Boker tov, Boulder!

L'shana tova

May this be the year....

No one threatens Israel with annihilation

And no Jewish organization makes an appeal for new victims of terror.

May this be the year the Red Alert system is not needed in Sderot

and none of our children get their legs blown off.

May this be the year Jews drive down the streets of Jerusalem

Without fear of being crushed by a bulldozer

And we can build homes for ourselves without international condemnation.

This year may our yeshiva students live to learn Torah another day

And may this be the year Jews do not expel other Jews.

May this be the year Jews are allowed to pray at the Temple Mount

And no one urinates on our holy sites.

May this be the year no soldier is blinded by acid thrown in her face.

May this be the year Jews can live in their homeland without fear or prejudice.

May this be the year we Jews are left in peace.

So soon? Hitting Uncle Joe with the "dual loyalty" slur

Jennifer Rubin at contentions (h/t Ed Lasky)

The move to censure and/or banish Senator Joe Lieberman from the Democratic Party is well underway. The latest rhetorical outrage comes from Ken Dixon of the Connecticut Post, who begins his indictment with this:

Joe Lieberman is a politician without a state. The long-time Democrat, now a party of one who is accused of crimes against the Democratic State Central Committee, thinks he transcends state lines. In reality, he’s now the senator from John McCain — and Israel.

Lieberman’s Communications Director Marshall Wittmann writes in response that the bolded comment

was an outrageous anti-Semitic slur unworthy of being published in any honorable newspaper. Disagreeing about policies is part of a healthy democratic debate, but playing the old anti-Semitic canard of dual loyalty and attacking someone because of their Jewish religion is absolutely disgraceful. From the Dreyfus Case in France in the 1890s to purges of Jews in the Soviet Union, the dual loyalty charge has been used by anti-Semitic bigots to try to oppress and intimidate the Jewish Community. It was terrible to see your paper join this ignoble tradition, and for it your newspaper owes an apology to Senator Lieberman, to the Jewish community, and to all fair-minded citizens of Connecticut.

But, as we have come to see, this is increasingly standard fare for blogosphere and for MSM outlets that wade through the swamp of such rhetoric.

This does raise an interesting question. If Barack Obama prevails on Election Day, rejects the “J Street” agenda and employs obvious proponents of a a robust alliance with Israel (e.g. Dennis Ross) to continue essentially the same approach of the second Bush term, what then? (Obama does, after all, have a habit of hanging his frenzied netroot base out to dry –on Iran sanctions, on Georgia’s admission to NATO, etc.) Where will the anger and bile go?

Indeed. That's just what I was wondering, myself... only yesterday. *Nice* of the Connecticut Post to provide such a timely illustration.

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Tom Baden, Editor
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Michael Daly, Managing Editor
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Steve Winters, Editorial Page Editor
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So I'm guessing... kdixon@ctpost.com is a pretty good bet.

Question of the Day

If a national political organization was founded by members of a secret committee created to help a terrorist group, if their officials admit the need to lie to Americans about their true objectives, does that make them dangerous?

IPT News
September 26, 2008

Let's stop for a minute (or two) and take a breath

Todah rabah to Esther Sarah, may she be blessed in the coming year.

And I am reprimanded for "nefarious behavior"

Yesterday's post provoked a small avalanche of angry responses. This one is from Jonathan -"Anyone who says Obama hasn't explained how he'll get the job done is either a liar or an ignoramus"- Kamens

of JewsForObama.com

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[insert Dear Yael]

You clothe yourself in the mantle of righteousness and religiosity, but you seem to have forgotten the prohibition of speaking lashon hara against your fellow Jews, and most importantly the prohibition against the kind of lashon hara where you falsely characterize an entire commmunity based on the alleged deeds of only some of its members.

As one of the leaders of Jews for Obama, I can tell you that I have never called George Bush a terrorist, or knowingly spread false rumors about anyone with whom I disagree. I have never criticized Sarah Palin's choice to have a baby rather than an abortion. I have made no effort to destroy Palin or her family.

Instead, throughout this campaign, I have worked tirelessly to keep my colleagues focused on the positive and on the issues that actually matter.

It is almost laughable for you to accuse us of what has in fact been the modus operendi of Obama's opponents since the day he entered the race, of what in fact you yourself engage in in your blog posting. Most of the "facts" you report about Obama above are nothing more than baseless smears. And yet you repeat them as if they are fact, and in so doing, it is YOU who cheapen our political debate and "think you can get away with this."

