Zalmi's Weblog

Global Warning

2008-04-06T08:47:00.006Z

This snowscene is my high street in London this Sunday morning, 6th April 2008.

First day of Nissan 5768.

Two weeks before Pesach.

And in a leap year!

Perhaps what Al Gore's been spouting is more than just hot air.
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"Mr Security" feels the heat

2008-04-05T21:18:00.004Z

It is the prayer of all those poor Israeli citizens whom the Kadima government has thrown out of their homes and left to shelter in tents. It's also the prayer of residents of Sderot abandoned by the cabinet to a life under constant rocket fire; for which Olmert told them last month he had no solution and which they would simply have to get used to.

And the prayer?

Simply that those heartless and spineless ministers who make these callous decisions from the comfort and safety of their cabinet room should just once come under fire themselves and feel what it is really like for ordinary folk.

Happily their prayers have been answered, and in the best possible way.

Who better to fall victim than "Mr Security" himself - former Shin Bet chief, Avi Dichter.

And not just once - but twice!

A month ago an Iranian-made long-range Grad rocket landed within yards of Dichter's family home in Ashkelon. And just yesterday morning he again came under fire from Gaza whilst visiting a lookout point north of Gaza. Fortunately the snipers caused only light injury to one of Dichter's security men, but it is to be hoped the bullets will hit more vital organs within the Israeli cabinet.

Here is an extract of an interview Dichter gave to the Independent newspaper in August 2005 in support of the Gaza disengagement:

He[Dichter] argues that withdrawing from Gaza drastically reduces the "carpet of targets" open to militants in Gaza in the first place. He is optimistic that there won't be an organised outbreak of violence - as opposed to sporadic attacks like that on Kfar Darom yesterday - during the disengagement process against settlers and soldiers by Palestinian militants, who have been warned to expect heavy retaliation if there is. More importantly perhaps, he is sceptical that there will be after disengagement too.

Almost every settler you speak to in Gaza mentions the likelihood that Hamas will soon have the range to fire Qassams at Mr Dichter's own home town. Yet he professes bemusement that the international community sometimes seems disproportionately exercised about the militants' use of its makeshift artillery when its success has been so - relatively - small.

"From 600 to 700 Qassam rockets fired we suffered eight fatalities and from 3,500 mortar shells we suffered five fatalities. Which is one suicide bomber."

By contrast, he says, without withdrawing from Gaza the militants can attack both Israeli settlements and military positions. "They can use snipers on the settlements and the vehicles on the road. They know that they can put some bombs along the Green Line against Israeli military vehicles. Which means the probability to hit civilians or carry out successful terror attacks, is going to decrease dramatically."

And this man is now Minister for Israel's Internal Security.

Home-Produced Dreck

2008-04-03T23:03:00.006Z

This is a collage of the British-born and educated Islamist excrement that has just gone on trial here in the UK for plotting the simultaneous bombing of multiple passenger airliners in flight across the Atlantic.

Having just returned on a flight from New York makes the sight of this "dreck" even more chilling. The discovery of this suicide plot is what caused the ban on liquids being carried aboard flights. I remember my strong feelings when taking a flight in the midts of that alert; feelings which remain with me each time I stand in an airport security line.

It is well worthwile recalling the sentiments I blogged at the time HERE

The Greatest Prize of All

2008-03-24T20:31:00.010Z

Notice the rapprochement that is going on between former enemies in the Middle East.

The Sunni royals in Saudi Arabia, who most fear Iranian hegemony in the region, have been maintaining cordial contacts with Nazi President Ahmadinejad since he visited Mecca for the Hajj.

Earlier this month Ahmadinejad went to Baghdad. In the first state visit between the countries for 40 years, Iran’s Shiite despot was warmly welcomed by Iraq’s Kurdish president Jalal Talebani.

Relationships between Iran and Syria have been cemented by Russia which protects them both from any threat of serious sanctions for nuclear weaponisation or state sponsorship of terrorism.

