Baruch Hashem !!!!!! Wife Update

It is 11:30 PM, My wife just got out of Surgery. Thank G-d Everything went great !
Thank you for all of your Prayers,
Sorry I didn't post today--I am sure ya'll understand.

Sammy

Jimmy Carter Goes to Berzerk-ly

UC California Berkley and the peanut president Jimmy "Ill never lie to you (except about Israel and the Jews) Carter kind of go together. Berkley was made famous by the drug culture of the late 1960's thats how it got the nickname, Berzerk-ly. Jimmeh's fame was developed by being such a lousy president that people said about him," this guy's gotta be on drugs"

By the time Jimmeh the Peanut was elected to his (thank G-d) single term in office, the "age of Aquarius" was long over. But his recent book of lies and his world wide "I hate Israel" tour cause many to wonder how he got the great supply of LSD.

Last week, Carter's Magical Misery Tour stopped off at UC Berkley where the chancellor and the dean of the school of journalism acted as Carter's Ed McMahon's cheering and encouraging after each and every word. The content of the Peanut President's speech was...lets just say that if this was the wonderful world of Disney, Carter's nose would span from Earth to the Moon. Lee Kaplan of the Frontpage.com covered the entire wretched performance below.

Carter Comes to Berkeley
By Lee Kaplan
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 8, 2007

At UC Berkeley on Wednesday, May 2, 2007, Jimmy Carter spoke about Middle East “peace.” Chancellor Robert Birgeneau began Carter’s introduction by saying “Although most of our undergraduate students were not even born when Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the US from 1977-1981, his impact on the world and long life of public service continues to draw students.” That was indeed the problem.

Most of the 1,200 students -- who attended this event and nearly made a full house at Zellerbach Auditorium on the Cal campus -- were clearly too young to know Carter’s past history and, consequently, lacked a frame of reference with which to filter information and make up their own minds about Carter and his message. Instead of being able to analyze what Carter had to say and question his presentation, the students were actually presented with an indoctrination pitch accompanied with constant cheerleading by the Chancellor and the Moderator, Orville Schell, the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Campus spokespersons repeatedly praised Carter as a “great humanitarian” and his presence as an example of Berkeley’s “tradition of discourse.” Brigeneau even exhorted the crowd of mostly 19 year-olds, “We need to take a poll. How many think we should draft Jimmy Carter for President?” The students roared their approval.

While Carter’s name and reputation may have drawn students interested in understanding the Middle East to this speaking event, they did little to give the students a true understanding of the facts surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Carter claimed was the main reason for Islamic Extremism worldwide. In fact, the evening became a one-sided diatribe against Israel. Carter blamed the Jewish state for the failure of the current peace process, ignored terrorism, and praised the Palestinians continually while disregarding cogent facts on the ground that are making real peace in the region nearly impossible. In addition, the evening served as a publicity event for Carter's new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, selling briskly in the campus store at 30% off with a chance to have Carter sign a copy.

When his book was first released, Carter told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that “There is no Israel. It’s all Palestine,” but then backtracked after public indignation made him start every other media appearance by saying that Israel within pre-‘67 borders is not an apartheid state (at least he got something right that evening in Berkeley). But he did tell Berkeley students that Israel currently practices an “apartheid system” against the Palestinians in the occupied territories that make up the Palestinian Authority. Somehow Palestinian demands that all Jews be deported from their homes in the West Bank and Gaza did not qualify as “apartheid” to Carter, or even deserve being mentioned or asked about.

From that point on, particularly in discussing the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, Carter cited just enough information to convey the impression he was trying to be reasonable and seek peace, but left out important details. Eventually, the evening degenerated into outright lying where he blamed the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process on Israel, on AIPAC, “the Jewish lobby,” and on certain American Jews who were out to “colonize Palestinian land.” He then claimed there was a “silent majority” of Jews in America who were afraid to speak out against Israel’s policies regarding the Palestinians.

