By Scott Stearns, VOA NEWS

U.S. President George Bush is in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Washington and Riyadh. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the two leaders are expected to reach agreement on civilian nuclear technology.

They will discuss a deal to help the kingdom develop civilian nuclear power for medical and industrial uses as well as generating electricity. The agreement provides access to safe, reliable fuel sources for nuclear reactors and demonstrates what the Bush Administration calls Saudi leadership as a non-proliferation model for the region.

[I certainly hope McCain disowns this policy. It seems to me that it totally undermines Bush’s stand on Iran’s nuclear development. Nowhere did Bush demand the Saudi Arabia stop financing the spread of Wahhabism or make peace with Israel.]
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By Ted Belman

Obama made a speech today in which he said what he would ask Iran to do in direct talks,

1. Stop demonizing and threatening Israel
2. Stop backing Hezbollah and Hamas
3. Stop supporting the insurgency in Iraq.
4. Stop developing nuclear capability to build a bomb.

Failing which we would get tough with them. Well hello. They know what our demands are and they aren’t meeting them. There is no chance that talking to them will achieve any movement on these demands. So what’s to be achieved by talking. It is totally political to achieve points at home.

So one must ask, “Why talk directly”. How will that help. It will certainly show weakness.

By Ted Belman

Democrats outraged by Bush “appeasement” remark. Bush said,

“America stands with you in breaking up terrorist networks and denying the extremists sanctuary. And America stands with you in firmly opposing Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions. Permitting the world’s leading sponsor of terror to possess the world’s deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations. For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”

And: “Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” he said. “We have heard this foolish delusion before.”

“As Nazi tanks crossed in Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

This outrage is without merit.
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The mere idea of any man or sweetie woman in uniform having to address this two-bit fraud as “Sir” is sickening and repugnant.

Copying (not linking, it uses this site’s bandwidth) and circulation is encouraged.

By Ted Belman

Will Israel and the US take down Iran and its proxies? This is the question everyone speculates on. Planned US Israeli Attack on Iran: Will there be a War against Iran? by Michel Chossudovsky was just published by Global Research which is a Centre for Research on Globalization.

[..] A war on Iran has been envisaged since the mid-1990s as part of a strategic “sequencing” of theater operations. During the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had formulated “in war theater plans” to invade first Iraq and then Iran:

“The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the President’s National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman’s National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United States Central Command’s theater strategy. The NSS directs implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens. Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM’s theater strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States’ vital interest in the region - uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil.”

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By Ted Belman

After staying away from the issue for years, I finally raised the issue in Could Hagee’s embrace be a Trojan horse? and in Evangelicals and Proselytizing.

The LA times recently published Messianic campaign spreading the news to the Jews?

“5.4 million Jews live in Israel today — more than in any period throughout history, but only 0.1% of them believe” in Jesus, says an internal memo of Israel’s messianic communities announcing a campaign to spread the gospel throughout the country’s Jewish residents. Anti-missionary circles say their “intelligence people” intercepted the “shocking memo” (Hebrew) that also expressed concern over legislators’ support for a bill seeking to tighten restrictions on missionary activity, already outlawed in Israel.

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By JASON L. RILEY, WSJ
May 15, 2008; Page A17

So, whatever happened to immigration as a presidential campaign issue?

[After discussing how the issue has all but disappeared due mainly to the fact that American’s do not want to deport the aliens, Riley goes on to address the success of Latino integration over the generations and then attacks the liberals who favour multiculturalism.]

The reality, however, is that the longitudinal studies show real socio-economic progress by Latinos. Progress is slower in some areas, such as the education level of adult immigrants, and faster in others, such as income and homeownership rates. But there is no doubt that both assimilation and upward mobility are occurring over time.
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By Joel Mowbray, Washington Times
May 15, 2008

In a particularly harsh New York Times column, Frank Rich recently painted a persuasive portrayal of high-profile evangelical Christian minister John Hagee as a nutty anti-Catholic bigot who does not like Jews, either. Simply put, it is a lie. Certain facts cited are, in fact, true. The most damning “facts,” however, are not. Therein lies the problem.

