Sweet tweet!

H/t: Shearim

Here's another great one I found doing a search:

Walking Out

Durban II is going to have fewer attendees this year. More countries are making the same choice as the US, Canada, and Israel and not attending. The Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia are opting out this year. The first Durban conference on racism turned out to be a hate campaign against Israel. Durban II is on the same track.

Yom HaShoah begins tomorrow and Durban II chose to let Ahmadinejad speak:

Israeli leaders reacted with deep dismay to the presence of Mr. Ahmadinejad, who has called the Holocaust a myth and advocated the destruction of the Jewish state. In remarks at a cabinet meeting on Monday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Six million of our brethren were massacred during the Holocaust. Sadly, not everyone learned the lesson.”

“While we gather to honor their memory, in Switzerland there will assemble a conference allegedly aimed against racism,” he said. “Its guest of honor is a racist Holocaust-denier who does not hide his intentions to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.”

Referring to Mr. Ahmadinejad’s role at the conference, Mr. Peres said Monday: “There must be a limit, even to the neutrality of Switzerland. Today is the day? This is the man to speak? This is the outlook for the future?”

Many delegates walked out. Is this enough? Why was he even allowed to speak to begin with? Why was he made a guest of honor?

While people are being hacked to death in the Congo, while the military dictatorship in Burma suppresses its people, while people are starving under the Communist dictatorship in North Korea, while those in the Darfur refugee camps are still being raped and murdered, the UN Human Rights Commission can seem only to censure one country: Israel.

Tomorrow, wear a blue Star of David in support of Israel.

Never Again?

Every time Israel does something to defend itself, people around the world screech and protest against the 'Nazi Zionists'. Iran now has the capability to launch into space. Iran has made repeated threats to wipe Israel off the face of the map and has been busily trying to build a nuclear arsenal.

There are around 6 million Jews living in Israel. That is the same number murdered by Hitler's Nazis. After World War II and when the death camps were finally opened and the atrocities, the ash piles, the mountains of clothes, the skeletal frames on those who survived were exposed, the world said "Never again". And yet, we are almost in the same situation as in 1939. Hitler made his threats to exterminate the Jews and nothing was done.

Country after country closed their doors to those Jews who desperately tried to escape from Hitler's menace in Europe. World leaders and most everyone could not conceive that Hitler would implement his 'Final Solution'.

Iran is gathering their final components for their 'Final Solution'. Iran would have no compunction using nuclear weapons against Israel even if it meant millions of Palestinians would be killed as well. Iran could care less if Jerusalem was destroyed. Iran's leadership has threatened all those living in Israel. Iran has held 'conferences' denying the Holocaust. They scream kill the Jews.

Never again?

Nuclear Iran

Many in the Jewish community feel McCain would be the best choice in supporting Israel. I don't think either candidate will put the needs of Israel against those of the US. McCain has promised to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, just as President Bush did and others before him.

Bush refused to meet with Arafat and that made me respect him. We mustn't forget it was a Republican president, Reagan, who gave safe passage from Lebanon to Arafat and other members of the PLO. It was another Republican president, Eisenhower, who plied pressure on France and Israel to stop the attack on Egypt after Egypt seized the Suez Canal. It was a Republic president, Nixon, who didn't think Israel needed all those tanks and weapons during the Yom Kippur War.

It was a Democratic president, Truman, who not only instructed the US delegation to the UN to vote for the creation of the State of Israel but also was one of the first of the world leaders to recognize Israel. I cannot ignore the fact that the US also restricted the sales of arms to Israel before Israel declared statehood.

It was a Democratic president, Johnson, who sped up arms to Israel during the Six Day War.

It was a Democratic president, Carter, who brokered a peace deal between Israel and Egypt. Since then, Israel has not been invaded by the armies of Arab countries. I cannot ignore the vile hatred Carter has spewed against Israel these past decades. Nor can I ignore his slanderous words of calling Israel an apartheid state.

President Bush keeps asking Israel to make concession after concession as "confidence boosting measures" for Abbas. While all these measures are ongoing, the Israeli town of Sderot sees a daily bombardment from Qassams, an Israeli yeshiva saw the murders of students, and a new tactic of terrorism: The use of bulldozers and cars to run over Israeli citizens.

These are threats but none trumps what Iran plans. The world largely ignored Hitler's speeches against Jews. The world doesn't seem too concerned with Iran's threats to wipe Israel off. Iran's president is given carte blanche at the UN and is embraced by UN officials. At least the US delegation and a few other countries had the decency to walk out when the president of Iran was introduced.

It made for go show. The US is supposed to be an ally of Israel and yet its actions have been reminiscent of the Eisenhower presidency. You would think the US, especially led by the Republican president, would do more to help ease the threat of Iran to Israel. Yet, the US is seemingly hampering Israel's efforts to defend itself against Iran's nuclear threat.