In reality, the majority of American support for Israel comes from evangelical Christians of which Carter himself is one, and American Jewish support for Israel is as strong as ever. Carter cited statistics that “A poll by the Harry S Truman Center for International Studies at Hebrew University showed an 81% approval of citizens of Palestine and 63% among Israelis” for the exchange of “land for peace.”

Carter then spoke in favor of an “early exchange” of three Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hamas and Hezbollah for part of the 9,800 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. But again, he left out key details. Similar polls also show that Palestinians say 5 million Arabs should be allowed to move into Israel’s “secure borders” to reclaim the land their ancestors allegedly lost in 1948 and that suicide bombings and terrorism against Israelis are an acceptable way to achieve this. The prisoners held in Israeli jails sought for exchange are suicide bombers and terrorists who attacked and murdered Israelis. The Palestinians don’t want petty criminals back, just armed terrorists.

The last two such releases resulted in the parolees murdering another 35 Israelis after their release. As for the three Israeli hostages, nobody knows if they are even alive since Hamas and Hezbollah consistently refuse to let the Red Cross see them per international law.

Citing columnist Robert Novak, Carter stated that “The PLO’s 1993 acceptance of Israel’s right to exist is crystal clear” and touted the Saudi peace initiative as having been accepted by all Arab governments. In fact, the PLO never amended their charter to accept Israel’s existence, something Arafat even boasted about at Durban, South Africa.

Carter continued that no Palestinian government, including a new unity government with Hamas and Fatah, has the right to revoke past peace agreements and suggested that Palestinians felt the same way. Yet that is what exactly happened just weeks ago at the Mecca Summit in Saudi Arabia (hosted by Carter’s previous and current financial benefactors of his foundation) where even the US-supported government of Machmoud Abbas’s Fatah, in unity with Hamas, reneged on even continuing lip service on Israel’s right to exist.

Ignoring these facts, Carter went on praising a mythical acceptance of Israel’s borders and existence as an opportunity for peace. The Saudis pressured Abbas to concede to Hamas’ demands, and Hamas refuses to accept Israel’s existence at all. The Saudis also fund Carter’s Foundation and have given him money for years. Is it any wonder Carter ignores such details? Yet questions about Carter’s connections to Saudi money and the openly anti-Semitic Zayed Center in the UAE that were submitted were screened out in advance.

Carter excused terrorism, something he has done before, while giving lip service to opposing it. Asked about terrorism as part of the problem, he accused the Israelis of precipitating the violence. “When you create 205 settlements with private access roads that only Israelis can use to colonize Palestinian land, the Palestinians are provoked and have to pursue their rights,” he argued. Such a simplistic description, however, is yet another ellipse. Jewish Settlements were built not on private property, but on Jordanian state land. The Israelis also lost land and settlements they owned in 1948 that they claimed back per UN Resolution 242, and the access roads are available to Palestinians who undergo a background check. The roads are necessary because Palestinians shoot or throw rocks at Israeli vehicles going to Jewish communities. With all the wooing and cooing going on by UC Berkeley faculty and staff, the student audience could never know this.

Carter’s “humanitarianism” certainly did not extend to Jews murdered by their Arab neighbors and Jews still under threat of annihilation. Referring to the Camp David Accords, Carter told the audience that Egypt had not violated one requirement in 25 years. In fact, Israelis have been murdered during that time on the frontier, the Karine A weapons ship traveled with Egyptian cooperation, and the Egyptians have consistently allowed the smuggling of weapons and missiles to the PLO in Gaza.

Carter also spoke of the need for a contiguous Palestinian state and openly advocated giving the southern half of Israel to the Palestinians so the West Bank would be contiguous with Gaza. This would effectively divide tiny Israel in half dismantling even the 1949 borders Carter earlier claimed in his speech the entire Arab world would accept. The Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas have always talked of a phased approach of dismantling Israel in stages, so this rings hollow with Carter’s constant talk of Israelis living within secure borders, given his other ellipses about Palestinian acceptance of Israel’s right to exist.

