Iran's Promise: 'Evolution From Life To Death'

"Blind Power" by Rudolf Schlichter 1937, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

 

Iran commands Hezbollah, and the rest of what has now become its vast 'foreign legion', and the sooner the world realizes it the better.

All who oppose the absolute determination of the Iranian mullahcracy to spread its murderous and utterly inhumane doctrine, are fighting for the same freedom; the quicker we realize that, the better.

Iran has outsourced its war against the infidels to Hamas, to Hezbollah, to Muqtada al-Sadar in Iraq, to name but a few.

Muqtada al-Sadr was dismissed as an irrelevant aberration with little purchase on the nation’s future. The coalition and its Iraqi partners considered his behavior inconsistent, his judgment erratic, his discourse radical and his movement chaotic. Underestimating him proved costly, but dealing with that we shall leave for another day. It is just important to understand that in the grand scheme of things he enjoys a significant popular backing and a power base in the Shiite slums of Baghdad, the city of Kufa, and the governorate of Maysan; his followers, for the most part impoverished Shiites, are remarkably determined and loyal, and have caused us plenty of trouble in these last few weeks.

Iran is supplying them all with money, weapons and most damaging of all, the very doctrine, which fuels their fire. They are all very closely and dangerously interlinked.

Hezbollah for their part have managed to infiltrate every pore of the Lebanese Government, and according to the statistics 'rule' 80% of the population. By entering the Government they have managed to divide and conquer the anti-Syrian sentiment, and undermine the opposition. President Emile Lahoud is a puppet of Syria, and Syria is a puppet of Iran.

U.S interests in the Middle East region suggest, that we need to support the democratically elected Government in Lebanon. But that does not mean that the Administration can afford to ignore, that this same Government was somehow unable to block the entrance of a terrorist organization into Parliament and that Syria's puppet President Lahoud is still the Commander-In-Chief. From President Lahoud himself:

I myself built up this army following the civil war and integrated all the religious groups: Muslims, Christians and Druze. This army is there to secure internal peace, but it is not an army to fight a war. [...] Naturally the strongholds of the resistance are not known. [...] The exchange of prisoners has always worked perfectly in the past. [...] Hezbollah enjoys utmost prestige in Lebanon, because it freed our country. All over the Arab world you hear: Hezbollah maintains Arab honor, and even though it (Hezbollah) is very small, it stands up to Israel. And of course Nasrallah has my respect. [...] We have today around half a million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, their birth rate is three times higher than the Lebanese. That is a time bomb. [...]

Rhetoric, which clearly suggests, that Lahoud would gladly serve under a future Prime Minister Hassan Nasrallah, thereby effectively handing over control of the army to Hezbollah, or Iran, for that matter.

Therefore, unless Hezbollah is conquered, Lebanon will become a second Iran, despite the ludicrous suggestions by the left that "Iran poses no threat", and then there will be no going back. Otherwise, the next step will be for Hezbollah to win the elections in Lebanon, and formally rule the Government and the militia, which they have ruled unofficially through the deep pockets of Iran, notwithstanding the fact, that they already officially control 25% of the sovereign land of Lebanon. Add to that their power to rule through fear, and you have a metastasizing cancer to which there is only one outcome.

From the excellent article Barry Meislin pointed out to me, by Anton Efendi:

"Residents who have recently escaped from Mari tell of a dramatic, desperate situation in the village. The Druse residents, who have no affinity at all for Hizbullah, resisted Hizbullah's attempts to enter the village. The IAF apparently and unwittingly assisted in their resistance by bombing the roads leading into the village, cutting off the militia's ability to enter the town, at least temporarily. Hizbullah responded by cutting off the town's electricity and water supply, essentially laying siege to a town on its own side of the border, hoping that its residents would pack up and leave. Many of them have done so. My sources say that Hizbullah has been desperate to enter the village but has as of yet been unable to do so in large numbers. Residents also describe a growing humanitarian crisis in the village due to the lack of fresh water. Hizbullah attempted to enter Mari not to defend it from attackers, but so they could fire rockets from the village toward Israel. Hizbullah's intention was to bring Israeli reprisals on the town, ostensibly to destroy or damage it significantly, and to cause greater civilian suffering. Hizbullah's MO and tactics are well-known in the south. However, Druse typically defend their own villages, and in the case of Mari (a place I have been to several times, many of whose residents I know personally), the residents have desperately tried to keep Hizbullah fighters out of their area."

