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Obama & Israel: Why So Defensive?

Posted by J-GOP on Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:19:40 PM
Why when Barack Obama hears the word 'appeasement' does he think it applies to him?  Why when it comes to standing with Israel is Barack Obama so defensive? 
 
Wasn't it Barack Obama's promise to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that causes great nervousness in the Jewish community? Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush agree -- Barack Obama's policies of direct presidential negotiations with hostile regimes, without precondition, is naïve and irresponsible.
 
Barack Obama's shaky grasp of Middle East policy and repeated vows to meet with state sponsors of terrorism are alarming.  Barack Obama has surrounded himself with advisors, past and present, like Gen. Merrill McPeak, Robert Malley, Congressman Jim Moran, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who choose to blame America's Jewish community for the problems in the Middle East. 
It's no wonder Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama.
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Jewish Voters Doubt in Obama is Good for McCain

Posted by J-GOP on Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:30:11 AM
Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Executive Director Matt Brooks issued the followed statement today:

"The just released Gallup poll of Jewish voters is another important indicator of the ongoing troubles Barack Obama has with Jewish voters. In the poll of Jewish voters (conducted April 1-30), it showed Obama getting only 61% of the Jewish vote against John McCain (32%). By comparison, in 2004, John Kerry received 75% of the Jewish vote and George W. Bush received 25%. The recent polling numbers demonstrate Obama's weakness among Jewish voters. This data comes on the heels of the exit poll data from the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton beat Obama among Jewish voters 62% - 38%," said Brooks.

"These results show that the American Jewish community is troubled by what they know of Barack Obama, his views and his positions. The RJC remains confident that John McCain will continue the trend of the GOP making inroads among Jewish voters."
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The Story of a Female Schindler

Posted by J-GOP on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:18:33 PM
Irena Sendler turned ninety-seven in 2007. Mrs. Sendler, a Polish woman, saved 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Though she received the Yad Vashem medal for the Righteous Among the Nations in 1965, Irena Sendler's story was virtually unknown. But in 1999 the silence was broken by some unlikely candidates: four Protestant high-school girls in rural Kansas. The girls were looking for a subject for the Kansas State National History Day competition. Their teacher, Norm Conard, gave them a short paragraph about Mrs. Sendler, from a 1994 U.S. News & World Report story, "The Other Schindlers." Mr. Conard thought the figures were mistaken. After all, no one had ever heard of this woman; Schindler, who was so famous, had rescued 1,000 Jews. 250 children seemed more likely than 2,500.

Mrs. Sendler, code name "Jolanta," smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the last three months before its liquidation. She found a home for each child. Each was given a new name and a new identity as a Christian. Others were saving Jewish children, too, but many of those children were saved only in body; tragically, they disappeared from the Jewish people. Irena did all she could to ensure that "her children" would have a future as part of their own people.

Irena Sendler was born in 1910 in Otwock, some 15 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father, a physician and one of the first Polish Socialists, raised her to respect and love people regardless of their ethnicity or social status. Many of his patients were poor Jews. When a typhus epidemic broke out in 1917, he was the only doctor who stayed in the area. He contracted the disease. His dying words to seven-year-old Irena were, "If you see someone drowning, you must jump in and try to save them, even if you don't know how to swim."

You can read the entire story of this amazing woman and her quest for saving Jewish children during the Holocaust by following this link.
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A Japanese View of the Palestinians

Posted by J-GOP on Monday, May 05, 2008 7:49:05 PM
By Yashiko Sagamori

If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine:
When was it founded and by whom?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
What was its form of government?
Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of Palestine?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation. Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?
And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here.
The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel; they still cherish it today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal with military means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it "the Palestinian people" and installed it in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. How else can you explain the refusal by Jordan and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank" and Gaza, respectively?
The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less claim to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a constructive goal that motivated them.
 
The so called "Palestinians" have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel, and in my book that is not sufficient to consider them a nation" -- or anything else except what they really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled.
In fact, there is only one way to achieve peace in the Middle East. Arab countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against Israel and, as the losing side should, pay Israel reparations for the more than 50 years of devastation they have visited on it. The most appropriate form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the land of Israel and accepting Israel's ancient sovereignty over Gaza, Judea, and Samaria.
That will mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying again was its beginning?
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Watch out for Renewed Iran-Egypt Ties

Posted by J-GOP on Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:38:27 PM
A warming relationship between Egypt and Iran will mean an easier road for Iran's client Hamas.

