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Shalom shalom everyone!

So, our old simian buddy, Mahmud, has been shooting off at the gob again. Yesterday he prophesied that "the filthy Zionist entity [...had] reached the end of the line" and that "it ha[d] lost its reason to be and [would] sooner or later fall." Such sentiments are no doubt shared by many around him, including Iran but also the Arab world (the latter having really been the principal target audience of this diatribe).

Now, Iran is not a happy place: Despite boasting immense national wealth, which could easily transform the place into a Bahrain or Dubai, it is a cesspit of penury, gas-rationing(!), inflation, communist-style loss-making behemoths, religious coercion, ethnic cleansing (q.v. al-Ahawaz region), etc. Never mind that though.

His verbal defecation came as no surprise. What IS astonishing, however, is that many lap it up. They are blissfully unaware of the fact that the "Zionist entity" is not some phantom regime ruling the roost from afar; rather, it's a country of seven million people who--unless ethnically cleansed by a vastly superior adversary--are not going anywhere. He further forgets that the Jewish nation is today more numerous and stronger is every way that ever before in our 6,000-year-long history.

Or IS he unaware of the foregoing? Sure enough, he is a simpleton, unversed in general knowledge, never mind the finesse of sociology, economics, diplomacy, science and so on. However, not even to him is the reality on the ground totally recondite. Why does he spout such nonsense, then? For the same reason his Arab counterparts and clergy do: He needs Israel.

I'd still like to bomb his ass to smithereens though.

As for me, yes, I'm still very much alive and enjoying the good life... - the VERY good life

Labels: Ahmadinejad, ethnic cleansing, Iran, Israel, racism

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A grueling article in the Torygraph today: a former U.S. Army soldier who actively participated in the most horrific torture of--per his own admission--largely completely innocent people bears it all. As revolting as the description of some of the techniques used is his disclosure about whence and how those methods were acquired: the Soviets, select despotic regimes littering the planet and... - the natzim. Yes, the natzim. The bulwark of "democracy," “justice” and "liberty" is using NATZI techniques in its war for freedom.

One is left speechless.

Despite the vehement opprobrium I showered on the incumbent U.S. administration once it had launched its illegal and despicable aggression on the equally despicable Saddam regime, following the latter's overthrow I was rooting for the good guys. I figured: what's done is done, let's rebuild Iraq. Following revelations such as the foregoing, it is very difficult for me not to sense a (shameful) satisfaction when I learn of the death of an American or "coalition" footsoldier. Shameful I say because many of those men are really boys who've been brainwashed and/or had little economic choice other than to enlist (I know, I know: not the best of sources. Believe me, I don't like them either but the info is genuine). The most tragic thing in all this is that the bastards responsible for this bloodshed--the real culprits--will never face justice and will continue living a life of luxury until their very end. Yo think that ghastly crooked-mouth Cheney will even want for anything? And how many lives has he irredeemably destroyed...

BTW, what do we do about an increasingly recalcitrant Russia? Well, what was done the last time there was a country with (1) weapons of mass destruction (and this time they really DO exist), (2) capable of reaching certain entities in 45 minutes, and (3) headed by a ruthless dictator? Ya reckon the same thing's gonna happen this time round? Why not? Answers on an e-postcard please.

Shalom umvorakh...

Labels: Cheney, Iraq, Israel, Palestinians, Russia, terrorism, torture

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Our sar habita7on and s'gan rosh hamemshalah said today that Israel must accept Saudi plan as the starting point for talks. I agree with that but what exactly has he, as the second most powerful member of the incumbent administration, done in the year he has held that position to advance this principle? In fact, what has he done to exert any influence on the incompetent, idle and corrupt Olmert to make moves toward resolving the situation in the Middle East?

Absolutely nothing.

For all the resolve he's been selling the media about how those ghastly illegal settlements needed to be evacuated, how the qasamim had to be dealt with sensibly or how Israel needed to negotiate with the all and sundry, in reality his only mission has been to hold on to his seat as tightly as he could--on a par with every other government member.

3amir Peretz has been a failure and no-one is buying his nonsense any more than we're buying Olmert's hollow pronouncements. Peretz is out; now is the time for the rest of them to go, too.

Labels: Israel, Olmert, Peretz

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