Israel does not have a choice but to destroy Hezbollah for all our sakes. We have an axis of evil and we are not paying attention to the fact that it is one entity. One almighty force backed by Iran. The root of our strategic problem is that the world has difficulty in grasping this fact, and is therefore unwilling to attack the problem as one.

We are at odds with the left of the world, because their management and conceptualization of this war is making the moral equivalence between Israel and Hezbollah. Fatal mistake, which may eventually cost us all our freedom.

The left wing control the media not only in the U.S. but in Israel, and neither have understood the land public debate. The reason why  we are here today, is because Israeli retreats and Israeli withdrawals cause war. Israel left Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005, and since we are not able to divest ourselves from this leftie notion that Israel should not be able to retreat, we will keep on making the fatal mistakes which will eventually cost us our freedom if not our very lives.

Israel's neighbors are not willing to accept that Israel should have any land at all. The world is hanging by a thread, and we need to understand that what is taking place in Lebanon has a direct impact on what is happening in Iraq and what is happening in Afghanistan, and the U.S. and Canada and all the places in the world where there are Islamic terrorist cells. Unless we are strong and united, and we stand up against them as one, and that includes the Arabs who are close to being overrun by terrorist fundamentalists, we will perish.

In the process of attempting to implement the ignorant ideas of the world that it is possible to appease these annihilationist jihadists, we will be annihilated ourselves. We have to crystallize the moral clarity where it becomes important to understand that the Israeli victory is imperative to us, and our fundamental freedom. We can however be momentarily grateful that the Lebanese Government may in their infinite wisdom not accept the proposed UN resolution which will regrettably cut Israel's plan short.

The closing sentence from the absolutely brilliant speech by Prime Minister Olmert (link to follow)

In a loud clear voice, looking you straight in the eye, I stand before you openly and I will not apologize. I will not capitulate. I will not whine. This is a battle for our freedom. For our humanity. For the right to lead normal lives within our recognized, legitimate borders. It is also your battle. I pray and I believe that now you will understand that. Because if you don't, you may regret it later, when it's too late.

I have said it before and I say it again 'Can We Get Over It Already? We are all Jews now', and we better realize it and fast

These Persian mullahs and their followers aim to restore Islamic supremacy in the 21st century by leading all Muslims everywhere to victory in a great global jihad against America, Israel, and what is left of the free world.

Comments

[Jess1dering]

mac,
I appreciate your candor and your allowing us to better know you. Thanks for that

[Michael van der Galien]

Jason:

Damn good summary and arguments. Let me call people's attention to this article over at IBA.

She ain't my blog(grand?)mother for nothing!

(just kiddin' Alexandra about the 'grand' of course, you're young, vibrant and beautiful ;-) haha)

[John Sarich]

Mac,
Since your wife is Lutheran you might find it interesting to read some of Martin Luther's writings. First, his work "On War Against the Turks" is pretty prescient for our times today with islamofascism. The Turks were Ottoman's and they were muslim and the Religion of Peace was no more peaceful in 1529 than it is today.

[Alexandra]

Mac,
Thank you for sharing this with us. I wrote a long comment in response to you...and then deleted it all. You said everything I wanted to say and better. Thank you for that. Shalom to you and your family Mac.

[mac Brachman]

***Mac,
Y'Shua (Jesus) was Jewish, no ??
I cannot wrap my mind around the notion that the dilemma we find ourselves in today is all due to anti-semitism. Radical Islam despises ALL infidels, do they not?
If it is as Mamet portrays it , then the hideous demons that inspired the holocaust have arisen strenghtened from their brief slumber.

Jess1dering:

I do not disagree that the purveyors of Islamofascism despise all who get in the way, or even oppose verbally, their drive for absolute power and a world under their interpretation of the Shari'a. They routinely call Christians "crusaders" and denounce as "decadent liberals" anyone who believes in pluralism, religious freedom, and the view that one-world Islamism is not the historical preordained destiny of humankind. I would be a shameful person if I did not mourn all those non-Jews (including many Muslims) who have been killed opposing the Islamofascists.