Egypt and Iran joined forces in mid-April at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, to propose the adoption of a pro-Palestinian statement, Iranian news agencies report. The proposal held no authority, and the IPU is not an organization that commands even a modicum of international respect. But, when Egypt and Iran work together in any capacity, there is cause for concern.

The acrimony between Iran and Egypt stretches far beyond the much-publicized Shiite-Sunni tensions. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the mullahs of Tehran, then led by Ayatollah Khomeini, renounced all ties with Egypt when Cairo provided asylum to the deposed Iranian Shah, Mohamed Reza Pahlavi. Ties worsened further after Egypt inked a peace deal with the state of Israel.

Relations worsened further still with the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980, as Egypt backed its Sunni brothers in Iraq. In response, after the 1981 assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, Iran celebrated the occasion with a four-story mural on a large building in the Iranian capital that lionized Khaled Islambouli, the Islamic extremist who mowed down Sadat in cold blood with a hail of machine gun bullets.

Cairo and Tehran remained at odds for the next 30 years. Tehran, the rogue state, continued to test the patience of Washington policy makers, while Egypt, a valuable U.S. ally, reaped a multibillion dollar windfall in foreign aid for merely maintaining a frigid peace with Israel. Indeed, Egypt and Iran appeared to hold diametrically opposed positions on U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The rift between the two countries came into sharp relief amidst the crisis surrounding the ongoing violence in post-Saddam Iraq. Sunni Egypt grew alarmed over Iran's influence among Iraq's radical Shiites, and the potential for that influence to spread through the "Shiite Crescent" from Iran to Lebanon. President Husni Mubarak's regime grew even more alarmed over Iran's influence in Palestinian affairs. Iran, by sponsoring the violent 2006 coup that brought Hamas to power in Gaza, brought instability to Egypt's doorstep.

Responding to reports of Hamas operatives training at military camps run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Egypt worked quietly in 2006 and 2007 to bolster Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction. Reports emerged that Cairo began training at least one Fatah battalion to be stationed in the Gaza Strip.

In late 2007, though, the Iran-Egypt dynamic shifted dramatically. As Israel and the U.S. — with the backing of the international community — moved to isolate Hamas in Gaza, representatives from Cairo and Iran began to meet frequently.

Even as Iran continued to supply weapons to Hamas through subterranean tunnels it helped build and finance between the Sinai Peninsula and southern Gaza, the mullahs publicly implored the Arab world to ease the isolation of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian trade minister visited Iran on an official visit, and the speaker of the Iranian parliament, the Majles, came to Egypt for high-level talks.

Did Iran effectively lobby Egypt? Questions arise over the way in which the Mubarak regime allowed Palestinians to stream into the Sinai Peninsula after the Hamas breach of the Gaza-Egypt border in late January 2008. According to the Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm, for 12 days the Egyptians allowed Palestinians to cross the border freely and without documentation, effectively ending the siege of Gaza. Given the chaos, it would have been possible for these individuals to smuggle additional weaponry across the border into Gaza for a terrorist attack.

It quickly became clear that the fate of Hamas, Iran's new favorite client, was in Egypt's hands. The mullahs reached out to Cairo through the Iranian Foreign Ministry, which offered Egypt "assistance" and funds to help "control" the border.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — reviled in Israel for threatening to wipe the Jewish state "off the map" — soon made a direct call to Husni Mubarak, offering to restore ties between the two countries, while pleading for aid to Hamas. "The time is ripe for assisting the Palestinians to survive this intolerable situation," Ahmadinejad reported told his Egyptian counterpart.

Ali Asghar Mohammadi, a high-ranking Iranian diplomat, also visited Cairo to discuss the world sanctions isolating Hamas in Gaza. Iran's news agency and television confirmed that discussions were ongoing, publicly signaling that ties could be renewed.

