The Legion of Disgrace and Dishonor:  The following are the members of the Israeli cabinet who voted in favor of the Get out of Jail Free plan of Benjamin Netanyahu to allow murderers of Jews to go free and resume their murders of Jews:

Voted in favor: Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Minister for Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz, Internal Security Minister Itzhak Aharonovitch, Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver (Likud- Beiteinu), Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Health Minister Yael German, Science and Technology Minister Ya'akov Peri, Welfare Minister Meir Cohen, Education Minister Shai Piron (Yesh Atid), Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz (Hatnua).  

Note how this list includes people who had been widely considered earlier to be people of principle, including Rabbi Piron, Moshe Ya'alon, and Gideon Sa'ar.  I regret to inform you that such erstwhile judgments have now been proven false.

The Legion of Double-Talk:  The following cabinet ministers abstained on this vote:

Minister Limor Livnat and Silvan Shalom abstained.

Refusing to oppose a national disgrace is hardly a badge of principle and honor.

The Legion of Honor:  These are the cabinet ministers who opposed the proposal and so should be regarded as people of principle deserving of future support:

Voted against: Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, Home Front Minister Gilad Erdan, Tourism Minister Uzi Landau, Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir (Likud-Beiteinu), Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, Senior Citizen Minister Uri Orbach (Habayit Hayehudi).

Not a single member of the Likud or Yesh Atid resigned his or her Knesset seat in protest at this disgrace.  This includes Moshe Feiglin.

Ofrah Moses was pregnant when she was murdered along with her son and her fetus.  The murderer was Mohammed A'del Daud, who threw a petrol bomb at their car in 1987.  He is about to be set free by Benjamin Netanyahu in order to prove to the world the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.  The Israeli Left is cheering Netanyahu on!  The road to peace depends on Jews acquiescing in being defined and treated as sub-humans, whose lives have no worth.

Rachel Weiss was burned to death together with her three small children in 1988 when the bus she was riding in was attacked by petrol bombs.  The murderer was Mahmoud Abu-Charbeesh.   He is about to be set free by Benjamin Netanyahu in order to prove to the world the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.

In 1985 Meir ben Yair and Michal Cohen were sitting in their car in a forest near Beit Shemesh when they were murdered by Mustafa Ganimat, together with his two terrorist friends.  He is about to be set free by Benjamin Netanyahu in order to prove to the world the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.

Leah Almakeis and Yosef Eliyahu were murdered while hiking in a forest on Mt. Gilboa.  Their murderer was Othman bni Chasin.  He is about to be set free by Benjamin Netanyahu in order to prove to the world the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.

Isa Abd Rabo murdered Ravital Sri and Ron Levi near the Chrimison monastery, stabbing them to death.  He is about to be set free by Benjamin Netanyahu in order to prove to the world the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.

One  of Israel's leading historians, Professor Menachem Stern, was murdered in 1989, stabbed to death by Mahmoud Isa Muammar in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem.  The terrorist also murdered three other people.   He is about to be set free by Benjamin Netanyahu in order to prove to the world the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.

 The above are just a few of the murderers of men, women and children that Benjamin Netanyahu is about to set free in order to prove to the world the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.

Netanyahu is setting these murderers free as "payment" for the PLO to go through the motions of participating in make-pretend "negotiations," and as a sop for John Kerry.   Netanyahu is "paying" for the Kodak moment in the currency of mass murderers, all so the PLO will sit down with some Israeli representatives and demand that Israel be annihilated by means of the "Palestinian Right of Return," this after Israel "returns" to its pre-1967 Auschwitz borders and offers the PLO swaths of pre-1967 Israeli lands.  Netanyahu will be setting free 104 murderers as the purchase price for this show.

Some suppose that Netanyahu is doing this in order to obtain some other concessions.  From the Americans, from the Eurotrash, or from the Arabs.   Netanyahu is afraid to put the proposal for wholesale release of mass murderers up for a ballot referendum because he knows it would be overwhelmingly defeated.  

Let me say that if the price for an everlasting peace with the "Palestinians" were indeed the wholesale release of these murderers, then I would choose not to release them.   I prefer a thousand years of warfare to a situation in which the Israeli government proclaims that the Jews are Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.   If the price for American materiel is the release of these mass murderers, then I prefer to forego the materiel.  If the price for a strategic understanding with the EU and Turkey needed to rein in Iran is the wholesale release of these mass murderers, then I choose to forego the strategic understanding.