As of late, the regime in Tehran has been praising and glorifying the barbaric sacrifice of children as human mine clearers. Apparently, there is a reason for this.

Iran’s advancement towards a nuclear bomb and the international community’s inaction in stopping it necessarily give rise to the option of Israel having no choice but to act on its own. However, our great ally, the United States, is making it difficult for us to build this option.

At first we had the leak to the New York Times regarding the long-range exercise carried out by the Air Force above the Mediterranean. This was followed by the statements of Admiral Mullen, the chairman of the joint chief of staff, in respect to the danger inherent in an operation against Iran. Later, according to media reports, the US rejected Israel’s request to purchase systems that would improve the Air Force’s ability to operate against long-range targets.

Yet then came the compensation; a compensation prize in the form of an advanced American early warning system to be deployed in the Negev. This radar, which is connected to a satellite system, will extend the warning of incoming ballistic missiles by precious minutes. The chance to intercept these missiles will also grow. The system to be deployed in the Negev will be manned by US troops or citizens.

This gift improves Israel’s self-defense capabilities, and we should be thankful for that. However, it limits our freedom to act both operationally and diplomatically. Our problem is not only how to protect ourselves. We need to be able to act against those who made the State of Israel’s elimination their top priority. This ability of ours has been undermined. The message inherent in the granting of the radar system is the same message of American refusal to our previous requests: Do nothing. There is no certainty that the words uttered by presidential candidates McCain and Obama against the Iranian nukes will be translated, in 2009, into a more forceful policy than that of the current US Administration.

Israel is being checkmated by US policy. McCain will more than likely continue this course. Iran, once it has the nuclear weapons will not be concerned that Palestinians will be slaughtered as well as Israelis. Iran will not be concerned about those in Lebanon or Jordan who will be affected by any nuclear strike against Israel. It will be concerned with only thing: The destruction of Israel.

It was past Democratic presidents who had the courage and the moral imperative to buck prior US policy. It is at best, a tenuous argument but Israel really cannot afford more of the same of what it is seeing from Republican policies.

Jew Hatred at the UN

Once upon a time, there used to be some decency at the UN. Since the 1970's this hasn't been the case. That is when the UN openly embraced the terrorism of Arafat and his PLO. Now, the UN takes great pleasure on inviting evil to speak. I was going to write about Ahmanijad and how he sounds so much like Hitler. Meryl Yourish beat me to it

If the side-by-side speeches of Ahmanijad and Hitler don't open your eyes, than nothing will. You cannot reason with mad and evil men.

The Speech Not Given

Because Senator Hillary Clinton threw a major hissy fit, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin and the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee was disinvited from a rally opposing Iran's president. The New York Sun posted the speech she would have given.

I am honored to be with you and with leaders from across this great country — leaders from different faiths and political parties united in a single voice of outrage.

Tomorrow, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will come to New York — to the heart of what he calls the Great Satan — and speak freely in this, a country whose demise he has called for.

Ahmadinejad may choose his words carefully, but underneath all of the rhetoric is an agenda that threatens all who seek a safer and freer world. We gather here today to highlight the Iranian dictator's intentions and to call for action to thwart him.

He must be stopped.

The world must awake to the threat this man poses to all of us. Ahmadinejad denies that the Holocaust ever took place. He dreams of being an agent in a "Final Solution" — the elimination of the Jewish people. He has called Israel a "stinking corpse" that is "on its way to annihilation." Such talk cannot be dismissed as the ravings of a madman — not when Iran just this summer tested long-range Shahab-3 missiles capable of striking Tel Aviv, not when the Iranian nuclear program is nearing completion, and not when Iran sponsors terrorists that threaten and kill innocent people around the world.

The Iranian government wants nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran is running at least 3,800 centrifuges and that its uranium enrichment capacity is rapidly improving. According to news reports, U.S. intelligence agencies believe the Iranians may have enough nuclear material to produce a bomb within a year.

The world has condemned these activities. The United Nations Security Council has demanded that Iran suspend its illegal nuclear enrichment activities. It has levied three rounds of sanctions. How has Ahmadinejad responded? With the declaration that the "Iranian nation would not retreat one iota" from its nuclear program.

So, what should we do about this growing threat? First, we must succeed in Iraq. If we fail there, it will jeopardize the democracy the Iraqis have worked so hard to build, and empower the extremists in neighboring Iran. Iran has armed and trained terrorists who have killed our soldiers in Iraq, and it is Iran that would benefit from an American defeat in Iraq.

If we retreat without leaving a stable Iraq, Iran's nuclear ambitions will be bolstered. If Iran acquires nuclear weapons — they could share them tomorrow with the terrorists they finance, arm, and train today. Iranian nuclear weapons would set off a dangerous regional nuclear arms race that would make all of us less safe.