When Omar Suleiman, Egypt's top spy, made plans to visit Israel in February 2008, it was clear that he held the key to enforcing sanctions against Hamas or allowing it to arm. Iran has since made a concerted effort to influence Egypt policy on how to police its crucial seven-mile border separating Egypt from Gaza. Indeed, Iran knows that Egypt will determine whether or not Hamas stocks up on arms for its next Iran-sponsored conflict with Israel.

According to recent news reports, Mubarak is still wary of Iran's growing influence in the region. Moreover, Egyptians widely believe that the enmity between the two countries is too entrenched to overcome. Nonetheless, there is cause for concern. Iran continues to lobby Egypt on behalf of Hamas.

This article was courtesy of Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism analyst for the U.S. Treasury Department, is director of policy for the Jewish Policy Center and author of the forthcoming Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine.

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The Wreck Of the Edmund Obama

Posted by J-GOP on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:12:51 PM
This post comes courtesy of the website Scriptoriumdaily.com:
 
Hugh Hewitt suggests that the Obama campaign is taking on water fast. He compares it to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The site has freely borrowed from the famous song about that wreck to eulogize the moment:
 
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the Senator they called ‘Chelsea’s Mommy’
That she, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of Wright rant twenty-six thousand words more
Ah how his mentor of yore made Obama’s words sound empty.
That young man and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early.

The man was the pride of the Daily Kos side
Coming back from some mill with John Edwards
As the big politicos go, he was bigger than most
With a crew and a message well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of Rezko firms
So they left fully loaded for Cleveland
At 3 AM one night when the telephone rang
Could Ohio bitter enders leave them reelin’?

The news on the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T’was the witch of November come stealin’.
Pennsylvania came late and McCain had to wait
When the Clintons of November came slashin’.
When Indiana came it was Rev Wright again
His the voice of a hurricane spewing and windy.

When Carolina came, the old gov’nor came on deck sayin’.
Fellas, it’s too rough to endorse ya.
At Seven P.M. a main demographic caved in, he said
Fellas, it’s been good t’know ya
The Senator opined he had water comin’ in
And the Obama ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when his negatives went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Obama.

Does any one know where the love of Gen Y goes
When the press turns the minutes to hours?
The pundits all say they’d have made Chesapeake Bay
If they’d put Reverend Wright far behind him.
They might have split up and so not have capsized;
Instead he pressed on and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
On the Internet lists he was compiling.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the politicos go there as the pundits all know
Cause the electoral votes in November are needed.

In a cavernous hall in Chicago he stayed,
In Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s Cathedral.
The pastor spoke out around forty-nine times
For each state where he hurt young Obama.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big pol they call ‘Chelsea’s Mommy’.
Clinton, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!
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Landmark Decision Allows Lawsuits to Go Forward

Posted by J-GOP on Monday, April 28, 2008 9:20:46 AM
A new federal court ruling will permit lawsuits against the Arab Bank to proceed in U.S. courts. The lawsuits argue that the Jordan based bank provided financial support to Palestinian terrorists by providing compensation to the families of suicide bombers.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of terror victims argued that under the Alien Torts Act of 1789 and new anti-terrorism laws U.S. citizens and foreign nationals are permitted to file suit against the bank in U.S. courts. Judge Nina Gershon agreed and Arab Bank will now have to defend itself against nearly 1,600 lawsuits that have been filed against the bank.
 
Plaintiffs allege that families of suicide bombers were given martyr compensation forms by groups including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. When completed, they could be redeemed for payment at Arab Bank locations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under an insurance plan created by the “Saudi Committee in Support of the Intifada Al Quds” which paid over $5,000 per family. The judge found that Arab Bank provided a conduit for money laundering and financial assistance to relatives of suicide bombers and ruled it amounted to providing an incentive for terrorism.
 
Though based in Jordan, the bank operates locations in a number of other countries and has a branch in New York City. The bank has consistently stated that their actions could not be linked to victim’s injuries and that they do no support terrorism in any form.
The allegations along with U.S. pressure influenced a stream of new laws in Jordan’s legislative branch that aim to tighten laundering and enforce harsh penalties including a comprehensive anti-trafficking bill passed in May.
 
