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Title: Hatred of Israel Brings the KKK and Democrats Back Together
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://patriotpost.us/opinion/13906
Published: Jun 23, 2012
Author: Arnold Ahlert
Post Date: 2012-06-23 23:56:56 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 7006
Comments: 28

A primary contest taking place in New York next Tuesday portends yet another embarrassment for the Democrat Party. In the newly re-drawn 8th Congressional District, City Councilman Charles Barron is running against state Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries for the Democratic nomination to succeed retiring Rep. Ed Towns. Yesterday, the African-American Barron picked up an endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. How is this possible? As Duke explained, "The possible election of a dedicated anti-Zionist to the U.S. Congress, has thrown the Zionist-influenced media and the Zio-political establishment in a tizzy," he said in a web video.

Duke, a self-described "white nationalist," clarified his reasoning for backing one black American against another black American in a race far away from his home state of Louisiana. "In a race for Congress between an anti-Zionist black activist and a black activist who is a bought and paid for Zionist Uncle Tom, I'll take the anti-Zionist any day," Mr. Duke continues in the video. "In this election of limited choices, I believe that Charles Barron is the best choice. Why? Because I think there's no greater danger facing the United States of America and facing the world than the unbridled power of Zionist globalism."

The reason for Duke's support is obvious: Since Barron's election to City Council in 2001, he has associated himself with anti-Israel groups and regularly demonized the State of Israel. In a 2009 interview with the Amsterdam News, he referred to the Gaza Strip as "a virtual death camp, the same kind of conditions the Nazis imposed on the Jews," further claiming the Jews "massacre the Palestinian people, bomb their homes, churches and schools, and then block anybody trying to deliver aid to them. What this amounts to is genocide."

He has also insisted Israel should never have been created, asking Brooklyn churchgoers in June 2010, "Where should we start? Should we start with the 1906 Zionist Convention, or in 1914, with the Balfour Declaration? With Menachem Begin, the terrorists, all the wars, you want to discuss Israel becoming a state in 1948 when it should not have? Who are the terrorists? You want to talk about the definition of terrorism? How do you define acts of piracy?"

In the same month, at a rally opposing Israel's raid of the flotilla trying to break the Gaza blockade during which nine activists were killed on the Mavi Marmara, Barron compared conditions in Gaza to "a concentration death camp." "Israel is out of control," Barron fumed. "They're off the hook, they're out of line...There's too many children and women and innocent men of Gaza dying because you're isolating them and not allowing anything in. It's like having a concentration death camp. It's horrible, and the whole world is and should be outraged."

When questioned about the death camp reference, Barron continued, "Any time that you deliberately cause the death of innocent children, whether you are a government or a non-government organization, you're participating in genocide and you're in participating in a violation of the human rights," he said. "And if you allow for this death and destruction to go on for years because you're blocking humanitarian aid from coming in, you have set up a death camp."

In August 2010, he appeared in Harlem with members of the leftist New Black Panther Party (NBPP). During the rally, NBPP members referred to Fox New as "Fox Jews" and New York City as "Jew York City." Shortly afterward Barron expressed his allegiance, saying he and the NBPP "are embracing each other with unity..." In 2010 he complained to a reporter that Jews "only make up 20 percent of the population, but they've always walked these streets (in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights) as if they owned them, and acted as if they are the only ones in the community that matter."

David Duke heartily concurs with this worldview, all too common on the Left today (see here for a list of many others). "I certainly agree with Barron that Israel is the worst rogue terrorist state on Earth. It's not Iran folks," Duke contends. "Barron is certainly right about Zionist control over the media and our government, and the treason that's existed in our Congress and he's right about the fact that Zionist wars have caused the death or harming of hundreds of thousands of Americans and cost you trillions of your tax dollars. Barron's opponent, on the other hand, is a complete Zionist sellout of both the black people and all the people of America."

Duke's endorsement notwithstanding, whoever wins the Democrat primary nomination is a virtual shoo-in in the November election, due to the 8th Congressional district's overwhelmingly Democrat composition. And while most of New York's Democrat establishment, including powerhouse New York Senator Chuck Schumer, is backing Jeffries, retiring incumbent Rep. Edolphus Towns has endorsed Barron. Towns has been the incumbent since 1983, and it remains to be seen how much influence he still wields.