Israel was created for the simple purpose of proclaiming to the world that the Jews are NOT Untermenschen whose lives are worthless and whose murder does not count.   Those who threaten Jewish lives will be exterminated.  That is why Israel exists.  This is the raison d'etre of the state.   When Netanyahu abandons this, he undermines the purpose and legitimacy of the country.   Someone who refuses to accept this axiom as the fundamental basis for the existence of the state is unworthy of holding office in Israel.

Even the Labor Party Mensheviks always refused to adopt such a policy of national self-abasement.  The United States does not release terrorist mass murderers of Americans.  That is because the United States considers the lives of Americans to have value.  Benjamin Netanyahu and his friends on the Israeli Left want those who murder Jews to be proclaimed great heroes.  To serve as role models.  To demonstrate that murder of Jews is ethical and admirable.

There can be no more convincing argument in favor of implementing capital punishment for terrorists than this circus of the absurd that Netanyahu is now orchestrating.

A Fast Thought Before Shabbat

On Strength

    One of the stranger customs in synagogues is the bestowing of wishes to be strong upon those who are called to the Torah.  In Ashkenazi synagogues, anyone receiving such an aliya is greeted with "Yasher (Yiyasher) Koach," meaning roughly May your Strength be Kept Up.  In Sephardic synagogues, the more common greeting is "Chazak U'baruch," meaning May you be Strong and Blessed.   But what does strength have to do with it?  I mean, I can see bestowing a wish of strength on the fellows who are holding the scrolls, since they are quite heavy.  But the ordinary person getting an aliya is not doing any serious lifting or carrying.  So why does he need a wish for strength?

   The explanation is that in Judaism the highest pursuit for a person is to study so diligently that he exhausts himself.  Therefore, wishing someone strength is an indirect compliment to that person, congratulating him for driving himself to exhaustion in his studies and wishing him to continue to do so, to the point where he is in need of outside wishes that strength be conferred upon him.

    Rabbi Shlomo Goren is the famous rabbi who blew the shofar on the Temple Mount when it was liberated by the IDF in the Six Day War and before the pusillanimous politicians turned out over to the Moslem Waqf for control and administration.  In one of his books, Rabbi Goren describes an incident involving the great Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook, the founder of the modern Religious Zionist movement and of the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and Chief Rabbi of "Palestine" from 1921 onwards.

   When Rabbi Kook was a young man, he went off for a month of rest and rehabilitation in a health spa in Lithuania.  He was sitting under trees one day studying a volume of Talmud.  An older Rabbi passed by him, snatched his Talmud away from him and screamed at him "Thief!"   Why are you calling me that, he asked, from whom did I steal?

     The older Rabbi explained.  I can see from your appearance that you are a young rabbi.  And the fact that you are here must mean that your community felt you had exhausted yourself in studying Torah to the point that you are now in need of rest and recovery.  Therefore, if you are spending your time here studying Talmud, you are misusing your community's resources.  You are exhausting yourself and you are betraying your own community, which sent you here to rest and not to exhaust yourself, and therefore you are failing your own community and undeserving of the salary you are receiving from them.

     Years later, in a very different incident involving the same Rabbi Kook, one can see all of the elements of the corruption and moral decrepitude of the politicized governmental Rabbinic hierarchy in Israel today, the very same one that just selected two Ultra-Orthodox Chareidim as chief rabbis over alternative candidates who were modern-Orthodox, meaning men who live in the 21st century as opposed to the 16th century.

    In the middle of the 1948-9 Israeli War of Independence, there was some debate among the Orthodox as to whether yeshiva students should leave their studies and participate in the war, especially in defense of the Jewish Quarter inside the old city of Jerusalem.  The very same Rabbi Kook was unambiguously in favor of all yeshiva students halting their studies and participating in the fighting.  Although very old at the time, the Rabbi himself was seen digging trenches and participating in the war effort.  But according to a recent biography of Shear Yishuv Hacohen, a later Chief Rabbi of Haifa, a malicious letter was suddenly distributed among all the Orthodox communities of Jerusalem.  It was a letter signed by the very same Rabbi Kook urging rabbinic students NOT to serve in the military and NOT to participate in fighting.  (Shear Yishuv ignored it, joined the battle, and was taken prisoner by the Jordanians.) The letter was being distributed by those Chareidi groups opposed to Jerusalem's yeshiva students joining in the war effort.

