Darfur, Mr. Peanut, Hamas, etc....All In A Day's News

All In A Day’s News...

by Gerald A. Honigman



Along with other related articles, three covering the Middle East and North Africa caught my eye on April 26th. 

The first was written by a journalist whom I have long admired--and I don’t admire many in the mainstream media.

I met Tom Teepen, now a syndicated columnist for Cox News, some three decades ago. I was visiting Cincinnati for a few days out of my Columbus office and had assorted media, university, and other visits, lectures, and televised debates scheduled. We have, on occasion, briefly touched base afterwards over the years.

Tom was editorial editor, I believe, for either the Cincinnati Post or Enquire. We spent a good deal of time reviewing the Middle East. Unlike too many others in the liberal camp, Tom still has maintained clear vision when it comes to Arab-Israeli politics. The real surprise was that my local newspaper published his op-ed. After many years of batting heads with the paper brass (first on my own, then with others), I’m finally noticing a bit more balance.

So, Tom’s Blaming Israel, Freelancing On Hamas--What Is Jimmy Carter Thinking? made it into the Daytona Beach News-Journal. He recapped Mr. Peanut’s recent hot date with Hamas in Syria, where Carter tried his best to make the deliberate disembowelers of Jewish babes and other innocents look good by getting it to provide him with some foggy cover for his non-stop assault on Israel, but Hamas--to its credit--wouldn’t let him. Headlines soon claimed, anyway, that Mr. Peanut achieved a breakthrough, with Hamas offering to ‘accept’ Israel.

When will they learn? Tom exposed Carter’s nauseating comedy act.

While an allegedly ‘born again’ Carter evidently doesn’t put much value in honesty, Hamas does. It has no--and will never have--any intention of granting Jews in one tiny state what Arabs demand for themselves in some two dozen others on over six million square miles of territory...including one already created from almost 80% of the original 1920 borders of Mandatory Palestine renamed ‘Jordan.’ The new state Arabs insist on creating on the ashes of Israel, not along side it, would be their second--not first--in ‘Palestine,’ the name the Roman Emperor Hadrian gave to Judaea after the Jews’ second costly revolt for freedom in 133-135 C.E. He renamed the country after the Jews’ historic enemies, the Philistines--a non-Semitic sea people from around Crete. Contemporary Roman historians such as Tacitus, Dio Cassius, and others wrote extensively about this themselves.

To most Arabs, the whole region is simply purely Arab patrimony...in their own words. As for the scores of millions of non-Arabs who have been conquered, massacred, and suppressed, Egypt’s past Uncle Tom Copt Foreign Minister, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, perhaps said it best...accept forced Arabization and /or dhimmi status (like he did) or else. Copts were the native Egyptians conquered by Arabs after the 7th century C.E. along with numerous others.

As Mr. Peanut also knows, regarding the above, Hamas is no different than the alleged moderates of Abbas’s latter day Fatah Arafatians--regardless of how much whitewash he, Washington, and others throw upon them both. In order to force the Jews to play ball, a supposed Arab good cop had to be created to counter the State Department’s Arab bad cop.

Fatah (with as much, if not more, blood on its hands than Hamas) is simply more willing to play the Arabs’ well-known destruction in phases ‘diplomacy’ game vis-à-vis Israel to use petrodollar greased-international pressure to force Israel back to its pre-’67, 9-mile wide, armistice line--not border--existence to set it up for a combined Arab/Iranian final blow...something that UNSC Resolution 242 expressly stated was not to happen in the aftermath of the 1967 War.

But, Honigman, you say, you keep repeating these same points in many of your articles.

Yes, I do.

And as long as Arabs keep on repeating their lies and distortions, and morons or deliberate accomplices like Mr. Peanut do the same, those of us who care must repeatedly answer them. Their approach is if they repeat a lie often enough (and it goes unanswered), it will be accepted as truth.

Teepen did a good job with his short op-ed, especially since he has been a fan of Carter in the past. But let me continue to pick up yet a bit more where he left off.

With a new Presidential election approaching, I’ll never forget the last televised Democratic National Convention featuring ‘Apartheid Israel’ Mr. Peanut chasing ‘Israel is one of the top three evils in the world’ Michael Moore all over the convention floor. Closer soul brothers do not exist--unless you want to throw in a more slick Obama and the company he keeps to make a trio.