For more information on this lawsuit, you can read the following article
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Michelle Obama on Terrorist Fundraiser's Web Page

Posted by J-GOP on Friday, April 25, 2008 3:10:02 PM
According to conservative blogger, Little Green Footballs, Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts (closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising), has now devoted himself to raising money for the Barack Obama campaign.

He has a web page at the official Obama campaign site. On Wednesday when Little Green Footballs posted information about El-Hady, there were three “friends” listed on his page, and one of them was none other than Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama. Here’s the screenshot we took:

But as of this morning, there are suddenly only two friends listed on that page. Guess whose name disappeared?

There’s a lot of talk about William Ayers and his connections to Obama, but please note that El-Hady had someone who is apparently connected with Hamas—not decades ago, but as recently as 2006. You can see their post at the time, including a press release from the Justice Department detailing the Hamas connections of El-Hady’s organization, Kindhearts for Charitable Human Development: ’Kind Hearts for Charitable Human Development’ = Hamas.

And now the Obama campaign has silently removed Michelle Obama’s name from El-Hady’s page, thinking no one would notice—and probably hoping against hope that the story won’t get picked up by the media.
 
At what point will the American public and the mainstream media recognize the fact that both Senator and Michelle Obama are far left Anti-Americans that actively support resources that have agendas to oppose and bring down this country, our feedoms and a free society.  Like they say, if it looks like a duck, smells like a duck, and sounds like a duck, it's a duck! In this case, a far-leftist, Socialistic duck!
 
Oh, I forgot. The mainstream media is actively supporting Obama for President. That's why you'll never see this story and many more like it on their front pages or in their news broadcasts.
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Let's Have no More of Moore

Posted by J-GOP on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:53:19 AM
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today called on Sen. Barack Obama to reject the endorsement of filmmaker Michael Moore.

The Associated Press reported yesterday that Moore endorsed Sen. Obama in a 1,100-word posting on his Web site. Moore wrote, "Can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote - and yours - on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?"

"Michael Moore has consistently expressed views that are radically anti-American and anti-Israel. Michael Moore has placed a disproportionate blame on Israel for the Palestinian's use of terror and violence and calls Americans an 'ignorant people,' said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks. "Senator Obama must reject Moore's endorsement. We call on Barack Obama to reject his endorsement to show Michael Moore that this kind of hateful rhetoric will not be tolerated."

"Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel - four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians - they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone." -- Michael Moore

Moore dedicated his book, "Dude Where's My Country?" to Rachel Corrie, an International Solidarity Movement volunteer who was killed when she climbed in front of a Caterpillar bulldozer that was destroying tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to illegally smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza.

In 1990, speaking before the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Moore announced that he would refuse to attend a screening of his movie, "Roger and Me," which was being held in Jerusalem. He was quoted as saying that he would not attend until Israel ceased to occupy the West Bank and Gaza. (Arab American News, 1990). Moore tried to prevent Fahrenheit 9/11 from being shown in Israel. (New Yorker Magazine, February 16, 2004).

In an open letter to the German people in Die Zeit, Moore asked, "Should such an ignorant people [as the United States] lead the world? Don't go the American way when it comes to economics, jobs and services for the poor and immigrants. It is the wrong way."
 
If Moore wants no more of the U.S., maybe we should have no more of Moore.
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The Difference between Dems and Republicans

Posted by J-GOP on Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:40:59 PM
A woman was traveling by hot air balloon and soon realized she was lost. She spotted a bass fisherman on a serene lake below, lowered her balloon, and shouted to him, 'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I'm not sure I know where I am.'

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, 'You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.'

She nodded her head and replied, 'I see. But I bet you're a registered Republican, aren't you?'

'I am,' replied the fisherman. 'But why should that matter to you?'

'Well,' answered the balloonist, 'everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and the truth is I'm still lost. Frankly, your 'assistance' hasn't been very helpful to me at all.'

The fisherman smiled pleasantly and inquired, 'And I presume you to be a registered Democrat, yes?'

'I am,' replied the balloonist. 'and just how would you deduce that?'

