A Child Understands

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

Las Vegas Odds On Israel

by Jack Engelhard

In Vegas, they bet on everything; dogs, horses, and even the weather. A smart man would open a betting line on Israel. If it were me, I'd make a fortune. I'm always right. I'm not smart. I'm merely a pessimist and, according to my figures, pessimists, especially when it comes to Israel, are correct and on the money 99.8 percent of the time. Here's the scenario. The Arabs protest, the Israelis stand firm, and then, cave in, always, and I do mean ALWAYS. When Arabs rioted against the new pathway nearby the Temple Mount, I knew Israel would chicken out and give in. This happens every time. If only I could make money on these predictions of mine.


THUGS AT THE SUMMIT

The question of the moment is about that SUMMIT between Olmert and Abbas - will it or won't it take place? But that is not the real question, which is, since when is a thug, like Abbas, part of a SUMMIT? When Roosevelt met Churchill, that was a SUMMIT. Even when Harry met Sally, that was a SUMMIT. When Olmert (whatever you think of him) meets Bush, that is a SUMMIT. But when Olmert meets Capone (nee Abbas), that is MUD WRESTLING.

CUDDLE UP WITH HITLER

Some people ought to quit while they're ahead. Norman Mailer spent a lifetime building a reputation as a first-rate man of literature - but now there's this as reported in the NY Post: "It's impossible not to identify to some small degree with the protagonist [Hitler], so the book is going to be offensive to a lot of Jews." Thus spoke Mailer about his new novel, "The Castle in the Forest." How about you, Norm? You're a Jew, no?

A RELIGIOUS SCIENTIST? OXYMORON?

I said scientist, not Zionist. According to the NY Times, a paleontologist named Marcus Ross wrote a paper for his dissertation at the University of Rhode Island that got high marks from fellow scientists. Ross played by the scientifically correct rules BUT, he does not believe that the universe JUST HAPPENED - BOOM -- while the rest of us were asleep. No, this man Ross "believes the Bible is a literally true account of the creation of the universe." Ross's peers don't know what to do with this guy.

MY (MIS)TAKE ON CARTER

Maybe you did and maybe you didn't read my piece (two pieces actually) on Jimmy Carter in A-7. I'm never sure if my friends read me - enemies? oh yes, guaranteed. I'm on some 20 websites blasting my take on Jimmy. At least I thought it was 20 until I found that the language is all the same, which means, that they have one website only go under 20 different names, to give the impression of universal condemnation. These people are smart.

WHO SAYS JEWS ARE SMART?

When it comes to advances in research, medicine, technology and everything else that needs brain, we're right there, but on public relations, welcome to Chelm.

JEWS ARE NOT PERFECT - THEREFORE

USA Today carried a piece by Rev Oliver "Buzz" Thomas that pretty much apes Jimmy Carter word for word, only condensed but just as hateful against Israel. CAMERA takes him apart chapter and verse. But what gets me is this man's call for fellow US Christians to more or less (more actually) abandon Israel. Because Israel is regarded as G-d's Chosen people, according to Thomas, "America turns a blind eye to her (Israel's) shortcomings."

Israel has SHORTCOMINGS? The Jews are not PERFECT?  Something must be done to teach these people about perfection, right reverend?

Let's start with you, Mr. Thomas. Teach us.

If you only knew how many people throughout the ages punished us for being less perfect than you. Now you want to teach us again. Thank you      

WHY ISRAEL?

Because G-d said so - and because of the millions (billions) of people like Rev Thomas.

Epiphany Time

by Ellen Horowitz

The revelations are anything but uplifting - rude and frightening awakenings may best describe the sort of moments of truth that many of us are experiencing. It's like we can suddenly and accurately piece together the shards of a shattered national and international picture into a vast panoramic view which weaves together and connects our past, present, and future. Our devastating choices and mistakes are startlingly delineated and everything is connected.

For me, the eerie feeling started at the Madrid Conference which followed the first Gulf War. By the time the toxic trio shook hands on the White House lawn in 1993, I was quite sure that the dye had been cast. The earth shook for my husband years earlier when Israel relinquished Sinai to the Egyptians. Others felt it as far back as 1967 when Moshe Dayan pulled the valiantly idiotic gesture of handing the Temple Mount - which was in our hands - over to the Muslim Wakf. Still some woke up to the nightmare a little late in the game, as their world crumbled during the incomprehensible 2005 expulsion from the Jewish communities of Gush Katif. And last summer in Lebanon did it for others.