And now we see moves by our supposed “peace partner” Mahmoud Abbas to reconcile his duplicitous and corrupt Fatah organisation with the terrorist leadership of Hamas in Gaza.

Why are all these bitter rivals and previously sworn enemies burying so many old hatchets?

The answer is simple.

For the first time in 60 years, all these people truly and deeply believe that they have something much bigger at stake. The chance to realise their most cherished ambition – to win their most coveted prize. The erasure of the State of Israel and its people.

But, why should our enemies believe this now? At such a time when Israel has never been better armed and equipped to defend itself?

The answer is simple.

They have watched and listened very carefully.

They watched Israel declare war on her own people in surrendering control of Gaza without a single Arab shot being fired.

They listened to Olmert saying he is “tired of fighting and tired of winning” and watched this self-defeating prophecy being played out in the disastrous Lebanon War.

They observe that Israel is not even prepared to retaliate against rocket attacks on her southern cities, and responds simply by moving families further north and upgrading bomb shelters.

And they marvel that even the slaughter of 8 teenage yeshiva students goes unpunished and is quickly forgotten by Israel’s leaders as they revert to their mantra of surrendering ever more land as if this will make any difference.

Everyone has a vested interest in Israel’s defeat.

Iran needs to enact its messianic apocalypse and Russia needs to make up for its humiliation in the region during the 1967 war.

And by showing weakness and appeasement, this misbegotten government of Israel has given our enemies more hope and motivation than ever before that their ultimate prize is now within reach.

A Worried Man

2008-03-23T09:12:00.009Z

Why is this man worried?

Should we share his concerns?

Click the photo, listen what he has to say, and decide for yourself.

Is Britain Anti-Semitic ?

2008-03-22T22:26:00.019Z

The British government’s ban on Moshe Feiglin from entering the UK is symptomatic of a deep and institutional prejudice against Israel. Feiglin is best known for running second to Benjamin Netanyahu in the last Likud leadership primary.

The ban is remarkable for a number of reasons. Firstly that it was pre-emptive. Feiglin had not even applied for a visa, nor had any plans to enter the UK. Secondly that it came to light in the week that Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim Mousawi - already banned in the US and Ireland - was allowed free entry to lecture students in British universities. Mousawi’s visa had been approved despite strong media protests and within weeks of bitter parliamentary exchanges over a repeat visit by London Mayor Livingtone’s favourite Islamic cleric, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, whom Hamas leader Khaled Mesh’al praised for his support of suicide bombers.

Compared to such rabid preachers of the Jihad, Moshe Feiglin comes across more like Mother Teresa. It’s therefore remarkable that the Home Office took the opposite view and considered this man such a danger to public order that they didn’t even risk him turning up at their consulate in Tel Aviv. Instead they located his modest address on a Samarian hilltop and mailed him that personal and pre-emptive ban.

The truth is that Feiglin is just the latest victim of a British boycott movement that leads the free world in the barring of Israeli personalities, academics and products. In April 2005 the Association of British University Teachers voted to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities. In April 2006 the National Union of Journalists presumed to censure Israel’s ‘savage, pre-planned attack on Lebanon’ and called for a boycott of Israeli goods and sanctions by the British government and the UN. Then the University Lecturers Union condemned Israel’s ‘40-year occupation of Palestinian land and the complicity of Israeli academics’. It voted for a ‘comprehensive and consistent boycott’ of all Israeli academic institutions.

With pressure from Jewish advocacy groups and sympathetic parliamentarians, those votes were ultimately overturned. However, in a country replete with unions and NGOs infiltrated by leftists and antiwar campaigners it is only a question of time before the next visceral attack on Israel. One of Britain’s best known relief charities is ‘War on Want’. Its charter states that it was set up ‘to relieve poverty distress and suffering in any part of the world’. However, its website shows an obscenely disproportionate amount of space, campaigning and film footage devoted to Israel. I searched the site for the word ‘Israel’ and came up with 323 entries. The word ‘Darfur’ returned not one single entry.