Barron is also receiving considerable support from two major city government worker unions, District Councils 37 and 1707 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). "He's always been there when we asked him to be there," said DC 1707 political action director G.L. Tyler. Barron's track record of remarks? Tyler insisted issues outside New York City government are "not our concern." They might also be of little concern to parts of the new district, such as East New York and Brownsville, that Barron has represented on City Council since 2001. Still another X factor in the primary is turnout. It is expected to be low, and the political speculation suggests that Bedford-Stuyvesant, with as many as 9000 votes up for grabs, could turn the election one way or the other. Both campaigns have flooded the area looking for support.

Jeffries has a vastly superior amount of money to spend, and the backing of progressive groups like MoveOn, the Working Families Party and most of New York's government unions. Barron has superior name-recognition and a devoted fan base. No polls have been taken in this race, and this is the first time the primary vote will be held in June, exacerbating efforts to get out the vote for either side.

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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)

What is there not to hate...about the 'bastard state'?

Hell, that would make a good bumpersticker...or tagline.

;)

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-06-24   0:07:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)

"In a race for Congress between an anti-Zionist black activist and a black activist who is a bought and paid for Zionist Uncle Tom, I'll take the anti-Zionist any day," Mr. Duke continues in the video.

LOL. What an attention whore.

Tooconservative  posted on  2012-06-24   0:57:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)

I can't see you leaving the KKK over Israel, stone.

But you can prove me wrong.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-06-24   7:33:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: A K A Stone (#0)

Barron compared conditions in Gaza to "a concentration death camp."

Somehow I doubt that the guy has ever been there, sounds like he gets all of his news from the MSM....... and a few posters on LF....

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CZ82  posted on  2012-06-24   8:02:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Brian S (#1)

What is there not to hate...about the 'bastard state'?

Go ahead...and tell us, Uncle Joe-Abdul-Adolf.

While you're at it tell us how nations create borders - specifically ones like Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and...(cough, hack) "Palestine". AND their historical names.

Tick...tick...tick...

Liberator  posted on  2012-06-24   13:05:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Liberator, buckeroo, cz82, war, murron, thunderbird, SJN (#5)

They anti Jew posters like to say Israel was created by the UN which is bullshit. But they support the UN creating a imaginary palestinian state.

Egypt moving away is predictable.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-06-24   13:09:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: A K A Stone, all (#0)

He [Charles Barron] has also insisted Israel should never have been created, asking Brooklyn churchgoers in June 2010, "Where should we start? Should we start with the 1906 Zionist Convention, or in 1914, with the Balfour Declaration?

In church?? God's House?? Politics?? Uh-ok. Do these black "Christians" remember Jesus overturning the money-changers' tables when they used the temple as a whore house?? No?? Didn't think so. They never do...

Adding further to the irony, let's return back to "Where should we start", regarding the creation of Israel: Charlie, it began IN THE BIBLE. Author: GOD.

Where's the Problem??

Let's also ask Mr. Know-it-All Charles Baron (no doubt financed by Abdul) who created Africa's borders? Or the entire Middle East and "Trans-Jordan"....and what make THOSE border legit??

Liberator  posted on  2012-06-24   13:15:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: A K A Stone (#6)

There is NO reason for the US government to support other nations to include Israel. It is NOT written into the US Constitution and has nothing to do with us. That includes joining the UN, SEATO, NATO... blah, blah, blah.

The BS you believe in is all about a world government that usurps our rights, liberties and freedoms. Oh and go fuck yourself.

buckeroo  posted on  2012-06-24   13:15:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Liberator (#5)

and...(cough, hack) "Palestine". AND their historical names.

That's on the other Israeli/Palestinian thread....

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CZ82  posted on  2012-06-24   13:24:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: A K A Stone, Brian S, buckeroo, cz82, war, murron, thunderbird, SJN (#6)

They anti Jew posters like to say Israel was created by the UN which is bullshit. But they support the UN creating a imaginary palestinian state.