It was befitting that Carter visited Hamas in Syria, for Syria--not ‘Palestine’--was indeed the birthplace of Hamas’s patron saint, Sheikh Izzedin al-Qassam (for whom its ‘militant’ wing and rockets are named )...Latakia, to be exact. Of course, back then, many if not most Arabs in the area considered themselves to be southern Syrians, espousing one version or another of a Greater Syria plan. ‘Palestinians’ were the Jews.

Along with scores (if not hundreds) of thousands of others who poured into the Palestine Mandate (after the break up of the over four century old Ottoman Turkish Empire) due to its economic development by Jews, the Sheikh joined numerous other ‘native Palestinians’ who entered relatively recently from the latter 19th century onwards from Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere in rejecting the rights of Jews to do the same thing in any part of the ‘purely Arab patrimony,’ the Dar ul-Islam. Recall that half of Israel’s Jews were refugees from so-called ‘Arab’ and /or Muslim lands.

Moving on.

Article # 2, in the same paper, quoted Mahmoud Abbas complaining that, in his recent Washington visit, no one was talking about forcing Israel back to the ‘’67 borders.’

I do admit, that was a pleasant surprise.

While the State Department (and President Clinton and President Bush off and on) has tried its best to ignore 242’s call for the establishment of secure and recognized borders to replace Israel’s absurd 1949 armistice lines (which simply marked the point where Arab invading armies were halted upon Israel’s rebirth in 1948), Israel, despite the weakness of Prime Minister Olmert and his crew, has evidently made it clear that it took President Reagan’s words seriously when he stated on September 1, 1982:

In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely 10-miles wide...the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Not only were there mostly no Arab-Israeli ‘borders’ back then, but the Abbas/Arab claim that Israel is setting up settlements on Palestinian land has the same amount of truth in it as does the ‘67 border claim.

When Transjordan (army led by British officers)--created from most of the Mandate of Palestine in 1922--attacked Israel along with a half dozen other Arab states loaded with arms left over by the Allies in World War II in 1948, it seized Judea and Samaria...British imperialism’s west bank (of the Jordan River) as opposed to the Trans(’across’)jordanian east bank. Sir Alec Kirkbride, the Brits’ East Bank rep, wrote extensively about this in his A Crackle Of Thorns: Experiences In The Middle East.

The Arab land grab was illegal, only two nations recognized it. Still, Transjordan renamed itself Jordan, since it now held both banks, and saw to it that no Jews could reenter lands where their ancestors had lived and owned land for thousands of years until their massacres by Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s.

At the same time, huge numbers of Arabs continued to pour in...more Arab settlers setting up Arab settlements.

All together, so many Arabs were recent arrivals themselves into the Palestinian Mandate that
the United Nations Relief Works Agency--UNRWA--had to adjust the very definition of the word ‘refugee’ from its prior meaning of persons normally and traditionally resident to those who lived in the Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948 when counting those who fled the fighting Arabs started upon Israel’s rebirth.

Contrary to the Arabs’ claim that these were ‘occupied Palestinian lands,’ Judea and Samaria were non-apportioned parts of the Mandate, and leading international legal authorities such as Eugene Rostow, William O’Brien, and others have stressed that these areas were open to settlement by Jew, Arab, and other residents of the Mandate alike.

How could you occupy lands taken from an illegal occupier?

The territory in question is indeed disputed...not occupied Arab lands a la Abbas, Hamas, and Mr. Peanut.

When Israel captured Judea and Samaria in the ‘67 War as a result of a bad decision by Jordan to join Egypt’s Nasser, Syria, and others in the Arabs’ latest attempt upon its life, it came to hold territory of the Mandate officially apportioned to no one...not ‘Palestinian’ land. The Arabs themselves rejected a proposed 1947 partition of the remaining 25% of the Mandate left over after the creation of Transjordan in 1922.

While I do not advocate Israel holding on to the entire area, certainly a reasonable territorial compromise which corrects the travesty of the ‘49 armistice lines--a la 242--is a must. And Judea--land of the Jews--must never become Judenrein again...unless Arabs are prepared to see the one-fifth of Israel itself who are Arabs--many hostile--get the boot as well. Such population transfers have indeed already occurred elsewhere. Consider those involving Turks, Greeks, and Bulgars, Israel’s Jewish refugees from ‘Arab’ lands, and India and Pakistan for starters.

Now, about those Jewish settlements Abbas complains about in that second article.

