"Bay of Pigs" All Over Again!
by Steven Shamrak
More
than four years ago (Feb 2004) a CIA report projected: 'The death of PA
Chairman Yasser Arafat would set in motion a sequence of events that could
culminate in an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, a report released this
week by the US intelligence community predicts'. The evaluation was formulated
by the National Intelligence Council, which operates under the guidance of CIA
director George Tenet.
My
comment at the time was: "Could" - Does not mean will. They were
wrong about September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq. There is no reason to trust and
believe them now. Pan Arab philosophy, not Arafat, is responsible for worldwide
terror! Arafat is not a problem, he is just another symptom of Islamic
international terror policy which denies Jews a Jewish state in a Jewish land!
It
seems that the old saying "One can't change the nature of the beast!"
is still true. And it applies not only to so-called Palestinians but also to
the CIA's strategically biased analytical abilities (or disability) as well
judging by the 'success' the United States is having in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Isn't it time to ask: Where is the Intelligence in the US National
Intelligence?
Food for Thought. by
Steven Shamrak
I do want to see peace between
Israel and her neighbours, but with all my vivid imagination I am not able to
visualise it while Arab hate-dwellers live on Jewish land with the
determination to destroy Israel and kill Jews. By repeating the same acts one
will get the same results only. Why would the same misguided and impotent plans
and fake agreements bring peace to Israel after they failed so many times? Why
are we sacrificing the Jewish dream, Jewish national unity and Jewish lives for
the illusion that our enemies may become humane and respectful toward Jews!
What kind of dream is this?
Price is Raised for Shalit. A
senior Hamas thug in Gaza, Ismail Radwan, said on Wednesday that the great
achievement by Hizbullah today "strengthens the demands for releasing
prisoners as part of the Shalit deal and even raises their price." Israel
must understand, he said, that "it cannot dream that the Palestinians will
lower their demands especially after it has been proven that the resistance can
change the rules of the game with the enemy." (Enemies gloat
over Olmert's 'Moral victory'!)
Abbas Congratulates Family of the Murderer of
Jews. PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas congratulated the family of
arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar on his imminent return to Lebanon. (What is Israel
negotiating for and with whom? The removal of all terror-infested population
from Jewish land is the only way toward the establishment of peace in Israel!)
Syria 'Definitely' Wants Peace with Israel?
Syrian President Bashar Assad told the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour
"Israel is not serious enough, and therefore we must discern between the
signing of an agreement with Israel and coming to a peace agreement." (He is actually
talking about signing deceitful Hudna!) He also said "conducting
indirect talks does not say that we don't want to sit with the Israelis at the
negotiating table - the opposite is true." It this case, why did Assad
demonstratively sit out during the Israeli prime minister's speech to a Paris
summit during the launch of a new Mediterranean union in an apparent rebuff
just hours after Ehud Olmert urged Damascus to open direct peace talks? (Destruction of
Israel is the first objective. Everything else is just a smoke screen in order
to achieve the goal!)
Corrupt to the Core. The Knesset has expanded its
fleet of leased vehicles from 90 to 150 during the past year despite soaring
fuel costs. The average vehicle is estimated to cost almost 3,000 shekels
($900) a month.
Kuntar Will Kill More Jews When Freed.
The mother of Dani Haran told reporters Tuesday that Samir Kuntar will kill
more Jews once he is released back into Lebanon. Nina Keren, mother of one of
the four Jewish victims of Kuntar's 1979 cross-border murder spree, said that
she "could not stop crying" when she heard the news that her son's
killer will be freed.
'Politically Correct' Chicken. Middle
East envoy Tony Blair called off what would have been the first visit of a top
Western diplomat to Gaza after Israel's Shin Bet security service said he might
come under attack there. Blair said the threat was "specific" and
"credible". (I am sure he will find a
way to blame Israel and not the so-called Palestinians for this attempt on his
life.)
Quote of the Week:
"The
prisoner swap proves more than ever that we (Jews) are a people who thirst for
life, whereas the enemy is a nation of death and loss of direction." - Benny Regev, the brother of Eldad Regev who was kidnapped
and killed by Hezbollah.