This, of course, is the standard tactic of the Republican smear machine -- accuse your opponents of what you yourself are doing, thus convincing the uninformed that there is a moral relativism and lessening the backlash resulting from your own nefarious behavior.

It is hilarious, there's really no more word for it, that you warn Jewish Obama supporters that if Jews suffer as a result of the economic meltdown, it'll be our fault, when the Republicans who controlled the White House for the past eight years and Congress for six of the past eight years are the ones who are responsible for that meltdown.

It is hilarious that you accuse Jewish Obama supporters of threatening the safety of Jews in America, when Obama's campaign staff is filled with ardently pro-Israel Jews and he just had a conference call with 900 American rabbis, whereas meanwhile, the upper levels of the Republican party are filled with anti-Semites, including several on McCain's staff.

It is offensive that you post these baseless, slanderous accusations against your fellow Jews only two days before Rosh Hashanah. Are you trying to give yourself something to repent for during vidui?

He may have said "laughable" and "hilarious" (twice), but I don't get the impression that he was actually amused.

For Jonathan and anyone else who may be concerned for the state of my soul, I think I'm off the hook on the charge of lashon hara, on a couple of points. From Judaism 101:

The gravest of [the] sins of tale-bearing is lashon ha-ra (literally, "the evil tongue"), which involves discrediting a person or saying negative things about a person, even if those negative things are true....

When Tale-Bearing is Allowed

There are a few exceptional circumstances when tale-bearing is allowed, or even required. Most notably, tale-bearing is required in a Jewish court of law, because it is a mitzvah to give testimony and that mitzvah overrides the general prohibition against tale-bearing. Thus, a person is required to reveal information, even if it is something that was explicitly told in confidence, even if it will harm a person, in a Jewish court of law.

A person is also required to reveal information to protect a person from immediate, serious harm. For example, if a person hears that others are plotting to kill someone, he is required to reveal this information. That is another reason why the commandment not to go about as a tale-bearer is juxtaposed with "you shall not stand aside while your fellow's blood is shed."

In limited circumstances, one is also permitted to reveal information if someone is entering into a relationship that he would not enter if he knew certain information.... This exception is subject to significant and complex limitations; however, if those limitations are satisfied, the person with the information is required to reveal it.

In all of these exceptions, a person is not permitted to reveal information if the same objective could be fulfilled without revealing information.

Erev Rosh HaShanah, I just re-read my post and I stand by it. Liberals have viciously demonized first President Bush and then Governor Palin and I believe that in doing so they have opened a very dangerous door. I believe that people who propagate hatred (and those who sit silently by and do not object or try to stop them) cannot necessarily remain immune to what they have wrought.

My point was really a simple one, that you can't condone meanness and untruths when you think you're enjoying some "benefit" from them, and then turn around and complain should someone target you with your own tactics.

To my mind, I was warning people away from behavior that is not only wrong in and of itself, but also potentially harmful... to themselves.

Perhaps I am wrong in thinking that a global economic collapse might fall on the doorstep of the Jewish people; believe me, no one hopes that I am wrong more than I do. It is not unheard of in our history, however, that in desperate times Jews become the scapegoat, and many of the antisemitic myths propagated against us have been economic in nature. Consider for example(s)...

The era of nationalism (1800-1918):

The emancipation of the Jews allowed them to live and work among non-Jews, but exposed them to a new form of political antisemitism. It was secular, social, and influenced by economic considerations....

Myths propagated in Europe in the wake of World War I:

• Jews had started the war to bring Europe financially and politically into ruin and make Europe susceptible to Jewish "control."
• Jews exploited the misery of the war to enrich themselves and prolonged it to lead the Bolshevik Revolution in furthering the aim of world revolution.
• The Jews controlled the complex finances of the reparations system for their own profit.

And of course, there is still much to learn from Nazi German antisemitism:

Within the context of the economic depression of the 1930s and using not only racist but also older social, economic, and religious imagery, the Nazi party gained popularity and, after seizing power, legitimacy, in part by presenting "Jews" as the source for a variety of political, social, economic, and ethical problems facing the German people.

I don't think the comment that Jonathan posted is by itself worthy of all this time, study and consideration on my part, but we can all learn a great deal from it... if we use it to that end.

For now, I rest my case -- with a little help from the Talmud [even though some may object to this "religiosity"].