    As it turned out, the letter in question was indeed written by the same Rabbi Kook, but it was written in World War I and was addressed to yeshiva students studying in the UK who were refugees from Poland and Lithuania.  At the time Rabbi Kook was of the opinion that they should continue their studies and not enlist for the fighting in World War I.  The same Rabbi held the diametrically opposite position regarding participation in Israel's own war of liberation.  But his earlier letter was hijacked and distorted and misused for cynical political purposes by dishonest "Orthodox" functionaries advancing their own agenda.  Somewhat like the politicized Chareidi functionaries in Israeli politics today, hijacking and distorting and misrepresenting Judaism.      

   Judeana Jones and the Fifth Question

By Steven Plaut

     The following is not a political story.  It is, in my opinion, one of the most intriguing scoops in recent Jewish history.  What I am about to relate to you is based almost entirely on the story with the title "Judeana Jones" that appears in the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon from July 19, 2013.   Nothing I am about to relate is my own original work or research.  I am simply summarizing for you in English the gist of the story and I think you will agree with me that it just might top the drama of the saga of Two-Gun Cohen (see http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/the-amazing-saga-of-two-gun-cohen/2012/08/30/2/ ).

     The story is about two collectors and researchers of ancient Jewish print books, who stumbled upon the existence of what may be one of the richest and oldest collections of ancient Jewish hand-written manuscripts.  These had been preserved in a cave in Afghanistan.  The documents were in a "Geniza" or storage/disposal area that once served a Jewish community in Afghanistan.  The better-known Geniza of Cairo has long served as one of the richest sources of original materials on ancient Judaic practice and writing.  Only a tiny number of materials have been obtained from the Afghan Geniza and the little that has been appears to be priceless and downright incredible.

      Moshe Rosenfeld is a collector and dealer in ancient Jewish books living in Jerusalem, the Judeana Jones of our story.  He is an expert on, and has published a small encyclopedia about, all the books in print that use the Hebrew alphabet.  I emphasize the alphabet because his archive is not limited to books in the Hebrew language.  Over the centuries other hybrid languages developed, where a non-Jewish language would be transcribed and written in Hebrew letters by Jews living in the countries where it was spoken.  The best known is of course Yiddish, which is largely a dialect of German mixed with some Hebrew words and written in Hebrew letters.  [Many people do not know that there are/were OTHER Yiddish-like languages based on other languages besides German.  There was a Judeo-Persian written in Hebrew letters, a Judeo-Tatar, a Judeo-Provincial language based on the Provence dialect in France, a Judeo-Venetian, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), and others.  Some of these are still spoken; my father-in-law grew up in a house where Ladino was spoken.] 

     Rosenfeld's partner in his enterprise is an elderly soft-spoken scholar named Isaiah Winograd.  In the spring of 1988 Rosenfeld was giving a lecture in Petach Tikva about ancient Jewish manuscripts.  At its end, a member of the audience approached him and showed him a yellowing photograph of a parchment document.   He told Rosenfeld that he was a Jewish diamond merchant based in Dallas, Texas.  A week earlier an "Arab" from Afghanistan (he probably meant a Muslim) had approached him and showed him photographs of a number of old documents, some torn or damaged, and had asked the diamond merchant if he was interested in buying them.  The man wanted Rosenfeld to indicate whether they looked genuine and had any commercial value.   He said he was about to return to Texas after Passover and wanted to know if this was something worth pursuing.

   The Texan further explained that the Afghan he had met had told him that a large collection of such documents and scraps had been discovered in an old burial cave in the northeastern province of Afghanistan.  It sounded like a Geniza somewhat similar to the famous one discovered in Cairo.  Centuries ago, Afghanistan was under the rule of Persian emperors and had a significant Jewish population, although today there are supposedly only two Jews left in the country.

   Anyway, in 1998, the year this begins, Afghanistan was in large part but not in whole under the rule of the Taliban.  But it was well before the 9-11 attacks and the Taliban was not yet the target for Western anti-terror fury.  The northeastern section of Afghanistan, that close to the border with Tajikistan, was controlled by a non-Taliban tribe.

    When showed the photo of the fragment, Rosenfeld knew at once that it was a genuine ancient Jewish manuscript, and the story surrounding it convinced him that the collection of documents was genuine and of incredible value, not just from a Jewish historic point of view but also from a commercial one.  He considered going to Afghanistan itself but was told by those who know that this would be suicide. 