GREAT point. Their hypocrisy is not only stunning, but their knowledge of history is abysmal.

"Palestine" is a fake state. And even IF it were created, why wasn't it created by the UN as part of the hundreds of thousands of square miles given within "Trans-Jordan"?? Oh, that's right - the Muslim "brothers", the Jordanians kick-out and murdered "Palestinians".

The UN is the God of the Globalists, the Muslimites, and the Insane.

LOVE for the reaction of Americans to hear of the planned "reinstatement" of the following Indian Nations BY THE UN:

Algonquin
Anasazi
Chumash
Delaware
Osage
Cheyenne
Chinook
Choctaw
Seneca
Pueblo
Lenape
Comanche
Shoshone
Cree
Mohawk
Ute
Creek
Mojave

Lol - good luck enforcing THOSE borders, UN.

Oh, I missed one: The Hekawis:

Liberator  posted on  2012-06-24   13:30:25 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: CZ82 (#9)

That's on the other Israeli/Palestinian thread....

Aaaw, geez...

Not again.

Liberator  posted on  2012-06-24   13:30:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: buckeroo, A K A Stone (#8)

There is NO reason for the US government to support other nations to include Israel.

So....surrender to mob rule of the UN is preferable to you?

What do YOU do when your land is considered American Tribal land, and the UN's cabal of rogue nations decide your azz is illegally sitting on another "nation's" land? Eh, Bucky??

Liberator  posted on  2012-06-24   13:34:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Liberator (#10)

but their knowledge of history is abysmal......./

And it's on purpose!!!!

Do you think this just about covers it....... Rules for Leftards #8). What I think and what I say sure be proof enough for you, I don’t need facts!!!

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CZ82  posted on  2012-06-24   13:37:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Liberator (#12)

What are you attempting to suggest? Some ignorant viewpoint? I have long attempted to post (or otherwise communicate) that the UN is another fraud organization. That includes the fake nations that are created and any subsequent treaties.

buckeroo  posted on  2012-06-24   13:43:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: buckeroo (#14)

What are you attempting to suggest?

Is it your position we should remain neutral as the UN mob dictates borders and invent fake nations? OR, support Israel's claim to defend her own unfettered sovereignty?

I have long attempted to post (or otherwise communicate) that the UN is another fraud organization. That includes the fake nations that are created and any subsequent treaties.

In that case we are in agreement.

Liberator  posted on  2012-06-24   14:05:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: CZ82 (#13)

And it's [knowledge of history] is abysmalon purpose!!!!

Do you think this just about covers it....... Rules for Leftards #8). What I think and what I say sure be proof enough for you, I don’t need facts!!!

What IS #8 of "Rules for Leftards"??

Liberator  posted on  2012-06-24   14:07:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Liberator (#15)

Disband the UN. It was a communist idea from the "get-go." If the USA were not part of it, it effectively has no operating budget.

CASE CLOSED! NEXT!

buckeroo  posted on  2012-06-24   14:28:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: A K A Stone (#6)

I am not anti-Jew.

United Nations, 1947, Resolution 181

I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...

war  posted on  2012-06-24   17:35:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Liberator (#16)

What IS #8 of "Rules for Leftards"??

http://www.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=27927

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-06-24   18:13:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: A K A Stone (#6)

They anti Jew posters like to say Israel was created by the UN which is bullshit. But they support the UN creating a imaginary palestinian state.

You're right Stone.

Within a year Israel will kick the crap out of Egypt and/or the military will return to power.

Thunderbird  posted on  2012-06-26   20:11:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Thunderbird (#20)

Within a year Israel will kick the crap out of Egypt

lol...just like that bastard state of israel did in the 2006 Lebanon War?

Thanks for the {{{chuckle}}} as even the lowly Hezbollah sent their hooked-nosed asses scrambling for cover.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-06-26   20:42:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Brian S (#21)

lol...just like that bastard state of israel did in the 2006 Lebanon War?