With all things considered, the evening was yet another stop in Carter's continuing mission to vilify Israel while posing to be a messenger of Mid-East peace. Berkeley's unquestioning acceptance of Carter and his propaganda reveals, moreover, how willing academic institutions are to disregard scholarly objectivity in favor of radical fantasies that whitewash terror and demonize democratic and free nations. That this indoctrination can take place on such a large scale indicates the pressing need for academic freedom. Most of these young students are not just unaware of the other side of the story; they have been co-opted into a propaganda process that increasingly disables this nation’s war against its terrorist enemies.

If Left to Democrats and CAIR--Fort Dix Would be TOAST

This was originally posted last night, it turned out to be a prophetic post. As you know, the arrest of a Muslim terrorist cell was announced today. The key break in the case was when someone working in a store that was converting one of cell's training tapes to DVD alerted the police who brought in the FBI. That person is a hero. Based on the below, CAIR would call him a racial profiler and start a law suit..and the Democratic Congressional leadership will try to protect CAIR. With today's events in mind, please read the post that follows.

Even though you only half listen regular commuters of the LIRR learn the standard conductor speech by heart. "Please Help our Clean Train Campaign, Please be considerate of your fellow passengers, watch the gap," and since 9/11, "If you see something suspicious, say something" Chances are no matter what train you take there is a similar speech.

If CAIR and the Democratic Congress have their way that last line will be out of the standard conductor speech. You see congressional Republicans want to pass legislation that says " any person that voluntarily reports suspicious activity -- anything that could be a threat to transportation security" will be granted immunity from civil liability for the disclosure." It "authorizes courts to award attorneys' fees to defendants with immunity" and would apply retroactively to activities that took place on or after November 20, 2006. That is the date of the famous flying Imam incident where suspicious activity reports made by passengers got a few Imams thrown off a plane.

The Democratic Leadership along with their CAIR friends aren't too fond of that bill. They see that "If you see something say something" effort, as prejudice against Muslims.They want the whistle-blowers to have no protection. We are constantly being told that the public are supposed to be the eyes and ears of the government's anti-terror efforts, now the Democratic leadership is looking to put the safety of the US Citizens in danger to serve their PC Political agenda. Read this report from the Center For Security Policy.

No Does

CSP Decision Brief | May 07, 2007

On the Amtrak train to New York a few minutes ago, the conductor announced, "If you see anything suspicious, please report it to the authorities immediately." If Islamist-front organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its friends in Congress have their way, however, this sensible, prudential announcement will have to be amended: "Be advised: If you do make such a report, you may be sued."

Could it really come to this? It could, if the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives gets away with an effort to deep-six legislation approved last month with the support of 109 of their caucus' members.

According to a Republican memo circulated before the vote, that legislation is designed to ensure that " any person that voluntarily reports suspicious activity -- anything that could be a threat to transportation security" will be granted immunity from civil liability for the disclosure." It "authorizes courts to award attorneys' fees to defendants with immunity" and would apply retroactively to activities that took place on or after November 20, 2006.

That date is significant, of course, since it was the day when six Arizona-based Muslim clerics were removed in Minneapolis from an aircraft operated by US Air. The deplaning occurred after fellow passengers did what my conductor urged those on his train to do: They reported suspicious behavior.

The six Islamist clerics – now universally known as the Flying Imams – reportedly engaged in behavior that seemed designed to trigger alarms. Such behavior is said to have included: praying ostentatiously before boarding the plane, changing seats to sit in pairs in unassigned seats (by some accounts in a pattern reminiscent of some terrorists' modus operandi), making loud statements in Arabic that appear to have included derogatory comments about America and requesting unneeded seat-belt-extenders – which can, in a pinch, be used as weapons.

Following understandable expressions of concern by as-yet-unidentified fellow passengers, the crew consulted with airline and local and federal police. The decision was taken to remove the imams. In a lawsuit filed in March by CAIR on behalf of the imams, these " well-respected, religious leaders...felt degraded, humiliated and dejected as they were led before airport patrons and passengers who looked at them as if they were criminals." In addition to suing US Air, CAIR is going after unspecified "John Does" – namely, yet-to-be-served passengers, flight attendants and airport personnel the Islamist organization contends acted "with an intent to discriminate."

