearly everything on your plate. If any of this is incorrect, please accept my apologies. 

At the beginning of your presidency you travelled to Egypt, embraced your long term ally, Hosni Mubarak and spoke with sincerity to the muslim world. I watched the speech. You then looked him in the eye and gave Mubarak a warm handshake. What followed is history. In the blink of an eye, Mubarak was thrown under a bus, insulted and humiliated by your excellency on national TV. This was preceded by the now infamous trip to Saudi Arabia. Imagine that, Mr. Obama, bowing  to King Abdullah. The same king, who recently watched your (in his eyes) betrayal of his fellow dictator, Mubarak. I wonder what he must be thinking today? In fact, what are all US allies thinking today?

So why did Mubarak refuse to take calls from the White House? Unimportant you say. Not to US allies, its not. Maybe we are looking at the situation through CNN eyes. Could it be possible that Mubarak and the rest of the dictators have a pretty good idea of what is out there. For example, Sheik Yusf Quaradawi, the most important cleric in Islam banned for decades by Egypt returned to adoring crowds in Tahrir square. His most famous quote "Hitler put them in their place". (Please read further Dr.Harold Brackman's report for The Simon Wiesenthal Centre on The Brotherhood - outstanding).

Maybe, just maybe, Mubarak was well aware of some of  the animals in his country who cheered his downfall by sexually assaulting Lora Logan during their celebration, screaming Jew, Jew, Jew! What you definitely do know, Mr. President, is that black peoples of all races are regarded as inferior class humans under Islam, in keeping with Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. You also know how many American lives have been saved by Mubarak's intelligence services in the war against terror. Your CIA would also have informed you that Mubarak was dying of a terminal disease. 

So in case his excellency doesn't get it yet, lets try it from a westerners point of view. Democracy believes in two things. Peace and freedom. Democratic transitions tend to be the work of generations. …. Mubarak was an authoritarian leader, but he was prudent enough to understand his people's interest in peace (and his own interest as well). In fact, Mubarak was slowly building a middle class. Note all the doctors, lawyers and accountants at the demonstrations. His son, Gamal, was NOT a member of the military, and in his own corrupt way intended to continue the slow march to democracy. The Egyptian economy has been growing by 6-7% p.a. over the last years.

What should you have done Mr. President? ( a popular question often posed by many.) The answer is easy. You should have supported a transition to democracy led by your ally Mubarak. This could have been easily accomplished considering the man is ailing, had already announced his intention not to stand, and together with US aid as leverage.....Well, all it takes is leadership.... Worst case, Mubarak would have fallen, leaving the army in control. Todays situation. The difference being, sir, is that you would not look like a back stabbing, self serving politician being led by the nose by CNN and other "experts" in the media. 

Lets jump to other decisions. The decision to press Israel to freeze settlements for ten months, using the old story used by your ex-allies in The Middle East, and by Tom Friedman of the NYT.. "The settlements are the key to the problem. Remove them and you will have peace", looks more ridiculous by the moment. Sane people mentioned that Israel had removed the settlements in Gaza and was rewarded when thousands of missiles were fired into the south of Israel. Bottom line, The Palestinian Arabs declared a "Day of Rage" against the US, last week, calling you "The black hands in Washington".The settlement freeze only made things worse, giving birth to further arab demands.Another success.

Economically, the decision to focus on your health plan and not on jobs and small business, led to a crash at the polls. Then along comes the new budget plan, and guess what? The plan is once again geared to spending and the next election. When will it become clear to his excellency that the vast majority of Americans are fearfull of a future for their children repaying this enormous debt, and prefer to take the pain now. Astounding that most of the planet have realised this. The "Nation of Islam" have realised this and see it as the right time to strike. The Chinese and Indians are watching in awe as US foreign policy crumbles. Yet you continue to zig zag all over the map trying to get reelected. You sir, are no Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan.

Some free advice, for what its worth, Mr. Obama. Try to clear the air on what you really think. How about statements to the world press that read something like this:

1. I, the president of The United States will do what is necessary to ensure the future of our children, even if it means that I am only a one term president.

2.The United States will not tolerate the rise of extreme radical islamic regimes under the guise of democracy, and will prevent this, using force if necessary.

3.Israel is not an Apartheid State and anybody who thinks so, is delusional.

4.The settlements in Judea and Samaria, as much as I oppose them, are not the reason that peace talks in that area have broken down. Rather, it is the Palestinian refusal to come to the table, that is the core of the problem.

5.The United States will oppose any regime in the Middle East that uses arms and terror to subdue their own populations, for example Libya, Hamas, Hizbullah, Syria and Iran. The leaders of these regimes should leave office right now!

6.The Israel - Palestinian "problem" was created by the dictators and tyrants as a tool to divert the attention of their oppressed populations from the real problem. Today we are witnessing the results.

And the kicker, Mr. Obama

7.The way forward economically, Is for Arab leaders to sign and enforce peace agreements with the only true democracy in the region, Israel. Imagine if all that money spent on weaponry was used for the good of the people.

Keep it simple and stick to the truth. Otherwise the most popular slogan in the next election will be "President Obama, you should leave...right now!"

The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging - Molly Ivins