But in my mind, anti-Semitism is the prototype, the archetype, the ur-Hatred. Islamofascists, hypocrites and cowardly bullies (that is, opportunists) that they are, realize this. And so they try to appeal to the oldest and most universal hatred of all. When al-Zawahiri called upon all Third World peoples to rise up against Israel at the start of the present war with Hezbollah, he was hoping to appeal across national, class, and religious lines to crush the Jew. After all, this is a man (bin Laden's number two, scatological pun intended) who, as Al Qaeda's chief ideologue, has pushed a form of Wahhabism that labels Shi'ites as Islamic apostates, Christians as followers of a precursor prophet (Jesus), and Hindus and Buddhists as idolaters/polytheists/pagans but hopes to utilize anti-Semitism, cynically and hypocritically, to crush Israel and Jews. When Mahathir Mohamad, for more than 20 years the P.M. of Malaysia (in SE Asia, a part of the world not known for having a large Jewish population) sought to extend his political and economic iron grip on the country at the time of Malaysia's currency crisis in the late 1990s, he invoked the crudest stereotypes about international Jewish bankers and blamed the crisis on George Soros (of all people! A Jew not known to be sympathetic either to neoconservatism or to Israel) rather than on local Chinese, Indian, and ethnic Malay financiers (ethnic Chinese and Indians make up the bulk of the professions and upper middle classes in Malaysia, and both groups are largely non-Muslim, while the dominant ethnic Malays, who are almost all Muslims, tend to poor or working class). Jews are routinely depicted as fanged, hook-nosed demons slaughtering innocent Muslims in cartoons and other graphics throughout the Arab/Muslim world. Muslims routinely teach their children that Jews are "descendants of pigs and dogs" while Christians are seen as merely deluded, following a superseded prophet instead of the Final Prophet (Mohammed).

My wife, and I love her dearly, is a Midwest-born and -raised, pale-skinned, blue-eyed, straight haired Lutheran of German/Scandinavian background (our son is being raised Lutheran but educated about the Jewish heritage on his father's side). When she sometimes expresses amazement at the extent to which I am sensitive about anti-Semitism, I tell her that I don't recall large-scale propaganda campaigns in history warning people of the "Swedish/German Lutheran conspiracy" to control international finance and bring economic ruins to nations; a "Lutheran" conspiracy to start wars for profit and world domination; warning people to shelter their children against the well-known "Lutheran" propensity to slit innocent non-Lutheran children's throats and use the blood in Satanic rituals or bake it into Lutheran matzohs, depicting all Scandinavian and/or German Lutherans as "descendants of pigs and dogs" (or "apes and pigs") or, alternatively, as Satan's children who wear clothing and headgear to disguise their tails and devil's horns. I don't recall concentration camps, death camps and systematic programs to exterminate every Lutheran in Europe or on the face of the earth. I don't recall Lutherans being banned from professions or from places to live en masse, or from living in countries altogether, or being forced to convert to a non-Lutheran religion or die. Or that my own greatgrandparents and in one case a grandfather left Europe for many of these same reasons. Yes, all who oppose the Islamofascists will face their wrath. But they'll come for the Jews first and foremost and many of their opponents may help them, actively or passively. Fortunately, Alexandria will not be one of them. I hope this post hasn't been too angry sounding or extreme; I certainly don't feel this way about jess or weekenderman or most of the other regular posters on this blog.

Rereading Mamet's piece I can see his anger and frustration, and all those who are familiar with his work as a playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and critic know that subtlety and understatement are not characteristic of his literary/dramatic/narrative style. But I think his piece got it right on the whole. Shalom to you all, Mac Brachman

[George W. Sarkisian]

I find Michael Ware the CNN reporter who has an unusual access to the Hezbollah in Lebanon highly suspect of Jihadist propaganda. His biased reporting towards the terrorist is probably why he has this special relationship. Is CNN sacrificing honest reporting for the sake of having the privilege to accompany Hezbollah operatives? Ware was the same reporter in Iraq that took a shining to the so called insurgents(terrorists) there. I do not trust this guy to be fair towards the Israeli's in their struggle against Hezbollah.

[jess1dering]

Hi All ,
Just a little good news from "Soldiers Dad" blog spot.
Even though the the media outlets refuse to recognize the fact, we ARE making progress in our very real war against the fascist regimes in the Middle-East:we are making headway in creating "a different kind of Middle-East".

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Monday, August 07, 2006
ISF Standingup Up #9857
via MNF-I

This week Iraqis celebrated another significant advance toward their sovereign democracy. On Tuesday, the 4th Iraqi Army Division assumes responsibility for operations from the American 101st Airborne Division. Half the Iraqi Army divisions are now in the lead for planning and controlling security operations in Iraq.

So far, 48 of 110 operating bases nationwide have been transferred to Iraqis.

This week, five Army divisions, 2,522 brigades(sic 25 brigades) and 85 battalions – more than half the planned number of Army units - lead security operations in Iraq. By year’s end, 325,000 trained and equipped members of Iraqi security forces will be serving their nation, more than 80 percent of Army units will be in the lead, nearly half the bases in Iraq, and at least half of Iraq’s provinces should be responsible for maintaining domestic law and order within their boundaries.
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[RunningRoach]

Hi Alexandra!