'Well,' said the man, 'you don't know where you are -- or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met -- but somehow now it's my fault.'
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Obama's Weak Support of Israel

Posted by J-GOP on Friday, April 18, 2008 3:01:16 PM
Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Executive Director Matt Brooks released the following statement:

"We commend the decision of House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Howard Berman and Committee Member Rep. Gary Ackerman to take a principled stance and ask former President Carter to cancel his planned meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal," said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.

"Now more than ever, Senator Barack Obama must explain why he will not join the growing chorus of U.S. lawmakers demanding that President Carter stop undermining the Middle East peace process. Senator Obama's silence speaks volumes about his weak support of Israel."

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Jimmy Carter Sets a New Low

Posted by J-GOP on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:21:39 PM
There used to be standards that former Presidents lived by that have gone out the window with Jimmy Carter. The idea was that when a President left office, they understood that they were no longer part of the day-to-day political landscape, and as such, were not expected to participate in it. Some of these commonly understood requirements were:
 
- No comments on current Presidents or their political party
- No comments existing policies.
- No intervening in the existng political landscape during an election season.
- No usurping in foreign matters or representing the U.S. without prior approval.
 
Jimmy Carter is the first President that has repeatedly violated each of these principles. His most recent transgression has been his travels to the Middle East meeting with the terrorist group and elected political wing of the Palestinians, Hamas, the sworn enemy of Israel and identified terrorist organization by the U.S. In doing so, he has set a new low for former Presidents and continues to show his political bias against the State of Israel.
 
When he left office in 1980, publically humilated for his economic and international policies, one would have hoped that he would fade from the political landscape forever. No such luck. I guess we will have to continue to put up with the embarrassing stain he has left on the political landscape and former Presidents forever.
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Jimmy Carter is an Embarrassment

Posted by J-GOP on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:57:28 PM
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today called on Sens. Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama to speak out in opposition to former President Jimmy Carter's possible plans to visit with Hamas terror chief Khaled Meshal in Syria. As reported by FOX News, the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter is planning a trip to Syria in mid-April and will be meeting with Meshal.
 
"It is unacceptable that a former American president would choose to dignify and legitimize Hamas leader Khaled Meshal with a visit. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization that denies Israel's right to exist, kidnaps Israeli soldiers, fires rockets on Israeli towns, is responsible for the deaths of American citizens and celebrated in the streets of Gaza after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Meshal has even called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 'courageous' for denying the Holocaust," said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.
 
"As presidential contenders who have pledged to protect America and stand with our ally, Israel, we urge Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama to speak out forcefully against former President Carter's possible meeting with Khaled Meshal and to ask him not to have this meeting," said Brooks.
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Can a Republican Candidate Succeed with an Anti-Israel Bias?

Posted by J-GOP on Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:33:19 PM
There is an interesting situation shaping up in the State of Colorado with the race for the seat in House District 6 that is being vacated by current House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, who is leaving as the result of term limits.
 
The fact that Republican candidate, Rima Barakat-Sinclair, a Muslim woman, is unusal enough, but equally so are her previous statements about the current situation in the Middle East with regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Her position begs the question as to whether a Republican candidate for office can succeed with an anti-Israeli bias.
 
Today support for the State of Israel is considered a strategic platform issue within the Republican Party. Unlike Democrats, that seem to be more tacit in their support that vacilates between appeasing the Jewish vote and holding an apologistic position towards Islamic-terrorism and the hard-line anti-semitism of many Muslim regimes, Republican support for the Jewish State is much stronger, steady, and assured.
 
So when a Republican candidate for office makes controversial and false statements about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, many in the party begin to doubt that candidate's sincerity to run as an authentic Republican. One of the reasons for this dobut also has to do with the 'over-crowding' on the Democrat side of the aisle for the open house seat, which has approximately five additional candidates currently vying for the position.
 
