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Date Posted: March 24, 2006
By Arnold Beichman (Washington Times)
In the words of Henry Kissinger: "There are all kinds of tactical discussions about how to deal with Iran.... But there are a number of fundamental principles to keep in mind.
"If Iran acquires nuclear weapons, we will live in a new world. That is the fundamental issue we must face. And our only choice is either to prevent it, or to pay the price of not having prevented it. We have to understand how much time we have and what, in all the discussion of tactics, the penalties are that we can exact. But above all we have to know that this is not a tactical issue. This is a fundamental issue of a historical turn."
These words of warning were spoken at a dinner honoring Norman Podhoretz, retiring editor of Commentary magazine. These words of warning are as true today as they were 10 months ago, more vital perhaps since Iran may be much nearer to manufacturing a nuclear device than we know.
In dealing with the Iran tyranny, prudence dictates we assume the worst, especially when no serious international inspection of Iran's nuclear program has been agreed to by the warmongering Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's 51-year-old president. His term in office ends in 2009, so we'll have him around for quite a while. Maybe.
President Bush has not yet spoken in such apocalyptic Kissingerian rhetoric but I hope the former secretary of state is speaking the president's mind when he warns about Iran obtaining nuclear weaponry: "either to prevent it, or to pay the price of not having prevented it."
If Iran is allowed to get away with its nuclear program, proliferation becomes a fact of 21st century life and the suicide bombers will have taken over. Detente with suicide bombers or their regime sponsors is impossible. Nor is detente possible with fanatics like Mr. Ahmadinejad. He has already ignored the United Nations Security Council demand that Iran end its nuclear weapons program, claiming its nuclear enrichment program is for peaceful purposes only. He has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and has described the Holocaust as a "myth."
Because Neville Chamberlain didn't think the worst of Adolf Hitler, millions and millions of people paid a price in lives and treasure. Because President Roosevelt didn't think the worst of Japanese militarism, Pearl Harbor happened. Because we didn't think the worst of Islamofascism, the attacks of September 11, 2001, happened. Because we didn't think the worst of Saddam Hussein, the elder President Bush left Saddam on his throne so Iraq could fight another day.
There are some American statesmen who think the worst of Iran. Newt Gingrich, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said in a message to Israel that allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons could mean a second Holocaust. He was addressing via satellite an Israeli security conference.
And there you have it from two of our most influential voices in the making of American foreign policy vis-a-vis Iran -- as much an enemy of world peace today as Hitler was in 1933.
Sweeping and enforceable sanctions -- now -- against Iran is the first step.
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Expulsion won't be repeated
Elyakim Haetzni
Why did the media initially announce that that the Jews "overtook" a house in Hebron?
This phenomenon is reminiscent of anti-Semitic countries where legal purchase by Jews is also deemed "a takeover," because actual Jewish presence is viewed negatively. This is a repetition of self Jewish hate, and this time it is serving Arab discrimination that dictates a Palestine void of Jews.
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Desperate search for 'peace-loving' Palestinians
Hal Lindsey (World Net Daily)
The whole world seems to be trying to push the Israelis into the elusive "two-states-living-side-by-side-in-peace" solution. And all of this despite an avalanche of hard evidence that there is no such thing as a "peace-seeking Muslim Palestinian." Just ask the Christian Palestinians who have been driven from their centuries-old homes in Bethlehem by them.
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How easy it is to hate them
Nadav Shragai (Ha'Aretz)
An Arab who harasses a Jew in Hebron - incidents documented in a detailed report - is not only a story that will not be broadcast, it will usually not be dealt with either. On the other hand, a Jew who throws stones and curses back is always a good story. But those Jews in Hebron, all of them - always all of them - disgust many Israelis, and therefore the context is unimportant. It makes no difference who started. The Jews of Hebron will always get the blame.
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Islamic PA is Capital of Anti-Semitism
Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com)
Middle Eastern affairs expert Dr. David Bukai of Haifa University, speaking Monday at a Conference session on anti-Semitism in Europe and the Islamic world, said that anti-Semitism in Egypt and particularly in the Palestinian Authority is much more worrisome and significant than in Europe.
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Humiliation and Collective Punishment in Israel
Zvi Lando
Should harsh treatment of terrorists and a public that supports their actions against anyone who is a Jew be called "humiliation"? Of course not! The Arabs know that if they renounce terror, their lives will go back to what they were pre-2000. This treatment is something that they chose to take on themselves!
But true humiation does exist, but it is aimed solely at the Jewish Israeli public.
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Being hustled - Israeli style
Emanuel A. Winston
What happened to the promised investigation of the failed Israeli response to the launching of 4,000 Katyusha Rockets by Hezb'Allah into Northern Israel from Lebanon?
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government did everything they could to delay and side-track this investigation. Recently, the Lindenstrauss Comptroller's Report was to release its first findings but, the Olmert government, in collusion with the Leftist Supreme Court, ordered it delayed for months.
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While hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers and thousands were killed, and hundreds of thousands of American lives were destroyed within minutes, Palestinian Arabs came out in multitudes - to celebrate "this great vicotory". Take a look and decide for yourselves: are these people worthy of our support?
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Zionist government wanted
Dr. Ron Breiman
True Zionist leadership would have advanced settlement activity instead of planning evacuations. There is no message that is more negative to a Jew who considers moving to Israel than the forceful expulsion of Jews in their own country, on the orders of the Israeli government.
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Islam on Trial: The Prosecution’s Case
against Islam
Amber Pawlik
One would think that, especially after September 11, 2001, there
would be criticism of Islam coming from every which way. Feminists,
Christians, capitalists, secularists, human rights activists, hell
even animal rights activists should have something to say about
Islam. We are, after all, a country with free speech, aren’t we?
Yet, even after September 11, there has been nothing but haunting
silence. An in depth article written by a Muslim reformist with Koranic sources.
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Three cheers for Israeli democracy
Caroline Glick
When the Olmert government's political collapse and Iran's strategic setbacks are taken together, one can safely say that this has been a fairly good week. Olmert's exposure of his incompetence has set the course for his government's replacement by a government capable of defending Israel. Then too, the exposure of Iran's inherent weaknesses by Asgari and the students at Teheran University points out a clear path towards preventing the regime from carrying out it planned nuclear holocaust while liberating the Iranian people from its tyranny.
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Tale of the chicken...
Uri Orbach
Olmert's realignment plan, together with The Kadima/Labour government's handling of state affairs reminds me of the famous Yiddish joke about the chicken....
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The media as predators
Emanuel A. Winston
Those reporters, journalists, media outlets cannot claim innocence and distance themselves from their words meant to provoke hate and subsequent murder. Predators usually have a price to pay to the people or nations they hunt.
Don't you think?
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Myth of moderation
Martin Sherman
Strangely enough, a poll recently published by Near East Consulting (NEC,) an institution that conducts monthly surveys of Palestinian public opinion, was given hardly any attention by the Israeli media – despite its grave and far reaching ramifications. The results of the poll showed that when asked the question: "Does Israel have the right to exist?" an overwhelming majority (75 percent) of the respondents answered with a resounding "No."
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