   The Texan returned home and the Afghan he had spoken to connected him with the head chief of the Khakimi tribe, which controls the section of Afghanistan where the cave and its documents were reported to be.  The Israelis began to negotiate a rendezvous some place in Europe for purposes of purchasing the documents from the cave.  Plans were interrupted when a major earthquake hit Afghanistan a few days later.  But as a result the Khakimis were even more desperate for cash and seemed more forthcoming.   They offered a suitcase full of the documents in exchange for a plane loaded with grain and other foods.    

    Rosenfeld recruited a private-sector security agency run by two Israeli ex-intelligence officers.  They uncovered more information and found a contact person from the Khakimi tribe, who said he could get the documents to the Tajik border with an armed escort.  But the tribe's price had changed.  Now they wanted a plane full of weapons, and everyone understood that the Americans and much of the rest of the world would never tolerate such an idea.  Nevertheless, Rosenfeld and his team went to Tajikistan and attempted to make contacts from there with the tribe.  But in 1999 the president of Tajikistan was assassinated and other violence was breaking out there.  The original Afghan who had approached the diamond merchant showed up again in Texas, and new plans were made to rendezvous with him, but the FBI suspected he might be a terrorist and warned the Rosenfeld people off.

    By early 2001communications and negotiations were being conducted with the Khakimis for a new rendezvous in Europe to sell them.  A meeting finally took place in the summer in a London hotel.  The Afghans had brought with them some "sample" documents.  When the Israelis saw one in particular they could not contain their excitement, and the Afghans, being shrewd hagglers, sensed it and upped the ante.  And when I tell you what they saw, you will understand their inability to restrain themselves.  Besides that document, the Afghans also showed them an ancient Jewish prayerbook, which the Israelis photographed.  It is one of the oldest ever discovered.

     The bazaar haggling continued and they agreed to meet a few weeks later to complete the transaction.   Before they could do so, bin Laden and his terrorists attacked the United States and the Taliban became the enemy of the civilized world.  Is this starting to sound like a Spielberg production?   Contacts ended.  Only a small number of the documents had been seen and photographed.

     What became of the rest is not known.  On the one hand, the Taliban are Islamofascist fanatics and are all too willing to obliterate anything attesting to ancient Jewish life and culture.  On the other hand, they must have figured out that the documents have commercial value.  Recently an Iranian Jewish merchant in the UK is said to have purchased one of the Afghan manuscripts for $400,000.  

     The story of the Afghan Geniza was kept secret and was revealed to only a small number of people.  In December 2011, Ehud Yaari, an Israeli television commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, broadcast a story about the existence of the Afghan Geniza, but got many of the details wrong.  Only in the past few weeks have Rosenfeld and his people decided to go public and reveal their attempts to get the documents and tell what they know about the story.    

      Ah, but I left you hanging a few paragraphs back.  What was that incredible document that was seen by the Israelis in the London hotel over which they were unable to contain their excitement?

     It was what appears to be the oldest Passover Haggadah ever discovered.  And what gave it away was the Fifth Question.

     Huh?

     As you of course know, Passover Seders begin with the asking of the Four Questions.  The basis for this tradition goes all the way back to the Mishna itself, which was redacted in the early second century.  What most people do not know is that in the Mishna, the "questions" for the Seder are actually the FIVE Questions.  The fifth question, as related in the Pesachim tractate of the Talmud, page 116A, is this:  "On all other nights we eat meat roasted, stewed or boiled, but on this night, roast only."  This refers to the Passover sacrifice, a roasting of meat, as it was conducted in the Temple services.   At the time of the Talmud and for a while afterwards, this fifth question was still included in the Seder.  At the time of the "Gaon" Scholars in Babylonia, an era that began in 589, it was ruled that it is inappropriate to ask this fifth question because it is prohibited to conduct such a Passover sacrifice outside of the Temple and the Temple has been destroyed.  So the question was dropped.  Maimonides and others also later endorsed the dropping of it.

   BUT THE PASSOVER HAGADDAH PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE AFGHAN GENIZA INCLUDES THIS FIFTH QUESTION!!!

    That means it is so old, at the latest from the ninth century, that it was written BEFORE word of the rulings by the Gaon scholars against inclusion of the question had reached the Jewish community in remote Afghanistan.