And it’s not just Israeli academics and products that are singled out for British discrimination. IDF soldiers are also at risk. In September 2005 retired Maj. Gen. Doron Almog came to London to support a handicapped children’s association. He was tipped off that a London magistrate had issued an arrest warrant on trumped-up war crimes charges brought by ‘The Palestinian Center for Human Rights’ (the best oxymoron I’ve heard this year). Almog had to sit tight in the El Al plane until it returned to Tel Aviv.

It is one of life’s ironies that Doron Almog was trapped in a plane on a Heathrow runway simply for being an Israeli soldier. If the British police had looked further than the bogus Palestinian charges, they would have found that Almog was a hero of the 1976 Entebbe rescue mission where he was the first to land and secure the airstrip and control tower.

In his formal reply to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Moshe Feiglin writes that the order for his exclusion issued by Her Majesty’s Government only confers legitimacy on the British boycott movement and virtually gives it a Royal Warrant.

Natan Sharansky defines this kind of behavior as the "new anti-Semitism". Whereas classical anti-Semitism is aimed at the Jewish people or the Jewish religion, "new anti-Semitism" is aimed at the Jewish state. He diagnoses this malaise by what he calls his "3D" test - to help us distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism.

The first "D" is the test of demonization. When the Jewish state is being demonized; when Israel's actions are blown out of all sensible proportion; when comparisons are made between Israelis and Nazis and between Palestinian refugee camps and Auschwitz - this is anti- Semitism, not legitimate criticism of Israel.

The second "D" is the test of double standards. When criticism of Israel is applied selectively; when Israel is singled out by the United Nations for human rights abuses while the behavior of genuine abusers, such as China, Iran, Syria and Sudan are ignored - this is anti-Semitism.

The third "D" is the test of delegitimization: when Israel's fundamental right to exist is denied, alone among all peoples in the world - this too is anti-Semitism.

Britain seems to have passed Natan’s test with flying colors.

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This appeared as an Opinion piece in the Jewish Press & Arutz Sheva

The Jewish Problem - 2008

2008-03-13T22:39:00.004Z

During WW2, "The Jewish Problem" was about Nazis needing to do away with the Jews.

70 years later "The Jewish Problem" is about Jews helping Nazis to do away with Israel.

What better way to bridge these two eras than with music?

I give you world famous conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, son of Ashkenazi Jews who married the famous cellist Jacqueline Dupre at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Now in his sixties, Barenboim is a fierce critic of Israel, calling its policies toward Palestinians 'morally abhorrent'. Remember, he was the guy who refused to be interviewed by Israel Army Radio because he was offended by the interviewer's uniform. He goes out of his way to upset his own people, most notably by playing music by Hitler's beloved composer, Richard Wagner at the Israel Festival in Jerusalem.

A best friend of Palestinian activist Edward Said, this mutation of the Jewish Problem adopted honorary Palestinian citizenship after sneaking into Ramallah to conduct a concert for his Arab friends.

For his latest stunt, Barenboim is taking his Palestinian orchestra to the site of the 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin to play more of Hitler's favourite pieces by Wagner. The same strains that were played by the SS as Jews filed into the gas chambers.

And here's the rich bit ... the proceeds of that concert will go to building a new concert hall in Ramallah.

If things run true to form, that concert hall - like most cultural centres, schools and hospitals in the Palestinian territories - will soon be stocked up with weapons and fitted with rocket launchers ready for the next round of Jew killing.

So there you have it. A Jewish boy who was lucky enough to have been born in Argentina in 1942 instead of being gassed in Poland, decides to make his home in Berlin. From there he builds a career which peaks in the playing of Wagner to upset Jewish holocaust survivors and playing it again to raise money for those who wish to wipe out the next generation of Jews.

There you have him.
Daniel Barenboim - icon of the new Jewish Problem.
First citizen of Palestine and frontrunner for president of 'Jews for a Second Holocaust'.

The Furhrer would have laughed heartily.