Good grief! You BANNED RL!? Oh my goodness. Who the heck is RL? Or, should I ask?

Been crezy around here for the past few weeks. You might remember that I'm in the air conditioning business in NY. Just catching up on my reading.

Jess, Thanks for posting Ahmadinejad’s address. All fire and brimstone, huh? Bring it on twerp!

More later.

Regards,
JCC

[JasonP]

Damn good summary and arguments. Let me call people's attention to this article over at IBA.

[John Sarich]

For an outstanding essay (actually part of a book) on Islamofascism and what we are facing, go to howardbloom.net.

Howard Bloom is one of the foremost thinkers of our time and what he writes ought to be enough to wake up the dead.

In my opinion, Iran is going to push just enough buttons to get the American people seeing the entire middle east for what it is. Iran had better be careful because the reaction will be reminiscent of WW2 not Vietnam or Iraq. Bush has laid the groundwork with the talk about a 'sustainable" peace. That is diplospeak for getting the Arab League to clean up their act. The Arab League (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, etc) understand very well that they need the US more than the US needs them. I would not be surprised to see the Saudi's underwrite the cost of a major campaign against Iran and Syria.

[Saul Davis]

PS: My apologies for not proof reading; please change "don'ty know" to "don't know."

[Saul Davis]

Somewhat on topic; I recently received an email from a friend; don'ty know if the quote is true, but it's good:

"In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward Hizbollah

The General said,
' I believe that forgiving Hizbollah is God's function. The Israeli's job is to arrange the meeting.'"

[jess1dering]

***Alexandra,
Thanks for keeping the site clean. RL will be in my prayers but it feels like being violated to come across the the filth he was posting lately. Poor soul.

***Rich,
LOVE your observations.

***Mac,
Y'Shua (Jesus) was Jewish, no ??
I cannot wrap my mind around the notion that the dilemma we find ourselves in today is all due to anti-semitism. Radical Islam despises ALL infidels, do they not?
If it is as Mamet portrays it , then the hideous demons that inspired the holocaust have arisen strenghtened from their brief slumber.

*** Nasty,
Isn't it possible that this administration fully recognised the danger ? When you awaken to your bed being on fire, your awakening didn't CAUSE the fire. Do you honestly believe there was another viable course of action. In hind sight , I think it's painfully obvious that the world has waited far too long to address this problem.

[jess1dering]

Monica Zandi,
Your words were good to read.
I hope you will keep coming back.

[rich]

Here is the link to the David Mamet article mentioned in the comments.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0608060379aug06,1,3537615.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

I agree that Hezbollah was trying to take over Lebanon and that Iran is behind the effort.

From afar, it looks like the old communist salami slicing tactics were being used by Hezbollah to lay the groundwork for a coup d'etat.

It is interesting that the MSM and some in academia seem to think that Islamofacists will not use tactics from totalitarians of the right and left -- even when this is happening in the current war. Subversion and control of journalists, inserting photoshopped propaganda pictures into the Western media, buying UN diplomats -- all of these can be expected to be used.

If this war starts to wake up the West, we will be fortunate. As bad as it is, it is nothing compared to what was being planned for us.

On the optomistic side -- it is interesting how bad things seem to happen to those who attack, directly or indirectly, the USA. We have heard from the left that this administration cannot do anything right, so the bad things cannot be intentional.

Might it be that some superior entity, unrecognized by the left, does not will that Hezbollah and Iran should win? That whenever that Islamic expression, "God willing" is used, it invokes their defeat? This string of losses is sort of a hard thing to say is just a coincidence.

[jess1dering]

Until now, with the help of Allah, [Hizbullah] is winning, and, Allah willing, it will reach the ultimate victory in the near future."

[...]

"I hereby demand that all the peoples declare their position regarding these crimes. It is inconceivable for people to play a double game in the Middle East and Lebanon. On the one hand, they maintain cooperation and economic and political ties with the Zionist criminals, and on the other hand, they wish to appear as supporters of human rights, of the oppressed, and of peace. They all must declare their position. I call upon all the governments to remove the restrictions upon their peoples. The peoples have become vigilant today, and are studying the scene with precision and awareness. The peoples are keeping record of the behavior of all the governments, the officials, and the groups. All these crimes are engraved on the hearts of the peoples. Soon, the people will begin to move, and, Allah willing, they will drag these criminals to the defendant's bench."

[...]