If Jews are to return to Judea and Samaria in the context of a 242-type territorial compromise, then how and where else will this come about if not by establishing/reestablishing Jewish towns and so forth--’settlements?’ Without the latter, Israel doesn’t get the former.

Article # 3...

The News-Journal finally gave the genocide in Darfur some of the attention it deserves...large front page article with maps and big pictures.

Unlike the Arab-Israeli mess, however, the perpetrators might as well have come from Mars. No where was the word Arab mentioned.

After the Arabs burst out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century C.E. and forcibly Arabized millions of non-Arab peoples in the process, the Sudan (Nubia, etc.) held out for quite some time. In other parts of North Africa, native Jews aligned with Imazighen (’Berbers’) to resist this conquest as well. We’ll revisit this a bit later.

Back in the ‘60s, the first modern civil war broke out between the non-Muslim black African south and the Arab and Arabized (remember Dr. Boutros-Ghali’s comments above?) north in the Sudan.

Sudanese President Nimeiry’s stated during the slaughter of over a half million blacks at this time (and over a million more ever since) that...

‘the Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust into...black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission (Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, #2, 1973, pp. 177-78).’

Rudyard Kipling’s late 19th century poem, ‘The White Man’s Burden,’ supposedly typifies Western colonialist and imperialist attitudes towards the Third World. If that’s the case, then what does Nimeiry and the other example below, expressed in the Syrian Arab Constitution of the Ba’th, typify?

‘...The Arab fatherland belongs to the Arabs. They alone have the right to direct its destinies...The Arab fatherland is that part of the globe inhabited by the Arab nation which stretches from the Taurus Mountains, the Pacht-i-Kouh Mountains, the Gulf of Basra, the Arab Ocean, the Ethiopian Mountains, the Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.’

Yet, the more recent full scale outbreak of violence in the Sudan in the 21st century has an even more revealing twist.

While earlier bloodshed there and elsewhere could largely be seen as modern extensions of the fourteen century-old clash between the Dar ul-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, the one in the Sudan’s Darfur (as those in Arab-occupied Kurdistan and much of the rest of North Africa) is mostly about Arab racism and chauvinism...pure and simple. You know, those folks who like to scream about ‘racist Zionism.’ Over a thousand years earlier, this led to the overthrow of the Syrian-based Arab imperialist Umayyad Caliphate.

So, in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, it’s Arab and Arabized versus black Africans...regardless of religion. Ditto for Arab versus Kurd, Amazigh, and so forth. These victims are mostly Muslims.

In Sudan’s largely non-Muslim south, it’s a combination of both Arab racism and the conquest of the Dar ul-Islam--as exemplified also in the expected subjugation and dhimmitude of Egyptian Copts, Lebanon’s Christians, Near Eastern Assyrians, and Israel, Jew of the Nations, and home to whom Arabs call ‘their’ kilab yahud...Jew dogs.

An Amazigh (Berber) publisher friend ( http://www.north-of-africa.com/ ) recently sent me a video produced by the highly respected Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Its contents http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XROAu1cTcQ8 showed a debate on Al-Alam TV (Iran) on July 21, 2007over a new Berber-Jewish Friendship League set up in Morocco. Even more recently, Morocco has outlawed the creation of an Amazigh political party...especially since it espoused good relations with Israel.

Keep in mind that Morocco has had, relatively speaking and as an ‘Arab’ country, reasonable relations with Israel itself. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews had their roots there.  But the prospect of former and current fellow victims of forced Arabization getting together has implications for Arabs that even the Moroccans can’t allow. Much if not most of North Africa is of Amazigh--not Arab--descent.

Among other comments in that debate, the Amazigh spokesman pointed out that both Jews and Berbers predated the Arab conquest by thousands of years, fought long and hard against that conquest, and want nothing to do with Arab identity and forced Arabization. Keeping in mind that in modern times many Berbers have already been killed by Arabs for less, very brave words indeed.

To sum things up, those three news articles on April 26th were loaded with important material.

The problem is that, without further extensive explanation such as what I’ve attempted here, the issues are too complex for many readers to grasp.

Having said this, journalists and folks like ex-Presidents shoulder huge responsibilities and should therefore dig much deeper before commenting and pontificating a la Carter on such issues.

By the way, when’s the last time anyone heard Carter comment on any of the above non-Arab civil, political, and humanitarian issues?