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Finally, as a side note not really related to any of the above, let me say that I personally do not like the Indiana Jones movie series and wish that Steven Spielberg would try to make some movies for grownups (besides Schindler's List).  I do hand it to Spielberg that he managed to create a figure of such epic excitement by splicing together two of the most boring things on the planet.  Lots of people consider archeology the most boring discipline one can learn in a university (although I suppose the above saga shows how wrong they can be, and - in any case - as an economist who am I to speak?), and everyone agrees that Indiana is the most boring state in the United States.  But the splicing produced Indiana Jones, from which we now have Judeana Jones! 

2.  Anti-Semitic Atheist Zealots:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/exclusionary-religious-symbol-atheist-group-battles-planned-holocaust-memorials-inclusion-of-the-star-of-david/

Faith

'Exclusionary Religious Symbol': Atheist Group Battles Planned Holocaust Memorial's Inclusion of the Star of David

Jul. 18, 2013 9:00pm Billy Hallowell

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist-activist non-profit, is known for going after perceived violations of the separation of church and state. This in mind, the organization has a new target: a Holocaust memorial.

The group is combating the inclusion of a Star of David in a proposed statehouse monument that is being planned in Ohio. Its leaders' opposition to the religious symbol is rooted in the belief that it would violate the separation of church and state.

The FFRF holds that the inclusion of the star, which is associated with Judaism, would be problematic, although non-theist leaders said they have no problem with including a Holocaust museum at the capitol.

Atheists first noted their opposition in a June 14 letter that was sent to Richard Finan, chair of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

"Permitting one permanent sectarian and exclusionary religious symbol…would create the legal precedent, for instance, to place an equally large or larger permanent Latin cross on Capitol grounds," Don Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-presidents — and husband and wife — wrote in the letter (read it here).

A press release published on the organization's website notes that architect Daniel Libeskind purposefully included the star, while other designs that almost made the cut did not have any religious sentiment included; the group noted that it was possible to select an entirely non-religious option. Despite Libeskind's contention that "one cannot separate the Holocaust from the star," the FFRF firmly disagreed.

"The monument could resemble numerous powerful war memorials across the U.S. which do not use any sectarian images, including the national World War II Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Memorial," the letter continued. "Each is secular in nature and without religious reference, which offends no one and is respected by all."

The organization contends that non-Jewish groups, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the disabled and others are left out by the inclusion of the star. In the end, though, the board approved the design on Thursday, despite the FFRF's intense opposition.

Interestingly, the FFRF claims that Finan, a former state senator in Ohio, ended up expressing doubt over the star's inclusion in the design after he received the letter. Following the monument's approval, the politician allegedly stepped down from the board.

3.  As you probably heard, Helen Thomas, the anti-Semitic White House correspondent before whom no mirror was safe, just got herself recycled.  I did not catch what the cause of death was, but I suspect Dorothy's house dropped down on her from the cyclone.

1.   http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/the-letter-netanyahu-should-send-to-the-eu/

The Letter Netanyahu Should Send to the EU

Posted By Steven Plaut On July 19, 2013

Editor's note: The letter below was formulated on behalf of the Israeli Prime Minister by Steven Plaut:

Dear Leaders and Commissioners of the European Union:

As Prime Minister of Israel I would like to thank you for sharing your thoughts with the world about how Israel should solve the Middle East conflict, namely by agreeing to "return" the "occupied Palestinian" lands to the "Palestinians."

Always willing to be of public service, I have composed a small list of minor preconditions that must be met in order for Israel to agree to return to the "Palestinians" the "occupied territories" that are "theirs." These are really just minor corrections in your own plan.  After all, why should Israel be the first and the only country to "return" lands to the original inhabitants from which they "seized" these lands in "occupation"?

So here goes:

It goes without saying that the Americans and Canadians must lead the way and show Israel the light by returning all lands that they seized from the Indians and the Mexicans to their original owners.  The Anglo-Saxons, meaning the English, will be invited to return the British isles to their rightful original Celtic and Druid owners, while they return to their own ancestral Saxon homeland in northern Germany and Denmark.  The Danes of course will be asked to move aside. In fact, they will be asked to move back to their Norwegian and Swedish homeland, to make room for the returning Anglo-Saxons.