"I declare, before all the dear people of Bojnourd, that in light of America and England's behavior, it has become clear that they don't have what it takes to participate in international forums. They don't have what it takes to sit in the Security Council, and to have a right of veto. They themselves are guilty and criminal, and they must be placed on trial."

[...]

"When I see the behavior of America, England, and their other accomplices in recent days, I get the impression that they are preparing even greater crimes. I warn them: Know that the fire of the wrath of the peoples is about to erupt and overflow. If you do not put an end to your crimes, know that the ocean of the peoples will soon rage. When the peoples begin to move, they will drag everybody to the defendant's bench, and will remove them from the throne of power."

[...]

"Today, the Iranian people is the owner of nuclear technology. Those who want to talk with our people should know what people they are talking to. If some believe they can keep talking to the Iranian people in the language of threats and aggressiveness, they should know that they are making a bitter mistake. If they have not realized this by now, they soon will, but then it will be too late. Then they will realize that they are facing a vigilant, proud people."

[jess1dering]

August 3, 2006 No.1229

Iranian President Ahmadinejad Addresses Rally & Warns the U.S. & England: The Fire of the Wrath of the Peoples is About to Erupt & Overflow & the People Will Soon Rage; Today the Iranian People is the Owner of Nuclear Technology

The following are excerpts from a rally with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 1, 2006.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1216.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Look, they are destroying homes with the people inside. They are burning fields. Neither children nor adults are safe from them. With laser-guided bombs, they attack shelters of defenseless women and children, leaving them in a pool of their blood."

Crowd: "Death to Israel."

"Death to Israel."

"Death to Israel."

"Death to Israel."

"Death to Israel."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "They have no boundaries, limits, or taboos when it comes to killing human beings. Who are they? Where did they come from? Are they human beings? 'They are like cattle, nay, more misguided.' A bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians. Next to them, all the criminals of the world seem righteous."

[...]

"They are a bunch of Zionists. Where have they come from? As you know, the rule of hegemony and the web of colonialism strived to establish a base in the heart of the Middle East. A hundred years ago, they began to devise conspiracies on the basis of a diabolical plan. Bit by bit they arrived, and backed by the devious, deceiving England, they sneaked people in, and placed them in control over the people of Palestine. Sixty years ago, by means of a highly complex plan involving psychology, politics, and propaganda, and by means of weapons, they managed to establish a false regime in the heart of the Middle East. At first they claimed: 'Since some of those [Jews] lost their families in World War II, and were killed by the German government, we must give them a land.' They established a regime, and placed them here. Afterwards, we saw that they did not make do with [the Jews] who presumably were harmed in the war. They gathered people from all over the world, brought them here, and turned them into the landlords. They expelled more than five million Palestinians from their homes with weapons and with oppression. They gathered people from all over the world, and imposed them here. Our question was: 'If these people were harmed in Europe, why do you want to compensate them out of the pockets of the people of Palestine, and with their honor and their land?' Then they claimed that these are people whose forefathers had lived in this land 2,500 years ago, and that they should therefore be the rulers of this land. We say to them that if we were to accept this principle, and were to apply it throughout the world, all the political borders in today's world would change.

"We ask you: Who lived on the land of America 250 or 300 years ago? Don't the rulers of America today rule because of the massacre of the native Americans? If we accept the principle that anybody whose forefathers ever lived on any land 2,000 or 3,000 years ago should rule today, then America should be ruled by the native Americans who are there today. There is proof that they existed. There are films, photos, documents, maps, and their descendants."

Crowd: "Death to America

"Death to America"

"Death to America"

"Death to America"

"Death to America"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "They established a regime, aimed at threatening, trespassing, murdering, and pillaging. They established this regime so that the peoples of the region would never be tranquil. They threaten everybody. Even if a country wants to make scientific progress, they have the nerve to prevent its scientific progress under the pretext that the safety of the regime that occupied Jerusalem would be threatened by this scientific progress."

[...]

"They established that regime so that it would constitute a constant threat, and would prepare the ground for the control of the rule of hegemony, and so that they would be able to impose agreements on the people. As you know, some of the countries in our region made armament deals worth more than 150 billion dollars with America and England, under the pretext of the regime that occupied Jerusalem. Since they are under America's control, they never used these weapons against the regime that occupied Jerusalem."

[...]

"It is totally obvious from what is going on that this plan was made a long time ago. The Americans failed to implement their Greater Middle East policy. They thought that by attacking and occupying Lebanon, they would be able to revive the dead plan to establish a Greater Middle East. That is why they attacked. As you can see, their crimes know no limits.

