PITH HELMET

From our friend Hershel Tsvi Yehuda in a pithy response to everything the pro-Palestinean activiists have to say on this very old, very bloody topic:

HISTORY SHOWS THAT THE CONFLICT here in Israel is not over land, but has to do with the inability of our Arabs/Muslim neighbors to recognize that Jews and Christians have any claim, religious or historical, to the land of Israel. Time and time again throughout the middle east, and even now in Asia, it becomes the goal of radical Muslims to destroy religious sites from other religions and build Mosques over them. From the destruction of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan to the constant religious battles in India, and back to the middle east, this history repeats itself over and over again.

But while we are on the subject, let's dig that swimming pool a little deeper, shall we, again from the rife pen of Hershel Tsvi Yehuda:

The first thing to note is that the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the land of Israel predates the settlement movement that started in 1967, and even pre-dates Israel's re-establishment as an independent state in 1948. There were pogroms that included the sadistic rape, murder, dismemberment, and burning of thousands of Jews and their properties here going back to the middle of the 19th century. There was no Israeli state, no settlements, and there was no "occupation" of an Arab people called Palestinians.

Next, it it important to point out that the Palestinian Arabs have been offered a state multiple times and rejected it outright, preferring to wage war on the Jews with the hopes of "throwing them into the sea." The entire land of the British mandate was designated as a Jewish state, and in contradiction to official British policy, 80% of the land was given to the Heshemite monarchy to establish the Kingdom of Jordan (which is now over 80% Palestinian.) Of the 20% of the land remaining, the United Nations (League of Nations at the time) offered partition, half to the Palestinian Arabs, half to the Jews. The Jews accepted the small and virtually indefensible borders and immediately established Israel. The Arabs rejected and sent 5 national armies and legions of Palestinian Arabs to destroy the new Jewish state. Thank G-d, the Jews won, and were happy to have a state even though it did not give them authority over it's most holy sites in Jerusalem.

From 1948 until 1967, after every Jew living in east Jerusalem, the West Bank, or Gaza Strip, (places Jewish families have lived consistently since temple times) had been murdered or exiled, Israel still suffered hundreds of murderous attacks from the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. From bus hijackings resulting in the murder of the passengers, to schools being raided by child murdering terrorists, shootings, bombings, kidnappings and more. All these attacks despite the fact that there was no occupation, no settlements, and the Arabs did not make a single attempt at establishing an independent state called Palestine.

In 1967, when the Arab countries called up their armies and pledged to throw Israel into the sea, Israel launched a pre-emptive attack destroying the Arab armies, and re-claiming the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Since then, Israel re-built Jewish towns (settlements) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, reestablishing ancient Jewish communities from biblical places such as Hebron, Bet El, and Shilo, and Israel finally gained control over it's most holy site, the site of the ancient temple that Jews had been forbidden to visit since the Arabs controlled it in 1948. With Israeli control over all of Jerusalem, Christian and Jewish holy sites were restored and for the first time in many years, all religions had access to their holy sites.

Suddenly the Palestinian Arabs decided that the reason they are murdering Jews is because of the occupation. To reiterate, these attacks had been going on all along, before the West Bank and Gaza Strip were "occupied." Throughout this war of terror, Israel has repeatedly tried negotiating with the Palestinian Arabs. They have been offered a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip 2 times by Israeli leaders, most famously by Prime Minister Ehud Barak who against the security interests of Israel offered them 97% of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a capital in east Jerusalem. The answer Israel received was a "no," and a wave of suicide bombings and shooting attacks that murdered and injured thousands of Israelis.

Read it all.

Q & A MASKING ON A SUMMER DAY

Someone named Willie questions with jarring simplicity:

The Bellicose Augur? This all seems very alarmist. Countless men before you have made the same sort of statements about other immigrant groups and each time they have been wrong. What makes you so certain that you're right in this case?

Other immigrant groups, unlike Islam, don't have a blueprint for militant supremacist expansionism made more dangerous by a trans-national sense of brotherhood and concrete ways to network internationally to facilitate plans to attack non-Muslims; nor do other immigrant groups have a totalitarian fanaticism expressed in myriad ways which all conduce to the various violent attacks on non-Muslims that have been reoccurring, after a respite of a couple of centuries, all over the globe.

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN LIVES ON

WHEN HITLER FIRST "annexed" Austria, they greeted him with cheers! A year later he attacked Poland and Hitler stated that Poland was all he wanted. This was Hitler's militaristic approach. Bit by bit. Lie by lie. Each step of the way, he lied and plotted—and moderate Germans grew prouder with each victory until Hitler did not need to hide his TRUE intent—because THE MOMENTUM and CONFIDENCE of HITLER'S DREAM swept up the Germanic peoples and myth became reality—the long-held dream to rule the world as a SUPERIOR RACE! Or in this case, a pernicious totalitarian total system war & death cult ideology masquerading as a religion, a religion of peace no less. Mohammed is the new Dear Leader.