The First Temple, why was it destroyed? Because that generation transgressed the three cardinal sins: idol worship, sexual immorality, and murder.

Why was the Second Temple destroyed? Because of unwarranted hatred.

This shows how great is the punishment for unwarranted hatred. Because the generation of the three cardinal sins was redeemed after 70 years, yet for the generation of unwarranted hatred, its redemption has yet to come.

- Talmud, Yoma 9

Al Gore: STOP COAL with "Civil Disobedience"

Gore's Rebellion

Speaking last Wednesday on a celebrity panel in New York, the Nobel Prize Laureate proclaimed:

"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

He added, "clean coal does not exist."

Mr. Gore didn't explain how far he thinks his young acolytes should go in their rage against the coal-burning machines that provide about 50% of U.S. electricity. Sit-ins? Marches against power plants? How about trashing power lines: What could he mean by "civil disobedience"?

As it happens, Mr. Gore's brand of anticoal radicalism is quickly becoming the liberal consensus.

Here's the scarey part:

... James Hansen ... The NASA scientist and influential global warming swami recently testified on behalf of the "Kingsnorth Six," Greenpeace activists who caused £30,000 [US$ 55,200] of criminal damage at an English coal utility while attempting to shut it down. Mr. Hansen argued they had a "lawful excuse" because of the imminence of climate doom; they were acquitted.

Coming from figures who hold the public trust, such rhetoric is wildly irresponsible, not least for the fanaticism and even violence it could incite.

I can tell you one thing for certain: fanatic anti-coal activism is not going to be very popular in my "neck of the woods."

USGS

• More than half of the electricity produced in the United States is generated by coal-fired power plants. Coal provides the majority of electric power in 32 states.
• West Virginia leads the nation in underground coal production and in coal exports -- with over 50 million tons shipped to 23 countries.
• The WV coal industry provides about 40,000 direct jobs in West Virginia (and who knows how many indirect jobs).

Photo courtesy of The Husband. What you see here is a man operating a roof bolter underground at ICG's mine in Philippi, WV. His wife works for a laboratory that analyzes coal samples for the mining industry. They have two sons.

DHIMMEDIA IGNORES OBAMA CITIZENSHIP LAWSUIT IN FEDERAL COURT -- even though the Senator & the DNC have filed a motion in response to the suit. This is NOT NEWS?!

Is it too much to ask that we simply get the man's citizenship straight, once and for all? Judah Benjamin as guest author at TexasDarlin quotes the Annenberg FactCheck.org:

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

Benjamin writes:

... I, once again, state that I, personally, believe Obama was born in Hawaii and that it doesn’t affect my opinion on his Eligibility for the Office of POTUS at all. In my understanding Article II Requires that one be a “Natural Born Citizen”, and in terms of the Law as understood by the Framers, anyone with Dual Citizenship could not be “Natural Born”. It does not matter that they no longer hold that Citizenship, they fall into the same bracket as a “Naturalized Citizen” because they have/had Divided Allegiance. That is my view and I haven’t moved an inch on it.

However, the Kenyan Citizenship Issue may not be the main point here, WAS HE, OR WAS HE NOT, an INDONESIAN CITIZEN? The Senator isn’t saying, isn’t mentioning it, is trying to avoid producing any Paperwork at all. Why? If he is/was an Indonesian Citizen, too, the Senator’s entire narrative is a fiction and he should be ashamed of himself.

He’s lied about Kenya, at least by omission, for months/years, so why should I assume he isn’t lying about Indonesia? Note Kenyan Citizenship automatically lapses if it isn’t renewed at age 21, Indonesian Citizenship doesn’t. If he was an Indonesian Citizen he would have to actively repudiate that Citizenship. Did he? Has he? Because if he hasn’t, Senator Obama is Dual National Indonesian at this moment, subject to the Laws of BOTH Countries, equally.

That is true under US Law, Indonesian Law and International Law and until LAST YEAR Indonesia DID NOT Recognize Dual Citizenship and the USA did not Recognize that one could be a Dual US/Indonesian Citizen. It does not matter that the Senator was not Responsible for the change of Citizenship because he was a child when it happened. Governor Schwarzenegger was not Responsible for the fact that he was born in Austria, or that under Austrian Law he is not a US Citizen, or under the US Law and Rules he is not a Citizen of Austria.

Senator Obama needs to produce his Paperwork, all of it, not just a Certification of Live Birth from the State of Hawaii, but all his other Paperwork too.