"I hereby declare: The world must know that America and England are accomplices to each and every one of the crimes of the regime that has occupied Jerusalem. They must be held accountable."

[...]

"Look at the international organizations. We used to say that these organizations are a tool in the hands of some of the great powers, and we were told we were being pessimistic. Look at the Security Council. It was established to bring about security. But as you can see, whenever the proposal for a ceasefire is raised, the Security Council - which is responsible for security, and which should welcome the cease-fire proposal - is, unfortunately, opposed to the cease-fire proposal and to preventing the killing of women and children. I hereby declare: This behavior of the Security Council is a mark of eternal shame on the forehead of the U.N. and those who control it."

[...]

"Everybody knows that this regime [Israel] can do nothing without the orders and backing of America and its intimate friend, England. That's why we have declared these two regimes are responsible for all the crimes of the insubordinate Zionist regime."

[...]

"It is inconceivable that they allow themselves to make decisions to attack and totally destroy a certain country, and then, on the basis of a few agreements, they bring groups from the countries supporting this corrupt regime [Israel], and deploy them along the borders, in order to oppress the people of the region even more. They must know that those days are over. The peoples have awoken.

"The Lebanese scene is like a mirror. It displays the criminal essence of the rule of hegemony and the false claims of the great powers to support human rights, freedom, and democracy. At the same time, it exhibits the oppression of the Lebanese people.

"Today, Hizbullah in Lebanon is the standard-bearer of the resistance of all the monotheistic peoples, of the seekers of justice, and of the free people. Hassan Nasrallah is shouting the loud cry of the vigilant human consciences. Today, Hizbullah stands tall as the representative of all the peoples, all the vigilant consciences, all the monotheistic people, all the seekers of justice, and all free people of the world, against the rule of hegemony. Until now, with the help of Allah, [Hizbullah] is winning, and, Allah willing, it will reach the ultimate victory in the near future."

[...]

"I hereby demand that all the peoples declare their position regarding these crimes. It is inconceivable for people to play a double game in the Middle East and Lebanon. On the one hand, they maintain cooperation and economic and political ties with the Zionist criminals, and on the other hand, they wish to appear as supporters of human rights, of the oppressed, and of peace. They all must declare their position. I call upon all the governments to remove the restrictions upon their peoples. The peoples have become vigilant today, and are studying the scene with precision and awareness. The peoples are keeping record of the behavior of all the governments, the officials, and the groups. All these crimes are engraved on the hearts of the peoples. Soon, the people will begin to move, and, Allah willing, they will drag these criminals to the defendant's bench."

[...]

"I declare, before all the dear people of Bojnourd, that in light of America and England's behavior, it has become clear that they don't have what it takes to participate in international forums. They don't have what it takes to sit in the Security Council, and to have a right of veto. They themselves are guilty and criminal, and they must be placed on trial."

[...]

"When I see the behavior of America, England, and their other accomplices in recent days, I get the impression that they are preparing even greater crimes. I warn them: Know that the fire of the wrath of the peoples is about to erupt and overflow. If you do not put an end to your crimes, know that the ocean of the peoples will soon rage. When the peoples begin to move, they will drag everybody to the defendant's bench, and will remove them from the throne of power."

[...]

"Today, the Iranian people is the owner of nuclear technology. Those who want to talk with our people should know what people they are talking to. If some believe they can keep talking to the Iranian people in the language of threats and aggressiveness, they should know that they are making a bitter mistake. If they have not realized this by now, they soon will, but then it will be too late. Then they will realize that they are facing a vigilant, proud people."

[mac Brachman]

I just wanted to add that people might want to read an op-ed article published in today's (Sunday) Chicago Tribune. The author is David Mamet, the Chicago-originated playwright. I've had mixed feelings about Mamet because I always thought he was overrated and overpraised for his supposed "riskiness" and "courage" in his plays: the dialogue is peppered with about three obscenities per sentence, and the attitude in plays like "Glengarry Glenross" (about real estate agents) and "American Buffalo" (about ne'er-do-well, oafish brothers who plan a robbery together) and screenplays (e.g., "The Verdict") was a by-the-book, the-average-schmo-can-never-win anticapitalism that is about as cutting-edge or risky in the stylish-left social circles of New York or Hollywood (where Mamet now lives) as a Hostess Twinkie. But the state of performing-arts criticism in much of the American mainstream media is such that any stale leftist gestures, or "edgy" use of foul language, is bound to win over lamebrained critics about 75% of the time, and using "American" in a title is a red flag that heavy-handed irony and holier-than-thou sneering at the values and aspirations of the American middle class is rampant.