You must have a bad memory. Lebanon was destroyed.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-06-26   20:55:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: A K A Stone (#22) (Edited)

You must have a bad memory.

That's why they create shows like this, to help cover up the truth......

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CZ82  posted on  2012-06-26   21:01:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: A K A Stone (#22)

A little ditty from a source I'm sure you trust...WND.

Israel loses Lebanon war

JERUSALEM – In the coming days, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government ministers will attempt to persuade Israeli voters and the international community that Israel achieved its political and military objectives during its campaign in Lebanon.

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Olmert will likely claim Hezbollah’s capabilities have been minimized; a strong, armed force will soon be deployed in south Lebanon capable of contending with Hezbollah; and that the political momentum for a new Middle East settlement is now on Israel’s side.

In actuality, these claims couldn’t be further from the truth. Israel lost the war in Lebanon on all fronts. This is so largely because Olmert refused to allow the Israeli Defense Forces to do its job.

Days after Hezbollah provoked Israel last month by firing rockets into Jewish towns and by ambushing an Israeli military patrol unit killing 8 soldiers and kidnapping two others, the IDF presented Olmert with several battle plans it says could have devastated Hezbollah within an estimated three weeks.

The plans, drawn up and improved upon over the course of several years, called for an immediate air campaign against Hezbollah strongholds in south Beirut; aerial bombardment of key sections of the Lebanese-Syria border to ensure the kidnapped soldiers were not transported out of the country and to halt Syrian re-supply of arms to Hezbollah; and the deployment of up to 40,000 ground troops to advance immediately to the Latani River – taking up the swath of territory from which most Hezbollah rockets are fired – and from there work their way back to the Israeli border while surrounding and then cleaning out Hezbollah strongholds under heavy aerial cover.

To the dismay of military officials here, Olmert did not approve the plan. He initially allowed only a limited air campaign that focused on some high-profile Hezbollah targets, the Beirut airport and roads that led from Beirut into Syria. But the main smuggling routes between Syria and Lebanon, sites very well known to Israeli intelligence, were essentially off limits to the Israeli Air Force because Olmert didn’t want his army operating too close to Syria for fear it would bring Damascus into the conflict.

IDF suffers from lack of troops in Lebanon, insufficient air coverage

When Hezbollah met Israel’s air campaign with massive rocket attacks against northern Israeli communities, the IDF again presented Olmert with a plan for a large ground deployment to the Latani River. The Israeli Prime Minister – under heavy pressure to step up operations in response to Hezbollah rocket fire – approved only a smaller ground offensive of up to 8,000 soldiers who were not allowed to advance to the Latani.

The IDF was directed to clean out Hezbollah’s bases within about three miles of the Israeli border. Small forces, though, did advance further while isolated special operations were carried out deep inside Lebanon.

Afraid of being accused of using excessive force and firing indiscriminately into population centers – charges leveled at the Jewish state anyway – Olmert limited the IAF to strategic bombings only. The air force was not allowed to clear the way for ground troops to enter.

And so the IDF – with a force one fourth the size it asked for – engaged in heated, often face-to-face combat over the course of weeks with a well-trained, well-armed Hezbollah militia that had planned with Iran for up to six years for this battle.

Israeli soldiers found themselves up against Hezbollah gunmen who fought in civilian clothing and hid behind local civilian populations. Well-orchestrated Hezbollah ambushes took tolls on troop battalions. Iranian-supplied advanced anti-tank missiles proved extremely effective against Israeli combat vehicles.

The IDF suffered in very specific ways on the battlefield because of a lack of enough ground troops.

One example was a battle that began July 25. The Israeli army attempted to strangle Bint Jbail, a town of about 30,000 commonly called the “Hezbollah capital” of south Lebanon. Because there were not enough troops to completely surround the strategic village, Bint Jbail’s northern entrance was not sealed off, and, according to army sources, hundreds of Hezbollah fighters were able to infiltrate and join with the already 150 or so gunmen inside. The IDF had to contend with a larger Hezbollah contingent as a result. Nine soldiers were lost in heavy fighting the next day. Another 14 soldiers were killed at Bint Jbail the next two weeks.