So, the Senator WAS a Dual National. That is now an admitted fact, admitted by his own Campaign and by Annenberg. The Senator is a Constitutional Lawyer which means that he knows, and has always known, that he is probably Ineligible to Hold the Office of POTUS, or that, at the very least, there is a strong Legal Argument that that is the case. In turn, that means that as he lied about his Kenyan and British Citizenships he is probably lying about his Indonesian Citizenship.

I do not suppose that it was ever his intention to give up his US Citizenship and it does not matter to me one bit. It doesn’t matter to Indonesia either. If Lolo Soetoro adopted him he ceased to be a US Citizen in the mid 1960s, BY INDONESIAN LAW. He also ceased to be a Kenyan Citizen, BY INDONESIAN LAW. By Kenyan and US Law he retained his Original Citizenships, until his 21st Birthday. By Indonesian Law he could have given up Indonesian Citizenship at age 18, but did he? If he didn’t he was, albeit accidentally, displaying a Legal Intention to void his US Citizenship, since he knew he could not Legally hold both Citizenships.

Please don’t tell me that the US doesn’t have to concern itself with the Laws of Indonesia because, in this case, the US does have to do so. By the way, under US Law of another time the Senator would not have been a US Citizen at all, and he knows that.

If a Naturalized Citizen cannot hold the Office of POTUS because they previously held another Citizenship it is egregious, so far as I am concerned, that a Dual Citizen/Former Dual Citizen should claim to have a Legal Right to do so. I refer the reader to my Articles on Dual Citizenship and ask you to read the quotes from Blackstone. [TD NOTE: I will be re-posting all of Judah's work shortly].

This new material at “Fight the Smears” displays arrogance, hubris and bad faith, in my opinion. It is the Senator’s reaction to Phillip Berg’s Law Suit, and, basically, it amounts to an open admission of mens rea. He is flaunting his bad faith and in so doing destroys his own case.

We have to back up here just a bit, and see what caused FactCheck.org to even mention it.

On Thursday September 24th Senator Obama and the Democratic National Committee filed a motion to dismiss the Berg vs. Obama lawsuit on the basis that the Court does not have jurisdiction because Mr. Berg "lacks standing to challenge the qualifications of a candidate for President of the United States."

What a jaw-dropper this is. Senator Obama and the DNC are involved in a lawsuit over Obama's citizenship - a lawsuit that could conceivably determine that Obama is not eligible to run for president - and THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS DEAD SILENT on the entire matter.

As soon as Gov. Palin was chosen as John McCain's running mate, a army of reporters went to Alaska to dig for dirt on her. Most likely, many of them are still there. BUT NOT A WORD, NOT A SINGLE SOLITARY WORD about this lawsuit in any of the top newspapers: USA today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Denver Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post or the New York Daily News or Post.

It's beyond unbelievable.

And just so you can see that the whole thing is not some innernut hoax, reports have appeared in the following newspapers:

Norristown PA Times Herald

Southwest Illinois News-Herald

Phoenixville PA News

Kentucky Lake Times

Lansdale PA Reporter

Kudos to Keith Phucas, who is apparently the ONLY newspaper reporter in the world to take any interest in the story. Phucas seems to have a blog called War Room at the Times-Herald, but there is no mention there of this lawsuit, and he hasn't even put up a post for the last three weeks.

As of October two years ago, Keith Phucas was said to be reachable at [email protected] or 610-272-2500, ext. 211.

I'll try to find out more tomorrow. You should too, because you can't just sit back and wait for the news to come to you. This time it's not coming. It's scarey to think it's even possible to keep this story out of the media. So who's keeping the lid on, how, and why?

The First Permanent U.S. Military Presence on Israeli Soil

Abe Greenwald has the story at contentions.

Your thoughts?

GUESS WHO Olmert accuses: "An evil wind of extremism, of hate, of maliciousness, of violence, of losing control, of lawbreaking, of contempt for the institutions of state"

If you guessed Jews, you're right!

JERUSALEM - [_____] An "evil wind of extremism" is threatening Israel's democracy, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Sunday, after a pipe bomb attack wounded a professor critical of Israel's settler movement.

Olmert's forceful comments came amid growing concerns in Israel about violence by hard-line radicals, including extremist West Bank settlers.

Israeli defense officials and human rights groups have noted a rise in settler violence against Palestinian soldiers and Israeli soldiers in recent months.

