Saturday, September 10, 2011 motzei Shabbat

1. 9/11 - Tomorrow is 9/11/11 - the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Being the 10th anniversary has prompted more than the usual "anniversary pieces". I assume that I am pretty much like everyone else - I vividly remember the horrific events of that tragic day, where I was, what I felt, and so on. I will keep those memories to myself, but I will share a variety of 9/11 items that caught my attention.



3. More About Islamic Radicalism - (thanks to MF for this link)



4. And More On The Decline Of The West - How to Reverse the West's Decline | Standpoint - also see (thanks to JV):


(I must admit that at first, it was a little unsettling listening to someone speak so passionately in German to such loud approval....)


5. Personal Ways To Fight Islamic Terror - Fighting Islamic Terror: A Personal Duty


6. Turkey - The etymology of "Turkey" is that it is derived from "Turk" - meaning "strong" in the Old Turkish language, and "iye" - a suffix meaning "owner" or "related to" - you can look it up here.

Alternatively, according to urbandictionary.com, in slang, "turkey" means "...a person who is not in with current culture and slang or is just generally uncool." One can also be a "jive turkey", which, if you will pardon the direct quote (though you will soon see why I use it), means "...someone who talks a lot of shit, either a complete liar or someone who is so full of shit they think they are telling the truth.” (pardon my emphasis)
All of which leads to this - in my opinion, the only manner in which the current political leaders of Turkey are being "strong" is the degree to which they are being "jive turkeys". Read these links and you'll see what I mean.

7. Hey Erdogan, What Do You Have To Say About This?? - you JIVE TURKEY.....Syrian forces attack Homs, Arabs send envoy - latimes.com. Let me suggest this - in a slightly more delicate way than I would normally say it - you are such a JIVE TURKEY (refer to above definition) that your eyes are brown. I'm just sayin'......

8. Palestinian Statehood Bid - Well, it's official. The Palestinians have launched their bid to become recognized as a member state of the United Nations. While the rhetoric has been flying all over the place (more on that later), I thought that it would be interesting to start this section by examining what a "country" has to do to become a UN member state.

I also think that given UNGA Resolution 194, it is rather ironic that if somehow this bid succeeds, Palestine will become the 194th member state.

I will preface this with the comment (that will be quite familiar to anyone who has read this blog from time to time) that the UN as it now exists is largely a corrupt, biased and bloated joke. Anyway....

"Membership in the Organization, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, “is open to all peace-loving States that accept the obligations contained in the United Nations Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able to carry out these obligations”. States are admitted to membership in the United Nations by decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council." (my emphasis)

I should also point out that it is my understanding that the Palestinian Authority, since renamed the "Palestinian National Authority", was intended to be an interim administrative body and was established in accordance with the Gaza-Jericho Agreement after the Oslo Accords to assume the responsibilities of the Israeli military administration in populated Palestinian centers (Area A) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip until final status negotiations with Israel were concluded. In case anyone does not know this (????), those final status negotiations have never been concluded.

The PNA has an elected President (the "inscrutable" Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party), while the legislative body - the Palestinian Legislative Council - is controlled by Hamas, with Fatah is a secondary position. That old organization that we know and love as the PLO still exists, and purports to act (and is recognized) as "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" - it even has observer status at the UN (and to anticipate a comment from many of the people who regularly read this blog - I recognize the whole issue about whether there is even such a thing as the "Palestinian people" - follow this link for more)

So let me ask this. Is there anyone in their right mind who honestly and truly believes that a new State of Palestine, which will be controlled by Fatah and Hamas, is remotely capable of being a "peace-loving State?"

Not sure? Here's the Fatah Constitution. Here's the Hamas Charter. I won't even begin to try to detail the linguistic gymnastics that the PLO and that lying bastard Yassir Arafat have engaged in regarding their Charter except to note this:

"Reportedly, an internal PLO document from the Research and Thought Department of Fatah stated that changing the Covenant would have been "suicide for the PLO" and continued:

“The text of the Palestinian National Covenant remains as it was and no changes whatsoever were made to it. This has caused it to be frozen, not annulled. The drafting of the new National Covenant will take into account the extent of Israeli fulfillment of its previous and coming obligations... evil and corrupt acts are expected from the Israeli side... The fact that the PNC did not hold a special session to make changes and amendments in the text of the National Covenant at this stage... was done to defend the new Covenant from being influenced by the current Israeli dictatorship”.


This new State of Palestine will be a peace loving state. Sure....

And then let me ask this following question - Will this new State of Palestine accept the "obligations contained in the United Nations Charter?" Here is a link to the UN Charter itself - trying to be objective, but based on the Fatah Charter, the Hamas Charter and the Palestinian National Covenant, I cannot see the Palestinian Authority getting past the preamble to the Charter - let alone any specific chapters that follow.


Finally, will a new State of Palestine be capable of carrying out its obligations under the UN Charter? Watch this video and you tell me if the new State will be capable of anything but corruption?


Or violence?


Of course, in an organization that contains such member state luminaries (let alone the presence of such states on bodies like the Security Council and Human Rights Commission) as North Korea, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Cuba, and Somalia, to name but a few, a vote for Palestinian Statehood actually could pass the UNGA. That is, if it ever got past the US veto at the UNSC.