On several occasions the past few weeks, while heavy diplomacy looked to be gaining momentum, such as during Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visits here, the IDF was actually asked by the political echelon to halt most operations and troop advances for up to 36 hours while negotiations ran their course.

Military leaders now charge that some troop battalions, instructed to hold positions outside villages but not to advance, actually became sitting ducks for Hezbollah anti-tank fire, which killed at least 35 Israeli soldiers. After the diplomacy failed, soldiers were ordered to carry on. This piece of information will likely be brought to light by commissions of inquiry already initiated into the performance of the IDF and the culpability of Israel’s political leadership.

Hezbollah showed other impressive gains. In what Israel admitted was a major blow to its navy, Hezbollah during the initial fighting hit an Israeli naval ship with an Iranian Silkworm C-802 radar-guided anti-ship cruise missile, killing four soldiers and damaging the warship. It was the first time the missile had been introduced into the battle with Israel. Military officials here said the Israeli ship’s radar system was not calibrated to detect the Silkworm, which is equipped with an advanced anti-tracking system.

Olmert turns down ‘necessary’ military ops

WorldNetDaily was made aware by senior military officials of several meetings in which IDF officials petitioned Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz for a larger ground force and for more heavy aerial cover, or at least for ground troops already in Lebanon to be authorized to reach the Latani River in hopes of cleaning out the villages nearby such as Tyre, from which many rockets are launched into Israel.

The petitions came more frequently as Hezbollah rockets landed further and further south inside Israel.

Tens of thousands of troops were put on standby in northern Israel, but were not allowed to enter Lebanon.

The smaller IDF numbers on the ground in Lebanon carried on, eventually with instructions to create a buffer zone of about 3 miles within which the Hezbollah infrastructure would be entirely wiped out. The zone would do little to stop rocket fire into northern Israel, since most rockets were fired from positions deeper inside south Lebanon.

Officials say the IAF was still restrained from targeting key positions close to the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley from which intelligence officials say Hezbollah received regular shipments of rockets and other heavy weaponry originating in Iran and transported via Syria. Israel bombed roads in the area a few kilometers from Syria, but many weapons smuggling routes at the border remained intact.

While Syria placed its military on high alert, Olmert told reporters several times Israel had no intention of bringing Damascus into the war.

Last weekend, after Hezbollah rockets killed a record 15 civilians in one day, Olmert’s cabinet finally gave the green light for an enormous IDF ground invasion and for an advance to the Latani River.

Many military officials here told me they were elated the IDF would at last be given the freedom to do what it had wanted to do nearly one month ago.

The cabinet, though, left the timing of the new operation to Olmert, who held the advance back until Thursday morning. By Thursday evening, the IDF, which charged ahead from four main fronts, reached the Latani River and even beyond in full force and prepared for an intense battle to overtake the areas used by Hezbollah to fire rockets. The IDF estimated it would need another four to six weeks to successfully wipe out the Hezbollah infrastructure in the areas.

But a day later a cease-fire resolution was adapted. The U.S., perhaps wanting to cut its losses after Israel’s month-long poor performance, supported a cessation of military activities in Lebanon.

Hezbollah remains intact, Israel’s enemies emboldened

The IDF continued its advance until this morning, beginning to clear out some villages. But not nearly enough gains were made, as was amply demonstrated yesterday when Hezbollah fired over 240 rockets – its largest one-day volley yet – into northern Israel, killing one civilian and wounding at least 26 others.

Now the cease-fire is being implemented. Perhaps it will hold, perhaps it won’t. Either way, Hezbollah has won the war. It put up an incredible fight against IDF forces paralyzed by Israel’s leadership. The terror group maintains a good deal of its infrastructure in south Lebanon and still has the ability to fire hundreds of rockets per day into Israel.

Even if Israel restarts its larger offensive, Hezbollah still can regain the initiative by carrying out larger escalations, such as firing its long-range Zelzal rockets into Tel Aviv.

Hezbollah is ecstatic about the deployment of “15,000 soldiers” from the Lebanese Army to replace Israeli troops in south Lebanon. The Lebanese Army doesn’t have 15,000 standing troops. Aside from a small air force pool, the Army doesn’t have a reserve unit from which it can call up large numbers.