If they don’t involve Arabs, he doesn’t want to know. And a look at the contributors to his library and such may explain at least some of Mr. Peanut’s Arab-colored vision.

Condi and Jimmy Sittin' In A Tree...

McCain and Peas Of The Same Pod Choices.

by Gerald A. Honigman



Prior to Senator McCain’s recent trip to Iraq and Israel, I was in communication with his office regarding the James Baker endorsement and earlier statements made by the Senator in praise of this blatant anti-Semite and anti-Zionist...a man who has largely enriched himself via the autocratic Arab petrodollar spigot. The response I received was detailed enough to suggest that it was not just another routine form letter.

After sending this correspondence to the man I’d like to vote for’s office (and I’m still a registered Democrat, though vote Independent), and again, prior to his trip, I then released the article, Dear Senator McCain, for wide-spread publication...including in the Middle East.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7816

More recently, I’ve learned about the Senator’s latest comments regarding James Baker during an interview in Los Angeles on March 26th, some two weeks after McCain’s visit to the Middle East and our initial correspondence http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=708

Perhaps I’m reading a bit between the lines, but I do believe that the Senator now has his eyes open a bit more about Baker--a man whom earlier he was considering as point man for the Middle East. Lots of other informed and caring Jews and non-Jews alike must have also made contact with his office.

And for the good.

John McCain, flawed like us all, is still--no doubt--the best all around candidate in the upcoming presidential election. And he appears to be very electable, if he doesn’t let such things like Baker set him back.

So, what’s “like Baker,” you ask?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made no secret that she’d love to be McCain’s Vice President.

Putting it bluntly...this would be like anointing James Baker III, in a skirt, to the second most powerful position in the world.

While not openly embracing the crude anti-Semitism of Baker, Condi indeed personifies the typical State Department (and also petrodollar-greased) animus towards the Jew of the Nations http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefpolitics22gah150.htm .

And she displays the same oil-tainted blinders over her eyes as Baker (of The Iraq Study Group, etc.) when it comes to the plight of over thirty million truly stateless Kurds in the region as well...all while demanding that Arabs have their state #22.

While pursuing a war against Islamic extremism is supposedly on her agenda, she nonetheless insists on shoving it down Israel’s throat anyway. When real truth proves inconvenient, make up your own...typical State Department policy when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Foggy Folks have whitewashed their so-called Fatah Arab good cops for decades, hiding Abbas’s colleague and predecessor, Arafat’s, direct connections to Black September, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the murder of American officials, and so forth. And they’ve repeatedly covered and made excuses for their darling, Abbas, and the rest of his still murderous crew as well.

The actions of Condi--the Secretary of State, not the oil tanker named after her--are cut from the same mold, a pea in the same pod, as former Secretary of State, f_ _ k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway, James Baker, whose law firm represents Saudi and other Arab interests on a huge ($$$$) scale.

She insists that Israel itself arm --and watch America arm and train--those whose prime target will be/have been Jews and Israel itself. No doubt about this. Any argument Fatah has with Hamas is not about accepting a permanent Jewish neighbor...and they’re both honest about this while Condi & Co. play deaf, dumb, and blind. Again, invent your own when the real truths are inconvenient.

Recent polls conducted by Abbas folks themselves show 85% of “moderate” P.A. (not Hamas) Arabs supporting the wanton slaughter of Jewish students in a Jerusalem yeshiva by an Arab armed with one of those weapons Condi insisted upon. And most still reject an Israel’s--of any size--right to exist.

Like most of her earlier Foggy predecessors, Condi is intent on forcing Israel to return to its 9-mile wide, 1949 armistice line--not border--existence...something Presidents, like Reagan and Johnson, and Secretary of State George Shultz (a rare exception to the Foggy mold) swore would never happen in the wake of the ‘67 Six Day War. 

Secure and Recognized borders--a la UNSC Resolution 242--were to replace those Auschwitz lines, and any withdrawal was to take place in the context of real peace treaties, not hudna ceasefires, designed only to strengthen Arabs for the ultimate kill. Arafat called this “the Peace of the Quraysh,” akin to the lull before Muhammad delivered the final blow to his Meccan enemies in the 7th century C.E.

Abbas and his Fatahniks are simply Arafatians in suits, sweet-talking an all-too-cooperative and gullible West while openly still endorsing the vilification and destruction of Jews and Israel among their own folks.