Wouldn't it be nice if it was just Al Qaeda, or just the Taliban, or Hamas? If the problem could be summed up as "well, it's just those few nasty radicalized extremists and other fringe Islamicists who have hijacked the true, peaceful Islam, it would be nice enough to declare a bank holiday, now wouldn't it?

We must suppose that despite Hitler and his Chamberlain appeasement, it is easier for those who rush to and fro thinking not of Michelangelo, but of how many times they swooned over Snack-n-Blo at some concert, to think in those simplistic "American Idol" terms, preferring to ignore what is going on in Australia, in the UK, in France, in Belgium, in Sweden, in Norway, and Ireland, et cetera...

To repeatedly and resolutely ignore all those cells, the attacks, the riots, the legislative Jihad for sharia, the angry mobs demanding more more more while holding vicious signage calling for death and destruction of their neighbors and their own transplant countries—is to simply comply to the standards of ordinary Germans as was done in the late 1930s. The brighter the light shined on many Islamic organizations which profess to support pluralism, tolerance, and other Western values, the more apparent it becomes that most of these claims are misleading or outright disingenuous.

This article from the Toronto National Post highlights the case of a Canadian Islamic organization that purports to teach young Muslims how to apply Islamic ideas to Canada's pluralistic society. The organization's latest "star" has, according to the article, renounced democracy, praised suicide bombers, and proclaimed "long live the Taliban."

How's that for promoting tolerance and pluralism?

To continually ignore the daily victims in Africa, in India, in Thailand, in Malaysia, in Indonesia, in the Philippines, in Russia, and now even in China a few weeks ago, to not pay attention to the cell in the Bronx or the training camp in upstate NY, to not see the Minnesota and Colorado jihadists mostly from Somalia, the obtuse meat handlers and the cabbies, and now this ethnically-mixed North Carolina Group, to PUT all this evidence aside as "Just a Few Extremists" or Man Made Disasters as the Obama administration with its so-called mandate likes to call them, is beyond asinine—it smacks of a global conspiracy, and strong delusion in our midst. A quick glance at the OIC camp in the United Nations is all one needs to "connect the goddamned dots" as the steel and gristle rock band Ministry once put it...

Nobody's fool, Winston Churchill, tried to warn his own country and its allies long before it was considered real politik to do so, but to no avail. His own time in the British service prepared him a clear mind and strong resolve, and it is often said that Churchill single-handedly saved Great Britain from Nazi domination. So when Hitler's diabolical push remained unchecked by the appeasing policies of a squeamish Neville Chamberlain, who is forever tarred by the shame of his own poltical cowardice masked by strong delusions of playing nice to the wrong set of people in the wrong set of circumstances. Today we wrestle with the same dogmatic insistence that peace is always at hand if we would just not insist on the path of our ancestors, and instead, give way to the new, the foreign, the exotic charms of some advancing and increasingly dangerous demagogue. And Islam is not even secretive about it's own supremacist notions, but still the West persists in ignoring the warning signs of our own destruction.

In the spirit of the old Beach Boys tune, "Wouldn't it be nice to think 'Oh well, the trouble in Gaza is just about LAND..."

Yes. It would be nice to think that, if the reality did not mean death to OUR CHILDREN'S and HUMANITY'S FUTURE. Perhaps not today, nor tomorrow, so sure why not simply go about about our lives. Why fret about things we cannot change or affect? We will probably be old and grey when the world is finally...

...oops, as per the Qu'ran all Islamic, all bowing to Allah, and all hail to Mohammed, may peace be upon him, who cares?

Me? I will be dead. But you can tell your children you heard it, but chose not to SEE. You Heard it, but, did nothing because you really didn't know what to do, did you?

Just like most Europeans and Americans in the lead up to WWII, only this time there is no USA to jump in to save the day, for America too, has sold her soul, has bankrupted its coffers in pursuit of the so-called Almighty Dollar, and rock stars, and head shrinks, and beer quarrels and rooster fights.

Because there is not going to be a major assault and invasion by soldiers with insignia on their lapels, but the enemy is stealth and is creeping into our lands one and all, nipping at our heals dividing and conquering, distracting and infiltrating, slowly slowly...

Listen, listen. Hear that? Step by step. It's happening. Latest news...

Beheaded Christians

British Muslims quiet after burning of Christians

Hezbollah has stockpiles of 40,000 rockets

Last but not least....

Fatwa on Israel blames Israel for Arafat Death (and global warming)

The preceding article has been adapted from a FB post by Lyn Morales. Many thanks Lyn for continuing to stand up for the truth of our sad times.