The plan, according to Lebanese officials, is to recall Lebanese soldiers who served during the past 5 years, which means many out-of-shape, unprepared ex-soldiers will be charged with protecting the Israeli border. Take into account the sectarian divisions of the split Shiite-Sunni Lebanese Army – with many soldiers sympathetic to Hezbollah’s cause – and you have a force that will, at best, do little to contend with Hezbollah, and at worst prompt an internal civil war. Not to mention, the Lebanese Army is poorly armed and ill-equipped.

The cease-fire call for the establishment of a backed-up United Nations force in south Lebanon is also taken as a victory for Hezbollah. The terror group does not believe any international force will be willing to die to defend Israel’s borders or that it will have the ability to block the group’s re-supply routes between Syria and Lebanon. Hezbollah knows that if the IDF couldn’t defeat it, European forces, led by countries opposed to Israel’s Lebanon campaign, will be no match.

For Israel, an international force on its borders will impede the ability of the IDF to operate with freedom during any future conflict with Hezbollah.

The Jewish state’s credibility took a massive toll when Olmert agreed to the current cease-fire calling for negotiations at a later date for the two soldiers Hezbollah kidnapped. Olmert had repeatedly vowed the war would only stop after Hezbollah returned the abducted Israeli troops, and now the prime minister is ending the war without even vague promises of the soldiers’ assured safety or indications they are alive. Hezbollah sees this as a victory.

The cease-fire places the Shebba Farms, territory held by Israel but claimed by Hezbollah, up for future negotiations, granting Hezbollah the ability to claim its fighting brought international legitimacy to its territorial demands.

The cease-fire doesn’t place an immediate arms embargo on Hezbollah, but only calls for future talks on stopping weapons transfers to the terror group. This leaves Syria and Iran free to rearm and regroup Hezbollah.

The two state sponsors of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran learned during the last month that they can orchestrate a proxy war against America’s Middle East ally at no cost to their regimes. They engineered a tough fight against Israeli forces and came out on top. They will be emboldened to continue their war against Israel and U.S. troops in Iraq at a fevered pitch. Iran smells Western weakness and will forge ahead with its nuclear ambitions.

And terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza are foaming at the mouth. Today, Abu Aziz, second-in-command of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, told WorldNetDaily that Hezbollah’s victory leads him to believe the end of Israel is in sight. He said he realizes now is the time to “attack Israel from all directions.”

And so the enemies of the U.S. and Israel are poised for another war. They smell victory, and why shouldn’t they? The last month demonstrated that with weak Israeli leadership in place, the Jewish state can be defeated.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-06-27   0:34:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Brian S (#24)

How many Jews did the pali terrorist kill. How many fighters did the righteous Jews kill. I say the Jews killed more. I say the Jews did more property damage.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-06-27   6:43:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: A K A Stone (#25)

I say...

You can 'say' all you want, read what the israelis themselves 'say' about the Lebanon War.

Panel shocked by IDF performance

Complete shock. That is how friends of retired generals Menachem Einan and Chaim Nadel, two members of the Winograd Committee, described the generals' reaction to the Israel Defense Forces' performance during the Second Lebanon War.

Einan, who was charged with drafting the section of the panel's final report that deals with the army, was appalled to discover how badly the ground forces had deteriorated. His conclusions are expected to deal harshly with every level of the army, from the chief of staff to units in the field.

But while the report's harsh conclusions about the army have been widely anticipated, its conclusions about the government, and especially Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, remain a mystery that will be solved only with the document's publication at 6 P.M. tonight.

A few leaks indicate that Olmert will get off more lightly than he did in the committee's partial report last April. But given the vigorous campaign it has been waging, the Prime Minister's Office is evidently taking no chances - especially since leaks from the partial report seemed to indicate that Olmert would get off lightly in that as well.