Obama to the Rescue

2008-03-11T23:24:00.004Z

Today's news is that Presidential candidate Barack Obama has declared that Israel has every right to defend itself.

Well, that's just great.
All we needed to hear.

Perhaps this has been what Mr Olmert has been waiting for all long.
Which would explain why he has done nothing to defend the people of Sderot and Ashkelon until now.

He just wanted permission.

Which prompts me to ask:
What will there be to celebrate this year on Yom Ha-Atzmaut?
60 years of independence, you say?
I say, what independence?

What kind of independence is there when you need the US, UN or EU's approval to defend your own citizens?

And what kind of independence can you claim when, after 60 years, you are still asking your neighbours (and most members of the UN) to acknowledge your right to exist?

So Mr Obama, much as we appreciate your 'leave to defend ourselves' you may rest assured that as soon as a Likud government is restored to power in Israel, it will provide its enemies with lead-jacketed proof of the existence of the Jewish State and its absolute determination to protect and defend its people and homeland with zero tolerance.

A Rabbi's Grief & Wisdom

2008-03-10T11:01:00.000Z

Israel TV sent its hardtalk anchorette Ilana Dayan to the bereaved Yeshivat Mercaz Harav for an interview with Rabbi Weiss, five of whose students were slain on Thursday night.

Turning up at the yeshiva in a trouser suit, the secular Dayan's main questions centred on the strength of faith of surviving students. If you can follow basic Hebrew, the interview and the Rabbi's emotional responses are well worth watching on this video

What struck me most was Dayan's final question and the Rabbi's quite poignant reply, as reproduced here from Arutz Sheva:

Q. I would like to ask you, Rabbi Weiss, if despite all, and with all the faith and values that enwrap you, and all that you know and teach, if despite all, perhaps there was a moment that you felt that you might be on the verge of a break.

A. [after reflection:] I will tell you something that comes from a place that you might not expect. I thought [voice breaking, speaking slowly] that, if this place is hit so strongly, then perhaps, it's not right for me to be here at the head of it. Perhaps someone else is needed who is better than me, someone who might not be hit as bad. And if it's because I'm so good that I'm getting hit, then perhaps that also means that I shouldn't be here.

Q. [emotional herself] It still appears to me that the students of this yeshiva have merited to have an outstanding rabbi and educator. Thank you very much.

Nowhere is Safe

2008-03-09T22:44:00.000Z

I was in Ashkelon at the time of the terrorist attack on Mercaz Harav yeshivah. From a city under rocket fire I drove back to Jerusalem, a city in which these eight defenceless kids had been shot to death in cold blood.

I wondered: Is there anywhere safe in Israel these days outside of the priveleged and impregnable bubble in which Olmert and his lackeys live and work?

The sooner that privelege us taken away from them, the safer our people will be.
In Sderot, Ashkelon, Jerusalem ... and also in the Diaspora, whose Jews have now been marked as a legitimate target by the terrorists who have been empowered by our weakest ever leadership.

A Bitter Irony

2008-03-02T07:30:00.003Z

Witness the plight of the Jewish evacuees, forced out of their homes and farms in Gaza in a vain attempt to appease world opinion. Many of them are still living in tents more than two years after Ariel Sharon's 'disengagement with reality'.

Those fortunate enough to have a solid roof over their heads, are living in these prefabricated houses in the town of Nitzan, just outside Ashkelon.

Whilst they were farming their plots in Gush Katif, things were relatively peaceful and contacts between Jews and Arabs were in the nature of trade and employment.

Everyone acknowledges that the retreat from Gaza was the most monumental mistake, creating a vaccum for Hamas to quickly fill with terror and despair. It seems that only Mr Olmert fails to recognise this mistake, which - even under Gazan rocket fire - he is still so eager to repeat in the West Bank.

If he fails to acknowledge the truth, perhaps he might accept a bitter irony:

The settlers of Gush Katif never came under rocket fire until they returned to Israel proper.

In Olmert's Israel, it may be safer outside the Green Line than in!