Some perceive in the imams' behavior – and CAIR's effort to capitalize on the response it fortunately and predictably precipitated – an intention to use our civil liberties to diminish America's preparedness and capacity for dealing with domestic threats. At the very least, this caper plays into the hands of CAIR as it promotes another piece of legislation, the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) of 2005 whose original co-sponsors were two prominent leftists in Congress, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).

Now, "racial profiling" – like the "intent to discriminate" – are in many cases highly subjective calls. And claims of such wrongdoing are especially suspect coming from the likes of CAIR. After all, as the invaluable Center for Vigilant Freedom makes clear, this organization (which was established by a Hamas front group known as the Islamic Association for Palestine) is feverishly seeking to demonstrate that Muslims in America are being victimized.

In fact, in a speech to the Muslim ADAMS Center on April 27, 2007 and transcribed by Vigilant Freedom, CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, declared: "There were 196 cases reported by the Justice Department for Muslims in civil rights cases. There were over 1008 cases reported by the Jewish faith. We need to do a much better job not only in recognizing our civil rights but also in reporting it to the government. [It] is very critical and very important....We really feel our community is more targeted. 54% – this is one of CAIR's surveys – 54% of all Muslims surveyed said they had been subject to discrimination. 54%, which if you put numbers down, we're talking about tens of thousands of cases, not dozens, as is reported in the Justice Department's annual report."

In other words, it serves CAIR's purposes to portray Muslims as victims. Imams who behave suspiciously are victims. And other Muslims who fail to report their victimhood are undermining the efforts CAIR and its ilk are making to secure not just equal treatment under the law but special rights (e.g., designated prayer rooms, cleansing facilities, Muslim-only hours for school gyms, etc.) In the process, they are inuring this democracy to the encroachment of a religious code known as shari'a law and the parallel society the Islamists seek to establish here, as elsewhere, enroute to the creation of Islamic states.

It is against this backdrop that Congress must enact legislation to protect "John Does" and, thereby, to protect us all. It is unacceptable that the Democratic leadership is seeking to prevent such an outcome through parliamentary sleight-of-hand – by keeping the public in the dark about the make-up and timing of the conference committee that will hammer out differences between the House-passed legislation, which includes such protection, and the Senate bill that does not.

Every effort should be made to encourage our countrymen to report suspicious activities – which may prove to be the difference between life and death for large numbers of us. And every effort at odds with that duty must be exposed to the harshest scrutiny and most vigorous opposition.

PRAYER REQUEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!

My wife has been suffering from what has been a long illness with a bacteria that has eaten away at one of the valves in her heart. It took over two months to get the germ out of her body.

She now needs to have the valve replaced so she is having open heart surgery tomorrow. If you can, please add her to your prayers. Her name is Leah bat Baylee Gittle

Almighty, Master of the Universe
my God and the God of my forefathers:
May it be Your Will that You speedily send
a complete recovery from Heaven,
a healing of the body and a
healing of the spirit to
Leahbat Baylee Gittle
amongst all of the sick of
the Children of Israel.
And please give strength and
wisdom to those who treat them.

Thank you all for your prayers

Dumb and Dumberer-When Olmert Met Peretz

One of the biggest complaints about Ehud Olmert and his partner in mediocrity "Stalin" Peretz is that despite their lack of military experience, they do not seek out and listen to military advice regarding the safety of Israel. This is was true during the Lebanon war, the missile attacks since the war and remains true even through today. This hubris remains intact despite the fact that last week the Winograd report smacked them down to size.

Israel is facing a three front war, the IDF AND other military experts are demanding that the government act to protect Israel now, and their recommendation aren't given any credence by these political hacks. It is almost like a scene out of Dumb and Dumberer.

Olmert Holds Army Back in Face of Imminent Hizballah, Hamas Threats and Buildup

DEBKAfile Special Report

May 8, 2007, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)

	Sophisticated C-802 shore-to-sea missiles

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni staged a revealing scrap of asides behind open microphones and TV cameras Monday, May 8.

