We propose installing an automatic online Middle East translator chip on your machines to help you read the mainstream media news.

Here are some examples of how it would work:

Israeli Racism - Translation: When Israel builds a fence or barriers to keep suicide bombers and other terrorists from murdering Jewish children and civilians

Fighting against Racism - Translation: When Palestinians randomly murder hundreds of Jewish civilians

Crimes against Humanity  - Translation: Defending the Lives of Jews

"Zionist Racism" - Translation: Any attempt at Preventing Arabs from murdering Jewish children

Unilateral Action -  Israel deciding unilaterally to protect Jewish children from being murdered, without getting approval from the UN 

Illegal Settlement - Translation: Anywhere Jews live

Obstacle to Peace - Translation: Israel defending its children

Terrorists - Translation: People who kill Americans in Pakistan

Militants and Activists - Translation: People who murder Jews

Anti-Racism - Translation: Ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Middle East

Patriotism - Translation: Israeli Leftists fomenting mutiny in the Israeli army

Peace Seeking - Translation: Israeli Leftists urging people around the world to embargo and boycott Israel and Jews

Moderation - Translation: Agreeing with Arab extremists and fascists

Free Speech - Translation: Protecting the Right of Azmi Bishara to demand openly that Israel be destroyed and all the Jews murdered while denying free speech to rightwing dissidents

Criminal Incitement - Translation: Any sentence with which Israel’s Extreme Left disagrees

Equality - Translation: Exempting Arabs from Israeli military conscription or national service

Whenever the issue of the death penalty arises, including in Israel, its opponents start screaming about all the "wrongfully convicted and executed" people.  The urban myth of wrongfully executed innocents is one of the most common in the media.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal this week,  judge Morris B. Hoffman (Colorado district court judge and an adjunct 

professor of law at the University of Colorado) takes a serious look at that claim.  It is complete nonsense.

Hoffman observes:

'One of the earliest and most oft-cited works on wrongful convictions was a 1987 study done by Hugo Bedau and Michael Radelet, claiming that 23 of the 350 capital defendants whose cases they examined (including Sacco and Vanzetti) were executed despite their factual innocence. Yet the method by which Mr. Bedau (a philosopher) and Mr. Radelet (a sociologist) determined whether the executed defendants were actually innocent was to reconstruct from the trial record, and contemporaneous newspaper reports, a one-sided narrative from which some doubt about factual guilt might plausibly be argued.  Scholars immediately criticized this methodology, and challenged Messrs. Bedau and Radelet to come up with a single case of a demonstrably innocent person executed in America in the modern era. Messrs. Bedau and Radelet have not only been unable to do so. One of them has recently admitted that their label "innocent" was really just a way of saying there were errors in the trial, that guilt seemed to them to be a "close call," and that some of those close calls must surely, as a statistical matter, have involved some factually innocent people....It is a giant leap from an erroneous trial ruling to reversible error, and another giant leap from reversible error to actual innocence.'

Hoffman goes on to calculate the wrongful post-trial conviction rate in the US as only 0.013%. But since only 5% of cases go to court trial in the US, the overall wrongful conviction rate is around 0.00065%.  And there is no evidence that any wrongfully convicted person was ever executed in the US.

So instead of trying to deal with terrorism through capitulation and appeasement, maybe Israel should try capital punishment!   The entire country was forced into the Oslo debacle under the slogan "Let's give it a try."   So regarding capital punishment, why not give 'Old Sparky' a try?
 

Anti-Semites have been whining about Israel's "Apartheid Wall"
In recent months, instead of screaming "Butcher all Jews," the anti-Semites have been whining about Israel's "Apartheid Wall".  It is an "Apartheid Wall," because it makes it harder for Arab terrorists to murder Jewish civilians, and the people who oppose the wall all support mass murder of Jews.  Even seemingly respectable people, like Professor Juan Cole, an Israel-basher whose attempt to take a job at Yale was blocked last year by a sudden attack of common sense, these days calls it the "Apartheid Wall."  Juan of a Kind has never bothered to mention on his web site that the wall was constructed to stop Palestinian mass murderers.   An irrelevant detail. 

Basically, anyone who refers to Israel's wall as an "Apartheid Wall" should be regarded as a pro-terror, pro-murder anti-Semitic slimeball.

Now comes a story about another security wall, one the moonbatocracy is not labelling a "Apartheid Wall" (yet).  Seems that the US is now building a wall to keep the Sunni and Shiite terrorists in Baghdad from murdering one another.   The Islamofascists are already complaining about it because if the bloodshed in Baghdad were to drop, how would they organize the entire Middle East in anti-Americanism.   It might even disarm the anti-American campus Left in the US! 

So building gated neighborhoods to keep Sunnis and Shiites from being murdered seems to be legit.  But preventing Jewish children from being murdered is an act of racism and imperialism. 

Here's a thought.  How about instead of an "Apartheid Wall" Israel builds an "Anti-Apartheid Gallows," on which Arab and Jewish traitors may be hanged with fraternity and egalitarian compassion, and no artificial barrier separating them? 

Palestinians have no rights at all, Ben-Shlomo told the leftist.
Prof. Yosef ben-Shlomo, who died over the weekend, was one of the most interesting intellectuals in Israel. 

In a country where being a professor is almost synonymous with being a leftist pinhead, Ben-Shlomo was one of the most interesting and most entertaining of the counter-exceptions. Born in Krakow, he had been a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and after he retired virtually the entire philosophy department at TAU was taken over by far-leftist anti-Zionists, becoming politically one of the worst academic departments in all of Israel.

Ben-Shlomo, while not religious himself as an adult, was a student of Gershom Sholem, wrote about Sholem, and also wrote extensively about Rabbi Kook (the intellectual godfather of religious Zionism).  While Ben-Shlomo had been a leftist before the Six Day War, thereafter he found himself in the position of arguably the leading anti-Left intellectual in Israel.  He often appeared on television and in the rest of the media.  Haaretz dubbed him the "Yishayahu Leibowitz of the Right", referring to the far-Left but extremely religious anti-Zionist professor of philosophy and chemistry at the Hebrew University, who died several years ago.  While Leibowitz was a total moonbat politically, denouncing Zionists as "Judeo-Nazis", his writings about rabbinic sources and the Torah portions are insightful and deep, and frankly they are part of my regular study tools.  Ben-Shlomo, who was something of a prophet of secularism and was an admirer of Spinoza, was completely on the mark politically when it came to national issues.  He also was a sharp critic of the emerging emptiness of secularist culture in Israel.  At the same time, he endorsed the mainly-religious Gush Emunim movement that built settlements.  After Oslo, he emerged as one of the most militant opponents of the "peace process".  He should have won the Israel Prize many times over, but the prize is usually reserved for far-leftists (like Shulamit Aloni and Yigal Tomarkin).