But enough of my thoughts - here are a variety of excellent links on the subject by people much brighter than me:
And I will leave you with this from the last link:

"The left is in denial about what Palestine is; it is not a nationality, but a pretext for endless war. The “Palestinian” cause cannot be separated from the campaign for regional supremacy by Muslim states; it began as a way for Egypt and Syria to harass Israel, and it continues as a Saudi, Turkish and Iranian campaign to destroy Israel. The actors change, but the goal remains the same.

The UN can declare a Palestinian state, but it can’t reunify Gaza and the West Bank, or bring order to the feuding militia camps that pretend to be governments. The nations of the world can vote to recognize it, but they can’t make it self-supporting. Billions of dollars have already been wasted on the effort. And neither political support nor foreign aid will end the violence."

9. Michael Coren on Zionism - courtesy of CIJA's youtube page and broadcast on SunTV.






12. With Apologies To My Rabbinic Friends - Don't Call the Rabbi, Make your Own Rituals – Forward.com

13. Overshadowed by 9/11 - pretty much everything was overshadowed by 9/11. Many people forget that the antisemitic and anti-Israel hatefest formally known as the UN sponsored "World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" concluded on September 8, 2001.


"The NGO declaration at the Durban conference, written in highly politicized language, reflected a concerted effort to undermine Israel. Article 164 states targeted victims of Israel's brand of apartheid and ethnic cleansing methods have been in particular children, women and refugees. Article 425 announces a policy of complete and total isolation of Israel as an apartheid state...the imposition of mandatory and comprehensive sanctions and embargoes, the full cessation of all links (diplomatic, economic, social, aid, military cooperation and training) between all states and Israel. Furthermore, Article 426 talks of condemnation of those states who are supporting, aiding and abetting the Israeli apartheid state and its perpetration of racist crimes against humanity including ethnic cleansing, acts of genocide."

Not only was there a 2009 Durban Review Conference - did they forget to include blaming Jews for supposedly poising wells and abducting non-Jewish children to use their blood for making Passover matzo - there is a further conference in September that will use the 10th anniversary of the original conference to re-affirm its disgusting conclusions.

Here are a couple of further links, one of which is written by Alan Baker - former Israeli Ambassador to Canada who I had the pleasure to meet in person on a couple of occasions:
14. The Apartheid Canard - Israel - An Apartheid State? Look how the Arabs treat the Palestinians - maybe this should be subject to some sort of review - perish the thought.....


15. I Have A Question - just a thought - a scant 66 years after the end of the Second World finished murdering 6,000,000 Jews simply because they were Jewish - that then being only the most recent example of the persecution of the Jewish people - let's not even go into the prior history of persecution (here's just one tiny example), often done under the auspices of the Church - what does the world now expect Jews and Israel to do when daily there is a vile torrent of antisemitism and anti-Israel lies and propaganda? Threats of nuclear annihilation? Attacks on Embassies?

Just brush it off? Ignore it? Blame ourselves as the cause? We've seen the crimes of commission and omission by enemies and "friends" - remember the SS St. Louis?.

To quote American diplomat Dean Acheson - "No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

So I'm very sorry - as the saying goes - "we've been there, done that and bought the t-shirt". You want to engage in the persecution of Jews? You want to demonize Israel, hold it to double standards and question its legitimacy? I'm going to fight back - and encourage others to fight back - to the best of my ability.



And here's something else to ponder. I consider myself a fairly reasonable person. I'm not a fan of war, and I have no right to be since I am too old to put myself in harm's way, though I recognize that sometimes war is necessary to defeat evil. But the more that Jews and Israel are unfairly targeted and attacked - the less reasonable the reasonable people will become. And when that happens, everything becomes 1,000,000 times harder.

This article by Moshe Arens make sense to me - especially this paragraph:

"This is not a time to throw caution to the wind. This is not a time to withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines. It is not a time for "daring political initiatives." It is a time for watching and waiting to see how things are going to turn out. It is a time to think how we are going to assure the security of Israel's citizens in the southern part of the country from daily rocket attacks, and make sure that those living in the north and the center of the country do not share their fate."

16. I Have Another Question - Why doesn't the UN hold a conference to recognize the utterly amazing and wildly disproportionate contributions of Jews and Israel to the betterment of the world? When was the last time you read a story about some medical breakthrough coming from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, or Egypt - just to name a few? Hey - here's just one recent example of yet another contribution Jews and Israelis are making to the world - Israeli Scientists Isolate Nearsightedness Gene – The Shmooze – Forward.com.

17. Hodge-Podge - a variety of links to which I have added some commentary:

18. Finishing Up - this clip about Islam and Terror is from The Big Speech, a TV special by American comedian Dennis Miller. Please be forewarned that Miller uses a lot of coarse language - so watch the clip in your discretion.

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  1. A.S.September 13, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    I'd like to understand why the Eastlink carrier sells a newspackage that includes CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera but does not give one the option of viewing the SUN NEWS? Haligonians profess to be balanced, unbiased, and neutral but in fact those channels that are already delivered by the CBC, and CTV, along with these other options all reiterate the same leftist ideologies.

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