At long last...

2008-03-01T22:15:00.002Z

After 18 months of restraint since the end of the Second Lebanon War, Israel is finally having to ‘get serious’ about ending a blitzkrieg that no other country would put up with for more than a few days.

The leaders of the Palestinian Authority [kleptocracy] have immediately announced an end to the ‘peace negotiations’ [a process of arming and funding terrorists in the hope they will turn into civilised people that can be trusted to live alongside Israel] which they say are ‘buried under the rubble’ of the Israeli response.

This means that the PA – which has received more billions in foreign aid than the sum total of the Marshall Plan (after adjustment for inflation) is only prepared to talk peace with Israel if they are allowed to continue randomly rocketing Israeli civilians.

And the Israeli ‘left’ continues to buy into this lunacy.

I look forward to seeing some of the ‘Peace Now’ crowd taking their placards down to the Gaza border. That will put them nicely in range for what they justly deserve.

Fighting Common Foes

2008-02-29T09:19:00.004Z

Letter to The JERUSALEM POST

In response to Larry Derfner’s excellent report on the Darfur refugees in Tel Aviv:
“Ask not what we can do for them – but what they can do for us”.

Unlike those who were lucky enough to be flown into Ben Gurion during operation Moses, these plucky people have risked their lives and suffered beatings and abuse in a two-thousand-mile trek across the desert, finally to dodge the bullets of Egyptian border guards in their last scramble to reach Israel.

And why? To escape Islamic tyranny and return to a life of Christian values which are being ethnically cleansed from their homelands.

What better citizens could Israel hope for? And what better time for us to be welcoming them when the State is under demographic threat of a Muslim majority destabilising it from within?

Just as the escapees from Nazism were drafted into the Haganah from the very beaches they arrived on, these survivors could be drafted into the IDF to join our common fight against Islamism. A war to which most of Europe has still not woken up.

They should be awarded citizenship on completion of their army service which will have usefully familiarised them with the language and culture of the country.

Who knows? Perhaps they will become one of the most feared units in the IDF. And perhaps, in later life, some will take up seats in the Knesset and replace those held by seditious Arab MKs whose 'brotherhood' would have so callously shot the refugees at the Egyptian border.

Happy Valentine's Day

2008-02-14T22:31:00.008Z

Just in time for Valentine's Day, the world's most wanted terrorist Imad Mugniyeh finally gets to meet his 70 virgins.

And - judging by the force of the explosion that killed him - there'll be at least 70 pieces of him to share between them - one for each.

Hark the HOWLS of protest from Hizbullah, Syria and Iran.

We must surely have done something right for a change!

First Blood

2008-02-04T00:03:00.000Z

Consistent with its unashamed policy of wanton surrender of territory and principles, the Olmert government has now agreed to free even those with 'Jewish blood on their hands' in exchange for Gilad Schalit.

Who better to exchange than Olmert himself, whose hands are still warm with the blood of those 33 soldiers he sent to their deaths in the final stages of the Lebanon War, just to make him look good.

I have asked the same question again and again:

"What terrible sin did our people commit to deserve such weak, inept, corrupt and self-hating Jewish leaders?"

The Depths of Depravity

2008-02-03T00:32:00.000Z

Friday's double-suicide bombing in Baghdad and its massive toll of dead and injured would have been just another freeze-frame in the unending newsreel of the Islamic killing-fest; something that has become as common in the West as the daily weather report.

Even the fact of the bombers being women was unremarkable, since they have been regularly used as suicide bombers and couriers for bomb-belts hidden under their hijab robes. (Those are supposed to protect Muslim women from the gaze of other men. Muslim women it seems may be burned but not seen.)

What's so utterly sickening is that these two women had Down's Syndrome and were mentally unable to understand what they were doing or why these devices were being strapped to their bodies.

Even more sickening is that their bombs were triggered by remote control!

Call me naiive, but I have to admit that - beyond even 9/11 - this plunges the inhumanity of Islamic jihadists even further below the sub-bacterial level. What kind of viral effluent does this kind of thing? And in the name of religion?