She said the army chiefs was complaining the politicians were holding them back from dealing with the Palestinian Qassam missiles flying daily from Gaza. He replied: Tell them to take it easy.

Less than a week after Livni told Olmert to resign over the Winograd panel’s deadly criticism of his handling of last year’s Lebanon War, the duo were ready to act out a piece of theater and a course of military passivity. Neither seriously wants to hear what the army has to say – and not just the chief of staff, as in last year’s conflict, but the different views of commanders, as the panel advised. They are too preoccupied with personal survival maneuvers to attend to urgent security issues.

Military experts, some of them recently retired from combat duty, tirelessly warn in daily media interviews that the war build-up on three Israeli borders, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, has reached dangerous proportions. Not only is the army again unprepared for another conflict in the months to come, but it is held back by the Olmert government from destroying the plentifully rearmed enemy installations before they go on the offensive.

Confirming the generals’ worst fears, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah laid out a plan Sunday, May 6, for attacking IDF positions on Mts. Hermon and Dov from the Shebaa Farms, and Israel Navy vessels with the new long-range missiles just delivered (smuggled) by Syria, while also turning the militia’s guns on the UN peacekeepers posted in south Lebanon.

The plan was aired in a well-publicized interview broadcast Sunday by Iranian television in Arabic, a clear signal that it was first cleared with his Tehran masters.

Yet the Israeli government had no response – even verbal.

This time, unlike Hizballah’s provocation in 2006, Tehran is solidly behind the Lebanese Shiite militia’s war plan. The Islamic Republic is furthermore willing to be party to a conflict against Israel launched from Lebanese territory. This willingness is compatible with Nasrallah’s public denial of the legitimacy of the Fouad Siniora government in Beirut.

The plan to wage war on Israel has been carefully calculated to knock over several targets, including the Siniora government, while toppling the entire edifice put in place by UN Security Council’s Resolution 1701 of August 2006.

Under its terms, Hizballah and Israel accepted a ceasefire and the Shiite group pulled out of southern Lebanon.

To put a legal varnish on these tactics, the Hizballah leader coined the phrase “defensive existence.” He said: “We have a defensive existence, meaning that if Lebanon or the south came under attack, we will defend Lebanon.”

“We” means Hizballah. This is tantamount to denying the legitimacy of the Lebanese sovereign army and its displacement of Hizballah in South Lebanon under the terms of Resolution 1701.

Before the Nasrallah’s threats to Israel were aired in Tehran, everything was in place. DEBKAfile’s military sources report: Hizballah troops which had pulled back from the Shebaa Farms sector during the war have been redeployed. Syria had replenished the militia’s stocks of sophisticated C-802 shore-to-sea missiles of the type which struck the Israeli missile ship Hanit in the first week of the 2006 war, together with the latest mobile radar shore batteries. They are lined up along the Lebanese coast, including the Tyre sector close to UNIFIL headquarters at Rosh Hanikra. Vessels in Israeli waters south of the Lebanese border up to Nahariya and Acre are now within range of those missiles.

In last year’s war, Hizballah seized shore radar centers from the Lebanese armed forces to fire at seaborne targets. Now they have their own.

According to our military sources, the new Hizballah coastal deployments force Israeli naval vessels on patrol against weapons and terrorist smuggling from Lebanon to detour much farther out to sea than before.

The demands by Israel’s armed forces for action to break up Hizballah and Hamas’ military buildup - or even put a stop to Palestinian daily Qassam attacks on Israeli towns and villages in the south - fall equally on deaf ears in Jerusalem.

Seeing the Olmert government tied so tightly in its own knots that elementary measures for national security are blocked, it was not surprising to hear the US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack announce Monday night, May 7, that Condoleezza Rice has decided to put off her visit to Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority because of “…the domestic political woes of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.”

Vice president Dick Cheney will likewise give Israel a miss during the Middle East tour he starts Wednesday, May 8, to Riyadh, Amman and Cairo.

Israel’s current leaders are holding onto their seats for dear life, but the ground on which those seats stand is being sacrificed in the process.