For Richard Landes, a history professor from Boston University, the apocalyptic pattern emerged when he viewed the rushes of an incident which kicked off Intifada 2000 and an unprecedented eruption and era of global terrorism.

Over the last six months I've had the honor and pleasure of working as a research assistant for Professor Richard Landes. As part of my responsibilities I've spent significant time combing through damning material from the photo and film archives of the various international press agencies.

As a creative person, one of my greatest fears is that of wasted efforts and potential. So as I tirelessly perused this disturbing material, I kept wondering if, when, and how the pictorial data and evidence would be used. I¹m pleased to see that Professor Landes and his production staff masterfully pieced together an epic chapter in global history.

Now it¹s the concerned public¹s responsibility to disseminate this film and insist that it be viewed.

Please download, view and distribute to the online public:

ICON OF HATRED

http://seconddraft.org/movies.php

This is the third part of of series which started with PALLYWOOD and continued with THE BIRTH OF AN ICON. It's recommended that these first two parts be viewed in order to have a full understanding of the important issues highlighted in ICON Of HATRED.

Comments and questions regarding the documentaries or the Professor's work should be directed to Richard Landes at <rl.seconddraft@gmail.com> or comment via his blogsite at http://www.theaugeanstables.com

It should be noted that this film was first screened on Hannukah at a forum held in conjunction with 7th Annual Herzliya Conference, entitled: The Media as a Theater of War, the Blogosphere, and the Global Battle for Civil Society.

The Blogosphere does offer all of us an immense opportunity to critically challenge MSM outlets and their proclivity towards misinformation and propaganda. Arutz 7 is to be congratulated for staying on the cutting edge of Internet development and for enabling writers like myself to express ourselves honestly and accurately via a channel which upholds Jewish values and moral standards - and which has a full understanding of Israel's ethical obligations towards the world at large.

Looking forward to sharing and exchanging views and information with a concerned and accountable online community.

The Unworldly Neturei Karta

by Steven Plaut

Shlumperdik to Nishtikeit!!
  

In one of the most remarkable scientific discoveries of all time, a CD-Rom containing the protocols of a high-level secret meeting of NASA, the American space agency, has just been leaked to the media.  The content of that meeting is so dramatic that it is likely to change the entire course of human history.

     We bring you the highlights of that meeting as a special service to our readers:

Commander Nishtikeit, chief of NASA control:   I would like to thank all of you senior military officers and scientists for attending this meeting today on such short notice.  NASA control center has decided to release to the nation and world information on what may be the most astounding discovery in all of human history.  It seems that ironclad evidence has now been uncovered of the presence on earth of humanoid cyborgs, that is, cybernetic robots that look vaguely human but were constructed in a different galaxy and transported here.

Dr. Trombenick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:  But there have been urban legends about such things for years.  There were numerous internet reports that the Governor of California and Reverend Al Sharpton are really cyborgs, but these proved baseless.

Commander Nishtikeit:  Yes, we know all about that.  But this time we have absolute proof.  It seems a bizarre looking space travel vehicle has carried cyborgs into our galaxy and has deposited two or three hundred of them right here on earth.

General Lemeshkeh, US Air Force:   What form do these alien contraptions take?

Commander Nishtikeit:  That is the most bizarre part of the story.  It seems the space ship, which looks amazingly like a large flying bagel, had earlier been beaming up earth images in order to design its cyborgs to look like earthlings.   Its tele-imaging processor was focused on several neighborhoods on earth, just east of the East River.  Yes, all those people looking for signs of aliens in Roswell, New Mexico, had things wrong.  The aliens just wanted their cyborgs to look just like earthlings and to be able to pass as humans, so they designed them to look exactly like ultra-Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn. 

Colonel Muttelmessig, US Navy:  Are you serious?  This is not something out of an old Woody Allen movie?

Commander Nishtikeit:  Absolutely serious!  The aliens planted these cyborgs on earth dressed like Chareidi ultra-Orthodox Jews, in black coats, with beards and side curls and hats, and called them the Neturei Karta.  It seems they picked that name up from listening to broadcast of an earthling in Brooklyn referring to someone as a Notorious Karger, but they botched up the words.