But that is just a beginning.  The Spanish will be called upon to leave the Iberian peninsula that they wrongfully occupy and return it to the indigenous Celtiberians.  Similarly, the Portuguese occupiers will leave their lands and return them to the Lusitanians.  The Magyars will go back where they came from and leave Hungary to its true owners. The Australians and New Zealanders obviously will have to end their occupations of lands that do not belong to them.  The Thais will leave Thailand.  The Bulgarians will return to their Volga homeland and abandon occupied Bulgaria.  Anyone speaking Spanish will be expected to end his or her forced occupation of Latin America.  It goes without saying that the French will surrender all their lands, starting with Corsica, to their rightful owners. The Turks will go back to Mongolia and leave Anatolia altogether.  The Germans will go back to Gotland.  The Italians will return the boot to the Etruscans and Greeks.

That leaves the Arabs and Iranians.  First, all of northern Africa, from Mauritania to Egypt and Sudan, will have to be immediately abandoned by the illegal Arab occupiers and squatters and returned to their lawful original Berber, Punic, Greek, and Vandal owners.  Occupied Syria and Lebanon must be released at once from the cruel occupation of the Arab imperialist aggressors.  Iraq must be returned to the Assyrians and Chaldeans.  Southern Arabia must be returned to the Abyssinians.  The Arabs may retain control of the central portion of the Arabian peninsula as their homeland. But not the oil fields.

Oh, and the Palestinian infiltrators, usurpers and squatters will of course have to return the lands they are illegally and wrongfully occupying to their legal and rightful owners – the Jews.

While we are fixing world problems, let us also return all of Iran to its rightful owners.  I of course mean the Mongolians.

True, Iran was conquered or liberated from the Persians by the Mongols militarily starting in 1219. Iran then became a legitimate part of the Mongol homeland. Tamerlane, who was part Mongol, also ran the place.  All in all, the Mongol liberation of Persia lasted for two and a half centuries, not much different from the length of the period of Arab rule of "Palestine," after which Iran was "lost" to Turkic tribes.  I guess that means the Turks also have a legitimate claim to a homeland there.

Now if the fact that some Arab armies once conquered the Land of Israel is thought to confer upon them rights of sovereignty and even statehood, why should not the Mongol conquest of Iran do the same? After all, Iran was once a Mongol state, as recently as 550 years ago, whereas the last time the Land of Israel was an Arab Palestinian state was, well, never.

Not only should Mongol rule be restored to Iran as the only legitimate rulers of the place, but these days the Mongols make far better neighbors than do the ayatollahs. The Mongols have no nuclear plans and have never met with the anti-Semitic pagans from the Neturei Karta.  The Mongols would surely put the Persian Gulf petroleum to better use than do the Holocaust Deniers in Iran these days, like developing yak milk production capacities.

So, I say, end these illegal occupations once and for all and return these lands to their rightful owners!

And right after all this, Israel will be happy to implement your proposals in full.

Thanks you for hearing me out.

Sincerely yours,

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel

2.  Lots of people are complaining about the decision by Rolling Stone Magazine to run a photo of the Boston Islamist bomber on its cover.  Rolling Stone is of course the drugs-and-rock-and-roll magazine that I consider to be a gentile Tikkun.  You may recall that Michael Lerner, the publisher of Tikkun, got his rabbinic ordination from Rolling Stone Magazine.

In any case, among the loudest complainers about the cover of Rolling Stone have been some other magazines and newspapers that have run cover celebrations of Yassir Arafat, Abu Mazen, Turkey's Erdogan, and other terrorists.

3.  You probably have heard about the story that the US media are buzzing about.  It seems that a man in Houston was arrested for cruelty towards animals after he had sex with a horse twice.  See this:  http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/07/04/police-man-arrested-twice-for-having-sex-with-same-horse/

   Now when you read it I am sure that you immediately have exactly the same thought they I had when I read the story.  And that is that it is now only a question of time until the Reconstructionist movement decides to ordain the man in question as a rabbi.

4.  Jesse Bojangles Jackson finds some apartheid:  http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/jesse-jackson-declares-florida-an-apartheid-state/

5.  Well the forces of darkness in the US failed in their attempt to perpetrate a reverse OJ in the Zimmerman trial.  In the OJ trial, OJ was "acquitted" in order to show whitey.  In the Zimmerman case, the attempt was to convict Zimmerman in order to show whitey.   It did not work.

    http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/i-am-not-trayvon-martin/

All in all I prefer a hoodie to a kaffiya.

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