Mr. Rich flipped the truth on its head — and it would stretch credulity to think he made an honest mistake. In the YouTube video the Times columnist parades as evidence of bigotry, Mr. Hagee is actually doing what he has done for decades: combating anti-Semitism. In other words, Mr. Rich branded Mr. Hagee a bigot when, in fact, he was actually fighting bigotry.
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Terrorists greeted George W. Bush’s visit to Israel by shooting a rocket into an Ashkelon mall and injuring dozens. Could there be a better metaphor for the failed peace process?

by Allison Kaplan Sommer, PajamasMedia, May 15, 2008

The picture on the front pages of the Israeli newspapers on Thursday should have been of President Bush’s arrival in Jerusalem — after all, it’s not every day that the leader of the free world visits this small nation, to whom U.S. support is so critical. But no: the photograph that graced the cover of Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s highest circulation newspaper, was instead a close-up of a tiny shoe cradled in an adult hand. It was a small sandal belonging to a little girl, which must have originally been white, but was now soaked red with blood with a huge gash down the middle. Clearly it belonged to a child who was one of the 69 people injured, some severely, when a Katushya Grad missile fired from Gaza hit an Ashkelon shopping center. The headline above the picture: “How the Trip to the Mall Ended.”
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by Jerry Gordon

Watch the video here of President Bush’s speech to the Knesset yesterday that ’so outraged’ Senator Obama and the Democratic Party elite. The Huffington Post, bastion of dhimmi left radicals blared:”Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers”. Read the transcript here.

Then ask yourself what ’so enraged’ Obama to pop off and beat up on Bush. With the exception of one paragraph ,regarding the faint hope of democracy blooming in the autocratic Muslim Middle East and the rise of a virtually non-existent Palestinian state, this was a fairly supportive Zionist speech. Whoever wrote it did a commendable job.

Senator Joseph Lieberman opined on the needless hyped kerfuffle:

“President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and that holds that–if only we were to sit down and negotiate with these killers–they would cease to threaten us. It is critical to our national security that our commander-in-chief is able to distinguish between America’s friends and America’s enemies, and not confuse the two.”

A tip of the hat to Dr. Michael Welner who urged me to watch and read the Bush Knesset speech and post both for you to form your opinion.

By Israel Zwick, CN Publications,

It isn’t necessary to be an expert in governmental relations to realize that an Arab state in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza would be an administrative and economic disaster. Any observant tourist who spends two weeks traveling around Israel and the Arab areas can easily determine that independently.

On page 68, of The Israel-Arab Reader, Seventh Edition, edited by Walter Laquer and Barry Rubin, I discovered a little snippet of Israeli history that is little known and seemingly insignificant. It is widely known that in 1947, the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) recommended that that the British Palestine Mandate “be constituted into an Arab State, a Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem.” This was the opinion of the seven majority members of the Committee. What is little known is that three members of the Committee released a minority proposal:
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By: Aaron Eitan Meyer

We are involved in a war of ideas. Anyone at all informed of the issues that comprise the current struggle between Western democracy and Islamism is well aware of the fact that, at its core, the battle is being fought not merely over land or anything tangible, but about fundamental beliefs, and the right to hold them. Ideas, of course, manifest as words, though they are often translated into actions.

This is perhaps clearest in the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is often currently (mis-) referred to as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict or some form of those two words. The difference in terminology should not merely be of interest to students of rhetoric, or linguists. That difference represents a key element of the overall conflict – and a battle which we are losing.
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Cinnamon Stillwell

According to the Mount Vernon Gazette, twenty-two soldiers from Fort Belvoir in Fairfax, Virginia just graduated from the nearby Islamic Saudi Academy’s “Arabic as a Second Language” program, where they also learned about “Middle Eastern culture and traditions.”

While this would sound fairly harmless on the surface (and Arabic language instruction is certainly needed in the U.S. military), it turns out this school has Wahhabi skeletons in its closet.
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Paul Eidelberg

Delusion: “A persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of psychiatric disorder.”

Israel’s government, as well as its rightwing critics, suffer from a delusion. During the past three decades, regardless of which party or party coalition has controlled the government, its ruling elites persist in the futile and fatal policy of “land for peace.”