Arafat’s Swiss bank accounts, largely filled with pusillanimous dhimmi Western cash, are indeed legendary. Billions of similar dollars are now, or soon will be, at stake. And, as in Gaza, what Fatah gets now in Judea and Samaria (aka the “West Bank"), Hamas will likely get later anyway.

Subsequently, if Condi’s Crew get their way, the Jews will be left holding the bag--with an American trained and armed rejectionist enemy within a stone’s throw of all of Israel’s main population centers.

Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem will become the next Sderots, and nothing will be able to stop that independent new, sovereign, Arab state from setting up whatever it wants on its side of the American-imposed border. Think Iranian supplied missiles or whatever. And Israel will once again be left, thanks to Condi, President Bush, and so forth, a mere 9-16 miles wide (where most of its population lives), with the Mediterranean Sea to its back.

Despite the weak leaders it now has, Israel needs to resist this unreasonable pressure with all of its strength and hope a more sane, less nasty American administration will soon be on the world stage. Don’t expect this to happen with a Clinton or Obama victory, so.

As I discussed in my original correspondence with Senator McCain, as a military man who fought for America’s national interests thousands of miles away from home, and who calls for an adequate response to a militant Islam intent on furthering the Dar ul-Islam vs. the Dar al-Harb all over the world, it’s hard to imagine him not understanding what a miniscule Israel--on the very front lines of this fight--is facing.

How dare the Arab’s dhimmi kilab yahud--Jew dogs--demand in one state what Arabs insist they must have two dozen of--at mostly non-Arab Kurd, Amazigh/Berber, black African, Copt, native, pre-Arab Lebanese, and others’ expense.

As can’t be pointed out too often, the desires of any 22nd Arab state--and second, not first, in the original 1920 borders of post World War I Mandatory Palestine--must not come at the expense of the basic needs, security, and national interests of the sole Jewish State, one half of whose Jews are refugees from the so-called Arab/Islamic world.

Senator McCain will need to grasp these points and set himself apart from the powerful, over half-century old, Condi and Baker petrodollarly-connected, anti-Israel click. Many will be watching his choices very closely...including a good portion of the seventy million Evangelicals in this country.

There’s a lot of talent out there to choose from regarding such choices.

Some of McCain’s former fellow Republican contestants come to mind, as do others such as Senator Joseph Lieberman, Newt Gingrich, Alan Keyes, academics like Thomas Sowell, and so forth...many of whom are also good conservatives, backing McCain’s own credentials as well.

And talk about an attractive Independent to grab the Independent vote--whom McCain also appeals to--think of the Lieberman connection--taking on his own fellow Democrats big time...assuming America can get over the Jew thing as it largely has the black thing with so many folks now endorsing Obama.

I’m convinced that John McCain deserves to be our next President. He needs to surround himself with others who truly deserve his endorsement.

The likes of Baker and Rice don’t.

Condi's Fulminations

Condi And Other Foggy Fulminations…
by Gerald A. Honigman

As we approach the 60th anniversary of Israel’s resurrection, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice--true to State Department form--seems intent on reliving the fight Foggy Bottom had with President Harry S. Truman over his supporting that rebirth in the first place. She has had plenty of company over the decades. The Arab oil spigot nourishes well.

While already having an oil tanker named after her is indeed special, a list of American Foggy Folks (not to mention Presidents and other officials) tied to the Arab petrobuck over the years rivals the name Smith in the phone book. But, “of course,” waving the flag, they did this just for American interests only…so says the Passover Bunny.

Many have written about James Baker--Bush the 1st’s Secretary of State.

Among the many gems ( i.e. “f_ _ k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway,” etc.) spewing from his mouth, the following is typical of his mindset…

“Don’t worry, Jews remember the Holocaust, but they forget insults as soon as they smell cash.”

Recall that this is from the same gentile zillionaire whose law firm represents Saudi ($$$) Arabia against American 9/11 victims (talk about an insult…), whose partner is American Ambassador to the medieval oil monarchy, whose law firm gets rich off of other Arabs who delight in insulting America and beheading Americans, and so forth.

Now, what’s that about money and insults?

Back to Condi…

While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was still of this world, reliable reports told of Rice screaming demands at his ranch that Jews must provide Arabs with weapons (her “good cop” latter-day Arafatians of Abbas and Fatah, of course), ease up on checkpoints, engage in additional withdrawals, further expose the necks of their innocents, and so forth.