But apparently Israel's predicament has shocked Mamet and reminded him of his Jewish roots, and the historical fragility of Jews' situations even in places like the U.S. (probably the least anti-Semitic country, outside Israel itself, in human history). And he has written an eloquent peace in his old hometown's paper about the quickness to blame Jews for any and all evils in the world. The article should be available at chicagotribune.com. Sincerely, Mac Brachman

[mac Brachman]

RL banned from the site? I only regret I didn't get to read the final offending post(s) so I could comment on it/them. A few days ago I pegged him as a mentally ill person, and envisioned a scene of him "talking" with God (since he obviously believes he is God's messenger, consigning Ehud Olmert, Israel supporters, etc. to "fiery hell"). He e-mailed back that I must be a "reprobate" too (i.e., a bad person, and/or a person predestined for damnation). Alexandra, I understand your banning him permanently; now I hope you can enjoy your Sunday evening with your family, etc. and not waste any more time being angry with him; he ain't worth it.

[Alexandra]

RL

No I do not "occasionally or regularly re-arrange [any of] my comments". You have some cheek, after the amount of slack I had cut you in the last few days. I was in the middle of deleting all of yours right now and banning you. I gave you a warning, you are now simply either trolling off on a tangent or making more personal insults to my readers. I have now had enough. Goodbye and good luck.

[Patty]

On a lighter note. I just tagged you
http://thisthatandfroghair.blogspot.com/2006/08/memes.html

[Crusader.NoRegrets.]

HHHmmmm...

International diplomacy is afoot... Look out, Israel!

[Crusader.NoRegrets.]

RL calling someone a troll!

Here, people, is the very epitome of irony.

[Ghost Dansing]

You do work very hard Alexandra :)

The "Whaddaya gonna do about it?" is always the toughest part of the problem, and the answer isn't easy...war is hard work and killing the "right" people is never an easy task.

I pointed out before, Israel is a nuclear power. It is always a matter of "Whaddya gonna do about it?"

Lebanon, Syria and Iran are complicit with hisballa...how far do you go to address the "problem"?

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Israel/index.html

[Nasty90]

We are all going to suffer for the managerial decisions of our elected representatives. I am utterly convinced of this. I believe that they consider the Islamofacists a managable nuisance. I have come to believe that the profiteering from this politically correct “war on terror” is going to lead to the destruction of Western Civilization. I do not believe that the men in power are God fearing men. I believe that many of them have a “form of Godliness” (2 Timothy 3) but they are not Godly men at all. As long as people believe the lie that “Islam is a Religion of Peace” when in fact it is primarily a Militant form of Government, we can only be heading for destruction. I wish I could be more optimistic.

[jess1dering]

I don't think addressing the media's distortion of fact is off topic at all. There is NO WAY that Americans will unite in purpose and face the truth about our current situation until the press stops working for the lying Islamofascists. What is going ON in the media?? Why is graphic footage of 9-11 taboo but hezbollah propaganda footage all the rage.

As an example , I have looked everywhere for the full text of Ahmadinejad's latest speech of Aug 3rd. I read it in it's entirety shortly after it was released. It was startling. Now I can't find it anywhere. Why isn't a speech that clearly states Iran's intentions toward the United States readily available to the citizens of the United States. Why wasn't it on the front page of every paper in the land? I have heard members of the media profess a belief in their own superiority over the "average" person. If this is part of what motivates them to censor information, then theirs is a MOST dangerous conceit. If someone sees the full text this speech anywhere , I'd be most grateful for a link . Thanks.

The following is an observation about Google that I just happened upon...............

Disgusted with Google
Google ^ | 8/4/06 | Vanity

Posted on 08/04/2006 2:32:02 PM PDT by DogBarkTree

I really try to avoid vanity posting but in this case I have to. I watched with fascination the documentary Obsession on Google video. The documentary about the Islamic war on the West quickly moved up the most viewed and rated films until it was removed by Google. I wonder if there is a connection that it was replaced with a Moonbat film titled 911 Cover Up which is now rated as #4 on the list. There is something very wrong here that people need to know. Below are the inks to Google's video home page and to the disgusting 911 Cover Up video.

http://video.google.com/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5946593973848835726

[DiscerningTexan]

Magnificently written, as always. As events play out today (medium-range attacks on Haifa, some of which were launched from Qana), and as the IDF reports continue to identify "Iran" with more regularity, one can only hope that the IDF, the US Military, and the rest of the Western World (UK? Australia? Germany?) wakes up to the true nature of this Enemy and the Darkness on the horizon before it is too late. Iran is promising "big fireworks" on August 22. I think Barbara is spot-on that the real fireworks need to come before that.