Rightwing critics of this policy also suffer from a delusion. For more than thirty years they have been playing on the turf of the enemy—on the territorial issue. Despite all their fine essays, their petitions, their newspaper ads—yes, despite all their patriotic protest demonstrations—Israel’s government has never deviated from its suicidal policy of territorial retreat. The critics know this, but they remain fixed on the plying ground of this government.
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The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called for Israel to take military action in Gaza in order to secure Israeli cities and towns like Sderot and Ashkelon from incessant Palestinian rocket attacks, following today’s hit upon Ashkelon by a Grad rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza. Rocket attacks have been incessant upon Israel since Israel evacuated Gaza unilaterally in September 2005, but have increased in number and expanded to include cities like Ashkelon, which was struck today by a rocket fired from Gaza. Over 5,000 rockets, amounting to some five to fifteen rockets per day, have been fired into Israel in recent years.
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By Ted Belman

I received this email today which is in two parts. First it is a discussion of Michelle Obama’s thesis. Then there is a note from Missionaries who have livede in Kenya for 20 years and know Obama’s family well, including Raila Odinga.
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In her senior thesis at Princeton, Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’. Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘ineradicably racist’. The 1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’ was written under her maiden name, Michelle La Vaughn Robinson. Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘Whites at Princeton , it often seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first…’ However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, ‘If those ‘Whites at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle as one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that she gave them that impression’. Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms ’separationist’ and ‘integrationist’ when describing the views of black people.
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by Bill Levinson
(Copying, paraphrasing, and circulation of the following is encouraged)

Hillary Clinton and Paul Begala have been criticized for saying that Barack Obama cannot win the votes of white working people. The truth is, however, that Barack Obama bears the primary and perhaps the sole responsibility for turning this election into an issue of race, as well as gender and religion. The issue has nothing to do with the color of Obama’s skin, and everything to do with the content of his character (or lack thereof). (Read more…)

By Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast, May 15, 2008

Act for America commissioned a national polling organization, Moore Information, to conduct a survey of Americans on ten Islamist issues using a random sample of 800. The polling was conducted April 14 to 16, 2008.

The Moore Information survey results were released on May 14th and ACT for America executive director, Guy Rodgers, briefed ACT for America members during a conference call Town Hall Forum. Over 1,400 members signed up to participate in the Town Hall.

The following is a summary of results:
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That’s right, Barry; it’s about race, by your choice
by Bill Levinson

That’s right, we said white. Furthermore, Obama does not deserve the vote of any Catholic, Jew, or self-respecting African-American. The reason has nothing to do with the color of his skin, and everything to do with the content (or lack thereof) of his character.

We can already hear the bleats of “racism” from the Obama camp: “Why won’t you vote for Obama? Do you have a problem with Black people?” We invite African-Americans to consider the following scenario. A candidate of the Caucasian persuasion has, for the past twenty years, belonged to the World Church of the Creator (aka the Creativity movement) whose theology is “a racial religion whose prime goal is the survival, expansion and advancement of the White Race.” He has also taken his family to World Church of the Creator meetings on numerous occasions, and founder Ben Klassen performed his wedding. (Said candidate claims, however, to disagree frequently with the ideology of Ben Klassen and Matt Hale). Then the candidate attends a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan where he poses arm in arm with the Grand Wizard while proclaiming, “The Grand Wizard is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What the Ku Klux Klan has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up.” The candidate equivocates about rejecting an endorsement from Tom Metzger of the White Aryan Resistance until he is backed into a corner on national television. A while later, he makes a remark about “bitter inner-city people” who “cling to drugs and gang behavior.”
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All honour to Harper’s Conservative Government. Long may it reign.

Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) commends the Canadian Government for announcing plans to create an education program and memorial to commemorate the ill-fated voyage of the St. Louis, back in 1939. The St. Louis was a ship filled with 907 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. Sadly, the Canadian government of the day under Prime Minister MacKenzie King denied the ship entry into Canada. Similar denials of entry came from the United States and Cuba. The ship was eventually sent back to Europe resulting in the annihilation of most of the Jewish refugees during the resulting Holocaust.
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