For many, there is still living memory of such corruption of morality from the Nazi era. Anyone who has visited the Polish concentration camps will see the depths of man's inhumanity to man. (SS officers using newborn Jewish babies as footballs comes readily to mind.)

And as we now witness history repeating itself, with the new fascist leader of the Islamic world having his nuclear weapons fuelled by Russia, it beggars belief that educated people like Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama (all the way down to the self-hating Jewish hacks in the Israeli media) are still saying that 'we must engage with these people'.

But these are not people.
They are less than animals.
Theirs is a culture of deceit, hypocrisy and lies.
Their leaders glorify in death - other than their own.
And it would surprise me not one jot if half the hijabs worn by Islamic wives were to hide the whip marks and blacks eyes inflicted by the cowards they were forced to marry.

So, you wanna engage with these people Miss Pelosi?
Go live with them!
And take your barmy band of blind liberals along with you.

Send us a postcard from the apocalypse!

Whitewash

2008-01-30T16:44:00.006Z

If, like me, you believe that everything that happens in Israel is by divine intervention...

... you have to admire His sense of humour in blanketing Jerusalem in snow on the very day that Winograd was to whitewash Olmert's failings in the Lebanon War.

The UN-pleasant Truth

2008-01-29T23:13:00.000Z

If you've ever wanted to vent about the United Nations and its blatant bias against Israel whilst turning a blind eye to abuses throughout the world, you're in for a treat.

Here's the new executive director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, castigating the UN Commission of Human Rights in Geneva.

Click Here for YouTube clip

Background voices try to stop him halfway through and, when he is finished, the chairman effectively bans any further statements of this kind.

Bravo Mr Neuer! Lets's hear lots more from you!

To Protect and Self-Serve

2008-01-28T09:49:00.000Z

How cheering to read this morning that the government's security guards are threatening to go on strike.

Apart from their poor pay and conditions, it must be truly demoralising to protect corrupt ministers. Leaders who close down security checkpoints, free recidivist murderers and send them guns and ammunition for the next assault.

By doing so, these guards are protecting the very people who are endangering their own families at home.

I hope the strike goes ahead and lasts a long time.
Let's see how Olmert, Livni and Ramon feel without protection.
Perhaps after a day or two they will appreciate the plight of citizens like this in Sderot, whom they have left unprotected so callously for so long.

Opportunity Knocks

2008-01-25T09:11:00.000Z

They used to say that the Arabs "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity". In that process Israel usually benefited from Arab mistakes.

All that has changed now as the Kadima Crazies seek to outdo even the lunacy of Rabin's Oslo surrenders in feeding, healing, heating, lighting, arming and rescuing the enemy that has never ceased inciting and espousing the total destruction of Israel.

With the trampling of the Rafiah border fence, over half a million Gazans have spilled over into Egypt; one of the 5 Arab countries that created their refugee status by invading the nascent State of Israel in 1948. For 60 years they have refused to invite their Arab brothers to make a home and a future for their families in Egypt. Now 500,000 family members have turned up uninvited.

In normal times one would expect Israel not the miuss this opportunity to truly disengage from Gaza, seal the border and leave the the Egyptians to take care of the Gazans for whose plight they have shed som many 'crocodile tears'.

But just like King Saul failed to kill Agag when he had the chance, and just like Israel allowed Arafat safe passage out of Beirut and then brought him back from Tunis to Ramallah on the Oslo lifeboat - you can bet that Olmert and Livni will overreach themselves in missing this opportunity.

Once again - without being asked - Olmert will be the first to volunteer to help its 'peace partner' Egypt to restore the status quo.

Will Arabs vote Jews out of Jerusalem?

2008-01-17T06:42:00.000Z

The 'beginning of the end' of the Olmert government is how some Likudniks described Avigdor Lieberman's resignation from the coalition yesterday. It was always expected the the Sefardi-Haredi Shas party would quickly follow (with a record of so many walkouts from prevous coalitions, they did not want to be first to bolt this time).