For your previous reader who didn't bother, here is a snippet from Barbara's powerful argument:

[....] “Diplomacy” in the midst of a war we are losing by failing to confront our main enemy is a euphemism for appeasement — a dead end road. The more eager our president is to rely on “the international community,” the U.N., and our EU “partners,” and to avoid, at all costs, any military confrontation with Iran, the more confident of ultimate victory the mullahs become. To them, and to hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world, watching Al Jazeera or its like on their TV screens, it looks like Iran is winning one glorious Islamist victory after another, striking blow after paralyzing blow at the once-mighty giant of the Christian West, while we cower in fear, afraid to strike back. We look like losers, while Iran looks invincible, and that image of invincibility is the most effective weapon Iran has in its hugely successful battle for the allegiance of the Muslim masses everywhere. Most Americans are still unaware of Iran’s promise to light up the skies with a great surprise on August 22, but Muslims everywhere are keenly aware of it; most await the day with growing excitement.

We should not wait, passively, for the Iranians to unveil their surprise. We should light up the skies with our own surprise: a massive aerial bombardment that wipes out most of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and decimates the ranks of its mullahs as well as those of the Revolutionary Guard and Basij forces that keep them in power, defeating these monsters and decimating their fan base by shattering their image of invincibility.

[Alexandra]

Ghost,

You got it in one...phew that saved some time. Nice one.

What I like about you, is you read me well, I mean it. You always know just what to say, and when to say it, and where to draw the line...when to back off and when to go for it...if I did not think you were a man I would have definitely had you pegged as a woman. Far too much female intuition there...but then that could simply be the overwhelmingly liberal side to you LOL.

[Ghost Dansing]

Well giving the breaking news that Iran is bad, and so is Syria and hisballa...I just had a reasonable question...

I was just imagining that you'd have to say "...well we're just gonna hafta kill 'em all..."

To which I'd respond..."...fine...go for it...".

[weekenderman]

Enjoy time with your family, Alexandra. We'll play the part of "Ghostbusters" during your absence. :)

[Alexandra]

Ghost,

Oohh goodie another task. I really was just thinking what should I do now....umh just finished a long essay which took me quite some hours to research, and even more hours to write, then I researched the image...then I photoshopped it some more to make sure the colors are true...now thank goodness Ghost came along without dealing with any of my points or the points I link to, just to allow me to spend another few hours solving the entire problem of the Middle East vis-a-vis the rest of the world in yet another essay.

Honestly. Did you even bother to read my link to Barbara Lerner's long and thoughtful essay in my last sentence? You didn't did you? Didn't think so, just rushing to give me some more homework, and add in some more unwarranted superciliousness and condescension right?

Yeah right Ghost. I write these posts myself in case you had not noticed. Your comments are mostly long copy pastes, why don't you sit down and write a long essay with links which you have to read prior to linking to them, for a change, I am off to have some family time now.

[Ghost Dansing]

"I have said it before and I say it again 'Can We Get Over It Already? We are all Jews now', and we better realize it and fast..."

Ok, got it. Now spell out what exactly Israel, the United States, Europe and the World will have to do?

[FrauBudgie]

On-topic: CNN, NYT's, and BBC have some Middle Eastern exposure. I wish these outlets would start covering some of the Hezbollah lies. I guess Al Jazeera would be a more likely candidate to do it, though -- in other words, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting. Wouldn't it be something, though, if average people on the "Arab Street" suddenly understood they are being lied to?

Off-topic -- BlissStreetJournal has an update on Al Mari. The village is still undamaged. http://blissstreetjournal.blogspot.com/2006/08/odds-and-ends.html

[antimedia]

Alexandra, the more that information from the area comes out, the more we find that Hezbollah manipulates the media to do their dirty work for them. And the media willingly goes along, spreading the lie that Israel is killing innocent women and children, when in fact it's Hezbollah who is killing women and children, on both sides, indiscriminately.

In Iraq we have seen this same behavior, where literally thousands of Muslims are killed each month, yet the liars want you to think these are noble warriors fighting for their freedom and it is the westerners who don't value the lives of Muslim women and children. Until the world wakes up and shakes off this insanity, these wars will continue incessantly.

[David Zohar]

Thank you very much for your comments on Hizballah, Iran etc.

David Zohar
Jerusalem