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QUOTE OF THE DAY

Here is the obligatory "Joe The Plumber" quote of the day, as reported by the Washington Times.

The Ohio plumber, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, also agreed with a McCain supporter who asked him if he believed "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel."

"I'll go ahead and agree with you on that," Wurzelbacher told the man, retired Florida lawyer Stan Chapman who was visiting Ohio.

Culled from the following link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/28/joe-the-plumber-says-obama-would-make-us-social-1/

Palestinian Police Deployment Worries Hebron’s Small Jewish Population

Julie Stahl reports from Jerusalem at CNSNEWS that the IDF has approved an increase of 500 more Palestinian police in and around Hebron.  Based on past experience, this is not very reassuring to the 800 Jewish residents of the city.  Excerpted

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Jewish residents of the West Bank city of Hebron are worried that terror and bloodshed will return to the city with the deployment of additional Palestinian security forces there, a spokesman for the community said.

The Israeli army on Wednesday evening agreed to the deployment of some 500 Palestinian security forces, even though Israel can’t guarantee the Palestinians won’t turn their weapons against Jewish residents, as has happened in the past, an Israeli official said.

Dozens of Israelis have been killed in terror attacks in and around Hebron since the beginning of the last Palestinian uprising in 2000. The last incident involved the murder of two Israelis who were hiking in the Hebron area last December by Palestinians associated with the P.A. security forces.

Seems to me that increasing the number of thugs who have the authority to openly carry weapons could reasonably concern the small segment of the population that seems to be the target of violence on a regular basis.  Please read it all at:

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38102

The Great Tee Shirt Fatwa

Well, I guess the next request for money from the poorpalestianians will be to fund English education so that teens don't wear offensive tee shirts.  I noticed, however, that they forgot to include Micky Mouse.  I sure am glad that Israel's peace partner is "moderate".  Hard to imagine how things might be if they were radical.

Reprinted in full from a WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein.

JERUSALEM – An official website of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization has compared Christians and Jews to "whores," "prostitutes," "pigs," "hussies" and "Madonna," warning against the use of those words on clothing material, WND has learned.

The site, Fatehforum.ps, posted a memo and sent out a mass e-mail to Palestinians warning them against purchasing T-shirts that contain certain "offensive" English words emblazoned on them, citing what it said was a worrying phenomenon of Palestinians who do not know English but are wearing T-shirts without realizing what phrases are printed on the clothing.

Beneath a picture of late PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, the Fatah website lists some of the "offensive" words on T-shirts Palestinians are warned to stay away from, including:

• Christianity
  
  
• I'm Christian
  
  
• Church
  
  
• Christmas
  
  
• Chorus Girl
  
  
• Jew
  
  
• Bible
  
  
• Pig
  
  
• Take me
  
  
• Vixen
  
  
• Nude
  
  
• Buy me
  
  
• Whore
  
  
• Pork
  
  
• Hussy
  
  
• Madonna
  
  
• Adulterer

U.S. and Israeli policy considers Fatah to be moderate, even though the organization's state-run media regularly broadcasts anti-Israel propaganda and incitement against Jews and the West. =Israel and the PA are widely expected to conclude agreements initiated at last November's U.S.-backed Annapolis summit, which seeks to create a Palestinian state by the end of the year.

Abbas is scheduled to meet next week with outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to advance talks as Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who won her party's primaries last month, attempts to put together a stable coalition that could see her take Olmert's place within two weeks.

Livni was Olmert's chief negotiator with the Palestinians and supports Olmert's offers to the PA. In an interview last month, Olmert said Israel should withdraw from nearly all territory it captured in the 1967 Six Day War, referring to eastern Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Security analysts here warn any Israeli retreat from the West Bank could result in Hamas seizing the strategic territory just as the terror group took over the Gaza Strip, which Israel evacuated in 2005.

IS ISRAEL A RED STATE?

There are 250,000 Americans  living in Israel, half of whom are eligible to vote.  Are they McCain or Obama voters?  Via CNSNEWS;

According to Greenspan, about 50 percent of the registered voters here are from New York and New Jersey. But another 10-12 percent (some 4,200 voters) each are from Florida, Ohio and California. There also are sizeable populations from Pennsylvania and Illinois, he said.

Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania are swing states viewed as crucial wins by both the Obama and McCain campaigns.
Schenker said it is impossible to know if Americans here will vote more for Republicans or Democrats. But he pointed to a poll showing that Israeli readers of The Economist magazine were overwhelming in favor of Obama.

But Kory Bardash, chairman of Republicans Abroad in Israel, called Israel a "red state."

In Israel, as opposed to the U.S. Jewish voting patterns, which are more liberal, the majority of Americans will vote Republican, he said. He said he expects 7 out of 10 Americans here to vote for McCain.

Read it all at:

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38035

THE JEWISH PRESS ENDORSEMENT

My thanks To Anne for trusting me to assist in maintaining her site while she enjoys her much deserved time with her family.

The weekly newspaper, The Jewish Press, has issued an endorsement for Senator John McCain.  A few quick excepts.

But it is not only Sen. McCain's positives that commend him to voters as their choice on November 4. Unfortunately, there is also the matter of Sen. Obama's glaring negatives, some of which are quite alarming.

As The Jewish Press and others have pointed out, there is a rather disturbing dimension to Sen. Obama. Although he has succeeded in denying public access to much of his past relating to his work as a community organizer and his connection to the radical advocacy ACORN group, what we do know speaks volumes of where his views are grounded.

For more than 20 years he turned to the virulently anti-American and anti-Israel churchman Reverend Jeremiah Wright for counsel and advice. He has explained away Rev. Wright's diatribes as an understandable reaction to the black experience in America.

And then there are the insults to our intelligence he regularly delivers. When he immediately backtracked from his declaration that he supported an "undivided Jerusalem" as the capital of Israel, he explained that he only meant it shouldn't be divided by fences. He has also regularly played the race card by asserting that Sen. McCain would resort to claiming that he, Sen. Obama, doesn't look like others who have run for president.

Please read the whole editorial at.

http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/3/John_McCain_For_Pres.html