On Sunday, police were investigating the shooting death of a 19-year-old Palestinian shepherd whose body was discovered in ravine in a remote area of the West Bank. The shepherd's relatives blamed Jewish settlers, but police said they were still investigating.

Also, dozens of Israeli civilians entered the Palestinian village of Kufr Diek in the West Bank late Saturday, smashing the windows of several cars and homes, said the mayor, Jamal al-Diek. Israeli troops fired stun grenades, and two villagers were hurt, the mayor said. The military denied firing grenades.

The rampage appeared to be in response to a shooting attack on an Israeli car in the area earlier Saturday. An Israeli was lightly hurt in the attack, the military said.

In Jerusalem, Olmert told his Cabinet at the start of its weekly meeting that police were asked to move as quickly as possible to arrest those involved in the bomb attack Thursday on Professor Zeev Sternhell, winner of Israel's prestigious Israel Prize. Sternhell, a vocal critic of West Bank settlements, was lightly wounded in the bombing, which took place outside his home.

Olmert said the attackers appeared to be part of "another underground" — a reference to extremists who bombed the cars of several Arab mayors, killed three students in a shooting spree at a West Bank university and masterminded a botched attempt to blow up a key Muslim shrine in Jerusalem in the 1980s.

"An evil wind of extremism,

of hate,

of maliciousness,

of violence,

of losing control,

of lawbreaking,

of contempt for the institutions of state,

is passing though certain sections of the Israeli public," Olmert told the Cabinet.

The violence "is threatening Israeli democracy and the ability of those in charge in Israel to make decisions, and the ability of people to freely express opinions without fearing that they will be hurt by wild and violent people, people who break the law and break the framework of normal democratic life," Olmert said.

In citing interference in government decisions, he appeared to refer to warnings by hardline settler leaders that they will resist any attempt to dismantle Jewish settlements as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.

The Sternhell case revived demands in Israel that the army and police do more to rein in radicals....

Such are the words Olmert reserves for the real enemy he perceives: religious Jews who dare to settle the land. If you've been around this blog long enough, then you know that when Osher Tuito's leg was blown off, Olmert did not decry "an evil wind of extremism." He didn't talk about the "hate" when five-year-old Danielle Shefi was shot in the head and killed by Arab terrorists inside her own home on Shabbes. To Olmert, it is the right-wing Jews who are malicious, not the arch-terrorist Kuntar whom he released to Nasrallah's grand celebration.

Why were words like violence, lawbreaking, and losing control not in Olmert's vocabulary when a bulldozer was used to crush cars and buses and innocent people in the holy city of Jerusalem? Where was his outrage over "wild and violent people" when our yeshiva boys were massacred in the library of Mercaz HaRav?

Olmert is the lowest of the low. How he can dare call himself a Jew is beyond me. And besides, I thought he had resigned.

While we wait for Carl's comments on this, you should read his post on Saturday's car bombing in Damascus (who knew?)

The Left, having lost its mind, is a clear and present danger

An Open Letter to "Liberals," especially Jews for Obama:

Are you blind? How can you not see the possible consequences of your accepting, and promoting, insane and irrational hatred in the service of your own arrogant and uncaring political ambitions? Do you really not understand how this might come back and bite you?

I have watched while you called George Bush "the real terrorist." I have watched while you participated in, or simply accepted, the comparison of George Bush to Hitler. You never objected as the level of civic discourse in this country fell deeper and deeper into the sewer. In fact, you enjoyed the hatred because it was your own.

Then I watched you flip this same irrational and insanely vitrolic hatred over onto the Governor of Alaska when you thought it was to your benefit. You thought it was funny when your man called Sarah Palin a pig and you rushed to spread false rumors that she banned books from public libraries. You have said among yourselves that she is unqualified to lead, and that in the minds of her supporters her only qualification is that she didn't have an abortion. When push came to shove, you didn't support her right to choose, only your own, because you know better than she how to conduct her life. You have ridiculed the name of her Down Syndrome infant son. Or you have sat there silently and allowed others among you to do so. You have mocked her intelligence, her background, her patriotism and absolutely everything about how she looks. You have tried with all your might to destroy her and her family. Or you have sat there silently while your comrades did the dirty work, hoping that you might enjoy the profits afterward.