So, a weakened Sharon and his pathetic successors prostrated themselves and said Amen.

Israelis were soon murdered because of Rice’s demands…including those recently slaughtered while studying at a Yeshiva. No surprise here.

And we all know what Israel got as a result of its compete unilateral withdrawal from Gaza…thousands of mortars and rockets causing death and destruction in Israel proper, especially in Sderot. Condi now demands that Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, the Knesset, Jerusalem, Haifa, and so forth be exposed similarly.

Rice and a President (whom I voted for) whose family is already also tied to Arab oil big time (with the promise of who knows what afterwards--just ask Bush Sr., Carter, and Clinton ) are looking to leave office with Mideast “peace” feathers in their caps…even if they’re ones that Chamberlain would be proud of when he sold out the Czechs at Munich in 1938. The world got massive war anyway.

And does one really believe that if the Foggy Folks had their way and Israel was never reborn that Arabs and militant Islam would still not have dreams and plans to further the Dar ul-Islam (them) at the expense of the Dar al-Harb (us)? Just ask the Serbs and India for starters…

Israel thus faces a series of additional demands from Condi (where’s the Israeli leader with his private parts still intact these days?) to soften it up further for President Bush’s scheduled visit in May.

Despite millions of dollars in American aid already falling into Hamas hands and that, when it comes to the acceptance of Israel as a permanent Jewish neighbor, there is no difference between the Foggy Folks’ alleged Arab good cops and bad cops, here’s a partial list, from DEBKA (a very reliable source) of Condi’s latest dictates…

“…Israel must lift restrictions on Arab travel from the northern West Bank terrorist stronghold of Jenin--all the way through Jerusalem’s outskirts to the southern West Bank Tarkumiyeh terminal, the Palestinian Arab entry point from the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s top military commanders warned government leaders in the strongest possible terms that the US secretary’s demands if met would spell the end of their war on terror and expose Jerusalem and other Israeli cities to the waves of suicide killers their systematic efforts had been holding back. The checkpoints were a vital element of this effort. The Jenin-Tarkumiyeh route, they said, was already targeted by terrorists led by Hamas for two-way smuggling between Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Removing all existing controls would give them a direct link.

The same applied to her second demand for free Arab travel between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Rice’s third demand was for Israel to let 12,000 Palestinian security officers train in Jordan for duty in all the West Bank’s towns. This is twenty times the number Israel proposed to allow….”

Perhaps Baker was correct.

Perhaps the Jews running Israel’s current show will accept insults, loss of Israeli sovereignty and willingness to do the mere basics which leaders of any nation are supposed to do--defend their citizens as best as possible--in exchange for American aid.

David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, and Menachem Begin, of blessed memory, must all be turning in their graves.

What other reason could there be for not throwing Rice out of the country on her derriere?

Insulting, you say? How dare I speak this way!

I say, that’s far better than what she deserves for what she and her Department have constantly been up to…

Thousands of innocent Jews have lost their lives and have been maimed because of Foggy schemes shoved down Israel’s throat over the years...especially since the Oslo fiasco. The more Israel caved in, the more it has constantly bled in return. Arabs only interpreted forced Israeli concessions as weakness and learned that they themselves had assorted “protection” against similar American pressure.

One who demands suicide from another should not be treated gently…and the demands Rice brings to Jews indeed fall into that category given the rejectionist nature of the merely game-playing beast Israel faces. At least Hamas doesn’t play Fatah’s games.

An America, which is 3,000 miles wide and fights wars and has acquired territories and bases thousands of miles away from home in the name of its own national interest, has no right to dictate and demand what a miniscule Israel (which fits 34 times into Bush’s home state of Texas) needs in its own backyard to defend itself against enemies still sworn to its destruction--despite all of the Foggy whitewashing (done frequently for Arafat, by the way) which occurs.

While America pours hundreds of billions (trillions over time) of dollars and much blood into a venture in Arab democracy in Iraq which will most likely be futile over time (and I supported Saddam‘s overthrow), the Foggy idiots still continue to try to undermine the biggest success story over there--and which it fought Truman about. They’re still fighting Give ‘Em Hell, Harry’s ghost.

Where are Condi’s demands on her Arab buddies?