Professor Shikker, Caltech:   You mean those Neturei Karta people who have been protesting in favor of destroying Israel and who even attended the Holocaust Denial conference in Iran are in reality humanoid cyborgs placed on earth as part of a devious plan of planetary infiltration?

Commander Nishtikeit:  You have put your finger right on it!   In a sense, we all should have realized this much sooner.  After all, only a group of space aliens could have thought that Nazis with Payot, dressed outwardly as religious Jews, could pull the wool over the eyes of actual humans.  Virtually no Jews on earth even recognize the Neturei Karta as Jews, and until our discovery the Jews regarded them as some sort of pagan cult in religious garb.  The Neturei Karta members seem to know virtually nothing about Judaism, other than two or three sentences from the Gemara, which they cite obsessively out of context to prove that Israel must be destroyed.  A number of terrestrial Rabbis, including Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, have initiated efforts to excommunicate members of this pro-terror anti-Semitic Neturei Karta sect.  Israeli Rabbis of the "Save the Nation and Land" group have made a similar call.  Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, a child Holocaust survivor who is currently the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv declared, "It is something completely insane.  Is it conceivable that any Jew, for whatever reason, would support a Holocaust denier in a generation when people with numbers tattooed on their arms are still among us? It is an insanity that has no justification and no explanation.”  Even the Eida Hareidit, an anti-Zionist Jerusalem-based council of Hassidic courts and other religious groups which includes the Neturei Karta, was dramatically harsh in its condemnation of the cyborgs who went to Iran to sit beneath the swastikas.

Dr. Trombenick:  Is that how you caught on to the alien scheme in the first place?

Commander Nishtikeit:  Well, that was part of it.  Now that we know the truth, we are kicking ourselves for not seeing all the indicators earlier, showing that the Neturei Karta are really cyborgs from another galaxy.  The Jews on earth quickly realized these were not real Jews, but very few figured out that they are not even mammals.

Captain Shvindeldik:  But something here is puzzling.  If these space aliens are so technically advanced, how could they have made such a foolish error as constructing robots for placement on earth that look outwardly like religious Jews yet behave like Nazis?

Professor Shtiklech, Princeton University:   Maybe, in spite of their ability to undertake inter-galactic travel, they are really not that bright after all?  After all, why would creatures having an electronic GPS or Galactic Positioning System need to construct all those crop circles in order to navigate around the Midwest?

Commander Nishtikeit:   Well, that is one possibility.  Another may be that their instruments were damaged when the Flying Bagel entered earth's atmosphere.   We have some evidence that the original design for the cyborgs was for creatures with 6 arms, but their spaceship commander realized that these would be quickly recognized as frauds because they would not know on which arms to put tefillin.

Major Shlumperdik, his deputy:  They seem to have made other strategic errors as well.  They placed these cyborgs on earth with no visible means of support.  So once earthbound, the cyborgs ran to terrorist organizations, neo-nazi groups, and Holocaust Denial conferences in order to raise money to support themselves.   One would think that beings from a superior civilization would have figured out a better cover for their robots.

Dr. Trombenick:  But if they look so much like actual Orthodox Jews, how can they be distinguished from the real thing?

Commander Nishtikeit:   Well, there are several ways.  First, when struck upon the head with a large rolling pin, nothing seems to happen to them.  The pin just bounces off. Their heads seem to be constructed from some special space alloy into which nothing can permeate.   Second, when looking closely at their scalps, one can see that they used to have three antennae there, which were somehow surgically removed before the machines were deposited on earth.  In addition, their mid-sections seem to be built with another special alien alloy.  That is why they seem to be the only ones on earth whose digestive systems are unaffected by eating large portions of chulent.

General Lemeshkeh:   So how should we earthlings communicate or interact with them and try to make friends?

Major Shlumperdik:  Well, there is always that rolling pin idea I mentioned earlier.  But other than that, the best strategy seems to be to make little tinfoil antennae and glue them on to one's head or hat when approaching these aliens.  You know, to show them that we have no hostile intentions and want to welcome them on our planet.  But then we need to make clicking space static sounds, demand to be taken to their leader, and ask them to take us for a tour of their spaceship.

Commander Nishtikeit:   I wonder if I can get one of them to teach me how to program my DVD machine.
(assembly dismissed)

Happy Purim, everyone!