However, it seems not.
Shas are now saying that they will stay with Olmert for as long as he does not sign over any part of Jerusalem to Mr Abbas.

This would seem to mean that Yehuda and Shomron are dispensable.

Are Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef and his Haredi lieutenants in the Knesset content to see 250,000 mainly religious Zionists uprooted from their homes in the so-called West Bank?

Are they so naiive as to think that a practised crook like Olmert is not capable of deceiving them as well?

And that, as soon as Olmert has signed away whatever Shas will let him surrender to Mr Abbas (and ultimately Hamas) he will eject Shas and replace them with the self-hating Jews of Meretz and the gleeful MK's of the Arab parties who wil gleefully support the surrender of the Jewish capital.

Will Shas knowingly provide the casting vote on Jerusalem to a handful of Arab MK's?

Learning process ...

2008-01-15T18:02:00.000Z

After the longest school and university strikes in Israel's history, I hear Prime Minister Olmert has decided to remove Yuli Tamir as Minister for Education and appoint her Minister of War.

He feels that if there was no education going on while she was minister . . . (well you figure it out..)

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Nimitz-ClassTorah

2008-01-13T10:19:00.001Z

In case you were wondering about that minyan on the USS Harry S Truman, be assured it also has its own Sefer Torah.

Here it is after being presented to Captain Herman Shelansky on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier he commands, on June 24 last year in Norfolk, Va.

It's one of the few Torah scrolls from Lithuania to survive the Holocaust, in which many of Shelanski's family members perished.

(Click on the photo to enlarge and read the inscription on the mantle)

Jew-power in the Persian Gulf

2008-01-12T23:07:00.000Z

Adolf Ahmadinejad needs to rein-in his speedboaters in the Persian Gulf. Last week’s mock attack on the US carrier force came close enough. But if A-jad pushes his luck any further, he will find himself up against a Jew with the biggest guns in the East.

That Jew is Captain Herman Shelanski, commanding officer of the lead strike force carrier Harry S Truman. He is the first carrier captain to have a minyan on Friday nights and is seen here lighting Chanukah candles on board last month, as his adjutant sings Maoz Tzur from an ArtScroll siddur.

So Adolf … mind your damn manners in the Gulf!

Herman’s waiting for you with 100,000 tons of cold steel displacement, 3000 crew and over 85 strike aircraft on 4 acres of flight deck. He’s got Aegis-guided missiles and guns that fire more than 3,000 rounds a minute. And those rounds are just the ticket for you. They’re tipped with the same uranium that you so love to enrich.

And let’s not forget the Harry S Truman motto:

“Give ‘em Hell!”

Because Hell is what awaits you Adolf – just like all those on the long list of dead despots that swore to wipe out the Jewish people.

God bless America and all that sail with her !

PS: "And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" (The Book of Esther, 4:14)

All in the mind ...

2008-01-12T19:16:00.000Z

This man holds up a message for President Bush as his motorcade wends through the future home of Hamas in the West Bank.

Indeed, it IS the occupation that is the problem.

It's the occupation of this man's mind and the minds of all his people with Wahhabist indoctrination of hate and holy war against all of us infidels.

That's an occupation of minds that starts from kindergarten, graduating to a cleric's medrassa and ends up in a training camp somewhere in the hills of Afghanistan or Iran.

And it's all for one simple purpose.

As long as this man and his people are inhaling this 'opiate of the masses', they'll not be asking the critical questions that the sheikhs, mullahs and clerics would rather not answer.

Like where has all their oil money gone? Why should millions of Arabs pumping oil at $100 a barrel still be going hungry without proper sanitation, sufficient food, decent homes, basic healthcare and education in subjects other than the jihad? And why the only truly free country in the Middle East where Arab men have a vote and their women can drive their kids to school in a car should be Israel.

That's why the poster tells it right.
It's the occupation of their own minds that makes them stupid!
Just how the Wahhabists want it.