Where’s the demand that daily incitement to kill Jews and destroy the Jewish State in “moderate” Abbas’s school textbooks, mosques, assorted media, and so forth come to a halt before anything else is expected of Israel? That was supposed to happen long ago, but never has and State has never “demanded “ it. Rice warned that she would be monitoring Israel’s acquiescence to her latest demands upon it very closely. Where’s her warnings to her Arab butcher friends?

Where’s her demand that if Abbas does not take a more active stand to fight terror, American support will be withdrawn? Without Arab terror, Condi won’t have to threaten Israel about checkpoints it needs to protect itself. What’s wrong with this picture…a bit reversed, no?

Where’s the Foggy Folks demand that Abbas and his Arafatians, Israel’s alleged “peace (of the grave) partners--state loudly and clearly in Arabic that they accept a Jewish Israel as their permanent neighbor before Israel consents to a second, not first, Arab state emerging in 1920’s original Mandatory Palestine…before a newly created (Trans-)Jordan got handed some 80% of that territory?

Where’s the demand that Abbas’s Fatah finally remove--which it hasn’t--the clauses in its charter calling for Israel’s destruction? Not to mention Hamas--which will probably wind up with all that Israel consents to Fatah anyway.

Where’s Rice’s demand that Israel receive a fair compromise over disputed territories which UNSC Resolution 242 promised it in the wake of the ‘67 War (which it was forced to fight for its very life), so that it would not be forced to return its 9-mile wide, ’49 armistice line-imposed, rump state, microscopic existence again?

Where’s the demand that Arabs deal with other Arabs killing Jews not as heroes but as criminals, and that jail time becomes something other than a cruel joke?

Many other of such demands should be here as well…but don’t hold your breath.

Is it reasonable for any nation, faced with what Israel daily faces, to cave in to such insulting, condescending, and unreasonable dictates…even if they do, unfortunately, come from a bullying, powerful representative of America?

In case one needs further convincing, check out some typical findings discovered amongst those whom Condi demands Israel further expose itself to…

A recent Palestinian Authority--Abbas not Hamas--poll showed that 84 percent of PA Arabs approve of the recent massacre at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where eight students were deliberately gunned down and ten wounded.

Conducted by Ramallah-based Khalil Shikaki, of 1,270 Arabs interviewed, 64 percent supported rocket attacks on Israeli cities and towns launched from Hamas-controlled Gaza.

In February of 2007, a Near East Consulting (NEC) poll found that 75 percent of PA Arabs (the “moderates”) did not think that Israel has a right to exist.

While much more could be said about all of this, there’s already enough in this essay to expose the all-too-typical nasty, unreasonable nature of Rice’s State Department expectations placed upon America’s vulnerable friend on the front lines of the battle with both militant Islam--of either the Shi’a or Sunni stripe--and a renascent, imperial Arab mindset which sees virtually the whole region as merely purely Arab patrimony…the Arab-Jew, Arab-Kurd, Arab/Amazigh (Berber), Arab-black African Sudanese, Arab-Copt, Arab/pre-Arab native Lebanese, and other such conflicts summed up in a nutshell. Consent to a state of subjugation and dhimmitude or die.

Now, before ending, I have a demand…

I demand that Rice, the Foggy Folks, and my current President read the quotes below from just a few of many other truly great American leaders commenting on what all of the former are now demanding that Israel forfeit its right to…

President Lyndon Johnson, June 19, 1967, soon after conclusion of the Six Day War:

A return to the situation on June 4 (the day before outbreak of war) was not a prescription for peace but for renewed hostilities.” He then called for new recognized boundaries that would provide security against terror, destruction, and war.

President Reagan, September 1, 1982:

In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely 10-miles wide...the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Secretary of State George Shultz , 1988:

Israel will never negotiate from or return to the 1967 borders.

The problems and “inconveniences” of everyday life Condi complains about which Arabs face vis-à-vis Israel are of their own making. Again--no terror, no fence, no checkpoints, and so forth.

Arabs rant and rave because Jews resist marching into the slaughterhouse they have planned for them…a scenario both Condi and Dubya now seem to be a party to. As Harry Truman said, the buck stops here.

The demands of any such 22nd Arab state must not come at the expense of the security of the sole, miniscule state of the Jews in a land in which they have 4,000 years of history.

Most Americans--non-Jews as well as Jews--oppose such lop-sided, anti-Israel American pressure.

Israel must resist Washington’s current unreasonable demands for it to act insanely--at least until America’s own upcoming Presidential election--and hope that more reasonable voices will once again gain ascendancy.