You are on a spree of hatred the likes of which I have never seen in my life. You don't give a damn what is true or untrue or how people conduct themselves. You would just as soon call John McCain dishonorable as not. It doesn't matter to you if he really is or really isn't, only that he is shamed and summarily defeated. And now you are on an actual witch hunt, accusing Sarah Palin of engaging in witchcraft because a Kenyan Christian evangelical minister blessed her, that she should be protected from evil.

In your blatant hypocrisy, you don't give a damn who Barack Obama really is, as long as he wins. It doesn't concern you in the least that he is connected to terrorists, both foreign and domestic, or that he can sing the Islamic call to prayer with a "first-rate accent." And you think it's just fine that he sat in a church for twenty years, listening to a devoted friend of Louis Farrakhan call on Gd to "damn America." You like that Obama is black, that his father was from Kenya, and that he has an Arabic Muslim name -- and you paint that as so shiney-happy-multi-culti, but enter a black Kenyan Christian, and you are suddenly afraid for Western civilization.

You have abandoned all the values that the Jewish people have held for thousands of years. You have abandoned the values that in recent times have made America a beacon of light and freedom for all the people of this world. You have abandoned the "cause" of the Enlightenment. You have abandoned the value of truth. You have abandoned all decency.

And you think you can get away with this?

I have told this story dozens of times on this blog, but I will tell it one more time. Several years ago, I was listening to Israeli talk radio when someone called in to the Tovia Singer show and asked if the Jews were safe in America. Tovia said, sure they are... until the economy tanks. History has shown time and time again that in such situations, the Jews are blamed.

Well, the (global) economy is tanking now. And you fools, you desperate fools, you don't see that you have paved the way for your own destruction. You who have allowed George Bush to be called Hitler, you who have sat there and failed to defend truth and decency, you who have laughed at the hideous tactics employed against those you thought were your enemy, you are now in deep, deep trouble.

Don't you see? Because you have not defended truth and decency - in fact you have destroyed every shred of it - it's not going to be there to come to your aid should this viral hatred next be turned on YOU.

I grew up as a non-Jew, but I was very blessed to have a mother who understood the Holocaust. When I was very young, she used to tell me that it could happen again, to anyone. She would say to me that next time, the target could be people with blue eyes or green eyes, it could be you -- that is, it could be me.

So I have news for you liberals, especially the Jews among you: it could be you next. If ugly and irrational hatred can jump from George Bush to Sarah Palin with hardly a moment's consideration, it can jump anywhere. And with the American economy collapsing, chances are it could jump back to the Jews. The Jews in this country could easily be subjected to the same sort of ridicule, scorn and demonization that you have poured onto political conservatives simply because they don't agree with you. You yourselves opened Pandora's box. You have embraced evil because you mistakenly thought - not that you would serve it, but that it would serve you. And in doing so you have left yourselves defenseless.

Once it starts, once you feed evil, give it the freedom to grow, the oxygen on which to subsist, you won't be able to control it. It will travel, almost naturally, to areas where it can flourish, where there is weakness and cowardice, where there is a lack of truth and decency. And look at that -- that's just what you've created not only for yourselves, but for all of us.

I have only one thing more to say. Just don't come crying to me when and if you are belittled, shamed, scorned and lied about. Don't ask me to tell the truth on your behalf, because you have destroyed the truth. Don't come to me and cry for fairness, when you have cared for none and showed none.

The Nazis may be all but gone, but their blueprint for the annihilation of the Jewish people is - literally - as old as Islam, and it's alive and well in the aggressive march of what they call Jihad. It can be effectively utilized at any time... in your direction.

You stupid fools, didn't you realize when you cheered Obama throwing his family and friends under the bus that you could be next? Don't you understand that if you participate in vicious hatred, it can come back and bite you?

If the Gd of Israel can reach you in this new year, number 5769 since the Creation, I hope and pray that He will. Because I haven't had any luck at all. As far as I can tell, He has hardened your hearts (and minds) just like He did Pharoah's. Of course, I do not know and could never come close to conceiving what His Plan might be, but it looks like to me that it could easily involve reaping what you have sown.

Before you open your mouth to accuse Sarah Palin of witchcraft, you might want to think about Jews being burned at the stake. It's happened before and we are still a stiff-necked people.

It is a terrible insult to Gd and to the Six Million that we didn't learn a thing from the last Holocaust. We didn't even learn to fear evil. Or to choose life.

May Gd save us from ourselves, and redeem us in the merit of those who came before. And did better.

Meanwhile in news from the UK, a book publisher has been firebombed and we've seen the first suicide of this so-called "credit crunch."