The situation has caught the attention of several prominent Colorado Republicans in public office and in the media. Her candidacy so alarmed Republican blogger Joshua Sharf, an orthodox Jew, that he now is collecting signatures to try to get on the ballot to run against her in the August primary. On his blog, "A View from a Height" Sharf has published a video where Sinclair gives an interview to a local news reporter where she states the following position on Israel:
 
"The military are really acting like the bully in the region. Unfortunately, the Israeli soldiers now are known to be just bombing and killing babies. In fact, and this is a statistical fact, Shin-Bet, which is the equivalent of the security forc...er, institution, I think it is the equivalent of the FBI, has already acknowledged that 80% of the people they killed are civilians have nothing to do with any militant group. They admitted that in 2003, we can imagine the ratio today. And this 80% of the 4000 people that are killed since 2000, in any civilized society they were murdered. 80% they admitted, Shin-Bet, had nothing to do with any militant group. This will give you an idea about how bad the scope of things are in the Palestinian area."
 
Congressional candidate Mike Coffman's campaign (and curent Secretary of State) on Tuesday informed Sinclair they were going to return her campaign donations because of an interview she gave where she called Israel "an occupier."
 
Finally, Rocky Mountain News columnist Vincent Carroll, has this to say in the Thursday column on Sinclair's run entitled "Centrist?" where he states:
 
"Barakat Sinclair stands with the hard-edged anti-Israel fringe. She has made too many similar claims regarding the Israelis' alleged policies of "systematic indiscriminate murder" to brush them off as an aberration."
 
The question is not only whether Sinclair is running as a true supporter of the Republican Party, but whether ANY Republican candidate that is running with a clear anti-Israel position has a hope of being elected to public office. Many Jewish, Christian, and Republican voters in House District 6 feel that such a candidate with this position is an unacceptible candidate for office.
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Hezbollah Training Kids as Young as Six

Posted by J-GOP on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:00:58 AM
The terrorist organization Hezbollah is training children as young as six years old to become terrorists in training camps throughout Lebanon according to a report appearing in Time Magazine this week.
 
The camp trains some 200 children (boys and a few girls ages 6 to 18) about a dozen of whom live in the barracks full time, several having dropped out of school. Here they learn to use firearms, practice hand-to-hand combat, and are taught Palestinian nationalist ideology. In these photos, blindfolded young fighters disassemble and re-assmble assault rifles (above), and make presentations about the specifications and capabilities of various common weapons, including rocket propelled grenades.
 
The two phases in the development of a Hizballah fighter are like Boy Scouts and Boot Camp. During the first phase, Hezbollah recruiters keep an eye out for young Shia Muslim students in both Hizballah-run schools and the national school system. They look for energetic kids, violent kids, and smart kids, from the age of seven into the late teens, and begin taking them on field trips and workshops where they are given a through ideological indoctrination, and then as they get older, a brief introduction to the AK-47 assault rifle.
 
Two important themes stick out: from the beginning, the training stresses the path to martyrdom, which is achieved through honesty, prayer, and combat. And from the start, Hezbollah organizes its child recruits into the basic cellular structure of the organization.
 
When they graduate from military training, the new fighters are broken up and sent off to join cells out in the field or overseas alongside veterans. Of all the fighters, about one in ten is chose to be a commander, and goes to Iran for a few months of special training. The number of Hezbollah fighters is a secret, but in a recent speech, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, hinted that there are tens of thousands of them.
 
The war between Israel and its neighbors is not going to end without there first being a decisive victory one way or the other. That's how World War I ended and that's how World War II ended. Israel won a decisive victory in 1967, but did not take - or was prevented from taking (probably a more accurate description, but the leadership at the time was also complicit) - the opportunity to impose terms of surrender on the Arabs. Until that happens, we will never have peace here. There is no 'settlement' that can be reached until the Arabs understand that Israel and the Jews are here to stay and that there is no going back to the homes they abandoned in 1948 and 1967.
 
The Arabs are still fighting the 1948 war. And it's not just the 'Palestinian refugees' who are fighting. The whole reason that countries like Lebanon and Syria leave their 'Palestinians' in 'refugee camps' and refuse to grant them the most basic rights as citizens is to make sure that they keep harboring resentment against Israel and that they keep training their children for war against Israel (and the West) on behalf of the Arab (and Muslim) 'nation.' And Israel and the US and all of the other Western countries continue to blindly fund UNRWA and other international organizations that perpetuate the fomenting of war against themselves.

Don't expect anyone in a position of power to wake up to this reality anytime soon either.
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