But Iran is not only a regional threat; it threatens the entire world. It is the no. 1 state sponsor of terrorism. It sponsors the world's most vicious terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah. Together, Iran and its terrorists are responsible for the deaths of Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, and in Iraq today. They have murdered Iraqis, Lebanese, Palestinians, and other Muslims who have resisted Iran's desire to dominate the region. They have persecuted countless people simply because they are Jewish.

Iran is responsible for attacks not only on Israelis, but on Jews living as far away as Argentina. Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are part of Iran's official ideology and murder is part of its official policy. Not even Iranian citizens are safe from their government's threat to those who want to live, work, and worship in peace. Politically-motivated abductions, torture, death by stoning, flogging, and amputations are just some of its state-sanctioned punishments.

It is said that the measure of a country is the treatment of its most vulnerable citizens. By that standard, the Iranian government is both oppressive and barbaric. Under Ahmadinejad's rule, Iranian women are some of the most vulnerable citizens.

If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed.

If she walks down a public street in clothing that violates the state dress code, she could be arrested.

But in the face of this harsh regime, the Iranian women have shown courage. Despite threats to their lives and their families, Iranian women have sought better treatment through the "One Million Signatures Campaign Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws." The authorities have reacted with predictable barbarism. Last year, women's rights activist Delaram Ali was sentenced to 20 lashes and 10 months in prison for committing the crime of "propaganda against the system." After international protests, the judiciary reduced her sentence to "only" 10 lashes and 36 months in prison and then temporarily suspended her sentence. She still faces the threat of imprisonment.

Earlier this year, Senator Clinton said that "Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is in the forefront of that" effort. Senator Clinton argued that part of our response must include stronger sanctions, including the designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization. John McCain and I could not agree more.

Senator Clinton understands the nature of this threat and what we must do to confront it. This is an issue that should unite all Americans. Iran should not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Period. And in a single voice, we must be loud enough for the whole world to hear: Stop Iran!

Only by working together, across national, religious, and political differences, can we alter this regime's dangerous behavior. Iran has many vulnerabilities, including a regime weakened by sanctions and a population eager to embrace opportunities with the West. We must increase economic pressure to change Iran's behavior.

Tomorrow, Ahmadinejad will come to New York. On our soil, he will exercise the right of freedom of speech — a right he denies his own people. He will share his hateful agenda with the world. Our task is to focus the world on what can be done to stop him.

We must rally the world to press for truly tough sanctions at the U.N. or with our allies if Iran's allies continue to block action in the U.N. We must start with restrictions on Iran's refined petroleum imports.

We must reduce our dependency on foreign oil to weaken Iran's economic influence.

We must target the regime's assets abroad; bank accounts, investments, and trading partners.

President Ahmadinejad should be held accountable for inciting genocide, a crime under international law.

We must sanction Iran's Central Bank and the Revolutionary Guard Corps — which no one should doubt is a terrorist organization.

Together, we can stop Iran's nuclear program.

Senator McCain has made a solemn commitment that I strongly endorse: Never again will we risk another Holocaust. And this is not a wish, a request, or a plea to Israel's enemies. This is a promise that the United States and Israel will honor, against any enemy who cares to test us. It is John McCain's promise and it is my promise.

Thank you.

H/t:Soccer Dad

Thanks to DoveBear, I was made aware of a vicious attack on Jews. See, it was Jewish groups that put on the rally and they might with a great deal of pressure about Sarah Palin's appearance. They caved in. Many groups have done similar things in the past. However, it seems to Redstate that this is just the latest in snubs by American Jews. To quote:

I, for one, tire of the many snubs the American Jewish community routinely throws at Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians.

His diatribe is very long and it is one that Jews have heard for the past 5,768 years. In responding to one of his commentors, he even makes a statement that his post wasn't aimed at the "good Jews" who happen to be Republican. His post also states blithely that we are in Iraq now in order to protect the interests of Israel. He sounds like many of the posters at DailyKos.

It is the nature of those who have a sense of impotence to lash out in the same manner.

I do not like how the situation was handled by the various Jewish groups who held the rally. Democrats and Liberals tend to do these things when confronted with controversy. Many of the Jews who belong to these groups are also Democrats and Liberals. Should they be viciously attacked because they are Jews? Of course not.

I for one am tired of all the hysterical rhetoric coming from the likes of Redstate, Buchannen, and so many others.

Free At Last!

Ahmed Batebi is the Iranian student who gained international fame for his appearance on the cover of The Economist magazine holding up a bloodied shirt claiming to belong to a fellow student beaten by the Basij paramilitaries. The photo, which has been called "an icon for Iran's student reform movement," was taken during the Iranian Student Protests in July 1999 in Tehran. Human Rights activist Shirin Ebadi, reports that the shirt belonged to Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad, a student who was shot and killed reportedly by a plainclothes police or vigilante.

Wouldn't it be great if all those ignorant tools who have Che Guevera's picture on t-shirts picked a true hero for freedom and one who protested against tyranny?