Another Political Stooge Came to Israel. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who
recently visited Israel, stated that he backs a new Arab state with borders
defined by the 1949 Armistice Lines that existed until eastern Jerusalem,
Judea, Samaria and Gaza were restored to the Jewish state in the Six-Day in
1967. Carrying out the plan would require the expulsion of more than 500,000
Jews. (Due to obvious
anti-Israel or anti-Semitic reasons, it is OK to transfer Jews form Jewish land
but not occupiers of the Jewish land, fake Palestinians! The United Kingdom had
created this political mess in the Holy Land during the Mandate control of
Palestine and is still pursuing its anti-Jewish policy!)
Hamas: No Negotiations with Israel. A spokesman for Hamas Ismail Radwan said that
negotiations with Israel out of the question and the Islamic movement will
never recognize "the enemy." He also slammed negotiations between
Israel and the Palestinian Authority and added that "the Zionist enemy
must depart and recognize the Palestinian people's rights." (Yes, the enemies of Israel "must depart" from
Jewish land! The sooner it is done, the faster that peace will come to Israel.)
Hamas Training Base.
The Israeli news service (Ynet) received several videos, filmed and produced by
various terror organizations, that show terrorists are training in the remains
of public buildings that were once a part of the Jewish Gaza community of
Atzmona. The buildings include synagogues and schools.
They are All the Same. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman spoke at
the formal welcome ceremony for the terrorists freed by Israel and said:
"I wish to thank everyone who contributed to the release and congratulate
the resistance (Hizbullah) for this achievement, …to Samir Kuntar and his
friends (terrorists) I say - it is their right to be proud of their
nation, their country and their resistance. Your return is a new victory."
A Sane Voice from the Other Site.
Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-born
psychologist.
I
am not a Christian, a Muslim or a Jew. I am a secular human being. I do not
believe in the supernatural, but I respect others' right to believe in it.
Wafa
Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of
religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites,
between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle
Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash
between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive,
between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and
oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human
rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It
is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them
like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations
do not clash, but compete.
Wafa
Sultan: The Muslims are the ones who began the clash of civilizations. The
Prophet of Islam said: "I was ordered to fight the people until they
believe in Allah and His Messenger." When the Muslims divided the people
into Muslims and non-Muslims, and called to fight the others until they believe
in what they themselves believe, they started this clash and began this war.
Wafa
Sultan: My colleague has said that he never offends other people's beliefs.
What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other people by
names that they did not choose for themselves? Once, he calls them Ahl
Al-Dhimma (all non-Muslims who came under Muslim rule historically and accepted
a "protected" status and agreed to pay a special tax called jizya to
the state - in short, second class citizens, just like Jews were in most
Christian countries), another time he calls them the "People of the
Book," and yet another time he compares them to apes and pigs, or he calls
the Christians "those who incur Allah's wrath." Who told you that
they are "People of the Book"? They are not the People of the Book,
they are people of many books. All the useful scientific books that you have
today are theirs, the fruit of their free and creative thinking. What gives you
the right to call them "those who incur Allah's wrath," or
"those who have gone astray," and then come here and say that your
religion commands you to refrain from offending the beliefs of others?
Wafa
Sultan: "The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and
forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror,
with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the
discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15
million people, scattered throughout the world, united (not quite,
unfortunately) and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not
seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a
single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing
people. The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not
seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an
embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches,
killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results.
The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they
demand that humankind respect them."
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Dear Readers,
I have been publishing my editorial letters about the Arab-Israel conflict since August 2001.
Most people, including many Jews, are driven by emotions and by pre-conceived ideas. Often opinions are formed under the influence of the world media manipulation. Facts and logic are ignored and distorted. Neither Israeli governments nor Jewish leadership have been doing anything about the PR side of the Arab-Israel conflict.
I try to disseminate several points in my letters:
· Israel is the front-line defense in the war between Wahabism - Islamic expansionism and Western democracies.
· UN anti-Israel bias and double-standard is applied to Israel by the International community.
· Jewish people have the right to live in peace on the all land of their ancestors.
· Israel is the only Jewish state. There are 60 Muslim countries, including 22 Arab ones. They have enough land to accommodate all Arabs.
· Negotiation will not stop terrorism, it only makes it stronger.
Elie Wiesel said:
"The opposite of love is not hate,
it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's
indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's
indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death,
it's indifference."
As members of the Western democratic society, we all have an obligation to fight indifference and to protect our way of life – Democracy, Social justice and Freedom of Speech. The blind bashing of Israel is not a part of a true democracy. It is ugly leftover of the "Old World ".
With respect.
Steven Shamrak