The report's hundreds of pages will probably supply both supporters and detractors of the premier with quotes to support their views. But it is also possible that committee chair Eliyahu Winograd will borrow a leaf from Vardi Zeiler, head of another recent inquiry committee, and use tonight's press conference to make harsher statements than can be found in the report.

The report's conclusions about the IDF are not expected to spark much controversy - both because most of those who were senior officers during the war have already resigned, and because the committee is unlikely to leave much room for doubt. Indeed, Nadel was so upset over the army's functioning that in private conversations recently, he reportedly wondered whether it is possible to believe the army's claim that it has learned the war's lessons and corrected the problems. Current senior IDF officers are very worried that the report will further undermine the army's public image.

Though the committee promised the High Court of Justice that its report would not include any personal criticism, two major generals are nevertheless awaiting the document tensely: GOC Northern Command Gadi Eizenkot, who was head of the Operations Directorate during the war, and Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin.

The military section of the report is likely to address several main issues. The first will be the army's single greatest failure during the war - its failure to halt the short-range rocket fire on northern Israel. In contrast, the IDF was relatively successful in taking out Hezbollah's medium- and long-range rockets.

Hesitancy and fear

The failure is attributable to hesitancy at every level of command, from the government down to brigade commanders, and to fear of heavy losses among the troops. In their questions to witnesses, committee members attacked both the delay in launching a major ground operation and the belated call-up of the reserves. The army will be particularly interested in finding out who the panel holds mainly responsible for these failures - the General Staff or Northern Command.

The committee is expected to be particularly critical of the years-long neglect of training, of both regular troops and reservists, and the shortfalls in stocks and equipment. On this issue, fingers will also be pointed at Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, who was chief of staff and then defense minister during the eight years preceding the war, and Moshe Ya'alon, who followed Mofaz as chief of staff.

A related topic is the Home Front Command's failures in helping beleaguered northern residents cope with the rocket attacks. But since the state comptroller has already written a lengthy report on this issue, the Winograd Committee is expected to treat it cursorily.

The committee also promised to devote part of the report to the missile attack on the navy ship Hanit.

The report is unlikely to go into the details of the various land battles, but it is expected to be harshly critical of the army's normative failures: the many cases in which units did not stick to their assigned missions or avoided contact with the enemy.

Assignment list

The report is also expected to criticize the government's weak supervision of the army and its flawed decision-making process - particularly the cabinet meeting on August 9, at which the major ground operation was approved. It may also discuss the possibility that Israel missed opportunities to end the war earlier.

In its partial report, the committee gave the government a list of assignments to improve its decision-making process. But few of its recommendations have been implemented. Though Olmert, with much fanfare, appointed a high-level task force to deal with making the requisite changes, most of the task force's recommendations have been buried. That may well be the fate of the final report's recommendations, too.

A key issue that the report will certainly address was the government's decision to launch the final ground operation, even though the UN Security Council had already adopted Resolution 1701, which stipulated that the cease-fire would start 60 hours later.

In recent weeks, Haaretz has published various documents and testimonies that cast serious doubts on Olmert's explanations for this move. But leaks from the committee seem to indicate that it takes a more favorable view of Olmert's role in this matter. In contrast, it is expected to be harshly critical of the IDF, both for having promised to achieve unrealistic goals and then for ceasing to pursue them long before the cease-fire took effect.

The committee's reportedly lenient view of Olmert could be due to its witness list. It did not summon a key witness, Ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman, nor did it hear from several senior Foreign Ministry officials involved in the negotiations over Resolution 1701. And since it did not interview any foreigners, it also did not hear from the American and French ambassadors to the UN, John Bolton and Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, who were the resolutions' chief negotiators. Both have publicly refuted Olmert's version of events, but that fact is unlikely to appear in the Winograd Report.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-06-27   11:35:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Brian S (#21)

Did your mother *enjoy* the Russian occupation Brian?

I hope so.

Thunderbird  posted on  2012-06-29   0:34:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Thunderbird (#27)

Did your mother *enjoy* the Russian occupation Brian?

My 'mother' didn't but perhaps great grandma did. Don't remember much about her other than the Russian Orthodox legacy that still lingers amongst some of my 'brethren'.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-06-29   13:13:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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